Oldstrags, is this true?

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Ugh 2013ish is when everything started turning to shit. I want to take a guess that it's the first generation fully growing up on social media finally hitting college. Never was exposed to such a density of insufferable losers until then.

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There's nothing left to explore. When I first got internet I was excited to get home from work and surf the net and see what cool shit is out there.

Now there's like 5 websites people go to and all the major search engines are cucked and all the "privacy ones" sucks.

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It has gotten ridiculously hard to find quality niche content and websites unless it's in the form of youtube slop. I guess I blame SEO demons saturating everything once it became apparent that it was free money to do so once the masses got online.


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Everything is gay now.

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I was a teen from 2000-2006 and it really was a golden age. You could be on the internet/social media if you wanted to, and it was mostly still weird and interesting people, or you could go and touch grass, and the worlds were still totally separate. Nobody's brain was destroyed by social media yet either, like it was all MySpace and early Facebook that you couldn't monetize yet so there were no bots or thots. But I think the key thing is you didn't HAVE to be online, like when you had an annoying day at school you could just go home and forget about it and drive around doing weird fun shit with your buddies. Tons of people didn't even have cell phones yet so if you wanted to ask a girl on a date you had to call her house and risk her dad or brother picking up and fricking with you.

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I re-watched the first American Pie recently and got staggered at how so much has changed. Not just how white the film was ( They took that from us :marseychudneet:), but how it showed a lost world where teenagers came of age in a natural fashion instead of having their brains fried on doomer zoomer gooner social media.

It's honestly staggering how much smartphones have changed things. I don't think modern teenagers could even stomach a coming of age movie where s*x and love is portrayed realistically. For as hyper-sexualized as the internet world is, zoomers seem pretty prudish. The death of the boner comedy genre really does show what I'm talking about.

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>he's basing his chud view on pop slop movies

:marseyemojirofl:

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Darn you only were a teen for six years?

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2000 13

2001 14

2002 15

2003 16

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2005 18

2006 19

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11? 12?

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True, how could I forget oneteen and twoteen smdh

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There were jannies in the early 90s to 2007, what changed were the presence of topicless, algorithm-driven social media sites like facebook and a smartphone in all pockets

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Facebook introduced algorithmic newsfeed in 2006, and an algorithmic feed for everything else in 2009 :marseythinkorino:

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There were jannies but their biggest crimes were usually having an inflated ego (that carries over today with interest) and the damage they could do was minimal because not everything was consolidating on a single platform.

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Just old enough to witness the good internet enshitification.

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Okay that's creepy, I knew or was vaguely acquainted with 3 different moids that all sewerslided during that 2016-2018 peak. Did not realize this was a trend rather than a local anomaly.

And obligatory, any graph that ends at 2020 is completely useless


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Based on the complaining I hear every day, I can confirm that 95-05 were the best years to be a teenager in all of history

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I bet the 80s were better or maybe it's just that everybody thinks 10 years before they were a teenager was a better time

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I was a teenager in the 90s and it was the best because I was there

80s were probably great for teens but none of them got to grow up with tech that was completely outside their parents' frame of reference

They probably won on the free drugs/love axis actually

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10 years before I was a teenager would've bene a better time but 20 years would've been the best time

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Yeah being American 1994-2006 was pretty much the best possible existence anyone has ever had. I miss those days so much. :marseyrain:

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If you frickers weren't cognizant during those years, you'd missed out the closest thing we will ever get to true racial equality in America.

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I know it's not exactly a hot take but The Matrix was 100% correct about this


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it's so funny that it was a throwaway line to justify the setting being contemporary. "uhhhh 1999 is actually the peak of your civilization"

but it was true.

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The internet was fricking awesome back then but I'm unsure how widespread it was. Felt like Facebook is when it really got normified. Whats weird is that the internet userbase was so much small but it really did feel bigger as a whole.

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There was less aggregation. There was a time where it was a different forum for each of your different interests, then it just became everything on reddit.

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>tfw no bookmark folder with 100+ links you check daily

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Having a smaller overall population necessitated more compromise when it came to who was part of your group, so there was more diversity in each chat room, BBS, forum, whathaveyou. Now the population is large and mainstream enough to support extremely niche echo chambers, so while you may see 10x the number or usernames, there's only like 4 or 5 common personality archetypes per group so everything seems smaller.


The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko

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Facebook and proliferation of smartphones (specifically iPhone) were the beginning of the end.

Once companies realized how many more eyeballs they can advertise to, it was over.

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It was smartphones and cheap data plans, not Facebook.

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Plug and play always on internet. When you longer needed to know config.sys or how to use a TCP/IP dialer to get online things could never be the same


The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko

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