<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Digital Culture on Seditious Thoughts</title><link>https://seditiousthoughts.com/tags/digital-culture/</link><description>Recent content in Digital Culture on Seditious Thoughts</description><image><title>Seditious Thoughts</title><url>https://seditiousthoughts.com/images/background.jpg</url><link>https://seditiousthoughts.com/images/background.jpg</link></image><generator>Hugo -- 0.147.8</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:36:33 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://seditiousthoughts.com/tags/digital-culture/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Necroposting as Resistance: Three Strangers, One Rhyme, Two Years Apart (Marginalia #3)</title><link>https://seditiousthoughts.com/blog/marginalia-3-necroposting-youtube/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://seditiousthoughts.com/blog/marginalia-3-necroposting-youtube/</guid><description>Three strangers completed a rhyme in a dead YouTube Music comment section across two years. An observation on necroposting, platform architecture, and the broken promise of Everything Would Be Fine.</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The YouTube Music algorithm is offering me a track I know perfectly well: Everything Would Be Fine by Alx Beats. Under this 2017 track, which very title insists that everything will be fine, the comments are alive and restless. Cyrillic, which I cannot read, and English entries scattered among it. In this disorder, a few comments catch my attention in particular, because together they have created a beautiful act of necroposting: three people dispersed across time and space.</p>
<p>@irrelevant7574 (6 years ago): Trapped in a changing maze <br>
@kamiikidd5030 (4 years ago): Setting my soul ablaze <br>
@razrdemonic (4 years ago): It just one of those days</p>
<p>Two more users feel the need to complete the rhyme beneath the beat of the track, despite the two-year gap between them. irrelevant7574 begins this whole little adventure and, in doing so, collects forty-three digital tokens of approval; the most out of the comments quoted there.</p>
<p>Usually, comment sections contain all kinds of stories: people asking who is still listening in a given year, or leaving behind nostalgic fragments of memory. On YouTube, the architecture of the platform sorts comments by popularity. You can change it manually and sort by newest, but by default we are given an <a href="/blog/phone-ate-my-dinner/">interface designed for leaving a comment and moving on</a>; not necessarily for getting acquainted with those who came before us. And yet, within all this, there are still people willing to return and add themselves to a dead entry by enriching it.</p>
<p>Four years later, Alx Beats releases an album featuring Everything Would Be Fine 2 and Everything Would Be Fine 3. The material need to capitalize on the track that had become the most popular within <a href="/blog/intellectual-fast-food-youtube-revolution/">the platform</a> forces the repetition of the promise made by the first part.</p>
<p>A promise which, once again, was not fulfil.</p>
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