![]() No one could sell records anymore, and the entire industry kind of dried up. The last on is important because it completely gutted artist revenues from everything besides merch and live shows. That year pitchfork got bought by conde nast, the last of the new york showspaces were destroyed, and streaming replaced cd's and itunes. "Indie," referring to any kind of small-scale but notable industry actually making, selling, and marketing decent music in some decent level of quantity, has been dead since 2015. I think reddit dragged many good posters into its orifices and remolded them into genuinely awful people via upvote and "don't get banned for saying true things" conditioning.ΔΆ013 was like 3 whole cultural eras away from the current one. Ironically, one of the only places where you're encouraged to put effort into posts is on reddit, but if you go there you're not allowed to think and have to submit to a hivemind. ![]() Instead of feeling a need to up my game to be as entertaining as others, I get accused of effort posting and reddit spacing. The brown and zoomer, low IQ hordes came a good while later and it's honestly been something of an Eternal September (or series of them) ever since. Which brings up another point: the average quality of internet human was higher when it was new. Was it going to be possible for forums to remain as big as they once were? It felt like the gates of a new era were opening up to allow us to talk shit with people across the globe, but I increasingly feel that the people around the globe are mostly of idiots. ![]() Also, forums were big when everything was new and exciting. Replies in life and your internet brain tubes calcify and clog. ![]()
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