i feel like the internet isn't the same as it was before the COVID lockdown shenanigans

idk if it is just me, but i feel like every internet community has slowly become some sort of retarded post-ironic circlejerk or some shit. it just feels so boring. i miss how things were prior to 2020

am i the only one feeling this?

>people are starting to feel nostalgic for the Internet in 2019
Jesus Christ

>>81885336 (OP)
>am i the only one feeling this?
No, but most of us gave up.
The internet isn't fixable, we will never go back.
Best you can do is leave it and do stuff irl.
Go for a hike or whatever, and if youre lucky, you might meet great people.

Good luck.

>>81885424
>you might meet great people.
Lol, lmao, rofl even.

>>81885414
lmao

but seriously, it DOES feel like 2019 was an entirely different period for the internet, right? not just me?

>>81885424
i am never going outside, i was born to lurk 4chan boards

i miss when 4chan was le scary evil hacker that everyone was afraid of. things have changed so much, it feels so weird in hindsight

>>81885434
no, maybe 2015

>>81885434
The Internet has just generally been becoming more shit since its inception. 2019 was in fact better, but you're comparing normal shit to diarrhea. The Internet is too mainstream, monetized, and corporate. It was at its best when it was just nerdy white guys discussing and creating things solely out of passion

>>81885336 (OP)
>i2p
>neocities/neokitties/whatever other forks exist
>browsing the web from the frogfind search engine with javascript disabled
there are still ways to get the old internet experience.

>>81885336 (OP)
I miss the old internet too

>>81885336 (OP)
Yeah. I can't believe I'm about to say this but I genuinely miss the retarded meme era like the do u know da way and somebody toucha my spaghett memes. I had so much fun watching pewdiepie during that time. Simpler times.

The internet is shit since at least 2010.

>>81885414
like it or not, covid made things considerably worse. doesnt mean they werent getting less enjoyable before, but its practically irredeemable now, you literally have organisations like protoweb making their own standalone internet to combat it.

>>81885336 (OP)
I remember seeing posters like this in high school in the early-mid 10s. They put me off from trying anime out because of how geeky and weird it and the people in the club felt. I didn't get into anime until my senior year and I didn't dare let anyone know. I miss when liking anime got you made fun of

>>81885543
so fucking real, man. i miss the retarded MLG compilations and let's play videos. the internet feels so commercialized and corporate compared to back then.

>>81885533
the people you find on the internet aren't the same, i think that's what bothers me the most.

>>81885455
>i miss when 4chan was le scary evil hacker that everyone was afraid of
It never was
>>81885432
I said "might", but still, the average person irl is a normie but the average internet user is even worse.

>>81885336 (OP)
Same, but I don't miss being outside and be surrounded by normalfaggots that hate anime (in my country, it never got normalfag-friendly until 2020; now every normalfaggot goes to the movie theatre to watch Demon Slayer movies).

>>81885609
>let's play videos
That was already shit. Youtube killed the internet as much as, if not more than, social media

>>81885649
i miss that doebeit, the culture of anime fans was much different and more tight-knit back then and you didnt have morons arguing about things like fanservice being immoral or things like that. grim.

>old internet nostalgia
>people reminiscing about fucking 2019, spaghett, mlg memes
I was gonna come here and say yeah I totally miss newgrounds and stickman videos and flash games and what is love and rage comics but apparently I'm getting old enough to just need to kill myself instead

>>81885336 (OP)
the internet isnt the same since like 2010. you missed the best time its over.

>>81885719
They are zoomers soon they will become majority on this place.

>>81885424
>Best you can do is leave it and do stuff irl.
no matter how horrible the internet gets. There will always be small unknown places for like minded people to bond. IRL will always be as horrible as it was yesterday and the day before. KYS!

>>81885649
>Same, but I don't miss being outside and be surrounded by normalfaggots that hate anime (in my country, it never got normalfag-friendly until 2020; now every normalfaggot goes to the movie theatre to watch Demon Slayer movies).
The anime fan community was way better when people were bullied for liking it - the social stigma served as a filter, which kept normiegroids out.
Now that normalfags got their grubby hands on anime, fandoms are filled with moralfaggot crusades over tropes fundamental to anime and bullying people who don't conform.
Desu this can be said for the internet in general

>>81885609
Yep exactly. Now it's all corpos, post-post-post-irony and boring tiktok influencer bullshit.

I miss trolling Habbo Hotel and Gaia Online

>>81885336 (OP)
>before the COVID lockdown shenanigans
fuckingzoomer