We can all agree 2007 was the turning point, right? EVERYTHING got noticeably worse in this year.
Thanks Obama
For me it was the end of 2014.
Ever since then, something just hasn't felt quite right.
>>80674374
It was 2008, granted 2007 was the last year that I remember still being innocent before reality slapped me in my face and lost my childhood home.
>>80674374
Pretty much
2007 was the year I found 4chan. So it was the year my life fell to pieces.
2001.
2000 things began to turn.
2001 9/11 happened
all downhill from there
but it probably went below 0 around 07, yes.
>>80674580
mid-2014 for me. I still haven't accepted it's 2015, let alone that we're over half way through 2016.
Trudeau winning was the point at which i started noticing all the shit.
>>80674374
I'm pretty sure it was 2003 that was the starting point.
>>80674580
t. started browsing 4chan in 2014
>>80674374
t. started browsing 4chan in 2007
>>80674614
t. started browsing 4chan in 2008
>>80674580
You too? I noticed the pick up forcing diversity,tranny acceptance, sjws, blm etc all ramped up around the end of that year and it's struck me as odd ever since.
It's been ongoing for decades, but 2007 as a tipping point seems about right
Sometimes I'll be looking something up and come across a message board post or an article from 2004 or 2005. I'll read it and keep thinking to myself how bizarre it is that the people posting on this message board had no idea what kind of shit was awaiting them just over the horizon. Their posts feel so much more innocent in that sense
>>80674899
It'll be okay brother from the north, we shall fix things together.
I definitely noticed it. With hindsight, shit started heading south even faster than after 9/11.
Im not even 30 yet and society is all but unrecognizible to me now.
I guess you could say that. But 2008-09 weren't so bad compared to now. The piece of shit that was America was making its rounds about the toilet bowl, and then around 2011 it finally flushed down. Then a hobo living in a sewer creamed his poz on it. But Trump is the water treatment plant that will make America great again.
>>80674374
Nah, 2008 was an awesome year, but even 08 was nothing compared to any year between 92 - 99. 2009 was absolute shit and it has got worse every year since.
it was a slow decline since 2001
but it ramped up like crazy after the whole trayboon thing for some reason,..so 2012-2013 was when it got really bad
Well before, the only people who were on the internet were middle class whites. People who could afford both internet and a desktop PC/laptop.
Ever since internet browsing phones became cheaper and easier like the iPhone, allowing nogs access to the internet to share their retarded ideas, shit has gone downhill.
>>80674962
if trump doesnt win im gonna emegrate back to mother england. at least there are some groups of people who are willing to do somthing about the shit over there. here there is nothing, but feminists and nu-males
>>80674374
Absolutely. It's that precise year. Not a year later or earlier. Everything started going to shit.
18-1
I'm gonna go with 2007 when obama hope started and gwb was demonized as the housing bubble was just about to burst sending millions to lose their jobs and homes for the sake of banks overseen by Obama, not gwb. This is just when our psyche was twisted and wrenched enough to create these tumblr freaks and all the other SJWs manifesting from the 1%er protesters
>>80674580
things have been getting progressively shittier over the last decade
true, 2014 is when the real madness started. it hasn't begun to let up yet either
w-what happened
It was 2002
>>80674374
I remember being in college early 2000s, we like had white bands and shit, rock music, not giving a fuck...
then I went to work, got married, had kids... Worked hard on my career didn't watch tv and bullshit, bout 07-10 things started to get really fucking weird no idea why. Like I woke up from a time capsule in a different universe, I started coming here a couple years ago
I still don't know how it all went downhill so fucking fast..
Western civilization has been in moral and structural decline since 1789 and the French Revolution.
>>80674374
>EVERYTHING got noticeably worse in this year.
lol where the fuck do you live, somolia? Literally the exact opposite is true. VR prices going down, AI technology is progressing at an extremely fast rate. Technology just keeps getting better and better every year (or at least the prices do). Not sure what's going on in canada tho. You sure it's not nostalgia that you are mistaking for a better past? 2015 was fucking amazing, and 2016 has been even better.
average summerfag day for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_HTABr7hA
>>80674374
The system was fucked for a while. It was just being sustained by the cold war and the fear of communism and subsequently the internet revolution or whatever you want to call it. But you can't sustain a flawed system forever.
>>80674913
kek. the red pill changes everything.
>>80674374
Damn, Year Zero came out in 2007.
>>80674374
It all started getting worse in 2000
>>80674614
2008 was still a good year because shit had only just begun to stink. But if you look back objectively, you'll see 2007 is the turning point.
>>80675272
It's sad, the CIA created all these freaks to destroy that movement in a bid to keep the status quo and in the end the freaks are going to end up destroying civilization.
>>80675439
Economy isn't getting better. It won't get better (for the average person) until the system finally collapses or a new area to expand to will be found (like computers).
>>80675439
Do you actually work or are you a student?
Because judging progress by the price and availability of distractions/toys is pretty sad.
2008 global recession and latent nihilism takes hold. The narratives of the post cold war era proved to be utterly redundant.
>>80674374
that's the year I started to lose my mind it didn't help that the only thing on the radio was solja boy Justin biber lady gaga and lil Wayne every thing since then seems like a joke to me . why I wonder are other people noticing that as the turning point year other then me ? its also when I noticed any person I was hanging out with could not put down their smart phones when you would try to hang out though that might of started around 08 in 2011 I had become a reclusive wreak and my gf dumped my ass I haven't bothered with people since I literally hate this society
>>80674374
Well, that was the year my family broke up violently and my life fell apart for the first time.
