This for now is an attempt at a digital garden, where ideas are losely connected by tags to give an overall picture of interests.
"Lawn Culture Needs to Die" I 100% percent agree, and I have a lawn! I hate it so much. I am not the one maintaining it because I find it so stupid to cut away nature and then water it to grow back again, only to cut once more. Like literally what are we doing here yall.
I have seen many videos saying this, but Khadija leaving really made me be like “…ok is the internet just truly garbage XD”
“People are mean online” I think it is common knowledge that comments on youtube/Instagram/twitter, like all big social medias has some very WILD comments. Like the veil of anonymity really just brings out some nasty sides of people, and I have to ask like why?“
Like going outside in the real world, at least before no one would really say anything so wild to your face, and even if they did everyone else will see them with scrutiny, but even now I see internet talk and like that lack of social awareness peek into the real world.
I would not even say it is just social awareness; it is also a mix of attention seeking I believe up to a point. Like to incite the most rage in someone to cause them to like to clutch their pearls some might say people say the craziest things. I am just speculating but, it does feel like people just want rile each other up
The internet is also very algorithm oriented and unfortunately for human nature hate really gets put on the forefront of everyone eyeballs, so then if people think everyone hates them then they will hate back
And this is not the first video on this, there are many videos in the reasons why the internet sucks with similar points but still we are here talking about it.
Dasia has a whole video about this that I might revisit when I have time but for now I will leave it here as a note
Khadija also makes a point that resonated with me about like all the panhandling online and how we are just washed over with all of these stories and that even being understanding of their situations how much can an internet community do? How much can a single person too, when presented with so many unfortunate cases everyday it is draining to say the least, because you can emphasize with everything but that exhausts a person. I have seen many a person tear themselves up because they could not help every single person they saw in need of help.
Sometimes this time of content does seem like voyeurism like I get trying to find the comfort of people but to make these raw emotions as “content” a product essentially feels odd. There is another video that goes into this idea as well.
“They are asking for help in a place that gives the illusion of community and care, but it is really just a void.” Like I understand people can make friends online and then that is a connection that can happen, but thousands of strangers, that don’t know you or your circumstances I don’t think that will help anyone.
Again I will put this here for now and expand on it later
I read a lot of fanfic ok, I might as well do something with this information
nothing yet
I am going to be honest I hate when people tell me I can't do something
"kaeya sucks he is not meta, new characters powerscaling" OK WELL IM SAY NAY AND TRY ANYWAYS
Summary: Me being a hard ass and trying to clear the abyss with Kaeya (disclaimer) I am not good at this game.
Alright 8/24/25 Spiral Abyss
I did not know what this type of style was until a friend explained it me, I quite enjoy this type of story.
I think it is because the setting of the world is grasped into little snippets and your mind fits in the puzzle pieces, it also focuses more on the characters I would think
Thank you NomnomNami for the template!
I saw this and sure I could use it as a mini blog but I was aslo thinking of it as maybe a "digital garden" I have seen differnt takes on it, but from my understanding it is a collection of ideas that upon a macroscopic view interconnect with each other
I could just use my unlocked tumblr but thought I would share some stuff here something about a community garden, each of us having our own plot but still connected in some way. I don't know its a theory.
Ok, this is my first attempt into my idea of a digital garden, I say my idea but what I have extrapulated from videos I have seen.
Summary: The video that inspired me to try and consume consciously "cc"
How to do nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
I stumbled upon this creator when I was actually looking at mindful consumerism content, you know not buying the new fad, be aware of how your purchase affects all. That kind of thing.
What caught my attention was when they mentioned that the advice of "Create more than you consume" was incomplete. How as creatives we can't help but consume in order to create. Simply stopping our consumption would not be ideal.
They then went off about being present the some thing that you do consume and as an example they mentioned how when you read a book it sticks with you but when asked more in depth questions your mind is blank. That is me and why rating books is difficult.
Back to the creation and consumption, I realize that I want people to see more than the end product of what I make, because yes there is so many other variables that come in to an idea to form it into a product. That is the whole point behind my Art pages on this website.
The way they do their process seems like a lot of work, I will be honest and I am not sure I will go in as hard-core as this creator goes, but it did start make the wheels in my head beging to turn, so I made this mini blog template into a digital garden template where the tags are the "roots"
Side note, I hate this type of video, it is what I have been watching but I hate it, the lady with a title surrounded by screenshots? I look at my history and see video after video with the same thumbnail and something inside me becomes ill. Dramatic? yea but true XD
This whole video was very relatable and it is also what I would call a "evergreen" content, where I will go back to watch over and over without it loosing it's value.
when he talks about buying headphones when he forgets his, it was like a lighbulb went off because that has been me, the amount of money I spend because I Needed sound. I have gotten better now.
I still have headphones on most of the time, but at home I will simply not, I have music on durig certains times in my day but not all the time like I do at work.
"Thinking needs to be treated as a skill. This was what connected this video to the first one, or at least I recalled it while watching the other video. So that is what I think the goal has been, to work those thought muscles.
This is where I should have taken notes because the book "How to do nothing" has something similar about this, or at least I think it does but I can't remeber clearly. I wll have to revisit it once again.
I agree to some points, but I agree in the way that it sounds true but am unsure how true it is, so that is what in the end this page is for. A testing ground. Already I see how hard this is going to be, but I need to realize that not everything is meant to be analyzed.
Like mindful consumption or mindful spending it directs my attention and effort to things I really wish to persue, perhaps it will show me what that is.
