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SW-User
Sometimes when I do a search for myself online and find some reaaaaaaly old posts in some dusty dead corner of the Internet, I want to go there and delete them, but then I think, it's not too bad, and leave it be. But the person I am now is far and away the person I was then, and yes, you're right, life is iterative, evolution.
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
@SW-User I never really delete things I posted. I'm sure somewhere out there is my very first blog that's nothing but shitposts that I can't find. It's extremely easy to find things from 2010... the first thing I uploaded to YouTube was in May of 2010. The last thing I uploaded to that channel? 2 weeks ago. 638 videos since the beginning (plus 65 on my more recent music specific channel) and they all track my evolution as a person... so why censor myself? I never faked any aspect of myself. I'm the realest person you'll ever meet--there isn't a single facet of myself that I present that's fake. However I'm multifaceted so trying to judge me based on one cluster of posts I make is fallacious, especially due to my wavering personality due to being bipolar.
One of the reasons why I never cleaned up my internet presence is because I was always real and I post so much of myself to the internet. Poor move, sort of, for opsec purposes. On the other hand, the chances of brain-to-computer transfers being a thing during my lifetime is slim to none... but they say that when AI becomes complex enough, for people like me who post their entire life to social media and are honest about it... they can create an AI that scans their entire Internet presence, analyzes their personality, and creates what's basically a functionally identical version of myself. Yes it won't be me... but it's the closest thing I will have to immortality.
One of the reasons why I never cleaned up my internet presence is because I was always real and I post so much of myself to the internet. Poor move, sort of, for opsec purposes. On the other hand, the chances of brain-to-computer transfers being a thing during my lifetime is slim to none... but they say that when AI becomes complex enough, for people like me who post their entire life to social media and are honest about it... they can create an AI that scans their entire Internet presence, analyzes their personality, and creates what's basically a functionally identical version of myself. Yes it won't be me... but it's the closest thing I will have to immortality.
Tokyowetdreams · 26-30, M
I feel like my old posts throughout my social medias are a cringy reminder of past experiences and moments in my life and almost like fragments of who i once was. I dont want to delete them necessarily but oh god some of em are embarrassing.
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
@Tokyowetdreams I keep my old posts as a reminder of who I am and how I developed over the years. It's fascinating, my YouTube channel... how I've essentially remained the same person, just adding on matryoshka shells of what my latest obsession is, without the old one completely disappearing. New obsession + layer of maturity. It's... really odd looking at my old videos. They're actually not as remotely cringey as other 12 year olds running a youtube channel were... some were actually rather interesting, like me explaining lightning science, extremely complex science projects that most adults wouldn't even dare to undertake... my weird videos were more me running around the house taking hour long videos (my account was one of the very first to be approved for no limit videos for whatever reason) of me just derping around. There's some gold shitposts on there though lol.
but the way I've developed over the years, you can see how I've changed... it's really weird...
but the way I've developed over the years, you can see how I've changed... it's really weird...
SW-User
I get what you're saying. (Though I have a tendency to delete my stuff. I hate cringiness too much to keep any of it)