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Did anyone ever felt a great social shift in or after 2012? 2012 was the year people said that the world was going to end, obviously it didn't but maybe something did happened and we didn't notice it at least during that time.
He's an interesting video on it.
Some people on Kiwifarms think so too.
He's an interesting video on it.
Some people on Kiwifarms think so too.
The end of the world did happen in 2012, it's just not everyone noticed.
9/11 was when Clown Airlines started towards the runway, 2012 and Occupy was when the acceleration down the runway began, 2016 and Orange Man Bad was when the plane took off, and 2020 is when cruising altitude was reached and fasten seatbelt sign was turned off.
(and the non-stop flight seems to be flying towards tyranny airport)
December 21st, 2012
It all began on the day the Mayans said an era ends and a new one begins.
2012 happened to be around the time Occupy was derailed by SJWs, and when "smartphones" and "social media" really took off.
I think 2012 was the tipping point, or the point of no return, or whatever you want to call it. In 2013 I got pushback from a friend for saying "faggot" who had been totally fine with it in 2012. That personal anecdote aside, 2012/2013 is also the year likes started overtaking retweets on Twitter. If you go back to popular accounts from the early 2010s and look at their tweets you can see the shift yourself. I don't know if that's a coincidence or not but it's interesting. Anyway, up until 2012 I feel most people could say and do just about anything online without repercussions, but in that year, or at the absolute latest the following year, that changed and speech started to be really heavily policed. This also lines up with the timeline of the consolidation of the Internet from tens of thousands of sites to a few dozen, all owned by a handful of companies. I remember in the mid-2000s I personally would regularly visit (at least once a week) 60 or more websites. Most people these days don't even regularly visit 10. Everything becoming increasingly monopolized and corporatized happened at right the same time speech started getting policed more heavily. No way is that a coincidence.
However, there were a few outliers that looking back were a portent of things to come. Before cancel culture, way back in late 2010, I remember a member of a forum I went to at the time was ridiculed from the community because a troon had a grudge against him. He and the troon had had some conversations where he said cancellable things, like how he exclusively viewed trannies as sex objects and not as people, among other things. The troon, who was not a member of this community, came onto the board to expose this and he left the community in shame after we all dogpiled him, and I will admit I joined in on the dogpile, mainly because I disliked him for other personal reasons.
And there's other little things from before then. I remember first hearing in 2006 or so this exact phrase: "sex is what you are, gender is how you feel." And one I'm sure others here may have heard: "America isn't a melting pot, it's a salad bowl."
So while I think 2012 or, at latest, 2013, was when things really started to go off the cliff, it had been brewing for years, even decades.
My personal opinion is this has been building since the end of WW2 in Europe. Everything up to the present day that's gay and retarded is because of what I feel is an overreaction, in the aftermath of the war, to things that happened in it. The Holocaust was sooo bad we have to over-correct and just fuck our shit up for generations to come, and here we are where your entire life is ruined because in 2010 you tweeted out some rap lyrics that had a no-no word in them. Give me those dumb ratings or whatever the fuck, that's just what makes sense to me.
Don't forget, 2012 was the year that Trayvon Martin was shot. That started all kinds of shit with the whole Black Lives Matter movement growing out of it.