>that old South Park episode with all the early YouTube stars and memesSOVL
Giving the gopher psychic powers was the cherry on the sundae for me
>>217991444>Giving the gophereveryone called him "dramatic chipmunk" back then, on South Park it became a gopher for some reason, but the animal in the viral video was actually a prairie dog.
>>217991559i remember searching>dramatic prairie dogwhenever we'd look for that clip
>>217991422You wanna put it in my butt, in my butt?
I love how Youtube changed its algorithm and monetization policies a few years back which led to like 90% of e-celebs dropping from that site.
>>217991679You can't even search recent videos reliably anymore
>>217991679I'm fucking happy they did that but at the same time I kinda think they're consolidating all power to Mr Beast. That guy has reached unprecedented levels of popularity since they started the new policy
>>217991679for me it was the re: booba girls
>>217991422Back when the show was good
>>217992073This is real. I have to stare at his big stupid face everytime I walk into the gas station now.
>>217991422Some of that internet money buddy.This is a 10/10 episode.
>>217992028The videos don't need to be recent, you can't find anything searching there. You need to use an external search engine. It's so fucking busted.
>>217991422Was internet still fun back then or was the writing already on the wall that it was going to turn into the hellhole it is today?
>>217992028Been that way for years, the sars shit everything up with pointless videos.
>>217992427Depends how discerning you were I guess. It was nice when the most the internet bled into real life was as a 3 minute segment on a morning show about funny pet videos.
>>217992427The internet stopped being fun somewhere between 2011 and 2016 depending on who you ask.I believe it was 2014 where the decline befame undeniable.
>>217992427In the 2000s it was at its peak. Kony 2012 was really when things started taking a turn for the worse. It led to the advent of virtue signalling for attention on a mass scale. After that Gamergate opened the floodgates and around 2015 was when cancel culture and politicization of everything took off.
>>217992427if you can't have fun on the internet you're a bitter and overly serious person. it is incredibly easy to find a community to shitpost with that's up your alley. also rose tinted glasses as they say, go find old 4chan on an archive if you can, most of it is absilute nonsense
>>217992427It was already shit then. The internet was only good when internet culture was completely separate from real life. The change from dialup to broadband affecting the vast majority of americans in the 00s was the death knell.
>>217992427>Was internet still fun back then or was the writing already on the wall that it was going to turn into the hellhole it is today?The only people on the internet in the late 00s were freaks geeks and people passionate about what they were doing. Writing was on the wall when corporations and normies got onto the net. Every other anon replying that 2015 was the nail in the coffin is correct. Phones and reddit ruined internet culture.
>>217992427youtube was always shit, and its growing popularity was the writing on the wall.
>>217992634>The only people on the internet in the late 00s were freaks geeks and people passionate about what they were doingThat's absolutely bullshit. The late 90s yes but by the late 2000s 80% of people had Internet. It was less centralized then but it was definitely not just a geek hideout like it was in the 90s
>>217992621this is such a fucking gay nerd opinion.>muh secret cool kid internet club!how does some boomer posting on facebook and doomscrolling tiktok ruin other areas? just don't browse those places
>>217992028>removed the ability to sort by date uploadedLiterally no reason to take this away except to stop people discovering new videos that aren't algorithm-approved
>>217992476How?>>217992476It wasn't always like this
>>217992634I feel like the rape was already pretty thorough by 2013 but technically speaking November 2016 was the exact month it was 100% certifiably over - it was the first time mobile traffic surpassed desktop, and that has never reversed since then.
>>217992427We went from the Hamsterdance being the most popular thing on the Internet to everyone realizing the country is run by pedophiles
>>217992690>normies flood the internet>youtube goes from unique videos to clickbaits, channels wanting to become viral and median entertainment>everything is dumbed down for boomers>zoomers flood the internet>everything has to flood you with information within seconds since thats the only way to try to get the person to watch the short till the end>everything is narrated, ai-generated or faketldr just look at this image and use your brain
>>217992427When Jewoogle bought JewTube is when the internet officially died
>>217991422https://youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E?si=5KHU6E3uV_GCDkb8
>>217992690Boomers in 2000>wow this internet shit is pretty nerdy and lame, not surprised the dotcom bubble burstBoomers in 2005>the internet is pretty useful for ordering speciality parts but you'd have to be a fucking loser to spend any time on there for any other reasonBoomers in 2010>the internet has some pretty good porn haha I guess those nerds have a use afterall but you can't believe everything you read onlineBoomers in 2015>I just found this really interesting commentator online who says that the mainstream pundits have been lying to us, really interesting stuffBoomers in 2020>*furious shitposting all over facebook while falling for every fake outrage post*Boomers in 2025>*unable to tell the difference between real life and poorly-generated ai content, will get very mad at you for pointing this out*
>>217991422https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pPCkhYMQgY&list=RD2pPCkhYMQgY&start_radio=1it was a good time.
