Why did 2007 kill everything? Video games, movies, anime, TV, america, the economy, global stability, the internet, it all collapsed around this time.
>>29917132
Big bang theory came out, "le random" humour followed soon, followed by "gamer girs" and "Geek" """"culture"""". Fucking hell, we should prevent 2007 from ever happening.
>>29917132
6/6/06 was the day the world was meant to end.
Humanity didn't let the world end. We ignored the significance of the unholy 666 and went on with our day. The evil, released yet ignored, then seeped into the very fibers of our reality. Over the next 6 months the evil, the pestilence, the penance, the end infected everything. Though because it is less concentrated it is taking longer.
Because the effects of the evil were so slow we didn't realize what was happening until post 2007 and the world has been crumbling ever since.
>>29917211
>>>/x/
Autismo.
>>29917162
>>29917132
Were you 11/12 around 2007?
Serioud question.
>>29917132
Introduction of smartphones and growing popularity of social media spelled the end of the old Internet and enabled a surveillance state worse than Orwell's 1984. In addition, it also permanently damaged human interactions and relationships.
I now separate recent history into 3 eras:
>Pre-9/11
>Post-9/11 / pre-2007
>Post-2007
>>29917256
I was 19 in 2007
>>29917256
16 actually. why?
>>29917132
agreed, the world just stopped spinning after that time
>>29917270
post 9/11 wasn't THAT much of a change, of course policies changed and all kind of shit went down but untill 04' it felt like it was still the 90's in every aspect of day-to-day life tbqh.
>>29917302
Post 9/11 was defined by social anxiety, but the spirit of the 90s remained at its core and the nation was united for a brief period. for kids life more or less spun on as normal.
Post-2007 everything seems to have fallen apart, from media to the nation itself
>>29917132
>>29917270
2006-2009 just sort of blurs into one for me. Social media took off around that time and normies ruined the internet.
>>29917302
Hence why 2001-2007 is, to me, its own era. Some of the problems that we have now found their roots in 9/11, but they did not truly begin to sprout until 2007.
>>29917270
>In addition, it also permanently damaged human interactions and relationships.
>I now separate recent history into 3 eras:
this
>>29917330
>>29917317
Does anyone here also feels warmth when remembering the past? a good kind of warmth, kind of like a hug when I think back about that time.
>watch youtube video dated 2006
>stop focusing on the video and daydream about how great things were in the mid 2000s
>sometimes even close my eyes and lean my head back
I would do anything to go back
I really really really hate this time we're in now
>>29917371
I miss 2007-2009
97/99 was awesome, 2000/2006 amazing, then in 2007 everything started sucking, it was slowly getting worse until this 10s hell
>>29917371
I don't feel warmth, I wish I could. All I can remember is how things used to be and think of how they're never, ever coming back.
>>29917407
I miss pre 07', it was a really comfy time. Too bad I can't go back and just re-live this period for ever and ever.
>>29917494
I first got this feeling when I smoked some of the weed I grew
>inb4 dude weed lmao
I do it because that's the only way I can ever feel something, most of the day I feel fucking empty and nothing makes me happy anymore, but as soon as I take a few puffs I feel that warmth, I feel as if someone is hugging me, I remember the good time I had back then when I wasn't such a sperglord and that the people were less fucked up back then, like even if they didn't really care they at least knew of to pretend and it wasn't done for likes on normie book. fucking hell, take me back!
>>29917256
I was 26 and can confirm. Before 2007 there was a growing sense of "things aren't right" that wasn't really present before the 2001 attacks. Before 2007 (and I mean right before) there was a large uptick in stories about youngish people moving back in with their parents and the possibility of the death of the "American Dream" and then >>29917162
happened and there was nothing you could define as "genuine" anymore and everything became proto-hipster "ironic" and had to be super tongue in cheek and "edgy" even. Couple this with increasing disillusionment with the U.S.'s foreign militarism and the emergence of a global awareness that un-varnished capitalism aren't "fine" and there you go. All the basics for a crippling knowledge of the errors of the current political/economic systems and a social climate that emphasized the lack of any sort of genuine hope that circumstances (due to grassroots human actions) might change and there you go.
Basically 2007 sunk the whole Western world.
>>29917552
>Too bad I can't go back and just re-live this period for ever and ever.
eh, same. I had good friends during this time, but then I shit everything up as usual. and now I'm here...
