It’s due to centralization of the internet. Old internet was decentralized and mostly didn’t have any defined sites to go on. Basically everyone had their own spaces
@@patoastral2118 Check what happens when someone brings their opinion first. All you have to do is read OP’s comment. It’s not necessarily about bringing in your opinion, people will try to dox you for having an opinion in the first place
Frankly, yes. I miss the slurs, too. Because they were almost never said in ernest back then. They were usually just to poke fun playfully, or just to be shocking.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness" This quote perfectly encapsulates why the current generation of kids (at least the part that feels comfortable in the modern internet, somehow) will never understand what made the old internet so great; it wasn't about being able to say slurs, it was about the freedom, the creativity, and the sense of community.
It was about an world where no one care who you where and everyone fucked with your mom yesterday. Shit was edgy and stupid. Today people are either jaded or intelectually dishonest
Exactly! Most people had no inclination to use slurs despite having the freedom to do so. Efforts to crack down on slurs had a chilling effect on creativity and community.
Thats why gaming is trash now, old cod lobbies were filled with us just trying to say the most extreme jokes for fun without getting mad. Thats was the whole point, just shit talk the funniest shit you cant think of. Now we can lose our entire console and gaming collection for it....
Old internet was less about race, less about bigots, less about politics or at least it's not on your face all the time, social websites weren't a thing, people weren't trying to make clout out of anything and everything. Common sense was still alive then
The clout back then was how many "friends" you had on Myspace and how "pretty/cool" you customized your Myspace page. Those were the days, the days of first learning about hex codes, and photoshop, gifs, etc.
mate the only people that ruined everything are the sjw/lgbtq/woke people, there was nothing woke or lgtq before that i remember, it was normal and it was glorious
I do miss internet before mass social media -UA-cam wasn't TV 2.0. -Artists didn't have to apologize for their creations -People doing the most deranged, ridiculous and absurd bs for clout weren't that often "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness" Absolutely perfectly landed quote, it is the bird app in a nutshell.
In the old days of the Internet you could be friends with people who have different opinions, and aren't even the same political party as you. I miss that.
They’re hyper fixating on the bad things about the older era of the internet, and yeah they’re not wrong. There were many things about the old era of the internet that aged like milk, however they’re neglecting to also point out the great things about the old Internet. People are reminiscing on a better time of the internet’s life because the internet nowadays has dissolved into infantile teenagers arguing over politics, constantly crying over how the world could end, bullying everyone that threatens their fragile egos. Old Internet was a lot more lax than it is now, though it would still put up a fight if you went too far. Creators could make content out of passion rather than ego or money.
For me, even though it's cringe, I miss the fandom culture. People were usually very open to others, regardless of how they identified politically or otherwise; as long as you're not an ass who wanted to make drama for the sake of drama, it didn't matter. Now we have this "DO NOT INTERACT IF YOU LIKE (SHOW) OR (CHARACTER!!)" and it's... Really stupid. People aren't just the media they consume, they're deeper than that, lol.
"WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST SODA HUH? ARE YOU FATPHOBIC OR SOMETHING?" I wish I could say I was just joking, but I actually have seen something similar before
@@MrBrezelwurstthere are people on twitter legit saying “Why do you hate Nazis? They’ve done absolutely nothing to you, you’re just getting on a hate train.”
Tip for everyone; If you are offended, you can leave. If you don’t like someone’s opinion, you don’t have to agree or argue why they are wrong. If you don’t enjoy the art you can use the mute or block button.
That sound, sane advice has been flat out ignored for over a decade now, these people just want to be validated victims. They can't do that without evidence.
i grew up with the early to mid 2010s internet. i miss ytp's, classic jumpscare videos and anime memes, and when people wouldn't get offended at every little thing.
People would see slurs and wouldnt give a shit. Theyd be like “yea thats a slur, ok. ” Keep scrolling Then move on like normal well adjusted individuals.
I know right?! back in the day (christ on a crispy cream cracker I can't believe I'm saying that) if you were on a part of the net where that kept happening, you'd get off that site an stay the Hell away from there. Common sense really is going the way of the dodo smh!
i remember xbox 360 voice chat was so fucked up when I heard someone had to flee their home town because of constant death threats i didn't think anything of it, figured they were just over reacting because who doesn't get at least 5 or 6 a day?
I remember when death threats is our way of saying hi. The Fraps wars and eventual Dox wars. If you couldn't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. The current inhabitants are more fragile than glass.
But don't you know freedom of speech is grounds for hate and bigotry? I dont want freedom if my feelings have a chance of getting hurt. I want temporary safety from mean words that might offend someone and if you disagree I'll call you a bunch of buzzwords and right wing.
This is the equivalent to remembering the fun moments of childhood only for someone to constantly remind you of the terrible fights and broken relationships during that time. Buzzkill is the word of the day.
It's like that every time someone tries to reflect positively on a period or time. "Dude, I really miss the 1980s. The neon lights, the fantastic movies, the rock and roll music, the fashion..." "WELL WHAT ABOUT THE COCAINE EPIDEMIC? WHAT ABOUT AIDS?" It's especially noticeable on vids about the 1950s where you have really old people reminiscing about their long-gone youth only for a bunch of literal children to chime in about racism. It's sad really.
I don’t understand why people pretend getting called a slur is just so awful. I mean, you and I already know the words. So, why do they pretend slurs are “shocking” and “obscene”?
@aaronlandry3934 It's not exactly the slur but instead they intentions behind it, they can tell the guy saying it truly means that they dispise them with every bone in their body. Or they might laugh it off because it sounds like a joke.
@@nyanya2757 You can say “nice words” with mean intentions too. That also isn’t shocking. Or person could laugh at it because they don’t care what that person thinks. You’re not required to care about anything
@@aaronlandry3934 fair enough. I would say that it’s more of the historical context of the slur, because they’re typically made or used by a oppressive culture targeting a minority, and by using that slur it could sound like you’re aligning with said culture. Ultimately, I don’t really care, since I wasn’t raised in a time period where the racial slur really affected me at all, but u can see how it offends people seriously.
The sad thing is that despite there being more slurs back then, there was a lot less prejudice. Modern internet is overloaded with prejudice. Unfortunately, the fools who act like slurs are the worst are ignoring the prejudice because no slurs are used.
In the minds of cultural Marxists, there is no way to "agree to disagree". They fundamentally can't understand the concept of "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
It's strange how people are more racist now than before. Back then it was edgy teens who would troll people to get reactions put of others. Now it's privileged young adults who never got out of their bubbles who are being actually racist but aren't self aware to realize it.
People back then were more mature and secure with themselves to the point toxicity was seen as childish and most often hilarious, not life threatening as seen by these adult babies. Ironically, humans tend to behave better when they aren’t being babysat or controlled with an overbearing parent.
Pretty much true. If you don't ever have to act like an adult, you won't. Because why would you? Critical thinking and taking responsibility are hard. I kinda feel bad for them, as they will have a lot of problems with adapting when they become adults/move out of their mother's basement.
Agreed. People will tell you to grow up or tell you the internet isn't real life, if they are being childish. Nowadays, saying a person to grow up is looked down upon or even worse, they will praise you for being a child.
Calling people slurs on the internet has never stopped being a thing. I would even say it's more of a thing now than it ever has been. I have no idea what that Twitter user has been smoking.
Tbh I don't remember many people being called slurs at all (at least in my everyday spaces on the internet, which haven't changed so much) until around the 2020s. I guess it could be nostalgia shielding me but it does feel like it's more common nowadays.
It was trendy to be edgy and offensive back then. But no one was offended, everyone would have fun and share a laugh together. Today’s internet is so toxic and divided and the reason I am adamant about using little to no social media altogether. We have been breaded into obnoxious, power hungry goons. I hate it now
Crazy how actively trying to be offensive in the open back in the day resulted in everyone just laughing about it, but nowadays you try to be genuinely nice & people want to see you hung or some shit.
@@CaptainCFalcon Since I'm always speaking formally with attention to punctuation and always being nice... I should not go on Twitter. (Like, when I'm mad at someone, I just keep quiet. Twitter would break me eventually.)
