the internet is dead and IRL is cool again

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

hey Y'ALL its been a minute, as you can see I've been busy doing stuff IRL and I think Im finally ready to share some of it online. To watch the Troll documentary check out gooddogstudiosatx.com and to follow Generation Teleivison, the online magazine that covers IRL culture, check out GenerationTelevision.com (also on KZbin). Thank you guys for sticking with me in this mass of information we call the internet. Expect to be notified about some upcoming livestreams and new videos on this channel soon!

[@DoesNotInhale]

Your brain is ironically completely rotted by the Internet. You are like a five year old that thinks he understands life better than high schoolers who have been there and done that. Read the room you broke brain weirdo your content is pretentious low IQ ass

[@notJCS]

Hey, I'm tryna post a comment(One of gratitude for this video), but it either won't go through or it keeps gettin' auto-deleted. I'm sorry to reply to ya 'bout somethin' ya likely have no control over, but I've been trouble-shootin' for about as long as the video's been out. Good video btw :) Edit: K so it's lettin' me post a shorter comment. Guess my OG one was too long(Even though I'd posted longer comments before). Still dunno what the issue was/is

[@jimicunningable]

The internet is mostly AI and bots. Why the fuck stay on this vapid, shitty, heavily engineered, heavily censored piece of runny dogshit? I've gotten more satisfaction from a pile of books and a couple of guitars. BTW, books get you jobs and guitars get you laid, unlike the GDMFPOS interwebs.. Join Life, you cucks to Moloch!!! It's a really bad look for all of you, F believe me. Disgusting. I spent the 1st 2/3rds of an incredible life without the internet or cell phones. I"m not even a crappy money driven boomer. I had a real life. What you guys younger than I have is SHIT YOU VOLUNTEERED FOR. No one twisted your stupid fucking arms. Get free. Great vid!!! Mutherfuck the internet. It's The Man's playground to fuck with YOUR head in.

[@DesoloSubHumus]

It's not that us older generations thought of tech as the destination, it's that during our generations that was the marketing, and in order to survive in the declining economy, we created the gig economy for ourselves, but found we couldn't live off of it until we became much bigger, as in having to put ourselves out there globally. The internet was just a tool to do that with. The newer generations aren't so much doing it differently - most are stuck in their phones - but in more urban areas, people can still gather together and have fun. The older generations are working more hours, closed off from having all that time for personal relationships as we try to support our parents and our kids, and there's not much to do in the rural areas. The perception is skewed, and things might look quite different to younger generations as they get older or if they move to areas with far less population density. And that's not a dunk on anyone. It's just how life develops over time. Ignore the tech marketing and look deeper into individual lives, and it starts to get clearer. (Personally, doing anything irl/offline other than my job or staring at a wall will entail hiking alone across the desert for a few days - think Saul Goodman walking back from the border in Better Call Saul. Real life is easier said than done.)

[@Dsexh_dsexh]

Did you just “I like doing things in IRL check out my websites 😂🤣😂🤣” People are wild

[@Shaddyraddy92]

The golden age of the Internet is over. When corporations get in control of any platform, they kill the joy, fun and engagement of it. The Internet of the 90s and 2000s was the wild wild west. You could easily find anything. Creativity was its heights. Numerous Geocities and Neocities websites of colorful decorations of obscure hobbies that you was interesting to check. This was the precursor for Myspace. Myspace was the prime of HTML coding. Nowadays, every social media site is the same. Before, we used the internet to escape. Now, we escape the internet to enjoy real life.

[@ytpHKKK]

This Iz So Gey

[@andrewg3196]

Lol this is rose tinted glasses nonsense. Internet sucks now but if you went back to geocities or early KZbin or whatever you'd be bored and disillusioned. People were just naive then.

[@ytpHKKK]

@@andrewg3196 you'd only be bored if you relaied on a algorithm to find content

[@tiredextremely]

The internet has become the worlds most effective psyop, both through data harvesting and influence campaigns. We all know it.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Put a shirt on

[@CriticalThoughtCritique]

"Dude! Have you heard? The internet is dead & everybody's logging off & touching grass!" "No way! where did you hear that?" "The internet."

[@theonetruetim]

one can do both. dur-hurh [use the internet AND realize the difference physically] means/ends. The [busted 3rd hand tired] learned affect- 'humor' is not an effective measure of logic or counter-position. [it is but an affect, alone. of which u are using to replace substance and actual personal ownership of experience. Tis pathology, not reality driven substantiation. Meme think is reduction, not comprehension. Even tho u will find a system of eager [habitualized] complicity to offer appearances to the contrary] The cause is what drives both. & yes, even for you [i wouldn't say this on most days but what OP says is true and im being charitable in the face of your feckless snark] it is not too late to adopt a more fulfilling and moving living breathing relationship with life. Tragic hero or satirical comedian - either or any way. No gotcha here. Just more symptom of a non complete disease begging to be seen as if that is all it takes to make it real. What is real - is choice and yours is to diminish - ineffectively. Try a different flavor. This one's busted stale hollow and worse - unoriginal and contagious. Imagine thinking a device such as yours countering what is evident and plain otherwise, yet... [duh. big words no fit my meme brain subservience rules. take broken imitation joke, dur hurh. Me and my nobodies all meme at you dur hurh....] disgusting. means end. walk and chew gum at the same time. NOT simply sit and ruminate on 3rd hand cud.

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

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[@Ostan-jw2bg]

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[@notreallyafamousartist695]

LMFAOOO

[@spawel1]

@@theonetruetim this is less comprehensible than deleuze, [amazing]

[@Okinoth]

The internet was the only adventure I could afford as a poor little kid, all the little corners to explore are gone, but the real world is finally open to me. I don’t have to hide behind the screen anymore

[@Adixon5]

If my job didn’t depend on being connected constantly, I’d definitely go back to owning a flip phone

[@tahlermohz]

well put bro

[@conspicuous.8163]

how poetic 😭

[@enrater123]

Wow this is genuinely poetic, and you're right, maybe now is the time to live all the adventures we have seen as kids

[@donventura2116]

The weird corners are not gone. You're too old or too busy to be invited to them and habitually you stay on boring corporate social media. The internet is plenty weird but if you are the half of the internet that uses the same 6 or less websites than of course the internet seems smaller.

[@kilroy4123]

The lockdown made everyone realize how shitty being online all the time can be. I’ve seen more kids/teens playing outside after the lockdown than before

[@notJCS]

Shit, in my area, I saw more people outside DURING it than I did in the few years before. And ya best believe I was one of 'em goin' out xD

[@ZackMeetsWorld]

@@notJCSyeah I miss the roads being absolutely dead and the air clean. Those were the days.

[@bickyboo7789]

​@@ZackMeetsWorld I sure af don't.

[@xexzersy]

for real tho, when i was a kid, i never had anyone to play with outside. always online. now i see kids and teens on bikes, in parks playing tennis. having a good time its gives me a deep warm happy feeling.

[@vepply]

lockdown was peak😭

[@Litepaw]

It's exactly like I've been saying for years. When the first iphone and facebook came out, everything and i mean EVERYTHING changed. The same people who told me I'm an internet addicted nerd because i played a few hours of WoW a day and talked with my friends on MSN and teamspeak were suddenly complete smartphone zombies connected online 24/7. And i was again the weird one when i said i dont wanna spend time with a bunch of people who are just on their phones all the time.

