ida deerz makes furry music. draws things. codes funny websites. runs a netlabel called @CUTECERVID. puts deer boobs on label 228s. owns a modular synth. is 25. or 26, depending on when you read this. can't really edit it after the site has shut down, can i? does activism. sucks girlcock. injects grey market estradiol once a week. streams videogames. mods videogames. programs videogames. is mentally ill. speaks dutch. has several headmates. composes amigamods.

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Aura
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idadeerz
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the solution is to follow communities on platforms that you do actually like and feel comfortable in where content from spaces like TikTok gets curated and reposted.

i never want to join TikTok, and i only created a Tumblr account as a joke to buy the blue checks on there and never do anything on the site again. but i'm still on Reddit and it's great being able to just browse through communities like r/CuratedTumblr, r/TikTokCringe (which is not an actual cringe sub, no worries), and even stuff like r/BestOfRedditorUpdates because even on Reddit there's communities like AITA that i don't want to trawl through for good stuff to read.


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i do think our parents might have faced something similar when "the thing kids are doing" changed from anything they had a mental model for, to hanging out on forums and IRC (which, okay, probably wasn't most teens in our age bracket, but ...)

at the same time, i think sometime after our era, when online became both mainstream and ad-driven, there was a shift to what is now a very aggressive and predatory attention economy that is less interested in the actual service it is providing to its users and more interested in exploiting known human psychology to keep eyeballs on sellable ad spaces, and engagement high and i can't imagine growing up immersed in this stuff from - let's be real, definitely a younger age than the 13 years old or whatever it is COPPA makes you pinky promise you are

in kinda like the same way i wonder what effect it has on a generation of people who primarily know games from predatory mobile F2P titles razor-honed to exploit gambling psychology to extract maximum microtransaction fees from their players

it's definitely a very different media landscape and culture than anything we knew, especially before we hit adulthood

im so sorry i keep adding thoughts to this but it's can't sleep late bird hours, sorry, also i don't want to write this garbage up into a Real Post™ or publicly confronting the mortifying ordeal of aging etc etc...

i do wonder how much better connected we are than prior generations (at least, excepting people who don't work directly with younger folks) just because of generational1 lines blurring somewhat by throwing everyone into the same sites and cross-pollinating posts and videos and memes or whatever

like, i also have no taste for tiktok (which i will refrain from getting too into the weeds about here), but it's not as though i have never seen one, even though i will never seek one out, because they get linked around in other spaces

although i also wonder how much of this lens is distorted by the virality you mentioned - the stuff that leaks out to other spaces is going to be biased to whatever gets big numbers...


  1. generations are fake but you know what i mean2

  2. oh no even my chomments have footnotes oh no

I want to point out that older people think the same thing about live music festivals, back in their day there was so much stigma about selling out, not really being there for the art, etc, and now our festivals have so many fucking sponsorships it's ridiculous, some of them almost look like pop up shopping centers that happen to have a stage or two for music hidden somewhere in them, if you read the map right

I noticed in my early 20s that pop culture takes all of my spoons to stay up to speed on and gives me nothing at all in return, so I've been out of touch since around the time Korn's "Here to Stay" was getting radio play.

I'm missing nothing. Whatever's hot changes every few minutes; whatever manages to make it to mainstream media coverage and last more than a year sounds like garbage to my ears. That's always been the case. I'd rather watch media I like and listen to music I like and my discovery channels for those things are and always have been word of mouth and exploration via imdb, wikipedia, discogs, etc.

It probably doesn't help that I've occasionally had a trauma response to large numbers of people (>2) yelling about a single pop culture topic on social media. If the entries were dated my twitter mute words would probably map cleanly to the twitter zeitgeist.