Why is the internet so serious now?

[ToroidalBoat]

Real life just feels like an extension of the internet to me.

Or it's like there's no real life anymore with smartphone culture and the "New Normal" taking over.

 

[Dom Cruise]

If you've seen that movie The Circle, that is what they want to achieve, one mega corporation that controls everything that monitors and controls your behavior 24/7 and will probably outright kill you if you're "canceled" or at least disappear you into a black van in the middle of the night to who knows where and no one will question where you went in case it happens to them, people will literally pretend like you never existed in the first place.

Imagine Stalinist Russia meets Silicon Valley.

Not saying they'll actually succeed, but that is the end game, yeah.

But I agree though. Something has gone wrong and it almost seems like there's no turning back.

What went wrong in 2016 is that it became obvious that they can no longer let the little people make important decisions like Presidential elections, they didn't want Trump, we chose him anyway against their will and against all their propaganda which terrified them, so they decided to take the gloves off and play dirty and literally wage warfare on the people.

First they doubled down on bald faced propaganda and gaslighting like never before, then they used foot soldiers to beat and intimidate anyone that questioned them as well as riot, loot and burn to spread general fear and send a loud and clear Mafia style message of "do what we want or we'll break your legs"

They pulled out all the stops, including releasing a virus and pretending it was the end of the world and flat out stealing an election to get their dopey puppet in office, if somehow Trump had won a second term we would already be in a state of full on civil war now, they would not let that man have another 4 years in office literally no matter what.

I can guarantee you they sat around and discussed how to flat out assassinate Trump but they knew no one would swallow it, the assassination card was one they could only play once with JFK and never again.

It comes down to the fact that two core ideas stand in the way of their utopia, democracy and national borders, the end of these things is on the agenda and they will stop at nothing to achieve it.

2015 was the last year you could safely assume that this world we lived in was fundamentally what it said on the tin, but not anymore, the cat's out of the bag.

We should of never proliferated the internet into real life.

Real life just feels like an extension of the internet to me.

I knew from the days of Myspace that putting your real name, your real photo and your real location on the internet so freely was a terrible mistake, I always thought from the beginning that the internet should be an alternate universe where everyone has a completely separate persona.

If you've seen that anime film Summer Wars from 2009, exactly something like that is what I'm envisioning, I guess that film is a dispatch from an alternate universe because the internet went in the opposite direction of what was depicted in that film.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[...]

I guess "they" managed to "freeze" the West in Endless 2016 because "they" figured out how to turn mainstream society into a soy cult that inhibits moving beyond the the crazy ways of Clown World.

And yeah, I still have that mentality of "don't dox yourself". I'm glad I was able to see the pre-9/11 world and 'net.

I hope the assholes who want us "little people" in a cybernetic soy hive of bugmen over which they have absolute power are removed from power, someday and somehow.

If that's even possible anymore.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I really despise the year 2006. Facebook, twitter and the Iphone.

But I always knew something like this was going to happen. I was kind of like a weeaboo for america when I was a kid. Just fascinated with the idea of exploring and taming a wild land. I thought I would move there when I could. As I grew older I could tell it was no longer that country, when I read news stories of people being fined for having their gardendoor open so that young kids could sneak in and drown in their pool. I realized that I was already too late.

And I was one of the few my age who had access to internet. Some kids went to the library to be able to access it. I helped friends set up their first email accounts. Magical time. And then I realized this was the grace period, that the bureaucraticly minded people would ruin that too, when it wasn't new and dangerous anymore.

I knew it would end, but when it really started to end in 2012 it still took me by surprise. Social media early days was still the same kind of wild, but in 2012 the curated timelines instead of a free for all, put a stop to that. I wondered then if it was financial choice, because now you could pay to get ahead. You could no longer just see everything all your friends posted, but someone in between was deciding what they could say to you and what you could say to them. I almost immediately stopped using it. It may have started with profit motives, but it has become more of a information control valve. Maybe that was always the goal, or maybe they realised along the way that controlling information was even more valuable than the pay to broadcast.

I knew it would go away, but it atill hurt when it was gone. And I suddenly understood the sad old losers going on about the magic of radio in the 1940s-1950s.

I could see how these would huddle together if they could to commemorate a time gone by, a time mostly forgotten or unknown to the world that had long moved on. Maybe in a social club called the kiwifarms.

 

[Kornula]

Heck, I remember when the Internet was fun everywhere you logged in. but that was in the before time...

