But I want to be a capricious god

I would challenge you to even come up with a reasonable way to spend ten million dollars a year.

I would fund multiple forms of art media and have them released for free every year while living on ramen in my leaky apartment

Hello to any billionaires looking for a worthy heir

Nice! Hope we’ll see it imported into the US too.

Can we launch it against Spez?

Because this was always the plan.

The actual employees threatened to resign en masse, because the employees own equity in the company and want this dogshit move too.

Legit feel bad for people who are socialized like this.

Gotta disagree with that. I remember the rampant elitism and tribalism, the shock-culture, isolation of communities, casual bigotry that would make modern 4chan blush, arbitrary forum rules irregularly enforced, etc etc etc.

For all the modern internet’s problems, its communities are much more connected, it’s much more accessible and less elitist, that shock-culture died out, the casual bigotry became contentious instead of accepted, and corporate running the show on most of these sites means that appeals and reversals are much easier than when you would rub some mod the wrong way and get permabanned from a forum you were a long-time member of. Never happened to me, but I saw it numerous times.

It had unique pieces, and a lot that I genuinely miss. But… there was also a LOT of bullshit that wouldn’t pass muster nowadays.

So much creativity, everyone has a normal voice,

…

You might be wearing nostalgia goggles.

“Ruins the internet”

I happen to remember the forum culture of the mid-late 2000s. It wasn’t that great.

You want age inappropriate? I can do age inappropriate

I woke up one day and my leg started being communist. I haven’t been able to get rid of it since.

I didn’t realize I was so famous.