The collective hate and killing of flash by the tech community was a terrible thing and has made the internet so much less fun.
5 years ago, everyone was arguing about how flash was the most insecure piece of garbage and caused all the security problems
fastforward to today and the same problems pretty much exist, but flash is fairly rare.
to this we put forth, maybe it WASN'T flash at fault here.
we're not saying that the security vulnerabilities didn't exist, they did, they were bad, but it was never the only factor.
The only thing that we've seen the gradual loss of flash is, also, the gradual loss of fan animation, furry animation, ete, open as an option for so many young people to have as their outlet.
Trying to do the same thing today is so much harder than it was then, and it's only been getting worse.
@rachel
I think that this isn't due just to the loss of the Flash plugin, in part because both Edge and Chrome still have it built in. Flash media is still available.
The new problem is that nobody is really even considering that a replacement already existed for browsers when Flash was starting to get depreciated, and they still don't know it exists: SVG. For pure animation, add SMIL. For interactive things, add JS. (Even though JS is dangerous...)
