>internet before social media really took off>young people still had normal social lives>ideal level of technology that fulfilled its purpose without being addictive>cool y2k aesthetic>different youth subcultures still existing>no smartphonesAs an older zoomer I caught the tail end of the 2000s era internet and remember before monetisation and eceleb bullshit took over everything, and it makes me really wish I could have experienced it as a teenager and young adult instead of as a preteen.
Wasn't that great, the only difference is we were forced to interact a bit more and you guys aren't.The pandemic produced a mini generation of absolute retards that we will suffer in 10 or so years.
>>83282521why is this bitch so much uglier now
>>83282521as a younger zoomer I find a lot of zoomers to be retarded because a lot of what they do is to virtue signal or to show that they have a personality. Gen z have become so performative because of social media.
>>83282521>Millenials don't know how good they had it.Yes we do. We know EXACTLY how good we had it.
>>83282541It was much better, it obviously wasn't perfect, but it was much better than what we have now for sure.
>>83282521Oh, I know exactly how good I had it. Being young in the current era looks annoying.
>>83282578It's literally the worst era to be a young person. Soaring cost of living combined with a society catered to frying your dopamine receptors from an early age.
We did have it goodIt all went to hell in 2007
phones exterminated humanity. if i knew my blackberry would lead to infinite indians i wouldve ended it there
>>83282521tfw this bitch invented the mr beast face in order to sell canned shoe water to white trash while going to hollywood orgies
trust me we all know. watching the world turn to shit in such an overwhelming way has been like a fever dream
>>83282521>young people still had normal social livesWe robots didn't, though. If anything we were even more outcasts back then, at least for young robots today everyone's a terminally online shutin so young robots aren't as weird, relatively.
>>83282521We know how good we had it. In fact, I was just thinking about this earlier today actually. Mentally reminiscing over the early internet and gaming days and realizing how precious those moments were. On one hand the nostalgia is pleasant to remember but on the other hand it hurts knowing that's all lost to the past. The people from those days are gone or not the same. Now I just have those memories to think about to cope with how shit everything has become.
>>83282732It was even worse of a change for us though. The internet which was our only refuge took an even sharper plummet in quality than the real world.
>>83282732Sure, but at least the internet wasn't so shitty as it is now.
>>83282541Google's "selfish ledger" caused a generation of idiots who still watch cocomelon as >15 (as of this year, alphazooms). then we have the hyperantisocialmedia "follow/attention" peeps who use tiktok and instagram. This is what bigtech had done. Meta, Google, etc. made a generation of idiots but whether it is accidental or not is somewhat debatable. I guess it's a war between the two, the YT peeps seem to pipeline into minecraft autism (which is good) while the tiktok/insta/etc peeps become hypernormies (who don't even drink alcohol). Personally I think they are both fucked and needed to be pitied. Millennial (pre 2k) fags are quite fucked too since pandemics overlapped a lot with their "peak age (20s)" so it's a mix of three fucked generations that will become the cornerstone of future."Internet before social media" is just flash games, a bunch of mmos, decent mobile and pc games (before the specs-creep studios/devs), chatrooms/cams, and other boring stuff. Yes we grew up in the boring era, boredom sets us to make something or do something to stave it off so we had better entertainment not the kind where your current entertainment uses hooks and dark patterns to get you hooked - literal dopamine abuse tailored by the deep pockets of bigtech's selfish ledger.
>>83282798>where your current entertainment uses hooks and dark patterns to get you hookedI see how people are hooked to it but personally I'm struggling to even find something addicting to pass the time now. I barely even post on here anymore because the quality is so low now. 99% of youtube is generic predictable and boring. Tiktok is completely worthless, I've genuinely tried to scroll it for random interests of mine just to see and I get bored within 10 minutes and can't be bothered to check it again. Current MMOs and video games are also so boring, it's all live service stuff without any kind of real community. And even the communities that do exist are just around streamers now. I'm struggling to figure out what the hell is addicting to people now? It's all so generic and uninteresting.
>>83282521>no smartphonesthats the biggest point. internet stopped being fun when all the subhumans with their 50$ ching chong smartphones entered the internet. the small price barrier of owning a pc did a lot to keep the trash out. you can very clearly see this in multiplayer games even. add a small price tag and quality of players goes up, enable crossplay with consoles and you get annoying children everywhere. enable crossplay with phone users and the game becomes unplayable. if ping doesnt matter every other player has chinese letter name and disconnects every 30 seconds.
>>83282863I'm the same poster you replied to and yes it really gets boring. That is the lainverse telling you to continue with whatever you're working on and stop procrastinating. Every form of "light" entertainment becomes mundane (think of screens as part of the modern day plato cave), Lain urges you to look on somewhere else (happened to me also recently since I think the quantum strange received my wish). music is fine though as you can listen to music as you do your life's work and it never gets boring. I suggest to capitalize on the boring shit. Remember what we do when we get bored as a kid? read something that stimulates visual imagination, assemble some 'legos' or something or create something. It's time to quit to start.
