A Bookforum review highlights Joanna Walsh’s “Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters,” which reflects on the decline of creative, user-generated content online since the optimistic days of the early 2000s. While amateur contributions once flourished in spaces like Facebook and YouTube, today’s internet is dominated by predictable output and bot-generated content, leaving creators feeling exploited rather than empowered.
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