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What entertainment website fell the hardest this decade?
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Man, the memories here...
I legit feel bad for the man and hope he does alright.
I was hoping this topic would be nothing but Cracked schaudenfrede but I feel bad.
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Yes, that I-Mockery situation is really bad, I've been a fan of I-Mockery going way back, I first discovered the site in early 2007, I was extremely upset when I learned about the personal tragedy that had affected the site.
I knew something had to have gone wrong when it stopped updating for over a year, but I never expected it to be something that bad.
And as others have pointed out, the decline of Cracked was really sad to see.
The site really personified where the culture was at in the late 2000s and early 2010s in a good way, but then it personified woke culture in the worst way.
The AV Club used to be so great, I first started visiting it in 2010.
While the articles were great I also used to really enjoy the commenting community, yes, it was always very left leaning and in hindsight there was some assholish behavior that kinda anticipated the direction the left would go in, but it was still pretty great and people knew how to take a joke.
But then most of the original staff bailed in 2013 and it slowly started to become more and more woke, but the real turning point was the Univision buyout, that was when it really doubled down on the propaganda, but even then it was still usable, the final straw came with the switch to "Kinja" in 2017 which totally cratered the community and ruined the layout.
Even then I still stuck with it for as long as I could, a whole year after the switch to Kinja, but finally the quality of the writing had become so awful that I just couldn't take it anymore, by the time I left it was little more than propaganda and the community had become awful, I actually got called a "rapist" by some SJW weirdo for daring to question #MeToo, that was when I knew it was time to leave.
IMDB was the very first message boards I ever registered for back in 2006, I spent so much time there in 2006 and 2007.
By the end it was a shadow of it's former self but it was still very handy to have a dedicated message board for every movie ever made, it broke my heart to see it end.
I'm glad moviechat exists but it's still just not the same, almost every old movie board is totally dead on there, whereas on IMDB even by the end there was still a decent chance at a new post even on something old and obscure.
I knew something had to have gone wrong when it stopped updating for over a year, but I never expected it to be something that bad.
And as others have pointed out, the decline of Cracked was really sad to see.
The site really personified where the culture was at in the late 2000s and early 2010s in a good way, but then it personified woke culture in the worst way.
The AV Club used to be so great, I first started visiting it in 2010.
While the articles were great I also used to really enjoy the commenting community, yes, it was always very left leaning and in hindsight there was some assholish behavior that kinda anticipated the direction the left would go in, but it was still pretty great and people knew how to take a joke.
But then most of the original staff bailed in 2013 and it slowly started to become more and more woke, but the real turning point was the Univision buyout, that was when it really doubled down on the propaganda, but even then it was still usable, the final straw came with the switch to "Kinja" in 2017 which totally cratered the community and ruined the layout.
Even then I still stuck with it for as long as I could, a whole year after the switch to Kinja, but finally the quality of the writing had become so awful that I just couldn't take it anymore, by the time I left it was little more than propaganda and the community had become awful, I actually got called a "rapist" by some SJW weirdo for daring to question #MeToo, that was when I knew it was time to leave.
IMDB was the very first message boards I ever registered for back in 2006, I spent so much time there in 2006 and 2007.
By the end it was a shadow of it's former self but it was still very handy to have a dedicated message board for every movie ever made, it broke my heart to see it end.
I'm glad moviechat exists but it's still just not the same, almost every old movie board is totally dead on there, whereas on IMDB even by the end there was still a decent chance at a new post even on something old and obscure.
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ITT: SJWs have ruined the internet.
I agree as well. I think the internet has gotten too corporate. Needs to go back underground to find itself.
I agree as well. I think the internet has gotten too corporate. Needs to go back underground to find itself.
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I never got into SCP despite it being up my alley. That said I am well aware of the legend of the slutty doorknob.
I used to love going to certain actor's boards to read people's stories of said celebrity being a cunt to them. I kind of figured that was one of the reasons the boards got done away with. Not like that has stopped people sharing those stories though.
I found it's also become an amateur porn site too despite rules against such things. Apparently an erect penis and a spread open vagina count as art now.
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I miss when Rotten Tomatoes had forums where meaningful movie discussions could be had. Even the late Roger Ebert, who had a verified forum account, would post in there occasionally. These days, Rotten Tomatoes, which nuked their forums about three years ago, seems to be just a place where woke corporate movies get their "Certified Fresh" stamp of approval (often with mediocre reviews designated as "Fresh" to get it over the Certified Fresh threshold (Fresh-hold?)),
Even Box Office Mojo got rid of their forums, with the BOM forums essentially having been spun-off into its own site, Box Office Theory.
Even Box Office Mojo got rid of their forums, with the BOM forums essentially having been spun-off into its own site, Box Office Theory.
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I'm gonna go ahead and second Cracked, SCP, and Youtube.
Cracked and SCP were some of my favorite sites from middle/high school. I noticed Cracked starting to become more meh around 2011 and by 2014 they were starting to turn fully towards humorless woke crap. SCP I lost interest in for a while and would periodically check in. It was pretty cool when they went beyond SCP-1xxx and branched into other languages. But then everything changed when the tranny Homestuck nation attacked.
I've been on Youtube under the same name since 2006. I remember how much people used to flip their shit over the most minor of layout/UI changes throughout 2007-2010. If only they knew.