[@patrickgroening5664]

Fr Ive been in so many situations where everyone is on their phones not really engaging or even knowing what to do or talk about. It sucks

[@FayeFaye-]

real used to be mocked for it just to see them geek out their favorite games i cant with hypocrites like that

[@notreallyafamousartist695]

Bro literally can’t win dam bro☠️☠️☠️ what the

[@gunnasintern]

nah i prefer having the internet so the world can stay connected and i’ve always and will always only prefer remote work remote work >>>>>>>

[@benayers8622]

@@gunnasintern u think "the world is connected" more now lol!! Ur 12 right? Ppl have been subdivided to weaken the masses

[@edizzle445]

Being in a band these days is exhausting. I do not want to be a social media influencer. I want to be a musician

[@Adixon5]

I feel that so much. It’s ridiculous the pressure a modern musician feels if you want a chance of getting out there. You have to be a media expert as well as a top notch player

[@welpiguess]

promoting yourself before social media was much harder. be grateful that all you need is one screen to reach millions, once upon a time you had to travel, enter uncomfortable rooms , talk to hundreds of strangers, be disrespected by big groups of people, deal with rejection. actually critical JUDGMENT which could make or break your career, sign life long contracts that you don't quite understand. split your profits unfairly. my darling, you're groaning about having a meaningless presence online.. where you can STILL be a musician?

[@Adixon5]

@@welpiguess you still have to do all of that today, PLUS be a social media guru, a video editor, etc…. I’d have rather go back to the times when people actually went to local shows and saw live music. You forget that? Social media has killed that whole scene

[@Pete.Franco]

Truth.... I am a way better musician than I am a social media pusher...

[@edizzle445]

@welpiguess The main problem is the market is over-saturated. There's so many bands on the social media grind that nobody stands out now. It's pointless exhaustion to try and get ahead online when nobody is going to come see your show anyway. I would much rather go back to the days of analog tape trading when people would actually seek out new music and pay attention and didn't have another video a single tap away from them if they weren't hooked in during the first 5 seconds of your stupid Tik Tok video. Social media and short attention spans have destroyed the art of music as it was meant to be

[@That-guy-there1]

It definitely is strange to see the end of the Internet. Not that its going offline but what it once was doesn't exist and hasn't existed for a long time. You could argue the internet died when social media took over. It became a whole different beast once social media showed how much money you could make, or how you could shape world politics with it. Side note IRL was always the cool place, we just gave way to much focus to the internet

[@notJCS]

OG MySpace was the social media future we should've gotten. Instead, we ended up with the Facebook future. Sad.

[@seth5143]

Should've learned the difference between 'to' & 'too' in IRL third grade, brodie.

[@Nosirrl4747]

​@@notJCS what do you mean myspace future? What was it supposed to be?

[@martingoldblunt5163]

Who gives a shit​@@seth5143

[@Outplayedqt]

@@notJCS Tantacrul’s latest upload re: Facebook is a great mini-doc about the collapse of the Internet via FB (that was my takeaway, at least - it certainly isn’t what he directly posits). Highly recommend watching (to anybody, esp. those who still stuck by Glink past the WoW era and clicked this very video).

[@SludgefestMetalhead]

I saw a video months ago titled "The death of the third place" and it basically discussed places that are outside of work or home being slowly killed off because of the ability to socialize and fit in with certain groups on the internet. I'm hopeful we'll be able to revive the "third place" someday so that it's no longer where you text your buddies to hang out and instead just go there because you know that's where everyone is at.

[@notJCS]

Yeah, I still try n' go to those places whenever I ain't busy, but it's gettin' tougher out there.

[@mclovinpo]

Shows are that place that everyone’s at, or at least all of my friends are always 😊

[@jøy_what_riley_loves_the_most]

I love this comment, you are so right, we need more third places that aren't nightclubs

[@julienweems6166]

I live in Alabama, so the only 3rd place we have here is church... I'd rather be by myself than step into that filthy place.

[@BiPolarUrsus]

Third places is most dying in the US. Places like Barns & Nobel and Starbucks got big taking some of the 3rd places, place. Moving to the city was also a way to get quick access to 3rd places. Not sure which generation Glink is talking about? It seems like every generation knew this. The ones that pushed the move to online, where the ones selling the online tools or had some vested interest in it.

[@klamky]

"I can just talk to people" has been my biggest revelation recently

[@jamad-y7m]

You’ll get arrested for that

[@klamky]

@jamad-y7m how tf do you talk to people if that's your first though

[@aaoaaa8864]

god this whole comment section is full of regards

[@benonaru]

if you live in an awesome place

[@treycherie6236]

this was my experience when i lived in baltimore. most people will hear you out and carry on a conversation with you. when i moved to las vegas, people looked at me crazy trying to stir up conversation at the bar

[@zoroark522]

Something I've noticed in my years is that I don't really have any memories of the internet like I do for things that happened in real life. I remember going on vacation with my family, playing baseball and going to tournaments, going on trips, and even just normal everyday stuff, but when I think of the internet, I don't have that same type of memory. I wonder if it's because less of my body is in use, like I can't smell or taste the internet and have it remind me, it's like a hollow memory. It makes me look back on the year and be like "wow time sure flew, I did.... huh, what did I do this year?".

[@אררטי]

Interestingly enough I have the opposite experience. Generally, the stuff I've done IRL throughout my life has always been the more mundane and necessary things, like going to the grocery store or running errands. The times where I've learned, studied, exposed myself to other cultures and languages, and enveloped myself in otherworldly environments, wept at beauty... have happened almost exclusively on the internet. Maybe this is because I've gone through discrete phases or patterns of internet usage. I can very vividly remember what it was like being in the 'environment' or 'atmosphere' of different corners of the Web, what it felt like emotionally, the things I was thinking about, the new things I was exposed to and so on. My experiences IRL haven't exactly been stellar or worthy of reminiscing so I don't feel really any pull to venture forth into the world. What exactly am I supposed to pursue? That's a question I'm continually having to ask myself as I am more and more being pressed against the walls of the womb that I am cocooned in.

[@BobrLovr]

No it's just you, I have very vivid memories on the internet.

[@cloudthief8918]

​@@אררטיsame here. When I recall happy memories, they're all related to the internet, to games I've played, to fictional media-- sometimes books I've read. It sounds so sad when I say it out loud, but I can't recall anything irl that made me happy.

[@charm359]

Im completely the same. The best memories I have and the stuff I remember more is always im real life. Using the internet just feels like im letting time slip away

[@liran8799]

I barely have memories from 2021, just remember lockdown and the effects it had on my anxiety, especially after switching schools

[@gabs5552]

Internet should always be a place we go to, not that we should be in. Visit sometimes, but never stay

[@HHH-pk3to]

Fr

[@lizardqueen6041]

Word. Nobody should have to live in a VR, Matrix-style hellscape

[@KodyMurray]

Just wait for the push for augmented reality lol it's coming soon.

[@spawel1]

the internet is the forefront of society, social reality is informed by it.

[@Etherius]

This is how it used to be before we had it in our pockets all the time.

