Totally agree. And timing. Big platforms didn’t exist, or were still small. The internet was still new to a lot of people and no phones to access it. We had to go to a website on a PC and actively choose to watch it.
I could be wrong but that feels more special than a video liked and shared over a big corp messaging app.
It meant you probably found it because a real person showed it to you and the two of you shared a human moment rather than you were thrown at it by an algorythm trying to keep you staring at the screen.
Totally agree. And timing. Big platforms didn’t exist, or were still small. The internet was still new to a lot of people and no phones to access it. We had to go to a website on a PC and actively choose to watch it.
I could be wrong but that feels more special than a video liked and shared over a big corp messaging app.
It meant you probably found it because a real person showed it to you and the two of you shared a human moment rather than you were thrown at it by an algorythm trying to keep you staring at the screen.