>>80675439
All that new technology will only be used to monitor, control and warp people even further.
>omg why is this happening?!
We didn't listen to the cranky old people with foresight, they knew where all this bullshit was going to lead us and we mocked them for it.
We deserve this nightmare we're living in.
>>80674374
2009
After Occupy, the left elites realized they couldn't risk everyone getting together to point fingers in the right direction so they unleashed the deluge of identity politics and the rest is history
>>80675699
>Economy isn't getting better.
True. But I have been long gold miner ETFs for a few months now. There is a very small chance the U.S. Fed will raise interest rates before the election.
>>80675711
>Do you actually work or are you a student?
student, and full time NEET
Because judging progress by the price and availability of distractions/toys is pretty sad.
what should i judge it by, just curious? OP seemed pretty vague regarding what he is talkin about
>>80675388
I was getting out of high school in 07 I remember being anti harper and bush back then total liberal . I had strong opinions about Obama though back then and I remember my girlfriend thinking I was a racist because of it
The final nail in the coffin for the internet was gamergate
I don't mean that as an attack on them in particular, but rather the existence of the movement kicked the left into maximum overdrive and now it is impossible to go anywhere and not see horrendous polarization where anything other than marxist progressivism is labeled 'far right'
>>80676315
occupy was 2011 I was there man I know its when I became completely disillusioned with everything
>>80676315
>the left elites
More like the neoliberal elites.
Although i guess at this point there isn't much of a difference.
>>80676687
As stupid as some people would say that is its...true. GamerGate became the boogeyman not even Men's Righr Activist could. Oh sure it has died down by now but the damage is done: people now have a made up boogeyman to 'prove' there is some dangerous force out there which require the internet to be fully controlled to 'keep people safe'.
Of course I'm of the opinion GG was inevitable. Maybe not in the form we saw it as, but nerd shit flinging and autism-powered internet wars were seemingly inevitable due to the ecosystem of the internet.
>>80676315
This, but that was 2011.
I do remember this being a more apt turning point than 2007, albeit perhaps just in matters of degree change from the previous era.
>>80674374
>the year Vic got arrested
>>80676687
The only thing gamergate did was to accelerate things.
Make no mistake, this shit was bound to happen one way or the other.
>>80674580
2014 is when it started to intensely speed up, but 2007/2008 is when it started
>>80676318
>True. But I have been long gold miner ETFs for a few months now. There is a very small chance the U.S. Fed will raise interest rates before the election.
Things being good for you does not mean that things are not getting worse for other people. You do not judge the success of a society by the success of a single individual.
And yeah they won't, the system is already stretched as it is.
>>80677308
More or less, yes.
>>80675257
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>80674913
4chan is the problem
too bad we can never leave
>>80677420
>Things being good for you does not mean that things are not getting worse for other people.
they can get decent gaming PC on budget of $600. which is like a weeks worth of working on minimum wage. so i don't understand how it could be that bad
>>80674374
>>80674580
I haven't told anyone this, but I feel something has changed since 2014. In myself, and in pretty much everyone else on a physical and spiritual level. Now things feel sort of "still", "frozen", "stuck", .... It's hard to explain but sometimes I lay awake at night thinking about it. Now I'm a borderline shut-in NEET but I was already NEET for years before 2014 so I don't think it's just the feeling of personal isolation.
Things just seemed more alive pre-2015, more fun ect.. I don't know. Maybe we just have less happenings these days so things seem more boring. Maybe that's just when the depression really started to kick in for me. Fuck knows.
>>80674913
You're on to something here. Although 4chan was never what it is now with all the redpilled stuff until I'd say the earliest at around 2011 or 2012.
>2007
Think you mean 1945
>>80674374
That was when Runescape died so yeah, sure.
>>80674913
this
>>80674580
Same.
2014 was the last year I remember before things went fucking insane 100000x
Things were already a little nutty but since 2015 it has been wide open throttle.
>>80674374
2007 was magical.. its when i discovered so much online.
then 2008 came and killed something special inside. I can't tell what, but it left and got worse ever since.
>>80680192
Kinda outdated, right? Or did something truly heinous happen last year and we have yet to feel the full effects?
![the-War-of-1812[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AW9YB4j.jpg "the-War-of-1812[1].jpg")
>>80680192
>America loses its first war
kek
>>80674374
The shifts occur in two years; one year for preparation/change-of-atmosphere, and another for shit-hits-the-fan.
>2007/2008
>2015/2016
>>80674802
It's scary how much I can relate to that
Was a freshman in highschool when I started browsing 4chan in 2008, never turned back since.
Maybe its because I am slightly older than a lot of the users on here but personally I saw things changing in the mid to late 90s and by the time 9-11 hit things were already shitty.
>>80674580
isn't that the year that the CERN thing got up and going full time ??
Eh, the current year hasn't been so bad. There are /pol/ related podcasts, a /pol/tier presidential candidate, murdoch murdoch, race realism on the rise, ufc fighters and celebrities using the word cuck, meme magic, brexit, ect. Our opinions and views are only a few years away from becoming mainstream. The only thing missing in my life is Jim streaming the more recent chimpouts and the /k/boys from the jamjar incident walking free.
