thinking about what the internet was like when justin bieber uploaded that first cover. youtube was three years old. twitter was two. instagram didn’t exist yet. tiktok wouldn’t exist for another decade. there were no “creators.” there was no creator economy. there was no algorithm feeding you a personalized slurry of content engineered to keep you scrolling for eleven more seconds. there was jus a website where people put videos, and sometimes those videos reached everyone and changed the creators life. this performance is a memorial for the internet we lost.
u can be unemployed and chronically online which is bad. you can also be employed and chronically online, which cancels itself out. employed people who are chronically online are the closest things to angels
I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.
I didn’t even hate that lame ass movie which may show poor taste but at least I can still use what remains of my brain and tell you that scene is dumb as hell. If I see “rooftop scene” one more time istg
What I want to know is why Blake Lively/Ryan Reynolds are acting like “the rooftop scene” is gods gift to cinema. It’s literally a terribly written and terribly acted scene? Why are they desperate to take credit?
Being in your small town during the holidays and seeing how many people from high school used all these years to stay who they were at 16 is jarring ???