The way this is captures exactly how my anxiety behaves is insane

I say this knowing full well I cried this go around because it felt the most real. Retroactively finding out it only lasted for about twelve hours is such a slap in the face

I’m so sick of the government being allowed to dangle people’s livelihoods like this

2024: Epic the Musical

And that’s part of the beauty of life

These thoughts are aimless and really have no particular end in my head.

All I really can take away from it is that I should invest more in traditional mediums that can’t disappear on me without the internet. Appreciate the small human acts of physical creation and know that nothing is permanent

And a National ban is able to kinda wipe that historical record from the books, at least in the U.S.

And it’s a slow death but it’s not dissimilar to that terra drive, it will still work for a while but eventually no device will be able to use the app as it stops receiving updates for the new OS

With the TikTok ban, there’s nearly a decade of Gen Z self-archival work that documents various political movements, protests, internet culture, and kinda serves as a beautiful collection of the generational voice.

That voice is not cohesive, it’s disjointed and divided but that content was created

And that loss of information will feel like a digital dark age, or at least look that way to future historians.

I suppose there’s a part of me that fears we will experience a modern equivalent of the “Burning of the Library of Alexandria” except it’ll be the internet or whatever social media platform is the next king.

But again I ask, what is the anthropological footprint of all this content? If the technology can’t be ported to the next medium, then who will be able to trace it?

Who’s to prevent a digital dark age when we don’t even understand the algorithms that hold our attention with a tight grip?

We produce so much content that I fear many creative endeavors have been reduced to a content for contents sake mentality. But it’s more nuanced than that, as there is a fiscal incentive to keeping people “interacting” or “engaged” on these platforms which we post.

If something only a decade old can become so quickly antiquated to a small office, what does that mean for our files stored indefinitely on a cloud that will inevitably be purged for memory storage on some mega monopoly’s super computer?

After trying to recover files from a decade old Terra drive, I discovered that it wasn’t compatible with any of the computer equipment in our office.

I find it hard to not be cynical about the things I’ve had to unlearn about applying to jobs after art school

In a world where ATS is standard over a decade ago, why was I taught to make my resume branded?

Why was I taught to add colors and hidden grid systems when it gums up the ATS!?