/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>15120961
I would say social media was doomed from the start because it encourages connecting one's real-life identity to their internet persona. Even in the shittiest bulletin board forums nobody ever had more of a stake in the conversation than the reputation of their dumb username. Now however, the internet has finally become inseparably tied to the real world and so if even one IRL person strokes their e-penis, everybody else they know will start doing it too for fear of looking untrendy, just like fads of the past.

The problem is that the internet isn't a fad. It's a fad delivery system with unlimited shelf life, and those of us who want to use it independently of our shitty lives, as we and our predecessors have been using it and other similar networks for decades, have become the dying minority. It's a terrible situation and frankly I don't see any solution other than getting all the normalfags off the internet, which is unfeasible, or developing a new network which has a bar of entry so high that they'll never be able to get in.