 

[Gossimp]

why can't anyone have fun anymore

y'all cowards don't even are anarcho/moeist
( source )

"You won't totally believe in Moe Philosophy : it is designed to be a clutch, a ladder, a support to help you climb up to God. It may become a dogma for you but I hope you'll go beyond it : as dogmais the death of thought, dogma is a dead end."
P R E A C H

 

[The Lawgiver]

The old internet was a fucking bastard when it came to pranks. 2 years ago I found an old abandoned wikia from a long defunct forum I was in in my early internet days but forgot a very crucial aspect of the culture of that place and time. Some chucklefuck from said forum had replaced nearly every fucking link somehow at some point to redirect to like scam "free flashplayer update!" scam sites and shit despite the address not even making it seem it lead there, and somehow all the sites were still up and functioning. I had a fucking mini heart attack for a second but the way those work is you need to click the "ok" button instead of force quitting your browser. People used to do all sorts of weird fucking pranks back in the day where it'd set you up with something that if you went deeper MIGHT get you tied somehow to some pajeet scammer's site download shit. It was a funny time and nobody really gave a shit.

Nowadays people just load your computer with viruses and cancel you on twitter for political clout. The current internet fucking sucks and I hate how many people have become soulless husks that operate exactly as the megacorps clearly want them to.

 

[I'm Not Racist Anymore]

People are miserable and want to drag you down to be miserable with them.

 

[The High Prophet of Truth]

A ton of people get their socializing through online means now, so it's taken more personally then it used to.
Also because things now are shitty, and will continue to become shittier, and more people than ever are aware of it. You can't really have fun in the current climate.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I really despise the year 2006. Facebook, twitter and the Iphone.

Hey now, the year 2006 did nothing wrong.

The iphone wasn't actually released until 2007 and while Twitter did technically start in 2006 literally no one had heard of it or used it, it didn't start to gain any popularity at all until advertising at the South by Southwest festival in 2007 made people more aware of it, but even then it was still pretty obscure, I myself don't think I ever heard of Twitter until 2008.

Facebook also might have been around in 2006 but was in nascent stages, I want to say it was only available to college students until the year 2007 in fact.

I think in some ways the years 2006 and 2007 were in fact the internet's peak even if the seeds for it's ultimate downfall were ironically sowed those years.

 

[Niggernerd]

Meanie words are poopoo!

 

[Lemmingwise]

I think in some ways the years 2006 and 2007 were in fact the internet's peak even if the seeds for it's ultimate downfall were ironically sowed those years.

Good job, it took you 4 paragraphs, but in the end you understood my post.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Good job, it took you 4 paragraphs, but in the end you understood my post.

But the year 2006 itself was cool, you flat out said you despise the year, if you were trying to make the same point I was you weren't exactly clear.

But you're right when you said it really started to end in 2012 and I think I can pinpoint the exact moment the old internet died and that was the Kony 2012 movement, the whole thing was so creepy, so baldly propagandistic, it was obvious what they were doing and that was testing the internet's capability for propaganda and mind control, the fact they somehow made a call for going to war seem like a "leftist" cause anticipates the "down is up" topsy-turvy politics of the Woke era, of things like the "anti-racists" being as racist as the day is long.

It's all so horrible when you realize what they've done to the internet and how long ago they did it now.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

It's not 2007, and any asshole with a cellphone can just hop online. Unironically, normies ruined the entire fucking internet. We have left the age of information and entered the eternal age of the summerfag.

Back in my day, there was at least some intellectual barrier to entry in place in order to use the internet. You had to know how to dial out, or later on, you were using a desktop with broadband. The Normie either didn't have a computer, or they used it for the things computers were intended to be used for. That prancing la-la boy molesting homo faggot man Steve Jobs ruined it all by rolling out the iPhone, and now those with early spring-temp IQ can just hop online and get outraged at shit. Yes, the SJWs started it, but the biggest purveyors of cancel culture are shiteating normalfaggots. That's why the internet isn't fun anymore.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The sense of genuine, wholistic communities being increasingly rare to the point where vetting your members in seems like an attractive solution to the problem of oversaturation.

Speaking of community, I feel like mass platforms like Reddit have displaced the niche forums that used to dominate. Used to be you could post on a forum and thered be some dozen or so users who youd learn to recognize by name and learn their personalities. Felt like an actual club.

