A Human in a Sea of SEO Words

I low-key hate the internet--or, rather, I hate reading on the internet. 

I remember distinctly the day I decided to hate reading on the internet. I was trying to find a basic piece of jewelry on a rather famous "maker" website and I couldn't. I couldn't because every, single listing for an item no longer had a nice neat, human title. Oh, no--now every, single listing's name was a scroll-and-a-half of keywords with no discernible order to them. Post after post, page after page was this onslaught of verbiage to the eyes. Not a clear discernible product name in sight. 

This, in my mind, was the beginning of the internet not being for humans, but rather for other machines. 

So what then, is a human supposed to do, when the only affordable way to distribute their ideas to the world, is to use the internet? 

 I had a long think about what exactly bugs me about looking at the internet these days: endless ads, unnecessary words, an inhuman touch--and how could I avoid these things? 

 Every single website-building tool seems to be adamant on pushing as much AI creation as possible. Even the website I currently type upon is not immune from these tropes, although it is less in-your-face. 

What if I could create, on the lowest-tech of platforms, an aesthetic, streamlined, humanly intuitive business? Is it possible? 

Perhaps. 

I cannot guarantee a 100% lack of ads (although I have turned off every function under my power to do so). Will people like it? I hope so. I think we're all longing for a bit of humanity in a sea of slop (no offense machines, I've got nothing against you personally, rather it's the folks wielding you I take issue with). 

Will people be able to find it? 

Maybe. 

It will require something resembling the root of a grassy plant. It will require you. You, random stranger on the internet to find it, and like it, and enjoy it enough to share it with another human who also might like it and enjoy it and share it with a human they know. And isn't that a lovely thought? Something requiring human interaction...

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