>>510902350I'm 32 and when I was growing up I made a lot of Polish friends from CS 1.6 and CSGO; if i recall one of the last active Condition Zero Servers was Polish and I played there quite a bit. Poles used to be a lot more cool online, very recently it changed. I want to say the shift started in 2016 ironically after HoI4 made political minutia mainstream.
Poles now have become quite obnoxious. It's not uncommon to find poles sperging now that "GERMONEY IS NAZI COUNTRY WHO MUST GIVE US MONEY" while at the same time finishing the same post with "BUT THEY'RE NOT EVEN GERMAN, THEY'RE NOT EVEN WHITE!". Point is, this mindset was genuinely very uncommon online in the 2000's and early 2010's.