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...

addendum:

#0 punks and emos of 2000s-2010s: basically "When we were young" fest, - safe for fact it was then "current thing": pic-rel + all those rock, punk, emo, - things (idea(l)s) playing on radio --- a psyop??? + 80s (music, not aesthetics) nostalgia occuring around that time... : music-rel (yeah, pretty much this playlist is "getting rich" from nostalgia - go, figure :/)
#1 youtube campaign "broadcoast yourself" - dawg man, i am so confussed how we could "get bought" over this - and believe come corporation! it sounds so - ironic; looking at it from lens of someone, living in *these* times "after fad"... - really believing(?) that commonmen can, thru sheer "influence" thru net, shape world... (what a joke!!!) [were we sold on *this feeling"!???][1]

#1b general naiivity over "corporations allowing us all this" - how was that not suspicious!! i wonder... (letting our guard and awareness so low) ~ but then, werent we (born 1999-and so; living with siblings (sister), of 8 year difference...)
#1.5 campaign of web providers (geocities, goDaddy or such), *basically* saying "be you"/"promote yourself"

(if you get me, that is; i am - getting nostalgic, over something i very fogly remember - in fact, now i get - why those "boomers" over here are getting nostalgic over living in socialism (when, they were kids... - so was i...)

--- WAS this all^ psy-op - contrarian messages, just "selling feeling", scham, make-believe dreams?

or is it that *there somewhere*, it was "all taken away from us" - well, as i see, that is very little probability, and it was just tactic to "get everyone on net" - those fxxx bastards!! (#me, being naiive...)[1]

nedeľa 3. novembra 2024