SICK AND TWISTED that she wrote “do i really have to tell you how he brought me back to life” and “i can’t find a pulse. my heart won’t start anymore” about the same man
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
What I love about the eras tour is how Taylor embraces the little tiniest things that made that era. The hand hearts, sparkly guitar, and spinning during Fearless. The giant ball gown and koi fish guitar for Speak Now. Giving a fan the black hat and wearing the not a lot going on at the moment t shirt for Red. The strutting for Style and the golf club for Blank Space during 1989. The snake patterns in the crowd and the recreation of the LWYMMD music video for rep. The Lover guitar. It really is a tour that carefully takes the time to celebrate each micro emotion of each era and it would have been easy and understandable if she had just sang the songs, but she put so much work into bringing these eras back to life for ten or fifteen minutes and I really appreciate that.
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies
we really spent the last decade insisting to the rest of the internet that we are not a hivemind!!!! only for us to get polls and immediately prove that we’re a hivemind
the worst part ab having online friends is that to maintain the friendship you actually sort of have to have conversations with them. if we were all irl friends i would invite you into my home, give u my xbox controller & let u play a game on my bed while i lie next to u and coexist in ur space and backseat game you
