cocculinLove it or hate it, its impact on culture at large can’t be denied. I’ve been on the site since 2010. Before egirls and woke went mainstream, we had all the nose-pierced rainbow haired girls/nbs gpoy-posting between arguments about the validity of neopronouns, which sexualities were orientations and not merely preferences, what should go on the Pride flag, and so on. I saw some of them grow up to have legit careers in the arts. But beyond the woke fandom stereotype: Blake Masters’ notes from Peter Thiel’s Stanford course, Sam Bankman-Fried’s girlfriend’s blog, shoplifting tips, a Triple J presenter writing Angus and Julia Stone hatefic, the “teacher crush” and “true crime” communities accidentally sharing the same tag, eshay vandals popping the guardie, train guards secretly aiding the vandals, long ADHD walls of text about something you really loved or hated… the incredible breadth of humanity on display in a time when not everyone was brainrotting online.
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