>>80674802
>tfw stuck in 2011/2012
>>80674802
2014 was really the year when the internet stopped being its own "culture" and started being bullshit meme-politics about BlackLivesMatter and trannies and shit.
Feels fucking bad man.
>>80674374
You're way off. 1965 was the turning point.
also what about the mandela effect ? i truly sometimes feel we are stepping in and out of different timelines and it's up in the air right now as to which one will be our destiny
>>80681600
Agreed. Wasnt alive but... everything has been a slippery slope since then
>>80675085
2009 was a great year for music
>>80681384
>>80674772
>2001
this. the world has (for the most part) recovered from the recession. the world is permanently changed from events that took place in 2001.
>>80677410
No, it really sped up in 2012, but it definitely started around '07/'08
>>80681765
i'm almost speechless
what kind of test tube are we living in ? what is this vast experiment called space and time ? is it real ?
>>80681765
Correlation does not equal causation. Still an odd similarity if the stats are true.
>>80681600
I also agree with this.
dubs also confirm your statement.
>>80682002
yeah but we are all coming closer to suicide, have you seen all the people walking around playing pokemon go ?
>>80681765
What the hell. Is this legitimate?
>>80677035
>>80677308
>>80677427
Gamergate for me was the point where we were completely shown that the media can and will go all out making up lies to support itself. We all thought they did before, but it was damning proof that solving the problems of today will not come easily, and definitively wont come from "conversation". Action needs to take place, the media owns the narrative, you can't talk your way through a problem.
>>80674374
You're too young.
2001 was the turning point, 9/11. The day society decided that safety trumped liberty, which spawned the SJW movement, BLM, and all these other retards who saw an opening because we softened up our culture to the point of being pathetic.
I started browsing in 2007. Quit in 2012, came back in 2014. The proliferation of cheap mobile phones set up the tinderbox with so every retard with an opinion had 24/7 access to the internet without a PC. Gamergate was the turning point for this sjw shit.
>>80681765
I'm going to rant a bit here, but I fucking hate these types of graphs. Arbitrary scales used to try to make it look like you can correlate anything and thus discredit arguments that rely on correlation. Did you know if you have any given inverse relationship that you can flip the axis for one of them and now they correlate perfectly!? Wow! I'm so insightful and intelligent! Surely this means niggers are exactly like everyone else and any sort of relationship between anything means nothing!
>>80674580
2014 for me too
>>80681765
>>80682222
>the day that """(((society)))""" decided
also checked kappa
>>80674374
>released in 2007
hmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
>>80676687
>>80677035
>>80677308
>>80682172
Glad to see i'm not the only one that thinks this.
Mobile phones and social media were a fucking mistake
>>80682172
>Gamergate for me was the point where we were completely shown that the media can and will go all out making up lies to support itself.
This is something we have know for a long time friend.
2007 is when the iphone hit. The the internet turned into niggertown metropolis
>>80682172
The real start of it was that #YesAllWomen shit.
Gamergate only solidified Gawker and friends as corrupt and created a few more "faces" like Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu.
>>80674374
For me it was the Tech bubble
>>80682438
I'm not going to lie and say I knew about all of this before hand, I didn't really get into researching this until gamergate happened, I think it was another eye opener for another generation.
>>80682222
You're too young.
1991 was the turning point, the fall of the Soviet Union. With nothing for the West to unite against, nationalism began to wane, and people slowly but surely became greedy materialistic bitches who care only for their own feelings.
4chan actually saved me from suicide, it gave me a place to vent and i got alot of support in the baww threads, it made me feel like i belong with the dark humor etc, it was weirdly therapeutic for me. this was in 2007 and I was 13. Then my cunt mom got a bf and everyone started revealing who they are and i got a glimpse of what society is like with fagbook gaining popularity and it's been shit ever since
>>80682155
Yeah it's real, but it's just a coincidence since both of these increase over time. Spending on science would need to decrease before you could safely say that higher science spending implies higher suicide rates.
>>80682615
Go read Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky right now.
It is a great fucking book.
>>80679476
Bro, I feel this same way. I'm not gonna lie, I've been a loner faggot a lot of my life. I've browsed 4chan since the beginning. I don't know why, but it honestly feels like everything has been escalating extremely fast.
Nobody around me seems to care at all except my girlfriend, and grandparents. Everyone else around is too busy to care about anything they don't see on Facebook. Before I was laid off, everyone at my company was the same way, didn't give a shit about anything but their job and social media.
>>80682222
This.
2001 is when the world ended. We're all in hell.
I will grant that everything between 2007 and now is a single shit colored blur.
>>80674374
OP how old are you? I assume you were born between 1990 and 1993, correct?
Nothing is new. Nothing got worse that year. Every happening is just a replay of a previous happening. After you see the cycle repeat a few times you will recognize this, but right now you think its new, that 2007 was a turning point, because you didn't see the last turning point, which was probably the Rodney King beating, court rulings, and subsequent race riots. I those riots were a turning point until I realized they were a replay of past race riots.
The current chimpouts are pretty tame compared to some past incidents. The only thing that has really changed is that white guilt faggots are chimping alongside the nigs because its considered fashionable and virtuous.
>>80682637
There was still tons of energy in the air in the 90s. Lots of positivity, optimism, but a dull edge.
