(80s/90s) DFW: TV-obsessed, hyperactive culture, low-browing of culture and mocking of this culture, culture mocks itself, struggle to express sincere feelings for fear of ridicule
(00s/10s) Tao Lin: internet-obsessed, detached and introspective culture, desire for attachment with others prevented by technology-inducted isolation and hyper self-awareness, communication via usernames, low-browing of previous literary genres to reflect the quirky and sarcastic culture of the internet
(20s/30s) Me(me): abolition of physical identity, communication anonymously via the internet, total isolation and comfort, growing apathy towards society and "culture", declining birth rates, sincerity as a given since all communication is anonymous but irony now treated without hostility, growing self-conscious experience and/or desire for solipsism, advent of virtual reality and the voluntary self-exile from the real world to another "server" in VR
Ryder Perez
20/30's, only the rich and powerfu will be able to be anonymous.
Aaron Gray
Veeky Forums pass is gonna get expensive?
Asher Morris
Internet anonymity was a fleeting meme and is quickly dying, we will always have the niche anonymous sites but mainstream internet will only become more "connected" and social. It will still completely replace real interaction though.
Jack Thomas
Do you think anything could be done to prevent this? As the internet integrates into daily life more, it's going to become an extension of the mind. More and more personal, more and more "internet of things"
Kevin Bailey
Wrong
Carter Gutierrez
So what you're saying is >muh seekret clubhouse will actually become a secret clubhouse?
Tyler James
Get ready for end of net neutrality friend :^)
William Phillips
That's a good thing, it's better for the environment.
David Roberts
How is internet anonymity dying? Or do we have a different definition of anonymity?
James Green
does that guy really have massive clown feet or is it just an effect of the camera
Lucas Mitchell
Perspective + boots
Joshua Roberts
(20s/30s) will see a tightening of physical identity, and a diminishing of intellectual and cultural identity because of the hyperconnected cognitive environment. With people who have had their every movement since birth logged on some database and all databases becoming more connected predictive models will become more and more sophisticated, and also I hope as an optimist more easily broken. There will never be such a thing as anonymity, never has been never will be. The main problem in the middle classes will be in creating self importance and self identity, and also creating sufficient reward.
Julian Mitchell
Literally every website and app nowadays has a default account creation process through Facebook, all the social media platforms are gradually becoming more connected and interdependent.
Its a slow crawl towards governments and corporations expecting internet users to be tracable and personally accountable
Liam Rodriguez
traceable /= personally accountable
Anthony Powell
thats Knochensack. If you critique his wardrobe you automatically prove that you have no sense of fashion whatsoever-
Easton Ross
No but it is a radically important step towards that. It is in absolutely no powerful organizations interest that people are able to communicate anonymously, a process of attempting to subvert what we take for granted now is inevitable and already well underway
Michael Gutierrez
>looking like a stupid aspie is ok if I call it Veeky Forums
Camden Hughes
Hmm that's why this site attracts so many NWO mongs. They think they're fighting the power. WE ARE THE RESISTANCE.
Bentley Wilson
Oh yeah imagine that, the world changing for the worse because of powerful people. Like that could ever happen
Julian Martin
Like the success of certain types of apps wouldn't cause a rise in producers of those type of apps and an increased demand to link every part of your online life in a capitalist society. A lot of this shit is organic nig.
And if it weren't, and there was a big bad council that agreed on everything enough to control the world, browsing Veeky Forums is now a revolutionary act. Don't make me kek so hard.
Adrian Collins
Not that guy. You can only prevent it from happening to yourself and those you love. As everyone gets away from each other and goes into their computers, a physical community will become that much more of an importance. It will be like the walking dead or any generic zombie post-apocalyptic scenario except the atomic bomb is the singularity.
Wyatt Thomas
You're a fucking retard and have an extremely naive notion of how power operates. Institutions can easily act towards collusive ends without outright coordination.
Mason Ortiz
Processes to insure the continued existence of online anonymity and privacy are also well underway. Encryption, TOR/I2P and related services, even full-blown separate mesh networks without any WWW involvement.
Asher Anderson
>(20s/30s) Me(me): abolition of physical identity, communication anonymously via the internet, total isolation and comfort, growing apathy towards society and "culture", declining birth rates, sincerity as a given since all communication is anonymous but irony now treated without hostility, growing self-conscious experience and/or desire for solipsism, advent of virtual reality and the voluntary self-exile from the real world to another "server" in VR
described my self-published novel af
80k words of Me(me)ry
Jaxon Adams
real talk can I use this as a blurb? without changing a single word, this fits my theme exactly, which is a delicious irony because Veeky Forums is a prominent theme in the story
Chase Wood
>t. i don't know jackshit about what i'm talking about
Christian Sanchez
Its a battle to be sure. But it looks like a worse state of affaires now than ever
Nathaniel Reyes
>TOR olo deep state funded = freedom
Nolan White
>Veeky Forums is anonymous
You don't actually believe this, do you?
Bentley Perez
Fuck you both these are MY ideas
Isaiah Roberts
Too late someone already stole it
Brandon Reed
reads m4s tl ONCE
Sebastian Price
literally peak Veeky Forums i hope this isn' you OP
Caleb Williams
>sincerity as a given since all communication is anonymous lol you have no idea what you're talking about
Cooper Ramirez
>tfw I'm still in the 90s
Blake Diaz
who tf is knochensack plz explain
David Jones
>Institutions can easily act towards collusive ends without outright coordinations.
Someone gets it
Noah Perez
Veeky Forums is genre fiction, an exponent of cyberpunk 80s. Don't get your ideas from here. Complete the canon before even considering leaving any skeptical position towards yourself.
Josiah Jones
>sincerity as a given since all communication is anonymous This meme about anonymity creating more sincerity is wrong though. People just lie for different reasons. It's easy to lie when you don't have to be consistent with anything you've ever said before.
Christopher Moore
it serves you right for sharing them. people who post their work here are fools.
Ethan Sullivan
Video streaming etc. consumes an enormous amount of energy, making people pay extra for a netflix package is a great idea. Streaming video costs about the same amount of energy as used in producing and delivering a dvd of the same length, ~ 8 MJ/hr
Landon Myers
Internet anonymity has been dying since it first existed. It is nearly completely dead.