>>29917563
This is why I'm killing myself within the next 10 years. I have a nasty feeling that there isn't going to be anything in the future worth sticking around for.
>>29917633
Next 10? Generous, I'm only 20 and want to end it already
Funny thing, 2007 was the exact year that 4chan went mainstream.
Fuck you, Attack of the Show.
>>29917647
*within the next 10 years
I'll likely end it before that, 10 years is just my maximum estimate.
>>29917633
I get the feeling that we're finally getting into the initial, irreversible slide into a cyberpunk type of setting where there is no hope and only a sort of vague nihilism that is roughly contained by a brutal corporatist police state.
>>29917682
well you could always be the activist, the cyberpunk that somehow eluded the patriot implants and now fights the corps with guns and keyboards
>>29917696
Metal Feel Solid when?
Portal, big bang theory and modern warfare
fuck all of those
obviously no one here has a good memory before 2008 so i'll refresh everyone on the whole credit crash
everyone pre-2008 was spending money that they didn't really understand that they had to pay back, so they were charging tens of thousands on credit cards and just transferring balances without the income to sustain all this shit
now that's all well and good but then the companies started to realize they were getting fucked and started denying people credit cards and these people had no option but to default
so now they can't buy cars or buy the (still overpriced) houses that they were trying to get and can't even get a dishwasher on layaway
it was a year that was a brutal reminder that nothing is free and you must pay for everything you have in life
evidently that's too much real life for most people, which is why everyone nowadays is so boring and 'safe' compared to 1990-2005
when it comes to happiness on a macro scale, it always involves money
The current trend of regression into childhood among normies. "Be yourself" and "Do what you need to do" turned into "I'M ALWAYS RIGHT AND IF YOU TRY TO CORRECT ME I'LL THROW A TANTRUM". And why did commanding people to do things become cool? "Hey, do you think we could get some food?" Used to be the goal when you became an adult, now it's "LOL BUY ME CHICKEN NUGGETS"
>>29917735
Portal, I think, singlehandedly destroyed the capability for games to be genuine. The meme of "THE CAKE IS A LIE" basically undermined all of video game story telling to the point that the player is always waiting for that hyper "ironic" reveal and so can't invest in the narrative as they could previously. How can you believe any of the Final Fantasy plot threads if you're waiting for
>le cake is a lie
to pop up in the final boss scene? How can you take the time to do anything and immerse yourself in a fictive world? How can you learn how to form an empathy based connection to any character (digital or otherwise) if you're constantly waiting to be rused?
Basically, fuck everything.
>>29917563
You're too pessimistic
>>29917839
I'm 34 now. You get older. It happens. Why do you think old people yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN" is a meme?
>>29917132
My favorite video game came out after 2007. And Nier is one hell of a game.
Oh, an actual good thread that doesn't contain any cuck porn or obvious shitposting or any of the normal r9k garbage but has some quality replies?
Let it coast to page 10 so I can then post a
>tfw post in a thread and it dies
wojak.
>>29917132
I've never heard anything about anime collapsing in 2007. What are you talking about?
Things generally went to shit around 2007 because of social media and the mass adoption of the web.
NHK: 2006
Clannad: 2007
>>29917132
The iPhone was released. Somehow the "internet in your pocket" killed the internet.
Youtube only started streaming in 720p around 2007, most videos back then were 480p.
Since then, especially the last 5 years or so, there have been so many amazing, HD videos out, I'm thinking especially of things like Music videos - we're basically living through the golden age of music video production at the moment.
Stop romanticising the past.
>>29917132
Iphone came out. Smartphones spawned.
I completely agree; 2007 was the year that things changed/led up to how things are today. Also social media and MySpace blew the fuck up in 2007 too as well as smart phones/the iPhone, etc. Before 2007 and late 2006 ish I remember everything just being fucking normal and literally like 20 times comfier than today.
We need a another world war. A big one where we agree to not use nukes or biological weapons. Every country. Both men and women get drafted up to the age of 40. Every single country.
>>29919408
>>29919430
Can you actually go into detail how things stopped being good in 2007?
Just to take anime as an example... here are some recent series I've liked:
>Tengen toppa gurren lagann
>Kill La Kill
>Steubs Gate
>Psycho-Pass
These all came out post 2007. Most anime produced has always been crap, and the further we go along, more and more content is produced every year - in some ways this means MORE crap, but it also often means more chance of something really good.
