What entertainment website fell the hardest this decade?

[Kacho]

Have to mention IMDB. Once upon a time IMDB was a truly good resource for information on film and television. The community was small and informed, the message boards were always a decent read. Then they started locking info behind pro accounts. They got incestuous with the industry, started advertising and promoting certain films and shows, working with celebrities. So you can't trust their info or ratings anymore. In 2016 they closed the message boards because people were expressing views they didn't like around the election, god forbid. So they've gutted the site and made it useless for all but the most basic reference.

Someone did make an archive/continuation of the boards called moviechat though. Which is decent honestly. The small dedicated userbase gives it that early web 2.0 feel which is rare these days.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

AV Club, Television Without Pity and Ain't It Cool News all died this decade, but, like Something Awful, they were all decaying remnants of web 1.0 long before the calendar flipped to 2010.

Netflix is probably the biggest one for me. It went from indispensable to worthless within the course of the decade. They're sitting on the largest library of shit no one wants to watch, while Amazon Prime and Disney+ lap them in both originals and licensed shows.

 

[Jason Wynn]

RPG.net: used to be a fun place to discuss tabletop, share DM tips, stories, campaign homebrew stuff ect... Now it's a hotbed of SJW faggotry, moderators just as bad as GameFAQS and if you're not sucking at the teat of Critical Role and 5e D&D, you can gtfo

Reddit: it was never an awesome site, but I had an account and it was a decent place to post in the early 2010s. Like someone else said, it's become the living embodiment of the soyface meme, completely autistic humor, and getting the banhammer for wrongthink or even subbing to the "wrong" board in certain subs.

YouTube: what everyone else has already said, it's become a complete sellout. I've used it since 2006 and it's so far gone from what it once was that it's hardly recognizable anymore.

 

[Okkervils]

Kiwifarms.net

 

[whatever I feel like]

Rip to the dailyrotten. News you cannot possibly use (because the site no longer exists.)

 

[Coolio55]

I think the correct answer is of course all of them.
Fuck this gay earth.

Also, since we're talking about seanbaby. One of the funniest moments of his newfound troll's remorse was going back to his web 1.0 site to remove the word faggot from some ancient article. It gets even better, despite removing all links to it he still hasn't deleted that circa 2001 article where he mocks the gay community for getting offended at everything.

The Seanbaby Probe - Kevin Smith vs Gays

Gays hate director Kevin Smith, and it bothers him.

www.seanbaby.com

 

[Jason Wynn]

I think the correct answer is of course all of them.
Fuck this gay earth.

Also, since we're talking about seanbaby. One of the funniest moments of his newfound troll's remorse was going back to his web 1.0 site to remove the word faggot from some ancient article. It gets even better, despite removing all links to it he still hasn't deleted that circa 2001 article where he mocks the gay community for getting offended at everything.

The Seanbaby Probe - Kevin Smith vs Gays

Gays hate director Kevin Smith, and it bothers him.

www.seanbaby.com

Holy shit, Seanbaby has gone SJW? That's a shame to hear, his old website was one I used to read all the time back in the ancient and primitive days of the internet

 

[The best and greatest]

Cracked was cool until they brought on that Asian woman with the cats. Escapist was an okay place pre-gamergate but much like every other videogame website, they had problems constantly employing total shitheels. Its like everything after ME3 launched established a new precedent between the site and its audience and a new unfriendly undertone took over everything leading up to GG.

 

[Ashen One]

I'll have to echo the overall sentiment here and say Cracked. I remember I used to read it every day, but then the articles gradually became less and less funny and more preachy.

If I recall correctly, the breaking point for me was when David Wong wrote "9 Reasons People Who Hate Cracked Read It" or something where he just made up strawmen to attack the comment section because they dared complain about the direction the site was going. It was never a secret that the Cracked comment section and the Cracked forums didn't much like each other (with the staff and writers siding with the forums) but that article was an eye opener for a lot of people there that the Cracked staff wasn't even pretending to listen to what people were complaining about.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Have to mention IMDB. Once upon a time IMDB was a truly good resource for information on film and television. The community was small and informed, the message boards were always a decent read. Then they started locking info behind pro accounts. They got incestuous with the industry, started advertising and promoting certain films and shows, working with celebrities. So you can't trust their info or ratings anymore. In 2016 they closed the message boards because people were expressing views they didn't like around the election, god forbid. So they've gutted the site and made it useless for all but the most basic reference.