>>217992938It’s actually fascinating to see zoomers and boomers both displaying similar levels of ineptitude and gullibility when it comes to rage bait and AI slop.
>>217992186There has to be some kind of concerted effort to make this guy popular. I refuse to believe he's just that charismatic; why do (((they))) want this ?
>>217992938>Boomers in 2000showing my age here...but was in 6th grade when it was announced every class room was getting a computer/internet connection. (most already had the shitty computers..big thing was the always on internet connection. i had been using my dads PC for years at that point downloading shitty games from BBS boards. anyway, my 'industrial tech' teacher (fancy shop class) started talking about how cool it will be once it's hooked up..."ILL BE ABLE TO CHAT WITH SOMEONE IN CHINA!" me: do you speak chinese? silence. fucking boomers
>>217992495Yeah, around 2014 was when smartphone-based social media apps fully took over as the primary way people accessed those platforms. Back in 2011, lots of people were still uploading pictures to Facebook by plugging a digital camera into their desktop or laptop.
>>217991422Eh, desu I always thought that episode was kinda cringe. Has that "how do you do, fellow kids" vibe and most of these memes were stale when the episode aired.
>>217993116China is a weird example, but the nature of 4chan and the internet in general has allowed me to call many a britbong and Aussie a retarded faggot over the years.
>>217992427Mass censorship of 2017 killed it. Even in 2016, all of social media allowed hardcore Stormfront level material like Moonman. I remember in 2014, Ben Garrison couldn't even get Facebook to take down the Zyklon Ben neo nazi cartoon page.
>>217993325Ah. I remember my first anonymous posts, I was trying to be an ambassador or representative of my country. Polite and everything well thought over, lol. Checking before I posted for spelling and punctations,... Until I got shown it's not really a requierement.
I had a fun time on the internet back then, playing steam games, WoW, YouTube. I started using the internet in earnest in 2005, i stopped enjoying the internet at some point in the early 2010s
>>217993467The Charlottesville shit really did a number. After that they started cracking down on "hate speech". Telling a tranny she wasn't a woman got you banned from Twitter. I think today people just care less about wokeness also Musk actually did a better job at allowing free spech on Twitter than Dorsey
>>217992427It was already a bit declining from 2005, but after 2007 when you had smartphones it became abandoned and from 2012 it was completely unusable
>>217992533Does anybody have some screenshots or a summary of Gamergate?
>>217993543It still pales compared to 10 years ago and before that, it's like a diet Coke version of it on X.
>>217993608X might honestly be more 4chan than 4chan these days. When I occasionally browse it, it really feels lawless and insane like this place used to when /b/ was the big draw.
>>217993686There's nothing like the raids and Stormfront style troll culture of pre-2017. It still feels filtered and constrained because of the mass censorship.
this was before streaming services really took off with original contentthe strike was about how writers would get paid for stuff that was being distributed in a new waythis episode was like "who cares? it's all just youtube videos."fuck the unions, but they were correct to predict that streaming was going to be a big deal for shows and moviesdemanding to negotiate how they got paid for streaming was advantageous for themMatt & Trey dismissing it makes me think they shouldn't have gotten paid for the streaming rights to South Park because that didn't matter according to them
>>217993599Why would you want that? It's a giant shitshow from every angle. I'm glad I managed to mostly ignore it while it was going on on /v/.Also, while gamergate was a strong blow to this website, overall I think it's broader influence is overstated. No, the much more important event during that timeframe was the fappening. That really opened the newfag floodgates.
the whole world was at its peak in 1998,even the internet
>>217994026Because I forget everytime the chronology of events and how it unfolded.
>>217994634Yes, Windows 98 was the best Windows Should have stopped there.
>>217994712>Yes, Windows 98 was the best Windows Should have stopped there.XP improved upon internals...while letting you turn off/revert the UI back to 98 greatness. only thing that suffered was legacy DOS support..but if you weren't running xp/dos 6.22 dualboot, you were too dumb to live
>>217991630I cant find the original anymore
>>217991630The worst thing I remember when that meme was around was kids singing that song without even realising how fucking gay and wrong it was. That coconut song is like 10x worse to be honest.
>>217994895Kids are dumb
