When has the internet become so sensitive?

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There was a time in the early-2010s where "SJW cringe compilations" were pretty common on YouTube. Then in the mid-2010s, especially with Trump being elected into office in 2016 (and the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome), is when the tides began to turn in favor of leftists online. After Trump's 2nd election though, I've noticed the pendulum is swinging back in favor of people no longer feeling afraid to criticize the left publicly.

But there's still sites like Reddit that are completely ran by the left. Another aspect of it is because the "BEST" moderators are the ones with no lives. The porn-addict trannies that never leave their gooncaves are available 24/7 to take down spam. That's why they have so much power over websites like Reddit and 4chan.

I don't think you should be a doomer about it and wish you were born earlier though. I'm pretty hopeful about the internet becoming less woke again. I don't like Elon because he's too pro-Indian, but I like that Twitter/"X" has become much less restrictive in terms of speech ever since he bought it. It still sometimes flags posts for "hate speech", but not nearly as much as it used to.
 
AMHOLIO said:
Back in the day, very sensitive people were run off non-sensitive places or made their own places to be sensitive in, to success or failure depending on what kind of sensitive they were and what kind of space they ran.

Now, the culture of the internet is so easy to access that it's an exaggerated version of IRL. Crazies of all colors spend excessive time on the internet, including a lot of sensitive people who now can ask mods to ban people for being insensitive to them. Mods ban it because they work for companies that show ads on your social media sites and don't want people to be hurt or the advertisers dropping them. Now insensitive people have to figure out communities of their own away from massive social networking sites that are easy enough for your old easily offended aunt or your young adult cousin who can't accept criticism in any way to use. These people also scare off normies, because you can ask people what social media they use and it's usually watching or looking at pictures for less than an hour a day thanks to the raving loons who screeched the rest out.

TL;DR: Sensitive people have more power and are more obnoxious than ever, kicking everyone who can't use or tolerate the system out.
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There's also this thing where some of these sensitive people are seeking revenge for how they were treated back then, and gradually try to take over the places they were chased out of. SomethingAwful remains a grim tale about how that could happen. While I don't know much about the history of SA and some ex-SA users may explain it better, it was taken over by furries, troons, and sensitive communities compared to the past userbase.
 
It's the result of the corporatization of the Internet. These big social media platforms' banning of people for hurting others' feelings has protected and encouraged the biggest faggots on the planet. There can be no open discussion and exchange of ideas if one isn't permitted to tell another that their shit's all retarded and they talk like a fag
 
Sandshrew said:
There was a time in the early-2010s where "SJW cringe compilations" were pretty common on YouTube. Then in the mid-2010s, especially with Trump being elected into office in 2016 (and the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome), is when the tides began to turn in favor of leftists online. After Trump's 2nd election though, I've noticed the pendulum is swinging back in favor of people no longer feeling afraid to criticize the left publicly.

But there's still sites like Reddit that are completely ran by the left. Another aspect of it is because the "BEST" moderators are the ones with no lives. The porn-addict trannies that never leave their gooncaves are available 24/7 to take down spam. That's why they have so much power over websites like Reddit and 4chan.

I don't think you should be a doomer about it and wish you were born earlier though. I'm pretty hopeful about the internet becoming less woke again. I don't like Elon because he's too pro-Indian, but I like that Twitter/"X" has become much less restrictive in terms of speech ever since he bought it. It still sometimes flags posts for "hate speech", but not nearly as much as it used to.
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I feel like I missed out on so much of the internet not only because I wasn't born early enough but because I ain't part of the anglosphere (the English speaking realm). Anywhere outside of the anglosphere, and the amount of normies, boring people and so on is way higher.
Lovely Kin said:
There's also this thing where some of these sensitive people are seeking revenge for how they were treated back then, and gradually try to take over the places they were chased out of. SomethingAwful remains a grim tale about how that could happen. While I don't know much about the history of SA and some ex-SA users may explain it better, it was taken over by furries, troons, and sensitive communities compared to the past userbase.
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Any good videos about this matter? Would like to learn more about it
Cancer ♥ said:
It's the result of the corporatization of the Internet. These big social media platforms' banning of people for hurting others' feelings has protected and encouraged the biggest faggots on the planet. There can be no open discussion and exchange of ideas if one isn't permitted to tell another that their shit's all retarded and they talk like a fag
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XF3inumRhPI
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People nowdays just can't accept criticism which is why's everything went downhill
 
