TikTok beats Meta!

 I recently purged all my social media apps from my phone. I still have all my accounts active because, without them, I'd face social isolation. Many of my friends are from different parts of the world, so I communicate with them through Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Basically, I can't fully remove myself from these tech giants, even though I'd like to. 

Ziddio.com

 In November of 2006, Comcast in partnership with Genex attempted to create a user-created-content competitor to YouTube. It was called Ziddio.com

Do you remember Ziddio? No? That's fine because it only stuck around for two years. The beta version was launched between Oct 29-Nov 2 2006 and it was subsequently discontinued on Aug 19, 2008. For at least a year, though, Ziddio seemed like it would be the next big thing. 

Buying old stuff

 

When I was younger, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the Atari 2600 went anywhere from $40 to $200 on eBay. It didn't go for much more than that, nor did it go for less. 

  I always wanted it just so I could say I owned it, yet I never bought it. Being a lower-middle-class kid, $40 seemed like a lot of money. For a game that consists of one repeating screen, $40 is a lot of money. And, anyway, I thought I'd buy it someday when I made my own money. 

Well, now I do make my own money and I could afford a frivolous $40 purchase. Now, however, the game costs a grand total of $125,000-$200,000. To be perfectly clear, that's more money than I spent on college. That's more money than I'd spend on a car or a house. There is no chance I will ever own Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Atari. 

Silent Hill: Room 304 (RIP Flash)

Everything fun on the internet used to use Flash, but now Flash is gone so the internet is mostly boring. 

Flash supported games, animated videos, and killer interactive websites. If like me you didn't have a gaming console, but you did have a computer, then Flash games were your go-to. 

I used to play this Doctor Who Flash game called "The Last Dalek" all the time. Now, unfortunately, it's unavailable. It's on some websites, but it just loads forever. You'll never get past the "Level 1" description scene. 

There's one game, though, that I would have completely lost my shit over as a kid, but it completely flew under my radar. That game is Silent Hill fan-made Flash game Silent Hill: Room 304.

@JustLikeThat, the abandoned Instagram account who beat HBO to the punch

 So, my friend works for HBO. Yes, I am jealous. 

He recently made a post on Instagram, which detailed an early screening of a new HBO Max show called Just Like That. Below is the original post. I've blocked out his identity.

At the bottom, you can see that he tags an account called @JustLikeThat. Of course, one would assume that @JustLikeThat belongs to the HBO Show, but that's not true. The Instagram account for the show Just Like That is @justlikethatmax. My friend accidentally linked to @justlikethat. 

Troll 2 and my old YouTube channel

 I used to love so-bad-they're-good movies. I loved Manos: The Hangs of Fate, The Room, and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2. My favorite, of course, was Troll 2.

Like many people from the mid-2000s, I discovered the film because of the infamous "Oh my Goddddd" scene. One of the early viral videos. Coincidentally, Troll 2 was shot in Utah, just like the unforgettable Wun Blee Chung Dee.