The internet before:>ha ha I posted a random video, whooooaaaa isn't that crazy ha ha let's all laugh about itThe internet now:>here is some out of context heavily altered content, as you can see the BLACK TRANNY MIGRANT snuck into OUR COUNTRY and JEWED our white christian babies into SEX RAPE, it is imperative that we KILL people NOW!!!! As violently as possible!!!!What went wrong?
>>108678281I think you're on the wrong board, /pol/ is two blocks down, jabroni.
>>108678281I'm getting really tired of it now. I think I'm obliged I was a good sport admit it for what ten years now and didn't say much which was probably a mistake>>108678317The issue is it's everywhere now. On /g/ it's some pajeets shitEven on /a/ now
>>108678281>What went wrong?russian money influencing western politics and nobody cares.remember when tim pool and benny johnson were proven to be getting literally millions in russia money to push their talking points? tim is now part of the white house press pool in some capacity because he pushed that slop.nobody cares on the right about this
Yeah. We said nigger a lot back then, but in an endearing fashion.
>>108678807>Yeah. We said nigger a lot back then, but in an endearing fashioneuros, mainly scandanavians, have been saying it a lot the last few years, idk why it caught on so much over there considering they don't have any black people
>>108678825Well, Russians sure love pretending that's the case.
>>108678281Retards go a hold of it.No, seriously, shithole countries like india, russia, ukraine, brazil and the likes were allowed in, as a result we get these fucking mouthbreathers.There is also the structural change towards people getting angrier, the world is so much more vitriolic now, there are 2 wars going on and i don't see an end to this
>>108678986>ukraineone of these things is not like the otherukraine was actually a tech hub in east euro, they had really great infrastructure before the war lots of shit was hosted out of ukraine data centers.
>>108678281>what went wrong?Some gaming journalist chick fucked five guys
internet was an unapologetically silly place that wasn't real life until steve jobs gave normies the iphone.
>>108678281>What went wrong?normies ruined it like they ruin everything
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>>108678281All the old material started to be culturally purged and existing communities were brainrotted by social media like Twitter.A lot of the people who were actually making creative and fun things got brainwashed by Twitter just look at Retsupurae or a majority of the people at TGWTG they suddenly went hyper SJW because they got brainwashed by Twitter activism. Some of them, like spoony, stopped making content all together because it’s easier to bitch on Twitter or blusky all day, retweet the latest activism and livestream than it is to make actual fun content.
>>108678281You're old. Times change.
>>108681111thanks for your vapid platitude
did someone say sex rape?
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>>108678281Phoneposters
>>108678281>What went wrong?Government actors pushed the "Everything is political" meme.Now everything is political, and surprise, politically-obsessed faggots are genuinely the worst people imaginable to associate with, this was true even before the internet was a thing. No one wants to associate with faggots like pic related all of the time. But if you saturate the only medium of communication with these types of people, they reproduce. They are asexual protozoa who reproduce through posting ragebait. The Cambrian explosion of politically obsessed faggots who sucked all the joy out of the internet was Gamergate.
>>108681120It's not vague, and not a platitude.Just a legitimate answer to OP's question.
>>108681175>>108681111NTA even old people when we were young weren't as fucking obnoxious as everyone, including young people, are right now.We are WAY WORSE as a generation than our parents ever were to ourselves and younger generations. Kids today are just learning that everyone is an asshole and they should grow up to be assholes in turn.
>>108681218Yeah, that's what I'm saying.Times change.
>>108678281>What went wrong?The Enlightenment
The pressure is on the left for once so society is having a "reap what you sow" moment. If it makes you uncomfortable you're probably on the wrong side of history, or something.Sharing le funny videos and cat pictures never left the internet, you left it because you fell for the ragebait. Now you're in the meatgrinder because you thought it was the path to a better future. Are we having fun yet?>What went wrong?Erm, black tranny migrants jewed our Christian babies into sex rape? Are you not paying attention?
>>108678281its almost like.. that shift in content... was deliberate.. wow..
>>108678825Everyone that isn't white as snow is a nigger.t. scandi
>>108685089Can confirm.
Money.
>>108678807>I like when niggers tongue my anusFag
>>108681020/thread
>>108678281>enjoyed his blissful ignorancedeal with it.
>>108678281Normies and thirdworlders deciding to use the internet more.
>>108678795>russianyes russia lol
>>108681045>Only 8 terabyte'sThat can fit on a single hard drive today. The first terabyte hard drive came out in 2007. Why didn't anyone save it while they had the chance? HTTrack has been around since 1998
current humor is based on forced memes, while the oldfags of then hated forced memes. whatever the state of young people on the internet, brainrot just isn't funny.
>>108678281Sir, this is a Wendy's
>>108685089This but unironically. Americans already see everybody with the slightest tint of light-brown as being a black person.
>>108681167this is correct. but you excluded other types of indoctrinated groups be it political/ideological or religious/anti-religious.in the end it is the same puke attempting the same thing - to indoctrinate and thrives on misery of others.i remember when they started appearing in the mmos around 2008/2009 or so.
>>108685599I miss huehuehue, f2p is always a mistake.
>>108685484>brainrot just isn't funnywrong again, Flanders
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>>108678281I'm barely on mainstream sites (including 4chan) anymore. Everything is centered on American politics and identity wars... it's depressing.
>>108686655Apparently this is true on the foreign language internet, too.I was thinking at one time of just learning a different language and leaving the English internet for good so I never had to listen to Americhimps babbling about their problems, but apparently that's not an option
>>108678281>What went wrong?Information warfare, and the eventual escalation of this tactic by every nation on Earth that wants to call themselves a global super power. The problem is there's no definitive defense against this, so the geniuses in charged all decided "if there's no defense then let's just try more offense." So now instead of just one single country spreading misinformation online it's forced every nation to spread misinformation online. Great fucking plan ya dinguses.
