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nesta
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nesta wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
and booktube is not fun anymore. it used to be FUN. LIKE PEOPLE SPREADING JOY AND HAVING FUN WITH BOOKS AND NOW IT'S JUST VIDEO ESSAYS AND LITERARY CRISIS AND CONTROVERSIES AND 10 REASONS TO READ THESE BOOKS OR 500 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE YOU TURN 20

ITS NOT FUN ANYMORE
people are creating content and its just lost soooo much soul and personality in favor of staying in the graces of the algorithm
truuue, the algorithmic way of viewing the internet is exhausting! 

Have you tried manually searching maybe there's like hidden gems??? I dunnu? XD 
Search on "first time reading blind read-through" (basing this off of playthroughs... as in... first time playing blind playthrough... maybe blind reading is something else.... ) 
youtube search field give me like 3 videos before all i get is suggested irrelevant stuff. hopeless all of them
the most fun i've had the last year was watching oooold youtube videos from when people were joyful and being nostalgic about that
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:34
ad0xa
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ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
@ad0xa  it's fine c: what podcasts are you listening to? any good youtubers?
Well two of the podcasts are from yogscast members and I think I just like them bc I've watched their content since I was younger? XD Like, they're not actually that *good* I just like it bc it's familiar. 

And then I watch/listen to stuff like "decoding the unknown" and similar.

Or I have stuff like "mystery quest" (also from yogscast). Ppl playing roleplaying games! 

I also like a lot of oldschool let's plays. 

oh and Creepcast, though I definitively know they're not totally 100% unproblematic? One of them is very 90s - 2000 edge lord coded.  
Never heard of any of this. I think it's fun when there are different personalities and i guess esp men gets away with shitty old opinions, which is at least one thing, but it makes a good dynamic. there's a similar dynamic in the podcast i'm listening to with two authors. woman is mostly political correct esque but still willing to have unpopular opinions (which is why i like her) and the other person is a man, who says the wildest things and she has to tell him that's wild all the time and like yeah they talk about the books they're writing and obvi whatever he's pitching isn't sellable how he pitches it now so u kinda know that it won't be some brand new installment to a genre that i super problematic even if he wants to portray it like that. which makes it fun bc everyone can be in on the joke together.
ahhh yeah. In this case it's kinda that old millennial edgelord mentality of "I'm joking about everything so don't take anything I say seriously" which obvs is a whole thing on whatever that's acceptable or not XD
but it's what I grew up with. I am a millennial. For me there just has to bee enough "good" opinions that I know the artist/youtuber/whatever isn't totally opposite me in values. Bc as a Scandinavian person, chances are that an american is always gonna have some views I think is a bit bad or weird? HAHAHA 
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:36
ad0xa
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ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
What makes me go AARGGHH at the moment is all the books I have read that are super popular now bc of boktok and that DOESN'T GO AWAY

like i will have to escape the internet on tuesday when acotar 6 releases
and i don't want to hear about Varity one more time bc the author is on my ban list
I don't want to have another romantasy in my feed bc they're all the same
I don't want  more dragons. they've given me the ick since 9th grade when i speed-read Eragon.
I can't stand video short-form media or canva edits -- WHICH IS 99% OF ALL THERE IS ATM

THIS ENTIRE BOOKTOK ERA OF THE INTERNET IS MY PERSONAL HELLSCAPE 
Hahaha awwww XD 
I think tiktok in general is my personal hellscape. I installed it and looked at it once and was like "no thanks  too many sound. " and never looked back. 
same, i survived nearly 14 days on TikTok. It takes 1 minutes (aprox 6-10 videos that autoscroll) to fry my brain for real. but booktok shaped all other socials, esp insta, and now insta is ruined and insta keep ruining itself
oooh :o I see. damn. 
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:36
ad0xa
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ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
and booktube is not fun anymore. it used to be FUN. LIKE PEOPLE SPREADING JOY AND HAVING FUN WITH BOOKS AND NOW IT'S JUST VIDEO ESSAYS AND LITERARY CRISIS AND CONTROVERSIES AND 10 REASONS TO READ THESE BOOKS OR 500 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE YOU TURN 20

ITS NOT FUN ANYMORE
people are creating content and its just lost soooo much soul and personality in favor of staying in the graces of the algorithm
truuue, the algorithmic way of viewing the internet is exhausting! 

