Your opinion of the 2000s?

>>81703859 (OP)
music subcultures were cool but everything else was pretty horrible

>>81703903
Pretty much this. Movies were better too, since Disney didn't own literally everything.

>>81703859 (OP)
The best time to grow up as a teenager. SmartPhones weren't as good as they are now but you could still text each other. MySpace was pretty based, way better than Facebook. No adverts and you could even edit HTML/CSS so that you could personalise your page. It was a time when most people still went out and hung out at skate parks (I did with friends) and the internet hadn't taken over society yet. It was also a time when MMORPGs were a big thing and MMOs like WoW back in 2004 and 2005 were real big things. Also there was no political stance behind things. If someone made a game or had a sexy lady in a game, it was just because they wanted to. It wasn't to own the chuds or whatever. The music and media was still very creative back then too.

>>81703859 (OP)
Unpopular opinion, but here goes. The 2000s was probably peak psychopathy in America, and I don't even think it had anything to do with 9/11. I mean, people were EVIL and got away with heinous shit. Everyone likes to assume that the period before social media was less stressful and you could be more open with your peers, but it was the opposite. Entire families would tear themselves apart over stupid drama, you'd get insulted and bullied and have zero recourse. In spite of what /pol/ would claim, a school full of whites could (and arguably still is) just as cutthroat as being around nothing but savages. Worst of all though was the clear social totem pole. Status was inarguable, and unlike today where a loser could conceivably still have a decent chance at being friends with people above his league, in the 2000s that shit just did not fly.

Also, PC gaming was a meme. Barely anyone did it, and those who did were rightfully mocked as being human garbage.

>>81703932
>Also there was no political stance behind things
THE GOOD OLE DAYS AFTER 9/11

>>81703859 (OP)
It was OK. I went to high school from 2001 through 2005 and college after that until 2009.
The 90s were of course much better than the 2000s. But for me at least the 2000s had the advantage of being a time where I got my dick sucked by cute teen girls.

>>81703859 (OP)
The 90s were better.

>>81703932
The internet mostly consisting of smaller niche communities was nicer too IMO, rathet than everyone being on the same massive platform. You could be a weirdo hanging out with other similar weirdos and not get harassed by a bunch of normies with weak stomachs.

>>81704056
The internet was 100% better but there were still weirdo mods who were power hungry freaks on PHP boards.

In retrospect the Anti-American sentiment of the early 2000s was fucking pathetic and hypocritical. "Dumb" Americans were smarter than most of the countries criticizing them for everything.

>>81704065
True, but you could just go and make your own board with blackjack and hookers.

>>81703859 (OP)
Pros
>Zoomers didn't exist
>music was better overall
>housing market was cheaper
grew up in a huge house that would be a millions of dollars now
>sjws didn't exist
>liberals were reasonable nice people
they weren't these super offended types
>most people weren't politically involved

Cons
>actually had to buy media until 02-03'
I downloaded a shit ton of books that would have cost me hundreds of dollars back then.
>at the mercy of network TV for entertainment
>anime was hard to find and were like $29.99 a vid
I watch anime/read manga on the daily when that would have been impossible in 00-01, I remember I only watched a few 24 episode ones till I discovered limewire because my parents had me on an allowance system

>bush was a dumb fuck
>information wasn't as easy to come across as it is now
Right now I could look up a tutorial on how to make special effects in UE5, or Japanese study guides. We actually had to buy books on that shit up until 03' for basic stuff and 15-19' for really complex 3D stuff
>tube TVs burned the eyes
everyone forgets that
>No GPS
>Had to deal with the people in your immediate vicinity
>conservatives were fucking batshit INSANE
book burning and bible thumping is the norm
luckily I lived in a blue state and a upper middle class town

>>81703971
>It was OK. I went to high school from 2001 through 2005 and college after that until 2009.

holyshit, me too....

>But for me at least the 2000s had the advantage of being a time where I got my dick sucked by cute teen girls.
It was way easier to get laid, some folks were fucking on the first day first day of college.

>>81703859 (OP)
Girls were cuter and less fat and mentally ill, the music was cringe but in hindsight not that bad.

>>81703859 (OP)
>Your opinion of the 2000s?
Googoo gaagaa

teenagers online 20 years ago vs teenagers online now. i have thoughts on this already, but i want to hear from other people without sharing what i think. if you're old enough to have regularly held usership on here in the 00s or if the notion of young people online now vs a couple decades ago, do you find people in this age group to probably have more differences than not, a lot alike generally, somewhere inbetween?

