It's Independence Day in America which feels like a good time to feature America's Decline.
The vibe is like...
You're out shopping in the early 2000s and coming up to the checkout, you pass those stands of magazines with Britney Spears and Katy Perry on the front cover.
In the early 2000s, there was a race to be the next Stileproject (the wikipedia article should catch you up) and every noname E/N site was adding cam portals, writing about cam girls, and hoping to strike Internet gold in the process.
A "camgirl site" wasn't really what you imagine today. It was closer to a girl with an Instagram and a Snapchat in terms of content -- the main difference being that she was generally interested in web design, was willing to teach herself to get a site up, and would then affiliate with portals for traffic and accept gifts from Amazon wishlists. She was almost always a college student studying the same kinds of subjects other people with websites were studying. Image quality was very low back then. Having full videos was the dream of a few years later. So these girls were also writers.
The Nihilist OPSEC Blog was originally published on nowhere.moe. In May of 2025 it went darkweb only and in June of 2025 it went offline. It is being preserved here.
I've always been horrible about adding external links to my websites, so starting today, we're doing a new column, The Goeshard Link of the Day, except it's only going to happen when I feel like doing it.