@bbb@kiwifarms.cc Alright I’ll probably write a text wall about this so sorry, but lain is probably one of the best shows of the last 25 years. Incoming obligatory pretentious 2deep4u lain essay: It correctly predicted the expansion of the internet into most first world homes in the 2000s and also so many of the problems and aberrant social norms that have come forth from the rapid advancement of and connection to the internet that it legitimately scares me. You have to watch it with that in mind at first, but you must also pay attention to the story it’s trying to tell and what it’s trying to say about human nature. Lain can be interpreted in many different ways, and none are necessarily wrong or right, but at its core lain to me is about the intrinsic human characteristic of being able to hide our real selves behind a veil and our ability to have many slightly or vastly different personalities that we switch between depending on our company, further elaborating on how we manage those personalities and which of those personalities are the “real” us. Furthermore, it narrates how the internet will more easily allow that behavior. It predicted things like social media, where it shows representations of different “wired” versions of people that act differently than their real life counterparts just because they assume that the wired and real world are not linked, when in reality, the wired(the internet) is just as real as the real world. It provides commentary on what it thinks the mass human psyche online will be and the naive idea that the internet is not real and cannot affect real life(this was even more prevalent of an idea when lain was created, we would later find out that the internet is just as real as irl and has very real consequences). The show even delves into whether anyone can even be completely anonymous online. Even past that it incorporates a narrative on creation, morality, ethics, the human psyche being affected by other people and sites online, etc. etc. That may sound boring, and you may find the show boring, but it’s a really worthwhile watch if you’re interested in that shit. Plus there’s a really good story once you understand it. Again, my apologies for the essay lol.