Uranus Pink
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For picture quality, downloads, and etc. Stage6 blew youtube out of the water. But Stage6 didn't have a sugerdaddy like YouTube did with Google and closed up in 07.
What entertainment website fell the hardest this decade?
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While facebook was never good to begin with, it was far more bearable in the beginning. Then normies arguing over politics happened (Though the Reeeeing over both Trump and Bolsonaro being elected is still fun to watch in this day, same goes for twitter), groups that consist of Shitposters flooding the entire discussion boards with le dank memes and burying relevant topics in huge amounts of nonsense were the worst thing still.
Gaia's nosedive into oblivion started when they banned tektek from existance. Creating OCs with the avatars was one hell of a pastime, and without having to spend an entire night with an auto-refresh bot turned on just to get gold because both the games and the browsing as a whole had nothing of value to offer.
The ban porn killed Tumblr, even though the porn blogs are back; it just created a bunch of bootlegs with dubious functionality.
Wikia also got hit really bad when it was rebranded as fandom dot com. Autoplay, irrelevant trivia about whatever last capeshit movie or generic isekai garbage taking a lot of page space and being stuffed on your face in the clickbait-est way possible.
In fact, the more the big mainstream websites become more and more corporate-friendly, the more they end up sucking, as you end up attracting the lowest common denominator thanks to relying on inducing others towards consumerism or shoehorning social justice crap around the rules.
Gaia's nosedive into oblivion started when they banned tektek from existance. Creating OCs with the avatars was one hell of a pastime, and without having to spend an entire night with an auto-refresh bot turned on just to get gold because both the games and the browsing as a whole had nothing of value to offer.
The ban porn killed Tumblr, even though the porn blogs are back; it just created a bunch of bootlegs with dubious functionality.
Wikia also got hit really bad when it was rebranded as fandom dot com. Autoplay, irrelevant trivia about whatever last capeshit movie or generic isekai garbage taking a lot of page space and being stuffed on your face in the clickbait-est way possible.
In fact, the more the big mainstream websites become more and more corporate-friendly, the more they end up sucking, as you end up attracting the lowest common denominator thanks to relying on inducing others towards consumerism or shoehorning social justice crap around the rules.
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Personally it's SA Forums because they were so important to me back in the day. Objectively, probably 8chan. Vice used to make really good documentaries. Tumblr could have been cool in an alternate universe. Reddit is...reddit. Honestly I cannot think of a single site that used to be good that still is.
I thought of TGWTG, but looking back I don't think they were all that great to begin with.
I thought of TGWTG, but looking back I don't think they were all that great to begin with.
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I deleted my Facebook a while back, but I remember even in 2017-2018 there was still some good discussion to be had in certain groups (even if my favorite was becoming a bit empty by '1
. The interface was absolute garbage since early in this decade and talking/interacting with people through it got increasingly shit as the decade went on which in turn drove plenty of people off it.The downfall of Wikia came early in this decade. If you'd believe it, until like 2009 or so the admins actually took an active role in helping the wikis there. Every project had to be approved meaning there were no endless duplicates of poor qualities and dead wikis with a narrow subject with 2 pages. There were no giant wikis like the Abuse Wiki with zero editors that were full of pages copied by bots from Wikipedia. Then they started changing the looks of the sites to maximize ad space, and kept finding new ways to do that which made the sites even uglier and worse. Even the ads are terrible like where Fandom advertises itself as you said.
Some communities tried to leave over one of these changes (IIRC the one which put the page focus on the ads everywhere), the admins there would put a note saying "this wiki is now located at X" and end up banned because Wikia staff would freak. The Wikia versions are mostly ghost towns now.
Guts Gets Some
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Because it's been down almost 90% of said decade (and still is right now) :/
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Basically any forum.
Most of them are dead now, with modern social media replacing them, which sucks. I like the forum format way more than reddit or the like.
The increase in free time due to the coronapocalypse is what really made me realize that the internet just feels a lot less fun than before.
Most of them are dead now, with modern social media replacing them, which sucks. I like the forum format way more than reddit or the like.
The increase in free time due to the coronapocalypse is what really made me realize that the internet just feels a lot less fun than before.
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I was very late to the site but disinfo.com was pretty neat. Had bizarre and strange articles like the guy who was a taxi driver but did divination type stuff. Some occultish/metaphysics stuff posted occasionally. Then sometime around 2016 and pizzagate era the site was handed over to some guy named Thad (looks like Shane in the weebwar. SJW feminist ally neckbeard) who kept shilling his book on how to get high and talk to supernatural entities while constantly posting articles about how any belief in shady conspiracy groups is dumb, only dangerous alt right people distrust the status quo and try his dumbest to show why no one should believe in anything of pizzagate, to the point of don't even question the podesa art pictures..
The commenters in the comment section was small but pretty common group of posters who kept calling Thad out on being such a prick that betrayed the site. Eventually one dug into the new owner and posted some info, wasn't anything major except the site was owned by some typical publishing corporate entity or sonething like that. Next day all comments were disabled, no warnings.
The site limped along and then it was just no longer active. No announcements or anything, just gone.
The commenters in the comment section was small but pretty common group of posters who kept calling Thad out on being such a prick that betrayed the site. Eventually one dug into the new owner and posted some info, wasn't anything major except the site was owned by some typical publishing corporate entity or sonething like that. Next day all comments were disabled, no warnings.
