Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[King Daddy Telomerase]

I only miss the Internets late 1990s-2007. It was actually a fun place for ugly friendless losers like myself. Other than that, shit's always sucked.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Do you see any signs of that or a backlash against wokethink now?

I think we are seeing more signs of backlash against woke culture in 2020 and even in late 2019.

The Squad went from media darlings to a complete embarrassment for the Democratic Party, and on the cultural side of things, the SJW Twitter campaign to "cancel" Joker ended up backfiring in a massive way with the movie becoming the first R-rated movie to make over a billion dollars in less than a year and becoming an Academy Award contender, winning Best Actor and getting nominated for Best Picture.

Given how woke Hollywood traditionally is, the fact Joker got nominated to begin with is a good sign in and of itself.

The success of the Sonic movie is another sign we may be moving away from woke culture as the movie became a success partly due to Paramount actually listening to the demands of the fans instead of demonizing them and calling them Nazis or misogynists.

When coupled with the fact that the woke capeshit movie Birds of Prey went up against it and bombed at the box office, I think Hollywood's starting to finally take notice and may be adjusting their strategy in the coming years.

The assault on Andy Ngo and subsequent Antifa smear campaigns against him also began to shine a negative light on Antifa in a way that the Berkeley Riots and Professor Bike Lock did not, I remember when it happened, I saw a lot of people online and IRL start denouncing Antifa and saying they went too far, many of whom are otherwise liberal or progressive.

As recently as 2018, Anita Sarkeesian was considered above reproach and was even the main guest of honor at GenCon.

By the summer of 2019, she was seen as a broke nobody with Feminist Frequency nearly out of funds and her attempts to extort CD Projekt Red and regain that media attention by stirring up controversy over The Mandalorian both backfiring horribly. Anita has also pissed away what influence she had in the gaming industry by being a difficult person to work with and the fact she was a consultant to several major video game flops in the 2010's.

The death of Alec Holowa was tragic, but it also killed any momentum Zoe Quinn may have had left and ended the gaming industry's "Me Too" movement before it could truly start, and I would not be surprised if Holowa is ultimately vindicated in the coming years and seen as a victim of cancel culture, like how the West Memphis Three were seen as the iconic victims of the Satanic Panic.

 

[drfuzzyballs]

I do but only because those were my preteen years and I had much less stupid shit to worry about.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Anita has also pissed away what influence she had in the gaming industry by being a difficult person to work with and the fact she was a consultant to several major video game flops in the 2010's.

What games was she a consultant on? All Google seems to turns up is the Wikipedia article and woke crap on her (and other search engines seem to always suck).

Anyway it looks like the woke mentality could end, but are there any signs of this tech oversaturation (everything going cloud or streaming, smartphone zombies, panopticon IoT, etc) being toned down?

 

[Syaoran Li]

What games was she a consultant on? All Google seems to turns up is the Wikipedia article and woke crap on her (and other search engines seem to always suck).

Anyway it looks like the woke mentality could end, but are there any signs of this tech oversaturation (everything going cloud or streaming, smartphone zombies, panopticon IoT, etc) being toned down?

IIRC, BioWare hired her as a consultant for Mass Effect: Andromeda and she was also on the consultant team for Anthem as well.

Between her primadonna behavior at Activision and being attached to Mass Effect Andromeda, as well as CDPR not giving into her hollow threats, the gaming industry is now quietly ignoring her and I think we'll see sexy return to games as the AAA titles that began development in the 2010's are done cycling out.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Speaking of Occupy, I remember some in Occupy were so optimistic that in a few years, they could overturn the corrupt system. It shouldn't be a surprise if the movement was ended by said system. Also isn't it a tactic to undermine protests by installing people who do crazy antics (like ADF) to make a movement look bad?

IIRC, BioWare hired her as a consultant

If I get it right, they wanted the games to not attract REEEing, so they hired Sarkeesian to make sure they weren't "problematic?"

Also I take it there's no signs of tech toning down I mentioned?

 

[AnOminous]

The Squad went from media darlings to a complete embarrassment for the Democratic Party, and on the cultural side of things, the SJW Twitter campaign to "cancel" Joker ended up backfiring in a massive way with the movie becoming the first R-rated movie to make over a billion dollars in less than a year and becoming an Academy Award contender, winning Best Actor and getting nominated for Best Picture.

Seriously, though, most people involved in that had no clue that to weirdoes on the fringes of politics, they were somehow supporting "alt-right incel Nazis" by doing that. They just knew it was a really good movie and had buzz around it. It so heavily sucked the cock of Scorsese that it was almost a chance for the Academy fucktards to fix the disgrace of having snubbed one of Hollywood's true greats for most of his career. Hollywood is a joke. It doesn't think deeply or pick things to do good for society. It's stupid. It's mindless.

They could still recognize a good movie for a change and that's their only actual job. So a pathetic Academy of child molesters and drug addicts and perverts weirdly, for a change, actually came out of a drug coma long enough to recognize a good movie.

It's not a social referendum.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Seriously, though, most people involved in that had no clue that to weirdoes on the fringes of politics, they were somehow supporting "alt-right incel Nazis" by doing that. They just knew it was a really good movie and had buzz around it. It so heavily sucked the cock of Scorsese that it was almost a chance for the Academy fucktards to fix the disgrace of having snubbed one of Hollywood's true greats for most of his career. Hollywood is a joke. It doesn't think deeply or pick things to do good for society. It's stupid. It's mindless.

They could still recognize a good movie for a change and that's their only actual job. So a pathetic Academy of child molesters and drug addicts and perverts weirdly, for a change, actually came out of a drug coma long enough to recognize a good movie.

It's not a social referendum.

