Anyone else think that the world did sort of end in 2012?
It was changed forever afterwards with so much degeneracy it is completely unrecognizable. First the internet died, then subsequently real life. Everything just started leaking out like some toxic hazard and they sort of melted together. It became basically the norm to talk about stupid youtube videos and facebook. Not to mention the micro jew plague - smartphones. Made talking to people even more hard.
I with it was still the mid to late 2000s, but even the first 2-3 years of the 2010s weren't so bad
How did it get so bad...
>>28764394
its so bad that people wont even see this good thread. have a fist bump bro
>>28764471
Thanks anon... I hope /r9k/ wants to talk about this
Elliot is great too, but still...
I blame citizens united and facebook
>>28764506
nah when fb started it was good , now its just pure spam and fake people . its like everything did go to shit , 2013 was a shithole for me until now
>>28764394
The maya were right
>>28764525
Facebook as an concept might not be so bad, its the content. So much propaganda gets shared on there under the guise of memes that it boggles my mind. If you stay friends with all the people who dropped out of your high school, you'll lose faith in humanity every time you check your newsfeed.
I often feel that the world goes to shit. Noone seems to help others anymore, this entire young generation is cynical and politics are fucked beyond rrpair as well.
We have more and more people believing the dumbest shit without checking it.
Also Maybe it's just how I percieve things,
But i feel like there's more and more people that I get to know that simply don't have personality. Like no hobbies, passions etc. They only care about what others think and propagandate their empty excuse of a person in social media, pretending to have a good time.
>LE GANGNAM STYLE MEME DANCE
>GRUMPY CAT IS SOOOO FUNNY ANON
Fuck you any year past 2006 is objectively garbage
>>28764596
i got laid in 08 married in 10 divorced in 13 , all same chick now im a robot
all the good bands from the 2000s are getting old too and there's no new ones to replace them. Not that anybody seems to care about rock music these days anyway all people listen to now is shitty EDM
The mayan calender was right.
>>28764394
I wouldn't say it ended, but there was a small change. The last good year in my opinion was 2014, but that's just me.
>not 2007
>>28764596 >>28764567
Maybe not entirely garbage. The masses are retarded, don't have any passions and are completely dependent on sensory inputs, that much is true. But look at people who DO have passion. Anyone who volunteers for a noble cause, or writes original music, or is working towards a doctorate or patent. Or people like Elon Musk. That guy is starting the electric car revolution and trying to commercialize space at the same time. We might end up seeing asteroid mining and the end of petrol in our lifetimes because of motherfuckers like him or those who work for him.
Point is, don't focus on the mass of retards. Don't look down into the mud and shit, look up at the sky instead.
>>28764394
>Made talking to people even more hard
>harder
Made writing and proper grammar more difficult too apparently.
>>28764726
mass retards are hindering the progress communist sjw will whine and complain about everything
>>28764557
Its utter shite.
I ran fake accounts just to fuck with people.
Basically its old/young men getting catfished because all they think with their dick .
Then you have the meme obsessed women that sit there all day and post that repetitive dribble.
>>28764743
I also miss grammar nazis, good times
>>28764596
This. 2006 was the last good year for entertainment and internet culture.
>game devs had passion, weren't afraid to delay a release if it wasn't ready
>the internet was properly divided, normies were confined to Myspace and dating sites where they belonged
>MMOs had a greater sense of community, didn't have to go out of your way to socialize with other players if you wanted to
>baggy clothes were still sort of in style so you didn't have to worry about keeping up with trends
>>28764873
>normies were confined to Myspace
What happened? Myspace was such a perfect site for normies. Then shit just... fuck
>>28764646
Holy fukkkk
>>28764929
The rest of the internet became more "accessible" for them is my best guess. Getting tons of viruses from careless browsing was what kept them in line.
Somewhere around late 2009 was when I started to notice the decline. I saw keyboard cat in a commercial and knew it was only going to go downhill from there.
>>28764394
Holy shit, I thought I was the only one.
I never bought into the whole 2012 stuff, but for some reason I felt for a while that 2012/2013 some sort of separation happened.
Nothing in my live changed during that time, it's a completely arbitrary year, but the time before 2013 feels completely different than after.
