if you knew how this shit pisses me off. people say that to not change opinion is foolish, but if they do this much (and get to be sellouts for quick fixes), then it boils my blood and think i have right to be pissed!
It's annoying and even sad, there are things that have a special essence, and they shouldn't reach the mainstream.
Correct yet overdue. thread is Next aisle on left. ("PROFILICITY AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY" /THREAD)
its sad isnt it?
Spook adoodle crew
Planet Killers
Chromies Homies
Lore Infected
Natalia Poklonskaya
roadhogs-roadies
pb-rage
Enjoy Paint Water
Everything getting repackaged and streamlined for the masses. It's like it's impossible to have your own "little corner"
what was old internet in 2007? netscape navigator and usenet? was their an 'old internet' aesthetic associated with that
i am like totally biased, but what they had it mightve been c. /(while there were TINC 1 (93-00/01), 2 (09-14...) and 3 (...17-20/21; if we are nearing another one in 3-5/25...)/ --- https://sites.google.com/view/utopistic-nostalgias/homeintro#h.rzfekoe5rndi
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I don't think it would matter much. They don't particularly like forums just due to the nature of it. There's a reason they like the aesthetic of 4chan, and don't actually like 4chan. It's like how those old vsco girls or whatever they were got into analogue cameras. They weren't actually going out and taking pictures with them, they just got the camera, drove the price of film gear up for a little bit, then quit using them. Worst case scenario is they find the website, post some screenshots. Maybe it gets flooded with introductions but they quickly find out they don't like the place and go back to TikTok when they get bored. Besides, this place doesn't seem that huge. It's kind of small and cozy to my eyes. I don't imagine theres millions of users here. Maybe in the lower tens of thousands and thats pushing it, until I see a number, because theres barely 2k threads in general and most of the replies will be people talking amongst themselves. In the other big one, esoteric, theres not even a thousand. Forums are too much of a slow burn in todays world of fast paced instant dopamine hit everything.
That's a big part of it too. Remember kids coming up to you back in the day and showing you gore and weird porn? One kid tried to trick me into poisoning my dog, but he's a sociopath and an asshole. Story for another day.
I'm guessing there's multiple flavors of old internet. You have the early 90s with Usenet, late 90s to early 2000s with Geocities, and late 2000s to early 2010s with MySpace.
reminds me how the romans visited ancient greece and sparta as tourist attractions. Did the people of myspace look back with this same nostalgic, touristic reverence towards some other period like the usenet days?
As a zoomer who likes old internet things and wearing Y2K clothes and shit, I feel targeted lol.
The renewal of rage comics points heavily to this. It's young people doing it, too. Now, 18-21 or so. I mean that's how old they are now. It revived with the whole "oil floats on water" thing. I guess that was 2020 so they may be older. Either way, it never really died, just went out of the limelight for a bit. Then schizo posting came about. The whole troll face eldritch horror thing. The only real difference is we have wojaks instead of rage comics now. It's functionally the same thing, just the same art style instead of a few similar ones mashed together. I basically grew up on the things so it was nice seeing them come back. At least for a little while
It definitely isn't as strong a nostalgia as it is today, ofc. Today we're talking about aesthetics and culture nearly 2 decades old, but I frankly don't remember a lot of people wishing to go back that much back in 2007 (That would be '87! Most people wouldn't even have connections to any nets at home!). Definitely a lot of "back in my days" about mid-to-late-'90s though. As far as I remember, the digital "aesthetic" culture wasn't as strong as today, so people didn't really associate any particular aesthetic with the old net, though this might just be my then-disinterest speaking.
