I haven't written anything here in a while, but I'm not going to apologise. "Woag, insensitive much?" I don't think so. The fact is, social media has convinced us that everyone needs to create a metric tonne of new content every day. The first time I realised this was the case was on a video from a YouTube channel I had in my top-secret Notepad file, where someone with a generic severalwords123 type username demanded, "New video every 2 days or I'm unfollowing." The correct response is, "Fuck you too, buddy. I don't want you ON my channel in that case. Don't leave an ass-print on my door on your way out."
Also, what's all this with posting photos of yourself on the internet? I don't just mean selfies on TikTok (or before that, Twitter; or before that, Facebook; or before that, MySpace), I mean other bloggers using their real live actual faces on their WordPress or Tumblr blogs. Even a drawing constitutes a selfie if it's got enough detail in it that someone can identify it as your portrait. You wouldn't believe the number of bloggers I've encountered through Marginalia who have pages and pages of their dumb-ass takes posted right below a high-DPI photograph of their own face. Like, do you really want people to know what you look like after they read about all the reasons why you think Elon Musk is a brilliant visionary? Stop it, get some help.
This is an old-style website, written in old-style HTML. Back in the turn of the millennium, we were lucky if people updated their websites every 3 months. I remember going to websites in middle school that had promised weekly updates in October 1997 and the last time they updated was January 1998. Some websites weren't even meant to be updated at all—their creators made the site, deemed it had all the information it needed, and left it. Seriously, if you have a website dedicated to Atari 2600 world records, and the last world record was set in 1987, what more do you need to add? A message board? That, 15 MB of hardcore porn GIFs, and $4.50 will get you a cup of coffee.
Yes, I am planning pages for this website, but I'm not going to upload them before they're done. I don't like "Under Construction" signs on websites, because more often that not, they never go away. If I don't follow through on a plan, I don't want a placeholder webpage to remind everyone who sees it of my failure as a web designer. "Lazy, lazy, no excuses!" I'm a human being. I write all these pages out longhand in either Notepad or Neocities's text editor. I don't use ChatGPT or whatever the hell it is to create content for content's sake; I make it by hand because I think you're worth more as a person than just me clicking a button that says "Create" and going, "Welp, good enough for gov'nt work, I say!" Wouldn't you be mad if you went to your gran's house and instead of making you biscuits like she's done everytime you've visited since 2010, she hands you a sleeve of Oreos? I'm your gran and I'm going to bake you a website!
--1 June 2023--