>>81704255
There was myspace and AIM and they T4Lk3cl l1I{3 7l-l15 xX and there was hardly any censorship and no one was being encouraged to troon out by the status quo

>>81704255
I fucking hate teenagers today. If I was a teenager today I'd hate them as well. They are very different from teenagers of the 2000s

Everything was fucked up already IT'S OVER

>>81704255
Teenagers back then were smart enough to stay out of adult spaces (or at the very least lie about their age). Nowadays, minors will jump at the opportunity to stick their noses where they son't belong.

>>81703951
>a school full of whites
>in the 2000s
lmao good one anon

>>81704353
Not that anon, but my high school was almost entirely white back during the early 2000s when I was there.
We had one asian kid and one black kid, and then like 300 white kids, for my grade specifically.

>>81703951
Yeah, the economy was better, but I remember my siblings just being evil and vile people. They would muck you every day, nonstop, and it could be based on something you said when you were 2 years old. You could ask them nicely to stop, and they never would. My mother would say it's just the pecking order and not do anything about it. My dad always treated me like shit although he treated everyone like shit. And one time I asked him to treat me with respect, and he said, "For what?" Like fuck man maybe becouse I am a human being

Teachers also loved to get in on the bullying. I got bullied a few times by peers but solved it with voilance becouse the teachers never do jack shit until after you defend yourself then you and the bully both get sent home. I never got detention for most of my schooling career; it was mostly suspensions, and it was for really small stuff. I guess the school couldn't be bothered to do detentions. Better to make me lose several weeks worth of education throughout my schooling career than be sent to detention

Also, they had really evil reality TV shows back then. They had one where they took a bunch of people who were bad at singing and tricked them into thinking they where going to win a singing competition and even got a stadium of hundreds if not thousands of people to applaud their performance (The audience played along because the producers told them these people were dying of cancer and it was a Make-A-Wish type deal)

There was this other show where they would take pretty women and not let them look at a mirror for weeks and then make them get plastic surgery and then get them to compete with each other in a beauty contest. Like, yeah, they wanted the surgeries, but the way the show did it was just cruel

Also the shitty influancer culture didn't just pop out of no where they had tv shows about "mooks" and "mid drift sluts". They programmed teens to behave this way. Men act like assholes in public and woman act like whores

>>81704353
School was 90% white and even the minorities acted white, there was no divisive identity politics yet even after Obama got in the first time. It was great.

>>81704319
yeah i think that i hate teenagers in general today and back then there was a similar teenager affinity non centricity. i think thats an ok term for it. much smaller pool of users, i think when i started coming here there was like 5-10k users total. i wouldnt change anything about my experiences in this regard but if i grew up today at that age i probably wouldnt seek out this place honestly and i dont think the type of young person who typically ends up being a user at this site today would have been popular here back then. i think they often might have found it un noteworthy and boring frankly

>>81704296
that sounds very child like i have to hand it to you

>>81704326
yeah i guess most people who ended up here back then wouldnt have been doing it as a venture of what was typical socializing and communication, even online, for the times. i think as far as intelligence goes, id assume people are more or less the same now as they were back then including teenagers. this place changes so much so rapidly, all of the time, constantly though, that people who like go to jail for example and come back years later (weirdly common, ikr) are like wtf happened to this place, because theres such a rate of change here that even a hardcore user of yesterday might not be acquainted with

anyway you guys are all complete fucking faggots and i hate you - and i mean that lovingly

>>81704454
4chan was still fringe and only total nerds knew about it. they had mudkipz, silly raids, the racism was shock jock ironic even when /new/ existed and the stormfags started showing up. Poole actually communicated with the community and it wasn't a complete glowie honeypot just an edgy website.

>>81703951
>The 2000s was probably peak psychopathy in America
I would rank both the 80s and the 2020s as substantially more psychopathic than the 2000s.
The 2000s were pretty mild. George W. Bush was the token "evil" guy of that timeframe and he's actually pretty decent and didn't behave all that immorally as far as Presidents go. Compared to Trump orchestrating mass layoffs and sending people to El Salvador mega prison Bush is like a saint.
People were more on edge over terrorism, and it was a darker time than the 90s, but I didn't see all that much psychopathy happening when I was in high school in the early 2000s. It's really now where I see a lot of psychopathy and people just openly being evil in ways I wasn't seeing 20 years ago.

>>81704454
>anyway you guys are all complete fucking faggots and i hate you - and i mean that lovingly
Go fuck yourself <3

>>81704454
Not child-like per se, but more simple. There wasn't really any agenda or psyops being run yet google, facebook etc. was just getting a foothold as a simple service.

>>81704565
oh im not uncertain about it. yeah i still think what i said

>>81704611
You're right though. Adults were mostly aloof boomers who still read newspapers and believed that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons.

