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The Confiscation of Digital Memory | Are.na Editorial

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This piece is part of our series with Naive Yearly, a conference on the odd, quiet, and poetic web. Naive Yearly’s second edition was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September 2024, and now we’re now publishing essay versions of the conference talks. Read Kristoffer Tjalve’s foreword to the series here. ** When I was in middle school, I’d rush home from class, sneak onto the family PC, and go straight to Vbox7.com. Known simply as "Vbox" to its users, the video-sharing platform emerged as Bulgaria's answer to YouTube and dominated the country's internet landscape from 2006 to 2014. On Vbox, I’d watch Bulgarian-dubbed episodes of Naruto and Pokémon, check the Daily Top 40 ranking for funny animal videos, or read the heated comment section under the music videos of local rappers. The platform was home to Bulgaria’s first generation of vloggers and influencers, and served as a repository for countless personal videos from everyday users. While YouTube grew increasingly polished and corpora

The Confiscation of Digital Memory | Are.na Editorial Main Channel: The Confiscation of Digital Memory References: The Confiscation of Digital Memory Category: Naive Yearly All Editorial The Confiscation of Digital Memory March 27, 2025 — by Kaloyan Kolev [Onlookers watch and video as a brutalist building gets demolished.] This piece is part of our series with Naive Yearly, a conference on the odd, quiet, and poetic web. Naive Yearly’s second edition was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September 2024, and now we’re now publishing essay versions of the conference talks. Read Kristoffer Tjalve’s

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