EJ Dixon

It's like, oh, that's a lot of information.

What was I thinking?

Like, why did I think why would that why did I think this would age well, like in the slightest?

Well, I think the industry has changed, obviously.

I obviously have changed.

I've, you know, grown up, matured, had kids.

That's obviously been a big factor.

Like, I don't want my kids to read the semen spillage piece, you know.

So that's a big reason why I don't write about that kind of thing anymore.

But, I mean, I'm also a different kind of writer.

Like, shortly after I wrote that piece, Trump was elected and I started transitioning to covering, you know, online extremism.

And I started working for Rolling Stone and started becoming, you know, an investigative journalist.

And, you know, I didn't center myself in my work anymore.

And I think that really benefited me both as a writer and, like, as a person.

Yeah.

The thing that happens to everybody when they move from their 20s to their 30s, like in their personal life, happened to me as a writer as well.

Like I just became, you know, professionally and personally, like I just shifted away from that.

Which I think was very beneficial.

I think that there is something about that era of the Internet that I am nostalgic for and really miss.

And, like, when we talk about it, we usually make fun of it.