I could do the same thing with games and movies.
>>29919466
Certainly a lot of things went to hell after '07, but I don't think it's quite right to link anime's decline with that landmark year. Moeshit really took off a bit later. Depending on who you ask, moeshit either saved or destroyed anime, but you can't deny otaku pandering is a lot worse now.
>>29917132
Why do people push this /v/ meme?
>>29920617
So-called moeshit anime is 90% mass hysteria and 10% reality. It is and was never as prominent as people claim, not even close.
Otaku pandering doesn't exist.
What a dumb thread. Cod4 game out in 2007. online FPS hasn't been as good since. And Bioshock for a solid singleplayer FPS.
>>29919170
what a god dayum shame
>>29919202
hedonist
>things r great guys i can watch youtub vids in hd and pop music videos r on film production levels, the world is GOOD!
>>29920890
The 'world' may not be so good, but I was responding to OP's claims about MEDIA. Most of what he listed were forms of passive entertainment. I just don't see how those got worse, or even global stability or the internet.
480p videos are absolutely terrible. Try watching one these days and you'll see what I mean, it's depressing. I'm just saying that when it comes to those forms of entertainment, we've never had things better - back in the 90's (when I was a teenager), we had to get our music videos from TV, where you had to endure rap, country, all sorts of trashy pop to get anything remotely entertaining or artistic. Thanks to the internet and cheaping cameras, etc - we now have people all over the world generating their own high quality, visually appealing content.
>>29917162
>geek culture
Still haven't found geek gf in Staceystralia
>>29917656
>Tfw discovering Sara underwood nudes and cumming buckets
>>29917132
2001 did
9/11 heralded the end of an age, stopped all culture and refocused everything on the permanent war
>>29921143
Thing got bad after 911 for a while, but by 2010 things had pretty much recovered. The paranoia of those first few years 2001-05 were insane. I don't even live in the US but every changed culturally and became crazy as hell during those years.
>>29918144
I'm not alone in feeling this. Remember that anon, others on this earth are aware of the shitty content here, not just yourself.
>>29917132
I was 12 so I don't really know, but I was extremely depressed between 07 and 10 or late 09. So those years did kind of awkwardly suck for me.
I think the iPhone hurt things and the internet being portable (and usuable) started the trend of the internet world and IRL merging, which REALLY sucks now. Fuck google plus and fuck facebook.
>>29921195
>all these people blaming iPhone
Does anyone have a theory on WHY the iPhone would affect things?
Aren't most iPhone users normies\women who'd just spend their time on Facebook anyway?
Normies ruined the internet
Social media and smartphones damaged the way humans interact
These days its like people are there right infront of you but we are all permenantly didconnected.
I was only 3 years old during 9/11
>tfw you always lived in a world of pain
>>29921211
I'm just taking a stab at it here but before those times it was generally inconvienient to use the web at ALL times and many things weren't easily accessible to normiedom (I knew girls back then who didn't have email addresses).
Having the web on you at all times encouraged everyone to shit it up. But that was bound to happen anyway. With the mass adpotion of phones and other mobile devices things had to get dumber and simpler, hence most popular services are a Google service or a Facebook service. Software becomes shitty little "apps" and mobile games became meaningless distractions that people were paying for.
I don't think the iPhone ruined anything in the real world but I think it's a starting point for the INTERNET generally being worse, as most things do when normies (or any people who otherwise don't want to care about what they're doing, what tech they're using, why).
You've seen many an r9k thread about how no one has a facebook account and how people miss when the internet was made by people and not a handful of companies. That change was going to happen anyway, I think it just came sooner with everyone having a computer in their pocket that for many was just as easy, or easier, to use than a laptop or desktop. It coincided with super simple tools to create webpages and blogposts and tumblrs and all that, so even a braindead idiot could have their voice. And what a voice they have.
Like I said, not ENTIRELY iPhone's fault, but it was a signal that things were changing or going to have to change for the internet.
>>29917371
i do. i watch old movies and tv shows so i can remember back when there still was hope. aint nostalgia grand.
>>29921286
so that means you were 6 when that game came out. fuck outta here
>>29917371
2007-2009 was just one blurred shithouse that should have never existed.
