There was a chart posted a while back about how consumer Internet traffic has changed in the past decade or so. Today, the majority of traffic flows through FB, Google or Netflix properties. 10 years ago, it was much more diverse.
With that loss of diversity comes loss of communities and cultures. CollegeHumor used to have all its videos on its own site. If you liked the site, you created an account and interacted with the community, which had its own culture as you wouldn't behave as you normally would on FB or Twitter.
With the pivot to FB, that's gone. Now, it's no longer a friendly conversation between people who have CH in common, it's a free-for-all comments section featuring everyone from spambots, trolls and random users who stumbled across the video and just have to add their 2c.
Numerous other forums and blogs, all with their own communities have suffered this fate. That is why the Internet isn't fun anymore.
With that loss of diversity comes loss of communities and cultures. CollegeHumor used to have all its videos on its own site. If you liked the site, you created an account and interacted with the community, which had its own culture as you wouldn't behave as you normally would on FB or Twitter.
With the pivot to FB, that's gone. Now, it's no longer a friendly conversation between people who have CH in common, it's a free-for-all comments section featuring everyone from spambots, trolls and random users who stumbled across the video and just have to add their 2c.
Numerous other forums and blogs, all with their own communities have suffered this fate. That is why the Internet isn't fun anymore.