>>106570192
Yeah. Zoomer here but I started using the internet in 2011 to join LEGO forums. Youtube had a 5-star rating system when I joined.

I noticed the decline myself around late 2015 to 2016. The whole Leafy/Keemstar era shit was the last hoorah for the internet as we knew it. The corpo bullshit was already creeping in well beforehand though.

I think the last GOOD year was 2014. You had a perfect synthesis of well-functioning, good corpo websites, while forums and personal sites were still everywhere. No discord. Social media was for normies and they often didn't break through the floodgates.

Even google plus was good for a little while. There was so much to do on the internet, it still had magic. It was an equilibrium between corpo and private, and it was beautiful.

There will never be another era like the FNaF golden age, Gangnam Style and What Does The Fox Say. The internet died shortly after.

Recently I've tried distancing myself from the surface web and trying to hang more around obscure websites. Completely got off discord. The old internet still exists, the dream is still alive, it's just buried by normies and AI slop.

Just gotta be positive.