This was life - /r9k/ (#81764643) [Archived: 468 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:40:51 AM No.81764643
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When this era ended, so did my life.

Let me go back.
I don't understand this new era where people screech about genders and watch 5-second tiktak videos
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:43:25 AM No.81764657
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everything was so much better

now there's nothing fun in the world
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:47:22 AM No.81764672
>>81764643 (OP)
Time's changed, old man.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:51:38 AM No.81764681
>>81764643 (OP)
you can still watch this stuff and post about it either on /a/ or one of the many altchans for people like you
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:55:16 AM No.81764691
>>81764672
>be 5 years younger
>"haha ur fuckin OLD"
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:56:17 AM No.81764695
>>81764681
>you can still watch this stuff and post about it either on /a/ or one of the many altchans for people like you

It's nut the same. The Internet has changed. Its people have changed
People seem more stressed, less attentive, lazy, boring etc.
We no longer have epic raids etc. because people are just "meh gimme dopamine"
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:14:05 AM No.81764769
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>>81764643 (OP)
>CONSOOM GOYIM
>YOU SHOULD BE WISTFUL FOR COOL PRODUCT. OLD PRODUCT BYAD NOW
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:24:53 AM No.81764819
>Love Hina
>good
Pick one. It's only highly regarded back then because it was babby's first harem.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:27:27 AM No.81764825
>>81764643 (OP)
I should watch all of these animes
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:28:50 AM No.81764831
>>81764819
The point is that I watched it as a 12-year-old so it instantly takes me back to the good times liek a time machine
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:31:22 AM No.81764844
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All I see on there is overrated shit like pic related.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:37:56 AM No.81764876
>>81764831
>being magically castrated takes you back to the good times
poor lad
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 11:40:16 AM No.81764885
>>81764691
unc nowdays be coping fr fr.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:31:32 PM No.81765134
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>>81764885
Go watch skibidi toilet ai slop lil shit, we're always gonna post about 2000s anime and games
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:43:17 PM No.81765209
>>81764643 (OP)
vapid consumerist boomers will never not be funny.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:49:19 PM No.81765250
>>81765209
>>81765209
>Feh, you enjoyed something? What are you some kind of consumer?

>I read nothing, I watch nothing, I experience nothing and it makes me into a miserable complainer with no culture and no way to relate to others.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:54:06 PM No.81765276
>>81765250
>boomer being sarcastic
based.
>mentioning relatability and culture after defending consumerism and saying your life was defined by childrens cartoons from a foreign country
based
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:59:17 PM No.81765311
wow your life was fucking boring mate
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:11:15 PM No.81765393
>>81765276
Let me define my life by moral absolutism, victim[hood] culture and misguided extremism under the guise of social justice that I've been indoctrinated with by blackrock since the tender age of 7 instead.
W tiktok
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:12:36 PM No.81765401
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>>81764643 (OP)
You define eras of your life by what cartoons were on? That's kind of sad.

>>81765250
When I think back on eras of my life I think of the places I went, the people I knew and the things I was doing. I don't think about what was on TV at the time.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:14:27 PM No.81765415
>>81764643 (OP)
>vgh mvh frvtiger kino
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:17:36 PM No.81765432
>>81765393
>there was no moral grandstanding or extremism in the 2000s
Interesting theory, boomermaxxer, but even an extremist on tiktok is more interesting than "i watched cartoons a long time ago and then i stopped liking things"
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:23:40 PM No.81765478
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>>81765401
>I think of the places I went, the people I knew and the things I was doing
Those are unique to you and the few people you shared them with. If OP posted pictures of people you don't know and places you don't recognize, who would care?

Everyone online in the 2000s knows what All Your Base are Belong to Us is. It was part of our culture and as such we can relate to the experience of seeing and sharing it. OP's post is about nostalgia and an era many of us shared together.

