Sunday, 15 March 2015

Has the internet gotten more boring?

So I was looking at some old videos that I have watched on youtube, including the internet medley by gag quartet. Then I suddenly realised that, wow, all the memes are outdated. They are no longer being used in today's internet.



I mean, look at nyan cat, awesome face, leek spin, who still discuss them nowadays. Chocolate rain? That song is so long ago.

I'm amazed at how quickly the internet refreshes. In the blink of an eye these once popular memes and rage comics are a thing of the past. Nowadays youtube comment section is flooded with darude sandstorm and illuminati. Even these are getting old.

Maybe it's just me not using the internet as frequently now, but I somehow feel that the time when the internet is fun and buzzing, when it has created a variety of subculture, when different forums flourish, is gone. Now, everyone floods to reddit, and the gaming community seems to be the centre of the discussion. We haven't create many good memes recently, and the new memes created are random and bland of any cultural value.

I don't know, maybe I have simply fallen off from the train of new trends. We are no longer the most active users on the internet. The 00s, they are rising to be the strongest force on the internet. This is a generation bred in isolation and spoilt by technology, fed with fast food and blasted with trashy music. I don't know how they will grow up to become. Well, it's an universal law that the older generation always despise the younger ones. Maybe this generation will grow up just fine. But they will control the fate of the internet. From the current trend, it doesn't look promising.

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