I'm sure a lot of it sounds like an alien concept for them.>We rented movies but we also downloaded torents and watched them together>People called each other and hung out when they were bored with no plan of what to do>You music choice influenced your dress style and that influenced your social circle>sometimes we just hung out at gas stations or retail stores talking to friends and strangers>Getting stoned was a group activity. So was drinking. It was frowned on to do it alone.>People went to hundreds of websites constantly. Social media didn't exist and you mostly talked on forums.>Women actually wanted to talk to boys and liked them. They also had hobbies similar to men and could hold conversations and were even funny and kind. They could be your friend and not assume everything you did was trying to sleep with them. They got shamed for false accusations.>people not only got in relationships and stuck with one person, it usually lasted for atleast a few months.>music had more options than NIGGERBOP>People could say offensive shit online and your school or employer only cared if the school or Company were mentioned or it happened on company time>People got excited and shared videos with people, and people actually watched them and enjoyed being sent them.>Feeds were chronological, not algorithmic. This meant people could go viral and take down a massive company's reputation easily for doing shitty things.>People played video games in lan parties that lasted all night.
>>84376225I'm Gen Z and I know all of that (1998)
>>84376225>less niggers>tons of wiggers despite less niggers>guido fags walking around with spray on tans being annoying>christcuck screeching at everything>widespread socially acceptable racism against Arabs/Muslims>background of 9/11 and the war on terror>no smartphones so you could text while out at best but had to wait until you came home to use the computer (desktop) usually
there actually was a time when there were very very few women on the internet. from the late 90s to the mid 00s i think i may have encountered no more than 10-20 women in video games, and half of those were probably guys pretending to be girls. i only played 1 mmo and even in those there werent many women playing them, the ones i did meet were in their 30s and 40s too
>>84376236You were a youngin then. Kinda like how I view the 90's.Sure I remember a lot of things, but I really can't comment on what it was like to be an adult then.Still, I'm glad you at least got to enjoy split screen gaming, torrents, and socializing regularly.2010s were pretty great. Covid ruined everything though.
People were less extreme back then. It seems like everyone has an extreme viewpoint on something. HUrr durr I've got a hot take! Why? Why even think about stupid shit?That's what I mean, people just think about stupid shit all day these days. Try doing something constructive.
No idea. Social media has to be the biggest difference. This might just be my old man moment but I truly and honestly believe we were never as cynical and jaded as teenagers in the 00's as zoomers and gen alpha are today. Like they've reached a level of cynicism previously unheard of. Nothing can be sincere anymore, everything has to be wrapped under 10 layers of irony because the usual teenage insecurity is amplified a million times through social media and anything sincere can be brutally attacked.
>>84376255All fairly accurate.>The guido shit was a 2010 fad thanks to Jersey Shore. But depending where you were.it was very real.>Christcucks still seethe, the bad optics ones just disappeared. I mean faggots like Melanie Mac are still cringe retards but in a different way.The thing that got me was you had to go home to use your computer. Bro, the joy you would feel being on instant messanger and sharing things with friends is something I fear won't come back. People treat shit you share with them like it's a chore to click on.>People actually embraced talking to strangers cause you were less paranoid about people outting your personal issues because it was frowned upon.>Gore sites and shock sites were popular and not being able to handle looking at it was seen as being weak
>>84376269IDK being an adult in the 2010s wasn't anything great but yeah pre-covid everything was better.
>>84376310I have rose tinted glasses so it's hard to say. A lot of it had to do with online gaming becoming normalized, videogames and videogame culture becoming extremely popular, the girls I dated being extremely into sex/gaming/anime/smoking/drinking sessions and game for a threesome, my mind not being completely broken by the lies of what politics was and being able to hang out with people without needing to virtue signal, and being able to have debates with people IRL but not write them off as a person.It also felt like entertainment that anyone could produce that was not like corpo bullshit was gonna take over rather than what actually happened, corporations took over the platforms and creators and made everything gay and retarded.Streaming also was becoming a thing... but everyone figured it would just replace TV, not become indoctrination propaganda and shitty.Anime cons were just starting to get infested with thots before they began making demands to cater to them.But I hit my 20s got on my career path and enjoyed deep friendships and intimate female relationships.I'm sure I am making it better than it was.
