Message from @King Canuck
Discord ID: 464145313213448204
if I can't physically or tangibly prove my article's words, it gets scrapped
what do you mean from primary sources?
Sources from a person who experienced the event
"what the hell happened in the mid-late 2010's? it's like everyone simultaneously starting printing outright lies and people just believed them 🤔 "
gunna be great to look back on with that good ol' 20/20 hindsight
Here's what I think the perspective will be in hindsight
a combination of the old news panicking cause of their slow descent into death from lack of profits
Combined with the fact that crazy ideas catch on faster than ever now
the further in teh past you go the wider the acceptable primary sources is, like most information on the Aksum empire is from a greek 'historian' who may never have even went to the country but since he is the only source we have, you get the idea
Combined with the fact people can now edit out opinoins they don't like
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
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
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