fellow Hexbear user ennemi just posted about Chuck Norris jokes, and it got me thinking about excavating the early Web 2.0 days. Remember in the mid 2000s, early 2010s, when mustaches and bacon were like the peak of online humor? I also seem to remember epic saxophone solos and Chuck Norris in the mix. Did that whole ethos go on to inform reddit culture? It'd be interesting to see an infographic showing what memes/jokes contributed to the discourses of online platforms today (though also very cringe, lol)
Remember when something awful was the nexus of internet culture? 4chan started there. Some of the first memes. A swinger community. Every video game had at least one goon dev. There was a board for government employees. At the time it felt like the internet the old books talked about
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Yeah, everyone who blew up from that generation was not ready for fame. Not that they were any worse people than the old entertainment but they just didn't have the opsec skills