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Cid Vicious @sh.itjust.works

3w ago

Peak

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I was just thinking the other day that the plot of the matrix would make a lot more sense now.
The ai is running a simulation of the 90s to keep growing because everything after that is tainted with internet memes and increasing amount of ai slop.

The nuclear wasteland future of The Terminator is 2029.
- Optimistic, weren't they?

You really have to hear it for full effect. https://youtu.be/YhRk45Sdg2o
- https://youtu.be/YhRk45Sdg2o without trackers
- Oh my god, i watched this 4 times not realizing it's from the post image...but man did that tickle me.
  Thanks for the laugh.

The 2000 "election" was the beginning of the end.
- Hello fellow time traveler

More accurate 5 second film

Does that mean we're all enslaved by ChatGPT?
- Sorry, I'm not sure how to approach this type of question yet. Let's chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!
- Maybe we're only supposed to have 4 fingers like people on the Simpsons.

I'd push the peak forward a smidge to late 2003, at least for where I'm from. Florida banned smoking indoors that year.
- 9/11/2001 was the end of attitudes of the 90s, so I think the peak would have had to been before that.
- Peak was mid to late 2000's. Late enough for most people to have broadband Internet and lots of websites with user submitted content that bypassed the traditional cultural gatekeepers, before smartphones and social media ruined everything.
  
  So basically the Internet before YouTube came out and sparked the rapid corporatization of the Internet we called "Web 2.0"
  
  I grew up before the internet… I think life in general might have been better before it.
- dimpled chads

Me, who peaked in high school in the year 2002: That's fair

no truer words

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