spiffotron

I'm old and I have rose-tinted glasses for the good old days of the internet where everyone just made sites for fun rather than as "side hustles". Sites which didn't have monetisation or adverts or analytics gubbins all bundled in or blogs which aren't hosted on closed ecosystems like medium or substack etc. Is there a good source for finding these rare spaces again?

There's such a low cost of entry on most forms of digital media / art now that more people than ever just seem to be copying what's popular and adding to the non-stop barrage of beige unoriginality.

The Dribbble front page could all be the same designer at this point, electronic dance music particularly could be made completely interchangeably by any artist, no one seems to have their own design flair any more. Netflix / Disney etc seem to have copped onto one idea that works and just release the same tv show / movie over and over again with a slight tweak as it brings the money in without any worries.

Am I just now very old or is individuality in art and media now seen as a negative, whilst cookie-cutter straight-down-the-middle appeal-to-the-lowest-common-denominator-guff the only way to get ahead at the moment.