I thought VR was cool and then Meta came

I thought VR was cool and then Meta came along and made everyone think "what dorky techbro horseshit", I thought distributed systems were cool and then crypto grifters came along to permanently associate network resilience with unsustainable ponzi schemes, and I thought generative art and LLMs were cool way before they filled the internet with slop and everyone started to hate them

and you know what, I still think VR, distributed systems and generative art are cool, just more quietly now