>>80682142
It's not like they intentionally want to kill themselves by not paying attention. They just want sweet pokemans. Unless you're inplying the malign energies released by CERN are tricking them into sudoku with the lure of such a game. Are you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8kk2wiuCXE
>>80682660
2007 was almost certainly when shit started going downhill, I remember transferring from a majority black middle school to an almost entirely white high school. Everything was significantly better, less fights, safer environment, just better quality people and location in general. Then I had to listen to these dumbfucks condescend about how black people are oppressed and have it so bad. I've lived with these savages, they do it to themselves. They are incapable, even in elementary school, of functioning as a normal human being. I've seen it, I've experienced it; and that's a hell of a lot more evidence than what the libcucks are spewing these days.
Now this shit is permeating into the mainstream and somethings going to break eventually, reality and fantasy are distinct; as much as we pretend that they aren't.
>>80682637
People stopped giving a shit about the Soviet Union long before 1991
>>80674374
Probably 2013 when I discovered /pol/ I was better off being a mindless idiot.
I don't know why but I get chills from looking at the year 2011. It's like a part of me has froze in this time period.
>>80674374
Probably 2013 when I discovered /pol/ I was better off being a mindless idiot now I feel so hopeless compared to what is happening in the world.
2001 and 2007 things got bad but has anyone else noticed shit took a dark turn since 2011? Just look at everything now. There's a real threat of a legitimate race war/civil war/martial law in America now. How did shit get so bad since 2011, it's like every psyop and falseflag campaign has been ramped up ten fold.
>>80682806
>Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky
Illegally downloading and putting it on my ereader right now.
>>80683240
Not just America, Europe is going down the shithole too.
This while migrant crisis is only going to keep getting worse.
>>80683365
*whole
>>80682895
Early to mid 90s, maybe, but as time went on after the fall of the Soviet Union things just seemed to slow down. The late 90s and early 00s seemed dark and gritty to me. I definitely think things started declining slowly in 91, things really got shitty in 01. Then in 07 the economy crashed, leaving everyone in the shit, and 2014 marked the start of SJWs and this pandering special snowflake culture we're getting now.
>>80683240
at least things are escalating quickly, if things are set to go bad, it going to be bad soon
>>80683240
I agree things started going dark in 2011. There's been stages. 2001 was a fundamental societal shift, 2007 was an economic fallout that caused many to lose income and stability, and 2011 seems to be when the full gravity of everything started hitting us.
>>80682309
Weed got popular and started being grown more indoors. with the law becoming more and more lax, people stopped guerrilla gardening as much.
You know why they called pot 'sticky'? Because THC and other various cannabinoids are sugars and are extremely sticky. Making the 'buds' really sticky. Bees love sugar, they go absolutely nuts over pot plants.
I would argue, that this graph is due to the face weed is more popular and thus flooding the streets so its easier for youth to get a hold of, but due to advancement in indoor growing techniques, there are less out door plants and the bees have effectively lost a sugar rich food source.
>>80682862
>The current chimpouts are pretty tame compared to some past incidents.
Baltimore was pretty brutal but you're right, we lack enough perspective to realize shit hits the fan in non-stop cycles
>>80683038
Yeah man, it's so weird how things went downhill exactly at that year, SJW and anonymous fuckery blew up, a crisis hit Romania (where I lived) where people went broke out of nowhere, everything uphill then suddenly boom downhill. I am seeing some hope lately though, people are getting tired of the non sense and speaking up, trump, nigel farage, bitcoin prices going up, some hopes for economy now, praying to kek that everything will get better for you and for us m8
>>80683411
I'm too young to remember the early 90s much, I remember bits and pieces of the late 80s and early 90s but it's mostly a blur to me. I just remember all the big movies, all the insane advertisements, and the general attitude of the time being something I wouldn't mind returning to.
>>80683240
trayvon, isis, adam lanza
>>80682172
As someone who was a non-autistic adult at the time of the GG shenanigans, no one gives a shit about video game "journalists", the video game "journalism" industry has never been legitimate, bitter manbaby kissless virgins crying to each other over youtube conference calls about "feminists" is really gay, and the GG crowd have completely ruined 4chan, and the internet in general.
If I had to choose between pushing the button to remove all niggers from the world, or the button to remove all GGers, MGTOWers, and other acronymed beta circle jerk clubs from the world, I push the faggot neckbeard button 100 out of 100 times.
>>80683654
I'm optimistic too brah, the tides are definitely shifting.
>>80683592
>>80683569
you've smoked yourself retarded. there is no causation between those 2 random stats.
>>80683775
Kek will make everything better for us m8
Yeah. This. Right after 2007 everything went to shit. The iphone was created.
>>80674374
no its 1960s. fucking Hippies
I'm not sure, because it's so tied into me growing up, and becoming more aware of the world (I was very introverted up until junior year of HS). But around the time I graduated, 2012 seemed to change a lot. Mostly just from shifts in youth culture, the rise of widespread pseudo-irony and hipsterism. Which I find hugely offensive to my personal being as my family was always really old fashioned, partially from having really late generations and from coming from small strict religious sects, and hipsterism encroaches on so much of my culture and degrades and mocks it.
But again the world is more than our perceptions, and as simple as that is a concept, you sometimes REALLY have to think about it to understand trends you may relate to 2004 may actually have started in 1974 or earlier.
We are living in the endtimes, satan is already here.
Cern brought him a few years ago, see how everything get's twisted? Like this mandela effect thingy?
