This has been going as long as we had the Internet. People used to make websites about Interesting Characters (mostly annoying, full of themselves, braggadocio idiots) on usenet, the proto-forums of the then net.
As with everything right now, the problem is inhumane scale and the ease of access. Back then you had a person of interest vs. …
This has been going as long as we had the Internet. People used to make websites about Interesting Characters (mostly annoying, full of themselves, braggadocio idiots) on usenet, the proto-forums of the then net.
As with everything right now, the problem is inhumane scale and the ease of access. Back then you had a person of interest vs. few people in misaimed fandom and maybe few hundred of gawkers.
Now, you can tell tens of people to "kill themselves" from a comfort of your toilet to an applause of millions. And you can even get a monetary reward for that!
I sort of go back and forth on this because I feel like the early Internet could be way crueler but it was also more contained. Something like the story of Sonichu is hard to imagine happening on TikTok, but on the other hand, it wouldn't have been in the NYT.
This has been going as long as we had the Internet. People used to make websites about Interesting Characters (mostly annoying, full of themselves, braggadocio idiots) on usenet, the proto-forums of the then net.
As with everything right now, the problem is inhumane scale and the ease of access. Back then you had a person of interest vs. few people in misaimed fandom and maybe few hundred of gawkers.
Now, you can tell tens of people to "kill themselves" from a comfort of your toilet to an applause of millions. And you can even get a monetary reward for that!
I sort of go back and forth on this because I feel like the early Internet could be way crueler but it was also more contained. Something like the story of Sonichu is hard to imagine happening on TikTok, but on the other hand, it wouldn't have been in the NYT.