[@Outdoors2theMax]

This really resonated with me. I was born in '97 so my first cellphone was a flip phone in middle school because I would get off the bus by myself. I didn't get my first smartphone until senior year in high school. I played PS3 and PS4 in high school and into college, but moved to PC as a sophomore in college. The internet is one of the greatest inventions ever, but also has quite a few negatives. One of the things I started to notice in the mid 2010s was a huge uptick in ads, especially on KZbin. I use ublock origin because I can't stand all the ads every website seems to have. Many of those websites require subscriptions to get rid of ads, which I find crazy. The internet was supposed to lead to free information (it does), but the ads do create a hindrance in my opinion. I used to play COD and many of the big videogame titles, but now I've found they don't do it for me anymore. I've moved more towards indie games, games with immersive stories, RPG games, and adventure games. I used to listen to podcasts all the time, but they also have gotten stale to me. I think it's all the ads for products I've never heard of and don't care about, but I do enjoy that long form conversation/discussion. I don't follow the news much anymore because I've found that most big media is just to divide the masses by race, but most importantly, by class. I don't watch as much KZbin as a I used to, but I do watch a handful of people’s videos consistently. I think the subscription model for streaming is way worse than cable. If you shop around now, you can often find better deals with a cable company for channels that include some streaming bundles. I mean there's a reason people pirate movies and sporting events...it's because the subscriptions are ridiculous. I deleted snapchat off my phone and haven't looked back. I'm still somewhat addicted to my phone with 3-5 hours of use per day, but it's better than it was. I often find myself doom-scrolling on X, Facebook, and Instagram reels. I started running in 2020 and actually ran my first ultramarathon (50k) last weekend. I started reading books again like I did in high school. I’ve been reading a lot of stoicism and history books. I started watching history documentaries, especially on WWII. My wife and I have been going on hikes a couple Sunday’s a month, I've been fishing again, and I took up disc golf in 2020 (play at least 1-3 times a month). Some may say I’m getting old, but I’m only 27. There’s much more to life than technology and I feel like I’m rediscovering it. My parents might’ve been right. It was those dang phones and technology.

[@Jezza_C_WT]

Good stuff. Well said :)

[@mastermeme]

I was born in '96 growing up I didn't have cable so I just relied on VCR movies, pirated DVDs cheaper older video game consoles like the Sega Genesis and N64, Dreamcast and PlayStation 1 until I was almost 17 I got my first computer It's just like I remember those days, I really really thought the internet and the communities people I met through using the internet and relationships I've developed over the years was a Good thing. It seems like It really was going to bring us all together Arab spring, All these places becoming connected and then it just kind of stopped evolving. I'm 27 now. I definitely feel more isolated and alone were now that the walled gardens are social media and streaming platforms, I feel like some Mkultra victim where attributes from my childhood are now used and targeted against me to hold my attention or take my money or shift my narrative perspection on something that I clearly have a opinion on. They use these things now to use us instead of it just being about having a good time and enjoying your game or technology now It seems like they use this kind of stuff to shift narratives and control people's lives

[@piperbarlow1672]

We were not socially prepared for the level of connectedness the internet ended up giving us so quickly

[@Adixon5]

Hey man I’m also 27, and feel just about the same way as you…. We are NOT old lol

[@jatrodai8921]

What a beautiful comment. Yeah this is what life should be and how it was

[@Nomad_Audio]

I think it's important to get out there and support people doing things. I went to a pop-up drive in movie theater last night, and it was such a fun experience...it felt good to support someones idea. The more people get out there and support things, the more things become available to do. The band scene in my city totally died out for a while, but I try support small shows when they happen, and hopefully there will be more of them. Unfortunately all these things cost actual money, so it can be more expensive than staying at home, but a couple of times a month isn't too bad on the budget.

[@WerewolfofEpicness]

they want us to find cheaper facsimiles of what we all used to freely be able to do

[@kwaddell]

What I dislike the most is the feeling of a void, of lost time after finally looking away from the screen. Even texting with someone online, it’s just not the same as hanging out with someone IRL.

[@pizza5572]

your time is being farmed fr

[@moltenglow]

yeah. whenever I get too immersed on something on the internet and hours pass by, especially ‘till late at night, I feel that horrible sensation I’ve been rotting in front of a screen for the entire time. so now I’m avoiding the internet for as much as I can and instead go live life somehow.

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

The worst thing to happen to the internet was everyone piling onto it all at once and corporations being like "Hm, let's fucking squeeze all the money we can outta that somehow". I kinda hope it's true, the internet dies so it can be reborn again and maybe be a little like it used to be.

[@genie9937]

patiently waiting for "the blackout" from blade runner, or project mayham, or the DataKrash/RABIDs...

[@ForProfit-x100]

Unfortunately there's no going back. There's only going forward.

[@didles123]

The "blame corporations" take is a popular, extremely safe take that might as well have been made by committee. A much spicier take is that women and minorities ruined the internet. It's not even that implausible of a take, given that the current censorship apparatus was created to appease Tumblr users from 10 years ago that constantly complained about isms and phobias. It is totally laughable in hindsight, but Reddit was originally created by leftists to be a free speech website.

[@HHH-pk3to]

​@AntiquatedApe forward is slowing it down on the internet, backwards is what some are living rn.

[@BobrLovr]

Wishful and (dumb) thinking. The internet is more than an entertainment medium it will never die

[@MayaMaya-ye7rl]

My coworkers and I watched a movie together in our warehouse after work. It was cool

[@theeternalgus9119]

That sounds awesome.

[@aptmix]

for Beato's "no bands anymore" take: It's pretty luxurious to have access to an affordable space to practice / be loud nowadays. Sure, if you're not in a city, you probably know someone with a garage or that has a space but the shows are (for the most part) in cities. Cost of renting an apt + a practice space is crazy high and young people don't have as much financial flexibility. Yet, some people are still making it happen and if we want this trend to continue we need to go to small local shows and show up and support. Idk just a few thoughts...

[@cyntdestroyer69xd]

That's not always true - in my country, there were random places where you can ay your gig at around 1$/hr(not US, just saying, but even by our standards it was cheap) - of course, it's literal basement somewhere, but idk, I believe there are still places like that in cities, you just have to find

[@laketoriver]

Forever preaching supporting local bands and shows.

[@ithemba]

Beato was made fun of for his extremely boomer "old man yelling at clounds" video and rightly so. His perspective, even about the stuff he arguably knows most about ie the derivatives of Rock music through the last 6 decades, is *very* slim, as with many people who belong to the succesfull strata of any given industry. He very much has an insiders perspective only that the thing he was an insider of just isn't there anymore. I highly doubt Beato has been to any small-ish gig since 1990. He takes his examples and data in the video from search engine results and somesuch nonsense. I work in a small club venue in a hip city in Germany, we do 3 shows a week and get easily five times that number of requests from bands and their booking. I feel never has there been so many styles (a lot of them being somewhat vintage rivaval-ish) simultaneously. There are literally thousands of bands out there doing great stuff but the overwhelming majority of artists never even had the illusion of grandeur of becoming "Rock Stars".

[@cyntdestroyer69xd]

@@ithemba IMAGINE doing what you love as a hobby, instead of doing it purely for a meaningless fame - SAVAGES

[@joshuaw9610]

It’s not just the rehearsal space, it’s also the way so much money gets you so little these days, everyone is time poor and the way I have to grind to make having my hobby affordable means it’s pretty exhausting just having time for a few hours of rehearsal every week.

[@patrickhughes6020]

Left “the basement” a year ago and began getting involved in my city’s underground scene. Haven’t looked back since. Your video encapsulates that feeling perfectly.