>2000-2006 and 2015-2016 are the good years for me
>>29919202
are you fucking kidding me there are literally no good pop artists anymore
even rihanna hasn't been good since 2007
>>29921306
I knew adult life pre internet (just) and the difference was remarkable.
Knowledge was worth something. The net as devalued that.
When I started school an encyclopedia took up half a book shelf. When I finished it was on a CD rom. Now its on ever normies iphone with a zillion other things which make knowledgeable people redundant.
>>29921371
I'm not saying there are more, better pop artists - the internet and youtube, especially HD services like on youtube and vimeo allow us to see a lot of art. I collect the best music videos, in the 90's there were only about 20 or something, in the past few years I've had about 80.
Here, have one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXJFQUxU6JI
Recorded on an iphone 5.
>>29921319
And I finished it when I was 6 years old.
07... i was 16. I think of it as a good year. Things were getting interesting. Although, it was the begining of the end of the internet being fun. I really think the final nail in the coffin for the net was widespread smartphone use. Especially once niggers got on them. The IQ of the net dropped 15 points.
>>29921306
Social media has been much more damaging than everyone being online all the time.
I graduated high school in 2007 so to me it especially feels like a bookmark of before and after.
>>29921211
The iPhone removed the barrier of entry to the Internet. Before the iPhone, you had to invest some time into learning how to use a computer and connect to the Internet at the cost of being able to connect to a vast network of information.
In other words, people on the Internet wanted to be on the Internet because they wanted to see the cool shit on the Internet. Back then, most Web pages were a labor of love created by their owners to convey some piece of information they thought was cool enough to share with like minded people. From this, sites catering to a particular interest began to emerge. Photography, programming, gaming, archives, databases, etc.
After the smartphones, the next thing was social Media. While initially made with the intention of fostering communication between distant people, it quickly devolved a peacocking contest that everyone unwittingly took part in. Companies and business noticed this and tied meaning to this peacocking through advertisements an overinflating the opinion on the average citizen by attempting to make each "customer" feel unique and valued. As time went by, the value of opinion increased exponentially to the point that a large number of reviews may not be legitimate or purchased rather than genuine critiques of the service or product provided.
People are now conditioned to be in the majority opinion now through social media influence and the review culture of the Internet.
Look at PewDiePie/yt stars and Warner Bros. WB paid then off for false praise to Garner a following on social media as it is the most salient dorm of media for our youth today.
Look at Pokemon Go. Pokemon go is nearly identical to Ingress aside from the Pokemon skin.
People no longer care about the Internet or media generated on it, but rather what other people think about what they think about things that they may or may not genuinely like, but will follow to not be socially ostracized.
>>29921306
The Normies tainted our Domain. Thats the reason most robots feel 2007 as the point of no return. I used to think that it was childhood or youth nostalgia but that is only a small part of the truth. The whole internet/games culture was more idealistic and subservient to the needs of real enthusiasts. Recently went on a classic (pre 2006) games Marathon and holy fuck games were genuienly GOOD. Thought original stories, fanservice but not in an autistic lets tell the same '''''insiderjoke''''' over and over again. Actual brave Design choices and an Overall better atmosphere. Or just remember youtube, a whole Hub of anarchy and Chaos with the occasional gem of true awesomeness.
Nowadays everything is mediocre. Internet culture merged and adapted with popular culture. Youtube is run by professionals who in the most cases aren't genuienly creative. Games are now for console spergs who are adhd-super-retarded and all the spots where the old guard is still present are relentlessly flodded by Normies searching New content destroying all orginality.
>>29921501
It just seems like you're creating a history of 'authenticity' out of nothing.
Social media sites existed prior to iPhone and prior to Facebook. Even in the 90's we had ICQ, then MSN Messenger, and a part of both of these was the creation of online identities - and gradually online identities became less separate from 'real identities' simply because more and more people were using the internet socially. Even Internet Relay Chat became a normiefest in the 2000's.
This was always the trend of the internet. If you had the internet in the 90's, you were already a part of the 'mass movement' that was just taking time to sweep everyone along.
The only thing you're right about is that as soon as the majority of people started using the Internet, sites like Google started to become 'normie-ized' and to impose those "Use your real name" type rules - but even most non-normies were responsible for the growth of Google and death of any real competition.
