[JackNet]

You're not alone. A lot of corporate and snowflake culture around the internet, indeed.

I equally miss 2000s internet culture, primarily due in part since many have not yet grasped what it truly was so things were still rather experimental. I get that things have to change, but the thing that really takes the crap cake in my opinion is the fact a lot of desktop program development cues are taken into account when designing websites. Everything is *too* dynamic and a lot of weight is put on the client browser, but I digress.

YouTube is an infamous example of this issue of corporate culture. Back in its heyday, it was a wild west of user-created content. The idea of monetizing the platform has remained mostly a mystery; it was mainly a video sharing playground for geeks. I remember when it was easier said than done to find random videos. Now... Everything feels too *professional*. Things are to be taken seriously or you won't generally be accepted. A lot of famous celebrity figures (Or as zoomers call them "influencers") spoiling youth that it's possible to get to a high state like that, but it genuinely isn't.

Twitter is another case. I still remember the time it wasn't the diet /b/+/pol/tard and Tumblr-migrant hellhole it is now. It was just to share quick snippets of what you had in mind, but now it's a stupid mess that I bet in a bit will absolutely become yet another nuclear waste dump. I even thought of leaving it after being in the site for so long.

Society is just too damn cruel now, and that's a depressing fact to think about.