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I saw a post about tumblr user ages...
Reblogs are welcomed for that sweet, sweet increased data pool (aka getting more than 20 responses 😅)
#for science#tumblr polls#random polls#elder millennial#outing my own age bracket here#and that's okay#because it's for science!
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#alt aesthetic#alt girl#alternative#girls with gauges#girls with tattoos#online accountant#tumblr girls#girls with piercings#grungy aesthetic#grunge aesthetic#grungy style#grunge style#grungy girls#grungie#grunge#girls with glasses#emo girl#emo 2000s#2000s emo#emo#elder millennial#me#fishnet socks#fishnets#doc martens#lexilapis
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"And in many ways, that complaint has only gotten louder over the decades. Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege. Stop shining sunlight on horrors and start advocating for more of them. Stop making communities and start weaponizing misinformation to benefit your betters.
It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.
Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed.
Over and over again since that prodigal moment of shame and hurt and confusion, I’ve joined online communities, found so much to love there, made friends and created unique spaces that truly felt special, felt like places worth protecting. And they’ve all, eventually, died. For the same reasons and through the same means, though machinations came from a parade of different bad actors. It never really mattered who exactly killed and ate these little worlds. The details. It’s all the same cycle, the same beasts, the same dark hungers.
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And while Twitter hurts, I’m not sure anything will ever hurt as much as Livejournal did. It feels like no one even remembers anymore what happened to lovely, flawed, dog-eared, wacky old LJ in the twilight of the aughts and the dawn of the tens. Even though in this year of our lord 2022, when there are some pretty fucking good reasons to remember it, and learn its lessons...
So when Livejournal was sold, not to Viacom or Google, but to SixApart, a company no one had ever heard of, it was confusing. As was its refusal to develop anything like a usable mobile app. When fanfic communities started getting banned for gay content in the name of “protecting the children,” it was alarming and confusing. When it started going down regularly due to constant DDoS attacks, the new owner accused the community of trying to blackmail and destroy him for questioning what the hell was going to happen to all of us, when the Russian Prime Minister was commenting on fucking Livejournal, and when Russian users started put posts in English to let others know what was going on…we all just felt so helpless. It was sold to SUPMedia, a Russian company, and by 2016, had moved its servers to Russia and changed the entire site to conform with that good old very free and inclusive Russian law, but by that time, the community had long fled. Which was the point. Make it unusable and unreliable, bleed off the Westerners and the eye of Western media, and use the database to find and shut down dissenters.
And as hard as it was for us to lose that space where so many of us found family and work and connection, I cannot begin to imagine what those brave dissidents lost. What Russia lost. What they are still losing.
It was a small piece of what was to come. Like Gamergate and the Puppies, an experiment to practice taking apart a minor but culturally influential community and develop techniques to do it again, more efficiently, more quickly, with less attention. To lay out a reliable pathway to commit harm and lie about it for so long and in so many ways that by the time the truth is available, it doesn’t matter, because the harm is a foundational part of the system we’re living in. The harm is the new status quo.
Lather, rinse, repeat."
As someone who's been online nearly 30 years (I'm 18ish months younger than the author) who cut his teeth on dialup BBSses, Fidonet et al rather than Prodigy, I cosign this and beg you to read the whole thing.
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Comic #302: Grandpa Noises - Website links: Here!
DING! DING! DING! DING! It really do be like that tho ;) I know I'm not alone in this
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It’s a good day
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how it feels to be a white millennial the moment it's finally warm enough to wear a jean jacket
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hey it's me an elder millennial who missed out on all the essentials. I've started watching Voltron Legendary Defenders and it's now my entire life, specifically this man.
Yes, I know the pain coming for me. I live on Tumblr and search for fanart before finishing a piece of media, it's my biggest flaw.
My question is this.
Do the old shows have more of Shiro's backstory? I'm only on S1:EP 10 and while there are flashbacks to his capture, I'd really like to see more of that.
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Definitely not an original idea, but I figured I'd contribute b/c some days require a good soundtrack.