Does anyone else feel the same way?
>>28765176
probably has something to do with traffic
if you google it you get stuff like this http://www.gainspeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Internet-Traffic-Graph1.jpg
pretty scary imo since somehow even TV is more informative to normies than the internet
2011 was the last quality year for memes before the post-post-ironic facebook age
>>28764394
It changed in 2008. By 2012 it was already far too late.
>2012
The world died somewhere around 2008-2009. That's when everything went to shit. Internet becomes popular, social media starts becoming popular, girls become degenerate and digusting, entertainment becomes overwhelming and disposible, people start waking up to what's going on in the world, everyone becomes more selfish and keeps to themselves, etc.
>>28764394
Nothing died in 2012, the world just caught up with what most of us already knew about. The internet didnt die, it just changed, because now almost everyone on the planet is connected to the internet at this point. What you're talking about is your teen angst and how your secret club isnt so secret anymore. What you see as degeneracy is really just a direct projection of your insecurities. Why shouldnt people talk about youtube videos and facebook? They see both of those things every day, just like you see r9k everyday, the only reason you dont talk about r9k in real life is because this place is full of degeneracy and outcast, you'd be ostracized for even mentioning a place like this. Facebook and youtube are normie things now, people like to share videos just like a person would like to tell another about a particularly good movie. You are only looking for reasons to hate humanity. The world will constantly change, and if you already have this pathetic mindset of "Wow the world went to shit years ago" then you are absolutely fucked and there is no saving you. Stop caring about how other people live their lives, you arent a special snowflake, you are just like them.
>>28765398
>You are only looking for reasons to hate humanity
NO, MY SECRET IS OUT, WHAT DO I DO NOW!
>>28765398
every single thread one of you cancer vermin show up to ruin it.
im just grateful i know you wont have any children to pass on your shit genes
>>28764394
Teenage and 20 something robots in 1999 were saying the same shit. The world charged and you didn't change with it. Not necessarily better or worse but you're not equipped to be here anymore. Sorry beta.
>>28765481
Lol whats so cancerous about my post? That it breaks down the reality of this situation? That it sheds a ray of truth on your sheltered pussified world? Or was the OP just a Le XD meme? If you can give me examples on why exactly the world is any shittier today than it was 4 years ago that dont have to do with "wah no one knew about the internet" or "Wah nothing was expected of me 4 years ago" then id love to fucking hear them.
>>28764873
>game devs had passion, weren't afraid to delay a release if it wasn't ready
nice selective memory, I guess sonic 06 just didnt happenI agree with the rest though. Fashion will come full circle though I'm sure you just have to wait. its starting to become acceptable to look like trash again
>>28765482
>Not necessarily better or worse
Worse, far worse
we're at a point when you can't call someone, OVER THE INTERNET, a fag because it's "homophobic" and people will ostracize you for it
at some point you'll have to make a new account because your profile is associated with "being a nazi" and you can't have any sort of conversation online
it feels as if this whole "IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR!" response didn't even exist until relatively soon
>>28765583
You're a fucking faggot
There I just proved you wrong. If you honestly expect people to not get mad when you call them a faggot then you're a giant fucking faggot. Stop caring what other people think you massive fucking pussy.
>>28765270
>tfw you became a web developer just a few years too late to hit the jackpot
FUCK
>>28765575
At least devs didn't use fucking dubstep or some other shit to market their games and use as ingame music.
Gen 8 has been pretty bad so far. Lackluster hardware upgrade and almost no goo games and we're almost 3 years into the cycle. There's like 4 games to look forward to, Persona 5, KH3, FFXV and The last guardian. Granted they're good games, but it took so much time for them.
Last year we got what MGSV and a bunch of other AAA shit that turned out to be a massive disappointment
hopefully Nippon saves this soon
>>28764394
rollio roolio r--lio
>>28765611
>Stop caring what other people think you massive fucking pussy
The whole point is that it's even an issue in the first place, nigger. Sure on /r9k/ you're anonymous and can say whatever you want and suffer no repercussions, but on other sites with usernames you do. That's the point I was making, that every other site besides 4chan is complete shit and even this place is turning worse and worse every single year.
>>28764394
>How did it get so bad...