 

[Animosa]

why can't anyone have fun anymore

This is a good place, I've only been around for a lil while but people seem to care about fun here, I'm not saying everyone's a saint but yeah.

I can totally relate to your feeling, I too thought to myself "why is everything so serious?" it's quite sad. The internet used to be a place to have fun and wind down, now it's a tool to police behavior and thought. You can't make a joke anymore because somebody is on the ready to get pissed at it and other people that might not necessarily care at first get dragged in because they want to belong.

Those who band and single out open minded people with good intentions and vilify them are the ultimate tyrants. They deeply believe they're good and right and that they're making a difference, those are the most troublesome/dangerous people.

The only thing we can do is try to find like-minded people, there's always someone.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Hey now, the year 2006 did nothing wrong.

The iphone wasn't actually released until 2007 and while Twitter did technically start in 2006 literally no one had heard of it or used it, it didn't start to gain any popularity at all until advertising at the South by Southwest festival in 2007 made people more aware of it, but even then it was still pretty obscure, I myself don't think I ever heard of Twitter until 2008.

Facebook also might have been around in 2006 but was in nascent stages, I want to say it was only available to college students until the year 2007 in fact.

I think in some ways the years 2006 and 2007 were in fact the internet's peak even if the seeds for it's ultimate downfall were ironically sowed those years.

Yes, obviously the peak year is the year we took a wrong turn. It is pretty much the definition of a peak that things only got worse after.

The year you get fired is the year you made the most per hour at your job.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's not 2007, and any asshole with a cellphone can just hop online. Unironically, normies ruined the entire fucking internet. We have left the age of information and entered the eternal age of the summerfag.

Back in my day, there was at least some intellectual barrier to entry in place in order to use the internet. You had to know how to dial out, or later on, you were using a desktop with broadband. The Normie either didn't have a computer, or they used it for the things computers were intended to be used for. That prancing la-la boy molesting homo faggot man Steve Jobs ruined it all by rolling out the iPhone, and now those with early spring-temp IQ can just hop online and get outraged at shit. Yes, the SJWs started it, but the biggest purveyors of cancel culture are shiteating normalfaggots. That's why the internet isn't fun anymore.

Steve Jobs didn't just ruin the internet with the iphone, he may have literally ruined the entire world, the smart phone is the information age equivalent of the atomic bomb and we gave everyone the shiny, red button.

What's going on right now is nothing less than the breakdown of society, the breakdown of any hope of social cohesion, the internet is simply too powerful, human beings were never meant to be networked like this, there's too many radical differences of opinion, it needs some sort of barrier of entry and the iphone took that away.

Just having to sit your ass in front of a laptop or desktop was enough of a barrier of entry to keep enough people away that society could have survived even with the internet, but the smart phone took that away, do you think some gang banging black dude is sitting his ass in front of a desktop when he posts on Black Twitter? Hell no dawg, he's using a smartphone and he gets to spread his mental diarrhea around like never before.

Giving everyone the ability to say something in a huge public forum doesn't mean everyone has something worthwhile to say.

It's perfectly ironic and poetically horrible that the man didn't live to see the fact that he ruined the world, thanks a lot Steve!

I present to you this photo of 3 people holding iphones when they were first released in 2007, I like to call this photo "foreshadowing"

Yes, obviously the peak year is the year we took a wrong turn. It is pretty much the definition of a peak that things only got worse after.

The year you get fired is the year you made the most per hour at your job.

Sure, I see what you mean.

I wonder where we would be today if the timeline diverged in 2007 and the iphone was never introduced?

 

[Lemmingwise]

I present to you this photo of 3 people holding iphones when they were first released in 2007, I like to call this photo "foreshadowing"

What? They're happy people lounging.

I wonder where we would be today if the timeline diverged in 2007 and the iphone was never introduced?

I mean, we're basicly old men yelling at the sky.

Why wouldn't someone at some point put the internet in your pocket once we have the technical capability to do so? That's like fucking magic.

Why wouldn't companies monetize the shortest way into your dopamine centers? That's been the sugar, tobacco and sex industries ever since they existed.

Why wouldn't both corporations and government agencies use this to spy on people?

The value of these things is so immense that even if a certain part of the world didn't develop it, another would and it would spread. It's a perfect storm of what people want and intrusion into what they don't really want.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

Because glorious Geocities websites are no longer the go-to result for any topic. Just saying the world would be a better place if instead of Google we still had Vegetaroth666's DBZ & Final Fantasy Web Domain.