every time i see a post about how tpot is dying or whatever it really brings into relief that other people have very different ideas of what tpot should be for them
i'm just here to make silly jokes with my friends. it's going pretty well i think
TPOT as a culture is starting to crumble.
The cracked and based anime PFP types are under-employed. The people telling you "you can just do things" are on year 2 of not doing anything. The pictures of IDE's open on coffee shop tables are nowhere to be found. The "you can learn anything in 2 months" crowd is on month 8-14 of not having learned a thing.
The right-wing talking points became too obvious, the edgelord /pol/ jokes became too played out, and the people that followed these people got real jobs where they interacted with trans and foreign folks that... didn't fit the mold that they were told about by that high-follower anime PFP account.
More than anything, people saw a culture of "talking about how fast things move" full of people going nowhere, and they got tired of it. Now, TPOT discourse is 80% critique of the dorks that formed it. The culture stagnated, and people moved on.