MySpace

It felt as though in the 2000s, social media became a new substrate for masks and identities to play themselves out. MySpace, Facebook and Tumblr marked the first push into our forever doomscroll.

Ed Fornieles, Ed Fornieles on Art as Human Sacrifice

And then they did a server migration in, what was it? I think it was 2012. And they lost 50 million songs. Basically all of the songs for a decade, starting in 2003, were just poof, disappeared in a single stroke of the key.

Jon Ippolito, Preserving Digital Art: Regina Harsanyi, Jon Ippolito