It's getting really fucked up real soon
>>80684261
all the hipster stuff already existed in 2005. Peak Hipster was 2004-2010
>>80675439
Literally all the tech you rave about is just fluff. You can live a rich and comfortable and fulling life without fucking VR goggles you fucking nitwit. Shitskins are flooding in but you're happy you got your VR goggles and thinner screens.
>>80684401
good, took him long enough
Damn, I feel the same way about 2007... Year turned south the second I turned 9. Is this fucking kek working his meme magic?
>>80684468
That's what I mean, it was not obvious to ME until that time. Before that it was such a gradual shift from sort of emo, and indie style that. I went to an intercity school with blacks and Hispanics so I didn't see most of it
But Hipsterism is more than a style it seems to drag a whole bunch of philosophical background with it
>>80684478
VR will provide a great way for people to fuck off to a different place while their countries fall apart.
God bless technology.
>>80674374
>2007
>the year when I started browsing 4chan
>>80681600
The 1980's was the last gasp of a dying society. It's all over now.
The chimping BLM monkeys and parading fags and freaks are the maggots consuming the corpse.
>>80684678
hipster stuff also was only a 20 something thing at that time. So you would have only noticed it in the adults. In like 2008ish the kids caught to degeneracy.
>>80674913
It all went downhill back in 2005
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>>80674374
>>80674374
1789
The start of the French revolution.
Everything else after that was just liberals winning for 250 years.
>>80674913
t. started browsing 4chan on june 12 2016.
>>80684882
>tfw oldfag
>tfw still can't triforce
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>>80684975
I think the Issue was when Metternich was ousted. He was pretty much the last hope.
also Runescape peaked and then got totally ruined in 07-08. Nothing was ever the same since
>>80674374
Correct, and its because this is the year when social media started becoming a part of our lives.
Social media has ruined civilization.
>>80674772
This.
I rewatched Vanilla Sky the other day.
2001 movie. Hard to believe how White and innocent everything was. It's like watching something from the 1950s.
It was 15 years ago.
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>>80674374
2008 (Great Recession and Obama) were the turning point, but the outcomes of both didn't become apparent until 2010 and 2011 (Arab spring and OWS). The rise of digital media is also significant.
By the beginning of 2015 I honestly thought we were all done for. The open acceptance of trannies (Bruce Jenner) really shocked me; everyone suddenly decided that transsexuals were "brave" and "progressive" within the space of two weeks. Couple this with Germany opening up the borders and revealing to all just how far we'd all fallen (even if it is just the krauts killing themselves for the time being) in August, and you can see why 2015 was something of a low point.
The only upside is Trump in July of 2015, and possibly the Brexit vote a few weeks ago. Maybe 2016 will be the start of something better, but I'm not confident. The rot is probably too far advanced.
I entered university in 2011, and it's absurd to see how much has changed in those 5 years. We're all living in a different world now, and it seems to have no connection with the past whatsoever except to despise it.
>>80684964
t. voted romney
>>80683592
>lack perspective
I'm pretty sure everyone in this thread who is claiming some particular point in time as the "turning point" only thinks that was the turning point because that is the point where they started to pay attention to the world outside of their bedroom, classroom, and social circle. They don't think this stuff was happening before 2007 because they weren't paying attention prior to 2007, and that's why I estimated OP's birth year to be early 90's. As you get older you notice that the new shit is same as the old shit.
The only REALLY big societal shift that has occured in the last 30 years, and I do mean course of humanity altering massive change, is the internet and communication in general. Very few people carried cell phones in the 80's, mostly just business types who needed it for work, and not that many more carried them in the 90's. Now about 90% of teens seem to carry cell phones. It has changed the way that kids interact, and it is my belief that it is socially retarding many people that they are having less and less person-to-person interaction as kids.
>>80685186
But that's not true. Social media started having an impact as early as the 90's. I used to steal AOL disks from mailboxes just to avoid buying floppies, that's how ubiquitous AOL was at the time. Again, you born in 1993 right?
reminder that 4chan is for users 18+ years old
>tfw schizoid
>so detached that time is measured by personal development instead of calendar years
Shits going really well, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Kafka's stories are comfy and I'm becoming more comfortable with the bass buttons on my accordion.
>>80685028
>tfw I remember moot getting called a newfag
>>80674374
I know, right? I bought my first pistol and second car that year.
>>80684617
> 2007... Year turned south the second I turned 9.
What the fuck
>>80674374
I pretty much ignore any form of media made after 2007 for the most part. I can't explain it, but I feel like something changed after that time. Something I don't like.
I think it's smartphones.
>>80684617
UNDERAGED
>>80674374
That's also the year big bang theory started airing. The very next year shilldog decided to try for POTUS.
>>80685714
Facebook/Twitter started becoming a thing in 2007.
That's when our minds really moved online.
>>80684478
>You can live a rich and comfortable and fulling life without fucking VR goggles you fucking nitwit.
t. haven't tried VR porn yet
3.2011
3.2004
3.1997
3.1990
3.1983
3.1976
3.1969
3.1962
3.1955
3.1948
3.1941
3.1934
3.1927
>>80680805
but we got what we wanted
>>80684617
People born in 1998 are now able to post here
>>80674580
>2014
>film criticism died this year
>SJW bullshit rose
>my moderate college campus became infected with SJW and BLM protesters and activists
>Christian group I'm in starts to pander to liberals and victim groups
2014 a shit.
