nedeľa 3. novembra 2024

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Lost/Broken Zillennial Dreams 2010 is intro for more info! stop by to say hello! Click around to find out more!

This gallery use memes, sarcasm, snarkery and millennial/"zoomer" edgy-absurd-"hard-stomach" humor - be warned!

For even more absurd takes (memes) (related!), 
see https://sk.pinterest.com/simonj21000/zillennial-dream-utopia-2010-broken-promises/ 

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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...


New blogs below


For more, see


Links

Google site:  Lost/Broken Zillennial Dreams 2010 - main points, related, sorted Tumblr collection: https://www.tumblr.com/millenial-net-utop...