[@g_snipe]

Was not expecting this video to be about bands. I’m in a band. I’m completely absorbed in the world of underground music. And it’s sooooo genuine and wayyy better than anything online.

[@mcneeson]

I have been slowly trying to disconnect myself from this weird thing called the internet around 2019. Was lonely at first, pandemic was ugh, but now I get closer and closer to true friends and cool shit.

[@darkplasmo7921]

I used the Internet for at regular frequency at 16, and now I do everything online it was definitely better before. Internet culture is the deftest pessimistic and apathetic it is fueled by the most sick amongst them and pulls you down more and more. One of the reasons I think today so many political movements fail is that they are on the net the energy you get IRL is not possible so you can have more people that are united in spirit but still feel isolated. Any community feels like you have only 50% of what you need it never gets better because it can't.

[@MariJu1ce]

This isolated internet culture breeds extremists

[@dividedstatesofamerica2520]

Because the internet was forced on everyone. Job applications, communications, banks.

[@Dingkosh]

this video is definitely filtering the screen addicts judging by these comments lol, you should be proud you generated such a strong response

[@themadmattster9647]

Screen addict here but definitely wanting to goto rehab

[@alexandramaclachlan7597]

​@@themadmattster9647 We have faith in you, brother. Touch some grass, you won't regret it. The inside will be waiting when you need it, but the outside is rad too :)

[@dentka8474]

Single player games are back in 😊😊

[@notJCS]

For me, they were never out ;)

[@user-ue4he3li8b]

it's all a single player game in the end innit ._.

[@karsisonline]

Shoot bought a modded wii for me and my friends been playing nba street all the time

[@dentka8474]

@@user-ue4he3li8b learned this after a decade of World of Warcraft

[@clicheguevara5282]

@@notJCS Same. Lol I've been playing GTA in general since 1997 and I've played GTA online since 2013 - but I've still never actually played with other people.

[@MourningCoffeeMusic]

It’s really hard to be a part of something in person when you feel alienated or dejected by society, and unwanted by most people around you. Maybe this is why so many people flocked to the in the internet with hopes of finding like-minded people. Still, we can keep trying to put ourselves out there both in person and online in spite of feeling unwanted.

[@jennym2349]

I would have loved the internet when I was young. The internet has not been completely bad. Especially for the introvert.

[@Clownacy]

Yeah sure, it's totally that everybody hates you and not at all that you just have a persecution complex. Get over yourself.

[@Haferkoko]

Small town. I go on dog walks every day and it seems everyone is just constantly on their phones when out and about. There is no chance to make eye contact with a stranger. It's almost like people have become afraid of making friends... Or even falling in love.

[@whois3581]

Everyone keeps hypothesizing about the "zombie apocalypse" but not realizing we're already there.

[@AaronHendu]

I live in a small town and not a soul walks around on their phones.

[@alexandramaclachlan7597]

I've started making an effort to smile & greet people when I go for a walk. People walking dogs, pushing prams, and elderly folks with groceries have lovely smiles, I'm noticing finally. Not everyone responds to my "Good afternoon!", but I hope they appreciate my attempt to connect.

[@potatopriorites5652]

Personally, I think internet culture isn't dead, its just drowned out by corporates and algorithms. I think the internet has been a fertile ground for pockets of counter-culture and now that most of these pockets have slowly been made more corporate, these pockets have become more mainstream to appeal to algorithms or have been made significantly harder to find due to the implementation of algorithms -this is assuming these pockets aren't outright discouraged from starting at all due to the algorithms. Then again, maybe I just sound like a major hipster who is paranoid about targeted advertising

[@nomanejane5766]

No, its true look at punk and goths have become nothing about a trend, completely divorced from its roots.

[@notJCS]

Eh, wording was a tad hipster-y but I agree with your sentiment xD. I think there's a bright side to that, though, since the modern counterculture scenes will feel all the more genuine.

[@clicheguevara5282]

No, you sound like someone who has actually been paying attention.

[@spawel1]

there is still an internet "underground" it's just not talked about

[@Ballr00mBlitz]

That would also have to count in majority of new "normal" internet users, it was a cool place because back in days lot of internet users were nerds, now it's an average place where 60yo see same memes and jokes we did years ago. Everyone irl has same internet humor now, that's not a counter culture or culture anymore then it's a trend. But new things come and arise, new cultures don't come back in old things

[@Whosgiiinn]

Guys I'm crying. As a tiktokified Russian (we have even less good irl staff than you tho) Gen Z I feel this tremor most of the time, like the internet isn't cool anymore, like the time when everyone was alive and passionate, everyone was near, this time have passed long before I even get born... But no! I'm no more trust in it, as I no more trust the screens.... Ughhh, I'm struggle with core idea of speech because of bad English skills, but... I guess you get it. So yeah, the internet was cool phenomenon, but live in it is absolute torture, I hope it will culturely die, or at least take a lot less space in our lives, and became just a tool like it has to be from the beginning. Life is cool, and I love all of it, thank for video and the fact you make me think about all of it. Good luck❤

[@asher3311]

your english is pretty good, there are a few words that are either incorrect words (staff instead of stuff), or the wrong tense (live instead of living, struggle instead of struggling), but i understand what youre saying which is the most important part

[@broncoxy]

as someone who's been chronically online for the most of his life and who's made it his challenge to become chronically offline, this video really hits close. fck all those twitter subreddit 4chan dwelling good for nothings, real life is where its at and after that major low of covid, I think us young ppl start to realize what we've been missing out on... so lets do it more than ever; 10 beers might not be healthy but they're probably not more unhealthy than rotting in bed all day while professionally deepfrying your brain.

[@thepersonyouknow1714]

Dying alone for neon and vanity is...

[@FireWizzrobe]

Honestly, they're just different types of brainrot... If you want to be real, and I think a lot of people are scared of this, sit down with your thoughts. Make time for 30 minutes out of your day to be introspective, maybe another 30 to read a book. These are all things which turned me from being a depressed person at my wit's end into someone who's actually enjoying life again. You might also want to go for a walk now and again, it adds up. Peace.

[@Xario1]

I agree, that internet culture as a public thing is definitely dying. The corporations and loud assholes moved into the public internet spaces, trying to capitalize on it however they can, and the decent people have moved into more private groups and spaces, and many of us decent people who have the opportunity have gotten off our computer and put down our phones more to fine genuine connections in person, where we can't be advertised to or shouted at by loud people.

[@user-dq2ym1nn9k]

TRUTH

[@SahanAykut-p1d]

is glink just now realising people go outside

[@SmedlyButler-cq5iq]

Are you just realizing what popular trends and statistics are??

[@whois3581]

No he's just finding whatever he can to make a video to upload so he can get clicks and views and make some money off of it. It's all about the money. If he was worried about "real life" he wouldn't need to get footage, edit, script etc... It's all about the money.

[@josiadorthestrong1031]

@@whois3581KZbinrs generally need to eat too, yes.