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778exactly lol you either think a certain way or you don't Human beings can't fundamentally change who they are - we can only change the course of our lives The beauty of freedom - fleeting away because everyone is scared of reality Time withers everything Riches mean nothing without a clear mind Nature is an ugly thing but it's also beautiful - without suffering we don't have anything to be happy about Sad that people willingly deny themselves such experiences because their feelings got hurt and were told to "value feelings" Frankly pathetic - feelings are fleeting but actions speak more about someone's character than words ever could The new generation are a bunch of cowards willing to accept tyranny all for the sake of becoming the "protected class" they once claimed to fight Sorry homie gotta get a tangent out
tbh though, a lot of people didn’t slur each other because of a genuine hatred for the group behind the slur itself. they just used slurs as “curse words worse than the f word” so it never felt personal. nowadays, slurs are usually used with the intent to slur people, so it’s honestly worse to hear one now than back then.
Yeah. The order of Trollface was ruling the world with a stern, but very just wiggly fist, the Virtue-signaling was a sin worse than murder, and SJWs and other feminist-like white knights were always made fun off. I miss those times. You could justly call someone a slur, and no one would bat an eye, if it was well-deserved.
you may think that you only have memories, but you can use them to learn what made it work. get some pals together, find a platform that lets it happen, and have a nice unmoderated time. it's worth it to try
I remember back then the easily offended crowd was on Tumblr, and people on other sites referred to them as "Tumblrinas." Then when Tumblr fell out of use they migrated to Twitter.
If the comment said something like, "do you miss the times before constant moderation" I would just simply reply "yes." Letting people be unfiltered and awful is the best way to know who to avoid.
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 I mean, they are already trying to ban people irl with the cancel culture so it's only a matter of time they'll do even more bs.
Also its not like moderation is keeping the bad apples away anyways, most mods only punish those standing up for themselves and leaving the corrupt, the ignorant, the mindless hive to seek out new victims since most mods they themselves dwell in the same cesspool as the trolls. take roblox, discord, twitter, reddit and many more for example. Moderation is not a judge's hammer, it is an execution axe wielded by tyrants
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 Its already happening with younger gen z, we see it everyday with how they freak out in normal real life situations. In public or at work...
Looking at the art, a part of me feels so sad knowing that we'll never be able to go back to those times again. It really sucks how Twitter users and equivalents to them pollute it and ruin it, they're all so just easily offended and thinskinned to ANYTHING. God, I miss the old creative, open-minded, carefree, and jokeful era of the internet.
I mean, if Twitter is not going to remove that limit thing then it might die out (finally) and I don't think it's going to be that bad if Twitter users go to other platforms since they're not going to have as much strength as they did on Twitter
Just listen to siiva, they’re the closest thing to old internet that genuinely feels like it. Would highly recommend, especially given the community’s creativity
I fully believe that the 2000s and 2010s are far better than what the current state of social media is. Social media back in the 2010s felt like an honest good time, but then it all went to shit as people started to get more sensitive, more angrier, and more greedy in the current year. I miss those days where i was just my cringe self, not having a care in the world as i drew on MSPaint with PPG speedpaints playing as background music on UA-cam and would hear a lot of Nightcore and watch memes that would randomly appear on my recommendations. I miss the days where your favorite UA-camrs weren't involved in some sort of drama or exposed for doing weird shit like you see nowadays. UA-cam was so much better back in the 2010s, but now all they do is try to make changes as much as possible just to profit more from their app-- the ads in the TV version of UA-cam is insane, and the content that they're putting on their ads is starting to get much more concerning now that I'm starting to see AI-related ads, not to mention the sudden rise in Temu suddenly appearing on the ads i see for whatever reason. Kinda miss the times they would actually give mobile game ads, and not the cursed ones that you usually see sometimes, but actual good mobile game ads. It's sad to see what the internet has come to nowadays, especially with Twitter still being a hot mess when it comes to... literally, just, anything that people post on that app, really. It's like people are *constantly* pissed off with whatever you post or say there. I would actually be willing to hear slurs any day if it means going back to the 2010s, because at least it's better than whatever the hell is going on in the raging bird cage that's called Twitter.
I love how they say how the old internet was filled with people calling each other slurs, even though is literally the same issue in the modern internet.
I think it’s because the internet was new then, so people who were there at the time weren’t as offended. Cuz “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt you”. Nowadays, since the internet is as easily accessible as ever, it hurts a ton because we adapted to communicating via text instead of taking it out in person. Also makes that “words can never hurt you” phrase completely useless.
It's Twitter. What do you expect? That said, I really wish people would stop acting like the old internet was any better. (That's just nostalgia blindness) It was just as bad back then as it is today.
Man I miss the "Wild West" of the internet. Sure, trolls were everywhere, trying to make ppl angry. But at the end of the day, it was just harmless banter online. The worst that would've happened back then was someone leaking your phone number and sending dozens of pizzas to your house or spam calling your home phone. All I remember from back then is getting trolled, and I loved it. The #1 thing ppl at my school wouldn't stop talking about was Annoying Orange, YTP's, Nyan Cat, or any of the other damn cats bc the internet had a strange fascination with them. I miss the old internet 🥲
I got called the wrong racial slurs that weren't my correct race, and I just found it funny. I didn't correct nor react out of anger, and that seemed to piss off trolls more. It was fun to tease them back. Now all that's gone, and now I get called either an evil republican, or a bleeding heart liberal...
I may have not been 100% apart of old internet but I still prefer it more cause it’s a LOT less restricted and was honestly much funnier. Nowadays, it’s a mess, it’s depressing. Some idiots always complaining over something small like damn, just enjoy the art and be done.
Look at old UA-cam Rewinds. This will give you a clear picture as to how much better the Internet used to be, and how much the Internet has devolved over the past 12 years. I mean hell, look at how the Internet was between 2010 and 2016. You will see a vast difference, and not in a good way.
I miss the old internet eras just because no one really cared about what others did, you could just draw your art, play your games, express your opinion and have fun without being critisized or cancelled by someone who's extremely polarized
THIS era of the internet, where you DONT have a risk of automatically getting Crucified for saying you like one fan-favorite character more than another, is what OP misses
Eh that still existed back then. but it was more a verbal equivalant of a Slug to the arm kinda thing then worry about people tracking you down and attacking you in real life level it is now
Ngl looking at that image legitimately made my morning. Woke up grumpy because college, but smiled instantly upon seeing that art, recognizing almost all of the characters in that piece took me back to when I was a kid watching videos featuring them. I hate that people on Twitter are being…people on Twitter
In the "old internet" we would send these offended people a special jpg image, conveniently named "offended". It contained all the nicest things to improve their mood - they just need to keep on scrolling. Damn, now I'm sad, seeing how the internet went to shit...
I could call someone a slur back then and they'd smile. Now I can call someone pretty and get cancelled for it. People on the internet have lost their common sense.
I think I still have my 'Internet Butthurt' form where I'd tick the boxes and fill it out according to the appropriate offended, then upload the image. Everyone would have a laugh and the offended person would either come to their senses or get so mad they'd log off for a few.
“What are you doing to bring it back?” Well, personally, I do my best to say at least 50 slurs a day over the internet. It’s hard, but everyone’s gotta do their part.
As my dad often says, the internet has done something that is both a blessing and a curse. Bringing people together from all over the world. On the one hand it's great because you can get all the information you want with one click and interact with people all over the world freely. On the other hand, the idiots who were once isolated and ignored can now find other idiots with whom to create flocks in which they self-validate and proliferate their stupidity.
Even more ironically, I've seen waaay more ACTUAL bigotry and hate on the internet in the past few years. Like yeah I've always gotten my fair share of slurs (which I wear proudly) but in recent years is when death threats, suicide encouragement and "shitposts" about the most horrendous content have become normalized.
Yeah, in the past there were bunch of different forums and stuff where people talked and these forums moderated themselves individually. But now we have these platforms with billions of users and dollars which cant moderate themselves due to the extraordinary amount of messages and content they have to check. I mean around 10-20 zettabytes (10-20 *billions* of terabytes, or 10-20 trillions of gigabytes) of data was created last year, and this amount grows every year by like 30-40%, this is insane amounts of data. The internet of the past was probably better moderated than today simply due to the decentralization of it all back then, also internet speeds sucked so there wasnt much data to distribute at that speed.
