For anyone who grew up on the internet in the mid-2000s, Myspace was everything. Your Top 8 was a diplomatic minefield. Your profile song said more about you than any bio could. Your background, fonts, and layout were yours to customize however you wanted. And your feed showed you what your actual friends were posting, in the order they posted it, without a single algorithm deciding what you should care about.
Then Facebook arrived. Then Instagram. Then TikTok. And somewhere along the way, social media stopped being about connecting with friends and started being about keeping you scrolling as long as possible.
The owners of Myspace want to bring the old version back.
Tim and Chris Vanderhook, the brothers whose company Viant Technology now owns Myspace, revealed their relaunch plans in a 2026 documentary simply titled “Myspace.” The film, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto, also features original co-founder Chris DeWolfe, who has spoken publicly about his belief that there’s genuine appetite for a platform built around music discovery and real friendships rather than addictive algorithms.
“I do think the algorithms have a lot to do with the addictive nature of social media,” DeWolfe told People magazine.
The revamped Myspace is being built around the features people actually miss. Top 8 friends. Fully customizable profiles. Profile songs. And a chronological feed that shows you what your friends are posting, in the order they posted it, without any platform deciding what’s worth your attention.
Myspace Is Making a Comeback With the Features Everyone Misses
