02-16-2023, 07:56 PM
This is sorta off topic (okay it's WAY off topic), but I'm gonna say it anyways because I thought of it BEFORE I clicked his channel and saw the name "RIP Athene" and I take that as a sign...
So yesterday, I came across a random video while I was trying to research the history of certain blood types. It was a video of an older man discussing, for the most part, his experience with brain cancer. I scrolled down to check the date on the video, and it was from like 6 years ago. I was like ohhh maaan... I bet this guy is definitely dead now.
And he totally was. That video I came across was one of the last ones he ever posted and he died some months later.
It was just sooo eerie.
I mean, we've had photography for a few hundred years, we've had home movies since like the 1950s, we've had films for longer than that...
It's nothing new that people are captured on film and then they pass on, but we can still see them via photos, films, audio, etc.
But the internet adds a whole new level to things. It's this huge archive of such a bizarre era in human history.
People started pondering this eerie "internet graveyard" situation during the MySpace days... I remember the first few people I knew who had a MySpace and died.
Why does seeing someone's internet graveyard (their YouTube or their FB, etc.) feel sooo eerie compared to just basic film/photo??
Maybe it's because the internet is another dimension, maybe it's the same idea as the Native Americans had about photographs "stealing" your soul.
What if part of the consciousness merges with the internet dimension and is still there even after death??
What if it's the same as film capturing the soul, only way more intense??
I dunno man.
I'm just sayin'...
I dunno.
So yesterday, I came across a random video while I was trying to research the history of certain blood types. It was a video of an older man discussing, for the most part, his experience with brain cancer. I scrolled down to check the date on the video, and it was from like 6 years ago. I was like ohhh maaan... I bet this guy is definitely dead now.
And he totally was. That video I came across was one of the last ones he ever posted and he died some months later.
It was just sooo eerie.
I mean, we've had photography for a few hundred years, we've had home movies since like the 1950s, we've had films for longer than that...
It's nothing new that people are captured on film and then they pass on, but we can still see them via photos, films, audio, etc.
But the internet adds a whole new level to things. It's this huge archive of such a bizarre era in human history.
People started pondering this eerie "internet graveyard" situation during the MySpace days... I remember the first few people I knew who had a MySpace and died.
Why does seeing someone's internet graveyard (their YouTube or their FB, etc.) feel sooo eerie compared to just basic film/photo??
Maybe it's because the internet is another dimension, maybe it's the same idea as the Native Americans had about photographs "stealing" your soul.
What if part of the consciousness merges with the internet dimension and is still there even after death??
What if it's the same as film capturing the soul, only way more intense??
I dunno man.
I'm just sayin'...
I dunno.
