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this place right here is a nostalgic little thing. to me it feels like the simple ways internet had back then. it was all about discovering, connecting, and stuff was pretty raw (while now even what is real sometimes feels fake). we were under no pressure to sell our soul. no algo. no free webinars and sign up the newsletter for exclusive tips on how to grow your newsletter. i feel like the nostalgia is growing stronger because everyone misses being able to live without this insane pressure, fast-paced, crazy industrial/digital mode always on. (thus the reason for some sort of post-modern gothic revival)
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Shoutout to gen-z for helping all of us millennials live out our OG myspace and tumblr nostalgia. Not only are the interface and the vibes of this app on point, but a lot of your fashion is really committed to the bit and embracing that era, so thank you.
Feb 10, 2024
things were easier (because i was a kid) but it seemed so simple. where are all the frozen yogurt restaurants? why don’t people have cds anymore? bring back limewire and online chat blogs and weird websites and silly graphic t-shirts and chunky sneakers and twee and hipster styles. i miss collegehumor and buzzfeed. but i bring the nostalgia for myself back every day by dressing like i stepped out of a rhett and link music video and listening to modest mouse and metric and the yeah yeah yeahs. i love my digital camera and my dvds and volunteering at my university radio station.
Jan 20, 2025
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the social internet (and rapid, inescapable commercialization thereof) makes it so that you are what you consume, not what you do, not where you go, not who you spend your time with. before if you bought the clothes or the gear without doing it or without being in community, you were a poser. if you monetized or commercialized that interest and put those incentives over expression and connection, you were a sellout. but that doesn’t exist anymore — democratization and anti-gatekeeping as both ideas and ends of an algorithm to maximize surface area for consumption have made it so that there isn’t a distinct authority on what you can attach to your identity or how you express yourself
but if the extent of our agency in a democratized landscape is to only to consume more instead of producing or connecting, or to produce only to commodify ourselves for money or internet points, then maybe it’s a different kind of “being influenced by social trends rather than authentic interest” than going to a skate park, or an open mic, or a restaurant, or whatever because we heard about it somewhere and wanted to check it out, and de-centering the internet from what we see on it and how we engage with it is a way to make that healthier or more generative for ourselves, and can create beauty without immediately thinking about how to fit into a box along lines drawn by advertisers
Jan 15, 2025
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In defense of British food! It's actually not that bad. People just don't know how to cook roast dinners. Also shepherd's pie rocks. Yeah. Stop bullying british food and make me a cuppa.
Feb 14, 2025
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I find that my creativity often sparks from indignation of some sort. Even if it's personal and internal such as "I don't think I could do this". Wait what??? What did you just say??? Hold my beer! I'm LEARNING IT RIGHT NOW. I don't know sometimes we kinda fall into the comfort zone and this kills the fun. Its good to be a little obsessive. It keeps you going. I think creativity is more about experimentation and pushing your limits than just exercising some craft. Practice us something but feeling creative, allowing your brain to make connections, to come up with ideas and desire to make them involves so many things. ♡
Feb 11, 2025