Nostalgic Vibeset ft. Aaron Thorpe (@Paradoomer)
Added 2022-02-22 11:44:10 +0000 UTCThis week, we're joined by Aaron (@Paradoomer) from The Trillbillies Podcast to talk about a recent essay he wrote about nostalgia, gritty reboots, hauntology, and the inability to conceive of any kind of future, let alone one that might actually be better. We talk about how and why reboots fail to capture any kind of contemporary moment in the age of content, and why this has also led to a situation where shows about teenagers, and ostensibly *for* teenagers, are actually geared toward and discussed by people in their 30s, trying to re-imagine their teen years. We also talk about what's been going on with Facebook recently, its weird swathes of viral content which make zero sense, and why going on Facebook is very much like the early stages of a stroke.
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You can read Aaron's essay and subscribe to his substack here: https://spacelight.substack.com/p/what-may-have-been
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Ten Thousand posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth)
Comments
It's so wild when I hear people talk about mainstream Facebook because it so drastically contrasts with my experience on the platform for years. For me, FB is defined by (1) interaction with people I know irl, (2) extremely specific hobby groups [I myself admin a fairly large such group], and (3) an ecosystem of shitposting and art from a loose collective sometimes referred to as "wfb" or Weird Facebook. I'm talking about the nichest of micro-celebrities that cultivate respectable followings and act as an ironic mirror of FB as experienced by the average gen X/boomer. I'd love to hear some perspectives from people involved in these use-cases and subversions of the platform, rather than always from folks mostly embedded in Twitter. Because the criticisms of the platform are valid and the platform is a rotting wasteland, yet there are things coming out of it that still have value explicitly in spite (or because of) that.
Skeleven
2022-02-22 18:08:55 +0000 UTC