Webpage 'aesthetics' didn't die because of iPhone users using Safari either, that's ridiculous.
nostalgia/romanticizing the past. I think the same way about it because I was a kid then with no responsibilities, watching spongebob, playing flash games and watching flash movies on newgrounds, playing CS:S, HL2:DM, GMOD9/10
literally no responsibilities
we put ourselves as we are now, adults, in that situation of having no responsibilities. Being a kid fucking sucked, I'm not nostalgic about being a kid at all. Fuck that shit. I'd never relive being under 21.
just think, in 10 years the kids growing up today will have nostalgia for this shitty era of iphones, pewdiepie lets players, drake, and all the other stuff we hate. they'll say the same things we're saying here now.
>>29921634
>Social media sites existed prior to iPhone and prior to Facebook. Even in the 90's we had ICQ, then MSN Messenger...
Not the same thing as social media.
>>29921645
no they won't, they fucking try to relive our past. Take a stroll through a normie facebook page, it's all 90's nostalgia posted by people born in the the 00's.
>>29921643
>nostalgia/romanticizing the past
only to some extent, most of the critisism is legit tho.
>>29921645
No its not. Thats like saying someone missing their old emo days is the same as someone missing the actual start of the counter culture in the 60s.
>>29921654
Social media as we know it today evolved out of these sorts of things. ICQ had 'directories', at one stage it was a bit like Facebook in its early years - you could look up people by name, find them, add them, message them. They'd have their own bio about their interests, music preferences, etc. You could have photos if you wanted.
It may be significantly different but the TREND was clearly set and there - that's why something like Facebook took off... coming on the heels of Bebo and Myspace, etc.
>>29921669
Very true. On a level they know todays culture is deeply unoriginal and consumerist. Go to a cinema ffs remakes and reboots are the topic of the Day.
>>29921707
Social media means that when James Rolfe makes a video saying he isn't going to watch a movie, the Internet melts down immediately. That's social media.
>>29917162
Except for Big Bang theory, that stuff was around way before then
>>29921697
Not sure if your all too young to understand this be for what its worth.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
2007 was a great year for movies though
>>29921726
By the 70's, there was over 25 Frankenstein movies. This isn't a new thing.
>>29921707
I would disagree. At least with icq and msn. Social Media is about representing the live you don't actually lead (and the occasional virtue signaling). Icq was about killing time first and foremost. The successor to that (mixed with sms) is WhatsApp imho.
>>29921729
No that means the people you follow melt down. The problem is you are confusing your stupid nerd bullshit, which is a vocal minority, and society, which doesn't know what you're talking about.
>>29921758
Its phases. Eras of originality are followed by eras of stagnation and copying.
>>29921764
Facebook is a huge time waster.
>>29921752
The last great year for movies maybe
>>29921768
>No that means the people you follow melt down.
I don't even use social media.
>The problem is you are confusing your stupid nerd bullshit, which is a vocal minority, and society, which doesn't know what you're talking about.
Are you a shill of some sort?
>>29921306
very true tbqh
>>29921775
That was over half of movie history I talked about.
>>29921790
How is that shilling?? You follow stupid trivial nerd shit and think it means everyone does
>>29921804
You're lying about the Rolfe thing and claiming it was obscure.
>why did the world go to hell around the time a huge pillar of the global economy took a shit and died?
>it must have been the appropriation of geek culture!
you millennials are such a fucking joke
>>29921776
Yeah but you have less direct interaction and way more stalking. Is a different way of interaction.
>>29921794
Yeah and this time was divided into times of creation and times of stagnation. Take the 80s for example they were full of new shit.
>>29917563
ontop of all this there's the progressive movement with bullshit feminists, lgbt shit moving a mile a minute, liberal politicians full on advocating brown people of all backgrounds flooding into 1st world counties, all the black lives matter shit and recently all the anti-cop sentiment. Shit in general just seems way more stupid and crazy than it ever was
Life in general is the same as ever but *society* just seems to keep on changing and degrading
>>29921814
No, I'm not. I have no idea what you're even talking about.
>>29921831
>everyone is from the usa
Some countries weren't impacted by the crisis you know.
>>29921831
Was that a cause or effect?
>Hmmm.
>>29921834
Yeah, new shit like 6 Frankenstein movies.
