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It's not the realization of the years that have passed that makes you old. It's the belief that the things that you loved when you were younger are somehow better than what exists now that makes you old.
Don't pretend that enshittifiation isn't real.
Enshittification of services is real, but the linked greentext complains about something cultural: that internet humor isn't as funny as it was in 2011.
Which I'd say is a matter of taste, and probably wrong. There are still new greentexts being written that make me laugh. Plenty of tweets/toots/other microblog posts still make me laugh out loud. There are video memes that are pretty funny, and that format wasn't really feasible until Vine in 2012, and more recently has been made more accessible through simpler editing apps for splicing videos.
For mainstream culture, there's still great standup comedy out there, good TV comedies, podcasts, etc.
Yes, I love the old stuff. But I like the new stuff, too.
This is most evident when it comes to music. I see loads of older musicians, producers, and listeners constantly trashing new music, when the reality is there is loads of great, new music coming into existence regularly. It's just harder to find since the tools are so accessible now, everyone and his dog can make a "professional" sounding recording. And then, the top 40 or whatever has always just been the lowest common denominator.
I feel like more people need to just take a chance on new music and new to them music genres. I locked myself into the rock of the ‘60s-‘70s for a long time and refused to open up to other genres.
But I got over myself and I love the current wave of pop. There are always new good songs coming out and the best way to find it is to plug into online communities that like music generally. The radio and things like Spotify are terrible at helping you find things.
60s-70s rock is pretty darn good, but like you say, there are a lot of people who think music begins and ends there. They're so wrong.
Yeah back in the '90s Hootie and the Blowfish was one of the top bands and all of their music is just fucking super mid-tier garbage. And that's completely because of its extremely broad appeal.
Yeah, for every Pearl Jam, Nirvana, or Soundgarden, there was a Counting Crows, Bush, or Ben Folds Five. Not to mention the boy bands that absolutely dominated the late 90s charts.
It's real, it's just not exclusive to the internet. Anything capitalism touches becomes in enshittified eventually.
The switch from PC usage to locked down devices has made things worse and more expensive and less creative.
Remember, Apple invented the PC but IBM democratized it.
We didn't get the same thing again.
Apple invented the Smartphone and Google also contributed locked down devices.
Being old means you have the knowledge of what was. Whether you look at the past objectively or with rose-tinted glasses is irrelevant.