As mofik said, it was probably because everything was decentralized, so it wasn't that there wasn't bigotry back then, but it mostly went under the rug because there wasn't that much people around to moderate, and also because people (generally) didn't go out of their way to offend others because people didn't actually get offended that easily back then, and because people would usually flock in specific communities back then, in which users would usually behave or get banned from the community, as tight-knit communities would detect when new accounts were specifically made to troll people were ill-meant, so old users would be willing to behave, and new trolls were detected quickly.
As someone born in that era, we didn't even had internet and I would actually go outside and head to a cafe to experience just playing flash games and memes in those time. The thing about old internet for me personally is it wasn't too integrated as much as it is now, It was an option to go to and have fun and watch funny cat videos Now, the internet is so integrated with most people that they forgot what it means to be an actual person. They don't understand the consequences of their action if they say that to people IRL nor have the thought that other people have different experiences when it came to 2000s and 2010s internet. Not all people in the internet said slurs in their past and not all even experienced the internet.
I miss this Internet era, too!! 2000s culture, Vocaloid, Nyan Cat, anime aesthetics, viral clips and music, MMD, animation memes, rainbows depicted in an innocent way... For me, it was so much better than it is now.
Lol yea I’m nostalgic too…nothing like being called a Mexican jew lizard by a random internet dumbass. Precious moments that will be lost in time like tears in the rain…
@@Flesh_WizardOh how I loved to hear their reactions when I'd finally use voice chat and they'd find out they just lost to a girl.... Makes me sad that I'll never be able to share those moments with my brother again 😢🤣
people got along better back then because they were not always looking for something to be offended by and did not care about what they were called by others in the internet
It'd be more accurate to say the internet wasn't full of people, who didn't constantly try to satisfy some sort of hero complex by finding dirt on them, and making exposés on regular people.
My favorite part about the old internet is people could take a joke. Nowadays you make a joke poking fun at something/somebody and people get really pissed.
"You sure you miss the times where you could express yourself freely without having to tow the line to authoritarian karens?" That person complaining about the past did the reich thing.
"You really truly earnestly miss this era of the internet where you'd get called slurs three times a day?" Yes. Overuse of slurs desensitize people to them and makes them become powerless. It's also a good way to see what people are like when they're free to say what ever, as that shows what sort of images these people are willing to create for themselves. You can judge the nature of a person better when nothing is forced upon them. It also means the context of language needs to be recognized more often, creating a demand for higher level of reading comprehension which Twitter has none of. It does come with the downside of making the internet more difficult to understand for neurodivergent people, so it's not all an upside. But I'd say the positives outweigh the negatives, and something can be done about those negatives. Any sort of social groups and places also form more naturally when proper freedom of speech exists.
I'd much, much rather be called slurs 3 times a day than trying to word my comments in such a way that they don't get automatically hidden by the algo no matter what I write.
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 I'm a Finn. Swear words are second nature to us. They're pretty much meaningless outside of more professional and proper contexts. Really it's the context and situation itself that determines if someone's an a-hole rather than the words being used.
I love how those that called the person with internet nostalgia "problematic" just proved the point of why we're nostalgic in the first place. The Wild West era was chaotic but at least it wasn't tyrannical.
@@EmotionalParaquat714神离天 How deep exactly? If you go 4chan, liveleaks or similar sites that don't use censor footage, especially war, I don't consider them deep. If you're talking about questionable sites that require a tor and showing deprave crap, selling illegal crap. You really don't want to go there if you want the glowies on your tail, get hacked or don't want to bleach your eyes.
I rather take all that from the past internet rather than what we have now. These days almost everyone is so overly sensitive and can't wait to ruin another person's life for the tiniest thing. There was some words and people that you can just brush the side and not giving it a second thought, the complete opposite to today where someone constantly micromanages every word you say wanting to be offended. Back then we knew what was bad and what wasn't, but nowadays is just waiting for someone to tell us what's good and bad on our behalf and tell us that it's good for us because it comes from their personal authority. It really makes me not care for their brand of safety. Not to mention these people wanting to be in authority over what you say and think being the biggest hypocrites doing the exact same thing they despise, but feel they are in the right to do so.
All this does is create massive resentment, and like anything, this resentment will outright snap. If you ask me we are starting to see the cracks before the break, especially in how people are treating the LGBTQ community (and how LGB is actually breaking off from this organization), and the successful boycotts of brands like Bud Lite.
And at least, during those times, Tumblr was were the crazies festered. In retrospect, that site was like the insane asylum of the Internet. And now the inmates got out.
the closest thing you may have might be the tor network then... or any other non centralized system. people often think tor is just where you go to launder crypto for dodgy goods and services... thats just one part of it.
People always have nearly and actually killed eachother over dumb shit, in and out of the internet. The difference is the freedom of expression people had back then. People could say whatever unhinged thoughts they had in mind without punishment.
The old and new internet have had a huge impact on me and many others. I personally do not like a lot of the current internet as someone who studies it all i believe that a more decentralized and free internet is the ultimate best thing like it was back then.
The world generally follows a trend where someone makes something very cool, it becomes popular, corporations sink their teeth into it and turn it mainstream, then as they want to increase profits they destroy what made that thing great, and people abandon it. The internet is in it's decline.
@@xXx56-r3h sometimes it gets to the point where the creator of the source material from where the meme came from would be getting harrassed (like with the boykisser meme or pizza tower screaming meme)
Apart from this magnificent drawing that made me drop a tear, because it encapsulates what made the Internet of 2000 so iconic, one small personal experience I want to share comes from Twitter itself, from 2008. It was different. You could literally join a community of people who mostly disagree with you or have completely different hobbies, and be fine with that. As someone said, it was the Wild West of the Internet. Not that it didn’t have some issues, but the approach to the Internet was different and you could feel it.
You can tell how many people attacking the old internet weren't actually around for it or have flawed memories by the fact they believe the old internet actually was constant slurs and that chat filters improved things instead of just driving it below the surface. Words that are *now* viewed as slurs were common back then, but the actual slurs of the day including the one starting with N were actually quite rare outside of the chans. The old internet was deeply flawed, but there was more artistic expression, people got along better because they weren't being forced to pretend to get along with people and they couldn't just kick out people they disliked. So they were forced to either actually get along with others or leave of their own will. It was an objectively better place that modern people like to try and reduce to "an era of slurs and bigotry" I'll take a deeply flawed place where people interact with opposing views willingly and learn from it over screaming fits and people retreating back into their echo chamber whenever they encounter opposing views they can't get kicked out via appeals to authority, nevermind the effects on modern art.
I repeat this to myself, a lot of the time when someone on twitter talks about how horrible the past internet was, and how better it is now. "Back then might not have been the best, but at least you could see that more clearly than now." I'd rather just be called a slur than to have a bunch of people who think they know me and my plights infantilize me, and act as if they are better than the past, while the same people would jump at the opportunity to celebrate the deaths of others that dared to be rich, or even just think differently than them.
As V1 from one nice ULTRAKILL animation said: "What? You still surprised twitter works? The truth is that servers were never hosted on earth, they are on the deepest layer of hell."
What I miss about old internet is the lack of accusations when someone barely does anything more that say they like something. These days e you have to spell out what you like about something and even then you still get accused of all manner of things. Sure there were problems back then, but at least you weren't constantly getting targeted or having people dig through your past for even a tiny scrap to blow out of proportion.
I missed the old era of the internet (2007 - Early 2010's), where "cancel culture" and witch hunting doesn't exist, and companies (Either gaming or otherwise) aren't focusing on draining as many moneys that's left out of your pockets. The old era isn't perfect, but at least it had more freedom compared to what's going on right now.
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Old internet wasn't perfect, but it was a lot less egocentric. Social Media is what makes you think everything is about you.
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It was certainly better.
Social Media is a mistake. We are proving that Humanity's stupidity is infinite.
It’s due to centralization of the internet. Old internet was decentralized and mostly didn’t have any defined sites to go on. Basically everyone had their own spaces
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness"
That's a damn good quote for what I'm seeing here.
Honestly, put that on a shirt with Nahida. No one will question if she actually said that.
(It is a quote from *Alejandro Jodorowsky* , a filmmaker)
So the oldest rendition of “touch some grass.”
thats cold. wheres that quote from?
it's in this video. from where exactly? no idea
what does it mean
The old free and creative internet IS BETTER.
