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03/11/12(Sun)18:45:33 No.1719049The
earliest thing I remember were the first Habbo raids - I was here
before that, but not for very long. I don't know when those were
exactly, but I feel like that was sort of the tail end of 4chan's heyday
and the beginning of a long change to the mainstream, which became
complete shortly after the Chanology protests. I remember being amazed
that anyone would protest Scientology IRL - it was a different attitude
than I had seen on the site before, not something anyone would have done
or cared about in the past.
I feel like it was different before,
but it's hard to know how much of that is objective reality and how
much is just nostalgia. I feel like there were more humorous and
original threads, but they still weren't common and were usually drowned
out by spam and idiocy just like now.
On the plus side, there
seems to be more genuine conversation nowadays than there used to be -
maybe due to more "normal" people willing to just chat, I don't know.
There is also less sociopathic attacking of random internet people or
forums, which some might dislike but I actually think is nice.
But
now that the site is mainstream, there are also more uneducated
attitudes too. I.E. misogyny and racism in the past used to be mostly
fake for laughs, but nowadays a lot of it is real if exaggerated. More
right-wingers in general. Kind of like it used to be smart people
pretending to be retards, and as it got more popular, more genuine
retards flooded in, not knowing the difference.
TL;DR - it was
never good, but it might have been a bit better than it is now, although
maybe that's just me growing older while the average age here remains
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