reading some long-deleted personal journals (before anyone called them blogs) on the internet archive wayback machine. its really interesting to contrast it with social media. like, how people write when they don't really have a specific audience, how there's way less throwaway imitation and memeing, how the whole thing is simultaneously much more interesting to read but also much more boring
i just really feel like theres something qualitatively different between going on the internet and reading something like
"addressing the drama behind my latest youtube video. it's more complicated than you think. thread 1/n"
vs
"dear diary. if anyones reading this, heres how its been going for the last couple weeks: thinking of dropping out of college, but i got back with my girlfriend, also ive made some more chrono trigger sprite recolors, head to my downloads page to see them! over and out"
@jk Is it that the audience is specific? I feel like the audience for "addressing the drama" is "maybe the whole world, potentially hostile". While "sprite recolors" is: you probably won't see this but if you do I'll assume you're friendly.
