Why is 2007 often considered to be the year everything started going downhill?
iphone
>>55397065
that's not 2001
depression
>Big Bang Theory
>smartphones
>beginning of widespread social media
>rise of le epic nerd culture
>death of the old internet
>dawn of the new politically correct/SJW internet
>>55397065
I stopped being a teenager and life turned to shit.
It actually was 1945
Big bang theory
>already 8 years old
>>55397181
that's not the 1960's
>>55397174
this, as well as twitter. gave retards, normies, and poor dindus a platform to have their opinions heard, which they shouldn't be.
>>55397262
of course thats true, we need to limit this to being in our lifetime/the last 30 years
if all time periods were open of course it's better the older you go. I'd argue for US at least the best time was either pre-war South or Wild West
>>55397065
Runescape restricted free trade and ended PvP
It was the least year before they removed free trade and wilderness pking in Runescape
>>55397362
I'll second the Wild West, particularly mid-to-late 70s. Early 80s it started going downhill but it was still fairly cool till the early 90s.
Degeneracy reared its ugly head.
Chad Kroeger and Santana united to make a song.
>>55397452
Who the fuck is Santana?
>tfw 2007 was 18 years ago
By who? I literally never heard this before.
>>55397065
>"Buzzfeed was founded in the winter of 2006 in New York City as a viral lab, focusing on tracking viral content...really started to gain it's massive following early the next year."
>>55397542
>18 years ago was three decades ago
>>55397542
>>55397552
it was 8 years ago
the banker bailout happened in 2008
>>55397497
Mexican Satan.
>>55397396
>>55397408
hivemind much?
>>55397065
Because we all died in the year 2007.
Welcome to Hell.
>>55397673
actually it was 2007, the end of 2007
>>55397552
On multiple boards all over the site.
>>55397065
smartphones and social media took off.
mass proliferation of the internet, and streamlining its use? That's the best I've got
>>55397673
>he still counts in human years
Things looked pretty before 2010, after that the world start turning to PC bullshit. The Mayans were right all along.
>>55397065
What do you think John Oliver was doing during 2007?
>>55397873
>he has no concept of the sub-prime mortgage crisis
>b/c he's 14yo
MODS!!!!
>>55397262
That's not 10,000 BC
>>55397891
Daily show with on Stewart
>>55397262
that's not 1517
2011 was a really sad year
>>55397552
>>55397065
Clearly no one in this thread is over the age of 21, because the most direct point to OP's question has not even been cited.
2007 was when the housing crisis started to be reported as a thing, which was later replaced by the global recession and high unemployment in the subsequent years. Basically a bunch of idiots with too much debt who never read the fine print had the collector come. Later, the middle manager got axed and the best he could do afterwards was to drive a UPS truck or similar.
Basically a bunch of prole people could delude themselves into feeling wealthy up until around 2007, when the illusion was popped for this cohort. And we've culturally been accustomed to baby boomer standards of living as the ideal (by which I mean very fundamental American-dream things like a house, car, kid, marriage), so to have to retract from any of these was psychically painful for the proles. For worse or worser, this desperation is the reason why Obama was elected twice, but of course now people are sick of him. It's also part of the reason why Bernie has been a persistent meme (the college kids who are all your ages and who also don't remember anything about anything themselves being the other part), though perhaps that's changing now.
>>55397181
This poster is also correct. America has been fundamentally unhappy since muh 9/11, and the above simply exacerbated the national mood.
>>55397796
I graduated college in 2007, and can confirm most of the insanity of today was absent from college life. There simply was no platform to ramify and echo activist sentiments. Facebook was closed to people without college email addresses, and there was no media coverage of social media trends. Smart phones were nonexistent from what I remember. Texting was a pain in the ass unless you had one of those keyboard phones, so it was usually limited to short messays to arange social stuff--no conversations. When I went to grad school 3 years ago, the social environment had changed. Residence halls had become indoctrination centers for SJW infiltrated staff. Social media wasn't novel and fun anymore, and actually fostered rl social interaction. Now people sit and follow feeds. There were no feeds in the beginning--it was a glorified address book. I also never had political stuff flood my screen as an undergrad. Everything is just a hypersensitive angry drag OR incoherent intoxication for college kis.
I remember being relaxed and happy and optimistic when I wasn't shit faced. Now everyone just seems stressed and afraid to talk.
>>55398392
I also had a fairly pleasant college experience since I was usually busy with STEM. I wasn't even made to attend a Don't Rape seminar or similar.
I graduated in spring 2008 and I only had one or two truly awful classes. Right at the end, I took a course on American immigration to pad a history minor, and you had a clutch of POC harpies in one corner who were always correcting the room on this-or-that, then one white kek got upset about some bit of phraseology that I can't even remember. One white girl gave a very judgy-wudgy presentation not on prostitution or the sex trade as-such, but rather, on the russian/asian bride industry. I haven't thought about that one in years but she was a bit wild-eyed during that, kek
The professor, herself a jew, stopped the proceedings and pushed back on a few occasions, to the effect of: "This is a history course, not a social justice course. It's fine to dislike xyz but first you have to learn the facts and be able to state facts and narrative. Then you are welcome to fight for whatever cause you like." To her credit, she went as far as to encourage and defend "politically incorrect" speech, in principle.
There was this one fat disgusting low-functiong autist in the class, he was good for laffs. God, every female in the room hated him so much and he just didn't care. He once said "Does anyone /SERIOUSLY/ believe that Obama will be elected president?!" Oh, the tears were delicious.
I kept my mouth shut and took a Gentleman's B, I was busy with math and intent on graduating without incident. Little did I realize that I had seen my own first glimpse of proper SJW-dom, and come away personally unscathed.
Pssst OP...the problem is in the pudding(the white house)
>>55398105
It was for me. Just out of college. Broke AF, struggling in most aspects of life, future seemed bleak. All kinds of booze and casual sex tho.
>>55398251
Like anyone over 21 cares about ecnomics.
