The web/internet isn't fun anymore. What went wrong?
>>106568976People like (You) started using it.
>>106568976overexposure makes anything boring dum dumnewgrounds is still there toogo do other shit and get off this cynical bullshit site full of retarded zoomers
Mobile traffic
Try to stay away for two weeks. The magic will be back quickly. You brain is probably too fried for such attempt, though.
>>106568976>The web/internet isn't fun anymore.The web became more corporate, there is no fun with a modern tech company.Also are you sure you have used the internet to a wider extend other than the web?
>>106568976Censorship, surveillance, ad rape and ai botslop.
>>106568984this but YOU not OP
Skill issue.
Social media will be the death of us all.
>>106569055>>Censorship>Can't say the N word REEEEEEE>>surveillance>Everything is botnetted>>ad rape and ai botslop.Spam and automation has always existed, retard.
Non-commerce websites consolidated into maybe a dozen sites that most people use. Years ago there were countless websites. Now speech is in the hands of a small handful of mega rich individuals trying to push certain narratives.
>>106569065>n-no uYou didn't have to prove me right.
>>106569096our attitude right now is why it' shit. OP's good. OP throws his autism out into the world. all we've done is try to bite at his ankles. all you wanna do is flirt with me, fag.
>>106569089>Years ago there were countless websitesThere still are, Search engines have become portals to only a specific part of the web and that is killing the web as a whole.
>>106569088Spam was a thing even before the internet. Usenet was full of spam right before it became obsolete.
>>106569086>Social media will be the death of us all.ThPBP
>>106569116Yeah I was about to say, I'm surprised that barely anyone here is talking about how you just can't find shit with current search engines anymoreIt's not like all the fun niche websites actually vanished, you're just arbitrarily not allowed to find them anymore
>>106568976once normies get their hands on anything it becomes cringe and gay
>>106569107Is this supposed to be zoomer humour or are you actually just schizophrenic?
>>106569134Yeah you can find them on wiby.Which is a portal for I believe javascriptless websites and most of them are these very old websites and I stumbled on a few that said they were going to stop operating soon, my assumption is the lack of traffic.
>>106568976it got wasted by ai and shitskins.
>>106569134>>106569171Pic related
>>106569171>my assumption is the lack of trafficGiven that 1990 was 35 years ago it's more likely the original owners/operators died or are dying and the family doesn't give a shit so they shut it down.
>>106568976Fun became illegal around 2010.
>>106568976In my opinion a few things:1. Commercialization. Everything now is commercial and a business to make someone money. In the young internet people would have personal pages for whatever they were interested in. There is hardly any content online where the goal isn't to milk you.2. Stagnation of new things. The internet was full of new things in 1998 and onwards. I remember habbo hotel (the original finnish one) and runescape. Free and big, pushing what were technological limits then.3. Phone accessibility. This is the worst one, 4chan took a big BIG hit when all the kids with their phones could start posting here. To me 2013 was the worst, I remember my home board of /o/ getting absolutely plastered with kids in their late teens looking more for friends with similar interests rather than wanting to talk about cars. It just got worse and worse and then everyone left.
>>106568976it's as fun as alwaysbut it was never that fun
>>106569088I didn't say spam or automation, I said ad rape you braindead shitskin.
>>106569088>reads the word censorship>brain immediately ceases all function>immediately jumps to the conclusion that it could only ever possibly be about muh nigger>hallucinates some shit no one said>calls others retardedSuicide stream when?
>>106568976Zoomersgen z them
>>106569322>themCorrection!They/Them
Can't objectively prove this but I feel like tumblr is what really killed off a lot of drive to make personal sites, especially autistic character shrines
>>106569330>I feel like tumblr is what really killed off a lot of drive to make personal sites,Wierd thing to say because GeoCities existed.
>>106568976corpos and normies, it's soon over though, they won, the authoritarian censorship will go through in all western countries. Then it will only be bots and tards that have no common sense like facebook boomers.
>>106569254>1. Commercialization. Everything now is commercial and a business to make someone money.Because jobs have become increasingly bullshit and unsatisfying, employees are increasingly disposable. The cost of living has gone through the roof and wages never kept up.
>>106568976I've been on the internet since 1999 and I still find it fun. I spend most of my day on the internet too.I just do other things also.
>>106569330but tumblr was full of that shit killing tumblr killed that and they ran to twitter and shitted it up even worse now they realised they could spread their retard shit to normies and deranged political faggots
>>106569399Side quests.
>>106568976How should I know? Look at your own life and see where things went wrong. I'm having a blast.
>>106569427>I'm having a blast.What do you do to have fun like that on the web?
>>106568976what happened to the wild west?
