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Welcome to the Internet is a certified banger and a cultural touchstone.
Its such a great song! It makes me love and hate the internet!
Agreed. "A little bit of everything, all of the time" is such an apt description of what I love and despise about the Internet. There's so much stuff. And so much of it is terrible and awful, and so much of it is beautiful and awe-inspiring. It's just a lot.
I like the verse that starts with "not very long ago, just before your time..." Never forget what was taken from us!
I was pretty fluent with the earlier internet, and I definitely saw things that messed me up, but at least I didn't have massive international corporations trying to addict me to services from the jump. Or at least, they weren't as good at it then. The part that goes
Gets me choked up when I hear it. We, adults generally, have let a lot of awful things happen to the kids. Even now I don't think we really understand the scope of the damage. The fact that I, and my parents, and their parents and so on were fucked up and abused in their own unique contemporary fashions doesn't make the pill any less bitter.
That line doesn't hit me quite as hard because I'm an "Oregon Trail" millennial: my first computer ran DOS (which means I was definitely old enough to read, because I had to be to use it) and I didn't get the Internet (AOL, LOL) until I was a preteen. Luckily for me, I matured at the same rate as mature content proliferated, so I was never really exposed to anything I wasn't equipped to handle.
(My computer illiterate parents had absolutely no clue what I had access to and got damn lucky I didn't have a personality inclined to go seek weird shit out, because it could've easily gone the other way.)
My own kids, of course, get Linux PCs, not tablets, and don't get unsupervised access to the Internet at all.
But yeah, for a lot of people outside of my very narrow age range and tech-exposure circumstances, it's been an absolute disaster.
Thats exactly how my childhood experience was as well
At first I thought you meant Welcome to YouTube and thought man that is a deep cut.
Ah back to the original YouTube Live in '08. Back before YT was complete shit, and going viral actually was a feat, not just getting a bunch of views from your social media.