>> 20/08/13(Thu)12:46:35am No. 2055 Well first of all, ~10 years ago was a REALLY shitty time in imageboard and internet history, even compared to today That's when 4chan had firmly cemented itself as the place for underageb& kids to hang out, the internet became overrun with ragecomics, horrendously shitty image macros, dumb ">MFW greentext" crap everywhere, post number roulettes and worthless digit checking, endless regurgitations of 2008 crap like rickroll, trollface, advice dog (and the near endless advice dog clones), LOLcats and other memes ruined by non-internet people who didn't get the joke (thanks icanhascheezburger, FAILblog, KYM, etc), mass commercialization of internet culture and "meme merchandise" - it was just fucking depressing to watch it all go to shit I'm MUCH more of a fan of the early to mid 2000s internet culture, which has largely remained untainted, and still brings a smile to my face whenever I see it>soyjacks, wojacks, or other rule 8 stuff Mostly because that shit was only relevant to the "feels posting" fags who ruined /r9k/ (and subsequently the rest of 4chan) when it started, and then it DIED years ago already And it didn't die through the natural passage of time or through being forgotten like a lot of the stuff posted here, but instead it had the same thing happen to it that happened to the 2008-2012 crap I mentioned before - it was catapult into the mainstream, coopted by various outsider groups (in this case political ones), and has since been distorted into something very foreign to the types of places it originated from in the first place What remains of it today (which is effectively just "trollface iteration #2364") is a series of petty and angry propaganda attempts, that are about on the same level as the most ridiculous WW2 propaganda posters, and represent one of the biggest forms of aids spreading through imageboards of the last several years SHIT SUX /l、 it's true!(゚、 。 7 l、 ~ヽ じしf_, )ノ