2026-10-23 01:36 UTC
@Farbs@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social More like video is more compatible with anti-intellectualism and is more approachable in general to many populations.
People read supposedly very little, and yet I am effectively a statistical outlier without even spending any money on it (so it's not a question of availability or cost). It makes no sense unless it's simply that they don't feel like it at all (now, why that is is a more complicated question).
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-23 02:15
@lispi314@udongein.xyz @Farbs@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social I think this is broadly accurate. The internet in its early days required people to be smart and to go out of their way to use it, unless they were in computer-industry jobs. From about 1980 until the late nineties, most of the new posters to Usenet groups were new college students, so September was regarded as a terrible month because of the influx. Someone coined the phrase "Eternal September" to describe the masses entering the web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September