>go to Yea Forums last.fm group on internet archive >see the way things were back in 2007 >die inside
What happened that changed internet culture so dramatically? It's like all of a sudden around 2010 everything changed instantly, like the way 9/11 changed society something happened that permanently altered the psyche of the internet. Things used to be so INTERESTING back then, like just look at the way last.fm used to be. To say I miss the way the internet was from 2000 to 2007 would be the biggest understatement of all time. The internet is fucking DEAD now just look at Yea Forums of today and think about how things were in 2005 - 2006. There isn't a single place on the internet anymore that has that magical feeling. Here is the thing, it has nothing to do with novelty, look at the fucking profiles and forums from 2005 - 2007 for Yea Forums and now compare that with the culture of today. I hate this I really do. There is no reason we can't bring that back and I'm seriously considering creating an imageboard that will try to recapture the feeling of Yea Forums circa 2004 - 2007. Nothing feels special anymore and I'm in a permanent state of anhedonia.
It's not nostalgia, user. When I view archives of sites I used to visit I can immediately tell the difference between then and now. That unique character the internet used to have could still exist, but SOMETHING happened to change it all.
Nathan Jenkins
Last fm defo went down the shitter. Is search by tags still possible without jumping through hoops?
Nolan Hernandez
You got older.
Hunter Sanchez
It's literally nostalgia my man, you got older and a new generation moved onto the internet.
Eli Ramirez
what happened in 2010? well if you were here you'd know that Yea Forums got BLACKED. it went from 90% indie and metal discussion to OFWGTKA and Kanye
also irony became a big thing... as well as sadposting and tfw no gf
Internet boards/culture became mainstream. Before, only NEETs and losers found solace on the internet. Now, things like reddit and Yea Forums are discussed even in the most normie groups. That's what changed, right around 2010 like you said. Internet culture became mainstream culture, and vice versa. It's doesn't seem special anymore, because it's not.
The internet got progressively more and more normie, unironically. Social media took over, smartphones took over. Pic related was unironic in the late 90s. Nowadays people would just laugh at it.
The humor of the internet back then was so much more innocent and playful. Now I only see edgy teenagers who write "xd" ironically. That's the way things are, you need to just move on.
Ayden Brown
What, you dont like pepes and wojaks and soibois and PEOPLE TYYYYYYYYPIIIIIIIINGGGGGGGGG LIKE THHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSS MOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ?
Ian Murphy
>The internet is real now it's more real than ever
Grayson Cox
In a shitty controlled, 1984 way, the opposite of what original internet goers wanted.
Evan Morales
The reason why Yea Forums in particular is such shit is that it isn’t a hobbyist board anymore full of passionate people interested in music but full of human centipede diarrhea guzzlers who learn about music from Spotify algorithms and Pitchfork reviews. Everyone listens to the same ten fucking albums every year and thinks the mu essentials are the entirety of music instead of the most basic entry level shit to get you started opening your ears up. Shit sucks. Most of the internet is this way because of effective centralization of communication into increasingly corporate channels
Robert Smith
Can you give me some recs
David Campbell
Wow even the bemoanings of times gone by were less cringy and more self aware
Ian Bennett
No the real reason is that people only listen to albums that have already been ripped
Jack Sanchez
I date it to the Scientology shit and anonymous are legion hur hur and when you started hearing words like butthurt, fail and lol coming out of people’s mouths in real life
Jack Jones
Yea Forums lasted until 2013 and was the most fun community on Yea Forums then the entire internet went through a no fun allowed revolution around GG and now Yea Forums is dead
Hunter Flores
>was the most fun community on Yea Forums What is Yea Forums, /jp/, and /tg/ for 200
Dominic Green
Smart phones started to proliferate around 2010. Hypernormies started entering the internet en masse. The barriers to entry were just knocked down conpletely.
Leo Reed
Essentially yeah. Even a normalfag can be indoctrinated into a site's culture, but there's no reason when said culture is a minority
Caleb Richardson
I miss back whwn Gorillaz were liked here.
Jayden Nguyen
>Smart phones started to proliferate around 2010 Jesus Christ, is that true? Where I live, they've only become common since 2016... but when they did, the transition from comfy reality where people talk to each other face to face and you can randomly meet the love of your life and it's normal to see street musicians and the internet is used mostly by socially awkward people only on computers and where everyone uses cash to pay for everything to a dystopia where everyone is constantly on their smartphones and dating is an obsolete concept except through apps and street musicians are a rare sight and where socially awkward people are driven out from the internet and where no one uses cash for anything, was *very* fast. In about two years there was a complete upheaval of society and local internet culture, and now even foods are being transitioned away from shops due to the expectation that people order them online. It's fucking insane, and society has become so clinical. The authoritarian right-wing government can just decide to block access to the sites of other countries perceived "harmful", and people become dumber and dumber because nobody even knows what a proxy is and VPN's aren't illegal per se but you'd have to explain why you're paying for one if caught. What's worst is that even leftists have started to demand more censorship and control because of pedophilia panic, which has resulted in lots of Japanese porn sites being blocked as CP because some retard thought Japanese women are a gateway to children. Music is attempted to be censored too because conservatives are in panic that kids will listen to American rap and pop, and mimic what they see in the videos, which they do like twerking and shit, but it's already way too late if they want to control that. I think it's annoying too but censorship isn't the solution. Also, playing music outside is mostly illegal now, thanks a fucking bunch. This is all because of smartphones, or at least in part.