I know all these feels.
here's a run down
>every media shit is controlled by the kikes
>women eat the shit up
>elect pro marxist and pro immigration parties
>more degenerates enter the countries
>demography will change massively
>more crimes
>making them breed with natives (the most horrifying thought, pls ffs make it stop)
>rubikon value in Germany reached soon
>20-35 year old native german a minority in their own country by 2020
>demography will become brown as shit and by brown I don't mean nazi-brown.
>one step closer to the one world government
>degenerates only care about globalist schemes
>EU still not disbanded
>Trump still has to win US elections
>Social Media made people more stupid
>especially women
>now everybody is cucked
also, fuck all the lefties on this board. you don't know how much damage you cause, you pathetic cucked assholes. you'll wake up in a living nightmare soon enough, you rotten niggercum-guzzlers.
>>28765700
Are you completely retarded? Calling someone a nigger has been looked down upon for literally decades. Calling somebody a faggot will soon be the same thing. If you even have to ask why that is then you are completely pants on head autistic. I still say faggot and nigger around my extremely close friends, but I would never say it to someone I hardly knew face to face. Thats just basic social standards. Sorry you have to try and be kind and respectful to others. On the internet though, where you are anonymous and hiding behind a screen name you can do whatever the fuck you want.
Nothing has changed.
>>28765398
Not quite true. Even from an outside perspective everything has changed dramatically in the last 8 or so years. People are addicted to their phones and social media. Community is more desolate than ever. People are less happy than ever, even in first-world countries. Music industry has been destroyed to pure degeneracy. Food has become worse and worse quality.
Also, what we're getting at with the internet and entertainment is that its become degenerate. Look at this >>28765270, the internet has changed dramatically. Where it was once a comfy, expansive, exciting place like a huge unexplored part of earth that we had only just began treading on, it's now an island that's been fully mapped out, raped and pillaged by degeneracy. It's lost it's organic, magical essence.
This is a HUGE fucking shift that's been occurring for the last few years, and we're now currently in one of the shittest times to be alive, despite being technologically "advanced"
>>28765791
+1 that guy is retarded
>>28765815
Do you think that the organic magical essence is gone now simply because you have been here for a majority of your life? Do you think a person, lets say a child, with no prior knowledge of the internet today would go online for the first time and not experience that magical essence? You've only grown older, and the internet has become part of your daily routine, you know it like the back of your hand, of course it isnt exciting.
And to say that something as limitless and extensive as the internet has been fully mapped, raped and pillaged after only a few decades of existence is ignorant and incredibly stupid.
>>28765952
>Do you think a person, lets say a child, with no prior knowledge of the internet today would go online for the first time and not experience that magical essence?
I don't think they would, no. Like I said, us early internet users were experiencing the earliest exploration and development of the internet which is actually a really fucking big thing. One of the main things that the new generations WILL NOT experience in the luxury of minimised choice. We're talking netflix, youtube, social media. It's all endless content and entertainment. And what does this do? It devalues everything. Print more money, it devalues all the other money in circulation. Have 1000 ice-cream flavours to choose from as opposed to several, it devalues all other flavours.
The new generations will never get to experience things like having to go all the way to blockbuster to pick a shitty movie without it having been rated by a million people so you can pick the "best movie out there". They will never know what it's like to find a fresh, creative video on youtube before it became saturated with absolute horseshit where people are only after money.
>>28765815
>Food has become worse and worse quality
Seems pretty out of place with everything else you said. I still like tendies.
>tfw all you have to to to browse the internet is to mingle click on things
Where's the fun in it all?also I heard that Google filters out certain websites for some reason. That sucks more because it's a form of censorship
>>28766135
I see where you are coming from, and to an extent I definitely agree with you. I definitely do look back with a smile on some of those little things today.
I like it that kids today are constantly browsing their cellphones. It makes people less prone to bullying IRL and instead restricts their negative attentions to their peers.