The new overly sensitive, censored, obsessed and angry internet sucks in comparison.
it's literally 1984 expect everyone is the big brother and will kill you on sight
Don’t forget the near 50% of traffic being bots
About the angry part
Well there used to be a lot of AVGN clones..
Overly sensitive, censored, obsessed, and angry is most likely the understatement. We’ve all seen how bad stuff is.
Does anyone notice there is a worlcorp enterprise logo?
Yes actually, I'd rather be called slurs than get doxxed and swatted by people who genuinely want to kill me because of my opinions. Correct.
So real.
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Ok but you know, some people should try to stop bringing their opinion wvery 3 seconds
@@patoastral2118 Check what happens when someone brings their opinion first. All you have to do is read OP’s comment.
It’s not necessarily about bringing in your opinion, people will try to dox you for having an opinion in the first place
Twitter users need to understand that being offended isn’t an identity
They probably have more identity issues than any other person 💀
Frankly, yes. I miss the slurs, too. Because they were almost never said in ernest back then. They were usually just to poke fun playfully, or just to be shocking.
They identify as miserable.
Don't give them ideas.
@adrianmadsen5551 THIS!!!
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness"
This quote perfectly encapsulates why the current generation of kids (at least the part that feels comfortable in the modern internet, somehow) will never understand what made the old internet so great; it wasn't about being able to say slurs, it was about the freedom, the creativity, and the sense of community.
It was about an world where no one care who you where and everyone fucked with your mom yesterday. Shit was edgy and stupid.
Today people are either jaded or intelectually dishonest
Exactly! Most people had no inclination to use slurs despite having the freedom to do so. Efforts to crack down on slurs had a chilling effect on creativity and community.
truly a wise word from Archon of Wisdom
Thats why gaming is trash now, old cod lobbies were filled with us just trying to say the most extreme jokes for fun without getting mad. Thats was the whole point, just shit talk the funniest shit you cant think of. Now we can lose our entire console and gaming collection for it....
@@DigitalPand3micYeah, now people yell and scream over politics and start yelling every time they see a woman.
Old internet was less about race, less about bigots, less about politics or at least it's not on your face all the time, social websites weren't a thing, people weren't trying to make clout out of anything and everything. Common sense was still alive then
And calling people slurs was a bonus. I've been called and called others all kinds of stuff and it really is no big deal, it was fun.
The clout back then was how many "friends" you had on Myspace and how "pretty/cool" you customized your Myspace page. Those were the days, the days of first learning about hex codes, and photoshop, gifs, etc.
We were all equal.
We were all n-words.
mate the only people that ruined everything are the sjw/lgbtq/woke people, there was nothing woke or lgtq before that i remember, it was normal and it was glorious
Common sense is an illness nowadays.
"I like waffles"
"SO YOU HATE PANCAKES!?!? HUH!?!?"
Oh oh so your'e saying that you support french toast!?!?
doot doot doot-doot doot
"Oh, so because my gay friend named Jerry likes pancakes, you're homophobic?" Lol
no that's a whole different sentence /ref
"NAY CUR. THAT IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT SENTENCE"
Reminds me of the Jaden Williams skit about peanut butter
How to piss off Twitter:
1. Post literally anything
2. Don't apologize
3. Profit
Or:
Exist
Bonus: turn off notifications for more peaceful sleep
Tip: Be a straight person or a man for double the results👍
@@fleurala "white hetero male" to be exact
Step 2 is ehhh…?
Pretty sure that just pisses them off, as it is just step 1.
Man, look at all those happy faces.
No wonder modern Twitter hates it.
Issac Clarke pfp = instant respect
@@campeãodomundo2137 so real
I do miss internet before mass social media
-UA-cam wasn't TV 2.0.
-Artists didn't have to apologize for their creations
-People doing the most deranged, ridiculous and absurd bs for clout weren't that often
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness" Absolutely perfectly landed quote, it is the bird app in a nutshell.
Bro twitter cancelled a god damn cat; IT’S…. A FREAKING CAT.
Istg social media platforms are stupid sometimes.
old is gold
@@Jawsomest and they cancelled dog.... A FUCKING DOG
I feel likeMost of the time that is a minority or a bad thing that happened be sad about it yes but look at the good of the present
unless the art was some fucked up illegal shit, loli's existed in the old internet to. but i agree with you
Twitter is literally "there only two opinions, my and the wrong one"
And if you answer with a "mine*", they'll also get offended.
In the old days of the Internet you could be friends with people who have different opinions, and aren't even the same political party as you. I miss that.
@@Burn_Angeltheir opinions are taking so many U-turns it started doing donuts over and over
Mine @@Burn_Angel
"I miss when the internet was less politicized and divided"
Twitter: *So YoU aRe RaCiSt???*
They’re hyper fixating on the bad things about the older era of the internet, and yeah they’re not wrong. There were many things about the old era of the internet that aged like milk, however they’re neglecting to also point out the great things about the old Internet. People are reminiscing on a better time of the internet’s life because the internet nowadays has dissolved into infantile teenagers arguing over politics, constantly crying over how the world could end, bullying everyone that threatens their fragile egos. Old Internet was a lot more lax than it is now, though it would still put up a fight if you went too far. Creators could make content out of passion rather than ego or money.
Yea sir
For me, even though it's cringe, I miss the fandom culture. People were usually very open to others, regardless of how they identified politically or otherwise; as long as you're not an ass who wanted to make drama for the sake of drama, it didn't matter. Now we have this "DO NOT INTERACT IF YOU LIKE (SHOW) OR (CHARACTER!!)" and it's... Really stupid. People aren't just the media they consume, they're deeper than that, lol.
These days everyone's trying to be the exact same most of the time.
@@RobotPlushthey hyperfixate on the bad parts of any part of the past
Miss early 2010's and late 2000s, internet, culture, and vibe. Will never see that again so long, old friend.
It's getting to the point where:
Random user: Hey I like water
Twitter: *SO YOU HATE DEATH?!*
"Yes... Yes I do"
Turn back and repent, accursed Hydrophile!
"WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST SODA HUH? ARE YOU FATPHOBIC OR SOMETHING?"
I wish I could say I was just joking, but I actually have seen something similar before
@@MrBrezelwurstthere are people on twitter legit saying “Why do you hate Nazis? They’ve done absolutely nothing to you, you’re just getting on a hate train.”
"WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD WATER AND HAVE TO DIE OF THIRST HUH??!!!"
The toxic comment accidentally made the artist's point even stronger.
Jesus Christ, the old nostalgic memes offended people?
Don't you know nostalgia is the first step to genocidal fascism
The differences between modern memes and classic memes is that the classic memes were actually funny, modern is not ‘funny’
Let's be honest..... at this point..... that's not shocking.... that's the norm
Unfortunatly idiots are affend of anything
@@Thebroadcaster759 Loud + Hanna-Barbera sound effects = funny
Tip for everyone; If you are offended, you can leave. If you don’t like someone’s opinion, you don’t have to agree or argue why they are wrong. If you don’t enjoy the art you can use the mute or block button.
That’d require a functioning brain… something most Twitter users sorely lack
That said, one hundred percent agree
@@jzpowell2108 you said it way better than I could.
Twitter mf: "I'M OFFENDED"
The whole human race: "Bro its a canon event kys"
ok
That sound, sane advice has been flat out ignored for over a decade now, these people just want to be validated victims. They can't do that without evidence.
Love how Twitter immediately proved what the artist wanted to say with this picture xD
Based BMTH album art avatar.
@@KingKrouch Do you remember "Suicide Season" album?
Dude I literally fucking shouted out loud when I saw your PFP. Suicide Season and There is a Hell are BMTHs best albums.
@@GeneralBitBoat if they know about there is a hell they most likely do their release dates are only 2 years apart lol.
i grew up with the early to mid 2010s internet. i miss ytp's, classic jumpscare videos and anime memes, and when people wouldn't get offended at every little thing.
“What about slurs?” Yes, because slurs are inherently an internet thing. Totally.
People would see slurs and wouldnt give a shit. Theyd be like “yea thats a slur, ok. ”
Keep scrolling
Then move on like normal well adjusted individuals.
@swellsauce6115
I don't know why I didn't realize that these people think that... I kinda want to get off this planet now.
I unironically see more slurs now just because people are fighting more than before.