>>106569469Browse /pol/ whenever there's a happening, tbqh. It recaptures the old /b/ meme magic like nothing else these days.But I'm not just an edgelord, I have a carefully curated YouTube algorithm always playing in the background while I work on stuff. It's not exactly a cocaine high, but it keeps me going. That and the fact that there are still interesting things to do on the Internet if you know where to look. Like this classic /g/ list here, most of it is slop but it's still fun to dumpster dive through:https://web.archive.org/web/20241009125414/https://sites.lainx.org/
>>106569559>>>/pol/I just looked and it seems like they are acting like their nest is broken or something, holly shit, I have never seen this much seething there.
>>106569602Yeah, but whenever I feel like things are getting serious, somebody shitposts something hilarious.
>>106569602It's hilarious.Check this thread: >>>/pol/515751311
>>106568976Fried dopamine receptors
>>106568976People take it too serious, companies make too much of a profit, people are too comfortable with the status quo and do nothing to change something about the first two points
I've been sensing a decline since 2016.
>>106569088you ruined the internet
>>106569088You are a dumb nigger. You are the blackest retard gorilla nigger I have ever seen.
1. In a capitalist world as things get popular and grow in size/resources they tend to attract the attention of rich.2. As rich start to take over this "huge cake", things quickly become centralized. Mostly shared in huge slices (e.g. pillars of social media)3. This structural change leads to more condensed subareas, which itself leads to high permeability between otherwise seperated cultural tribes.4. The interaction between these tribes, or in other words "diversity" often lead a negative backlash for both sides. Because the only good "diversity" is one rooted in a degree of unity and shared values. Addition to this, in such environment people gradually become more similar to one another and quite timid, avoiding unique thoughts that could be triggering for other. Finally they become bland creatures/bots (direct opposite of what commies would expect)
>>106568976Normalfags, govt and corpos, they turn to shit everything they touch.
>>106568976Old internet:>Man in bedroom does funny thing goes viral.>Feels authentic.New internet:>Man in bedroom hawks wares and tries to force virality via gaming the algorithms in endless copying.>Backed by agents and big companies.>>106569134>Yeah I was about to say, I'm surprised that barely anyone here is talking about how you just can't find shit with current search engines anymoreThe implications of this for general culture is insane because people feel like it is an absolute chore to keep up with things beyond a surface level. It is part of the reason Youtubers who explain basic shit have become so popular. Rather than read a few articles, go to a forum and talk about shit people have this perception that every hobby or thing is impenetrable and often fall back on comfort viewing.
>>106568976We grew up and got old
>>106569167KISS me, nigga.
The Internet sucks because the people using it suck. You motherfuckers are irritable, dismissive shitheads who couldn't hold a conversation if your life depended on it. Every website is full of an equal mix of dumb, useless faggots who contribute nothing, and borderline illiterate retards who should just be banned already to free up some extra bandwidth. I keep being told the same thing, that the Internet is full of cool people who would make good friends. Instead it turns out they're all literal scumbags who couldn't give less of a fuck about you no matter how well you hit it off, no matter what common interests you share. That's why the fucking Internet sucks, you dense assholes. It's because the entire impetus to even USE this fucking thing — socialization free from the backwards conventions of everyday life — was nothing more than a pipe dream. Another ladder pulled up with no way to get it to ever come down.
>>106568976>What went wrong?You. The internet is not here to entertain you. The world is not here to entertain you.
>>106568976Social media and advertising algorithms ruined everything and should have been made illegal immediately.
>>106568976You're in a bad state metabolically. Stop eating pufa
>>106568976what went wrong was steve jobs didnt die on 9/11
>>106568976Brown people.
Mass many-to-many communications between people who can't see each other, don't remember each other, and are not in the same headspace or mood as each other, have no shared community or purpose, and in which people have massive incentives to get as much attention as possible, and in which an infinite supply of strangers join/leave the conversation at will, and in which the vast majority post on phones rather than keyboards.The communication efficiency of such places is effectively zero, but people are hooked on it because it's an endless stream of low-effort novelty. It is a spiritual poison and you were not hooked into this machine back when you used to use the internet for fun and creativity.>>106569046Exactly. When you use computers with some intentionality they are fucking magical. Computers and the Internet are awesome!
>>106568976They are taking away the person-to-person interactions, and replacing these with one company approved to many receivers interactions.Like you used to talk with people, now zoomers congregate around e-celebs and don't really interact with each other, they are competing for the celebritys attention.Also making internet into new gen TV. Normies live passive entertainment.We loved internet for interactivity and participation not for passive consumption.