>>108685484I've got to admit I find these Agarthan math videos pretty funny (I'm an older millennial): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bA9mpFl_JA
>>108678795youre a part of the problem
>>108687094I see the most retarded political threads during hours when Americans are asleep. Also I recall a political thread on /v/ was full of self-admitted Russians and slavniggers so go figure
>>108686655As the other anon said, it's also bad on other languages too. Even on Futaba Channel, a Japanese imageboard for hardcore otaku, they now have a red bold banner telling people not to discuss politics, and in many threads you see people getting mad about political stuff anyway. There are still some more niche sites with a more laid-back atmosphere that feels like the old internet, but I'm afraid they're the exception.Also, I'm afraid LLMs are going to make this trend even worse, as spamming and astroturfing will essentially become free for everyone.
>>108678825>considering they don't have any black people20 years ago this was true
retards get baited. what else is new?
People used to be very oblivious.Now they are not.
>>108678281The fact that your idea of the old Internet is the most normalfaggy possible thing and you don't know that every board has been /pol/-lite for the past 10 years (and before /pol/ they were called stormfags, they weren't invented by random YouTubers like >>108678795 seems to think. And COVID specifically was such a shitshow where a lot of people were censored, debanked, forcible medicated, and so on. If you really don't understand why people talk the way they do then you will never learn and continue to shake your fist at it while the world moves past you. Basically, you fucked it all up and the toothpaste isn't going back in the tube. Making the cold blooded assassination of a poltiical podcaster (Charlie Kirk) into a meme certainly isn't helping anyone de-escalate. So yeah, you're woefully clueless and can only survive in a highly censored and curated Internet (which is the complete opposite of what the old Internet was like btw).
>>108679094The five guys were the journalists, the chick was a """game""" """developer"""
>>108687599I agree. I'd add there's an entire micro-generation that grew up on the internet in a walled garden. They genuinely can't fathom other worldviews exist and think people who disagree with them are just evil.To those people it must seem new. And I'm seeing them unironically "this is what they took from us" post.>2018-2023>as you can see the NAZI CAPITALIST OPPRESSOR vandalized OUR DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR to induct our trans kids into CHRISTO-FASCISMlmao, fafo
>>1086782812016 is the real break point.
>>108692101that's a real fuckin funny way to spell 2015
>>108681127>who is Ray William Johnson>who is nigahiga>who is Shane Dawson
>>108692930idkidkidkidk was i meant to know
>>108678281The elites
>>108678281Read Mails from the Epstein files. They orchestrated this downfall. This isn't a conspiracy theory, this is a confirmed conspiracy.
>>108692930Don't forget the hundreds of reply girls that would steal the title and thumbnail of those viral videos to disguise their shitty reactions. Youtube was borderline unusable from 2009-12 when they finally fixed recommendations and got rid of the reply feature. It's way easier to avoid all this react/commentary bullshit these days but now it's all people seem to watch.
>>108687599>>108685599It was the combination of the internet becoming mainstream and pivotal that coincided with them feeling that they are powerful enough to force everyone as well.
>>108681127>she doesn't watch youtube shortsyou asked for this
>>108687599It’s more of a vibe shift I think. It used to be more fun, nerds coming together. Now everyone is playing the blame game (like you) and the lowest intelligence talking points seem to be the norm. It’s not weird, I think. Retarded people have been spewing their retarded opinions since forever. They used to be contained in local cafés. But now they have a world wide platform. And they can be reached by Russian misinformation faster than before, creating even more retarded opinions in them. In short, normies unironically killed the internet.
>>108694146ok hillary clinton bot tell us more about how evil russia is siphoning our money to israel in ukraine
Whats up with the Nafo fella on this thread?
>>108694174They are sowing dissent on social media and finance populist far right groups in Europe. Look into the financing of Front National in France. AFD in Germany. FvD in the Netherlands, that party of Orban in Hungary. It’s all the same story.
>>108681130This. Phones enabled everything else discussed in the thread.
>>108678281Yeah back in 2006-2008 we had OC meme threads on /b/, imagine that, it wasn't just 24/7 porn.
>>108687599Do you think 10 years ago was the old internet?
>>108678281Money went digital in an easily accesible way, and payouts started rolling in for pushing the most clickable/popular content which is always going to be anger based.Take the money out of the internet and it would return to a peaceful landscape almost overnight, but that can't happen without extreme reform and actual legal accountability for the entities that control the social media platforms.There are too many problems in and around this to actually spell out without writing a thesis level document on it, but the key points are>social media platform monetization schemes reward ragebaiting almost exclusively>people are online by "default" now, most people never switch off their internet connection>lack of accountability in people for their own actions and wellbeing online>Algorithmic hate pushing being spewed into peoples brains 24/7 since again, ragebait is the most clicked content>huge bot farms pushed by foreign interests constantly manipulating algorithms and pushing content designed to demoralize people and generate angerI type this out but I don't have much of an answer on how to fix it, I will say it helps us all to individually understand how to disengage with the big tech giants and self-host services. An old laptop with a hard drive connected can pull off a pretty incredible amount of what you might depend on big tech for from photo/media backup management to a private cloud system for accessing services on your home network from outside the home.Just turn off the internet sometimes, stick some locally played music/media on and don't be online 24/7, it'll help you a lot to go even half a day without seeing a notification anons.
>>108695416I agree with you, and have nothing to add.
>>108694416Those are all jew controlled controlled opposition. So following your logic, Jews use Russian money to orchestrate the downfall of the west. Makes sense. Russia outlawed Holocaust denial