[@mitch1284]

@@SmedlyButler-cq5iqevery marine knows Smedly Butler

[@stanwooz94]

Id say the internet was cool to the last days it was still considered to be for nerds. A lot of interesting content, and as the people using it weren't that many, it felt more like a community. The lack of content added to its value, a simple animation, music video or whatever used to be a big deal. Once the smartphone craze started and ever more people flocked to the internet, the content itself started to adjust for smart phone use, that is the kind of 5 second ticktock fish brain stuff we see everywhere now, and the corpo's did their best to add to the dumpster fire turning up the psyop factor for sure. The final nail to it all is the AI stuff, sucking the last form of originality left on the webb in the name of profit, flooding it with a never ceasing tsunami of regurgitated mush. A human centipede of sorts, with AI being the final ass content flows trough. Best thing is to just stay away, or at least know what to specifically look for. Otherwise, its all just next gen TV, a magnificent waste of time and potential.

[@christkv8963]

I play music and am connected with my local rock and EDM scene, and it has been the most rewarding thing for me in the past couple years :). Making such dope connections and memories warms my heart ! Great vid

[@trenchhj]

As much time I spent on the internet and as much it meant to me growing up, the truth is that corporations are and have been eating at what once was a place for imagination and creativity. Corporate greed is ruining the internet, sites filled with ads, everything locked behind a pay wall, and AI itself is making it harder to love the internet.

[@gododoof]

Medieval thinking was obsessed with cultivating one's soul, and it seems that in a visceral rejection of that line of thinking, modern thought did a violent about face to focus on intellect and the tangible instead. Hopefully we can one day cultivate a society that finds a happy middle ground between those lines of thought.

[@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897]

That's the right kind of thinking for the middle ground to manifest.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

Heck, don’t see why soul and intellect should be seen as separate anyway. People who lack the former tend to lack much of the latter and vice versa.

[@gododoof]

@@eeyorehaferbock7870 Well they are two different concepts with distinct definitions, but I can certainly see an argument being made for them being interconnected and affecting one another.

[@zeo1087]

This video was beautiful, the piano song from Evangelion was a perfect touch, it feels like Hideaki Anno warned us about this sort of thing almost 30 years ago in that show

[@wvbo]

i have a theory that in 5-20 years there will be a serious sect of people who refuse to use the extensive internet kind of like a new wave of menanite but still maintaining a modern lifestyle

[@HHH-pk3to]

It's happening rn

[@HHH-pk3to]

Little by little people are leaving the internet and just visiting it here and there or never.

[@markcarat4000]

Im in

[@TheFirstGroover]

Social media its like smoking in the 50s. Everyone think its cool, in the future will be restricted in public spaces, under some age, etc. etc.

[@gabbo13]

I have a better bid, it will be a Trainspotting thing but for chronically online

[@cyberchump3527]

Irl has always been cooler than the internet

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

I'm glad normies are realizing this and fucking off from the internet, it's been a shit hole for the last fifteen years or so. This place was never made for them, I never understood why they hung out here so much. It's like taking an animal out of one environment and trying to keep it in another and being surprised when it acts crazy because it wants to go home. "Dude, this nerd shit actually sucks, what are we doing here? We should be outside maaan" No shit that's what we've been saying for over a decade. Get out, go outside and be where YOU were meant to be and leave this place to it's native population.

[@Niklas-Lang]

i have to disagree. when i was young, discovering the internet, finding niche communities and websites felt like magic compared to my suburban life without sidewalks and extracurricular fun. i wasn’t a shut in, but the internet really was really cool then. at least in my perception. so there is a sense of loss, a gap where there used to be substance, to those of us who grew up similarly.

[@ethyr]

@@Niklas-Lang yep. the internet has now become a worse version of real life.

[@BugsBunns]

@@Niklas-Lang We could also conclude that the American suburbia concept always sucked ass 😄

[@soloflare9696]

​@@Niklas-Lang the thing is, you can still find niche communities and websites for whatever hobbies or interests you have (and if there somehow isn't one already, just make one yourself). it's just that now corporations have taken over the biggest sites and flooded the internet with so many personalized ads and algorithms to keep making sure you pay attention to whatever social media bubble will keep your eyes glued to the screen for longer. in that sense, you have to break out of that bubble and actively search for the shit you're actually interested in.

[@mold_wizard]

no band on internet hits as hard as a local show with crappy sound

[@ptrcrispy]

Finally, the sequel to the Golden Age video

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

something like that...

[@eastvillageguitarmethoddd]

Problem is IRL is dumb expensive rn and the internet is free. We’re screwed tbh

[@ChagaThunder]

Its really nice to see the start of what I hoped would happen eventually, people actually getting sick of their phones and the influencer culture and going back into the real world. Great work man ✌️

[@ccmetalhead]

My father passed away in March of this year. Been one of the most painful things I've ever dealt with, but I chose to grow and lean on the community of friends and family that I have in my life. I know that I would not have that community if I didn't go out and put myself out there. I also started taking group salsa dancing lessons, try new things frequently, small riverboat cruises, concerts, railroad tours, etc. Though I miss my father and I still have a lot of grieving to do I'm sure, choosing to deal with it in a healthy way and foster a sense of community with people has been one of the best decisions I've ever made for myself. Cool video

[@f0vy]

Glink, you taught me the term parasocial. I've known about you for five years and your ideas have become part of me. Thank you. We are a generation of people who grew up in virtual reality, we have managed to dive to the very bottom of this escapism and therefore, in contrast, we understand the value of real connections, the taste of life. The problem is that the rest of the world is just beginning its dive into the depths of the web, they will have to learn from their mistakes.

[@LibertyDino]

In western european cities I would always choose the internet over irl. Everything is mostly superficial and/or super expensive. Inflation has made life expensive, we can not save up for retirement and the government program is a pyramid scheme so once we reach retirement age there won't be money. Affordable housing is long gone. The problem with it is that ppl keep pretending everything is fine. Culture can lead to proccessing in a healthy way and that can lead to positive change. That could lead to untaxed overtime, low taxes on second jobs/side hustles. It is not happening rn and so I pick the internet and forest walks

[@somethingsomethingtwice7993]

I can agree with this sentiment totally! Quality of Life in West Europe ain't all it seems especially from the outside looking in When I go back to family in South Africa they don't see what you just perfectly described meanwhile I'm never on my phone or online with the good weather and culture to be absorbed in

[@SunYong136]

Nah I Just moved Out for university to Dresden and here there is a lot of fun and culture irl

[@Jordan-xg4pn]

Europe is lit

[@jeezjacob]

In Austin it's been getting harder and harder to play experimental and extreme music. All of the good venues are gone. It's made some decent house venues but it's hard to get into those unless you know people.

[@jeezjacob]

This is utopian but I agree. Also the bridge shows were and are awesome even if the cops come to break it up.

[@eastvillageguitarmethoddd]

This dude says “I started learning guitar” as if he has any grasp on the current pulse of IRL music. As a lifelong musician who is almost 40, it seems like we’re absolutely fucked and it’s gonna keep getting worse

[@AndyMakes]

I love the message and you left me inspired but... It feels like cringe culture killed authenticity. The fear of being on the other side of a phone and going viral for all the wrong reasons is too real.

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

thats why i embrace my cringe

[@nerdonofriendo]

45 y.o. dude here remembering how in the late 2010s Boston pushed out a bunch of local music and arts..in favor of corpo business hellscape, in places like Cambridge and Brighton Allston etc.. the venues began to disappear soon after I moved away from the city.. in smaller communities with wonderful places and people, please take care of, and support your local 3rd places before the hedge fund investors come knocking trying to build gross strip malls. Beware.

