What was /mu/ like in 2010-2013? I only started browsing in 2014. How different was the culture?
>>131337923I don't know. I only started browsing in 2020.
>>131338014Thank you for your input anyway.
lots of tripfags, much less top 40 pop, more memes, less frogs, sharethreads, more humorous shitposting, less mean spirited shitposting, /mu/core
>implying anyone still here remembers /mu/ in 2010
>>131338137I don't remember 2010 at all (drugs.)
>>131338014What was it like in 2020?
>>131337923old /mu/ really loved the Beatles. that's all I remember.
>>131337923Fantano/p4k echo chamber
>>131337923Shit
>>1313380634chan in general has become more genuinely mean spirited I feel
>>131339346Really? Maybe it depends on the board but I think 4chan has softened quite a bit over time. Or maybe it just has in relation to the rest of the Internet, which has definitely gotten more psychotic and angry over the years.
>>131339534This. Old /mu/ was full of insecure assholes who probably didn't even enjoy music all that much. The vibes were bad.
>>131339534It was mean spirited in the past ofc, but there was a sense that no one took it too seriously which took the edge off. Everything feels like serious business now.
>>131339654People are generally dumber now. Invokes starker reactions in people
>>131337923It was an empire in decline. The quality of input peaked in 2009.
>>131339534>>131339654>>131339663The real issue is that the normies are not alright. I would say that poor mental health has become the norm. If you aren't crazy you are now the outlier.
>>131339675>this board isn't good cause people are dumb>yeah it's the normal peoples faultThanks for proving my point.Pushing empathy as a buzzword has damaged you people. The world isnt meant for all of us to get along all the time. Conflict is nature.Being trained to be docile and to never say anything wrong does shit to your brain.Of course i dont mean you should go out the street and hit random people or call people slurs.Also also, chemicals in processed foods are a big part of why everyone is retarded. Notice who eats what and how
>>131339669/mu/ didn't even exist until 2010 you faggot
>>131339691I wasn't implying anything you just said. Wtf? My point is, that regular people in society are more mentally fucked now than anyone on here.
>>131337923I do genuinely wonder what this board was like in 2006 or so. You never see screencaps from before 2012, it's like the board didn't even exist culturally. What kind of music was popular on /mu/ back then? What kinds of memes were being made? The world may never know.
>>131339722>that regular people in society are more mentally fucked now than anyone on here.Okay.Let's do a survey.How many of you people have a full time job
>>131339772The modern workplace is part of what makes the normie so insane in 2026. So much more is expected of a worker today compared to 30 years ago. Neets, bums etc are more mentally sane than your average worker today.
>>131339749this is a /mu/ meme from 2006. it was mostly bad metal. by the millionth post indie such as NMH had taken hold, ITAOTS the most notorious of /mu/ memes.
>>131339863forgot pic
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>>131339870I keep forgetting how strangely sweet and innocent a lot of the boards on this website used to be.
>>131339799ok so you leech off of either the govt or your parents and have no friends so you shit up an internet forum cause you need someone to like you (empathy)
>>131340032I’m not the anon you’re arguing with but you’re a perfect example of how angry and insane everyone is getting. You’re simply not well and not of a sound mind.
>>131340106im 99% right in his case and you dont know him so shut the fuck up
>>131340139Calm down, it’s OK
>>131339716bait
>>131339874That's awful.
>>131337923More fun, more stupid, more banter, most posters were genuinely nice to each other, sharethread gems, smarter regarding industry plants/astroturf music, gatekeeping in a good way, no wpop/kpop nonsense if you had simps it was for girls who at least had some interesting music like yeye girls or Kate bush (not counting grimes and st vincent waifufags)
>>131338911/mu/ didn't really start becoming a fantano "echo chamber" till after the money store came out and suddenly a new wave of reddit tourists invaded our board. and id say the height of his reign on this board lasted till the fader article like 5 years later
And we used to check em on the board here. They don't do that anymore. Things changed, you see. They don't check em anymore on the board
>>131340801Uwere so close
Not sure I miss this part Tbh
It was alright up until 2013 or so when a bunch of tripfags tried turning this board into /r9k/-lite. I jad to fuck off to /vr/ for a couple of years before that bullshit died the fuck down.
>>131338137>>131338692I remember in 2009 when the remasters came out. The vaat majority of /mu/ was loving it, though there was this one tripfag who would always trash the Beatles to no end. I found out later on that he was pretty much the first real Scaruffi drone on this board, which is where his Beatles hate and other forms of contrarianism came from.
>>131340869In 2010 this was satire.If this thread happened in 2026, it would be sincere.