>>80685714
>Now about 90% of teens seem to carry cell phones
it's closer to 99.9% honestly. I was a total outcast sperg and still had a flip phone in 2007 when I was 14. They're ubiquitous now, even broke ass negros and the bottom 1% of society have at least a flip phone.
>and it is my belief that it is socially retarding many people that they are having less and less person-to-person interaction as kids.
this is the core of the issue. An entire generation is now being raised, entertained and taught with ipads and phones. This is why I'm scared of having children. An abundance of technology can and will socially retard children if they're looking at screens all day instead running around, playing, picking on nerds, playing tag, learning how to lie, learning how to socialize in general.
feels despondent, man
Seventh Gen was the worst video game generation
>>80682637
You're too young.
235 A.D. was the turning point, the beginning of the fall of the Roman empire led to the dark ages and the end of the greatest empire that has ever existed. Many wars and innovation stagnation would ensue after the roman empire fell for good.
>>80686018
can you math?
Well Youtube and Twitter existed since 2006, and Facebook since 2004. And they were innocent enough back then.
But you know what came out in 2007?
This came out in 2007.
Suddenly, everyone had those 2 at their fingertips, 24/7
itt: millennials born mid 90s to mid 00s
itt: shit said every few years by every new generation
If repeatingo digito erdogan will get shot
>>80674374
Anyone ITT who doesn't say this shit all started in 2001 is a serious fucking newfag. 2007 and 2014 are definitely milestones, but it all started end of 2001.
Btw 2007 was probably the best year of my life.
>>80680682
The Shemitah goes for one whole year, so the thing that would in theory occur, would occur between last September and this September coming.
>>80687538
this 2001 was the big turning point
>>80681312
This. Things started to really change in about 97-99 in a negative way anyway.
>>80687593
I started high school in 2001.
Was all downhill from there.
>>80687538
>>80687593
yeah, 2001 was the big turning point, but shit didnt really hit the fan till the late 00's. before then we were still running on fumes, until the 2008 crash popped the hood and showed that everything inside was actually rotted.
I remember early-mid 00's being ok. despite the terror paranoia, we were ok, and were all super patriotic in the face of terror and shit. It wasnt till around 06 or so, when we realized the war wasnt ending any time soon, that people started to really lose it. Faith in the Administration started tanking until it reached rock bottom in 2008, which allowed an easy win for the Democrats.
>>80674374
1963 was the turning point. Fuck LBJ.
>>80686590
Typical summer day for a kid in 1990:
>wake up, eat a bowl of cereal
>mom starts bitching because she's sick of you being home, it summer gtfo
>ride bike to neighbor's house, can anon come out to play? Sure ANOOON YOUR FRIENDS ARE HERE
>ride bikes around
>stop at another kid's house, can anon come out to play?
>FUCK NO HE'S GROUNDED GTFO
>lol what a bitch
>repeat this a few more times during the day
>baseball/soccer/football/basketball game in the park
>lol lets throw rocks at birds
>light a fire in the woods top kek
>steal candy from the corner store the madman did it
>oh noes an argument, fistfight happening!
>lol faggot went home crying, lets play more baseball
>oh shit here come girls, be cool
>fistfight to impress the girls
>ummm...yeah lets go to anon's house his parents have a bottle of liquor hidden in the kitchen
>get buzzed on no more than 5 oz of weak-ass faggit liquor like peppermint schnapps or something
>ride bikes, get wrecked (always at least 1 kid wearing a cast at any given time)
>check it out I found a porno mag in my big bro's room
>hide porno mag in the woods so we can check it out later
>home before the streetlights come on, time for dinner
>dad says "what did you do today anon?"
>"nothing"
Typical summer day for a kid in 2017:
>wake up
>microwave pizza rolls
>continue to eat junk all day
>xbox
>fagbook
>streaming porn
>tendies for dinner
>bed
That's the biggest change that has happened, but it didn't happen in 2007. It was a gradual decent into collective madness. Kids that grew up learning to socialize online instead of face to face with their peers are socially stunted because during those mundane summer adventures we learned things like friendship, altruism, conflict resolution, how to flirt, how to get rejected, all of the stuff that typical nu-male autists are terrible at.
>>80687538
>>80687593
I agree that a lot of things changed after 9/11. However social media, smartphones and all the BS associated with it didn't exist yet, relationships and interactions were still fairly normal and the economy was still semi-functioning. We saw another downhill slide beginning in 07.
>>80688208
You reminded me of some old pasta
>FACT: NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS' LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND MASTURBATING TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMWHORE THEY'RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTIAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC "DEEP" FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUEMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY.
>>80688208
It's weird you're posting from the USA because you're clearly one of the people I grew up with
>unless you're actually me
>>80674374
no, it was the french and indian war
if those post-war reconstruction taxes were never implemented, the two world wars would've probably been avoided and the anglo empire would be alive to this day
>>80674802
This
2014 was the year that change my life
2007 was when Runescape went to shit, so yes OP, you are correct
>>80688208
Sounds like my childhood.
Except we had to find porno mags in parks, and we didn't play baseball or soccer.
>>80674772
This. We are living in the post-9/11 world. 2001 was the end of an era, and the beginning of the current one we live in. Certainly, the American psyche itself has probably been permanently changed by 9/11, and everything that's happened since.
>>80680125
You mean 1914.
preww1 Europe and Western civilization was at it's peak.
