remember that Internet is for everyone to use so of course companies are going to use it so they can make more money
That's OP's point (which I've definitely noticed), that corporations have used and used and used it to death, to the point where the internet in 2021 is nothing like it was back in 2000. Hell, by 2000 companies had already started to attach themselves to everything and anything related to the internet--hence the dot com bubble that burst in April of that year.
There was a lot of talk about "internet 2.0" a few years ago, probably about the time that Youtube started monetizing videos and/or Facebook started to become something everyone used. I think that was the beginning of social media on the internet, where what you saw on the web started to become user-created posts, tweets, videos, and whatnot. And of course all of the big companies used that as an advertising platform, and the rest is history.
There's some good stuff on Youtube, but every time I visit that site I swear I'm being shown what to watch by some unknown gatekeeper (probably in the form of an algorithm). So yeah, OP, I can empathize with your thoughts on this; I remember the internet from as far back as 1993/4, and it was a magical place. Now there are about 10-20 sites I visit regularly instead of using Yahoo's search engine to find some obscure website that might have very interesting and odd things on it. Things change, of course, but I miss some of that old stuff. I can do without all the advertising, that's for sure.
I've seen indie films do quite well if they can get the word of mouth out or produce something people would watch (even if just to cringe through it).
That's so rare, though. I've watched plenty of indie flicks, and most of them follow some formulaic story or are filmed digitally (which makes it look so much worse IMO) or have actors who don't know how to act.
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Now try to talk to a girl via chat and say "hi" or "asl pls" ...0 answers
LOL, now that's old school. I would have written those "words" when I was in my early 20s maybe, but those days are long gone. I remember when AOL's chat rooms used to be extremely popular for that sort of thing.