@@mahoganydoughnut6082
You're not wrong, but are we not gonna talk about how messed up that is, especially when it's due to these narcissistic clods?
@@DemonicRemption call them the f slur
We did it. We found a point in time where some people are so dense that the internet itself offends people on the internet.
Wow. Those people really need to step away from the internet and never come back.
Step away from the internet nah they need to move to another planet.
@@PutineluAlin reality. Planet is Not enough.
@@Odie_Nicono another multiverse
@@callibur2215nah the plane of extensive existence
Twitter users don't hate on anything good and wholesome (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE)
Showing them a picture of Josef Stalin, I say
I don't think half of them don't know who that is
@@spoohater6949 HE's COol CoMmUniSms MAN RiGht!?
@@spoohater6949Ah yes, Twitter's lord and savior (They never know anything about communism or it's history)
@@spoohater6949that pig is better off forgotten
Correct! I'd rather be called racial slurs than to get doxxed over fictional characters.
"Where you get called slurs three times a day!"
Sweet, sweet summer child. Sweet, thin-skinned, weak-willed summer child.
I know right?! back in the day (christ on a crispy cream cracker I can't believe I'm saying that) if you were on a part of the net where that kept happening, you'd get off that site an stay the Hell away from there. Common sense really is going the way of the dodo smh!
i remember xbox 360 voice chat was so fucked up when I heard someone had to flee their home town because of constant death threats i didn't think anything of it, figured they were just over reacting because who doesn't get at least 5 or 6 a day?
Three? Based on my grand total of zero seconds on Halo and COD, and the wisdom passed down by Millenials, those are rookie numbers.
I remember when death threats is our way of saying hi.
The Fraps wars and eventual Dox wars.
If you couldn't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The current inhabitants are more fragile than glass.
@@persona9709 The Call Of Duty lobbies added more to the hellfire.
Freedom of speech pronotes creativity, but comes with the chance of being offended. I'd rather be offended than have my freedoms taken away
I would rather be offended than have your freedom of creativity taken away.
God damn right.
I didn’t get shot in the sewers just for some small peepee basement dwelling racists take my freedom away from me
But don't you know freedom of speech is grounds for hate and bigotry? I dont want freedom if my feelings have a chance of getting hurt. I want temporary safety from mean words that might offend someone and if you disagree I'll call you a bunch of buzzwords and right wing.
@@thatguybrody4819 yep, that's today.
This is the equivalent to remembering the fun moments of childhood only for someone to constantly remind you of the terrible fights and broken relationships during that time. Buzzkill is the word of the day.
I understand some twitter comments looking at that internet era realistically and I appreciate that. Others just want to ruin everything.
It's like missing when you were a kid in 2001 and someone being like "uGh BuT wHaT aBoUt NiNe ElEvEn"
@@arandomgamerwithideas3257or they just want to stand in a echo chamber
Every Party needs a pooper thats why the invited them
It's like that every time someone tries to reflect positively on a period or time.
"Dude, I really miss the 1980s. The neon lights, the fantastic movies, the rock and roll music, the fashion..."
"WELL WHAT ABOUT THE COCAINE EPIDEMIC? WHAT ABOUT AIDS?"
It's especially noticeable on vids about the 1950s where you have really old people reminiscing about their long-gone youth only for a bunch of literal children to chime in about racism. It's sad really.
Baker:*Bakes pastries*
Twitter: THATS OFFENSIVE
"I miss the old Internet." SO YOU LIKE SAYING SLURS??? IS THAT IT? HMMM????? I truly underestimate how brain dead Twitter users can be.
"i like pancakes"
"SO YOU HATE WAFFLES!?!"
“So you like saying slurs?”
*Insert Yes Chad meme*
As if people still don't say slurs these days. Actually, Twitter freaks think anything is a slur. Like the word trap is apparently a trans slur.
I really wish they would stop making 1984 references so easy to make.
I do miss it because back then people could take it like a champ since they knew it wasn't actual prejudice and merely common shit talk
1:52
The perfect way to describe people who hate the old internet they never experienced
They literally think anything from the past is fascism, so of course it did.
they are turning into the things they hate the most lmao
We didn't even have the internet during the 40's 💀
@@kok8346 Turning? They always were
@@kok8346They don't hate fascists.
They hate being powerless. They hate not being fascists themselves.
@@DonVigaDeFierro
I despise those kind of people.
Accept being powerless goddamnit!
0:33 Actually in my opinion i'd rather be called a slur than get my address doxxed and swatted so...
I don’t understand why people pretend getting called a slur is just so awful.
I mean, you and I already know the words. So, why do they pretend slurs are “shocking” and “obscene”?
@aaronlandry3934 It's not exactly the slur but instead they intentions behind it, they can tell the guy saying it truly means that they dispise them with every bone in their body. Or they might laugh it off because it sounds like a joke.
@@nyanya2757 You can say “nice words” with mean intentions too. That also isn’t shocking.
Or person could laugh at it because they don’t care what that person thinks. You’re not required to care about anything
@@aaronlandry3934 fair enough. I would say that it’s more of the historical context of the slur, because they’re typically made or used by a oppressive culture targeting a minority, and by using that slur it could sound like you’re aligning with said culture. Ultimately, I don’t really care, since I wasn’t raised in a time period where the racial slur really affected me at all, but u can see how it offends people seriously.
@@birb330 History is kind of a stupid reason to be offended by something today. “History is in a book” as they say
The sad thing is that despite there being more slurs back then, there was a lot less prejudice. Modern internet is overloaded with prejudice. Unfortunately, the fools who act like slurs are the worst are ignoring the prejudice because no slurs are used.
They've forgotten the mantra "sticks and stones".
Slurs are way less toxic than doxxing and sending death threats. It's just a fact.
agree
In the minds of cultural Marxists, there is no way to "agree to disagree". They fundamentally can't understand the concept of "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
It's strange how people are more racist now than before. Back then it was edgy teens who would troll people to get reactions put of others. Now it's privileged young adults who never got out of their bubbles who are being actually racist but aren't self aware to realize it.
The world has changed...
2000-2010's era was legit something else, yet, nostalgic.
I miss the late 00's and early 2010's when people weren't easily offended
Yep. But you either had 4chan or MySpace. So pick your poison
Back when you could say all the n words you wanted to
I miss those golden days as well
Same
@that1skull118 oh my god MySpace feels like a lifetime ago. It sucks cause it was more intuitive than most newer social media platforms
Th old internet art is giving us memories that we can't never get it back
People back then were more mature and secure with themselves to the point toxicity was seen as childish and most often hilarious, not life threatening as seen by these adult babies.
Ironically, humans tend to behave better when they aren’t being babysat or controlled with an overbearing parent.
Pretty much true. If you don't ever have to act like an adult, you won't. Because why would you? Critical thinking and taking responsibility are hard. I kinda feel bad for them, as they will have a lot of problems with adapting when they become adults/move out of their mother's basement.
That parent being the toxic world of Twitter!
@@finishwhatyoustarted more like they dont have parents bcus people with parents dont behave like children
Agreed. People will tell you to grow up or tell you the internet isn't real life, if they are being childish. Nowadays, saying a person to grow up is looked down upon or even worse, they will praise you for being a child.
This is true
Calling people slurs on the internet has never stopped being a thing. I would even say it's more of a thing now than it ever has been. I have no idea what that Twitter user has been smoking.
probably crack mixed with blue meth
They’ve been smoking literal shit if you ask me
ahh my favorite pasttime.
That user cooked "math" in the wrong way
Tbh I don't remember many people being called slurs at all (at least in my everyday spaces on the internet, which haven't changed so much) until around the 2020s. I guess it could be nostalgia shielding me but it does feel like it's more common nowadays.
It was trendy to be edgy and offensive back then. But no one was offended, everyone would have fun and share a laugh together. Today’s internet is so toxic and divided and the reason I am adamant about using little to no social media altogether. We have been breaded into obnoxious, power hungry goons. I hate it now
We have been turned into complete mooks. This is why I love my current, more stoic mindset.
Crazy how actively trying to be offensive in the open back in the day resulted in everyone just laughing about it, but nowadays you try to be genuinely nice & people want to see you hung or some shit.
@@CaptainCFalcon Since I'm always speaking formally with attention to punctuation and always being nice... I should not go on Twitter. (Like, when I'm mad at someone, I just keep quiet. Twitter would break me eventually.)
