@hodln
There's a lost 'Art of Digital Expression'
Before the sanitization of modern socials, there was MySpace. It was a glorious, chaotic mess of self-expression. Your profile wasn't just a standardized grid of photos, it was your personal corner of cyberspace, painstakingly coded with HTML and CSS. You chose your background, color scheme, top friends, and the song that blared and assaulted the senses when someone landed on your page. It was a digital bedroom wall or art gallery for the sophisticated, a true reflection of personality that required effort and creativity to build.
This level of customization meant that visiting a friend's profile was an event. You were entering their world. Modern platforms have stripped this away in favor of a uniform, sterilized aesthetic designed to be an unobtrusive container for ads. We traded our unique digital identities for a blue checkmark, a standardized bio, and unfettered bartering of ever metric that makes us us. 2/10
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