What do you think of the 2007 phenomenon? It's often said

>>127667546
idk, i was 8 back then

>>127667692
Ban?

>>127667546
The Halls were lit brightly then

>>127667546
I was admin of a gaming website back then and I remember how much drama there was caused by 14 year old Ron Paul tards spamming threads about how Bush is trying to end democracy and is building concentration camps. Promising to literally commit suicide if Paul didn't win. Wonder where they are now.

not sure, that was the year i got really into video games and the world shut off for me

Yarrr, you're talking about the year the Republicans lost the house to the Dems

redpill me on 2007? Besides Obama not sure what else contributed to the an hero-ing of Earth.

To be in the light is to your be seen. You miss your darkness!

>>127667842

That makes him 18 retard.

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>>127667546
Graduated high school in the Spring of '05.

This is the time period when social media was starting to take off. If memory serves it was that Fall when MySpace really took off despite it being around for a while. Before MySpace there was something called Xanga. This is when the internet really matured and the way we communicate changed forever. It was 2007 when Facebook really took off and cemented social media as permanent. It's very sad. I can remember having the feeling in '07 that something had changed. This was a separate feeling from me starting to grow up.

>>127667546
4chan was really starting to lose its "secret clubhouse" status as the amount of newfags exploded

>>127668089
You should be banned too you fucking underaged faggot.

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>>127667546
What even happened then? I was 17. I hardly remember. I do know that it was the year I joined 4chan.

>>127667842
Don't worry, no ban for him.

>>127668109
>>127668030
Obama, social media, emboldened leftists.

Fucking fuck.

>>127668109
If by "matured" you mean, "became terminal and void of anything new or interesting as forms of expression and communication became homogenized with one acceptable viewpoint" then I agree.

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>>127668109

People forget that Facebook was ONLY for college students and required a .edu email address to join

>>127667546
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjXgbpkKnKo&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iorfwcmeY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw

this is post normal

We should just hit the reset button and return to the way things were in 2006.

>>127667546
pls you do your meme research over at knowyourmeme.com

>>127667546
It actually did all go wrong for me at 2007, it's been getting shittier ever since, the memes are real.

>>127668263
I've known about 4chan since at least '06 (I was a high school freshman). Never went online until this year though because I thought the only topic discussed here was anime.

>>127667546
>lots of typhoons
>normal

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>>127668109

>>127667900
>Wonder where they are now.
here or r/td

>>127667842
2007+10=2017
8+10=18
Does that help dumbass?

yes 2007 was a year of big changes for 4chan

the old memes then had a sort of pattern and it was before chanology, protestfagging, and know your meme and shit

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Also '07 was the worst year of my life

>>127668637
I went to Newgrounds to get my pre-youtube degenerate entertainment.

>>127667546
2007 was the year that a bunch of idiots flooded CP on /b/, which (tinfoil time, but probably true) got the FBI involved and if certain pasta is to be believed, regardless of who "owns" 4chan, the servers are owned by the feds and have been monitored ever since.
Double tinfoil starts when you theorize when they went from monitoring to actively using/influencing or when other agencies got involved.
It definitely was only /b/ that changed drastically. I was on /sp/, here, and /mu/ a lot, some refugees from /b/ successful integrated, but /b/ never recovered. Now, it's like the thing has had a damn lobotomy. Other boards seemed to devolve due to suddenly hands-off modding. /sp/ especially.

>>127667546
I came to 4chan in 2006. Chanology started in 2007 or 2008 and was the first time 4chan really got a national/international spotlight and tons of cancerous newfags came in. A lot of people are comparing the_donald newfags to that time.

Then m00t changed the front page to be more user-friendly to accomodate newfags. Then people trolled TIME and made m00t #1, he gave a little speech and tons more people got exposed to 4chan. News agencies kept writing about it. It's only gotten worse as time has gone on. And last year Hillary got as close as possible to mentioning 4chan as you can without actually saying the name, in a public presidential campaign speech.

So, as much as a newfag in 2006 can say, 2007 or 2008 was the start of public exposure for 4chan. Worst thing before that was the habbo shit.

>>127667546
I'd probably agree. It went wrong when YouTube went super mainstream. I miss the days when you'd find these really neat, niche YouTubers with a comfy 500 subscribers. Back then, 500 subs actually meant something and people didn't make their livings off of the site.

Does anybody here remember DAN ELECTRONICS?
Holy fuck I miss the days before 4chan became mainstream.
I miss people like Xenon, I miss the attitude the Japanophilia, the art and soul.
It's all gone.
I just recently started coming here again after years and I can see just how much the fame has affected this place.
/v/ looks like nothing but a bother infested cesspool.
So sad.

>>127669243
DQN*

>>127669243
I just realized something.
4chan is a demon. People naming it has taken away its power.

