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Hello guys I'm only 22 so I wasn't around for the older days of the internet but was it always this shit? I feel like every single comment section I read has the absolute worst takes no matter the subject. It's like how in fallout 4 there's the red option which is always overly aggressive and/or stupid. Every single commenter picks that option for every single topic. I legit saw someone say that you can unlock the hylian shield in majora's mask (not true) and there was a 500 response thread arguing about it even though you can just google it lol. I don't even want to get into the political side of things pretty much every comment section relates whatever is happening to some dumb conspiracy. I saw someone the other day saying that lindsey graham couldn't have died because he was too healthy and he was probably killed by israel and it had like 10k likes. Don't even get me started on the dumbass posts we get on this site there's like 5 threads about some sharty drama nonsense and one of the most active threads is some /pol/tard begging that we convert him lmao. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Was it always this bad or has something changed?

>>806144
no it was better but it wasnt the quality of the people. it was that in the older days of internet there was no smartphone, you had to use dial up, couldn't use internet and telephone at the same time so you had to browse for a limited time. using computer required some basic level of technical literacy.

>>806144
>I'm only 22
ok unc

>>806144
>I feel like every single comment section I read has the absolute worst takes no matter the subject.
Lol yeah it was always like that in comment sections on news articles and youtube videos. Maybe even worse, I just completely avoided them back in the day and just used this or that forum.
>I legit saw someone say that you can unlock the hylian shield in majora's mask (not true) and there was a 500 response thread arguing about it even though you can just google it lol.
Probably a lot more false information like that back in the day when everyone was just making their own websites and there was no centralized information websites like wikipedia or any wiki.

Honestly, if I had to describe the biggest change is all this vlogging and whatever video content because obviously none of that existed on dial-up. It would take like a few hours just to download a 4mb video. Nobody had any status because they looked cute or whatever in their instagram reels or whatever. Or people filming other people in public and posting it on the internet. It was pretty much a strictly text affair which doesn't mean the stuff in your OP wasn't already happening but this huge focus there is on pics and videos did not exist back then.

>>806144
it was always stupid, yeah, but it wasn't as bad as it is now. now, stupidity can potentially be rewarded with views and therefore attention and therefore money, so people are out here making ragebait as a genre. it then extends to virtually every aspect of discourse, especially controversial topics like politics. so, yeah, anyone could just use a search engine to figure out that you can't unlock the hylian shield in majora's mask, but the people who argue that you can are either legitimately stupid or are pretending to be stupid for the engagement.

>>806146
doof doof doof doof unc unc

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>>806146
You're (u r) appearance


>>806145
Using a smartphone requires basic technical literacy as well.

>>806147
This. Trolling was a big time thing back in those days, it was celebrated even. Nowadays it isn’t (sorta).

Trolling used to be artisanal, a savant craft of baits, people were smart and often knew not to feed. Now it's just industrial trawling, the president of the US is trolling the world everyday with the help of consultants and algorithmic armies of bots and nobody can escape it. It's historically progressive I guess though

>>806167
Trolling was never good.

Everything was better back in the day. Too bad you will never get to experience it.

>>806170
Boomers and Gen Xers say life was better before the Internet.
Back in the 2000s, people said that things were better before Y2K

Op, you should go on Reddit, NewGeounds, or YouTube and look up old posts/videos on those sites and read the comment sections on there. You will see how vitriolic they were back then as well

>boomers
>children
>bots
>indians
The 4 horsemen of the webpocalypse

>>806144
In the early to mid 2000s 75% of posters were libertarian suburbanites, with a sprinkle of progressive atheist libs. So better in some ways, worse in others.

I think it’s mostly the fault of algorithms that encourage aggressive behavior.

>>806195
Have you ever been on HAM radio in the old days?

>>806176
Most faux pas online is more prime age adults (eighteen thru forty-five) than any actual boomers or children

Also, Indians are a minority compared to most of the dramas being made by the Anglosphere or their socioethnogeographic associates.

As for bots?
Idk. I suspect alot of accusations of “bot” are really just “opinions I don’t like”

>>806177
Posters or Internet browsing patrons in general?


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