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My Internet plans going forward

Last posted Jan 04, 2020 at 08:04AM EST. Added Dec 30, 2019 at 11:06PM EST
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I know this may not be big enough to warrant a forum thread, but I figured I'd put this out there for the sake of feedback.

See, this year in particular, Twitter somehow became a massive echo chamber of politics and negative information. (For the lack of a better term.) Because of that, I chose to leave the site last month.

Now, being one of the few people I know who had the guts to leave Twitter behind, that leaves Know Your Meme as my primary content site going forward.

Now, I did leave this site 5 years ago for similar reasons, but honestly, I've come to love KYM's site layout much better compared to Twitter's. On KYM, things are sorted by topics and tags, and content is much easier to find compared to Twitter, where you have to follow the right people and hope they tweet/retweet the good stuff and don't shove your feed full of politics. And for what it's worth, KYM has either A) become a less negative site since I left, or B) Twitter made KYM's culture look tame.

I plan on staying on KYM for the foreseeable future, and I plan to use it to stay in touch with whatever the Internet is gonna come up with next. And honestly, stuff like Mio Honda and American Dad speed runs from late last year have me excited.

In my honest opinion, Twitter is slowly on its way out. I honestly feel the platform can't survive much longer if it's gonna become more and more consumed by politics-based arguments, and quality content becomes harder and harder to find. Twitter's form factor is also a major factor as to why so much of our modern memes die so quickly.

But hey, forget Twitter. KYM, despite it's flaws, is a good site. And as long as I get more positive use out of this site in the next couple years, I'll be perfectly fine.

(By the way, 2020: We bring back Expand Dong!)

Did expand dong ever died?
I still see some ED posts here and there, yeah not common nowadays but I think it's better for it to not get overexposed, else it gets real annoying real fast.

Arcadenblog wrote:

I know this may not be big enough to warrant a forum thread, but I figured I'd put this out there for the sake of feedback.

See, this year in particular, Twitter somehow became a massive echo chamber of politics and negative information. (For the lack of a better term.) Because of that, I chose to leave the site last month.

Now, being one of the few people I know who had the guts to leave Twitter behind, that leaves Know Your Meme as my primary content site going forward.

Now, I did leave this site 5 years ago for similar reasons, but honestly, I've come to love KYM's site layout much better compared to Twitter's. On KYM, things are sorted by topics and tags, and content is much easier to find compared to Twitter, where you have to follow the right people and hope they tweet/retweet the good stuff and don't shove your feed full of politics. And for what it's worth, KYM has either A) become a less negative site since I left, or B) Twitter made KYM's culture look tame.

I plan on staying on KYM for the foreseeable future, and I plan to use it to stay in touch with whatever the Internet is gonna come up with next. And honestly, stuff like Mio Honda and American Dad speed runs from late last year have me excited.

In my honest opinion, Twitter is slowly on its way out. I honestly feel the platform can't survive much longer if it's gonna become more and more consumed by politics-based arguments, and quality content becomes harder and harder to find. Twitter's form factor is also a major factor as to why so much of our modern memes die so quickly.

But hey, forget Twitter. KYM, despite it's flaws, is a good site. And as long as I get more positive use out of this site in the next couple years, I'll be perfectly fine.

(By the way, 2020: We bring back Expand Dong!)

Do you mean by politics do you alt right and far left politics. Cuz every time I hear "I wanna be free from politics" I have this weird ass assumption that it could be things like identity politics and the sort. I wish not to be rude and im trying my best these days not to be some angry "sjw" or some shit.

But good on you for leaving Twitter. It's a God forsaken site sometimes and I can't blame anyone for leaving. I had my moments of leaving Twitter as well but as an artist there isn't very good options for me at the moment (some folks suggest pixv but my art is way too western depsite the slew of gaijin art on there…oh and they shadow ban you for being western so no to that)

The only thing preventing me from leaving Twitter is that somehow I managed to find equilibrium just being mutuals with artists I love. I don't get disagreeable content while I fill my face with good art.

I left KYM before because it was unsatisfying to be an individual. But now I embrace this anonymity.

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