[@1800moonSugar]

Then move out of the city what do you expect lol

[@nerdonofriendo]

@@1800moonSugar i did read what i wrote. fucks sake. maybe just the entire comment before you start snickering like a twat.

[@אררטי]

Boston's dead man. Everyone moved into Medford and Malden and wherever else and now it's overrun with idiot yuppies with dogs some pick up the poop and some don't

[@warhorrorspondent]

Most of the inner city neighborhoods have been almost entirely gentrified too

[@Princess.Babosa]

​@@1800moonSugarthey literally said they did in the comment

[@tupactheory3739]

hey, i'm an 04 baby regular in the chicago underground hardcore-post-hyperpop-breakcore type music scene and i figured i'd chime in. the internet was always a piece of my life. i was playing video games by 1 or 2 and playing flash games as soon as maybe 4 or 5. as i got older and began to use social media, i missed the key parts of social media's foundational years and only really got to experience this weird internet counterculture united by this disdain for the sanitized environments of social media in the latter half of the 2010s. initially this community was pioneered by rather unworldly alt-right edgy types, but began to separate from that identity rapidly as lots of marginalized communities realized social media was increasingly out to dismiss their methods of expression, too. i lived far enough from anybody else that driving was my only option to visit anyone, and i had one friend who i was ever able to visit and hang out with in person more than once until after quarantine. so my relationship to the internet feels almost like a dependence on a parasite. it was my only avenue to find any friendships or companions for a considerable portion of my life, but also an environment that was actively hostile to my ability to express myself, where i was in a constant battle to find community with people similar to me by using identifiers that worked around or within the narrow frameworks provided by social media mediums. my family was very involved in taking care of my mother in her final years during quarantine, and what community i had on the internet was rightfully detached and distant, even if still consistently online. there were plenty of markedly psychotic internet communities prior to quarantine, but i think i'm not the only one who noticed a lot of people in a lot of age ranges, but especially the younger ones, went pretty off the rails going months with in person interactions you can number on your hands. people going through psychosis have a harder time identifying each other in person, but in a similar manner to those counterculture workaround community identifiers i mentioned prior, they can identify one another a lot more easily online. this usually does not work out in a way that makes their condition any better, in my experience. it's pretty easy for us to catalyze one another into further isolation and symptoms. finding any sort of in-person community became direly necessary for me in a way i was forced to confront despite how inept i felt at social engagement given my lack of experience. the underground music scene has some rules here that i didnt understand at first. it's almost expressly forbidden to use your phone anywhere but the very back of a crowd, and even recording for longer than a few seconds to capture a moment is considered rude. in slower moments where crowds tend to wave lights in the air, it's said you can gauge who to trust in a crowd by who pulls out something other than a phone flashlight. these are understandings i'm certain arent wholly unique to my scene, but definitely not familiar to the general concertgoing scene in the city. the result is a community that feels a lot more interconnected - everybody is 2 names away from knowing one another, and there are lots of regular and friendly faces that don't have any online connection to one another, only connected by a love for the scene. i look nostagically back at the internet i grew up with only because it felt like i was able to reach new people more easily there. everything on the internet is private circles now, determined to stay so in fear of how overwhelming and often upsetting public communities can be. there's nothing to experience on the internet anymore except the friends i still have there, with some ultimate goal of coming together someday and eliminating the internet mediator, just like we've always wanted to kick out any moneysucking intermediary to connection in favor of the rawest experience possible. i feel similarly that the real world replaced the internet for me, even if through a different set of circumstances. i almost anticipate the fall of the internet with excitement, but it's sad to know there's likely no chance it'll be archivable in a meaningful way. maybe that's part of it, too. physical experiences and physical captures of them last longer than their internet equivalents through time, and everyone begins to value that more as they grow older. corporations ate up all the real estate and extracted its value, so we found a way around like we always have.

[@petermaxley]

Thank you for sharing your honest perspective, it's interesting how your experience differs to mine even though we're just a couple years apart

[@xrx-no7cd]

gl finding any scene that isn't a church building if you don't have the means to live in a huge city i think the internet is going to be sticking around for longer because of that

[@tupactheory3739]

@@xrx-no7cd well i do and also church raves are awesome lol

[@mastadlo]

Never expected to see Paul Harrell on a Glink video. Nice!

[@wahbwahbwahb]

I am so happy my wife and I take phone breaks. Being in the moment when it counts makes it better than a ten second clip on somebody’s story, a post about a wild experience, or even a picture. The best thing is having a singular experience engrained into your memory and having that be the best part of your life. I still replay my wedding in my head, the day my kid was born, and getting every moment to work on being a good dad. I needed this. Thanks glick ❤

[@AaronHendu]

I ditched social media years back and it changed me as a person. Skills I thought had faded returned. I stsrting doing new things. Going on adventures. Creating. Engineering. Just exploring. It has been the single best thing I have done for myself since...I dont even know.

[@limitbreakcake]

Great video! Reminded me of all the awesome things that have been happening in the city I’ve moved to. Been going to fun events hosted by people just showing off their stuff, and have reached out to help some people create too.

[@endergamer.mp4]

I really resonate with this video but it sucks when I go outside to find something to do, there is always nothing to do. Sucks living in a rural area. Nothing to do on the internet and nothing to do in real life. Edit: I got a few responses to several of the comments made. I do got some hobbies, but they're indoor hobbies. I like to spend my time drawing and making music. All of my free time is consumed by it. I actually have more fun doing these things on my own than doing other stuff in this rural area. What I meant with "nothing to do" is that I can't find any place where I can talk to people about my hobbies. Not even some music store, nothing. I have found countless of places to hang out at in cities, pertaining my hobbies. But I can't drive out there all the time to do them. Wonder if I would have a small group of friends to do those things with if I lived in a city, or there are certain people who thrive well in cities and others in rural towns. It's like telling a guy who finds the city boring, but who likes to go on hikes and shoot guns, and telling them to go join the local book club. I'm sure they wouldn't like being in that book club. Before you guys say "move out," I'm 20, not even a tad bit ready to move out. I don't go to college as well.

[@wtf1a1a]

worst part about my rural town was there were things to do, than the "artist" virtue signaling types moved in and now its just a tourist trap town where the only things to do if your not part of that fake club is, get fat, get drunk, go in the woods, or go do "magic candy" with your sniffer

[@petermaxley]

Dancing in a field/forest is always an option

[@WolfMoonWings]

Get a hobby?

[@muscleman125]

Are you serious? You have nature's gift of life to play with in your own backyard. Learn how to ride a snowmobile. Get into hiking. Go camping. Ride a bike down a rail trail. Shoot some guns or a bow. Build something! Rural America has different stuff to do, but not nothing. If there was nothing to do nobody would've ever moved there to begin with. It's funny because I've seen people in NYC say the same exact thing; there's nothing for them to do in the city. It's laughable

[@Mattznick]

yes and no, i always hate hearing people say "there's nothing to do in this town" when most times they are just boring people who don't have any hobbies that's not drinking or drugs just because options are limited doesn't mean there isn't things you can find

[@beatsbybenji6293]

I rarely comment, but i felt compelled to do so on this video in particular. I'm a 20 year old from a small town in Wyoming who just moved out here to Austin back in February. I think it's really cool seeing sp many going out and seeing these underground and local bands, it feels motivating for me to work harder on my own stuff as well so that I can become part of these communities here too. You're video has helped me so thank you

[@elijahwilson1422]

The internet is the new TV set and people have realized again, that real life, even the mundane things, are more interesting. Having a normal, stable and not too eventful of a life, is the new counter culture.