#ides of march#julius caesar#photoshop#photobash#who else remembers making their own mix CDs or mix tapes?#I remember both and recording music off the radio onto a cassette#then I got the CD to cassette converter thingy#the binder and the visor holder. IYKYK#elder millennial
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🖤🤍
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Being 37 and getting on Tumblr for the first time is similar to being 13 and getting a xanga today but I'm not fully sure how... someone plz explain my joke to me I don't get it yet
#millennials#funny#dumb jokes#bad jokes#comedian#bad comedy#first draft#we'll workshop it#humor#old jokes#elder millennial#technophobe
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What's your "ridiculously involved fanfic" idea? 👀
Just a self indulgent, self insert character, post Dark World Loki living with The Avengers idea I've had in my head forever. I thought about it since I started reading Loki fanfic probably around when Ragnarök came out.
Tony Stark finds out he has a half sister and she comes to live with him and The Avengers and befriends Loki and ya know the typical friends to lovers hehe. I got those key scenes in my head just gotta build around them and build up to them. I got 4ish chapters done so far!
Last fandom I wrote for was for Harry Potter in 2010 so I'm a little rusty. I quit my job a few months ago so having the time to write again and be creative has been super nice. I'm just working slowly haha.
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Every so often I run into things that make me feel old. Just saw a post where a young'un referred to someone they liked and respected as Chad. Remember when that was a derogatory term for an especially douche-y type of dudebro? Get off my lawn.
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I’m way more excited about these than I probably should be. 🦄 🌈
#lisafrank#unicorn#sugar cookies#elder millennial#nostalgia#nostalgic#Lisa Frank#the 90s#all the colors of the rainbow#I should really save some of these for my family#but I want to eat them all#I have to save at least a few for my kid
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Any kind souls out there interested in giving an old newbie (quite the oxymoron, lol) a brief intro to fanfic best practices?! ;) I dove in and wrote a full-length Tech x OC romance/adventure (posted it on Wattpad and Ao3). I did a handful of one-shots here about waking up with The Bad Batch. Did a fun lil piece for a friend of Crosshair and Tech fighting over you. ;) And I'm working on another full-length fic that's Howzer's backstory (action and romance of course). But I haven't written like this since I was obsessed with Lord of the Rings and would roleplay on Elendor for HOURS. ;)
Soooo... Uhh... Just curious if like Ao3 is for everything, or Wattpad for longer stuff, or both, or what to post where and what to write. ;) Go ahead, laugh and jeer... I deserve it. It's like when our parents discovered Facebook. Sigh. Can I at least tempt your kindness with a sexy picture of Howzer and the most hilarious tagline ever? (not my creation, found it on pinterest from username Casper). ;)
#star wars fanfiction#bad batch fanfic#tbb fanfiction#the bad batch fanfiction#fanfic#fanfiction#tech fanfiction#commander howzer#the bad batch howzer#captain howzer#tbb howzer#howzer#howzer fanfic#howzer fanfiction#old internet#old people#elder millennial
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I’m finding it extremely amusing the younger Heartstopper fans are using 80’s power ballads for reel music. 🤣 Like, I remember singing along to this song on the radio with my permed hair in a side pony and now it’s the soundtrack for two modern boys falling in love.
The juxtaposition is immaculate. 
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URL Tag Game
tagged by: @youarenevertooold & @valeffelees
RULES: spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters.
I made a playlist of the songs instead of trying to link each song. Enjoy my very elder millennial taste in music!
R - Roll to Me - Del Amitri
I - I Go Blind - Hootie & the Blowfish
M - Mr. Brightside - The Killers
E - Every You Every Me - Placebo
S - Samson - Regina Spektor
W - Wonder - Natalie Merchant
I - Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
T - Toi et Moi - Guillaume Grand
H - Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
P - Paper Mache Heart - Matilda Mann
U - Undercover - Nightmare & the Cat
R - Run-Around - Blues Traveler
P - Pinch Me - Barenaked Ladies
L - Lovefool - The Cardigans
E - Eet - Regina Spektor
No pressure tags. Also, I don't know who's already participated: @prettygoododds @artsyunderstudy @hushed-chorus @fatalfangirl @ileadacharmedlife @gay-at-ikea @whogaveyoupermission @theearlgreymage @thewholelemon @carryonsimoncarryonbaz @young-mitali @larkral @nightimedreamersworld @stillmadaboutpetra @raenestee
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