>>28765776
yep , notice how the cucks came marching in derailing the thread. defending the sick mentallity of our daughters having orgies in school and posting it online , to blm hate groups
rip world
>>28766296
Honestly I've been trying hard to get back to that comfy place recently. I know much of it is unobtainable now, but I feel like there's still fragments that can be accessed with the right preparations. For example, play an old comfy game with zero distractions and zero other entertainment options. You'd have to make it a big task to access these other options. Say, literally sever your internet cables. Uninstall all PC games. Put your phone away in a safe storage space not in your home. That's the sort of extent you'd have to go to in order to experience old comfy feels from back in the day. And even then it wouldn't be as genuine, because at the back of your mind you'd know you have all these other options if you really desire them
>>28765791
Holy shit, someone actually has fucking sense in this site. Maybe there's hope after all.
They said there's going to be a huge apocalyptic disaster in 2012. Didn't know they were talking about my life.
>tfw my whole life has gone to shit after 2012 and it's still going downhill
Not to sound like a boomer but cellphones and social media sites like facebook/instagram really shit up everything.
>>28766503
so much this .. i though i was the only one thinking like that.
Gangnam Style became the first youtube video to reach one billion views on December 21st 2012.
The final date on the Mayan calender.
>>28764616
Man, I miss The Mars Volta, truly a great band from the 2000's that died pretty early in the 2010's.
4 years now, RIP
>>28766773
Me too, friendo. What means do you use to access /comfiness/?
>>28766780
Just checked wiki. That's seriously weird, man
>yfw the world actually did end in 2012
>yfw this is actually Hell and humanity is suffering eternal damnation for its sins
>tfw the Mayan prophecy date of 2012 was also the date that the events in the Book of Revelations begin.
>>28766918
>events in the Book of Revelations
What events?
>>28766918
>"From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of zeroes will be nine" - Nostrodamus
>>28766977
Horsemen of the apocalypse, the Anti-Christ, Armageddon, Rapture, etc.
>>28766918
I don't know much about Chrstianity, but
>the mark of the devil
>Jesus comes to Earth
IDS HABBENING, PLEASE SAVE ME JEEBUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBJ6OIGkzc
>>28764394
Yeah coincidentally I've thought that the last real good year was 2012. But that's probably just because I was 4 years younger, not as much of a raging alcohol, and still had friends around me. It's really just perspective a lot of the time.
Also how old are you, just out of curiosity? I'm 26.
Yeah the early 2010s seemed alright, but culturally in america everything seems so horrible right now.
>>28765300
No one should doubt the accuracy of this statement.
>>28766873
CANNOT REFUTE
>>28764394
When did memes become popular?
>>28767613
2008 or 2009.
>>28767659
Can you say that that was the start of the decline? Or were the memes still pretty pure back then?
>>28766135
This, famalamadingdongbell.
>>28767742
Start of the decline. By that point social media was getting pretty big and smartphones were becoming more and more common.
>>28766656
social media and instagram were two of the worst things to ever happen.
>>28767777
Sadly I don't think there's a way back from this path, but maybe with those lucky quads we'll get somewhere
>>28766873
That would explain so many things.
>>28764394
>>28767659
>>28767777
Reminder that 2007 was The Last Year.
>>28764394
2012 felt like one of those times when the world should have ended like Y2K but didn't and now we're left living in an alternate timeline where it didn't.
>>28767965
It's funny because the year 2000 was actually a far better time than now.
>>28767992
Well yes because it was part of the pre-9/11 world.
>>28764873
O-oh fuck. This picture brings some good memories.
>>28766780
>>28767021
doesnt gangam do a horse riding dance???
this is some deep x shit
>>28764394
Time has since passed too fast. The days are long but the months fly by. So the boredom, anxiety, and dissatisfaction mumble grinds agains my head hour by hour, and looking at the calendar makes things worse. It's almost June. 6 months into 2016.
>>28768345
>tfw even an anime episode, only 20 minutes long, is too long to watch and you stall it more and more until you drop a show
life suxxxx
>>28768622
see
>>28766503
This comment is not original.
The rise of smartphones and the culture of public shaming have created a miniature surveillance state. It's a bit frightening. Smartphones also allowed demographics to have much greater access to the Internet.
The Zimmerman trial allowed to for the mainstreaming of a racial discourse based on privilege theory which has since come to dominate online and youth culture.
>>28766503
we live in an era of information overload. there's plenty of articles about what you're talking about.
>tfw turning off your phone for a long time
>reading a comic/book with no distractions.
