A lot of them watched the show for mostly the aesthetic. "Wow look at this super kawaii anime girl thats depressed and into tech, she's literally me" and don't look past anything surface level like that. It's alright to watch a show like that ig but there's barely any discussion beyond that there. A lot fandoms are like that now, it is what it is.

>>2902
>super kawaii anime girl thats depressed and into tech, she's literally me
Isn't that the show though? Lain is the depressed tech girl internet dweller who's exactly like lonely internet addicts. But SEL is saying this is actually a bad thing while a lot of the fans think its a good thing. Its like they get that Lain as a character is meant to speak to them but take it entirely the wrong way: being a fake depressed asocial basement dweller is good and Lain is our god.

>>2903
What I meant is what you said. They see it as a good thing instead of a critique of that behavior. Which is why i included "That's literally me".

I kinda like the mystical interpretation of Lain though

>>2901
It's about a lot of things, because everything is interconnected in some invisible way, which again is one of the themes of the show. I think a lot of it is about death. Not just the one big death, but all the kinds of little death. Death of ego, death of innocence, death of the spirit, death of the body, death of the mind, death as a means of escapism, a quiet death of society that no one really even notices. Suicide, social suicide, decentralized unintentional mass suicide, murder without killing.

Or maybe I'm just some wacko.

>>2901
I wish Serial Experiments Lain covered more Internet history.

>>3021
The show seems to be saying that interconnectedness is a bad thing. This isn't a mystical metaphysical interconnectedness, but everyone's interactions being mediated by a single technological system they have no control over. Slowly some people's existence gets forgotten, they become faceless nobodies or people don't notice other important people in their lives are dead or need help or like Lain they are easily manipulated by freaks on the internet. So in that sense its about social death and the death of society. SEL is sort of weird because on the one hand its very anti-tech and pessimistic but on the other its fascinated with tech.

I mean , you're talking about 14-15 year olds who think the "weird pc girl" is just food for their "mysterious aesthetic"