I was bored the other day looking at dumb old videos on Youtube when I noticed something kind of odd. Almost every video I was looking at had like no new comments posted in the last 10+ years... despite some of them having literal millions of views, and despite Youtube specifically recommending them to me. Examples:
Call me a turbo zoomer but this shit kind of creeps me out. We've reached a point where the internet has so much content that hundreds of thousands of people can see something, and then after that it will never be seen again - even though anyone can still access it. Imagine in like 40 years when the majority of the internet is like this, hosting completely forgotten content with thousands of comments perfectly preserved...
Call me a turbo zoomer but this shit kind of creeps me out. We've reached a point where the internet has so much content that hundreds of thousands of people can see something, and then after that it will never be seen again - even though anyone can still access it. Imagine in like 40 years when the majority of the internet is like this, hosting completely forgotten content with thousands of comments perfectly preserved...