[@dizocilpine]

Eh I don't know about that one chief

[@elijahwilson1422]

@dizocilpine because you are hooked on the WWW

[@barristophilliesiii5863]

Great video. I love the obviousness of the message. And the emphasis on live music.

[@rockdanger]

Easy for you to say... you're in Austin where there is tons of cool stuff to do all the time:. bands playing original music at various venues, eeyore's bday party at pease park, Barton springs, etc. Im in 5th largest city in the US for past year and it seems like theres nothing cool or interesting happening IRL here at all. Dont take, Austin for granted or as typical of whats going on elsewhere in USA.

[@pandakicker1]

I agree and I am in the same state as him. I live waaaaaaaaaaaay out in the farthest western tip of Texas in El Paso and I could tell he was in Austin as soon as he said somewhere in Texas and showed live bands. That is why my brother moved out there years ago was to be in his band and be where the other bands are. For me to go to Austin, I either have to take a tedious flight or drive like 9 hours. El Paso is beautiful, but there is hardly anything to do here but get drunk do drugs, or go hiking. feelsbadman.gif

[@sloppypapatv]

thank you for introducing me to Shwing! haha, i'm in love with their sound.

[@bobcantstandzyobitz9778]

I recently started birdwatching in my free time (there are a lot of preserves near me), rather than going on YT as much, now I just go on before work to wake myself up. I haven't been on facebook in weeks, either. My mind feels so much more relaxed because I tend to be high anxiety, and I'm learning something along the way.

[@rdmoonie]

There's a whole flourishing death metal scene going on. If you look for the music and bands, you'll find it. I feel like Beato is crying over the fact that bands aren't being pushed by big labels, corporations, algorithms and getting on meaningless "charts".

[@keshavsrivaths4882]

Fr, and the worst part is Beato has admitted in a prior video that he does say this kinda sensationalist stuff on purpose even if he doesn't necessarily believe it. Drives engagement ig

[@KacperOwniSystem]

I've been watching you for a couple of years now, we're similar age and I've got to say sometimes you drop diamonds like this one that really resonates with me, thank you.

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

ay that means a lot man, its nice to hear that you can relate. It's a weird age where it feels like youth is coming to an end but I think there is a way to keep that spirit alive while becoming something more.

[@soaphi7069]

I've been avoiding that Paul Harrell video on my homepage for weeks cuz I knew it would make me sad. Goddamnit.

[@returnedtomonkey8886]

Not where I live. There's literally nothing to do and especially no one to talk. Everyone is either an a-hole or afraid.

[@queerlegolas]

Same

[@whitepony-f9w]

same

[@Jpkpmabes]

Same for me

[@practicallyfloored]

Wow that performance at the start was so cool! 🔥 feels like the 80's. I was overwhelmed today and found myself listening to Blur, Nirvana and Bo Burnham, hadn't felt so in tune with myself in a long time. I hate that I have to stare at my screen for most of my day (in IT)

[@datguy9408]

I didn’t even know Paul Harrel died, I wasn’t watching gun channels for awhile and thought for some reason correlated his title with being dramatic which he never was. I got caught up with all the crap around me I didn’t consider to check on an old friend that inspired me. R.I.P man

[@wadball]

Been feeling this way. Love the way you’ve put these ideas to words (& images and sounds). Cheers

[@user-of8gd2ix5i]

thanks for the upload, unironically been preaching this for a minute. internet isnt the way it used to be and hasnt been for a while.

[@notJCS]

Haven't seriously had fun on the 'Net since mid-2013

[@bennyflint]

Thank you so much for this. I’m a Gen X’er, and your footage reminds me of my 20s, which gives me great hope for your generation.

[@eyakimicki]

I'm a firm believer in all of this, and this video is very inspiring and relatable

[@TheUnhousedWanderer]

You'll never look at the world the same once you find out what plants and mushrooms you can eat near your home

[@AaronHandloser]

So true. CrimePaysbutBotanyDoesnt is one of my favorite channels for this reason. He says he loves botany because it grounds you in something real that will always be there.

[@miameramusic]

The fact that you made this video is already a good sign. Thank you my brother.

[@CaedusRising]

honestly really happy your back to this kind of content. keep it 20 minutes less. ask good questions have some fun that's your bread and butter

[@alexsharp9726]

Internet has been bought and paid for many times over and the creative spaces either dissapear or become more restrictive by the day. I was reminded of how real genuine music feels at a small music festival, when I returned to a small bluegrass festival deep in the catksill mountains of NY. I had gone every year since 2014 but had not gone since 2019. Covid and moving away prevented me from going. I made my best friends going there who I knew from high school. I spent 2 weeks there ( 1 week volunteering as setup crew, 1 week actual festival) this year. Jamming almost every night, often with new people and always friends, drinking, playing into the morning every day. It was an amazing experience and it reminded me about real life, real relationships. I forgot a bit of myself when I moved super far west and it made me more human again, if that makes sense. It helped to break out of the hollow world that has become our techno landscape hell ( i work in tech. No escape.) It is inherently creepy about everything they (all companies in general now, not just tech honestly) collect, retain, and abuse for profit. You make good points about just getting away from it. It starts with self control and realizing that the internet habit is a problem when it becomes an addiction, which it has for most of us. Good video. Glad to see your still doing well these days. Always appreciated your deep dive vids.

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

that festivsal sounds like a great experience. Id love to go sometime. There is a strong desire for people to reconnect with being human, especially now. If you're ever in austin hit me up!

[@notJCS]

Kinda similar story on my end. Not really a festival, but a few friends of mine have a cover band, and I watched 'em play a set @ one of their houses. Although I'd been to concerts before, somethin' 'bout their show felt really human. From the relatively small amount of people present, their humble setup, & the little audience interactions, it was provably my favorite concert I've been to. Music really can bring out the best in people :)

[@jovidalmeida2801]

I'm not even finished and i already loved the video man, so calm, almost meditative(i dontknow if this word even exist....but it represents this video for me)

[@kordmaurer5843]

You know, I've seen so many videos like this, or that at least point in a simliar direction. My algorithm is constantly giving me videos about how to unplug from your phone, how you should ditch it for an iPod and a Polaroid, how maybe things WERE better before the internet got too big and everything wasn't based on being hyper convenient. But it took me until this one to actually register that there's hope for a future where big tech companies don't turn us into consumerist robots, and that people my age and younger are actually starting to get really tired of what social media has done to our society. Maybe this epiphany could've hit me on another video eventually, who knows, but I just wanted to say thank you for making this. Something about this video DOES feel different even from the other videos that seem to fall into my lap. You didn't just talk about how much better it is irl, you proved it with really beautiful candid footage of people making art and enjoying hanging out with each other. This was a rare KZbin video that felt like a Ghibli film or something, where the art reminds you of how good people, nature, music, and art really are. Thanks for making this, man.

