World Wide Web

From VHS to Neo-pronouns: How the Internet Helped to Change Identity! 

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The Wild West of the Web

Retrospectively, that revolutionary promise offered by 'the web' in the late 90s went above many peoples heads! Surfing the net made no sense, but honestly, the wording made it sound cool! What tantalised curiosity were those bizarre secret agent-like codes starting with 'www' all over the place.

I still remember the cardboard cut-out of Carol Vorderman standing in our local library, luring in the unready. This was years before her cheekbones and mammary glands had mysteriously swollen! I.T savvy librarians frustratedly instructed the older generations, as well as any computerphobe who wanted to press a few buttons. Every family had its digital pioneer — people who dived headfirst into the unregulated chaos of peer-to-peer platforms like Napster, LimeWire, and Kazaa. Piracy was poorly regulated, but yet greatly hindered by cruel dial up speeds! 

P2P and Pirate Goldmines

Hours of P2P and Ebaum's world videos burnt into my psyche: I watched the insanity of the world for the first time. One particularly woman filmed herself shit out an entire, fully intact water melon! How? Why? She might've been promoting herself as a Cartell Mule? I had no idea, but still, I wanted to see more. The mainstream UK news, most of our regular broadcasting had always been so robotic, dressed up to the point of absolute fakery! This emerging world wide web put everything on the table, self-inflicted digital amputations, bosh! We all marvelled at one video of a man's failed home castration. They weren't all 'ha-ha!' funny, but eye-opening. The world had to be tested, I had to speak to people from all parts of the globe.

These tools weren’t just a way to listen to music, but also a gateway to piracy! Dodgy dealers earnt a little pocket money off this digital black market, sharing and trading. Music took time, but a full on film, well, that was a real labour of love! This advent of porn was a short lived curiosity for many of us, because it was seedy, and everywhere, instantly! A million miles away from borrowing an overplayed porn VHS from a work buddy. We didn't watch porn as often as today! Surfing the web back then had fewer restrictions, with no such things as neo-pronouns either!

Some Of The Following Generations Have Issues! 

Confusing Cyber Cluster 

We can see how the internet has facilitated mass clusterings of right wing politics, for example: facebook groups like, we are the 52%, YouTube channels such as GBN News or Matt Goodwin attract that communities to take action or debate. However, I think something similar happened with other demographics.

People with autism and certain mental health conditions, like gender dysphoria, for example, or a personality disorder, may well feel different to, or even estranged from other people. Rates of ASD diagnoses have increased. In the 90s and early noughties, anyone confused by their identity or gender could suddenly go online, meet others and share. That's exactly how I believe it grew, and subcultural identities like Emo's, Goths and what-have-you developed neo-pronouns on-line. It rapidly became a social construct ,and then, a marketable product and finally a movement! 

From What Soil Did This Flower Grow? 

Before the internet, neo-pronouns — those things everyone has to use to avoid prosecution — never existed. Wow, really? Yeah, they're new! Folks are dealing with their struggles by latching onto sub-cultural labels and identities that are being promoted as legit by some unknown authority which isn't necessarily medical science! When you go fishing, how does calling yourself a 'Fisher-them' help?! Why? 

Really, though, we have animal people now! Why are we encouraging fantasy? How is sniping at anyone who won't agree with you that a man can give birth actually sane? Who is supporting this! Many of us act like it's healthy to put a red blooded man in the boxing ring or the octagon with a female, but we despise domestic abuse! Their echo chambers became a social processing plant of irrational ideas, that our woke lawmakers continue to rationalise and implement. The whole thing has made a pawn of anyone with identity complications and our comedy is taking a proper battering!

Giving the stamp of approval to these social constructs is simply saying: bio-evolutionary human history is all wrong! Yeah, man, it's sound! We'll just go with whatever you guys made up from now on! Er no! You mark my words (not like grammar police), it'll go full circle! One day, these pronouns will become archaic, a dinosaur orthodoxy, something more stupid will rise from the depths of the internet and replace everything! 

It will be fresh, simplified and practical, maybe retro like something before the world wide web! 

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