>>127667546

2007 gave us the first, truly jaw dropping video games in terms of graphics:

Cod4: MW, Assassins' Creed, Halo 3, Bioshock, Crysis, Mass Effect, World In Conflict

Before that, the only jaw dropping stuff was 2006's TES IV Oblivion and maybe Medieval II TW

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>>127667546
2005 was the last year that felt normal to me. Not quite as innocent as pre-9.11, but still naive enough to think things would somehow go back to the way they had been before.
I lost my good job in 2006 when they consolidated and moved overseas. It's never been happy for me since, just periods of less stress or minimal despair. I'm just along for the ride at this point. I don't really have high expectations for my future anymore.
This last couple of years has been so batshit insane that I kinda hope the leftists get every god damn thing they wish for.

>>127669199
Yes, it seems like the soul of the internet has been lost to cold blooded attempts to court viewers (mostly children) to get that magical youtube/twitch revenue

>>127668328
Uh, you don't get to ban newfriends.

>>127668345
Social media was the worst thing to ever happen to the internet. Fuck cocksuckerberg.

>>127669127
>>127669189
Yeah it was 2008 when we found out that this place wasn't so anonymous after all.

>>127667546
>2007


I was in Iraq

so yea

>>127667546
i do feel that there was a paradigm shift in 2007

This song was released in 2007. Sometimes I listen to it and tear up from nostalgia. I think about the ocean and being a kid and going to water parks and not having to pay rent and have a job and still live in poverty. I had hope for the future. So many things were different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBd46BbdTfs

>>127669510
Was getting banned part of your plan?

>>127669127
/pol/ is the successor to /b/. Newfags who think /pol/ is chaotic and edgy don't even know, /pol/ is mature compared to how /b/ was.
As far as I remember, /b/ died out as a cultural powerhouse around 2010. Their old memes became reddit material and they have made almost nothing good since, just a few notable raids.

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This show came out and caused all "nerdy" hobbies to be flooded by normies and their bullshit.

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>>127667546
op your just and old fag now thats what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oHLu6HkDHY

>>127669403
:(
Pre-9/11 was God-Tier
But Pre-08 was a time when returning to God-Tier at least felt possible...

>>127667546

2007 was the year i broke up with my gf and started smoking weed

2 biggest mistakes of my life

>>127667546
2007 was the last great year, 2008 is when things went downhill senpai

>>127667546
The first iPhone was released in 2007 and plebs have had an easier time getting on the internet ever since. Hell, most people don't even own a PC anymore, they just use their (((phones))) and (((televisions))).

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>>127667546
Society focused on change
Iphone came out, were were in the future
Indie music became a major genre, non masculine themes and sounds
Big bang theory started, along with the popularization of 'nerd culture'
Cell phone usage gained traction
Social media booming

I fuck HEAVILY with the idea that things shifted in 2007.

The year that social media really took off. I mean Myspace was a thing but was pretty harmless.

Its silly to think it was a certain year. Things happened incrementally. The worst was probably from 2001-2004 when the jobs first started leaving and all sorts of new laws for "security". Then the housing crisis, great recession, etc.

Seriously the first 3/4ths of 2007 were looking bright.

>>127669199
I remember when AVGN had like 7 million views on some video in 2006 or 2007. Back then it was unheard of.
Now some videos have 1 or 2 billion views.

>>127667546
Youtube was really niche and interesting back then, not that it isn't still fun now.
I liked the response video feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNMHxqJp6A

>>127668838
Yeah, I also died, pretty sad.

>>127670040
I don't know if I completely agree with that.
As a cultural influence, then yeah, you right.
As a creative content generator, nope. Peak /b/, which I was lucky enough to see just before the grey area purge, was a constant stream of laughs, shocks, and stories.
But yeah, now it's unforgivable garbage, just a bunch of preteens looking for boobs. /b/ was always a little immature, but like I said earlier, they behave lobotomy tier now.
Same with /x/. /x/ had a really good run when it first started, just to get the creepy threads off /b/, but I don't know what happened there.

>>127669346
Why do you think rules 1 and 2 were the very first and most important rules?

>>127670228
Are you talking about Australia and why do you think that?

>>127667546
Last of studies at the university. 2006 in a lot of ways was my last happy year.

>>127668323
This is the first time I've seen you outside of a Christian thread.

I am also surprised that we are closer in age than I suspected.

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>>127667546
Graduated HS in 2007.

Social media just really started gaining popularity. Phones started to become a must have for everyone. The internet started to become something you needed.

Those were the biggest changes since then. I remember very few people had a phone at my age. Now it seems everyone 16-18 has one.

>>127667842
The american education system really does wonders

>>127667546
August 23, 2006
Never Forget.

