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It’s the invisible engine of what makes up the majority of today’s internet. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. Tomorrows internet might not be the same.

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Ffmpeg has nothing to do with the internet other than being distributed on it

It powers the content that makes up a lot of the time a lot of internet users spend their time watching. I don’t think the pedantry serves a purpose.

Most bytes traversing the internet is video these days. Arguably, ffmpeg has processed most of that video.

Then unicode powers the internet by that same logic.

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