I watch a YouTube show called What The Fuck Is Wrong With You on a channel called Radio Dead Air. In it, the hosts read news stories of really stupid things that happened that week and make fun of them. One of the ones that stand out to me is someone painted a dog purple. They also get a lot of naked rampages, chuck-e-cheese brawls, that sort of thing. I’ve often pondered how 21st century America would look to some civilization whose only source is this show

Too many cooks

All of it.

Mind you, that assumes we find a robust way to archive it and not to be funny, actually archive it, not to mention avoiding the self destruction of humanity either through the climate change catastrophe or the hubris of the self anointed billionaire Emperors and Epstein sycophants.

The upcoming UFC match on the White House lawn.

Bold of you to assume we won’t destroy the planet and ourselves this century. There’s a reason the universe is devoid of advanced civilizations…

A major byproduct of intelligence appears to be in an infinite number of ways to destroy yourselves, and the greater the average intelligence, the more power the collective and individual has to destroy.

As everything else becomes locked up with increasingly complex and fragile DRM (“digital restrictions management”) content encryption schemes, the largest surviving archive of 21st century media that’s still available three hundred years from now could be ao3.

There’s a Ray Bradbury story about Martians who evolve after Earthlings die off. The one artifact they find is a Donald Duck movie (which the Last Humans died defending though they did not know what it was)

CSPAN

Paramount buying out WB, and actually being allowed to at that. That bribe that Paramount slipped under the table to the Justice Department has to have been massive for that to be allowed.

Is the My Little Pony bro thing still going on? Because maybe that.

API documentation for cloud-connected buttplugs

• Factorio

• Stardew Valley

• the Sonic movies

• Dragonball abridged

• Any of the furry/horror games on Itch.io

• Minecraft redstone guides

There’s so many options

The real housewives of (insert sport team)

media culture itself.