Have you tried manually searching maybe there's like hidden gems??? I dunnu? XD 
Search on "first time reading blind read-through" (basing this off of playthroughs... as in... first time playing blind playthrough... maybe blind reading is something else.... ) 
youtube search field give me like 3 videos before all i get is suggested irrelevant stuff. hopeless all of them
True... I always forget that everything is shit now XD it keeps surprising me. 
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:37
nesta
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nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
Well two of the podcasts are from yogscast members and I think I just like them bc I've watched their content since I was younger? XD Like, they're not actually that *good* I just like it bc it's familiar. 

And then I watch/listen to stuff like "decoding the unknown" and similar.

Or I have stuff like "mystery quest" (also from yogscast). Ppl playing roleplaying games! 

I also like a lot of oldschool let's plays. 

oh and Creepcast, though I definitively know they're not totally 100% unproblematic? One of them is very 90s - 2000 edge lord coded.  
Never heard of any of this. I think it's fun when there are different personalities and i guess esp men gets away with shitty old opinions, which is at least one thing, but it makes a good dynamic. there's a similar dynamic in the podcast i'm listening to with two authors. woman is mostly political correct esque but still willing to have unpopular opinions (which is why i like her) and the other person is a man, who says the wildest things and she has to tell him that's wild all the time and like yeah they talk about the books they're writing and obvi whatever he's pitching isn't sellable how he pitches it now so u kinda know that it won't be some brand new installment to a genre that i super problematic even if he wants to portray it like that. which makes it fun bc everyone can be in on the joke together.
ahhh yeah. In this case it's kinda that old millennial edgelord mentality of "I'm joking about everything so don't take anything I say seriously" which obvs is a whole thing on whatever that's acceptable or not XD
but it's what I grew up with. I am a millennial. For me there just has to bee enough "good" opinions that I know the artist/youtuber/whatever isn't totally opposite me in values. Bc as a Scandinavian person, chances are that an american is always gonna have some views I think is a bit bad or weird? HAHAHA 
yeah, gen z here, just at the oldie edge, and i agree with this view bc its how I live but internet is like be 100% PERFECT or DIE 
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:38
nesta
Youtube Star



nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
truuue, the algorithmic way of viewing the internet is exhausting! 

Have you tried manually searching maybe there's like hidden gems??? I dunnu? XD 
Search on "first time reading blind read-through" (basing this off of playthroughs... as in... first time playing blind playthrough... maybe blind reading is something else.... ) 
youtube search field give me like 3 videos before all i get is suggested irrelevant stuff. hopeless all of them
True... I always forget that everything is shit now XD it keeps surprising me. 
yeah and i am fairly sure that one of the reasons I'M SO FKING FRUSTRATED with everything
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:39
ad0xa
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ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
Never heard of any of this. I think it's fun when there are different personalities and i guess esp men gets away with shitty old opinions, which is at least one thing, but it makes a good dynamic. there's a similar dynamic in the podcast i'm listening to with two authors. woman is mostly political correct esque but still willing to have unpopular opinions (which is why i like her) and the other person is a man, who says the wildest things and she has to tell him that's wild all the time and like yeah they talk about the books they're writing and obvi whatever he's pitching isn't sellable how he pitches it now so u kinda know that it won't be some brand new installment to a genre that i super problematic even if he wants to portray it like that. which makes it fun bc everyone can be in on the joke together.
ahhh yeah. In this case it's kinda that old millennial edgelord mentality of "I'm joking about everything so don't take anything I say seriously" which obvs is a whole thing on whatever that's acceptable or not XD
but it's what I grew up with. I am a millennial. For me there just has to bee enough "good" opinions that I know the artist/youtuber/whatever isn't totally opposite me in values. Bc as a Scandinavian person, chances are that an american is always gonna have some views I think is a bit bad or weird? HAHAHA 
yeah, gen z here, just at the oldie edge, and i agree with this view bc its how I live but internet is like be 100% PERFECT or DIE 
yeah... I literally have nightmares about it. XD 

