sketch by me, 14 september 2025
here we have dapplezee’s art, crafts, and thoughts.
The big social platforms — Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok — don’t exist to connect people any longer. Did they ever? The platform algorithms are designed to extract maximum profit. In turn, “content” production is being colonized by AI slop.
Machines talking to machines, and neither side needs humans.¹
I’d rather do something different.
In the last century² I learned to build a website on Geocities. The internet felt boundless. The Eye of Capitalism wasn’t fixed on us.
I remember the way it felt. I made things simply because I could. I loved seeing other people do the same.
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
¹ see Aidan Walker’s Cuck Internet Theory, courtesy of Today in Tabs.
² omg I’m old