Maya Angelou really snapped when she said, "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
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.
High Fidelity (2020) getting axed after one season still feels wrong, Zoë Kravitz’s Rob breaking the fourth wall, those top five lists, the record store vibe, it had a voice and just got cut off mid-run.