No, for me things started to feel different around earlier this decade. I feel like that was when social media REALLY blew up and started to fuck shit up. Even though social media was around during the late 2000's, it was still in its early stages so it wasn't too bad.

>>127669592
Do you guys think facebook will ever die like myspace? Its cancer, every social interaction now is facilitated or arranged around facebook

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>>127670533
checked and kek'd

>2007
Mudkip was still a meme.

>>127670675
the world mate, its when the culture shift started

>>127670895
thanx

Easy, 2007 is when Obama started running when he wasn't even eligible and the media ignored it and let him get elected. That's when the Deepstate cucked the whole country.

>>127670979
Thanks I was confused

2007? Try 1914.

I thinking you are too young to remember 2001.

>>127670887

Sadly no.

It has become too ingrained into modern society to a degree which myspace never did. Just look at Tinder - you need to have a goddamn zogbook account just to log in.

>>127668109
>Xanga
When I was 11, I somehow found the xangas of a bunch of high school aged "bad kids" for lack of a better word. Their blogposts consisted of stealing their parent's beer and getting drunk in the woods, stealing condoms because they fucked so much, etc. Makes me wonder where they are now.

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I remember the Sidekick came out in 05 or something and then the iPhone came out in 07-08. And I swear, in the first months, amidst all of that brand-loyalty publicity whoring and people gradually getting sucked into their phones, I just remember thinking "this is going to be bad"

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>>127667842
somebody needs to ban you

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>there are people here that spammed,formed relationships, and used youtube streams

>>127671222
Dead, or dying.
The jewish run opioid crisis wiped them all out.

I think the equity markets became centrally planned around 2007. Now they are completely controlled by Central Banks. Before 2007 you could see trouble coming from equity valuations. Now those valuations are held up by governments. So it was really the year that market based valuations completely died.

>>127669243

>I miss people like Xenon

I still keep up with the guy, he lost all of his old art recently. If you have any of his old work please Email me at this obvious throwaway.

[email protected]

But yeah, when the average person here was a japanophile things were much better.

I would say Email me anyway to talk about the old days.

>>127667546
07 was the actual start of gfc imo, leading onto huge wealth consolidation and strange financial conditions.

Culturally; YouTube, fb, MySpace got rolling with the normies - I think the fulcrum moment for fb was when they made an agreement with Hotmail to auto add all contacts in fb.

This got us off msn messenger and started the great virtue signalling that later became known as (((social media)))

It was also the start of what will become known as the hyper inflation event of events. Later on when bernake (then head of teh phed reserve) spoke about helicopter money if qe didn't work.. aka stimulus.

Back in 2010/11 it would have taken 171000ish bit coins to buy a 1.2 mil house, now it's more like 500. My math isn't exact, but u get it I'm sure.

>>127667900
Bush did end democracy. Google "Patriot Act" and educate yourself, peasant.

>>127671739
I think post-recession after all the QE money got held up in the banks, the non-government owned banks took control of the money supply as well.

KEVIN '07

I KNEW THAT CUNT WAS UP TO NO GOOD

>>127671535
I'm full blown nostalgia mode, I want a drink.
I was listening to Lemon Demon all last night, the last thing I needed in the morning was a 4chan history thread to remind me of all the fun in the Partyvan CS server, habbo raids, when the motivational poster meme started, watching the NFL playoffs and FIFA with /sp/, actually learning things from /fit/, recommendations from /mu/ that didn't suck, and countless hours just dicking about.

>>127668030
>>127668345
Obama wasn't elected until 2008. Sure that's when he announced his run, but he was actively being groomed and shilled by the media since 2004.

>>127671739
Basically this, the markets have been upheld by our government and quantitative easing ever since, we're no better than China.

I feel like we went down a weird route that year and something flipped us into whatever path we are now. That was a weird year for me. 2008 was probably one of the worst years of my life though.

>>127672055
Yeah, and we have people demanding communism now.. when we're already being communist in the financial context

You know alot of 4chan's history was tied with the anime con Otakon that used to be in Baltimore MD.

2005-2007 mostly.

A great example of how things have changed is the guy in this video, used to namefag as "ZettoSan" on /v/. Now he is a full blown tranny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZW75rsYNA

I graduated HS that year
I think i noticed the change around the time i graduated desu

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>>127667546
Look at one thing and one thing alone, seriously.
Nothing else.
THIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)

Everyone else is wrong, this is what caused the shift.
Because before hand cellphones were literally just for talking and at best texting, playing little snake or tetris games.

This changed everything and it happened in 2007.

Because media was suddenly everywhere with you. Movies, music, text, calls, email, internet.

You became oversaturated, even still maybe not you yourself, but the masses became oversaturated.

