• topperharlie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The internet is wild, people spend most of their time in small echo chambers and they think that is the whole internet.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I mean, back when this was a meme the whole internet was like a single echo chamber, especially in the early days of YouTube and even more so prior.

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        1 year ago

        No. No it wasn’t. I’ve been here since YouTube started and have never seen this. People thinking they’re experience is everyone’s experience is wild.

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          Had a colleague that told me about some memes with a gay porn star. He couldn’t grasp that I neither know the guy nor the memes. Allegedly they were all over the internet for years. I’ve never seen any of them since.

          This guy is a libertarian right wing incel, so I’m pretty sure our internet experiences are completely different.

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          1 year ago

          I mean, there is a shared experience for people who were online when things started. I remember Newgrounds, eBaum’s World, Nyan Cat, Epic Rap Battles of History, StumbleUpon.com.

          I imagine you also experienced some or most of that short list to some extent.

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            1 year ago

            Eh, maybe. While I am familiar with those things, I don’t think I’d ever assume everyone my age and on the Internet would as well. Different strokes for different folks. Moreover, this didn’t even take into account age at all. So not only did it appear to strike out with many of the same age, it’ll likely strike out with most users who simply weren’t on the Internet for that relatively small period of time.

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            Eh, my mom was on the internet at that time and would know absolutely zero of those things because she didn’t visit humor sites. I knew them because that is the stuff I looked for.

            Kind of like how most people watched MASH when it was the most popular show ever, but not everyone did.

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            1 year ago

            Epic rap battles and stumbleupon were my lemmy back then. Spent so much time stumbling and found some very weird stuff.