I loathe short-form videos. Every time I'm lured into watching one, I feel like I'm stuck in an episode of black mirror or that one scene in a clockwork orange. I can feel my attention span getting chiseled away with every vacuous second. Just absolute baby-brained entertainment - and don't even get me started on the endless echo of copies and references that lack even a hint of originality.
Feb 24, 2024
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I am so so so bored of lofi music videos shot on mini dv / hi8 / 2000s camcorders. It‘s 2025 people - have some ambition.
Feels like people are relying on the aesthetics of the medium to carry their work and forgetting that the concept and subject and content of the video itself needs to be interesting.
felt like being a hater today.
Jan 17, 2025
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ok hear me out
it’s 2am and i’m taking a scroll through various social media apps to keep away the thoughts™ before falling asleep, and i come across that musical papaya paper towels ad or something
and i stop scrolling and watch/listen to it all the way through
and it feels like seeing one of those compilation album commercials on tv past midnight in the 90s that you’ve seen dozens or hundreds of times and the predictability and strange earnestness about it soothes and smoothes your brain ✨🧠✨
do any current online ads give y‘all this feeling? (also don’t get me wrong 99% of them suck and i hate ads in my feeds lol)
Mar 30, 2025
Dec 11, 2024
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I don't know how well this actually answers your initial question, I think it's more of a counterpoint to some of the stuff people have already said, but here it goes.
In the past (prior to social media or search engines) specific styles, specialized knowledge, and niche awareness actually took effort. You had to go out into the world and find a scene, be accepted, participate in it, contribute to it, and learn from others with specific knowledge within the specific sub- or counter-cultural scene. It took time, effort, and experience to craft an identity. Nowadays people cycle through various identities and trends like commodities because it takes no effort (they're sold to them by social media algorithms, influencers, brand accounts, etc.). It comes to you in your phone without you ever even having to leave the house or put in the time to discover it or participate in it (you just follow specific people or subscribe). You can be a passive observer or consumer, not an active contributor. As a result, you're not invested or tied down and committed to that core identity. You can cosplay depending on your mood or who you want to momentarily convey yourself as, because it's easy. Essentially, being a poser has become normalized. An identity is now something to be momentarily consumed and affected, rather than grown, built, and developed over time.
Granted, it's always been different in regards to "mass" culture and popular trends (both in the past and now). Those are impossible to miss and were always monopolized by specific trend setting institutions, but always by the time it gets to that point, the actual initial counter- or sub-culture that inspired it has already been coopted and has started to disintegrate under the weight and attention of mass consumption.
Feb 18, 2024
It's an action deserving of its own nickname. My cat's name is Gomez, but when he crosses his paws like this, he turns into Hodgkins Plumpersocks.
Feb 2, 2024
I feel like everything about this photo captures that unique period of time - the covid masks, the protest signs, the boarded windows, the national guard.
I look at it now and I still feel glimmers of the hope I felt in that moment, when the rigid and all encompassing oppressive and systemic ruts of society felt like they were becoming more plastic and might even come undone. However, in retrospect, I am of course also hit with the ultimate disappointment, betrayal, and futility of it all.
So in that sense, it really captures that hovering sense of disillusionment and hope that I'm perpetually caught between within my day to day life.
Mar 30, 2024