I watch a YouTube show called What The Fuck Is Wrong With You on a channel called Radio Dead Air. In it, the hosts read news stories of really stupid things that happened that week and make fun of them. One of the ones that stand out to me is someone painted a dog purple. They also get a lot of naked rampages, chuck-e-cheese brawls, that sort of thing. I've often pondered how 21st century America would look to some civilization whose only source is this show
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I was gonna say Homestuck, but I think this wins.
All of it.
Mind you, that assumes we find a robust way to archive it and not to be funny, actually archive it, not to mention avoiding the self destruction of humanity either through the climate change catastrophe or the hubris of the self anointed billionaire Emperors and Epstein sycophants.
The upcoming UFC match on the White House lawn.
That's just straight out of Idiocracy.
Bold of you to assume we won't destroy the planet and ourselves this century. There's a reason the universe is devoid of advanced civilizations...
A major byproduct of intelligence appears to be in an infinite number of ways to destroy yourselves, and the greater the average intelligence, the more power the collective and individual has to destroy.
There's a Ray Bradbury story about Martians who evolve after Earthlings die off. The one artifact they find is a Donald Duck movie (which the Last Humans died defending though they did not know what it was)
As everything else becomes locked up with increasingly complex and fragile DRM ("digital restrictions management") content encryption schemes, the largest surviving archive of 21st century media that's still available three hundred years from now could be ao3.
The real housewives of (insert sport team)
Is the My Little Pony bro thing still going on? Because maybe that.
No, thankfully it died.
However, there are many very high functioning furries who literally hold our digital infrastructure together. Besides that, there are ones who are scientists, lawyers, rocket engineers...
• Factorio
• Stardew Valley
• the Sonic movies
• Dragonball abridged
• Any of the furry/horror games on Itch.io
• Minecraft redstone guides
There’s so many options
Paramount buying out WB, and actually being allowed to at that. That bribe that Paramount slipped under the table to the Justice Department has to have been massive for that to be allowed.
API documentation for cloud-connected buttplugs
CSPAN
media culture itself.