Exactly. Everyone who says "I have grown and matured" is a liar. They aren't grown. They just more of a virtue signaling shill.
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778exactly lol you either think a certain way or you don't
Human beings can't fundamentally change who they are - we can only change the course of our lives
The beauty of freedom - fleeting away because everyone is scared of reality
Time withers everything
Riches mean nothing without a clear mind
Nature is an ugly thing but it's also beautiful - without suffering we don't have anything to be happy about
Sad that people willingly deny themselves such experiences because their feelings got hurt and were told to "value feelings"
Frankly pathetic - feelings are fleeting but actions speak more about someone's character than words ever could
The new generation are a bunch of cowards willing to accept tyranny all for the sake of becoming the "protected class" they once claimed to fight
Sorry homie gotta get a tangent out
Twitter users when someone feels anything but hatred towards anything that isn't liberalism;
“You really truly miss this era of the internet without filters and being called slurs three times a day”
Chad: “Yes.”
tbh though, a lot of people didn’t slur each other because of a genuine hatred for the group behind the slur itself. they just used slurs as “curse words worse than the f word” so it never felt personal. nowadays, slurs are usually used with the intent to slur people, so it’s honestly worse to hear one now than back then.
@@ahawdjkmwodjikma6543 tsmt!
@@ahawdjkmwodjikma6543 Using a slur out of genuine hatred is too easy, if somebody's gonna be racist they at least gotta be smart about it
@@ahawdjkmwodjikma6543Call of duty black ops 2 players: I am gonna pretend I didn't see that
"Three times a day"? Dang, those are rookie numbers
Those days truly were the Golden Era of the internet. Now all we have are memories of a world long forgotten about.
@raynalldoprime The golden era of video gaming with some of the best titles from developers that actually cared.
@raynalldoprime from soft still making AC and people still complaining about difficulty just not from the players.
Yeah. The order of Trollface was ruling the world with a stern, but very just wiggly fist, the Virtue-signaling was a sin worse than murder, and SJWs and other feminist-like white knights were always made fun off.
I miss those times. You could justly call someone a slur, and no one would bat an eye, if it was well-deserved.
you may think that you only have memories, but you can use them to learn what made it work. get some pals together, find a platform that lets it happen, and have a nice unmoderated time. it's worth it to try
This is the 41 millenium of Internet.
The seas are along dry
I remember back then the easily offended crowd was on Tumblr, and people on other sites referred to them as "Tumblrinas." Then when Tumblr fell out of use they migrated to Twitter.
Yeah, they originated from Tumblr and everything was good when they stayed on Tumblr, now they're fuckin everywhere
@@pmchad Exactly.
@@pmchad Unfortunately, Tumblr Tumbld.
At least Tumblr became a decent site afterwards. Nowadays, it's pretty chill.
@@Piss_Off_Plzbollocks, after Tumblr banned p0rn, it became nothing but SJWs.
2:25 That policy is extremely foolish.
If the comment said something like, "do you miss the times before constant moderation" I would just simply reply "yes." Letting people be unfiltered and awful is the best way to know who to avoid.
Just like real life!
Future generations gonna grow up the suprised how the real word isn't filtered.
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 I mean, they are already trying to ban people irl with the cancel culture so it's only a matter of time they'll do even more bs.
Also its not like moderation is keeping the bad apples away anyways, most mods only punish those standing up for themselves and leaving the corrupt, the ignorant, the mindless hive to seek out new victims since most mods they themselves dwell in the same cesspool as the trolls.
take roblox, discord, twitter, reddit and many more for example.
Moderation is not a judge's hammer, it is an execution axe wielded by tyrants
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 Its already happening with younger gen z, we see it everyday with how they freak out in normal real life situations. In public or at work...
@@then00brathalos so basically school teachers.
Man these people are the reason gatekeeping exists.
Looking at the art, a part of me feels so sad knowing that we'll never be able to go back to those times again. It really sucks how Twitter users and equivalents to them pollute it and ruin it, they're all so just easily offended and thinskinned to ANYTHING. God, I miss the old creative, open-minded, carefree, and jokeful era of the internet.
I mean, if Twitter is not going to remove that limit thing then it might die out (finally) and I don't think it's going to be that bad if Twitter users go to other platforms since they're not going to have as much strength as they did on Twitter
@@Бобёр-ю8г I already saved that
Just listen to siiva, they’re the closest thing to old internet that genuinely feels like it. Would highly recommend, especially given the community’s creativity
@@saratoga6663 SiivaGunner
Sorry to say but, not with that attitude we won't.
Never say never
I fully believe that the 2000s and 2010s are far better than what the current state of social media is.
Social media back in the 2010s felt like an honest good time, but then it all went to shit as people started to get more sensitive, more angrier, and more greedy in the current year. I miss those days where i was just my cringe self, not having a care in the world as i drew on MSPaint with PPG speedpaints playing as background music on UA-cam and would hear a lot of Nightcore and watch memes that would randomly appear on my recommendations.
I miss the days where your favorite UA-camrs weren't involved in some sort of drama or exposed for doing weird shit like you see nowadays.
UA-cam was so much better back in the 2010s, but now all they do is try to make changes as much as possible just to profit more from their app-- the ads in the TV version of UA-cam is insane, and the content that they're putting on their ads is starting to get much more concerning now that I'm starting to see AI-related ads, not to mention the sudden rise in Temu suddenly appearing on the ads i see for whatever reason.
Kinda miss the times they would actually give mobile game ads, and not the cursed ones that you usually see sometimes, but actual good mobile game ads.
It's sad to see what the internet has come to nowadays, especially with Twitter still being a hot mess when it comes to... literally, just, anything that people post on that app, really. It's like people are *constantly* pissed off with whatever you post or say there.
I would actually be willing to hear slurs any day if it means going back to the 2010s, because at least it's better than whatever the hell is going on in the raging bird cage that's called Twitter.
I love how they say how the old internet was filled with people calling each other slurs, even though is literally the same issue in the modern internet.
I think it’s because the internet was new then, so people who were there at the time weren’t as offended. Cuz “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt you”. Nowadays, since the internet is as easily accessible as ever, it hurts a ton because we adapted to communicating via text instead of taking it out in person. Also makes that “words can never hurt you” phrase completely useless.
In fact it's probably gotten worse since then
@@MJ-kx5eh so basically, the internet wasn't as offensive back then because the sensitive people didnt have the internet yet
@@jytvreal THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING!!!
This.
How did they offended by this? This is wholesome.
To me, it Kinda seemed like they got mad over the comment rather than the art
@@SomeGrunt_On_UA-cam still makes no sense
they assume everything and think its what people actually think
back then people enjoy their own life
outside
It's Twitter. What do you expect? That said, I really wish people would stop acting like the old internet was any better. (That's just nostalgia blindness) It was just as bad back then as it is today.
The color circle trend was actually a lot of fun to do, and I love seeing people's own takes on it.
The old internet looks so much better than the internet I'm on, now I'm sad
People who hate the old internet couldn’t handle being in it for a second
No shit. That's why they hate it you fuxking id!0t.
Man I miss the "Wild West" of the internet. Sure, trolls were everywhere, trying to make ppl angry. But at the end of the day, it was just harmless banter online. The worst that would've happened back then was someone leaking your phone number and sending dozens of pizzas to your house or spam calling your home phone. All I remember from back then is getting trolled, and I loved it. The #1 thing ppl at my school wouldn't stop talking about was Annoying Orange, YTP's, Nyan Cat, or any of the other damn cats bc the internet had a strange fascination with them. I miss the old internet 🥲
O7
o7
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I was one of those trolls on facebook.
07
“Do you really think the old internet where everyone was calling you slurs is better?”
YES! YES I DO!
I missed being called a squeaker on CoD lmao
At least before we were all honest, like in real life. now we need to do an essay to just insult someone
I got called the wrong racial slurs that weren't my correct race, and I just found it funny. I didn't correct nor react out of anger, and that seemed to piss off trolls more. It was fun to tease them back.
Now all that's gone, and now I get called either an evil republican, or a bleeding heart liberal...