>>84376405when you tell people that you used to get bullied and made fun of when people found out you played video games, they don't believe you.You used to get bullied if you did anything deemed nerdy. Anime, video games, board games, ummm spending too much time with electronics, being into chemistry too much, sports nerd. Yes, sports nerd was a thing. Now sports nerd is just "yeah, i play fantasy draft huk huk" and is seen as manly and cool now.My friend back in the day literally hid his Warhammer collection from me because he thought i was gonna make fun of it. I walked into his room one day and just saw tons of painted minis, I never even knew.Holy shit if you liked Magic the Gathering you were practically getting cussed out.I remember I was in the mall in like 98 and I was wearing all black and people kept calling me "fag" as I was walking by and I couldn't figure out why and my friend goes, "oh its cuz youre wearing all black".
>>84376269as a fellow 90s kid, I've identified 3 inflection points for shit getting more fucked up:>9/11>2012>Covid9/11 was the worst because it set the stage. But we just didn't know it yet. 2012 lied to us about the future. Covid was the point of no return.
>>84376225People still do all of those things dumbass>People called each other and hung out when they were bored with no plan of what to doCrying from laughing so hard lmao
>>84376268There were tons of chicks on neopets and xanga, and later gaia. When Myspace launched of course, that's when women really started using the internet.But, I got my first e-gf off neopets and she showed me her tits on a grainy webcam. She was 3 years older than me. Shit was very cash.
>>84376225I was there nigga
>>84376225we played lots of flash gameswe hated dubstep and hipsters
>>84377200And we were right to hate them, because the hipsters ended up transforming into anti-white male feminist soifacing redditor cunts.
I met a lot of girls on this furry ERP game Furcadia, I used to play. It didn't start out as ERP, it was just RP, but as it died out in the 2000s it became an ERP thing, I think that's where furries came from desu. I met some cute girls on there. The reason I know they weren't cat fishes is because they all talked to each other and sent each other their pics, it was way more community driven back in those days.I was like 13 and they would be 18 or older teens and they would ask me how old I was knowing I wasn't 18 and they would still do naughty things. Girls dont give a fuck about age restrictions.
>>84376452Hunter S. Thompson wrote this right after 9/11. He knew before everyone else did.
>>84376439Columbine changed a lot of that. People lightened up after that even though the narrative was made up.then games getting popular with normies made it acceptable, specifically PS1 and PS2.>You did still get shit on if you were obsessed with that shit though>Anime was seen niche as fuck and hard to find. You were seen.as weird if you were really into it, but adult swim normalized it and got rid of a lot of the stigma. But yeah if you were REEEEAAALLLY into anime you got shit for it.>Magic was still bulliable my full time in high-school. Thing is the Magic kids kinda kept to themselves and didn't sperg out about magic anytime except for Lunch and after school so they were left alone.>No one played Warhammer at my school but holy shit you would have gotten shit for that hard cause of the figures. It got popular when I was in college and was seen as this kinda niche cool thing that built community. Feel like they sidestepped their bullying all together but thats just my limited perception.>Fantasy football didn't really exist in Highschool and I bullied the people who played it in college. It wasn't till people made money on it did it lose its stigmaYou sound like Gen X. And yeah, if you played videogames other than maybe one or two games (mortal kombat or games that made tech breakthroughs in graphics) you were seen as playing with your brothers toys and ripped on. You did escape the stigma slightly if you played on PC.That story of getting called a fag for wearing all black is very 90's.Yeah it was that dumb and that petty. Wearing black jeans and a black t-shirt was considered "goth".>Now a days I mainly wear black cargos and plain black tshirts and no one bats an eye
Its better for trans and queer kids now.I got the shit kicked out of me everyday from age 8 to 15. My teeth were broken, my nose waa broken. Its only now, two decades later i have the money to fix my nose and teeth.I think that was a very violent and lonely and confusinf time for me, im grateful i have a bit of money and my own place now, im grateful i can be alone and not be forced around people
>>843764522012 didn't change much. It was a minor nervousness, but not really a big deal and obviously the world didn't end.But you are 100% on the other two. 9/11 ruined society and COVID ruined people.>>84377131In person? Maybe I'm just old but you don't see a small group of kids walking around neighborhoods or hanging out at a store or the mall.