The site limped along and then it was just no longer active. No announcements or anything, just gone.
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I remember when Vice was interesting and actually politically incorrect, in 2007 they had an article about how to score with a "tranny" at a party, which was presented as a lark worth having, but still done in a gross out fashion like "isn't this totally outrageous!?"
And in their articles where they would rate people's fashion they dissed a black guy's dreads as "Snoopy Ears" once.
I first noticed a tonal shift though in 2013, when they had an article about a guy attending a screening for critics of the Jason Statham movie The Mechanic at the Playboy mansion, the author of the article made it clear that he could not have cared less about the movie he was being paid to watch and ditched it so he could learn what it was like to "take a crap" at the Playboy mansion and he dissed the whole mansion as rundown and shitty, the whole thing felt very obnoxiously smug in that hipster way.
That same year they also complained about the Universal Studios Halloween Bill and Ted stage show as being homophobic and in response Universal canceled the long running show, so from joking about trannies to being such a whiny tit they caused the canceling of a long running and well loved stage show, costing people jobs.
So the stage was set for in 2014 when Gamergate happened and every website went into full "shut it DOWN!" mode including Vice.
And in their articles where they would rate people's fashion they dissed a black guy's dreads as "Snoopy Ears" once.
I first noticed a tonal shift though in 2013, when they had an article about a guy attending a screening for critics of the Jason Statham movie The Mechanic at the Playboy mansion, the author of the article made it clear that he could not have cared less about the movie he was being paid to watch and ditched it so he could learn what it was like to "take a crap" at the Playboy mansion and he dissed the whole mansion as rundown and shitty, the whole thing felt very obnoxiously smug in that hipster way.
That same year they also complained about the Universal Studios Halloween Bill and Ted stage show as being homophobic and in response Universal canceled the long running show, so from joking about trannies to being such a whiny tit they caused the canceling of a long running and well loved stage show, costing people jobs.
So the stage was set for in 2014 when Gamergate happened and every website went into full "shut it DOWN!" mode including Vice.
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UPDATE: I goofed. Disregard the misinformation.
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You can believe it but probably shouldn't since it was actually printed in a spoof 1994-themed "lost" issue for their 15th anniversary in 2009.
When Voice of Montreal, which later became Vice, was first published in October 1994, it was a tabloid printed on newsprint, not glossy magazine paper.
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I was gonna say that seemed like way too much of a coincidence.
Oh nooooooooooo...
I got curious about what became of some of the old AV Club writing staff so I Googled Todd VanDerWerff, whose X-Files recap articles I really enjoyed as well as the "Nerd Curious" articles, all I knew was he went to write for Vox.
And now I learn that they now identify as "Emily" Todd VanDerWerff.
Before.
After.
"Seriously Good"
Pardon the months-later reply, but I’m just now seeing this thread and just now learning this and this is actually one of the more mindblowing troon outs to me because I actually used to read a lot of this guy’s reviews and articles back in the day and even interacted with him directly in the AV Club comments a good number of times. I guess this does track with his way, WAY over the top defense of HBO’s Girls back in 2012, but still, holy shit, I remember him talking about how his conservative religious family back home was shocked and baffled by him becoming a TV critic and a democrat. Wonder how this one went over.
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Yeah, I was especially shocked to learn it is as well, but he's one of the many examples of once decent people who have been ruined by the direction left wing culture took.
Which applies to that whole community of the AV Club, I really did enjoy the time I spent there for several years before things really got intolerably bad.
My entry way into the site was the writing of Nathan Rabin, who used to be funny as hell, but has now turned into a typical anti-Trump whiny tit.
I abandoned ship on the AV Club because of all the SJW cringe before Trump even went down that escalator - I wanna say late 2014, maybe very early 2015. I can hardly imagine how much worse it got heading into 2016 and beyond. For what it’s worth good ol’ ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER is still doing the same schtick on Twitter to this day.
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I mean, it's a Gawker affiliate, what do you expect? It's been a shitshow of Buzzfeed-tier cringe for years.
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There are a lot of websites I can choose from, but I want to go for a personal pick and pick a forum I used to frequent called Project AFTER which was a fun small forum that had a pretty cool community. I really loved frequenting the Fanfiction mockeries subforum which was dedicated to mocking absolute shitty fanfiction either in a collective sense or in a sort of Mystery science theater 3000 format which brought a lot of nostalgia to me. Hell the site pissed off a lolcow named Dakari-King Mykan to the point he made the entire website into villains who were capable of beating up a bunch of superheroes till he saved the day which was unintentionally hilarious. I even mocked a few fanfictions there myself (ususally MLP or Sonic fanfiction).
I dipped out of the forums though in 2016 due to not really being interested in the fanfiction scene, and checked back into it later to find out that the entire website closed in 2017.
This was a blow to me as while I did lack interest in the site, it did make up a significant portion of the life I have online and to see that part gone was sad.
I dipped out of the forums though in 2016 due to not really being interested in the fanfiction scene, and checked back into it later to find out that the entire website closed in 2017.
This was a blow to me as while I did lack interest in the site, it did make up a significant portion of the life I have online and to see that part gone was sad.
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I discovered the Farms through lurking Project AFTER. Didn't even realize it closed down, that's kinda shocking. I didn't spend a whole lot of time on there, but I wouldn't be here without it.
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Same thing here since I sort of learned about Lolcow culture through it due to my interest in CWC that I had in 2010