EXCERPTS FROM A DISCUSSION WITH A FRIEND ON HOW TO REDESIGN MY SITE
i nned some advice /opinion. how do i make my website more atmospheric and dark and scary like a descent into the deep web, rather than feeling grounded and clear and shit. how do i make my website feel more like an rpg horror game and less like a blog
how do i make it more esoteric and avant without feeling faked as fuck. i have so much good stuff there but it doesnt feel right somehow. it's missing a huge peice or it's arranged wrong or somthing
i feel like there’s too many pictures of the real world and too much specific focus on specific real stuff like discussing history and philosophy and shit. It needs more like pixel art and horror art and anime girls and video game screenshots etc. helps it feel more detached from reality
yeah i think you're right about the subtle link cues and normal stuff that leads to the derranged stuff later on. thats really one of the main things... still the problem of zoomer attention span and the instant attention getting front page. i guess at a certain point i just need to ignroe people with bad taste and bad attention if im gonna make the site good
maybe the reverse strategy works on zoomerbrains. its risky but it could work. the front page doesnt overwhelm them. its way less stimulation than theyre used to and the second they click a link and find more stuff theyre more drawn in. problem is how do i get rid of so much stuff on the front page and what would the new front page even look like
instead of the beginning drawing them in,i could just go all out reverse and make it empty at first and the content is buried, to draw people in. it would require restructuring the whole site and it's just hard to know how it will work
i mean theres multiple different things iwant. different parts of the website and they branch of and feel different and are about different things. but this feels like the thing im missing
i have like six aesthetic blogs for different aesthetics and im super rigerous about curating super carefully and always seperating the aesthetics into the right category. but this sort of internet aesthetic is harder for me because it's not really about the individual posts. each one is just a small part of the atmosphere and doesnt really hold the right emotion on its own
yeah my shit even when i obsess over the best composition and shit in aesthetics to be like the best of the best and end up deleting everything it feels so austere and simple and clean. it's so reality grounded rather than surreal and in some ways like old-timey art. my site is still so mild mannered in writing and any seriousness or emotion feels equiveleant to like a journo making a concerned politcal twitter post about current events rather than it feeling like im writing some deep web esoteric philosophy
it's not nearly as insane as what its supposed to be expressing
need to clean up the fucking writing into consice essaysa organized by idea so i can just get the right fuckign thing across that im trying to say and then from there i can give each idea it's own page so you can just read it by differnt pages and explore different pages by different sjubjects and have a clear way of appreciating everything. plus it makes my own writing make more fuckign sense for me. and by having pages for each subject i can have special style and layout for what i specifically am trying to express, because the oragnization by date is so fucking messy of whatever i happen to think about at any moment and it makes all the writing blend together and its a nightamre to read and ijmpossible to organize in any way other than just one massive page of text
it's all surface level right now, it needs layers, different depths