>>84377364bro was crackpot in a lot of ways, but he also saw through a lot of the bullshit.that's probably why he killed himself, desu
>>84377645more liek Lolumbine amirite?
>>84377673>bullied for 7 years At some point it becomes your fault. That you didn't report the behavior within a month and get parents involved is retarded. And if that didn't work (because you are retarded at presenting an argument as to how their bullying affected you) you could have at least pretend to not be gay. Most people stopped caring about people being gay by the start of the 2010s.
>>84377189And habbo hotel. Everyone kinda enjoyed habo. The weird thing is I check the wiki and see the date I could have swore it was available sooner than what is listed cause I distinctly remember playing it in middle-school.>Neopets & GaiaYeah, every girl I knew had one.They also loved certain free to play MMOs like FLYFF or Maple Story.
>>84377705I left school in 2004.I went to school under something called Section 28. The teachers were forbidden from even mentioning anything lgbt. I never knew what that was until i was in my 20s.The teachers used to encourage the bullies to hit me. Your attitude isnt a shock, i understand that about 85% of humans are shit
>>84377230Okay, roleplay forums weren't super popular, but the women who were into it WERE SUPER INTO IT.One of the hottest girls I knew and talked to (friends with some sexual attraction to each other) was actually a little ashamed when I caught her checking on a horse roleplay forum she had been part of for 5years.I reminded her I html coded my own website and she shook her head and said, "no it's not the same. Not saying keep it a secret or anything just don't go telling people about it, please?"She was a sweet girl. Kinda grew up in a bad situation, so I understand why it was so important to her (especially since she was far from being ugly or nerdy)I think she just didn't want other people fucking with the site or fucking with her on it.
>>84377688now maybe I'm a little biased, but 2012 was bad because of the lie of hope.I was in college at the time, and there was a lot of naive optimism, like 9/11 era was just a blip and we weren't on a downward spiral.plus roughly around then was when the internet was becoming more and more enshittified.
>>84377699Jokes like that killed back then.I got a chuckle and a little nostalgia.Kinda any dark fucked up joke got a laugh. Then people actually became those fucked up people who used humor as a cover and it became less funny.Like the whole reason it was funny is because people obviously weren't that deranged. Now people are deranged as fuck and you can't tell if they are joking.
>>84377746Anti gay shit was really harsh back then.There was a reason people were in the closet and gay rights got so much support.Hard to imagine now, cause gays lost their minds and became a joke.But kids got disowned and thrown on the street for being gay. Friend of mines brothers dad got into fist fights over it and he was an MIT genius level Highschool kid. My joke I always made was I was for it so that there would be more pussy for me.I said that infront of that friends dad who actually laughed hard and the brother was nervous as fuck.I like to think things mellowed out between them after I made that joke
>>84377779I'm a little biased to a time period near that one but it's due to a family member dying and I am aware of it.>2008 economic crashThat was when I feel what you said really was felt. Thing is it didn't hit at once. It slowly rippled and then jobs became harder to get, a degree became worth much less, and college felt like a lie.2012 falls in the frame, bit after nigger jesus didn't fix anything it became clear that hope and change were a lie and things weren't getting better.>ConverselyI got my career because of the changes Trump made his 1st term. His 2nd term is retarded, but I genuinely understand why people wanted a 2nd term from an economic standpoint.Oh well, politics is retarded and I hate everything.I think you are conflating internet shitification and the economic crisis of 2008 being spread out.