>>83282521>MillennialsSo when I was growing up Gen Y and Millennials were seperate things but out of nowhere they got lumped together. My nephew who I was in high-school when they were born was a Millennial, now we're the "same group"I will reluctantly wear the Millennial title for the sake of this discussion.>don't know how good they had itNo, we do. We just don't phrase it correctly. We tend to phrase it more like:"Holy shit gen z and gen alph are totally fucked and it's horrible">2000S ERAyeah,it was peak.>Peak rock, rap, pop, etc.>Social media was social and fun>Smartphones were not much of a thing so people weren't on apps or the internet 24/7>ecelebs were a fuck you to corporate celebs and appreciated.But the best part was men and women didn't hate each other. Oh we talked shit but not the insanity of today. We also didn't fucking record everything and put everyone's business on blast.Seriously, I hate that our parents didn't do anything to regulate and stop social media
>>83282521You're only seeing the good parts. I'm the oldest zoomer '97 and I wouldn't want to be a millennial. They may have had a slightly less rotted childhood and teenage years than us but as adults they got absolutely screwed over financially and culturally and basically sucker punched. At least as zoomers we knew it was all a scam ahead of time. They all got told to get degrees and training to enter the professional world just to get completely betrayed. Same with marriage and other institutions. Basically they were brought up to believe the social contract was still in play, only to have it ripped apart and spit in their faces right after they already invested fully into the system and it was too late to turn back.
>>83282746>>83282746too trve mann
>>83282521Newgrounds forums were fun as a kid. Me and my brother were 'uge twolls
>>83282798Miss when it common to see whaletail
>>83282521>started using internet in 1996>never had friends longer than a couple years, sometimes none at all>expelled in 2002>on computer all the time, not allowed to go outside usually>all my social contact onwards was on forums>the world was not a y2k aesthetic meme>youth cultures were mostly skaterfags sexually harassing peopleI feel like a proto-zoomer
>>83282521i would turn this woman into an atheist on accident. not my fault honestly. that's the way it is. it always happens. i think it's the cum
>>83282552who is it please thank you for your help
>>83282521You are out of touch with how ubiquitous technology was even back then.I was born in 1990, which means the late 00's were my highschool years.In that timespan of 2000-2010:>Everyone was already glued to their phones, texting people>4chan came out in 2003>Facebook took off in 2006>The iPhone took off the very next year in 2007>Youtube started gaining mass popularity around then as well>Nerds like us were already hopelessly addicted to PC gaming, the early 00s were the prime era of gaming with titles like WoW, Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament, and RunescapeBy the 2010's everything you know today was already taking off. That was my early 20s. It was over before it began.
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>>83282521Yeah, as a 20yo gen z i almost hate millennials more than jews. Even most millennial "men" act like fucking women, attention whores, "depressed", suicidally empathetic non-logical political views, self-victimizing fuckers. If you were a millennial loser, that's completely your own fault. I will not make the same mistake and pretend i will have it any worse than gen alpha.
>>83282578>>83282589Not only that, but the extreme hatred and vitriol for white men hadn't set in yet before the mid 2010's or so. So they didn't experience a society that fundamentally hated them. 90% of millennial men would be incels if they were teens today.
>>83282521>Millenials don't know how good they had it. we know exactly how good we had it which is why we're so judgmental of gen z and why we're so depressed at the state of the worldi still remember being a normal child in the pre-internet world without everyone having a stupid fucking received personality from r*ddit or tumblr, with all these faggot made up libtard words shoved into the public lexicon that we all have to tolerate and pretend really mean anything
>>83282521I miss 00s internet. Corpos, glowies and shitskins ruined it.
>>83282541>Wasn't that greatlulthe 90s was the last decade where we actually lived in a sane reality before the jews or the reptilians or whoever turned the simulation dials for randomness and retardation up to 11
Remember when the internet was almost exclusively white? Good times.
>>83282521I know exactly how good we had it and I tell zoomers all the time that they missed the peak of civilization and I feel bad for them.
>>83284688The amount of upskirts and hard nipples Ive seen throughout highschool what a time
>>83282521>young people still had normal social livesThey still do by majority. The youth you are seeing online are just those weirdos that would be excluded normally it's just with social media they get the means to network with the other freaks. See the Furry community in both timelines. >ideal level of technology that fulfilled its purpose without being addictive that's just rose tinted glasses you are no different than baby boomer parents claiming the same thing about TV>different youth subcultures still existingsee first point. I think what's happen is you have no social networks in the real world and much like your parents before you just believe the slop your screens tell you rather than go out and find other people
>>83282521all those scene girls and skaters ended up being aligned to their true selves, they're all childless man-hating activist hags working 8 hours a day shuffling excel sheets and posting tiktoks about why men shouldn't exist