I’ve been coming to /mu/ since 2012. I can’t remember a whole lot, but basically from what I recall we had multiple itaots, animal collective, grimes, Kanye, death grips threads a day. Lotta celebrity gossip and people digging into artists personal lives. Uhh… bunch of celebrities got started here. Like childish gambino posted his mixtape here before he got famous. I remember downloading that. Joey badass dropped his mixtape here too. Posters in general were far more obnoxious and elitist about their tastes in music, which always made it great fun to talk shit about their favorites. Sharethreads, last.fm threads, and believe it or not you could actually get decent recs here back then. There’s more but yeah
>>131339691>Of course i dont mean you should go out the street and hit random people or call people slurs.You know what convinces people not do these things without having to be outright told to not do these things? Basic empathy. It's enough for a person to cone to such basic realisations as "I wouldn't like it if other people did this to me, so I it's best for me not to do it to other people."The only people "Pushing empathy as a buzzword" are the same people teeling you it's bad. I never heard anyone on The Left™ talk about empathy like you're assuming they do before people on The Right™ started collectively saying "Empathy is bad because... It just is, OKAY?!"Also, thanks for letting us know about your deficient level of both social and emotional intelligence. I'm assuming that's why you're here in the first place
>>131340032can’t wait to clock in at Good Goyim LLC and work 60 hours a week just to afford rent and groceries! God, at least I’m not like one of those parasites who get to sit around and enjoy life. I’m better than them, because I ENJOY being a slave!
>>131337923There was a guy called Quentin, who posted on /mu and some other boards, he was really really funny.
>>131341037>Posters in general were far more obnoxious and elitist about their tastes in musicThis is what I hated so much about old /mu/.
>>131341123Based
>>131341147Yeah it was annoying but at the same time I got a lot of good laughs out of shitting on indie darlings like Neutral Milk Hotel. They’d come out of the woodwork like roaches if you said anything negative
>>131341123YWNFAW
>>131341141because of Quentin I have never smoked the marijuana, thankyou Quentin
>>131340858This is a gross misrepresentation. Tripfags were the life and soul of old/mu/, sure there were one or two idiots but the vast, overwhelming majority were thoughtful, intelligent and constructive posters who contributed daily to both serious music discussion and the general culture and community of the board. In a very real sense they were Patricians who did their best to guide and educate lowly plebeian Anons.
>>131341387Shut the fuck up, CLT
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>>131341387Which one are you?
>>131341486I'm not on there>May '14I had started to drift away from /mu/ by then and wasn't posting much.
>>131341486holy shit look at all those genetic wastelands
>>131337923there were no zoomers so it was infinitely better
>>131341486Further proof every generation is worse than the last.
>>131341123>i enjoy life by sittting around, posting on dead internet forumsEpic shit
>>131341588>bokunotripfagThat dude was an unbelievable faggot.
>>131341619wtfI liked BNT, he was always friendly to me and I never saw him be an asshole to anyone
>>131341655Why don't you marry him if he made your bussy quiver so fiercely then.
>>131341387No they weren't, Redditor.
>>131341311He changed my mind about videogames and literature. I honestly say thank you, Quentin.
>>131342675You're still here. You are no Diamond Dog.
>>131342738>You're still hereI love this kind of passive agressive cope lmao>>131341587
nobody here liked boomer rock until boomer election tourists invaded /mu/ in 2016
>>131337923Christgau posting wasn't a thing yet and there were no schizoids who hated 50s pop music. like, i mean you can look in the Desu archiv and. there wasn't any mention of when Patti Page and Eydie Gorme died in '13 whereas if that was now /mu/ would have a 100+ post rant thread how they were worse than Satan or something like that.
>>131337923Taylor Swift was just another pop singer and only started to be hated in '13.
>>131342892No however I did remember when Donna Summer died in 2012 and everyone was like tf? who cares? i'm not a 50 year old gay man.
>>131342878If you posted a KISS thread back then it would get saged and flamed instead of a 150 post dead-serious discussion like it would get now.
>>131337923No mentions of AI at all, it was never brought up back then.
>>131341123Lmao i work 20 hours a month and earn 6 times my rent. Im left with more than half my income to save every month. How's the mold in the corner of your room
>>131342921Well yeah if you looked into threads like /daily/ or any other one with people who actually listened to real music, it would make sense. Now all those people are gone cause retards who like music for brain damaged people cannot be argued with
back then those were the days. grimes used to post here, julian casablancas posted here. we got a lot more input from moot back then and this was sort of the de facto board for 4chan. fantano was just a tripfag back then and surprisingly we had a good relationship with ebaums
>>131343042they only started having janitors in 12 when the idea was suggested to Moot
>>131343067Taylor Swift may or may not have posted here.
>>131343042I remember /sp/ and /int/ before they had flags.
>>131343042>mods would ban people for breaking the rulesSounds pretty nice ngl
>>131343094is this the name my kitten thingidk if that was real but it was pretty convincing
circa 2011:>the cooldown time between posts was only 30 seconds>you could bump own threads as much as you wanted instead of every five minutes>there were no cooldown times between thread posts or a 5 post per board limit, you could post basically as many threads as you wanted>there didn't used to be any quick reply so you posted only with the reply box at the top of the thread>spam filters would usually generate a permaban so you could be accidentally permabanned for tripping a filter you didn't know was there>no flags on /sp/ and /int/ (added 2012)>some boards such as /sp/ and /int/ don't let you delete your own thread whereas that wasn't the case back then>only one minute to delete own post in a thread instead of ten>the site crashed a lot due to ddos attacks>captchas were much more annoying and retarded
>>131343279BTW, I know the origin of the /mu/ in X year threads. It was originally a 2012 /sp/ meme where anons started doing /sp/ in X year threads and eventually it spread to every board. However I don't think it was really done on /mu/ much back then.
