Field Place is my concept for a website that helps you find cool, under-the-radar Internet content through really detailed tagging instead of an algorithmic feed or system. It's community-curated, and puts human agency, choice, and freakin' cool Internet stuff above all.
Think of it like the cursed lovechild of Tumblr, Pinterest, e621 tagging systems, StumbleUpon, and Art Twitter. It's a Tag-Based Discovery Engine™ (NOT ACTUALLY TRADEMARKED)
Think of it like the cursed lovechild of Tumblr, Pinterest, e621 tagging systems, StumbleUpon, and Art Twitter. It's a Tag-Based Discovery Engine™ (NOT ACTUALLY TRADEMARKED)
→ okay, so, what types of stuff can I find on Field Place?
A couple of examples of Field Place stuff
You can find art, music, literature, websites, games, archives, even stuff like demoscenes, Geometry Dash levels, Minecraft maps, and much more. It's a catchall for "cool Internet content"; stuff that you'd probably find on someone's cool personal site from the early 2000s.
In practice, you could find stuff like:
In practice, you could find stuff like:
- A jazz drum n' bass song that samples the Pearl & Dean cinema theme
- A furry artist on Bluesky with only 150 followers who draws silly fun doodles of their furry OC in various situations
- A hilarious deadpan British Instagrammer who makes videos on disgusting and offputting frozen food
- A deep cut French House vinyl rip that comes from the year 2000 and only has 31k views
- A Todd Edwards-inspired UK garage track that samples, and I'm not kidding, Davie504 saying the word "OMG." Yes this is a real track and yes it is absolutely insane
- Basic Channel! Retro 80s TV bumpers! Newgrounds art from 2009! Artsy Geometry Dash levels that never got rated! It's all yours, my friend.
All of these submissions are either cool, overlooked, cult-classic and/or under-the-radar content that deserves to get seen. Content that's actually better than the hundredth generic Instagram reel you've seen. Content that sticks. The type of stuff you'd excitedly tell your friend on Discord "DUDE YOU HAVE TO GO CHECK THIS OUT I THINK YOU'RE GONNA FW THIS!!"
→ so how do I use Field Place?
With tags, baby!
On Field Place, we use tags to describe a thing's aesthetic, look, sound, vibe, identity, format, or whatever cool attribute can be tagged.
You can search Field Place with tags if you're looking for something specific (e.g.
And if you're a booru nerd familiar with e621/e926, Danbooru or the likes, we got ya as well! We have advanced search syntax! Tag aliases! Tag implications! Tag wikis! The whole works plus a dozen more!
On Field Place, we use tags to describe a thing's aesthetic, look, sound, vibe, identity, format, or whatever cool attribute can be tagged.
You can search Field Place with tags if you're looking for something specific (e.g.
🏷️Internet Game 🏷️CMYK Palette 🏷️Glitchy Aesthetic = the game corru.observer), or you can use Tag Zoom to discover content by "zooming" through a tag hierarchy, by going grom broad categories to niche ones (🏷️Music → 🏷️Techno → 🏷️Dub Techno → 🎵Basic Channel), you can go random (Show me a bunch of random 🏷️Music!), or you can explore collections, like "Best Underrated Flash Games from the 2010s", "nostalgic Minecraft fangames", or "Stuff That Sounds Like Daft Punk Under 300k Streams"And if you're a booru nerd familiar with e621/e926, Danbooru or the likes, we got ya as well! We have advanced search syntax! Tag aliases! Tag implications! Tag wikis! The whole works plus a dozen more!
→ so...how does the content on FP work?
Field Place is kind of like a web directory if it was managed and curated by the very users who use it. So I for example would add my favorite Twitter artists, my favorite obscure songs, my favorite Internet tat, and I would tag it with the relevant tags, and submit it to the database. It's a sort of communal content camaraderie — we share our favorite content and tag it laboriously to help other people find their next favorites.
→ where does the content on Field Place come from?
From 3 camps! the Indie Web, archives, and social media.
I believe that great content lives everywhere, and Field Place reflects that. Field Place links out to great content from everywhere within the Internet, so you can find cool 90s-esque sites on Neocities, handmade Y2K-styled websites on Nekoweb, an incredible foley archive from the Library of Congress, an incredible OC artist on Twitter, a cool mini-documentary about light bulbs on YouTube, and an account showcasing discontinued foods on Bluesky.
I believe that great content lives everywhere, and Field Place reflects that. Field Place links out to great content from everywhere within the Internet, so you can find cool 90s-esque sites on Neocities, handmade Y2K-styled websites on Nekoweb, an incredible foley archive from the Library of Congress, an incredible OC artist on Twitter, a cool mini-documentary about light bulbs on YouTube, and an account showcasing discontinued foods on Bluesky.
→ but why Field Place?
Because the Internet's been ruined. Gone were the days where the Internet felt magical. When instead of feeling like a toxic hellhole full of arguments, it felt like stepping into an interconnected web of cool information, of quirky ideas, of slick stuff.
Compound with that fact that algorithms control what you see now on social media, the removal of user agency — the ability to decide what you actually wanna see — and the fact that social media platforms have undergone enshittification. They stopped being fun. They now suck :/
The Internet should not feel like a toxic hellhole. It shouldn't feel like a corporate pile of crap. It shouldn't be a place for doomscrolling, for AI slop, for shallow, surface-level content. I believe that the Internet should be a free-flowing commons where everyone can share some really cool stuff! Like...an interconnected web.
That is what Field Place wants to bring back!
Compound with that fact that algorithms control what you see now on social media, the removal of user agency — the ability to decide what you actually wanna see — and the fact that social media platforms have undergone enshittification. They stopped being fun. They now suck :/
The Internet should not feel like a toxic hellhole. It shouldn't feel like a corporate pile of crap. It shouldn't be a place for doomscrolling, for AI slop, for shallow, surface-level content. I believe that the Internet should be a free-flowing commons where everyone can share some really cool stuff! Like...an interconnected web.
That is what Field Place wants to bring back!
→ Sounds interesting?
Is Field Place for you? Yup. It's for everyone. But more specifically: it's for casual browsers, it's for Internet nerds, it's for people who love archiving, artists, musicians, writers, creatives, or just people who are tired and jaded from those damn For You Pages.
If you like what you're reading and wanna learn more, feel free to read the entire Knowledge Base on the left. If you're interested in FP and want to make it real with me, check out the Capstone Chapter (i need coders, artists, feedback and maybe a bit of capital!) And if you don't understand or know anything you've just read ... that's okay. You can ask me questions :)
If you like what you're reading and wanna learn more, feel free to read the entire Knowledge Base on the left. If you're interested in FP and want to make it real with me, check out the Capstone Chapter (i need coders, artists, feedback and maybe a bit of capital!) And if you don't understand or know anything you've just read ... that's okay. You can ask me questions :)