Cracked and SCP were some of my favorite sites from middle/high school. I noticed Cracked starting to become more meh around 2011 and by 2014 they were starting to turn fully towards humorless woke crap. SCP I lost interest in for a while and would periodically check in. It was pretty cool when they went beyond SCP-1xxx and branched into other languages. But then everything changed when the tranny Homestuck nation attacked.
I've been on Youtube under the same name since 2006. I remember how much people used to flip their shit over the most minor of layout/UI changes throughout 2007-2010. If only they knew.
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That’s a photoshop, but not far from the truth. For me, the sign that the site was terminal was when they responded to allegations that they’d become to political with an article about how they were totally justified in being political and not entertaining because Trump. I knew it was dead when I came back later and saw that they’d started censoring swear words.
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Agreeing with everyone here, so gonna throw in something new to the pile. In terms of sharp decline of membership, it's gotta be Gaia Online. What was once one of the fastest-growing community online for teenagers got hit hard this decade due to change in management and the fuckery that went on with their in-site economics--the recession from last decade didn't help, but that was only the start as it snowballed from there.
Thirty-minute video that's got the 'tism, but it was actually rather informative as to what went on that led it to becoming a ghost town. Honestly surprised it's still around, but despite new management actually giving a shit about the site, I don't see it lasting another decade at this rate.
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Thirty-minute video that's got the 'tism, but it was actually rather informative as to what went on that led it to becoming a ghost town. Honestly surprised it's still around, but despite new management actually giving a shit about the site, I don't see it lasting another decade at this rate.
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Mad Magazine > Cracked
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So basically, corporations and ideological wackos destroyed the internet. The unfiltered, no holds barred, anything goes internet I enjoyed got taken over by corporate entities that changed it into being about shilling for products and pushing agendas.
Good to know.
Good to know.
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YouTube for sure. It's golden age was around the 2009-2013 time period and it all went down hill from there. I remember wasting my days in the high school library reading Cracked before it got irreversibly pozzed.
Bit of a sperg take, but I swear, starting off into the whole internet culture stuff in the mid-late 2000s, looking how it is now is basically the same feeling of the intro of Red Dead Redemption 1 where you're seeing the Wild West finally becoming tamed and civilized to the point where the frail old rich ladies now deem it safe to move in
"Our time has passed, John."
Bit of a sperg take, but I swear, starting off into the whole internet culture stuff in the mid-late 2000s, looking how it is now is basically the same feeling of the intro of Red Dead Redemption 1 where you're seeing the Wild West finally becoming tamed and civilized to the point where the frail old rich ladies now deem it safe to move in
"Our time has passed, John."
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Isn't it interesting that so many websites tried to take people's ability to have a voice away around the 2016 election?
It's really depressing how short lived the Wild West era of the internet was.
But what's really bad is that the internet isn't being clamped down on to maintain the old status quo, it's being clamped down on while evil, toxic, civilization destroying ideologies like feminism are being pushed, stuff that should be criticized, called out on and mocked at every opportunity.
The forces of identity extremism were unleashed from below the surface of society by the internet, but this isn't a matter of trying to tone down extremism in general, this is simply a matter of which flavor of extremism will be the winner.
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Its really wonky with what is pay walled and what is not. I've found copywrited material that was free to download, and then court document transcripts where I needed to pay. Then they have this weird system where you can download more if you upload pdfs, leading to a ton of corporate slideshows and other inane shit being uploaded,
Here is another site that I have not heard mentioned yet: Newgrounds. I have no idea of there has been a tank in quality or not, but I do know I never see anyone talk about them or link stuff from there anymore (or maybe I'm not 12 anymore, living in the suburbs, listening to Linkin Park, watching DBZ, see copypasta below). When something from Newgrounds is linked, its usually a Youtube video recording. HTML5 and the death of Adobe Flash has probably been the biggest contributor to their downfall.
FACT: NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS' LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND MASTURBATING TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMWHORE THEY'RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC "DEEP" FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY.
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I hope that at some point a new Wild West era of the net will come to pass
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You also had that weirdo who posted "happy birthday" on every celebrity's board on their birthdays. EVERY DAY.
I used to think it was a bot, but it slowed down for a while and I realized it was an autist.
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Mad Magazine cucked out too. Before they were finally taken out behind the woodshed, they were constantly publishing unfuny totally-not-mad-bro tds "humor".
Mfw I'm watching a youtube vid of a Newgrounds flash from 2003 and the comments are "wow 2010 internet was wild!"
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That's disappointing to read. They need to bring back their movie parodies.
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One can hope.
I think the internet by its very nature is something that can't be controlled 100%, there's always going to be workarounds.
I remember them, although I can't quite remember what their username was.
Some other IMDB weirdos I remember though was someone under the name "Flightsuitboy" and "conservativesareawesome" (I assume it was multiple accounts used by the same person) who would spam the same long winded posts on George W Bush's IMDB board almost every day, that was back in the day when it was conservatives on the internet who acted crazy and not liberals.
There was also someone I encountered who went by the name SALEM'S-LOT who WOULD POST EVERY SINGLE POST IN ALL CAPS AND WOULD GET VERY ANGRY IF YOU CALLED THEM OUT ON IT.
Then there was a guy who was obsessed with trying to bring back USA's Up All Night and almost every message board for a B movie would have a thread by them.
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Unfortunately they're relaunching as direct-market and subscription only and with majority reprint content.