I'm trying to make a game, and I'm already having anxiety about even dreaming about it being successful hahahaha. Bc if it gets successful that comes with the whole mob of people who are gonna examine everything I've ever done. And I'm old. I've been on the internet for so long. 

I don't think I've done anything bad? But the anxiety of what people might've changed their opinion on, stuff that wasn't so obviously bad before, stuff that was culturally unknown to me as a swedish person. Stuff like that. Keeps me up at night. I guess it's cause I'm on the autism spectra too tho, so I'm so used to growing up and saying the wrong thing and people telling me "that was really mean" and I'm like "oh?... I'm sorry... I didn't think it was... " so it's so ingrained in me. Anything I ever do might be wrong. 
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:47
nesta
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nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
ahhh yeah. In this case it's kinda that old millennial edgelord mentality of "I'm joking about everything so don't take anything I say seriously" which obvs is a whole thing on whatever that's acceptable or not XD
but it's what I grew up with. I am a millennial. For me there just has to bee enough "good" opinions that I know the artist/youtuber/whatever isn't totally opposite me in values. Bc as a Scandinavian person, chances are that an american is always gonna have some views I think is a bit bad or weird? HAHAHA 
yeah, gen z here, just at the oldie edge, and i agree with this view bc its how I live but internet is like be 100% PERFECT or DIE 
yeah... I literally have nightmares about it. XD 

I'm trying to make a game, and I'm already having anxiety about even dreaming about it being successful hahahaha. Bc if it gets successful that comes with the whole mob of people who are gonna examine everything I've ever done. And I'm old. I've been on the internet for so long. 

I don't think I've done anything bad? But the anxiety of what people might've changed their opinion on, stuff that wasn't so obviously bad before, stuff that was culturally unknown to me as a swedish person. Stuff like that. Keeps me up at night. I guess it's cause I'm on the autism spectra too tho, so I'm so used to growing up and saying the wrong thing and people telling me "that was really mean" and I'm like "oh?... I'm sorry... I didn't think it was... " so it's so ingrained in me. Anything I ever do might be wrong. 
no i get that anxiety bc i have too many years on the internet too and if i ever get known for thing something in my 10k+ tumblr posts are gonna take me down
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:53
ad0xa
World Famous



ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
yeah, gen z here, just at the oldie edge, and i agree with this view bc its how I live but internet is like be 100% PERFECT or DIE 
yeah... I literally have nightmares about it. XD 

I'm trying to make a game, and I'm already having anxiety about even dreaming about it being successful hahahaha. Bc if it gets successful that comes with the whole mob of people who are gonna examine everything I've ever done. And I'm old. I've been on the internet for so long. 

I don't think I've done anything bad? But the anxiety of what people might've changed their opinion on, stuff that wasn't so obviously bad before, stuff that was culturally unknown to me as a swedish person. Stuff like that. Keeps me up at night. I guess it's cause I'm on the autism spectra too tho, so I'm so used to growing up and saying the wrong thing and people telling me "that was really mean" and I'm like "oh?... I'm sorry... I didn't think it was... " so it's so ingrained in me. Anything I ever do might be wrong. 
no i get that anxiety bc i have too many years on the internet too and if i ever get known for thing something in my 10k+ tumblr posts are gonna take me down

 Right?! 