[@warhorrorspondent]

The big tech companies and corporatism kind of make it a self fulfilling prophecy that people abandon online spaces for real life ones, simply for the fact that, by their very nature, they can't help but cannibalize all the things that made people ever want to use the internet in the first place

[@stephenandrich3864]

Great video and conversation man. I needed this

[@Sykxezn]

Me personally, had more fun on burnout 3 on a ps2 than anything online

[@Tar.o]

burnot was fuking legendary

[@MrWobbles]

Man waking up to this video made me cry, you’re so talented at self reflection and storytelling brotha I moved to a small Midwest city from La during covid, and so many things here resonate with what you’re saying here. People here are genuine and eccentric, there’s so many things to do that’s happening in real life with real people who aren’t trying to make everything a fomo internet display. It’s pretty wild being someone in a position who makes content online to start seeing this other side. I also wildly resonate with the wow addiction. I think being addicted to that game in 2022 made me angrily go the other way into solitude and trying to reconnect. Loved this man, love ur stuff, keep staying strange out there

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

I appreciate you sharing

[@TheBrandonnnn]

forcing us to watch fantano? That sounds like cruel and unusual punishment.

[@Camreeyan]

Fantano's not even that bad it's his fans

[@HORNGEN4]

Just watch the videos. Comment sections are usually trash for any media.

[@MSHNKTRL]

This would be applicable in a place such as Austin, where there is a college population and thriving music/cultural scene. Not so much in other places, where there is no scene, and all bands have to travel to the nearest major (or minor) city to play even a small club. For many, internet is the only way to hear of these bands, especially if one is underage.

[@notJCS]

0:30 Heh, I find that funny, cuz I got friends who have a cover band & intend to make original stuff at some point. They actually asked me to join 'em as a keyboardist, and even though I can't read music and don't even have a keyboard atm, I'm leanin' towards "yes" on that offer, cuz it's real.

[@CactusforBreakfast]

Great watch. I think you can feel how hungry people are for something more, a deeper non-screen connection. I think there's something really special about enjoying something ephemeral. A little bit of magic in a moment. It's just something human. I hope it builds into a movement. Cheers, Cactus for Breakfast (one of the bands that Beato says don't exist)

[@mikikulesza]

Your counterargument about the bands can be used aswell for the internet. Yes mainstream media is growing more and more powerful but there are still places on the internet where u can find valuable content or people.

[@nob2243]

Exactly. I've been on the internet for many years, so my recommendations and algorithms are fine-tuned to my specific tastes. And I never went for the popular stuff like big name creators or fads currently capturing the internet's collective attention. But that being said, there's a huge amount of niche creators, people and content in general out there, literally something for everyone - and searching for it is surprisingly easier than one might think, thanks to things being linked on the web (one thing you like may connect you with two or more similar things). I mean once you get used to it, it's really easy to do.

[@notJCS]

Agreed, my dude. It may be a bit harder to find nowadays due to the homogenization, but they're out there.

[@BulletToothboo]

Well said, Glink. The transient property of a moment not captured with video can add to it's beauty as well.

[@n_worder]

screen addicts seething lmao

[@piked86]

I first got unrestricted access to the internet on the family computer at 9 years old in 1997. Personally I hope the internet in it's current form dies so maybe I can get the old internet back. Small personal sites that link to each other with lots of interesting content instead of SEO farm slop.

[@3dTank]

@@piked86 Yep. I've also been online since I was a kid, and I kind of wish for the simpler internet to come back. Sites with a single purpose, no conglomerates and no data harvesting. But I don't think that's happening.

[@notJCS]

​@@piked86I concur. First got online in early '09 at five-and-a-half. It was magical for those first few years, but around late 2013-early 2014, I noticed changes, and Lord knows they weren't good ones. Sometime hopefully soon, I'm gonna set up a personal website that'll link to & host my little projects. It's important to remember that change always begins with people gettin' up n' doin' shit

[@gilly_5123]

@@notJCSagreed. It is very hard to get people to get up and do shit sadly. But everyone is sick of this shit man you see it everywhere. Idk if its just idealism or blind nostalgia but it used to be better man. The most disappointing thing would be to have everything how it used to be but not having it feel the same. So i try not to look back too hard. The root of the problem is in the people who run the internet, they know what they’re doing and they know how to keep doing it for now which is scary. But as i say, everyone is sick of this shit. I think people start abandoning the internet before it would ever start to get better again. It’s tough to call what will happen. I wish we would do something. I know the indie web is a thing. But that is a small bubble for now…

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

Your thoughts are beautiful, man. I’ve come to the same conclusion. Everything that turns big nowadays loses its soul, that isn’t a fact throughout history, but it is for now. Art without a soul, art without an artist, we are stripping away the meaning out of art and we wonder why we find it valueless, meaningless. Reminds me of NFT’s, tbh 😅😆.

[@guywithyoutubechannel8176]

i think if the local culture value outweighed the internet(global) culture value, we wouldn't have become terminally online in the first place. something needs to happen in real life (locally) for an observer to share it on the global stage. if you live in a cultural desert, of course you will believe the internet has more to offer. if you live in a cultural oasis, of course you will think the internet is a waste of time. I think glink is experiencing a transition where his local culture is increasing in value and interest, and he is having doubts about investing further time into the internet culture.

[@charliedd5]

this video makes me feel so hopeful and motivated to go to as many local art shows and gigs now, loved it

[@CPAUL112]

Good vid, i keep going to irl events like performances because i know i ill not regret it, despite not feeling like it first

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

i feel that

[@ignaciovergara9125]

Thank you for giving me hope for a better future man, great video

[@SullyDunn]

The first 11 seconds is absolutely legendary as an intro, best hook I’ve seen in recent memory lmao

[@blodstrm]

Dude, I've missed you. Love this video subject for your return, I'm strapping in.

[@aaronf2467]

12:38 Most of us are already robots. We're all already conditioned to think a certain way. This affects our actions. If everything we do is conditioned by what our parents and their parents did. Does that mean we aren't our own person? Do we have free will?

[@FireWizzrobe]

I'mma let you in on a very useful secret friend. Whether there is or isn't free will doesn't matter, but your perception of the world does. If you think nothing matters, your life will be coloured by that view. If you think your life has some grand purpose, it will also be coloured by that view. But if you do not hold yourself to any particular view, and simply allow yourself to experience life, you will never find yourself asking this question again. It is as the Buddha says here: "When this is, that is; with the arising of this, that arises." Without knowing, we create all these limiting views for ourselves. It is only after we abandon the court of opinion and step into life that we start to experience it as it is. Peace.

[@guslima1130]

So blessed. Thank you for this one, Glink.

[@ToddMagnussonWasHere]

I build stuff on the internet for money, my joy is 100% things I can build in real life. The nostalgia for the internet is small, mostly the pre-2011 days, MMO peak days, now it’s empty.

[@tacklefatkids]

I build stuff in real life for money but I build stuff online for fun and make no money. I make sim racing mods for people that player much older titles. No conversion mods just from scratch.

[@Lucax97]

Love these videos that swoop into my algorithm that are as trite as they are over confident. Whoa, local gigs are epic? You got bored of online personalities? People pass away and things change, but this isn't dead bud.

[@FiloVFX]

Well done, you discovered hippies.

[@rarbnif2332]

This video is so real, I grew up with the internet and watched it change to what it is now and it’s not the same internet I loved as a kid. I’ve been starting to go on nature walks and local bands show’s recently and I’ve been having so much fun and meeting new people

[@therewasanattempt1866]

I don't really understand what it was that I liked about this video. I could just feel something so raw, and emotive that I was sort of drawn in. you've outdone yourself

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

hey thanks I appreciate that and im glad you felt something