punishedgnome
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I'm 38. I was born in 1984. I was like 20 in the Internet's heyday. I like this site, but it seems there are just a couple people over 30 with most people born in the late 90s/early 2000s who are nostalgic for that time in the same way I'd be nostalgic for the 1980s. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.Is this just a place where zoomers bask in a faux-nostalgic and completely bastardised version of the (internet) past?
I found this place after searching for more info on the dead internet theory after I saw it on SA forums (and subsequently the fucking Atlantic quoted a post from that thread because the state of journalism isn't dire enough), and because the internet and wider culture seems to have stopped dead in it's tracks and started looping the same shit over and over. Reading through a few select threads it seemed like there's some 30+ old folks here but looking at the introductions thread...there's a lot of "I was born yesterday but love the nostalgia of vaporwave".
I realise vaporwave is the main draw here but tell me if I've come to the wrong site because MAN the internet is so shit now with zoomers who continually regurgitate the same tired variations of wojak and pepe and chasing views by appealing to the lowest common denominator.
The closest approximation to old school SA from around 2003-2008 and whatnot is probably honestly Kiwi Farms which has a pretty big off topic section that is filled with mostly people 25-40, but the level of pure autism on Kiwi Farms is off the charts and that comes with its own set of problems.