THE INTERNET, THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SCHOOLFor most of human history, learning something almost always depended on having someone nearby who knew how to do it. A parent, a teacher, a craftsman, or that one neighbor who could fix anything with a screwdriver and a couple of swear words.
If nobody around you knew how to paint, repair an engine, play guitar, or make sushi, chances are you weren’t going to learn either. You could look for a book, sign up for a class, or spend years figuring out by yourself what someone else could have explained to you in twenty minutes.
Video tutorials completely changed that.
Now we have a teacher available for practically anything we can think of. You can learn how to replace a roller-shutter strap, solder a pipe, grow tomatoes, build a computer, make a table, edit a video, or draw human anatomy properly. All you have to do is type in a few words and, more often than not, someone has already taken the time to record the entire process step by step.
It may feel completely normal because we’ve been living with it for years, but
having instant access to the practical knowledge accumulated by millions of people is one of the internet’s greatest achievements. Never before have we been able to learn so many things, from so many people, with so little effort.
Forty years ago, getting better at drawing required an art school, specialized books, and countless hours of trial and error. Today, you can watch every stroke, pause the explanation, rewind, repeat the movement, and practice at your own pace while someone shows you exactly where to place every line, shadow, and curve.
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Mastering the Force.
AMATEUR FLESH: GLITCHY BRATSome people dream of starting their own business, traveling the world, writing a book, or buying a house by the sea.
Glitchy_Brat has slightly different ambitions.
On her Reddit profile, she introduces herself with a line that pretty much sums up her intentions:
“Just a girl, following her dreams of being a thot”.
For anyone not completely fluent in internet slang,
“thot” originally came from the acronym “That Hoe Over There.”
Not exactly the most flattering term at first, but that's the internet for you. Over time, the word took on a life of its own, becoming a label for sexually provocative women or girls who enjoy showing off online, and
plenty of women eventually embraced it and started using it about themselves in a playful, ironic way.
So when Glitchy_Brat says she's
“following her dreams of being a thot”, she's basically telling us that
she's just a girl chasing her dream of becoming an internet thot.
And you have to give her credit for one thing:
she doesn't seem like the kind of person who sits around waiting for her dreams to come true on their own.
Glitchy Brat only opened her Reddit account a few months ago, and since then she's been doing her part to achieve such a noble goal.
And as we always do whenever we find someone out there chasing their dreams,
we figured the least we could do was contribute our own little bit to the cause.
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