There’s an unwritten rule on the Internet that all good things will eventually grow stale. This may or may not be true, but the end result always is: they go away anyway. I’ve been marinating in the news from earlier this week that Every Day Should Be Saturday is no more. I’ve been alternating between sadness, disappointment, and all the other blue feelings. One thing I didn’t feel was surprised.
Because it kind of feels like the era that made EDSBS was such a special place ended at some point in the past five years or so. This piece goes into much greater detail in a very organized way, but at some point the shadowy and mysterious entities that drive all things online reached their tentacles even into the most remote havens of the weird and carefree.