#that feeling of having a 'tight knit community' that you miss was just weirdos on the internet having a good time talking to each other | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

genericpuff · 5 months ago

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hate to be cynical on main but it really do be like this every single time a new "not like social media" art platform comes out of the woodwork and then people migrate to it in droves just to find out the only other people using it are other artists that they're competing with for any scrape of viewership from an increasingly oversaturated internet that didn't exist when we were teenagers in 2009

#idk who needs to hear this but deviantart wasn't all that #i know because i was there LOL #people got doxxed and hate crime'd on DA all the fucking time #that feeling of having a 'tight knit community' that you miss was just weirdos on the internet having a good time talking to each other #and a lot of people were also having a real BAD time #nowadays every online conversation is quietly prefaced with the expectation that it'll turn into a new follower or shop sale #so people just aren't willing to invest in long-term community building anymore just for the sake of having a community #it's just “will this site help me grow my career?” no the fuck it won't no single site has ever done that for anyone jfc #the internet was also just a lot smaller back then #you were a “big deal” if you had even just 100 followers #sorry to those who aren't ready to hear this but we can't have what the internet was in 2009 again #enshittification

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