>driving with no music just joy riding
comfy
>>28768795
It's also making people crazier and more extreme. All the right-wing/left-wing political crap from real life has been dragged onto the Internet.
>>28768855
>we live in an era of information overload
You're right. And I can't tell you how much I've learned from reading things largely by becoming aware of said fact and avoiding a lot of stupid bullshit.
Most people of this modern day have the attention span of a piece of cow shit. No happiness can be found there. Going back to the basics is the way to bliss
>>28768942
The problem is that the internet has become part of real life, and each side of the political spectrum believes it to be a tool to help regulate society as they see fit. Each side has become increasingly authoritarian.
With the constant public surveillance that the smartphone allows, this is a recipe for disaster.
>>28764394
2006 was last good year
>>28769229
>The problem is that the internet has become part of real life
Exactly.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, it was an escape from all of it. Not anymore.
OP here, I just want to say I had a fun time this thread
I'll probably be leaving the thread now, maybe it'll continue, maybe not
I'm happy that so many people were interested
>>28769705
You know I was.
>>28765776
M-maybe we'll reach full circle with that one day.
>>28764394
>Anyone else think that the world did sort of end in 2012?
My world definitely ended around 2012.
2010-11 things were looking good, I was 20 and had hope. After that despair took over and I have been feeling like shit and hopeless since. People as a whole feel this way, just take a walk around a supermarket and look at people's faces. It's almost impossible to find anyone that has any optimism in their eyes, they look sad and dead inside.
Not to mention every that new movie that comes out has a character that plays a big part and that person is always apathetic and seemingly depressed. The characters in movies have less emotion and are more stoic than ever. I don't know what it is, but maybe more and more people know that they're being watched and tracked on their devices.
It feels like something's going to happen , like the earth is going to pop from the weight of humanity. It's depressing because everything has been done and can be accessed from a glowing box in seconds. You could see any type of women get defiled by a stud and one click later if you feel like it you can look up any scientific fact you desire. There's no mystery, there is no frontiers to explore anymore, the struggle to satiate your curiosity is dead.
The balance seems like it is tipping, species of amphibians and mammals don't seem significant. However maybe all species have a greater purpose than where they're located on the food chain. There might be a balance we are interfering with that might disrupt the timeline. Any species takes millions of years to form the final product. If you take out millions of years of trial and error, the timeline may be disturbed and our everyday life burdened from a global subconscious guilt.
Some people may have guilt of the world placed on them by a higher power at birth or are chosen somewhere down the line. Tormented by a global burden and focus on the ailments of humanity, they never leave, they never change. They become bitter and tested from observing normal acts like friendship and love. They're humanities punishment for upsetting the balance.
Everything went to shit as early as 2007-2008.
You're probably literal children if you think otherwise.
'07 was the year everything went to shit
it's like tatarigoroshi where we've been shifted into an alternate world where everything is crazy and makes no sense
9/11 was when everything started to go to shit to the level we're at now, society wise
Gave the US a reason to go full big brother on everyone, and gave rise to the safe space tier culture where every deserves a safe space in retaliation to the prejudice muslims faced as a result of it.
I like how the financial system is about to collapse and horrific civil wars are about to break out all over the place in murrika + yurop and my stupid fucking retarded relatives have nothing better to do than bitch about trump and pat each other on the back for being such good crypto-leftist sheeple goys.
By all means, if you want to jump off that cliff then go ahead and do it, but don't you try dragging me or my offspring with you on your way out
Stupid fucking bluepilled sheeple retards i swear lel
>>28765300
This right here is some solid truth.
But 2007 was definitely when it started to slide.
Yeah fine, let's talk about 2012. It was a strange, defining year. Everything did change. I don't know how the fuck the Mayans called it.
Is no one gonna talk about Occupy? Are we all gonna pretend it never happened? It didn't achieve its objectives, but it did change humanity's understanding of the world. People were united in one sweeping, worldwide movement. That's historically unprecedented. We all felt a comradary that spanned the globe. And then we all had our hearts broken when nothing came of it.
I stopped talking about Occupy because I owed the movement an answer I didn't yet have. I stopped because I didn't want anyone to put their lives on the line for a movement with no clearly defined objectives or plan. I'm sorry.
