#zuckarr

First I want to say I am SO SORRY this has just been sitting in my ask box with no response for....oh god, I don't even know how long at this point.

I rarely go on tumblr on my computer (PC) anymore and am usually on mobile, and answering more complex posts or asks on my phone is really challenging.

ANYWAY.

There are so many rabbit holes and things that could be addressed here, but I will try to keep it concise. As a reminder: I am a private citizen, I don't have any insight or knowledge RE: like...IT stuff, a true detailed understanding of how we got to where we are today (with what I call "Internet 3.0").

Taylor Lorenz (I watch her on YouTube) has a bunch of great videos going over the internet, how it came to be how it is today, laws surrounding it, etc. I really recommend checking out her stuff for background information.

But as for me personally:

MORE PRIVACY! If I didn't want someone seeing certain things like my Live Journal, Deviant Art/FurAffinity art, and other blogs, you could set stuff to friends only! And it truly was friends only! People had to send friend requests and you had to accept them! Of course this doesn't apply to every single site but holy crap, was it better!

LITTLE OR NO ADS! There were just not advertisements everywhere! Or if they were, they were on "raunchier" websites (again, in my experience), made sense to the site, or just weren't there! A lot of them were also just out of the way.

NO BOREDOM! I NEVER remember being bored or "done" with the internet. There was always something to do. Admittedly, I was on a ton of websites (Neopets, Gaia Online, dA/fA, Wolf Home, multiple forums) but places like bored.com, Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep, Weebl's Stuff, and even YouTube...stuff was just never boring! Throwing in here that I was a child/teen in the 90s/2000s so that does color my world view in that respect, so take it with a grain of salt.

INSTANT MESSAGING! Similar to Discord, the IM systems were just...better in my opinion. AIM was my GOAT, but I was also on MSN and YIM. It was just...sensational. You could update your profile, add coding, make your font how you wanted. There were standard things like sending audio and pictures, etc. And again, this is probably coated in nostalgia for me as a child/teenager and being an escape from the real world but like...I seriously don't know where I would be without AIM hahaha.

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER! I deeply miss seeing feeds on tumblr in chronological order! Everything used to just be showing newest to oldest (as least for me) and that's how I fucking liked it! No pushing posts or anything through paying ads, or seeing posts from blogs you didn't intentionally follow. Just things in a nice, neat format!

FORUMS! Of course forums still exist. But they feel so much...different?....now? And again, this could be my bias and my nostalgia speaking. But the internet really felt like everything was a forum base versus...idk what even to call whatever this is now. I don't have the vocabulary for how a lot of modern sites/apps/etc are laid out.

STUFF WAS FREE!!! So many websites now are all "Pay for this, that and the other thing". I had a Photobucket account from the 2000s, for example, where I uploaded a ton of stuff! Now they want me to pay to access it, so I left them in the dust. How gross! Things were just...FREE. Windows came with Microsoft Word and other programs. Sometimes even with basic protection software! When you bought a game, you owned it and could play it with the CD or floppy disk! (Versus like, buying it online and needing to be connected to the internet to play it like EA.) You didn't need to pay for accounts in places! There are obviously still websites where you can sign up for free, but you can inundated with ads and them asking you to pay for a monthly or yearly membership.

today marks my 6 years anniversary for zuckarr on youtube... and on tumblr as well! ♥

Nothing and Feather from the My Pride webseries for @zuckarr‘s birthday.

A gift to Kimizuki was something he had to ponder about quietly for a few seconds. Yoichi was the kind of guy who definitely Yuu definitely knew he could always ask for advice and of all the Shinoa squad members, the one he could rely the most on wise ideas. And yet there was something that didn’t really rub well within him.

“Are you sure...?” his brows knitted ever so slightly in thought “I don’t think he’s still going to like the fact that I threw away his glasses y’know..”

The bond between Yuichiro and Kimizuki was surely a peculiar one; he trusted the pink haired guy with his own life, perhaps -and that was something he’d never admit aloud to anyone- he was the closest figure to a best friend he’d ever had, Kimizuki was his family but there was some kind of pride and competition between the two of them that didn’t make most of their conversation peaceful.

The thing was- if Yuu broke Kimizuki’s face he knew that his demon power would be able to heal and fix the guy back, but with that glasses matter he wasn’t really sure it could be solved that easily.

“Where are we even supposed to find new glasses...? Ah.” something lit up in his green hues and his lips spread in a mischievous  grin.

for whoever might be interested, I just made this slideshow of my Yoichi art!