Where the internet comes to confess.
You didn't choose to spend three hours watching conspiracy-adjacent finance bros or develop a weirdly specific obsession with Norwegian black metal. The algorithm did that for you, and it didn't even ask. Welcome to the roommate situation from hell — one you can't evict, can't reason with, and definitely can't split utilities with.
GeoCities is gone. Vine is gone. Google+ is so gone it's almost funny. And yet somehow, none of them are really dead. Pull up a lawn chair and let us walk you through the internet's most persistent ghost towns — and why Americans keep leaving the lights on for them.
There's a word for what happened to Reddit, Twitter, and Amazon — and it's exactly as ugly as it sounds. Cory Doctorow called it 'enshittification,' and once you see the pattern, you can't unsee it. Every platform you love is already on the clock.