I Miss Blockbuster and Being Cringe Online
Hey friends! It's been a while. Winter is hard and Spring is busy and writing takes a lot of thought it turns out. But I've been thinking a lot lately about the modern day internet, anhedonia, nostalgia, and getting older in America. So I think this post will be part musing, part self-psychoanalyzing, and part talking about being a kid online in the late 90's/early 2000's. I'll do my best not to just stream-of-consciousness this post but we'll see how I do :') -- I guess to start I want to talk about how absolutely boring the internet has become. It's turned into social media, youtube, and google. Gone are the days of StumbleUpon and spending hours with your friends finding new webpages and just playing around. It has lost its wonder. It was so magical and expansive, but now it's all doomscrolling and looking at your friend's vacation pics while stoned and sad and laying in your bed too late at night and avoiding sleep because sleep means tomorro...
