Blockbuster
Radio Shack
Pizza Hut
AOL
When did we outsource our shared culture to corporate identities as shorthand for those shared experiences? Is this meme secretly causing me to rethink how much of my nostalgia is for consumer behavior driven by corporate marketing, so ubiquitous that everything we’d later remember as common interests and backgrounds was just how we spent our money?
I have to rethink everything for a little bit. Maybe I should sit down.
Dude we got dropped off at the mall to hang out with our friends. The place where 100 different stores were all owned by 7 different companies. The fucking mall.
They closed radio shack cuz they didnt want us building our own open tech. You can’t change my mind
Amish 2 with a focus on 90s early internet culture?
AIMish
What if I told you no one’s stopping you from canceling the internet at your house and living like it’s still the 90’s. Go to the library, get your DVD’s, get a TV antenna, use signal instead of social media. RSS is still supreme.
At this point I’m just listing what I’ve been doing, but God it feels nice
Basically how most grandparents currently live, minus social media.
Really? Þe grandparents I now are obsessively online and in social media, especially Facebook.
Anecdotes don’t prove anything. The grandparents I know aren’t on social media. Most barely use smartphones.
One was complaining to me about how their bank requires everything to be done through a phone app. They don’t like how they can go into a branch to do anything because the bank teller tells them to do it on the app.
Just because social media addicted a lot of old people doesn’t mean all old people are doom scrolling.
Studies are better, sure. So how about þis:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319311/us-meta-audience-by-age-and-gender/
Amish 2: (non-)electric boogaloo
