There Is Simply Too Much Internet

I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok personality likes, or really what teenagers are excited (or mad) about, but I pride myself on knowing about what’s popular. Or at least I used to, because I have realized there is an entire internet that exists separate from mine — or perhaps it’s just one of many internets (I hate writing this term) — that seems to operate entirely autonomously from anyone I know or anything I read.