i’m the girl from 日常 (2011). Call me Pocchi! I’m a 20 yr old mixed-black lesbian on the net! My pronouns are she/kero. (*´ω｀)o I draw sometimes; I also really like web design, check out my website called Aioi!
“lolcow” is ultimately a colloquial term describing a phenomena that actually precedes the internet (and well, most of history too) but I can’t think of another shorthand with implications that are tacitly understood the same way when gesturing to the spectacle that the world makes around acceptable targets. you go on reddit and someone has crossposted a Courtroom Freakout video like that’s some shit anyone should want to derive entertainment from. your mom’s cohort watches Dumb Criminal Fail youtube compilations and nod their heads as the perpetrator of a failed robbery bleeds out on floor of a kfc like that’s some shit anyone should want to see. your peers are heavily invested in the Worthless E-Drama Industrial Complex, where thousands of people are made collateral of all kinds of violence in the name of forwarding the narrative of the spectacle. and you can’t ask any of these people why any of this behavior is normal to them unless you want to be accused of condoning immoral tendencies, compulsion to punish The Other already metastasized in their minds. it sucks how easy it is to kill your own interest in this shit but not anyone else’s.
a lot of you who follow me are birders or inatters or adjacent. hence, a lot of you guys have birdfeeders.
from a rehab worker of almost 3 years: Disinfect your goddamn feeders. not only for HPAI but other diseases, such as avian pox, and for the safety of the birds
I’m not even an anti-internet person like I love the internet, I just get so frustrated with the passive way people have become accustomed to using it now. not actively seeking things out or engaging with communities, just turning their brain off & letting the algorithm feed them whatever it wants. & I can’t help but feel like that’s partially to blame for the current state of things (anti-“woke” backlash is easier to digest if you turn your brain off when online)
there are so many amazing things to do online… find recipes, look at your friends’ weird art, download PDFs, join a book club, learn a language or a new skill, look thru archives… so I just get frustrated that these things are being lost in favor of Consuming Content
