[Stabbsworth]

a lot of the old blog sites, and being unable to participate in earlier fandom culture as a whole. plus old avatar, forum sites and such. i have an account somewhere on spacebattles, but never really used it.

i ended up on the wrong side of deviantart and youtube as a kid, though. man.

in order to rephrase your main complaint with the newer internet, it's the corporatization of a third space - everything is so clean and sterile, sexless, even. you don't get to deal with old jank from old forums or anything anymore. and like. yeah, sure, the internet of today is much better when it comes to treating autistic people not-like-shit, but it's also so much worse in other aspects. it's incredibly easy for me to stumble upon some shitty stuff on tiktok even though i fundamentally do not look at that stuff.

additionally, there's downright nothing for kids outside of some niche projects like ovipets and itch.io having some free incrementals and stuff, and even then... for how long? stuff like moshi monsters and club penguin have shut down, and while ovipets is undeniably still going strong, it's probably going to have to do something to get more funding.
> the main issue with marketing to kids is that they are not a demographic with disposable income.