The Rules of the Internet

It's 2021, or rather, nearing the end of 2021. I've lived on the 'net for years now, and after mulling over all the nonsense that I had been observing that had been driving me somewhat nuts, I went back to my old roots to revisit The Rules of the Internet. I'll duplicate the current version here for records purposes:

0. Don't f**k with cats.
1. You don't talk about /b/.
2. You DON'T talk about /b/.
3. We are Anonymous.
4. We are legion.
5. We do not forgive, we do not forget.
6. /b/ is not your personal army.
7. No matter how much you love debating, keep in mind that no one on the Internet debates. Instead they mock your intelligence as well as your parents.
8. Anonymous can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster.
9. Anonymous is still able to deliver.
10. There are no real rules about posting.
11. There are no real rules about moderation either---enjoy your ban.
12. Anything you say can and will be used against you.
13. Anything you say can and will be turned into something else.
14. Do not argue with trolls---it means they win.
15. The harder you try, the harder you will fail.
16. If you fail in epic proportions, it may just become a winning failure.
17. Every win fails eventually.
18. Everything that can be labelled can be hated.
19. The more you hate it, the stronger it gets.
20. Nothing is to be taken seriously.
21. Pictures or it didn't happen.
22. Original content is original only for a few seconds before it's no longer original. Every post is always a repost of a repost.
29. On the Internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents.
30. Girls do not exist on the Internet.
32. You must have pictures to prove your statements; anything can be explained with a picture.
33. Lurk more---it's never enough.
34. If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.
35. If there is no porn of it, porn will be made of it.
36. No matter what it is, it is somebody's fetish.
37. No matter how fucked up it is, there is always worse than what you just saw.
38. No real limits of any kind apply here---not even the sky.
39. CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
40. EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER
41. Desu isn't funny. Seriously guys. It's worse than Chuck Norris jokes.
42. Nothing is Sacred.
43. The more beautiful and pure a thing is---the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.
44. If it exists, there is a version of it for your fandom... and it has a wiki and possibly a tabletop version with a theme song performed by a Vocaloid.
45. If there is not, there will be.
46. The Internet is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS.
47. The only good hentai is Yuri, that's how the Internet works. Only exception may be Vanilla.
48. The pool is always closed.
49. You cannot divide by zero (just because the calculator says so).
50. A Crossover, no matter how improbable, will eventually happen in Fan Art, Fan Fiction, or official release material, often through fanfiction of it.
61. Chuck Norris is the exception, no exceptions.
62. It has been cracked and pirated. You can find anything if you look long enough.
63. For every given male character, there is a female version of that character (and vice-versa). And there is always porn of that character.
64. If it exists, there's an AU of it.
65. If there isn't, there will be.
66. Everything has a fandom, everything.
67. 90% of fanfiction is the stuff of nightmares.
72. If a song exists, there's a Megalovania version of it.
77. The Internet makes you stupid.

I remember up to Rule 63 (though Rule 0 seems new to me), the stuff after that is too new to me from circa 2007, especially since Undertale (the source game for Megalovania) only came out 2015, being in development from 2013 till then.

As flippant and strange as the rules sound, I think they are surprisingly relevant even in today's context of ``curated'' social media. The rules epitomise the concept of how not knowing history has a way of making the same mistakes from then repeat themselves. The platform in which the interactions take place may be different, the people interacting may not be technology nerds the way the old 'net was, but the basic principles of the interactions are still the same.

But who am I kidding? Newfags aren't going to look at The Rules of the Internet---each of them is too busy trying to repost the repost to win imaginary points and be the hippest most up-to-date totally non-mainstream popular person.

Yeah, this isn't good content for a blog entry, but I just want to have a copy of The Rules so that I can refer back to it for later discussion.

Till the next update.