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VRHell
Oct 8, 2026 · original
In the year 2018, two years before the lockdowns from hell, a disposable blockbuster movie called Ready Player One came out. The premise of the movie is that it’s the future and everything sucks. Somehow Columbus, Ohio has devolved into a third world favela like Brazil is, where people live in run down shacks stacked on top of each other. As a result, everyone desires to live their lives in the VR world. In the movie, there’s this VR world called OASIS and technology is at the point where you can feel as if you’re in reality in VR. On top of this, everything has gone the way of Fortnite and VRChat as there’s literally a mishmash of pop culture references everywhere. Of course, the movie was based on an awful novel of the same name that was written by a now-extinct “I love pop culture” Redditor (from a distant era of the site) and as a result the actual plot about a quest for money is rea
The monocultures of the internet
Nov 10, 2025 · original
One of the biggest problems with the internet, especially culturally, is the rise of the monoculture. It seems as if every weird internet community has been assimilated into one singular monoculture. Every group, every person, is the same exact individual with a different number. It doesn’t matter where you go, everyone is the same and has the same interests. At the same time, every subculture has become exactly the same online group, no matter the skin. Welcome to the monoculture era of the internet. Defining a monoculture First off, what is a monoculture in the context of the internet? A monoculture is when there’s a bunch of groups online, with the same political beliefs, same opinions, same culture, same memes, same behaviors, but all spread out with different people subscribing to the ideas of the chat. You could call these chats hugboxes or echo-chambers in isolation, yet there are
Guilty Pleasures Are Not Real
Oct 15, 2025 · original
In the time I have spent living on this rock, I have spent about 99% of it enjoying things that make me feel like myself. There has rarely been a gap of time that was dedicated towards appeasing a group or subculture by submitting to their demands, their meta, their standards of quality. I learned this at a VERY young age, bordering on second nature. The earliest example that comes to mind is when I received Dark Horse by Nickelback in 2009. I’m not even sure how I obtained the CD, I don’t remember even asking for it, but regardless it sat on my shelf with my various other albums: The Reason by Hoobastank , Even More Crazy Hits by Crazy Frog , Kidz Bop 9 , and whatever else was spinning in my Discman. Throughout time a lot of that early childhood collection disappeared through yard sales, library and good will donations, and just giving stuff to friends. I will admit that Dark Horse some
Irony Poisoning for Young Adults
Sep 30, 2025 · original
Day in the life College is a beautiful thing, and I think you learn a lot from being in college. Fashion, cigarettes, cool music, blunts, bongs, bowls, burritos, breakfast, breakfast burritos, coffee, Monster, Red Bull, sushi, student discounts–it almost feels like a video game because the campus is a large map separated into biomes, and we are all little characters with inventories and mobs to fight and factions and achievements and skill trees. I don’t have a job right now because I’m mainly focusing on schooling, I guess. Are you cooked, or are you cooking? I’m clearly burnt to a crisp; I need to lock in! Fashion , big boots, small boots, boots with fur, boots with buckles, purposefully (or accidentally, depending on your whole angle) ripped shirts, ripped jeans, baggy jeans, skinny jeans, bell bottoms, studded belts, Kandi bracelets, raccoon tails, wolf cuts, pixie cuts, and studs. W
Why forums died (and what makes them thrive)
Sep 6, 2025 · original
By now, you likely already have seen someone online lament the loss of forums. Forums used to be the best places online, and then Reddit/Twitter/social media happened, and then it got worse with Discord. That’s the narrative anyway. In reality, nothing ever happens for no reason whatsoever online, and trying to assume such comes off like a bizarre perversion of history in the vein of Idiocracy’s Time Machine: As someone who used to be addicted to many now-lost forums like crack cocaine, I can tell you exactly what killed most forums. See; for the longest time forums were the place people posted online. Essentially a replacement for old-school USENET groups, BBSes, and mailing lists (which have become highly niche and populated by boomers who remember the “good old days”, or only end up used for software development like the Linux mailing list), forums were an evolution of these for the i
Treat the Internet Like Real Life
Jul 15, 2025 · original
Talk about social media, and someone will inevitably start explaining how it’s unhealthy. They’re not wrong. In fact, most of the ways people use “the computer” (phones, laptops, even game consoles included) are bad for people as a whole, even if they aren’t causing harm day-to-day. Why though? Most tech optimism that drove the world into its current state was predicated on connecting people and reducing time spent on undesirable activities. These are good things, broadly speaking, but the devil is in the details. Connecting which people to whom? Reducing time spent on boring tasks to free up time for what? It’s disingenuous to say that the Internet and associated advances in technology didn’t deliver on these promises – they did – but the side effects are still felt by everyone. One of the my most deeply-held dogmas is a philosophical interpretation of Newton’s Third Law of Motion: “For
A treatise on minimalism.
May 1, 2025 · original
Chapter 01: Last Great Lent, I thought to declutter my life by using less social media, selling a lot of shit I didn’t need, and overall trying to be surrounded by fewer screens. After Pascha, I couldn’t hold it much longer. I needed to get rid of my screens. De-screening is a phrase that I will use. I took down my two PC monitors, unplugged the PC itself, shoved it into my closet, and switched to a Lenovo ThinkPad (yeah, I know, I fell for that meme.) And I got myself a digital and smart watch. That might seem counterintuitive, but if you think about it, it’s a much smaller screen that acts like your phone but doesn’t carry any of the social media features. You get a notification on your watch, and that’s it. I don’t have to pull out my phone at all, which actually saves me more time. On days that I don’t plan on doing anything, I’ll switch to my Casio watch. I moved all social media to
Gen Z and self-customization
Apr 22, 2025 · original
Listen to the article, read by the author I was born a little after the year 2000, placing me squarely into Gen Z (I refuse to say “zoomer”). Despite this, most of the people I spend time with and most of the media I consume cause me to be perceived more like a millennial, at least by some people. This association has always kept me close to groups formed around 2000s nostalgia, and I’m not alone; it’s a trend for Gen Z to feel great nostalgia for the 2000s, especially those who are online all the time. Most of this “nostalgia” is for a time they don’t actually remember, and this has highlighted a few interesting traits of the generation for me. The biggest sentiment I see echoed by Gen Z who are obsessed with “y2k” (or what they think is y2k, which in practice is anything tech-related from 1995-2012) is that the web, and software in general, is lacking cu st om iz at ion . Above all els

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