Cause everyone did it so it felt less insulting
Get called a slur in 2010 it’s just some troll
Get called a slur in 2024 someone actually means it
"ATTACK THE D POINT"
I may have not been 100% apart of old internet but I still prefer it more cause it’s a LOT less restricted and was honestly much funnier. Nowadays, it’s a mess, it’s depressing. Some idiots always complaining over something small like damn, just enjoy the art and be done.
Sometimes it's not rose-tinted glasses, sometimes something in the past really was just better.
Look at old UA-cam Rewinds. This will give you a clear picture as to how much better the Internet used to be, and how much the Internet has devolved over the past 12 years.
I mean hell, look at how the Internet was between 2010 and 2016. You will see a vast difference, and not in a good way.
In this case is 50/50 because of the edgy era of the internet things changed
I miss the old internet eras just because no one really cared about what others did, you could just draw your art, play your games, express your opinion and have fun without being critisized or cancelled by someone who's extremely polarized
not during 2016-2018 though
@@scribblecloudold internet is far before 2016-2018
@@fedethegreat88the clout chase era
Unless you're Chris Chan but that's a long, sad and unique story
Unless youre in 4chan. Just remember how they loved to bully people they don't even know
THIS era of the internet, where you DONT have a risk of automatically getting Crucified for saying you like one fan-favorite character more than another, is what OP misses
Eh that still existed back then. but it was more a verbal equivalant of a Slug to the arm kinda thing then worry about people tracking you down and attacking you in real life level it is now
@@NameIsDoc True. The slugging match stayed on the forums back then.
@@NameIsDocI question why these people would go as far as doxxing you nowadays than say you're wrong at stuff. Feels like witch hunting.
Instead, you get crucified if you hate Justin Bieber lmao (by the beliebers, not the major internet, they find it funny to roast the dude iirc)
Ngl looking at that image legitimately made my morning. Woke up grumpy because college, but smiled instantly upon seeing that art, recognizing almost all of the characters in that piece took me back to when I was a kid watching videos featuring them. I hate that people on Twitter are being…people on Twitter
In the "old internet" we would send these offended people a special jpg image, conveniently named "offended".
It contained all the nicest things to improve their mood - they just need to keep on scrolling.
Damn, now I'm sad, seeing how the internet went to shit...
I could call someone a slur back then and they'd smile. Now I can call someone pretty and get cancelled for it. People on the internet have lost their common sense.
I think I still have my 'Internet Butthurt' form where I'd tick the boxes and fill it out according to the appropriate offended, then upload the image. Everyone would have a laugh and the offended person would either come to their senses or get so mad they'd log off for a few.
And that form still works to this day?
It's sad, people became more and more pessimist at a point where if you say anything you would get cancelled for it.
How can I find the image?
It's honestly a miracle if anything doesn't offend Twitter.
Mhm. They never get satisfied
Have any of twittards been offended by Malevich's black square painting yet?
“What are you doing to bring it back?”
Well, personally, I do my best to say at least 50 slurs a day over the internet. It’s hard, but everyone’s gotta do their part.
Ha!
It ain’t much but it’s honest work
@@squeegee-cNow I'm sad again
@@squeegee-c *presses f to pay respects to that farmer*
50?? Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.
Even though I was born almost in the end of that era I grew up watching those memes and boy they were good
As my dad often says, the internet has done something that is both a blessing and a curse. Bringing people together from all over the world. On the one hand it's great because you can get all the information you want with one click and interact with people all over the world freely. On the other hand, the idiots who were once isolated and ignored can now find other idiots with whom to create flocks in which they self-validate and proliferate their stupidity.
your dad is based
Even more ironically, I've seen waaay more ACTUAL bigotry and hate on the internet in the past few years. Like yeah I've always gotten my fair share of slurs (which I wear proudly) but in recent years is when death threats, suicide encouragement and "shitposts" about the most horrendous content have become normalized.
Yeah, in the past there were bunch of different forums and stuff where people talked and these forums moderated themselves individually. But now we have these platforms with billions of users and dollars which cant moderate themselves due to the extraordinary amount of messages and content they have to check. I mean around 10-20 zettabytes (10-20 *billions* of terabytes, or 10-20 trillions of gigabytes) of data was created last year, and this amount grows every year by like 30-40%, this is insane amounts of data. The internet of the past was probably better moderated than today simply due to the decentralization of it all back then, also internet speeds sucked so there wasnt much data to distribute at that speed.
FOR REAL
As mofik said, it was probably because everything was decentralized, so it wasn't that there wasn't bigotry back then, but it mostly went under the rug because there wasn't that much people around to moderate, and also because people (generally) didn't go out of their way to offend others because people didn't actually get offended that easily back then, and because people would usually flock in specific communities back then, in which users would usually behave or get banned from the community, as tight-knit communities would detect when new accounts were specifically made to troll people were ill-meant, so old users would be willing to behave, and new trolls were detected quickly.
I'll take being called bad names over being stalked, sent d**** threats, cancelled, dehumanized, and such.
@@beauwalker9820 definitely
As someone born in that era, we didn't even had internet and I would actually go outside and head to a cafe to experience just playing flash games and memes in those time. The thing about old internet for me personally is it wasn't too integrated as much as it is now, It was an option to go to and have fun and watch funny cat videos
Now, the internet is so integrated with most people that they forgot what it means to be an actual person. They don't understand the consequences of their action if they say that to people IRL nor have the thought that other people have different experiences when it came to 2000s and 2010s internet.
Not all people in the internet said slurs in their past and not all even experienced the internet.
Why is it so hard for Twitter to stop being offended by the littlest things like bro chill out 😭
I miss this Internet era, too!! 2000s culture, Vocaloid, Nyan Cat, anime aesthetics, viral clips and music, MMD, animation memes, rainbows depicted in an innocent way... For me, it was so much better than it is now.
But not just rainbows, also other things like peaches, eggplants werent defined as "sus" and ppl back also werent this dirty minded
Back in the days when animation had Blood
@@ItzMelissa9 People have always been dirty minded, but at least there wasn't cringe usage of emojis back then.
@@ltb1345 Fr
@@ltb1345Yeah. Makes me wonder what went wrong, ya know?
Saying and hearing slurs, insults and rage back to you was peak internet. Specially on FPS and MMOS. Great... now I'm nostalgic...
For real! I love raging gamers screaming in voice chat.
Especially I'm messing with them.
Squeakers in old MW lobbies losing and instantly raging was peak comedy😂
Lol yea I’m nostalgic too…nothing like being called a Mexican jew lizard by a random internet dumbass. Precious moments that will be lost in time like tears in the rain…
I miss having squeakers call me the nword or the f slur... I miss old Xbox live.
@@Flesh_WizardOh how I loved to hear their reactions when I'd finally use voice chat and they'd find out they just lost to a girl.... Makes me sad that I'll never be able to share those moments with my brother again 😢🤣
Before: “Old internet, I miss you.”
After: “Old internet, I miss you even more now.”
1:17 BRO I JUST MISSED THE MUSIC AND DANCES!!!
people got along better back then because they were not always looking for something to be offended by and did not care about what they were called by others in the internet
It'd be more accurate to say the internet wasn't full of people, who didn't constantly try to satisfy some sort of hero complex by finding dirt on them, and making exposés on regular people.
I miss when Twitter could take a joke
Before the Tumblr migration.
I miss when people I general could take a joke.
Twitter could take joke ????
@@nakedmario9359Once upon a time, yes. They could.
@@nakedmario9359 From what I remember, yeah. It was wholesome back then... Well, until that pandemic happened.
My favorite part about the old internet is people could take a joke. Nowadays you make a joke poking fun at something/somebody and people get really pissed.
People these days take everything so seriously
This quote summarized my feelings for Twitter.
Shrek: For five minutes. Can you not be yourself…FOR FIVE MINUTES!
"birds born in a cage think flying is an illness"
modern internet -> cage
flying -> creativity & free expression
👏👏👏
lightning -> kachow
birds -> people
think -> brain
born -> live
Before 2010: freely expresing your feeling
After 2010: fame and money
Also after 2020: *racing* through the world
It more like hatred spreads faster than covid after 2020.
"You sure you miss the times where you could express yourself freely without having to tow the line to authoritarian karens?" That person complaining about the past did the reich thing.
The reich thing ?
Bro formed the next reich
@@bruh4138 they're certainly helping to form it with their authoritarianism.
"You miss the times when social justice freaks didn't have control over everything you said or did?"
