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 (Writing it here, because it's somewhat about VTubers but not really, and I'm in the Writing Zone right now... I will be out of it soon, don't worry. Still might post this sometime later)

Back in the 2000s, the technologist as I will call them, had great hopes of this process called 'democratization'. The idea was that if you 'free' up the tools, make the tools for creating 'stuff' cheap and accessible then it would create this everlasting feedback loop that usher in a new Golden Age.

What didn't quite work about this was that while people did make 'stuff' because it was cheap and accessible, most of them was bad. And shifting through the bad stuff to find the good stuff was pretty much insurmountable. There was no quality control, and that meant communities went amok. And that led to a degradation of the arts rather than a renaissance.

What this experiment showcased was that quality control - institutialization - was a vital part in maintaining good art. And this is what separates New Art from Old Art... although if you are well-versed in old art, Old Art all had this institutialization happen to them gradually.

And I guess this is happening to the internet as well, although it's hard simply due to the size of the creation. Video Games also has this institutialization problem but that was due to corporations...

I guess sidenote about Stop Killing Games - again, history runs against personalities - there is an incentive to save things that people don't want to save for personal reasons. For Americans certainly, the idea of Right to be Forgotten is worrisome because 'we' value this tension of history.

This is a reaction of colonialism - the fundamental sin of the modern age. The New Sin, compared to the Old Sin, which I dub as 'hierachialization' (I guess the closest meme version is 'gender', but I digress).  America understands their hateful history and many of America's project is to mend this hateful history and therefore the need to archive - This is the driving reason why some odd Midwest town has the greatest collection of some odd subculture of things like Asian Writing or something like that.

And we are living through this attempt to resurrect the colonial world.

Okay, back to institutions. What I want to point out was that Japan developed a strange way of providing institutions that solves the dilemma of democratization vs. institution. Basically, because their laws are detailed and strict, it basically forms a sort of anti-regulation - which meant you have institutional counter-culture. Like the culture is counter since they are evading the law, but the evasion is channeled such a way that's basically predictable enough to be an industry.

Edit - Most young people have not worked before... or at least they haven't worked in an institutional environment, which is why Selen was easily terminated and Aster couldn't be.

Selen was fired because she kept ignoring direction from higher ups. This is a legitimate reason for firing in pretty much any occurrence... Firing someone because that person was kind of creepy is just... much harder to justify from an institutional standpoint.