The current platform disillusionment is a cultural-bubble hangover

Evidence

Perhaps we are now experiencing the long hangover after the ebullient high of web 2.0, the birth of social media, and the rise of a global, commercial, advertising-supported Internet culture—the bursting of a cultural bubble, if not a financial one. It’s possible that we’ve simply asked too much, or expected too much, from social media. — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 624

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Public opinion enforces obligations that courts will never bind into platforms — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 635; Platform custodianship was not evident to companies at their start — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 626; Algorithmic platforms cannot explain cultural stagnation because it predates them — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 19 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Major social platforms degenerated into engagement-driven imitation lacking distinct culture. #expands (0.82) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 702
• Algorithmic platforms cannot explain cultural stagnation because it predates them #corroborates (0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 19