What Kills an Online Community? Part One

Weird Facebook (2013-2016) and TPOT/post-rationalist Twitter (2019-2024) stagnated & collapsed from remarkably similar structural mechanisms despite emerging a decade apart.

Dec 21, 2025

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This essay serves as the first half to thoughts I’ve discussed in private with Concept Country members, and publicly when drawing comparisons to ongoing social circles and movements on X. It focuses specifically on documenting the parallels between two communities I’ve been active in for a cumulative decade of my life, and now two communities I’ve watched die a simila…

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Concept Country is the world's first network insurgency -- a group of dozens of individuals dedicated to infiltrating, fragmenting, and parodying Network States.