You don't have to like anime, you can be against consumerism (how do you avoid that in this world?), but those are kino fucking anime and I'm sorry you didn't get to experience them when they were new and have to watch Streamers and Skibidi toilets instead.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:33:08 PM No.81765572
>>81765478
there's a hint in your own post about what the problem is, buckeroo. the OP, by his own admission, made the wrong choices in life. he hasn't moved on from just watching childrens cartoons and knowing that other strangers watch the same cartoons. he hasn't grown up with his own generation. it's not just nostalgiamaxxing or seeking validation, he's explicitly saying that he is preoccupied with current childrens/teens trends and social media and he feels dead/uncomfortable (as he should, with such a retarded lifestyle)
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:33:59 PM No.81765577
>>81765432
>5% of bad thing was there 20 years ago, too, so it means nothing changed
There's been no rise in groupthink extremism, echo chambers and ideological policing, riiiiight anon?
We didn't talk about what has more entertainment value, but what we're collectively shaped by and focus on to create subcultures people can feel at home and find meaning in, you illiterate retard.
I'm also a zoomer and agree that he's being overly one-sided, but cultural depth has definitely shrunk.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:38:32 PM No.81765603
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>>81764643 (OP)
>finished 1500 flash games for 7years
i was gamer at that time
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:39:47 PM No.81765612
>>81764643 (OP)
I really miss the innocent wonder I felt when I was a kid discovering new things. Everything was mysterious. Everything was captivating. I had no idea how media was made. It was like entire worlds spawning out of thin air, absorbing me. Now I can't read a book or watch a cartoon without feeling jaded and cynical. I hate being old.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:41:56 PM No.81765627
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>>81765478
>If OP posted pictures of people you don't know and places you don't recognize, who would care?
If OP had posted about going to meet emo girls at Blockbuster in the mall, or talked about going to a My Chemical Romance concert with his friends after hearing them on MySpace then I would have shared in his nostalgia for the early 2000s. Instead he posted a wall of stills from old anime. Who fucking cares about old anime? You can still watch that shit today.

>but those are kino fucking anime and I'm sorry you didn't get to experience them when they were new and have to watch Streamers and Skibidi toilets instead.
I didn't watch those girlish cartoons then and I don't watch streamers now. A couple of years ago I had to google "Skibidi Toilet" to find out what it was, and needless to say I've never watched it. You sound like a basement dwelling shut-in who has been in isolation for so long you can't even conceive of people having memories that aren't about what anime they were watching twenty years ago. As I said, that's kind of sad.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:42:06 PM No.81765628
>>81765572
>weeb website
>muh cartoons

It's like you're an alien from another planet that doesn't understand the ways of the humans. Why do you think OP was browsing Newgrounds in 2003 instead out being outside tossing footballs and whooping? Why do you think he's still here?

Why are you here? What connection do you have to 4chan?
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:44:24 PM No.81765644
>>81765577
1. you can make many brainrot propaganda arguments about "things get worse every generation XDDDD" that are valid in some way, but you have to be deeply retarded to believe that groupthink extremism has become more prevalent. If anything, there is a significant problem of people becoming more atomized and divided in the west over slightly differing ideologies and lifestyles.

2. you only need one subculture. if OP fits in with other boomers who liked ancient cartoons, why does he need to worry about tiktok? his relationships should be his whole world and life, and yet he is trying to appeal to zoomers. why is that?

3. the 18 year old THINKER meme is worthless in this context. nobody gives a fuck about what social commentary you stumbled into while being half awake. this thread is about one consumerist cuck who is individually struggling. there are tons of boomers who moved on from cartoons or ice cream or whatever and have fulfilling lives, and whether or not you can measure "cultural depth", the young people of today will also branch out into dipshits, normies, and somewhere in between. it doesn't matter if there are 5 different versions of goth culture or 2 in the world, we're talking about basic self awareness and the consequences of consumerism.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:46:09 PM No.81765654
>>81764643 (OP)
Newgrounds is still somewhat active and pretty good right now
It remains one of the few comforting things on the internet right now
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:46:59 PM No.81765661
>>81765627
>I don't watch them cartoonies, I'm a tough manly man what came down to 4chan to learn how to chop wood and ride motorcycles
Why you feel you have to put up this false front on a cynical weeb website is the sad thing. Did you accidentally swipe to 4chan on your phone while you were trying to toss a baseball to your bros? Blow it out your ass.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:49:06 PM No.81765671
>>81765628
He also has myspace on there which was normal.
>b-b-b-but what about you!
I see the mistakes OP made, and I'm saying they are mistakes.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:50:49 PM No.81765681
>>81765661
>this website is only for people who hate their life!
change your lifestyle then. stop coming here.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:13:55 PM No.81765832
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>>81765661
>Why you feel you have to put up this false front
lol, saying I don't care about animes from 20 years ago is "putting on a false front"? You're even lamer than I thought, and as I said you literally can't imagine anyone having nostalgia for anything other that what cartoons were on TV when they were young. Go rearrange the waifu figurines on your shelf you sad faggot.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:58:45 PM No.81766056
>>81765644
Politically motivated crimes have been on a constant rise since 2001, what are you even saying. They more than doubled in germany.
America doesn't track crimes with political motivation, but racial perceptions have been steadily getting worse (white-black from 72% in 2001-13 to 44% in 2022) and political shifting towards extremes along with sharp distrust for the opposing group have also risen (1st went from 39% moderates in 1994 to 27% in 2017 ans the 2nd one went from 17% dislike in 1994 to 55% in 2020, if you look at pew research).
Groupthink extremism and political divide go hand in hand, so I don't know why you even disagree with me.