>>29921859
You always have a certain degree of remakes but there are times like today where this is the leading trend. Also Frankenstein is a classic material,little different when they produce remakes and New Parts of every Film even remotly successfull.
>>29921844
Yes you are lying. So you must be some kind of shill.
>>29921885
Classic like Ghostbusters and comic books.
>>29921889
Huh?? Do you know what lying or shill mean?
>>29917735
> modern warfare
First two were nice, too bad they killed fps
>>29921910
Yes.
bloxbloxbloxblox
Originality just seems pretty dead t b h. We've already all seen everything before and now when something new and fresh pops up we eat it up and shit it out within a month. 2 decades ago we were seeing all sorts of new and crazy shit dozens of times a year, now everything is just generic
>>29922027
Originality is dead because if your work bears even the most vague resemblance to something else people will call it a rip off and accuse you of being a thief.
>>29922049
Nope, originality is dead because we have a shitload of people and most of them are plebs that live 3 years (at best) behind us (4chan dwellers) so it takes time to get recognized nowdays, unless you know how to sell your shit right. So, by the time they catch up you're all ready a dead meme, and originality doesn't pays off since 2 references to "le kewl random memes" is enough to get twelvies to obsses over you and throw cash at you.
>>29922087
originality is dead because everyone is obsessed with short term profits
>>29917132
Nigger president.
I wish there were a way to make America great again.. like it was when strong, proud White men were in charge.
>>29882363
This is why 2007 killed everyhtnff
The "Great Recession" also fucked with everything
>>29921778
>Transformers comes out in 2007
really makes you think
>>29917132
I think it started crumbling due to post-speculation comics being pandering, Blizzard giving up on WoW, and Facebook becoming popular enough to attract Normies to the internet.
2007 killed the idea of separation. That's why everyone from Chad to Melvin has to share the same sites. Anime went to shit slowly. It started when Toonami further popularized Anime in the USA. People liked and hated stuff, and it switched slowly from action-packed badassery, nice stories with nice action, okay fight scenes between drama, and highschool desu shit. The economy was okay at the time, it went to shit in 2008.
Lastly, America and the world has always sucked. I was born in Yugoslavia and spent the first three years of my life in a warzone, later in a ghetto in the UK, and later in a shitty redneck town in the southern US. The world, if you think about it, has only gotten better. ISIS is literally the only true threat to world co-operation in my opinion.
I was 9 years old in 2007 so I don't remember.
What changed?
>>29922352
Get off, underage bait.
>>29922320
Why didn't your parents stay and defend your country you worthless piece of shit?
>>29922320
>it switched slowly from action-packed badassery, nice stories with nice action, okay fight scenes between drama, and highschool desu shit
See >>29920664
>>29922467
My dad died and my mom had polio as a kid.
>>29917430
I see it this way:
>late '80s: good (?)
>1990-1993: bad
>1994-1996: good
>1996-2001: great
>2001-2006: ok
>2007-2008: good
>2009-2016: bad and only gets worse
>>29917132
Good posts in this thread so I'm gonna actually go from the heart.
I remember fondly being in HS in 04-08 leveling my main on wow and spending all night on vent with guildies that I forged a genuine connection with. I remember watching Attack of the show and loving it, actually good South Park episodes, and anime that was really solid (I even loves tunami meme anime).
So yea I remember that era fondly, and I thought my life was shit going into college and dropping out in the shitshow on 08.
But desu, maybe I'm not pessimistic or I'm too normie for this board but I feel like a lot of that is nostalgia for the time period where I had zero responsibility. My parents are the same way when thinking about the 70s, and I'm sure my youngest brother will probably look back at 2010s just as fondly.
>>29919201
The internet could already be in your pocket in the '90s.
>>29921091
>480p videos are absolutely terrible
480p is acceptable with good upscaling. Check out MPV threads on /g/.
>>29921885
>Also Frankenstein is a classic material
I'm always amused by the most important and influential work of genre fiction being written by a woman. But for some reason you never see feminists praising Mary Shelley, not even the ones who pretend to be nerds.
>>29917132
>fucking retards that teenage years were in the early 00's thinking it was heaven when it was just as shit as before
>>29922679
you have already been proven wrong you fucking faggot, kys
>>29922693
Why are you telling him to kiss his sister?
