I was there, I remember. Watched slashdot get completely taken over by gay commies. Was there when FARK banned "misogyny". When Penny arcade groveled to the fat feminists over a really mild joke where a mention of rape was a part of the setup.
The iphone let women get on the internet without having to deal with an icky and "complicated" desktop computer and that was the mortal wound. From there the bleed out was inevitable as every "mainstream" site fell over itself purging anything that women complained about.
I remember how comic books devolved from any interesting mix of genres and story into an amorphic blob of virtue signaling and now its mainly just older 'collectors' chasing after key issues of a bygone era.
no, normies ruined the internet when the first [easy to use] smart phone, the iphone was released in 2007. Previously, the internet wasnt the domain of normies, and it horrified them because users were rude, it was wild and scary, and you had to be somewhat aware of what you were doing.
My final comment on Slashdot was on an article that was yet another screed bitching about how bad men in (tech/gaming/whatever. I forget) were, and how the (male) author was trying to fix it for women.
I posted a sarcastic response excoriating all of the "toxic" men in my midst (many of whom were defending the article) as not understanding the plight of these poor, helpless women. Unlike myself, the One True Man, who would be the savior of womankind.
Then I started reddit on r/atheism right before elevator gate. Got introduced to the Men's Rights subreddit that I browed through looking for laughs, and instead found that they actually had a point and that the edgy atheists mocking them were just morons.
I had forgotten this, but my experience was very similar. There was one poster on Slashdot who I found kept making reasonable points. He also posted something about this "gamergate" thing which I had never heard of, or only vaguely had any clue what it was.
I followed him to Reddit, discovered KiA, some men's rights subreddits, red pill (which I never bought into that much, but I found some respectable ideals and people), etc.
This must have been late 2016 or 2017.
I just looked up that guy on slashdot. He hasn't posted since 2020 and most of his last comments were modded to 0.
Because the idea that men had any issues in society was so unthinkable to them (and me, at the time, given I'd received the same brainwashing that they had) that it was hilarious to even suggest that there should be any sort of advocacy for men at all.
Pretty much none of this shit would have happened without smartphones, and especially the “made for dummies” IPhone…
But also social media. Pre-Facebook (in particular), and also Twitter, there just… We just didn’t even hear this sort of shit, out loud, most of the time…
Leftists would argue that it is somehow a “good” thing that “marginalized voices are being heard”. But this is, of course, the perhaps inevitable end result of that, lol…
There's also an April Fools short when Tankman and Steve 'kneel' because of BLM.
Tom Fulp made an "April Fools" game where Cassandra (the school shooter) laments about people being homophobic on Earth.
Oh my fucking God.
Also, they removed a line in FnF that mentioning School Shootings. Man, FnF is going to suck when the full game comes out. At this point, I think the singing lemon may be the least Liberal character.
I remember some asshole calling me a faggot ages ago...I blocked that guy and was done with it. I mostly experienced the net 2004ish, was a wild time and it's sorely missed.
You youngons get off my lawn!! I been on the net from the old 28 dile up. Things like rotten.com and the sterilesite.com (watched a guy kill himself live on that one) and surfingtheapocalypse.com were everywhere. We all thought it was going to be a bastion of freedom to do whatever you wanted. Napster started the downfall.
Same with misinformation. There is a basic skill in filtering out truth from fiction. If we outsource critical thinking to "reliable sources" and other authority figures, we dull that ability and it makes it even easier to fool us.
I think you're on to something, make me a 5000 word thesis on the evolution of the internet, goatse.cx as a case study, and the epistemological downfall of availability of information.
You forgot Something Awful and 4Chan from that era. Most of the memes, videos, and what not came from there. The SA Goons were incredible at what they did.
PS: i remember TF2 had an achievement which, in so many words, was getting a player to rage-quit. LOL!
Reminder that the left embraced edgyness because they wanted to get back at conservatives, once the later lost their cultural relevance they went mask off
Yeah, now the left just does this weird self purification ritual where, after they finish jacking to hentai, they go online and talk about how hentai is sexist and needs to be cancelled.
I was there, I remember. Watched slashdot get completely taken over by gay commies. Was there when FARK banned "misogyny". When Penny arcade groveled to the fat feminists over a really mild joke where a mention of rape was a part of the setup.
The iphone let women get on the internet without having to deal with an icky and "complicated" desktop computer and that was the mortal wound. From there the bleed out was inevitable as every "mainstream" site fell over itself purging anything that women complained about.
I remember how comic books devolved from any interesting mix of genres and story into an amorphic blob of virtue signaling and now its mainly just older 'collectors' chasing after key issues of a bygone era.
no, normies ruined the internet when the first [easy to use] smart phone, the iphone was released in 2007. Previously, the internet wasnt the domain of normies, and it horrified them because users were rude, it was wild and scary, and you had to be somewhat aware of what you were doing.
Those non-normie are probably trying to score some pussy.
Leftism has to infect everything.
