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Zillenial Broken/Lost Dreams & 2010 Millenial Net Utopia
Decade of origin | post-2013 - 2017 (retro-futurism: 1950-1990/2000s) (nostalgia)
Creator/s | GBCP (author)
Key motifs
- freedom, community, understanding, world-wide family (without forcing it), taking web "back" (to people, no corporates;) when it was "small", non-corporate (old-web, 1993-2005/2009); trying to cope, re-invent what was "lost/stolen" , web freedom, edgyness, "millennial revolution", craze, startups...
- corporations like Google, Pinterest, BuzzFeed or College Humor,
- before they went big and detached from their consumers (i.e. enshitification)...
Key values
- unity, community, understanding, critique of nonsense laws ("if you dont own it, its not piracy") and soc.media pushing stuff (not lgbt, but stuff like XaaS and Cloud-tech. ...);
- curiosity ("why..."), "taking internet back to us (people; from companies)..."; absurd humor, snark, postmodernism;
- hate of control freaks and authority, DIY (from clothes, to webs), "GVC", ownership...;
- critical of "trends", soc.media and their agendas ("new normal"s), *technocrats* and "renters society" , ignoring News etc. ...
Related aesthetics
- GVC,Y2K,Milleniwave (was inspiration),Old Net,BBS/Nerd Net,internet kidcore, %-punk,cyberpunk,...
- hauntology,maybe even e/acc - cyberneticpunk;...
- steampunk (2000s-2010s),hipster, "millenial revolution" (broad), start-ups;
- corporations like Google, Pinterest, BuzzFeed or College Humor,before they went big and detached from their consumers (i.e. enshitiffication)...
Related media
- Mark Fisher theses on "cancelled futures",
- *internet marxists on twitter/tumblr*;
- - web revivalists groups (which got critized for liking aesthetics of it, but not tending "to change (their soc.media) ways...") - e.g. https://libre.town/thoughts/entry_7.xhtml;
- var. soc. critiques; those of in-validity of "west has fallen" cookie-cutter videos; ...
Related brands
NPR, wikipedia, var. soc. NGOs and free/public services..., n(g)eocities/nekoweb ... - web revival, tumblr, twitter...
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