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Evidently, the OP conflates "fun and weird" with "annoying and stupid."


Different strokes for different folks.

But yeah, a lot of custom MySpace pages were just terrible. A friend of mine set the background to his to a snowy forest and set the foreground text to white, making it basically unreadable. He tried to defend it by pointing out that if you highlight the text, it becomes readable. I tried to show him that if he really wanted that image as a background, he should spend two seconds in Photoshop to lighten the image so he can put black text over it and keep it readable, but he just went off about how much he prefers white text.


It's impossible to block "annoying and stupid" without also blocking "fun and weird". You wind up with identical beige blandness.


No, you're left with content the content which hopefully isn't terrible.


Well, we don't know what the content would be like with a modern "fun/weird" internet, but the content we have right now is mostly shit, so...




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