Then about that time women got to vote and then with the wars and afterwards white people hating themselves.
Its just that shit has been kicking off with russia since 2014.
you people would have been claiming the same thing in 2008, 2000, 1994, 1993, and 1991.
>>80688963
forgot my picture.
but just look at those beautiful borders.
>>80686922
Steve Jobs was the devil???
>>80674374
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/1tabledatadecoverviewpdf/table_1_crime_in_the_united_states_by_volume_and_rate_per_100000_inhabitants_1993-2012.xls
Actually everything has been getting noticeably better for a few decades now. The only reason things seem worse is because mass shootings have been on the rise. The only reason this is happening is that news reporters keep bringing attention to mass shooters thus encouraging copycats. In all other respects, crime has been down across the board and the world is better than ever.
>>80674374
How the world has changed in such a short time:
>national and international shift to despair and economic and political turmoil
>internet "subculture" has evaporated, and the internet became infested with normies
>iphone prevalence
>peoples social lives have become primarily internet based
>video games moved from a subculture to blatant profiteering schemes aimed at reaching the highest masses of people (see micropays)
>achievements ruined the fun factor of playing video games, turned them into more mindless tasks
>internet porn went from images to free high res feature length videos
>24/7 newsmedia turned journalism into a quest for ratings
All these posts talking about how it was when they started browsing 4chan, fucking hell.
WAS /b/ A FUCKING PSY-OP?
>>80674580
2012 seemed like the starting point for sjw insanity for me. like that one snowflake kid who's parents made a big deal of not revealing his gender
>>80674374
>gfc
>massive internet uptake
yep shits fucked
>Smartphones
>obongo gets in
hah yerp
>>80689084
also,
liberals have reached the plateau of progressiveness, aka the SJW tipping point
>>80677702
well im glad someone got it
im a patriots fan as well
>>80688888
quints confirm
>>80689085
Oh shit
OH SHIT
>>80686958
I want to be the guy on the right. Can I be the guy on the right?
>>80688334
>late 90's
>wake up early
>eat a bowl of shitty multicolored cereal that i didnt really like but I wanted anyway because the commercial made it looks so good
>watch the early morning cartoons
>usually reruns of older stuff, Robocop caroon, speed racer, Sailor Moon, misc. DiC cartoons
>go play outside
>shoot some hoops by myself
>ride bike/Skateboard/Rollerskates up and down street while mom waters the plants n shit
>always try and ride around the block really fast before she notices I went around the block alone
>she probably knew but didnt mind
>eventually go inside
>lunch
>afternoon cartoons on kids WB
>play some Megaman/Rayman/Crash/misc racing game on the PS1
>mom says for an hour, but clearly go over 2 at least
>dinner
>watch Terminator 2 or Robocop while mom is downstairs ironing
>go on windows 98 computer
>pop in encyclopedia encarta
>play mindmaze
>browse random bullshit articles looking for the quicktime videos
>mom can I go on the internet?
>mom puts in the password and turns on the dialup
>screeches and beeps and shit
>look up megaman X5 midis on google
>anon time for bed
>get tucked in
>snuggle my pikachu stuffed toy
>sleep
gotta say, I had a good childhood
OP is right
>>80689217
The question is where does it go from here? I think we can expect Jesus.
>>80674772
this
only shit after 00/01ish
>>80674374
>>80675439
the original iphone came out in 2007. with everyone using internet everywhere things just turned to shit like everything normies get a hold of
>>80675388
>I still don't know how it all went downhill so fucking fast..
Generation change.
SJW = Hippies.
The hippies started this crap in the 60s but they were forced into submission by strong conservative forces, that ended up election Reagan in 1980. Today most of those older generations have died off (lost generation, greatest generation, half silent generation) leaving the baby boomers in power. The baby boomers were the hippie generation and with no one to check them they are running wild again.
They hid in the school implementing their Social Justice propaganda for generations. Now they have an army willing to do their bidding and they've forced everyone to shut up through muh racism, muh racism and the Civil Rights Act.
That is why it's accelerating so fast today.
>>80689072
I don't think that's because the population is any more well-behaved, I think it's just that abortion prevented a lot of future criminals. Also, the U.S. jails more people now.
>>80674580
If you honestly believe that you are no older than 19 years of age tops
>>80674374
Nope
It was 1963 when JFK (The last good President) got shot, and LBJ started pushing for all that civil rights nonsense.
>>80675181
This guy gets it.
2007 was the height of /b/ and it just went downhill from there.
I haven't been to that hellhole in years. Damn..
>>80686481
>>80675181
someone post the "computers are racist" guy
2011 for me, that's when I started realizing certain things, as a kid I always felt blessed to be born in this country
>literally half a million muslim/nigger immigrants since then
>>80674374
Yup. Bush years were bad but at least they felt sane. Now the world's lost it.
>>80681600
this. it all started in the 60s.
>>80674374
You're all goddamn children. Things started going wrong way before 07. 01 might have been the turning point.
>>80689329
>Early 00's
>wake up
>eat cereos
>Watch tv
>its post 9/11 so no going outside
>go on shitty laptop
>play warcraft 3
>occasionaly hear how another soilder got BTFO in Iraq
>eat food
>fuck around with a few kids sites
>desu I wish I new 4chan just opened at the time
*a few years pass*
>late 00's
>wake up
>eat cereos
>play more vidya *it all blurrs together*
>discover the internet for the first time *I actualy start to go to diffrent websites*
>watch as the internet culture I discovered slowly withers and dies over the next few years
>Obama comes in
>le hope en change
>all of a sudden everyone has a fucking smartphone
>social media blows up; killing the last vestiges of the old socity where kids would go outside
Damn, born only around a decade later and all I got to do was watch everything goto shit.