Normally, I'd agree with you on the Academy nominating Joker to support Scorsese, but they also nominated The Irishman, an actual Scorsese film.

As for social media SJW's, I agree that most of the audiences who went to see Joker didn't care one way or the other about the inane campaign against the movie even with media outlets and the goddamn federal government paying attention to Woke Twitter over Joker.

The average moviegoer just wanted to see a good movie. And they got it.

But Hollywood is very insular and left-leaning, and they're the kind of people most likely to listen to something as dumb as a social media cancel campaign against a movie.

And yet they didn't.

The box office sales of Joker isn't a social referendum and the movie itself is explicitly apolitical.

But the failure of the moral hysteria over it and the multiple Academy Award nominations Joker got in spite of the SJW online temper tantrums over it is something to take notice of.

 

[Magog]

I miss the 00s up to about 2008 or so.

I miss the old days of the WB. Smallville, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, etc...

"WB. Smallville, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, etc..."

GET OUT

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

"WB. Smallville, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, etc..."

GET OUT

Hahahaha compared to the CW programming?


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[Dom Cruise]

Honestly, I think we'll see the 2020's cultural zeitgeist be a backlash at the moralizing and woke malaise that dominated the 2010's. Depending on how the 2020 Election and this Corona-chan bullshit ultimately pan out, I could see the 2020's being a quintessential "feel good" decade of American history like the 1920's, the 1950's, and the 1980's and 1990's.

I hope so, I want to live through a good decade as an adult so badly.

 

[Magog]

Hahahaha compared to the CW programming?


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Literally the exact same quality of show. Except now, they dress them up in stupid costumes and portray hollow imitations of superheros instead of imitations of hollow-eyed teenagers.

 

[AmpleApricots]

As somebody who's seen a few decades, if I'd be forced to be as objective as I can I'd have to say the late 80s/up to mid/late-90s were best. The cold war was gone and done and the west was on the height of a golden age, people started speaking up about really fucked up attitudes of earlier decades and technological evolution was breathtaking and your average middle class family where the father worked in retail could have part of it by buying the electronic gizmos people in this thread have fond memories of for several hundreds or thousands of dollars. Towards the late 90s this trend held up but the middle class started disappearing and nobody really noticed. Then the '00s started with 9/11 happening and a lot of things went straight into the shitter. Governments used and abused the situation and pushed terrible changes cutting down people's freedoms that would've been political suicide just 5 years earlier. a few select tech corps started their cancerous growth and swallowed their competitors, destroying the healthy competitive enviroment of the earlier decades. The more liberal/social justice corner "antibodies" that had some rightful fights in the 80s and 90s with few pathogens to fight, started attacking the body itself. Then Social media threw gas onto that whole fire, because suddenly this shit became profitable for a few people. Then the economic recession in many parts of the world that pretty much destroyed the rest of the middle class that existed in the 80s and 90s. The '00s enabled the garbage that was the '10s (which turned all this up to eleven) and wasn't really that great a decade. Here's to hoping this one will be better I suppose.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Right on. I miss the days when gruff factory workers could turn on the TV and be greeted by quality children's programming after a rough shift.

Hey, skinny boys playing a card game to save the world makes perfect sense after inhaling noxious factory odors for 12 hours 5 days a week.

And so does this post.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Literally the exact same quality of show. Except now, they dress them up in stupid costumes and portray hollow imitations of superheros instead of imitations of hollow-eyed teenagers.

Wtf not the same thing lol they dealt with serious shit on those shows the only questionable thing were unrealistic finances and questionable accents

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Sometimes miss watching Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy while creating stories with action figures. Was always fun to do those two things.

 

[Sevatonius]

For me 2000 was rife with possibility, 2001 to 2005 were really drab, living in the shadow of 9/11, terrorism and wars we weren't used to. By 2006 to 2009, I had adjusted to the new normal, even taking the recession in stride to the point of having fun (If you were young and you had nothing to your name besides a lousy job, why fucking worry about it? )

 

[AnOminous]

You're just a bunch of fucking losers. You're all

For me 2000 was rife with possibility, 2001 to 2005 were really drab, living in the shadow of 9/11, terrorism and wars we weren't used to. By 2006 to 2009, I had adjusted to the new normal, even taking the recession in stride to the point of having fun (If you were young and you had nothing to your name besides a lousy job, why fucking worry about it? )

9/11 was a joke and just yet another example of how stupid people are. Good job, make some random event a defining moment. I was just coming off a night shift when 9/11 happened and I realized shit, this is one of those moments that burn their way into your mind, not because they were actually important but because people are fucking stupid.

Every single reaction to 9/11 was dumb, people got dumber in reaction to it, and Osama basically won because of how fucking stupid people are.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I think the 1990s and 2000s were pretty amazing. I miss hanging out at the roller rink with my friends before the internet was wide spread and things could still be kind of mysterious. I miss having a family barber who you could just hang out and shoot the shit with on a saturday. I miss how quiet and comfortable comic book shops used to be. I miss the smell of cigarettes in the 90s, I don't know what they did to them but it's just not the same anymore. Stuff like that.

 

[Sevatonius]

You're just a bunch of fucking losers. You're all


9/11 was a joke and just yet another example of how stupid people are. Good job, make some random event a defining moment. I was just coming off a night shift when 9/11 happened and I realized shit, this is one of those moments that burn their way into your mind, not because they were actually important but because people are fucking stupid.

Every single reaction to 9/11 was dumb, people got dumber in reaction to it, and Osama basically won because of how fucking stupid people are.

I was 10 when it happened. I didn't have a choice in whether it defined me or not, my parents, teachers, neighbors, family did it for me. If I was an adult I wouldn't have been affected by it.