The IMDB message boards were a blast. I can remember watching scary movies while reading what other fans have sad about the movie on the forums. Made it feel like a mix between a treasure hunt and having a group of friends watching with you. Sure there are other websites that offer the same thing, but IMDB was special because you had forum dedicated to each movies; not just, say, scary or sci-fi movies.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

While their are worst falls I';d definitely say Rooster Teeth is up their. It had been going on a gradual downward slope for a while but this year the slow but steady descent turned into a fucking freefall worthy of Ezio

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Cracked...well.....see for yourself:

I'd add FARK.com It was one of those earlier news aggregation sites with an appropriate 2000's era level of edginess, but it just became a leftist shithole over time. I guess everything that's pop-culture-related has to bow to the POZ gods sooner or later, especially if the people running it (a) want to sell out to Hollywood degenerates or (b) have lots of skeletons and dead hooker corpses in their closets.

 

[RJ MacReady]

While their are worst falls I';d definitely say Rooster Teeth is up their. It had been going on a gradual downward slope for a while but this year the slow but steady descent turned into a fucking freefall worthy of Ezio

I hadn't thought of them in years until the Mignogna lawsuit. Seems like they morphed from a small, middling-quality Youtube channel to a struggling corporate-owned media company. Looks like a sad lateral progression more than anything, and I think that's a falloff in its own way.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Scribd is another one. They keep flip flopping to being a pay site then not a pay site to whatever the fuck it is now. It can't really be that difficult to host PDF files and make it easy for people to discover them.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

I hadn't thought of them in years until the Mignogna lawsuit. Seems like they morphed from a small, middling-quality Youtube channel to a struggling corporate-owned media company. Looks like a sad lateral progression more than anything, and I think that's a falloff in its own way.

they were a big fish in a smalln pond that tried moving into a lake.

 

[Knojkamarangasan_#4]

Deviantart, in the early days, was where most of the cool artists hung out, even if there were still fetish loons hanging around. Once tumblr and twitter became popular they all migrated and DA turned into the ghost town of only furries and piss-lovers.

Second this, I used to love DA partly because of the group feature and the amount of creativity it allowed. But all the cool people left honestly and now it’s that and also hordes of just bizarre fetish art and stuff left. I miss old DA....

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

Cracked. No questions. It made even the most cynical asshole read clickbait lists and then decided to torch that to the ground in a matter of months.

Used to go on this site all the time and somehow just forgot about it. Then one day it popped into my head so I went back and discovered the owner had been gone for a while too because his girlfriend killed herself. He wrote a really depressing piece about it and it's even sadder because I've only ever seen the goofy side of him.

Please Read.

www.i-mockery.com

Jesus fucking Christ. I used to read that place as a teenager for the Halloween Choose Your Own Adventures. Was just a nice goofy little website, nothing mean just lighthearted mockery.

Shame that happened. Poor guy doesn't deserve that, no one does.

 

[Furina]

The Escapist used to be my favourite website for anything gaming-related. I legitimately wanted to work for them when I was younger and still had dreams, but going back there now... Their rebrand looks ugly and amateur. They must be paying through the nose to keep Yahtzee around because he's only thing keeping that place afloat now. I really wonder why he hasn't just shrugged them off yet.
Enough people have pointed out Cracked, so I'll just +1 that. What was once interesting and funny, has becoming scolding and derisive.
Facebook was always crap. Fuck Facebook.

 

[Get_your_kicks_with_30-06]

Cracked...well.....see for yourself:

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I'd add FARK.com It was one of those earlier news aggregation sites with an appropriate 2000's era level of edginess, but it just became a leftist shithole over time. I guess everything that's pop-culture-related has to bow to the POZ gods sooner or later, especially if the people running it (a) want to sell out to Hollywood degenerates or (b) have lots of skeletons and dead hooker corpses in their closets.

Damn that is sad Cracked used to be the shit. I'd spend hours reading those fucking lists. Then the 2016 election season came and it was forever changed to bluepilled cringe and faggots.

 

[Rice Is Ready]

Cracked. No questions. It made even the most cynical asshole read clickbait lists and then decided to torch that to the ground in a matter of months.



Jesus fucking Christ. I used to read that place as a teenager for the Halloween Choose Your Own Adventures. Was just a nice goofy little website, nothing mean just lighthearted mockery.

Shame that happened. Poor guy doesn't deserve that, no one does.

That site was always lit around halloween time. I loved the Laws for Kidz comic strips they mocked and then held a contest for.

I-Mockery.com | Law Stripz: Exposed!

I-Mockery.com | Law Stripz: Exposed!

www.i-mockery.com

I-Mockery.com | Law Stripz: Exposed! CONTEST RESULTS!

I-Mockery.com | Law Stripz: Exposed! CONTEST RESULTS!

www.i-mockery.com