(1/5) Something that I've noticed that's been bothering me is that as this decade has passed, it's felt like culture has been dissolving year by year, especially on the internet.
Say if this is just a me thing, but five years ago it felt like existing on the internet was staking your claim...
(2/5) ...among hundreds, if not thousands of people. Maybe it had to do with growing up, but it feels like that's gone now. Like everyone and everything has just vanished, or is a shell of itself. Where once was crowded is completely barren.
Jan 23, 2026 05:09(3/5) While it's a gut feeling, I think this is because any semblance of culture that once existed online has completely disintegrated. Probably due to the state of just about everything rapidly degrading since the turn of the decade.
(4/5) Was the culture online good? Probably not that great. I'll admit I'm looking at things with rose-tinted glasses. There was at least *something* though. Nowadays, especially in the neck of the woods I exist in, it's a chaotic mess where there's no sense of community or even coexistence.
(5/5) Maybe the internet has gotten too large? Too centralized? I'm not really sure. But whatever happened, it's made it all far more lonely than it used to be.
It could just be a matter of perspective, though.
I wonder if I'm the only one that feels like this, or if anyone else has noticed.
