The Internet is a dead mall now

The internet used to feel like a place, and so did the shopping mall. They were both attempting to achieve the same thing, and they both failed in the same way. And it will happen again. This is a video essay about dead malls, nostalgia, gambling, the slow transformation of the internet into something that feels strangely familiar, and kissing in the rain. support me:   / chriswaves   bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/chriswaves.b... MUSIC: Choking Victim - Money ;    • Choking Victim - money   Chriswaves - Summertime Blues (Trump v. Williams) ;   / hhpcv6fexwg4h5w3dd   Nemir - Des Heures (Ouska Edit) ;    • Nemir - Des Heures (Ouska Edit)   YouTube Library music: Density & Time - LITE BRITE Density & Time - Twin Lynches Kevin MacLeod - Acid Jazz Pause maybe? - Silent Frame (Radio Edit) Topher Mohr and Alex Elena - Monks TrackTribe - By the Fireplace TrackTribe - Wish You'd Never Left CHAPTERS: 00:00 - it's 2001 03:00 - the mall and web 2.0 08:10 - casinos and clip farms 14:28 - kissing in atlantic city 24:14 - how to lose an umbrella