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people who hate new internet usually blame "social media"
and if you ask them to elaborate they give you generalizations like "the quality is bad" or "AI has ruined everything"
They wouldnt even be able to tell you what AI has ruined, and id guarantee that low quality posts they think are bots are just ESL people.
Theyll never admit to you that 95% of the internet in 95-99 were from europe and asia, and that was a much higher 'quality' poster.

And the last excuse is that "everything looks bad"
Pure aesthetic nostalgia, nothing is stopping someone from doing some basic CSS, many websites are designed with phones in mind because for the "developing world" a phone is the only computer they process.. again, is it a technical issue, a modernization issue, or could it actually be a... people problem

a valid criticism of modern internet would be censorship, censorship is higher than its ever been, yet "old web" fanatics dont seem to truly like the parts of the old web they were a bit wild. Wild West to them is kooky gifs and bonzi buddy, modern "old web" fanatics claim they love the old web but what they really desire is the digital equivalent of a hole in the ground they can shove their head into, because actually interacting with alternative view points is too distressing, actually wild west internet isn't included in this "good old days" fantasy