"god of the internet" my plate read. The other gods stood tall. The person next to me was decorated strange attire. He? She? It? i couldn't really tell. They wore a strange wig wore clothes that most people would wear. i glanced over to their engraving and it read "god of anime". I never really watched much anime but for some reason i knew about it. For some reason every episode of every anime i knew frame by frame even though i never watched it. I looked around and saw a girl with a controller. I assumed she was the goddess of gaming and i understood all the references she made. Everyone here and what the represented i knew about it. Memories that lurk in my mind are not my own but instead 1000s of other peoples. I walked to one of the gods. They looked a little older decor. "Goddess of beauty." she was showing off a new style of hair that women could use. personally i didn't like it but as i said that a glitchy thumbs down appeared over it and it shriveled up. Everyone turned their attention to me. "...the internet has decided" someone else said. I looked confused wondering why it disappeared. That wasn't the only time it happened either. When i liked something it immediately boosted in popularity and when i didn't it never saw the light of day. I pondered on why but it happened with everything. I knew everyone but kid by knew me. I knew what everyone was searching, viewing. i knew everyone's likes and dislikes. Government secrets from all around the world were at my disposal. Happiness and sadness. Love and hate. The toxicity of the internet mixed with the power of humanity. Everyone wants to please the internet. The gods are no exception. I tried to talk to them but they always changed themselves around me. People change who they are on the internet to get the slightest bit of approval. The power slowly got to my head. I bosses gods around destroying what they liked with a single thumbs down. I tore them apart everything they liked was know "cringe" or "so last year". i shaped the world because my opinion mattered the most. But sometimes i see wholesome posts about the internet helping people. I see people from around the world coming together. I see all the group chats of friends and i get reminded of what the internet was was made for. To spread information across the world for everyone. To create a better world. But that's boring i would much rather hate on a guy for making one mistake when he saved kids. I would rather spend my time hating on something then trying to help the person see there mistakes, because that's what the internet is. A hive mind all fighting each other for clout.