The Sad Internet
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:19 am
The Internet is a place of both joyous wonder and corrosive meanness. There are delightful and hilarious memes and GIFs and videos made by GoPro-wearing puppies. And there are nasty troll attacks, flame wars, and outrage galore (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/why-is-inter ... 83899.html).
In 2014, however, we noticed a number of projects and sites that dont fit either trope: neither Happy Internet nor Angry Internet.
They suggest, instead, a Sad Internet.
Some manifestations of the Sad Internet make a mockery of the pervasive cliché of the magical technology that connects us all, builds community, and generally permits the crowd to find and reward the wonderful.
The Sad Internet is a place full of unwatched videos, unliked photographs, unheard music, tweets that no one cared about, and crowdfunding projects that nobody backed.
Join us, if you will, for a tour of the Sad Internet.
read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-sad-inte ... 56229.html
In 2014, however, we noticed a number of projects and sites that dont fit either trope: neither Happy Internet nor Angry Internet.
They suggest, instead, a Sad Internet.
Some manifestations of the Sad Internet make a mockery of the pervasive cliché of the magical technology that connects us all, builds community, and generally permits the crowd to find and reward the wonderful.
The Sad Internet is a place full of unwatched videos, unliked photographs, unheard music, tweets that no one cared about, and crowdfunding projects that nobody backed.
Join us, if you will, for a tour of the Sad Internet.
read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-sad-inte ... 56229.html
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