@thenetroots
Mr. Travers, whimsical storyteller of soft magical realism, sci-fi sitcoms & surreal serials—all with a dash of absurdist deadpan humor. https://www.wattpad.com/user/MysteriousMrTravers https://buymeacoffee.com/duketravers
Oliver needs answers. He’s calling it a sleepover—but really, he’s invited his friends over to witness something impossible. Mrs. Riley agrees… as long as nobody needs a ride home past midnight.
#BookSky #Book #AmWriting
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A whimsical, offbeat tale for those who remember the sting of leaving things behind in order to appear grown. (Three chapters published as of now)
#Book #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #WIP
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A tale about a boy and his imagination...to put it mildly.
It’s weird, it’s whimsical, it’s an inverted bildungsroman infused with absurdist deadpan satire.
But most importantly it's about the things we leave behind to seem grown.
#BookSky #IndieAuthor
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i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
Alright! Fess up! Which of y’all were signed up for Gerber Grow Up Plan?
So the Pentagon performed a blanket search term for the word “gay” and inadvertently called for the deletion of “Enola Gay” the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Is that what I’m understanding?
The history of brainrot is embedded with the history of internet culture itself.
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The modern world was built on military funding, nerds repurposing utilitarian calculation devices to start fan clubs and play D&D, and advocates for the free, decentralized internet that enabled Silicon Valley to succeed, only to turn around, lobby for net neutrality, and monopolize it all.
7/ The internet had transformed. No longer a space just for professionals, it became a playground, battleground, and proving ground for a new digital counterculture—one that still shapes the internet today.
6/ This was the true start of the “Wild West” era—a time of limitless creativity, trolling, and unfiltered digital anarchy. It also marked the birth of “brainrot”—where absurdity, irony, and lack of restraint became the dominant aesthetic of internet culture.
5/7 By the late 90s, the old, academic, office-minded internet culture clashed with a youth-driven counterculture defined by:
Ironic stupidity & absurdity (as seen in Something Awful’s motto: “The Internet Makes You Stupid”)
Anti-censorship & self-publishing (“Only on the Internet”)
4/ As kids gained internet access via library and school computers, the U.S. government became savvy of, let’s just say, “college-aged content”, & attempted to censor online speech. This fueled an anti-censorship movement, defining the internet as a space of unfiltered, unregulated expression.
3/ Then came The Eternal September
Before 1993, Usenet had a yearly influx of new users when college freshmen, unversed in netiquette, got internet access. But AOL’s mass adoption meant new users never stopped coming. That old netiquette broke down, and a new, chaotic, irreverent culture took hold.
2/ Early computing was for work, until users repurposed their computers for personal interests and play. Games and fan clubs (online fandoms), shifted how users viewed and engaged with computers and the internet—not as tools for labor, but for entertainment, exploration, and experimentation.
1/7 From its inception to the early 90s, Internet Culture was shaped by academics, office work, and word processing. It was professional, functional, and structured. But three key conditions shattered this, giving rise to the first great digital countercultural movement. 🧵⬇️
Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Not everybody rediscovering the appeal of Web 1.0.
I guess ChatGPT lost it’s job to AI #deepSeek #nvidia #AI
So glad that the US went "lol jk" on the TikTok ban.
Where else can you casually stumble upon unhinged information such as that Arapahoe County, Colorado has an disproportionately large amount of searches for "skunk furries"?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT28y9a3m/
SCOOP: In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting itself as a comparable alternative.
TikTok better back it up and ask if “is fast enough?” and Vine’s table better break and say “oh no…our table”
It’s literally a bunch of out-of-touch people not comprehending the scope of such a ban.
Random question: How would Internet Archive feel about making a crowdsourced TikTok archive? I’ve personally wanted to contribute to a chronological TikTok scroll that contains TikTok’s of cultural and historical significance. I’d make it myself if I had the developing skillset.
If you had a social media platform with 3.9 billion global users, would you sell it to, let’s say, Russia to keep 150 million Russian users on the app? Hell the fuck you wouldn’t and moreover, you shouldn’t. #tiktokban
Not TikTok beating Prohibition for the US’s shortest ban. 💀
Name a Facebook creator. 😐
#Meta #Facebook #tiktokban
Many US politicians and platform owners are about to relearn a harsh lesson about the free market. #unprecedentedEvent #tiktokban #GreatTikTokMigration #Xiaohongshu #RedNote
The whole TikTok debate has been giving “yellow manace” ahh rhetoric, and I can’t be the only one who noticed.
The FBI in my webcam doesn’t feed me dopamine like the Chinese Spy in my TikTok does js