themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Anime & Donghua@hexbear.netEnglish · 13 days agoDuvet from "Serial Experiments Lain" Becomes the Most Streamed Anime Opening in Spotify Historyixbt.gamesexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: anime@ani.social
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minus-squarethemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoI watched years ago, from what I remember it is a critique of social media and its affects.
minus-squareTrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoInteresting interpretation, since the series is from 1998, before social media as we know it existed. Not a wrong interpretation, it definitely yields itself to that interpretation.
minus-squarethemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoIt predicted it very well, in the show the internet is called the wire. Some form of social media did exist in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media
minus-squareTrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoDo not cite the old magic to me. I was there when it was written.
I watched years ago, from what I remember it is a critique of social media and its affects.
Interesting interpretation, since the series is from 1998, before social media as we know it existed. Not a wrong interpretation, it definitely yields itself to that interpretation.
It predicted it very well, in the show the internet is called the wire.
Some form of social media did exist in 1998:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media
Do not cite the old magic to me. I was there when it was written.