>>81703859 (OP)
it was the last era before society melted into a collective goop. yeah yeah you could say the early 2010s had some sort of identity but after that humanity pretty much died and the life left everyones eyes as they fixed them on screens. when most people's experiances came from real life instead of social media.

i am not even a 'screen is le bad' type guy but computers are NOT for normies. only i should be addicted to my computer.

>>81704680
i know youre probably a person whose brain hasnt finished growing in the consideration i was giving when i first considered that

>>81703859 (OP)
They were alright but you can tell everything was beginning to turn to shit. The 90s were better.

>>81704802
You know of course that the prospect of a hypersonic landing on your location has grown tenfold in the wake of this audacious strategy.

>>81704893
yeah everyone knows that

>>81704899
Better start digging then. History is not on your side.

>>81703859 (OP)
I hated emos for being faggots wearing women's pants.
Now kids are actually trannies.

>>81704007
>meet old lady who asked if I saw this movie
>say I've only seen parts on tv
>she starts acting like she's superior because she's seen it
Was a really weird interaction.

>>81703859 (OP)
shes so cute. god i wish i had a gf who looked like that

>>81704931
*transvestites.
actual trannies are and always will be rare. men wearing women's clothes is only because of depravity. any man who makes being a 'femboy' or whatever his personality is just brainwashed.

>>81704255
i would say the teenagers of new are much different. they are generally less creative, more argumentative, and have this strange compulsion for wanting to be the same as their peers. they don't seek to be unique or different in any way. it's strange.

>>81704499
>muh mass layoffs of useless government employees
>muh el salvador prisons

Totally worse than starting a war with Afghanistan and Iraq and killing hundreds of thousands.

>>81703903
>Music subcultures were cool
I miss this like you wouldn't believe bro.
>everything else was horrible
you are so wrong it's not even funny
>Streaming wasn't a thing and Hollywood video would let you have unlimited rentals for $20 a month with the only exception being new releases.
>Torrenting made everything available and you kept your data
>No smartphones so people didnt doom scroll and stare at phones non stop
>People still met up an hung out
>Social media was in its infancy and fun
>internet wasn't consolidated to a hand full of sites.
it was all the fun of the modern internet era with all the fun of the past pre internet era

>>81704942
>she starts acting like she's superior because she's seen it
because she was

>>81704319
>They are very different from teenagers of the 2000s
tell me how

less gay than now but still pretty fucking gay

>>81705706
Yes, it's worse. The wars were against fundamentalist Islamic lunatics and weren't done out of spite to screw with people the way the layoffs and El Salavador mega prison crap was done.

Gamers were winning

>>81705788
Fuck off Bill Kristol.

>>81704218
I wanted to address the cons
>actually had to buy media until 02-03
Videogames, books, and movies weren't easily available But music was free and retro games (even though it was just SNES and Sega) were there.
>at the mercy of network TV for entertainment
Had its advantages and disadvantages, cause people talked about good tv and when nothing was on you found other stuff to do.
>anime was hard to find and were like $29.99 a vid
Yeah, this sucked. The only plus was conventions were a blast and had real fans and not thots selling cosplay or normies.
>bush was a dumb fuck
Everyone was kinda united on hating him though and people still haven't figured out all presidents after were just the same shit but with different optics
>information wasn't as easy to come across as it is now
It was easy shortly after this period but went to shit again cause of AI. It is equally as bad then as it is now.
>No GPS
No, it was around but super expensive. However Mapquest was a life saver and worked well so long as construction didn't fuck the route
>Had to deal with the people in your immediate vicinity
I kinda miss that
>conservatives were fucking batshit INSANE
They still are, just Liberals became equally as obnoxious

I just miss when people had personalities, senses of humor, and were not hypersensitive faggots who throw each other away over the tinniest things.

>>81703859 (OP)
I was eight to seventeen years old, I had a good childhood, but my school experience from middle school through highschool sucked ass and I was miserable most of the time.
It's hard to look at that time period objectively because of this, I think that some of the 00's were good, no identity politics shit being shoved down your throat 24/7, niggers and normalfags hadn't yet ruined the internet with their smartphones. I think that the occupy shit(or the power's that be reaction to it) was a big start to the destruction of the decade, even moreso than the GWOT.
I powered out of my teenage misery as an adult and I am a pretty happy and fulfilled person these days so I judge the following decade and a half less harshly.
I think kids these days have it even harder with social media bullshit, I am glad I grew up when I did, as hard as it was sometimes.

Smartphones ruined the fucking Internet, 99% of third worlders wouldn't have access to the web without them.