>>84377827yeah, your right, 2008 was the obvious start of the econ woes, and everything sort chains together in succession.It was kind of an arbitrary choice, but 2012 was roughly the middle of all that (king nigger's terms, 9/11 to Covid) and the point at which hope and change was clearly bullshit
>>84376225>started out rough, but tampered out until about 2008>everything had a hyper-patriotic undertone to it>the "Console Wars" still mattered, somewhat>clear electronics with 'atomic' hues>Frutiger...all of them>teen dramas had soul>anime and vidya were still niche/non-mainstream>you actually had to handwrite things>food actually tasted like food>getting a job wasn't a(n) humiliation ritual in futility
>>84376225How do you explain what the 80's were like to millenials? Theyll never get it man, it was magical you just had to be there
2000-2005 : flip phones, dial up internet, people still talked to each other instead of pretending to text on their phone, anime was still for weeb nerds and normies didnt like it, internet wasnt as mainstream so people spoke in a normal way, referencing some internet meme irl was considered cringe, sometimes i would spend all day just watching tv. other times i would go outside and walk to my friends houses, i lived in a rural part of texas. we would walk around the endless empty fields and gas stations2006-2009beginning of modern social media age, myspace, youtube, facebook, twitter, rise of ipod and smart phones, the rot and polarization had not set in. Obama tricked a bunch of young libtards into thinking he would change things so despite a recession people were happy to get rid of bush who had crashed the economy and started two pointless wars
>>84378109>everything was brown>Reagan>played outside until the street lights came on>siblings would die, no one would care that much>cigarette smoke everywhere>no one cared about so-called "healthy food">Crack
i only enjoyed the 00s because i had good friends.
>>84378138Just say you grew up in a trailer.
>>84376225I think the biggest distillation I can make of the differences between them and now>In the 2000's, guys wore makeup in order to get pussy>In the 2020's, guys wear makeup because they think they're women
>>84378163I didn't, but I had 2nd, 4th, and about four 6th Grade classes in trailers.
>>84378168No, trans people definitely existed in the 2000s, we were mostly left alone before billionaires needed a scapegoat to distract you from their evil deeds
>>84376225I really miss that energy people had when staying home was boring. They were willing to try new things, wander off on an adventure with you, watch that weird VHS tape you found at the thrift store. People were more chill about talking to strangers. I'm pretty introverted but met all sorts of people just hanging out on the bus or around campus. Now everyone's a phone zombie who spends their free time binge-watching slop TV.>People went to hundreds of websites constantly. Social media didn't exist and you mostly talked on forums.Early Facebook was cool. You could type in your classes and scope out your classmates and whether they were single or not. We definitely lost a lot when people started to expect everything collected on 1-2 feeds. It was the death of free speech, private blogs, and the like. >>84378293You'd see some of the ones who started as small gay guys running around but the autogynephile type who start as straight guys were pretty rare before the era of streaming porn and the collapse of subcultures.
>>84376225>How do you explain what the 2000s were like to Gen Z?I show this image.
>>84378350>You'd see some of the ones who started as small gay guys running around but the autogynephile type who start as straight guys were pretty rare before the era of streaming porn and the collapse of subcultures.I didn't know i was trans, just knew being a girl made me happy and being a boy made me suicidal. It wasnt acceptable to be openly trans back then, i wish i had transitioned earlier, just glad im me now.The internet helps because you dont need to rely on doctors anymore
>>84378431you will still never be a woman regardless, which is amusing to me.
>>84378439Yes i am. You're unhappy, and im happy
>>84378482I'm quite happy. I took a few days off for Uncle H's birthday weekend, made money day trading today and cooked a delicious meal. You however are a mentally ill man deluded into believing he is a woman.