>>29922654
Because Frankenstein is a classical literary piece.
Since it's not Amber Rose or Anita Sarkeesian how the fuck could they ever know about it? They would need to explore women's history which, I'm gonna be honest, they don't do.
I just can't niece they did, otherwise they'd be more focused on Africa and Asia and the middle east... pretty much all places where women have it bad. Women do NOT fucking have it bad in first world countries
2001-2003: Lord of the Rings trilogy
2002: Star Trek - Nemesis
2002: Morrowind
ICQ (or other messengers)
Nerds were (rightly) considered as rare people with weird hobbies, who "really know about computer stuff".
A nerd would say: "You need help with your computer?" And actually help you out. He would provide you with pc games and movies or series, if wanted.
2012-2014: The Hobbit trilogy
2009: "Star Trek"
2015: Elder Scrolls Online
Facebook (and other social media)
"Nerds" are considered as a subculture with a specific lifestyle including clothing; to be a "nerd" you do not have to actually do nerdy stuff, you have to look and talk nerdy.
A "nerd" would say. "I am such a video game freak! I'm into X, I'm into Y, I'm ino Z!" And actually know shit about nothing at all. On his pc - if he is not completely(!) into console playing - windows was preinstalled and he downloads his games from a platform like steam, watches movies over stream.
The video games and computer/console industry realized, that most people are too stupid or too desinterested to actually get into gaming, because you had to put a little effort in it. You at least needed to reinstall windows from time to time, even that is not required anymore. Everything is convienent, everyone can be a gamer, everyone can build himself the image of a "nerd".
I wouldn't call ICQ social media exactly. It was not about posting pictures about how "perfect" your life is or how hot your girlfriend (or you) look in a bikini.
And now something, that would interest /r9k/ especially:
Since everybody can be a "nerd" nowadays, real nerdy people with real interests in stuff like computer, anime or fantasy are considererd perverts, who not only occasionally have no girlfriend, because they are shut-ins, but inherently have no girlfriends because of their abnormal personality structure. "Big bang theory" contributed to this image greatly. (.. to be continued)
>>29923207
(continuation)
Before 2007 I was a shut-in with weird interests, who happened to not have a girlfriend. Now people think I'm meant to not have one. People (especiall the younger ones) expect(!) me to not have a girlfriend. I'm not making any excuses here. I know, that it's my "fault" to be alone and I am not complaining. My point is, that society's expectations, their image of real nerds changed. Interestingly, it didn't change for the generation of my parents. There is following rule: The younger the people are, the stranger and weirder, even perverted they find real nerds or just people with real special interests, that are not normie-conformic. "You are into chinese cartoons, eewww!! You pedophile!" - before 2007 it was: "What's that? Ah, okay. And you're into that stuff? Is it like pokemon?"
Sometimes I feel like normies were deep down jealous, because they could never achieve the knowledge of a nerd and couldn't handle a computer despite the fact, that computer technology became more and more popular... but this is just depressed thinking. It's all about the big money. Normies are paying.. and they are paying good. We all realized, that pc games got more and more expensive since around 2007. Well, normies are ready to throw their money out of the window in order to be part of something etc. The only people, who complain about pc games getting more and more expensive, are real nerdy people, who keep an eye on the cost-benefit ratio and have real expectations for the media they are consuming.
On /r9k/ I wrote to a lot of robots, who have a genuine passion for unusual or nerdy stuff. We didn't just play morrowind or any other high quality videogame back then - for example -, we loved them and got really into it. Sadly, we partly buy into the new stigma, that this is something inherently pathetic and unnatural.
What came over us is generally the revenge of uninteresting normal people, who could never be drawn into any kind of media like we can.
>>29923498
>>Before 2007 I was a shut-in with weird interests, who happened to not have a girlfriend.
Before 2007 I was a shut-in with weird interests who managed to have a handful of girlfriends just fine. Now it's completely impossible because they managed to brainwash even the intelligent people.
>>29921267
>Normies ruined the internet
Since when the internet was supposed to cater only to mentally ill spergs like you?
>Social media and smartphones damaged the way humans interact
This one's true.
>>29923707
>Since when the internet was supposed to cater only to mentally ill spergs like you?
Since the 70s.
>>29921419
Video is shit, get your meds.
>>29917132
iPhone invented, opened many many doors for retards to communicate.
