Meanwhile, Tom from Myspace is living the good life.
I like it. Is that a realistic representation of tom's life now?
Probably not literally — but it does match the internet mythos around Tom Anderson pretty well.
Tom sold MySpace years before the platform’s collapse became synonymous with social media chaos. Since then, he’s mostly stayed out of public drama, traveled a lot, done photography, and cultivated a reputation as the guy who “won the internet” by cashing out early and disappearing before the modern social-media era got truly exhausting.
That’s why the meme works:
- He became wealthy early.
- He avoided becoming a constantly-online billionaire personality.
- He isn’t usually associated with scandals, political battles, or algorithm wars.
- He posts mostly landscapes and travel photography instead of culture-war content.
So the cartoon exaggerates reality into symbolism:
- the sailboat = opting out,
- the margarita = peace/contentment,
- the dystopian shoreline = modern internet/social anxiety,
- “Tom sailing away” = the fantasy of escaping the attention economy.
In real life, he’s not literally drifting away from robot wars with a supermodel on a yacht — but compared to many tech founders, people often see him as someone who exited at exactly the right time.