Very Internet Person

"Wake up. The world that once welcomed outsiders and eccentrics is gone. We'll spend the next few years reminiscing about it with nostalgia, never quite capturing the same feeling."

I don’t entirely agree with the general sentiment in this essay that conflates all of online with just social media (i.e., social is dead, therefore online is dead). I like to think of online as being bigger than that, with outsiders and eccentrics still out there doing their own thing, off platforms. Maybe they also have healthier real-life interactions as a result (⌒⌒;). I think that's what the author tries to get at by the end but in a different way ¯_(ツ)/¯.