>>106571004appreciate you brother
>>106569046
>>106568976humanity happened, people in power ruined the internet just like they ruined radio, tv and film
>>106568976Entertain others
>>106568976they ruined it with regulations, copyright law, patents. . .and exploiting the internet, they've done this with all mediums
>>106568976I remember when PHP forums were the place to be. Felt like you could actually build something. I had big plans thought I’d be a programmer making indie games. Spent years trying to learn C++ and fiddling with rpgmaker but never really finished anything. Just always got stuck on some little detail and lost motivation. Now I'm 30 slinging fries at burger king living in my mom's basement and my biggest accomplishment is beating Elden Ring. She nags me to apply for better jobs but what's the point? I'm just waiting to die at this point. And it’s all the normalfags fault. The Internet used to be a place for weirdos for people who didn’t fit in. Now it’s just instagram and tiktok full of brainrot and photos of women whoring themselves out. All those stacies flaunting their bodies acting like being a slut is a personality trait. I tried talking to women at work but all of them were disgusted by my fatness and ugly face. It's not just that the internet isn’t fun anymore and its become a big corporatized sanitized place, it's that it reminds you how little you’ve actually done with your life and how much better everyone else has it.
People say everyone is terminally online, but I have the opposite problem. 4chan is the only place I can come to to have fun yet half the boards are dead all day long. People aren't posting interesting things frequently enough.
too many browns
>>106569167why do you even reply back to it?
>>106570417Because to understand something you need to prime it for yourself and that requires higher-level thought, effort, high cognitive load even it won't take that long, also making correct guesses more often that not implies you've been doing this for a long time and you become good at priming and that you also by now have a wider knowledge base about many topics.
>>106570857Meanwhile actual science, lol.Retards will kill themselves.
>>106568976Cookie banners, custom thumbnails, top comments, upvotes, ai slop, bad search results, shorts, ads, clickbait, JavaScript abuse, accounts forced signup, MFA, microtransactions, cloudflare, bot protection, tracking
>>106568976It's because you are not visiting fun websites such as ssh-club.org. The other websites are kinda bad and not worth visiting I agree.And what went wrong was the AI. AI went wrong. Because of the turing test we tried making it too humanlike. It was supposed to be a digital slave, not a knock-off 21st century netizen.
>>106571733cool sourceless infographic, "noted"
>>106571733It takes non retarded people 1 second to find the source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03570-5
Have fun.
>>106569342While I love the idea of neocities, I wish they had a way to be able to post adding to main page more or less like wordpress. But it's beautifully based, them blocking/not allowing most of the cancer that is killing the net is lovely
>>106570869retarded schizo cultist can't even screenshot his own tl;dr gibberish properly, but wants to tell you what God thinks
>>106571733This study funded by the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council found Fruit to be the healthiest food
People are declining in quality
>>106571515I agree
>>106568976jews
>>106569559>>106569602jews are mad, so they flooded it with shills and bots, it's dead.
>>106577963Yeah, I'm not an actual /pol/tard, they're just funny as fuck at times. Definitely worth visiting during happenings, but you'd go mad taking any of it seriously.
>>106578101>during happeningsIt's funny how kikes fear green frog posting basement dweller's pattern recognition ability more than anything else on earth and do everything possible to purge threads as fast as a jew picking a shekel during such times.
>>106568976various things occurred
>>106568976Nothing is fun anymore. Everything sucks
>>106568976make funny memes, create offline html gallery of your memes, browse your offline internet gallery of memes, have fun
>>106575073shitposter detected
>>106569016Mobile is the least of the problems. Consolidating the internet into three sites (Facebook and it's smaller businesses [Instagram, et. al.], Amazon, and Reddit killed the web.Mobile doesn't help because it lets literal retards on, but not being able to move away from those three websites/critical mass of retarded normies is what killed the internet.Basically: Eternal September 2.0 happened and there went the neighborhood even harder than when Beaners hit it.
>>106568976getting old and jewsmostly jews
>>106569602Because "their guy" got got by one of their own. It's white-on-white (more like Nazi-on-Nazi) violence and it broke their brain.
>>106568984Fact checked. OP is a fag tranny junky
>>106568976womenIndians
I blame it on Zuckerberg. Facebook was a disgrace for the human race.
>>106568976gay homosexuals.
>>106579801>wrote "catch this fascist" on casing>wrote communist song lyrics on casing>wrote gay furry meme on casing>had troon girlfriend>wore DSA shirtYeah, real fascist that one
i was reading something the other day and it went like this. before we used to share a lot of the same experiences because television and almost every form of media was shown at the same time and unless it was recorded, everyone had to enjoy it at the same time, so media was very communal. that mentality crept into the internet for a while because people were so used to being on the same page so memes just spread like wildfire. well nowadays we are pretty much removed from that 100% aside from maybe sports, but that's so fucked up with legal gambling that sports have lost their luster too. and because everyone is on separate schedules with their own 'custom tailored' feeds or using streaming services for everything or whatever, that the slight feeling of community we used to get from the internet is now gone, and everyone feels super lonely and that lowkey depression manifests itself into resentment for other people that is often projected and we just shit on others for no reason.so basically unless we start abandoning the modern internet in favor of communal activities again, we will all become bitter and lonely regardless of whether we want to accept it or not.
