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Alive Internet Theory

struthless

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51% of the internet is bots... but 100% of You is human.
(Shot this on a 20 year old camera because it made me feel something)

Big inspiration (and the damn title!!) for this video came from ‪@aligallop‬ who put a name to something I've been feeling - check out his work

Also - the main "bad news" clip comes from ‪@NeuralViz‬ whose creativity and work is OFF THE CHARTS. Highly recommend

Thanks for watching :)

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20 Comments

@SnowyFoxFox 1 year ago

To anyone who wants to move away from letting algorithms serve them everything, here's a super easy first step: bookmark your YouTube subscriptions page instead of the YouTube front page.

@benfinch4969 1 year ago

I feel like we should call it the "Alive Internet Movement", to underline that it isn't a provable/disprovable theory, but a real effort by real people. The internet may die, but we can live.

@mitchpitch 1 year ago

I get the feeling that persistent optimism and hope could lead to accumulative positive effects. In other words the indomitable human spirit must return

@crabylon 1 year ago (edited)

can we all start writing fanfiction again
edit: it appears we did :)

@CuteCrazyCool 1 year ago

A lot of what we need is proof that art CANNOT die.

@AnnikaVictoria24 1 year ago

I LOVE THIS. The internet of the 2010s gave me so much community, inspiration, creativity. I love the idea of purposefully bringing that energy back.

@taraboulle3018 1 year ago

I'm afraid I never got to the end of this video. After 3 minutes, you made me realise that I was completely caught up in the youtube trap again. I closed the video, and immediately realised that I could hear the sound of birds outside my window. Thank you.

@StanBaker-n3w 1 year ago

Shooting this with a 20 year-old camera makes nostalgia hit hard...back when Youtube had just started, and the first video got uploaded then

@liamzriouil9597 7 months ago

"Behind every pessimist is often a disappointed idealist"

@adrianacorreia6239 1 year ago

“I want you to feel so good here that you want to get out of here!” What an inspiring prompt to start sharing beautiful things online!

@DougFromTheBayou 1 year ago

"Hope is punk" is a great term, love this video! Great job dude

@12344girly 1 year ago

This video is helping to encourage me to stop existing as a ghost online and start responding, engaging, interacting (not even for the algorithm, just for the creator) especially when a video like this one reminds me that I am a human and not just a consumer so I’ve gotta act like one!

@noski1240 1 year ago

"who benefits when you feel hopeless" i needed this reminder!!

@tiffany_greeneyes4901 9 months ago

10:49 damn, the idea of talking to 100 people is intimidating as heck, so 100 views is actually pretty wild when you frame it that way

@l404rs2 1 year ago

Ironic that this was fed to me by an algorithm, but so many important things that I really needed to hear. Thank you so much for this video

@Sublimatethesorrows 1 year ago

Cam: Depression is the opposite of expression.
Me: drops everything to get that phrase on paper and above my piano ASAP

@yewknight 1 year ago

Yes! Let’s take the internet back and build something beautiful together! I am an old software engineer and my 9-5 has been grinding away at my sense of fulfillment and I want to dive into making tooling that actually helps people instead of helping my CEO buy his fourth boat.

@sagaciousponderer444 1 year ago

11:11 Schrödinger's Internet Theory

@RedPoisonDragon 1 year ago

The part that sucks for me, in particular, is when the "dumbest people alive" are those who currently have major power over my life and "what they think" is a matter of having a home or not.

@tomcaniff6437 1 year ago

IT'S SO FUNNY that sometimes all it takes to change a life is seeing a single youtube comment that the author probably never even thought about for more than a few seconds or minutes