Raw LLM Responses

In the early aughts, there were so many things to do, and so few ways to find those things, that a lot of the internet had to be manually discovered and tracked by RSS - forums like Livejournal and 4chan, game sites like Neopets and Gaia or even the Adult Swim games, flash pages like Ebaum's, chat and video communication sites like Omegle, Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers, blogs, live feeds of things like animal sanctuaries, art galleries like Deviantart and niche interest archives like you'd find on Geocities, weird jumpscare websites with a single purpose, etc etc etc. It required so much participation; everyone was talking, exploring, and creating in their own way. It was the Wild West, but it brought people together, and there was so much to DISCOVER. Now, the internet is a shopping mall curated by algorithms and influencers, designed to maximize how much money you spend and how much money entities can make. Some of the things listed above still exist, but in VASTLY different ways, and the space is so focused on people trying to make money that every page is monetized to death with paywalls, filled with distracting ads, or riddled with bots to skew engagement metrics and artificially inflate performance/interest. AI generated nonsense and SEO promoted Amazon sellers have wrecked Google, which effectively owns the internet at this point. It's like watching your garden become a landfill. Sad and frustrating, especially since the AI shit is such a scam and is rapidly expediting the end. Even on social websites, people don't talk to each other anymore. We talk AT each other by commenting our opinions on a subject or object that has been presented to us like we're doing now in this thread. I just want my shitty flash games back.