>>106580954but you have communal viewings congregating in the form of of e-celebs now
>>106569016>>106568976
>>106581250the japanese internet still looks like 1998
>>106581250Considering china is walled off that means that the majority of the internet is now Indian and seanigger....
Smartphones. it gave us the ability to be attached to the internet 24/7. Now we have companies constantly pushing content to us to keep people doomscrolling and causing outrage
>>106568976Where did you find this image?
>>106569254>habbo hoteldont fuck with the Habbo LCN. Santino Valenti is the true boss of gosa nostra.
>>106570192Yeah. Zoomer here but I started using the internet in 2011 to join LEGO forums. Youtube had a 5-star rating system when I joined.I noticed the decline myself around late 2015 to 2016. The whole Leafy/Keemstar era shit was the last hoorah for the internet as we knew it. The corpo bullshit was already creeping in well beforehand though.I think the last GOOD year was 2014. You had a perfect synthesis of well-functioning, good corpo websites, while forums and personal sites were still everywhere. No discord. Social media was for normies and they often didn't break through the floodgates.Even google plus was good for a little while. There was so much to do on the internet, it still had magic. It was an equilibrium between corpo and private, and it was beautiful.There will never be another era like the FNaF golden age, Gangnam Style and What Does The Fox Say. The internet died shortly after.Recently I've tried distancing myself from the surface web and trying to hang more around obscure websites. Completely got off discord. The old internet still exists, the dream is still alive, it's just buried by normies and AI slop.Just gotta be positive.
a better question is how we get back what they stole from us? posting purposefully shitty sites on neocities won't do
>>106577963>Brazilian commenting to a Russian about where /pol/ went wrongPottery
>>106581273Got any examples?
>>106568976If I were to blame it on anything in particular:>smartphonesBeing able to access the internet at any time and place is much more convenient, because you don't have to go out of your way to participate in it. In addition to flooding the web with normies, this convenience has come at the cost of encouraging lower-effort participation due to the lower barrier to entry of effort required, and due to just being something you would briefly check on in spare moments of your day.I suppose another factor here is that it's much easier to become burnt out/desensitized when you're never truly separated from the web and can access it whenever you want.>social mediaEverything has been consolidated into a small number of websites, controlled by an even smaller number of massive tech corps. There's rarely the same variety or sense of discovery because it's all just another facebook page, youtube channel or whatever, and what you find is largely controlled by a recommendation algorithm rather than going out of your way looking for it.Alternatives do exist like neocities (or just making your own site) but you're also gimping your exposure because the average person isn't going to be looking outside of those same big websites.>monetization of social mediaBeing able to make money from posting stuff online is nice in theory because it helps support people making cool stuff, but in practice it's just led to the web being flooded with content farms and AI sloppers churning out the lowest effort trash possible just to make a quick buck. Without this same degree of financial incentive there was a lot more "purity" in it, where people made things just for the sake of making them and showing them to other people.In conclusion, I would say 2007 was the beginning of the end with facebook and the iphone; it wasn't an instant death of course, but it's been in a steady decline ever since.Alternatively, maybe I'm just completely wrong and retarded.
>>106583190welp, should have been a new thread
>>106569559/pol/ does not recapture /b/ meme magic like nothing else. I found NO memes at all on /pol/, not to mention it is all political
>>106569089The old web was killed on purpose by the dot com bubble. The dot com bubble was created to consolidate the web into a handful of companies (like google) after the bubble popped. The way in which the bubble was created was through the central bank, like most bubbles. Alan Greenspan, FED chair, literally went on TV every week to shill dot com stocks until one day he pulled the plug and raised rates.
>>106568976The internet is a reflection of society. The world has been rapidly getting much worse and more depressing in recent years, so the internet has been doing the same.
>>106571733This is basically just a scatter plot for vitamins content.It also doesn’t mention that fruits are often GMOd to be bigger (more watery) and have less nutrition these days.
>>106583364low IQ contrarian post that's simultaneously clueless and schizophrenic
I do know one thing is for certain, the old internet we remember isn't coming back. You can't undo social media
>>106568976Here are all episodes of an american TV show from the late 90's about the Internet of that time:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRRS0_Fn3uVRnOKeccbfYiii6m9opm2gt
>>106581273Japan still looks like 1998
>>106568976We stopped going to the webs for fun after 2016. Nowadays everything is on the Internet so you can’t disconnect. In 2012 I only went to the net to play Korean mmo slop with my frens and watch Pewdiepie
>>106568976Most of the real internet is on the darkweb now, even the legal stuff
>>106583245The happening has passed, you were too late.
