The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet

The best is over The fun has been optimized out of the Internet The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone who was on the Internet in 2004 knows as “Numa Numa”. Gary Brolsma’s lip-syncing video was one of the Internet’s earliest memes, and perhaps the best. It was pure, joyful, spontaneous, and released with no expectation of fame or commercialization. It was just some guy in...