I think most of us that grew up alongside the internet can agree on one thing: The internet as we knew it died sometime around the year 2015, as the most prominent data-brokers finally figured out how to monetise their platforms. Around this year, the conversation among creators largely seemed to shift from finding the next “big thing” to “How do I appease the algorithm?” Smartphones became so ubiquitous in life that only one in four teenagers reported not owning one. Social media companies h...