Seriously regretting my strong brand now XD HAHAHAHA (I'm named ad0xa on most sites I'm on)  
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:54
Solar
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Solar wrote:
'I just want a space to say the dumb stuff and make extremes out of things that aren't just bc i'm feeling intensely about it in that moment, and people knowing I don't mean it like that. ' felt 
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:55
nesta
Youtube Star



nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
yeah... I literally have nightmares about it. XD 

I'm trying to make a game, and I'm already having anxiety about even dreaming about it being successful hahahaha. Bc if it gets successful that comes with the whole mob of people who are gonna examine everything I've ever done. And I'm old. I've been on the internet for so long. 

I don't think I've done anything bad? But the anxiety of what people might've changed their opinion on, stuff that wasn't so obviously bad before, stuff that was culturally unknown to me as a swedish person. Stuff like that. Keeps me up at night. I guess it's cause I'm on the autism spectra too tho, so I'm so used to growing up and saying the wrong thing and people telling me "that was really mean" and I'm like "oh?... I'm sorry... I didn't think it was... " so it's so ingrained in me. Anything I ever do might be wrong. 
no i get that anxiety bc i have too many years on the internet too and if i ever get known for thing something in my 10k+ tumblr posts are gonna take me down

 Right?! 

Seriously regretting my strong brand now XD HAHAHAHA (I'm named ad0xa on most sites I'm on)  
haha
branding stresses me out too
one of the reasons i try to have a different name everywhere but i have a few that repeat and ofc people always tell you to link accounts so people can follow you elsewhere but then youre already in a 'professiona' account territory over just personal blog kind of vibe:eyes: 

deleted quite a few of my social media accounts the other day for this reason
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Date: 25-10-2026 15:55 | Times changed: 1
ad0xa
World Famous



ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
no i get that anxiety bc i have too many years on the internet too and if i ever get known for thing something in my 10k+ tumblr posts are gonna take me down

 Right?! 

Seriously regretting my strong brand now XD HAHAHAHA (I'm named ad0xa on most sites I'm on)  
haha
branding stresses me out too
one of the reasons i try to have a different name everywhere but i have a few that repeat and ofc people always tell you to link accounts so people can follow you elsewhere but then youre already in a 'professiona' account territory over just personal blog kind of vibe:eyes: 
Yeah... I've started to un-link more and more of my stuff actually XD I know it doesn't matter but I'm just like "at least I can make it a bit harder" hahaha. 

the thing is that I know I'm the kind of person people really either love or hate too. I've been semi-"internet famous" once and I know how that was. I know I'm a cringy weird person who is not always the most stable. And who has that typical autistic trait of "if I just explain myself enough they will understand!!!" I need to learn that no matter how much you explain to someone, sometimes they just don't care. 
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Date: 25-10-2026 16:00
nesta
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nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:
nesta wrote:
ad0xa wrote:

 Right?! 

Seriously regretting my strong brand now XD HAHAHAHA (I'm named ad0xa on most sites I'm on)  
haha
branding stresses me out too
one of the reasons i try to have a different name everywhere but i have a few that repeat and ofc people always tell you to link accounts so people can follow you elsewhere but then youre already in a 'professiona' account territory over just personal blog kind of vibe:eyes: 
Yeah... I've started to un-link more and more of my stuff actually XD I know it doesn't matter but I'm just like "at least I can make it a bit harder" hahaha. 

the thing is that I know I'm the kind of person people really either love or hate too. I've been semi-"internet famous" once and I know how that was. I know I'm a cringy weird person who is not always the most stable. And who has that typical autistic trait of "if I just explain myself enough they will understand!!!" I need to learn that no matter how much you explain to someone, sometimes they just don't care. 
yeah, i'm not exactly the most stable person either, like one day i like this and the other i've entirely forgotten about it. internet makes it kinda obvious, but irl it's like... things eb and flow but real life is forgiving
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Date: 25-10-2026 16:02
nesta
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nesta wrote:
gonna go watch old booktube videos
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Date: 25-10-2026 16:47
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