Yeah. The Declaration of Independence was a Reddit post. The Constitution is the result of a bunch of 30 year old men arguing over what should and shouldn't be in there, and one guy hopelessly transcribing their argument and hoping they'll sign it because he'll be buggered if he'll copy all that out again.
("The Vice President shall be the leader of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." Yes, that's how having an odd number of voters works...)
It is good to know though that white Internet libertarians predate the Internet by about 2 centuries.
There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing -- VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn't, and that's to say nothing of the MPEG glitches)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fbterm can take care of some of the limitations (use TTF fonts, for example) but support in general for nongraphical environments on Linux at the moment is not amazing