Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:45:02 PM
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>>81824138
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There wasn't so much of the weird power games that there are now on the internet. Not saying there was never any drama, flame wars, or other toxicity, but the internet was more like hundreds of thousands of little communities that people took pride in that were always a Google search away.
It feels like everything on the internet today is just there to destroy your self esteem, whereas the small internet communities of the 00s usually built people up and gave you many opportunities to feel better about yourself and feel like you belonged. For example, on boards dedicated to competitive video games, you might be known for being extremely good at some particular playstyle or tactic even if you weren't the best overall player on that board. Someone might respond to a post you made a month ago about an autistically specific game situation and give you some food for thought about that situation, or you might do the same on a board where you weren't a regular and then the person would actually respond a couple days later. Most of all everything just felt way less emotionally charged. Last year I joined a gaming Discord server and was appalled at how derisive the zoomers were regarding their own community. They talked as if being there was the shittiest thing in the world they could possibly be doing and that everyone was better than them and that doing anything other than talking to the people in the community would be a better use of their time. It was appalling. I see some of that here too. It's extremely bleah. I think that's the most noticeable difference. Back then you were just hanging out with your cool internet buds, and then you'd log off and just do IRL stuff or whatever. Everyone wasn't so serious and dramatic.
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There wasn't so much of the weird power games that there are now on the internet. Not saying there was never any drama, flame wars, or other toxicity, but the internet was more like hundreds of thousands of little communities that people took pride in that were always a Google search away.
It feels like everything on the internet today is just there to destroy your self esteem, whereas the small internet communities of the 00s usually built people up and gave you many opportunities to feel better about yourself and feel like you belonged. For example, on boards dedicated to competitive video games, you might be known for being extremely good at some particular playstyle or tactic even if you weren't the best overall player on that board. Someone might respond to a post you made a month ago about an autistically specific game situation and give you some food for thought about that situation, or you might do the same on a board where you weren't a regular and then the person would actually respond a couple days later. Most of all everything just felt way less emotionally charged. Last year I joined a gaming Discord server and was appalled at how derisive the zoomers were regarding their own community. They talked as if being there was the shittiest thing in the world they could possibly be doing and that everyone was better than them and that doing anything other than talking to the people in the community would be a better use of their time. It was appalling. I see some of that here too. It's extremely bleah. I think that's the most noticeable difference. Back then you were just hanging out with your cool internet buds, and then you'd log off and just do IRL stuff or whatever. Everyone wasn't so serious and dramatic.