I was gonna post something but then I got scared
It's weird when a post leaves your small circle of friends/internet acquaintances and goes... somewhere else. To other people, who have no idea where you're coming from. It feels very unnerving to me. Scary, really. What do you mean there's ppl clicking on it from Hacker News? What the hell is it doing there?
Anyways.
I was gonna post something else here today but I really wanted to talk about this as well. It feels weird, y'all. What the hell. But I guess that's the internet for ya, it goes places and it takes stuff you put in it and it may not belong to you anymore.
It makes me think about all the old gifs and pixel art stuff from the early internet that's just spread around the web and nobody really knows who created it. Sure, some of it can be traced back to their creators, but a lot more is simply alive on the internet, all by itself, creator be damned. They're a part of this biome we call the internet, like someone's grafting experiment that gave us bell peppers, now present in everyone's kitchens around the world.
Though made up of 0s and 1s, the internet feels very much like a natural phenomena sometimes.