Sandshrew said:
There was a time in the early-2010s where "SJW cringe compilations" were pretty common on YouTube. Then in the mid-2010s, especially with Trump being elected into office in 2016 (and the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome), is when the tides began to turn in favor of leftists online. After Trump's 2nd election though, I've noticed the pendulum is swinging back in favor of people no longer feeling afraid to criticize the left publicly.
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I think the algorithms started to turn against those videos after Trump was elected because there was a big panic over "the alt right pipeline". I know there were troon youtubers before that, but this was also around the time when people like Contrapoints (who started out as a gamergater but pivoted to being an SJW after trooning out) started to go mainstream.
 
Around 2015 fast 4G internet and cheap chinese smartphones allowed children to swarm the internet. Kids are easily impressionable and pretty sensitive. They also have a lot of free time on their hands, so the more algorithms changed to accommodate kids, the more they spent their time consuming internet content, enabling the vicious cycle more and more, reshaping the advertiser conscious popular social media websites around them. Also the sensitive side of the internet tended to be really into kids cartoons, so go figure.
 
Prior to roughly 2012, the culture of the Internet was about being edgy and mentally tough (this includes how major websites operated, not just users), so we all assumed that was the default state. Turns out that wasn't the case and the moment it became fashionable to be fragile and easily offended, millions and millions of trend-followers jumped ship - I remember how bewildered I was by a change that happened virtually overnight.
 
YouDoNotHaveTheRight said:
Iphones, tumblr, higher education, and the discovery of White people's reactions to being called a ---ist, or -----phobe.
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The tragedy of how Americans had so much freedom, that they by accident created censorship
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Prior to roughly 2012, the culture of the Internet was about being edgy and mentally tough (this includes how major websites operated, not just users), so we all assumed that was the default state. Turns out that wasn't the case and the moment it became fashionable to be fragile and easily offended, millions and millions of trend-followers jumped ship - I remember how bewildered I was by a change that happened virtually overnight.
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was it like that outside of the US too?
 
I think one of the biggest contributors to the toxicity and sensitivity of people on the Internet is the consolidation of everything into just a few sites. I first got on the Internet in the middle of the Wild West era when communities of more or less eccentric people would stick with each other on their obscure forum and were moderated by people similar to them. Now everything from your personal vanity page, tech support, and local restaurant reviews to your photography, spicy political takes, and sphincterbation enthusiast group is funneled to Reddit or Facebook. The algorithms already mentioned in this thread make it easy most of the time to avoid people you would rather not talk to, but it also contributes to a bigger, more explosive reaction when you do ultimately cross paths.
 
Magicicada_septendecula said:
I think one of the biggest contributors to the toxicity and sensitivity of people on the Internet is the consolidation of everything into just a few sites. I first got on the Internet in the middle of the Wild West era when communities of more or less eccentric people would stick with each other on their obscure forum and were moderated by people similar to them. Now everything from your personal vanity page, tech support, and local restaurant reviews to your photography, spicy political takes, and sphincterbation enthusiast group is funneled to Reddit or Facebook. The algorithms already mentioned in this thread make it easy most of the time to avoid people you would rather not talk to, but it also contributes to a bigger, more explosive reaction when you do ultimately cross paths.
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How long ago those obscure forums were?
 
undermine said:
How long ago those obscure forums were?
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I'm in my 20s, and I remember the days of the internet where there were a lot of different forums for each topic.
You must be really young or from a very poor country if you don't remember forums existing.
I hope you're at least 18, because this site is 18+. And it really is for the best that children don't post on this website, because they're more likely to eventually dox themselves.
 
undermine said:
How long ago those obscure forums were?
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This was in the late 1990s to about the mid 2010s. There are still a few around for things too contraversial for Facebook and Reddit (you're on one right now), but this type of site is pretty near extinct. The decline began around the opening up of Facebook and the release of the iPhone.
 
