Was thinking the same thing. The old will become new again when everything is crowded out by AI

Yeah. Its like the glitch in the matrix a whole generation needs.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a "dog"

That's now how human nature works. Airbrushing models in magazines has been at epidemic levels for decades. Has that stopped people aspiring to look like models?

The starkest example of this is in the '99 film Fight Club,in a scene where the characters mock a Calvin Klein bus ad featuring an impossibly chiseled model. The man doing the mocking is none other than Brad Pitt whose abs are even better than the model's. Something tells me the characters envisioned by the author didn't look anything like him.

It’d be liberating if people were realizing or accepting how artificial an aspect of modern life is and has been, and rejected it for a more meaningful life rather than ever-increasing and empty consumerism. That’s most certainly not the vibe I’m getting from this article, it’s more an affirmation of people giving up and throwing their hats into the economy of bullshit. That’s the opposite of what I would find liberating.