2.
He's not lamenting about not having a subculture to fit into, he's lamenting about the lack of cohesive culture across the board. You don't have to argue in bad faith and pretend like millions of others of all ages feel that culture in general along with their subcultures have been diluted through capitalism and its' naturally fast pace to maximize attention.
And who are you to decide what his life should be about? I'm not saying that relationships aren't important and fulfilling to many, but they don't hold the same value for everyone.
Many essential or culturally significant things we have today wouldn't be here if people focused more on their relationships instead of their work and contributions towards their fields (nietzsche, kafka, kant, wittgenstein, schopenhauer, newton, tesla, curie, bach, beethoven, einstein and many more). Not to say everyone will create greatness, but some people simply value pursuit and art more than their social life.

3. I clarified my age range because you used the term boomermaxxer, retard.
Again, you're misrepresenting the point. He had plenty of social media and social activities of that time in the upper third of the picture, you just boil it down to consumerism for convenience's sake.
I don't have more space to argue, but you'll figure the rest out.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 5:12:11 PM No.81767142
>>81765478
The thing that gets me about gen z and skibidi toilet is these little shits probably don't even know what gmod is.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:31:36 PM No.81767862
>>81766056
>groupthink and political diversity go hand in hand
retard.
>muh capitalism
there are more of you retards today than there were 20 years ago. you should feel quite comfy about the current culture. the OP is the literal exact opposite, he is a pure consumeristic piece of shit whose life and identity was tied to a handful of cartoon brands during his formative years.
>you'll figure
I don't need to figure. The OP is the one who seems to have a problem. It's easy to understand why if you have a functioning brain. We have been talking about the consequences of that behavior for a very long time.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:54:42 PM No.81768058
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>>81764643 (OP)
OP, get ready for your thread to be derailed by newfag leftists here to smash what they perceive to be "fascist coded messages", such as nostalgia for times when things were literally better.
Many metrics that are good about a country has dipped while many bad metrics have spiked. It was objectively and subjectively a better time. But people were to notice that, it would put leftist "progress" in a negative light and that drives them insane because they're all about optics and think in terms of public percpeption which is why are their tactics are heavily social and propeganda based.
Everything was objectively better when it could be enjoyed for its own sake and didn't have leftists raiding every corner and tone policing every single thing all of the time.

When every little thing has to be feelings compliant, nothing is and everything sucks for everyone. And the leftists aren't even happy, they're still angry and saying more needs to be done. People are collectively realizing that they won't stop on their own, they have to be stopped.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:17:18 PM No.81768206
>>81767862
Almost managed to read what I wrote, you'll get there.
>there are more of you blabla
I'm not a leftist, you dysgenic faggot, I just dislike globalism, personalized content recommendation algorithms and things of such nature for obvious reasons
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:14:27 PM No.81768828
>>81765612
>I really miss the innocent wonder I felt when I was a kid discovering new things. Everything was mysterious. Everything was captivating

This.
Just saving a file felt amazing. Now media is worthless.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:32:06 PM No.81769041
>>81768206
>i just am incapable of having a life outside of tiktok and facebook for obvious reasons
based retard.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:41:41 PM No.81769157
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>>81764643 (OP)
>moe slop
at least add Lucky Star there