0:42 I’m using slurs that’s what I’m doing, playing my part.
A true GOAT 🗣️🔥🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Uh. I hope this is just an awful joke… 😭
@ shut up nerd
"You really truly earnestly miss this era of the internet where you'd get called slurs three times a day?"
Yes. Overuse of slurs desensitize people to them and makes them become powerless. It's also a good way to see what people are like when they're free to say what ever, as that shows what sort of images these people are willing to create for themselves. You can judge the nature of a person better when nothing is forced upon them. It also means the context of language needs to be recognized more often, creating a demand for higher level of reading comprehension which Twitter has none of. It does come with the downside of making the internet more difficult to understand for neurodivergent people, so it's not all an upside. But I'd say the positives outweigh the negatives, and something can be done about those negatives. Any sort of social groups and places also form more naturally when proper freedom of speech exists.
Back then it was mainly trolling, and we'd troll them back until they'd go away.
I'd much, much rather be called slurs 3 times a day than trying to word my comments in such a way that they don't get automatically hidden by the algo no matter what I write.
@@DonVigaDeFierrosame
Wow that just like real life!
Everyone says swear words and they ended up just not insulting but just a way of expressing extreme emotions
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 I'm a Finn. Swear words are second nature to us. They're pretty much meaningless outside of more professional and proper contexts. Really it's the context and situation itself that determines if someone's an a-hole rather than the words being used.
I miss watching people playing Cards Against Humanity without Fear of Demonitaization
I love how those that called the person with internet nostalgia "problematic" just proved the point of why we're nostalgic in the first place. The Wild West era was chaotic but at least it wasn't tyrannical.
Exactly, I’m autistic and the word „retarded“ didn’t offend me
You don’t go deep enough to know.
@@EmotionalParaquat714神离天 You go deep enough and you'll just drown in more shit.
@@EmotionalParaquat714神离天 How deep exactly? If you go 4chan, liveleaks or similar sites that don't use censor footage, especially war, I don't consider them deep. If you're talking about questionable sites that require a tor and showing deprave crap, selling illegal crap. You really don't want to go there if you want the glowies on your tail, get hacked or don't want to bleach your eyes.
These early Gen Alphas have easy back in my days. I couldn't comprehend a YTP or a MLG but I sure did like it
I rather take all that from the past internet rather than what we have now.
These days almost everyone is so overly sensitive and can't wait to ruin another person's life for the tiniest thing.
There was some words and people that you can just brush the side and not giving it a second thought, the complete opposite to today where someone constantly micromanages every word you say wanting to be offended.
Back then we knew what was bad and what wasn't, but nowadays is just waiting for someone to tell us what's good and bad on our behalf and tell us that it's good for us because it comes from their personal authority.
It really makes me not care for their brand of safety. Not to mention these people wanting to be in authority over what you say and think being the biggest hypocrites doing the exact same thing they despise, but feel they are in the right to do so.
All this does is create massive resentment, and like anything, this resentment will outright snap. If you ask me we are starting to see the cracks before the break, especially in how people are treating the LGBTQ community (and how LGB is actually breaking off from this organization), and the successful boycotts of brands like Bud Lite.
And at least, during those times, Tumblr was were the crazies festered. In retrospect, that site was like the insane asylum of the Internet. And now the inmates got out.
@@lmahu6627 now it's just funny thoughts from random people like "Biggest_Gaudiest_Patronuses"
@@lmahu6627all because Tumblr started removing NSFW content on their website.
I really hate this clout era of "influencers" and "internet personalities". It's just real life 2.0 now.
Guys I don't want to See Twitter's screeches and whinnyings, I want just to apreciate the art, I want to feel once again the Old Internet.
the closest thing you may have might be the tor network then... or any other non centralized system. people often think tor is just where you go to launder crypto for dodgy goods and services... thats just one part of it.
@@someguy4252 No I never used Tor, In fact I was just very young, I literally passed my Old Internet Times into the UA-cam lol
oh i might get back to use tor then
Old internet didnt have as many idiots online fighting about nothin 💀
Yes, it did... all the time. Obviously, you weren't around.
@@LoremIpsum1919 I meant like they aren't fighting over seriously dumb shit
@@sterm1ous But, they did... all the time. Again: it's obvious, you weren't around.
People always have nearly and actually killed eachother over dumb shit, in and out of the internet.
The difference is the freedom of expression people had back then. People could say whatever unhinged thoughts they had in mind without punishment.
It did, but they were largely quarantined to tumblr
It was a simpler time, plus everybody had thicker skin and didn't cry about every little thing.
Twitter gets offended by everything 💀
Next they will get offended by seeing people existing
@@right662 nah offended when stars are born
@@right662 They already do Imao
The old and new internet have had a huge impact on me and many others.
I personally do not like a lot of the current internet as someone who studies it all i believe that a more decentralized and free internet is the ultimate best thing like it was back then.
The world generally follows a trend where someone makes something very cool, it becomes popular, corporations sink their teeth into it and turn it mainstream, then as they want to increase profits they destroy what made that thing great, and people abandon it. The internet is in it's decline.
@@xXx56-r3h sometimes it gets to the point where the creator of the source material from where the meme came from would be getting harrassed (like with the boykisser meme or pizza tower screaming meme)
You don’t go deep enough to know.
I swear, social media made people brain-dead. People like this somehow make an argument out of nothing! 😭🙏 THEY'RE LIKE MY LITTLE BROTHERS!!! 💀💀💀
Apart from this magnificent drawing that made me drop a tear, because it encapsulates what made the Internet of 2000 so iconic, one small personal experience I want to share comes from Twitter itself, from
2008. It was different. You could literally join a community of people who mostly disagree with you or have completely different hobbies, and be fine with that.
As someone said, it was the Wild West of the Internet. Not that it didn’t have some issues, but the approach to the Internet was different and you could feel it.
You can tell how many people attacking the old internet weren't actually around for it or have flawed memories by the fact they believe the old internet actually was constant slurs and that chat filters improved things instead of just driving it below the surface.
Words that are *now* viewed as slurs were common back then, but the actual slurs of the day including the one starting with N were actually quite rare outside of the chans.
The old internet was deeply flawed, but there was more artistic expression, people got along better because they weren't being forced to pretend to get along with people and they couldn't just kick out people they disliked.
So they were forced to either actually get along with others or leave of their own will.
It was an objectively better place that modern people like to try and reduce to "an era of slurs and bigotry"
I'll take a deeply flawed place where people interact with opposing views willingly and learn from it over screaming fits and people retreating back into their echo chamber whenever they encounter opposing views they can't get kicked out via appeals to authority, nevermind the effects on modern art.
Very well said.
I repeat this to myself, a lot of the time when someone on twitter talks about how horrible the past internet was, and how better it is now. "Back then might not have been the best, but at least you could see that more clearly than now." I'd rather just be called a slur than to have a bunch of people who think they know me and my plights infantilize me, and act as if they are better than the past, while the same people would jump at the opportunity to celebrate the deaths of others that dared to be rich, or even just think differently than them.
You don’t go deep enough to know.
As V1 from one nice ULTRAKILL animation said:
"What? You still surprised twitter works? The truth is that servers were never hosted on earth, they are on the deepest layer of hell."
You mean the one where V1 and V2 are chill with each other? If so, that's awesome, dude.
@@ayyewalkdaplank
Yes, the one where gabe asked V1 3 questions and V1 tried to solve them with V2
The amount of nostalgia I got from this art post was unreal, I remember basically all of those icons
What I miss about old internet is the lack of accusations when someone barely does anything more that say they like something. These days e you have to spell out what you like about something and even then you still get accused of all manner of things. Sure there were problems back then, but at least you weren't constantly getting targeted or having people dig through your past for even a tiny scrap to blow out of proportion.
I missed the old era of the internet (2007 - Early 2010's), where "cancel culture" and witch hunting doesn't exist, and companies (Either gaming or otherwise) aren't focusing on draining as many moneys that's left out of your pockets.
The old era isn't perfect, but at least it had more freedom compared to what's going on right now.
It all went sideways when they killed that damn Gorilla.
old is gold lldssd
@@avroarchitect1793and gamergate
@@avroarchitect1793 Bonzy?
(sorry if I misspelled it)
@@EmotionalParaquat714神离天 Harambe