Camden Cook
Where do you live that it's illegal to play music outside?
Lincoln Gutierrez
politicization of all issues divided people more than you think
Gabriel Walker
read neuromancer
we’re in for cyberpunk any time soon
Owen Hughes
>Music is attempted to be censored too because conservatives are in panic that kids will listen to American rap and pop, and mimic what they see in the videos Your country sounds pretty based to me
Isaac Powell
As in for money? Lots of places have anti-busking bylaws.
Juan Robinson
Neuromancer is 35 years old and already quite outdated in many ways. You can't seriously take it as anything prophetic at this point.
Christian Nguyen
You're on the music board of an anime inspired website but think censoring rock videos is a good idea?
Julian James
I won't tell you the country but it's a shithole, yet not one that's considered a shithole by /pol/ or other such types because of the fact that we have a right-wing conservative capitalist government that's doing the restrictions. Anyway, it's not illegal if it's on private property unless it's perceived to bleed over into public disturbance, or if it's music that doesn't incite public disturbance, but "public disturbance" such as making "annoying noise" is illegal so it can therefore be illegal to play music of any kind outside if anyone is annoyed by it. There's always someone who's annoyed by it, and while nobody calls the police (they'd get as much shit as the street musician) there are police on the streets anyway. They *generally* won't stop street musicians if they just play an acoustic guitar or something, but it's still a risk so most people won't take it anymore because the cops could break the instrument being played. They did that to a guy's antique violin not far from where I live. I'll keep it in mind. No, you're a /pol/ drone who thinks he could get to power. Guess what, you'll never be the leader deciding what gets banned. You'll suffer with the rest of the masses.
Ayden Long
Post examples of what you claim was so good.
Elijah Harris
2008-2010 was the peak of Yea Forums
you have to remember, the most elite last.fm posters didn't join the Yea Forums last.fm group
last.fm threads were a fucking paradise of patricians back then... before the pleb / patrician dichotomy even existed.
if you had to pinpoint the exact moment Yea Forums went to shit it was probably the p4k mbdtf 10.0 in late 2010. but some cool tripfags stuck around until 2011. like cooltop, leo and lewis......................
but it's been so long since Yea Forums was good, the wound has healed and only scar tissue remains. anyone who's anyone from that time has left.
>What happened that changed internet culture so dramatically? The internet became idiotproof enough for women to use. Prior to about 2007, only smart or neurodivergent ones did. It's similar to the "carceral feminism" phenomenon that black people complain about; whenever mediocre white women arrive, the energy and diversity of everything takes a tumble, because they insist on it being sanitized for their protection. So in the first few years of Twitter, suddenly you had people taking internet death threats seriously. Why? Because women can't into internet. But they have a: a hivemind, and b: income. So the mercantile portion of the internet lowered its standards to meet them. Now you're either on the safe part of the internet, or the even less fun aspirant-terrorists-and-pedos-chans. So it's over, stick a fork in it.
The real turning point was when Google started to assume you'd mistyped if you searched for something niche. When did that start happening, anyone remember?
Isaac Allen
t. millennial who wasn't there
Carson Harris
> types like a millennial > calls other people millennial
Stop replying to yourself. That's the exact opposite of what "idiotproof" means by the way.
Josiah Martinez
I didn't write it. I don't see anything wrong with its use of idiotproof, but I'm assuming idiotproofness is a bad thing, which I suspect you're not.
Ian Jones
Notice how on a worldwide scale circa 2008-2011 happened the massive bank bailouts, as they desperately tried to restart the financial engine that completely failed. The current post-2008 global system is fueled by ghosts, empty promises and corpses, we are living in mid-air. We have no ground beneath our feet economically, culturally, and socially speaking. I seriously doubt that the current situation can last much longer. There's nothing in place that can prevent approaching 2020's crises, for worse or for better.
Childproof bottles; keep children out so they don't ingest harmful medication
Idiotproof; something that keeps idiots out obviously
Aiden Jenkins
t. Zoomers that know nothing about the way the internet used to be
Robert Adams
Or just people with sex lives.
Elijah Nguyen
thanks for reminding me of how much better Yea Forumscore is I'm 2019. Wish we would talk about gorillaz more though
Kayden Jones
The group is called Yea Forums though not Yea Forums. A real Yea Forums top ten from that time would include stuff like Burzum... though none of the artists listed are out of place either.
Robert Gomez
ahh pre-gamergate moot those were the days
Lucas Foster
how can anyone see this retarded cringe shit and think the internet was any better back then. the only good thing is that so much of it survived to warn future generations that mass digital multimedia communication makes you stupid.
Daniel Sullivan
I miss when we had admin that didn't feel like an ethereal being sucking out our money
Grayson Jackson
Yall niggas ranting about it like your dad didn't understand why you would stay up all night reading shit on the computer when you could watch jeopardy or some shit
Hudson Diaz
I remember when the entire staff of Yea Forums refused to acknowledge Yea Forums's existence at all.
Leo Jones
I remember the days, only it wasn't my dad complaining.
this is not true, and although nostalgia is a minor factor that can affect my perception, there's massive dumbification going on. And I feel that your normalization and misreckoning a la "man, it's what all generations feel, it's a natural order of things" only conceals the situation. We are clearly not "all generations" since we are in a unique, abnormal position of people who grew up together with the cyberspace, and the direction it has taken in this decade has little to do with ordinary human cycles, this direction is dangerous and detrimental regardless of generations, which are not nearly as important as you make them out to be.
