The Digital Frontier: How Digimon Shaped Our Early Internet Dreams

The Digimon series and movies are a part of the nostalgia landscape for many Millennials, but in the face of our broken internet, they show us a greater truth. Digimon captures the vision of our ideas of the early internet as a place of hope, connection and democracy. The Digimon are a metaphor for the internet and their human partners represent humanity, together their partnerships represent how the internet is supposed to run on our feelings and values. The same way that the Digimon fight for their world and humanity with their human partners, the internet runs on our emotions. The things that make us human, in their world, are not diminished by technology but further technology and the cause of helping other humans. This was reflected in the internet of the time as a place of weird authenticity and uniqueness. But now it has morphed into a place of performance and perfection, unrecognizable from it's original form. Digimon shows us how, if we view the internet as a place for humans to be original and creative, if we view ourselves as partners with technology, we can get some of that beauty that began the internet back.
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[@jennilocke]

Hell yeah I love talking about digimon

[@jeffreywilliams8499]

Me too

[@FeliDJrah]

As do I.

[@Relic554]

I remember watching the movie in the cinema with my dad. Thinking about that time feels so nostalgic.

[@Miksy51]

I love this essay video!
(Also Digimon 02 the beginning movie is there now)

[@Freezient]

“Love interest for Tai”
I can’t with y’all dub watchers. I’m clicking off

[@numberhunter62]

That is not the worst thing to take from the Dub. Also, I think people unironically ship Yamato and Taichi so the problem isn't just dub watchers.
The moment they said Digimon the movie instead of just Our War Game I knew they were Dub only and hadn't really checked out the Japanese version, they just knew it existed. Let's not forget in the Dub Alaska is apparently north of Japan.

[@Freezient]

@@numberhunter62 Well that’s just shipping in general, the difference with Taichi x Yamato is that no one claimed that the series intended for them to be together unlike the dub writers and watchers and don’t get me wrong I personally love Taichi x Sora, the dub writers probably did too, but I know that they never existed anywhere in canon

[@jennilocke]

oooh fellow Matt enjoyer ❤