File under 'How did women get the vote?'
In the UK the average man never had the vote until millions of them died in WW1.
Women got the vote in the exact same election cycle- after doing fuck all.
There were several bombings and quite a few arsons involved.
They should have gotten the rope instead of the vote, but the hunter-gatherer instincts were too strong.
Getting raped to sleep by the dick wolves.
And wotc is the cancer these days, sadly.
Haha, I still read Slashdot sometimes. It's like the same like 15 autistic commentors who reeeee over everything.
I used to have some really good conversations on there.
My final comment on Slashdot was on an article that was yet another screed bitching about how bad men in (tech/gaming/whatever. I forget) were, and how the (male) author was trying to fix it for women.
I posted a sarcastic response excoriating all of the "toxic" men in my midst (many of whom were defending the article) as not understanding the plight of these poor, helpless women. Unlike myself, the One True Man, who would be the savior of womankind.
Then I started reddit on r/atheism right before elevator gate. Got introduced to the Men's Rights subreddit that I browed through looking for laughs, and instead found that they actually had a point and that the edgy atheists mocking them were just morons.
I had forgotten this, but my experience was very similar. There was one poster on Slashdot who I found kept making reasonable points. He also posted something about this "gamergate" thing which I had never heard of, or only vaguely had any clue what it was.
I followed him to Reddit, discovered KiA, some men's rights subreddits, red pill (which I never bought into that much, but I found some respectable ideals and people), etc.
This must have been late 2016 or 2017.
I just looked up that guy on slashdot. He hasn't posted since 2020 and most of his last comments were modded to 0.
Interesting, why were the edgy atheists mocking MRA? I mean, besides the obvious fact that they are lefties. I just wouldn't expect that interaction.
Because the idea that men had any issues in society was so unthinkable to them (and me, at the time, given I'd received the same brainwashing that they had) that it was hilarious to even suggest that there should be any sort of advocacy for men at all.
Yeah, you’re right.
Pretty much none of this shit would have happened without smartphones, and especially the “made for dummies” IPhone…
But also social media. Pre-Facebook (in particular), and also Twitter, there just… We just didn’t even hear this sort of shit, out loud, most of the time…
Leftists would argue that it is somehow a “good” thing that “marginalized voices are being heard”. But this is, of course, the perhaps inevitable end result of that, lol…
The necessity of gatekeeping.
Newgrounds is slowly being taken over by libshits. This fucking future, man.
There's also an April Fools short when Tankman and Steve 'kneel' because of BLM.
Oh my fucking God.
Also, they removed a line in FnF that mentioning School Shootings. Man, FnF is going to suck when the full game comes out. At this point, I think the singing lemon may be the least Liberal character.
I remember some asshole calling me a faggot ages ago...I blocked that guy and was done with it. I mostly experienced the net 2004ish, was a wild time and it's sorely missed.
You youngons get off my lawn!! I been on the net from the old 28 dile up. Things like rotten.com and the sterilesite.com (watched a guy kill himself live on that one) and surfingtheapocalypse.com were everywhere. We all thought it was going to be a bastion of freedom to do whatever you wanted. Napster started the downfall.
You can still see that on Facebook Live, that's allowed.
Yeah, but this made history as the first time. Now it is as common as REEEEEEEEEEE
I think the turning point was the removal of goatse.cx
I know you are joking but hear me out - the human mind needs occasional shocks and surprises for it to know what is shocking and surprising.
If you try to remove “shocking” things then your brain rebalances and you need to remove even milder “shocking” things.
Its like these people become addicted to safety.
Same with misinformation. There is a basic skill in filtering out truth from fiction. If we outsource critical thinking to "reliable sources" and other authority figures, we dull that ability and it makes it even easier to fool us.
I think you're on to something, make me a 5000 word thesis on the evolution of the internet, goatse.cx as a case study, and the epistemological downfall of availability of information.
Every day Marxists are thirsting for more safety:
https://twitter.com/houmanhemmati/status/1612635584539033603?s=21
Stop it with promoting pornography
you don't get it, we have to jack it to children drawn by middle-aged japanese men to own the libs.
Wonder when "watch CP to own the libs" will make a start.
You forgot Something Awful and 4Chan from that era. Most of the memes, videos, and what not came from there. The SA Goons were incredible at what they did.
PS: i remember TF2 had an achievement which, in so many words, was getting a player to rage-quit. LOL!
Reminder that the left embraced edgyness because they wanted to get back at conservatives, once the later lost their cultural relevance they went mask off
Well, with FnF being released on there, its bound to become more kiddy.
Also, there will never be any more 'edgy' games like Pico's School ever again.
That's still happening in the 2020s and is a lot more pervasive than before.
Yeah, now the left just does this weird self purification ritual where, after they finish jacking to hentai, they go online and talk about how hentai is sexist and needs to be cancelled.
The internet going mainstream has been a disaster.
To each his own but there's no way Chad Doge would have enough T for those gains if he's fapping to hentai.