It's simple really the western world for the most part is now just a den of worthless spoiled entitled self righteous hypocritical circle jerking whiny retards who think their shit doesn't stink and none of them can handle differing opinions and everyone always says it's everyone who disagrees with them that's guilty of being a hypocritical piece of shit when the reality is it's all any of them ever are/have been for years if not decades now.

This is the end result of decades of spoiled first worlders having no real imminent threats such as famine, civil war, a lack of drinking water or having to fend off dangerous wildlife or surviving dangerous weather conditions and spending all of their free time mindlessly indulging in instant self gratification and jacking off to the sound of their own voice instead of bettering themselves and their surroundings in any real or impactful way. The average american today is entitled, lazy, delusional, poorly educated, uncultured and out of touch with reality and our overall quality of living has been declining in every way for years because of it. From healthcare and education quality, graduation rates, income disparity and economy the US is especially sliding consistently downward and being surpassed by multiple countries as the cringe inducing retards who live here continue to chant "we're number one" as our infrastructure crumbles our schools fail, our factories close and our worthless politicians blame everyone and everything but themselves for it.
 
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undermine said:
I wish I was:
1. Born earlier so I would have experienced the internet as it used to be, kinda like the wild west
2. from the English speaking realm because internet in my country sucks and always sucked since it's full of normies even more so in comparison to the US plus they speak English awfully

How much have I missed by being not old enough to experience the golden age of the internet and was born in a shithole? It just begs my mind
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I get the impression you're under the age of 18.
 
Sandshrew said:
I'm in my 20s, and I remember the days of the internet where there were a lot of different forums for each topic.
You must be really young or from a very poor country if you don't remember forums existing.
I hope you're at least 18, because this site is 18+. And it really is for the best that children don't post on this website, because they're more likely to eventually dox themselves.
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I'm over 18. I don't remember also because of my country being really bad at English, tech and so on, so they're almost always using mainstream social media from abroad
Magicicada_septendecula said:
This was in the late 1990s to about the mid 2010s. There are still a few around for things too contraversial for Facebook and Reddit (you're on one right now), but this type of site is pretty near extinct. The decline began around the opening up of Facebook and the release of the iPhone.
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Will it ever be resurrected from the dead? I just feel sad that this kind of thing just didn't exist in my country
PuffMacMuffin said:
I for one blame Apple, and the invention of the iPhone.
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seriously apple is the one of the worst companies to ever exist in just how much influence they gave to the stupidest of them all
The Cringe Connoisseur said:
It's simple really the western world is now just a den of worthless spoiled entitled self righteous hypocritical circle jerking whiny retards who think their shit doesn't stink and none of them can handle differing opinions and everyone always says it's everyone who disagrees with them that's guilty of being a hypocritical piece of shit when the reality is it's all any of them ever are/have been for years if not decades now.

This is the end result of decades of spoiled first worlders having no real imminent threats such as famine, civil war, a lack of drinking water or having to fend off dangerous wildlife or surviving dangerous weather conditions and spending all of their free time mindlessly indulging in instant self gratification and jacking off to the sound of their own voice instead of bettering themselves and their surroundings in any real or impactful way. The average westerner is entitled, lazy, delusional, poorly educated, uncultured and out of touch with reality and our overall quality of living has been declining in every way for years because of it. From healthcare and education quality, graduation rates, income disparity and economy the US is sliding consistently downward and being surpassed by multiple countries as the cringe inducing retards who live here continue to chant "we're number one" as our infrastructure crumbles our schools fail, our factories close and our worthless politicians blame everyone and everything but themselves for it.
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You sure this is the western world and not just America? Where I live people are very rarely acting the way you're describing. Sure they're not particularly nice but they also don't hold grudge and can actually listen to differing opinions occasionally and the most important thing: wokeness and SJWs are near non existent. The vast majority of people here are preety religious so they don't try to appeal too much to modernization BS

But I will say just like the US, we're also failing in many aspects such as education

So yeah, basically just distinguish between America and the rest of the western world
Tablet County said:
I get the impression you're under the age of 18.
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As I said, I'm over 18. It's just the way my country is, it simply got stuff way later. I don't mean literally, I just mean stuff got popularised here way later
 
I'm assuming you live in a third-world country (and one that speaks Spanish because of your profile picture), which in that case, I don't think having forums be around still would increase the average intelligence of your country's citizens, if I'm going to be honest.
 
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