>>80688999
this was the best civilization desu.
>not being born around 100 A.D. in the roman empire
>>80681765
SERN CONFIRMED COMMUNIST DYSTOPIAN OVERLORDS BY 2036
>>80690121
desu everything went to shit after we lost the republic
>>80679476
The world is becoming more chaotic and predictable at the same time,a constant escalation of the (((elites))) wishes combined with modern technology has pacified the general population of the west completely and utterly. A buffet of distractions is available to the modern,moderalty wealthy human, and only when these are removed will things change,probably through violence.
>2011
>things noticeably continue to get worse
>last space shuttle flight
Don't mind me, just subconsciously letting you know that you're going to be stuck here and to quit trying.
>>80679476
I feel extremely similar.
>>80688208
>ride bikes, get wrecked (always at least 1 kid wearing a cast at any given time)
i was doing fine until i read this and realized how much has changed. No kid is ever gonna experience the joys we had just running around outside with each other
>>80690113
at least you didnt get a taste of the old world, only to have it ripped away on 9/11. I'm old enough that I can remember the pre-9/11 world and how much better it was.
Truly, it is suffering
>the last generation to grow up with Mr Rogers and pre-PC Muppets Sesame Street
>the last generation to know a time the US wasnt involved in any major war and the biggest crisis facing the nation was if the president had lied about having an affair
People say
>It's not worse you just noticed it more
The problem with this:
Suicide has sky rocketed since 9/11 in multiple generations.
Crime has actually been rising significantly and the FBI have acknowledged something is wrong.
You can see it for yourself, it's not a trick of the mind.
Things really are far worse than they used to be.
>>80690330
The fact that you think that things can be both chaotic and predictable means that you don't understand what either of those words mean.
>>80674945
Maybe it's just a the tranny thing everyone's tripped up on. Gays are one thing but when people start cramming the idea that dudes who wanna chop their cocks off and be called madam are normal and TOTALLY SANE AND CANNOT BE CRITICIZED that's when
I got off the ride.
I had never been a fan of degeneracy but I thought it was ok to just tolerate t but when the Tranny think happened I knew they were taking this all the way to the bottom. Pedo acceptance, polyamory, bestiality, fucking Sodom and Gamorrah.
You mean 1997
>>80690466
>pre PC sesame street
There were niggers living peacefully alongside whites and a street in NYC didn't smell like urine and hobos 100% of the time. That shit was liberal PC from the beginning.
>>80689747
Kennedy had the bill dude
>>80690466
man u guys had it rough i had 11 good years before 9/11 ausfag here so it didnt really change much until mid-late 00's but the change was noticeable.
>Everyone paranoid not as friendly
>useless 'security' everywhere especially around govt buildings and airports
That said we seem to be settling back down into standard aussie apathy again but americans always seem stressed out as fuck.
i guess if our abbos had guns and wanted to kill us i would be too fuck that shit cunts good luck with the race war n shit
>>80690649
This. Rajesh is correct.
>>80689864
>>80690466
But thats is the worst part, I heard the ECHOs of the old world.
>reruns of Mr Rogers and Seasame Street the were only around until I was only 5
By the time I had started to look into the world, it was 2007 and all that was gone.
As for the war...
I grew up used to hearing how another soilder died in a IED every week or so, I was used to that.
>>80690494
I sort of mean how the news tells you "apocalypse is now goy, terrorists goy looks like we better restrict your freedoms to stop those (((terrorists))) goyim" is the chaos,and then the predictability is the inevitable restrictions and laws to stop (((hate speech)))
>>80675181
Shit you might be onto something...
>>80674913
I started browsing in 2010, took a 3 year break and everything got so much worse. The whole psyche of the site is different.
>>80690464
I remember hearing a segment on NPR or something similar about childhood obesity where various experts proposed retarded solutions like better nutritional information and education for kids (like they give a fuck). Finally there was an older sounding doctor who said we should stop wasting money on awareness initiatives, put all of that money into liability insurance, and make playgrounds dangerous again. Over the years all of the fun rambunctious slightly dangerous stuff has been ripped out of playgrounds and replaced by faggoty plastic bullshit with with soft round edges and no possibility of speed or excitement or injury because ONE FUCKING KID broke his ass falling off of it.
I had some of the best moments of my life playing on an old rusty bastard that looked like pic related.
>>80690731
Lol i was 6 so i guess this year will be different for everyone
>rapejesh
>Right
i do remmeber 1996 was a terrible time for australia just coming out of a massive depression and start of the mining boom
>>80690479
You're flat out wrong. Violent crime is lower than it's been in decades. It's only the media being hysterical fuckheads that makes you think things are worse now.
>>80688888
Nice get
Another point to consider is that the USA basically stopped being a 'Christian Nation' sometime during the mid 00s; 2007 seems an appropriate year to mark this shift.
>>80676318
>gold miner ETF
Total scam buddy, hate to tell you
>>80690743
We could have prevented this.
>>80674913
My whole life has been shit. When was my turning point?
