Combined with the fact that the internet is still, in the grand scheme, brand new

will be seen as a perfect storm for reality-twisting orwellian-style news cycles to dominate until someone or something puts down some kind of "internet constitution"

🤔

You can create your own subjective reality with block buttons and confirmation bias

"People this period seem to go out of their way to make things up and then get mad about it rather than fix an actual problem"

and every two-bit hack can print whatever the fuck they want

@missdanger

at this point i think we really do need extranational laws for the internet

if only so that countries will stop trying to cripple it

I dread the day when im teaching history student to cite from goddman twitter

Or how about this, danger

meme history

Good

GOD

how fast does the meme-cycle spin nowadays?

i could be my own primary source

If I take a fucking nap for a day or two off the internet there's some new bullshit meme

i've found my calling in life, i must become a professor of meme history

and I have to dig for an hour to find the source

academia is DEEEEEAAAD

Okay how about this, for an example miss

memba ugandan knuckles?

WELL

oh ugandan knuckles, the flame burn twice as bright last half as long

the chronic hacking didnt help either

like a solid week of history that will be taught in meme history for generations

vrchat was popular for less than 6 months

the original knuckles drawing in that style was done by Gregzilla, for a joke.
Gregzilla then did a video where he made that drawing sing "I don't want to set the world on fire"
Then a friend of mine, Framerater, co-opted the drawing with permission and made a short series of singing videos
Then someone entirely unrelated made a 3d-model of it for VR chat
And somehow suddenly people started using it to reference Who Killed Captain Alex

And the suddenly

DO U KNOW DE WEY

The first three lines of that took 6 months

the last two lines were like, two weeks

?? ?? ? ??? ? ?

Taking all of that apart then

imagine reverse-enineering that meme

who is knuckles? why was that short clip of him saying "oh no" funny in that context and video?

Why was making him sing humerous

Why did framerater make more?

why did someone make a model?

If meme historian become an actual thing then all my years on 4chan would not be for nothing