>84378494Happy people aren't meant and spiteful
>>84378528Being honest isn't being mean or spiteful, it's holding the mirror of reality up to your face (no pun intended). While you may believe the fiction you live is more pleasant, shying away from the truth is not the way to live life.
>>84378538You're just being mean and dumb. Not honest, misinformed and spiteful. This thread isnt about your ignorance, fuck off
>>84378544Okay, I was attempting to be somewhat nice. Now I'll exit the thread if you admit that you are a mentally ill man with irrevocably XY chromosomes who is in denial of reality, and your parents will bury you with your real name-- not whatever silly moniker you're calling yourself these days.
>be korean>9yo>2003>go to school>after school. visit yahoo and play some flash games>go to academy (don't have proper english term of this)>go out side and rides some bicycle>watch tv, i can watch domestic cartoon and comedy show or spongebob>read some comic books>play some online games>have a funsimpler time, quality of life was basically better than 2010s but i still didn't like hanging out with people
>>84378558Go away, horrible anon. Nothing you post can take anything away from me
>>84378614If nothing I post can take anything away from you, then why should I cease to post at all? Why praytell should I acquiese to your request when thou art not a lady, but a dooooooood?! We are but the same, you and I.
>>84376225We enjoyed many conveniences of emerging technology.Almost none of the nerfing or drawbacks.
>>84376225nigger I'm a zoomer and I'm 28 fucking years old and experienced all of this shit. say gen alpha instead, retard. you're probably younger than me, kid
>>84376225For me it was>upper-middle class suburb>lots of obnoxious spoiled white kids everywhere>most of them in the skater clique>one of them bullies/slightly molests me in school>threaten to shoot him>expelled>spend the rest of my childhood on forums>every once in a while some kid comes along to egg or tp our house>rock radio goes to absolute shit>lament the rise of myspace, youtube, facebook>lament the rise of gaylo and mic use in online fps>lament the rise of romance and other gay shit in rpgs>lament the rise of mmos>brief moment of joy in 2008 when half those kids lost their homes b/c of overleveraged parentsFuck the 2000s
I miss the middle class of the 90s, the economy. I knew this kid who lived in this neighbood that I had to travel extremely far to get to, it was a giant apartment complex, but they were so fucking nice inside. It was so nice inside his apartment, I still remember it, it was like a 500,000 home you would get today and the actual complex wasn't really that upscale on the outside, but the middle class had enough money to fully furnish their apartments and have luxuries.
>How do you explain what the 2000s were like to Gen Z?They were somewhat comfy, despite 9/11. But 2008 fucked everything.The acceleration of globalism, and outsourcing everything to the evil Red Chinese.Autists left behind as perma-NEETs. Then later on, the fuck apps causing the male inceldom boom in the 10s.I'd go back to the based 90s in a heartbeat. The 21st century has only gotten worse.
>>84378138>80s>food tasted amazing>$10 was a lot of money>movies were cultural events everyone shared>life was relatively simple (the most common computer was the Apple II, and it was nerds-only)>spent more time outdoors than indoors>everyone was friends with everyone else, why wouldn't you be?I don't think I ever locked a car door until like 2009, nobody wanted the shit in my crappy car in the 90s.
>>84376225>people not only got in relationships and stuck with one person, it usually lasted for atleast a few months.I can't tell if this was made by ai or someone who's 18
>>84376225>watched them together>People called each other and hung out when they were bored with no plan of what to do>You music choice influenced your dress style and that influenced your social circle>sometimes we just hung out at gas stations or retail stores talking to friends and strangers>Getting stoned was a group activity. So was drinking. It was frowned on to do it alone.>People went to hundreds of websites constantly. Social media didn't exist and you mostly talked on forums.>people not only got in relationships and stuck with one person, it usually lasted for atleast a few months.>People got excited and shared videos with people, and people actually watched them and enjoyed being sent them.>People played video games in lan parties that lasted all night.If you had friends. Losers (You) still existed.
