I'm not joking.
Fundamentally, the infrastructure of the internet as you're used to it is shaped by a lot of influential forces, usually in large blocks, and usually those shapings are done not by big companies or the innovative great men of digital history but instead are the results of marginalised people who were told 'you can't belong in the main space with us' moving to their own spaces and making those spaces work the way they wanted them to work and then, those ideas became how things should be.
One of these marginalised groups, with an immense influence over the history and shape of the internet, is the production space of fan media known as 'fujoshi.' The influence of fujoshi culture is one of those things that's hard to explain to you in the same way it can be hard to grapple with the evolution of bones.
Whether H-games, online archives, tag systems and censorship and moderation systems, the influence of fujoshi fandom media is something that touches everything you're used to and in many cases, the things you hate are explicitly that way as an attempt to drive out these groups.
Anyway, right now there's an explicit project to make Making Things On The Internet In The Way That Doesn't Suck Shit, and it's doing so explicitly referencing this era that some of you may be nostalgic for and some of you may have never have directly appreciated.
Check it out. Give some attention and listen to the pitch.
