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Maybe we will trend back to the days when everything had horizontal rules and center alignment. I can't wait!

Postpostmaterial and the death of the web designer.

If history is any guide, expect a rejection and push against. Possibly with the self referential sign of a sign[1]. Heck... We are already almost there with humourous memes that reference another meme.

If anything, Vapor Wave and the retro Geocities-esque show signs of such a pushback.

[1] Baudrillard

> "I would appreciate it if you clicked me because I generate ad revenue"

This is very likely.

Years ago I had a website hosted on Altervista. They allowed ads from their network, but their ToS explicitly forbade adding text to your page that encouraged readers to click on ads.

Does Google have this too in their ToS?

Yea it explicitly says "Publishers may not ask others to click their ads" along with about 20 other related clauses.

Geocities 2.0

I think Vaporwave style websites are the spiritual successor to Geocities design. I'm a big fan. https://edz.neocities.org/

Post-neo-brutalism.