It hasn't stopped since, constant stimuli.
Humans are not meant to have constant stimuli, we literally just sat at times for hours before the internet and tv. We use to work hard and come home and do absolutely nothing.
It was a way to relax truly relax.
We no longer do this, it was a form of meditation almost.

>>127671908
2007 was all wrong. Market should have started correcting in 2007. It didn't. In fact, the market went ape shit when housing prices went down. Fall of 2007 was when you couldn't sell anything in FL anymore.

Now it's just a farce. Last week China got downgraded, and the market didn't flinch. Because there is no market anymore. It's all Central banks now. But the milder version of what happens now started in 2007.

>>127667900
They were right, Bush fucked us all

2007 is the year where everything that made the 2010's so shitty took off.
>Vidya games got normalfag'd to death after CoD 4 and Halo 3 and the "casual CoD audience" that every game dev these days goes after was born
>The internet got normalfag'd after Faceberg and Twatter took off, paving the way for a shitton of cyber gentrification
>Proto SJWs subverted a small group of SomethingAwful users, eventually leading to the creation of r/SRS and the spread of SJWism onto plebbit
>The recession happened leading to the shitty job and housing markets we have today.
>The iPhone was released to the unwashed masses
>Obama's candidacy gave birth to the modern left's race baiting and identity politics they've grown so accustomed to using
Sure shit was getting bad for the first few years but it all went to hell in 2014. The SJW censorship, retarded normalfaggotry, and insane politics reached their crescendo that year.

Sometimes I wonder if 2017 will be looked back on as the 2007 of the 2020's.

>>127672188
Ha, wasn't Bailey Jay (Line Trap?) part of that back when it was still just a dude.

>>127672284
Graduated college**
I.e. 2011-2012

>>127668430
Made me think.

>>127670881

2013 was another shift. Then we hit peak degeneracy in 2015 and the backlash began to gain mainstream recognition

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So this means /pol/ is basically in its death throes. where do we go next? because theres no doubt this place has more normals and newfags

>>127672398
Can you elaborate on the something awful connection? I used to browse that site back in counter strike 1.4 days.

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>>127671979
These nostalgia threads are always so comfy.

>tfw spending all night playing gears of war

>>127672414

Yeah, I hung out with that person for a bit. Not much of a story there though.

Otakon chan meetups were some really fun times. Actually alot of cool people that I still keep up with to this day. I would say out of the 30 people I met from here, 3 of them turned into total faggots.

>>127667546
Well, 2007 was the year I started playing D&D, and through that found my way over to /tg/, and in that way became part of 4chan. So it was definitely the last year my life was 'normal', before this place started fucking me up.

Wouldn't have missed it for the world.

>>127668022

2007 was when the left began winning the culture war. The Religious Right and the Tradcons were effectively doomed by Dubya's many fuck ups. Leftists could look sane by comparison. With the opposition defeated there was nothing stopping the flood of degeneracy from pouring over the country.

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>>127670549
Underage kids who think they're hot shut because they made a sigil once, armchair occultist who are always wrong, autistic conspiracy theorists andchaos magick fags who are likely killing themselves flooded the board.

>>127667900
Good lads

>>127667546
isnt 2007 the year Iphone came out? im pretty sure we'll fucked because of retarded smartphone users

>>127668606
Everything went to shit for me in 2007 as well. The sad part is I didn't even think about it until this thread. Let's see here.
Fiance left me in 2007 for my best friend.
Lost almost all my friends because of the whole Fiance thing.
Lost my job, it was a good job, due to depression.
Lost my house.
One of the few friends I had left died in front of me.
Lost my new job due to accumulated depression.
Lost my second home.
I'm sure there's more. I'm pretty sure I got sued that year too. At least I didn't lose any of my family.

>>127672541
You can go wherever you want but man, I sure don't know anywhere else that has this much traffic and new ideas that allows people to post anonymously without censorship. It really is a great way for people to see all the different ideas all different people have and learn how to decide what they think for themselves though.

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>>127668591
or 1776

>>127667900
Thry were right . Ron Paul = the only correct and anti zog politician you will ever have

>>127672541
First we need to turn all of 4chan into /pol/.

>>127671979
>recommendations from /mu/ that didn't suck
why did /mu/ have to die? it was a cultural bastion

The way I see it, everything went to shit right after 2005.

>>127667546
I was really into online stuff and didn't really pay attention to the outside world. I was always pretty withdrawn, but around '06 I got really heavy into online gaming and the Internet and was pretty out of it until 2011. That's when I started working and was only in pretty working class culture and didn't notice that sort of stuff. It really wasn't until 2013 when I started school and gave up on the Internet for a long time that I really noticed how different culture had become.

I still feel pretty distant from popular culture so it doesn't really have any effect on me

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>>127672781

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPcmlCMfNM

Oh man, I remember staying up all night with my friends on Vent, playing Counterstrike Source and Broodwar.

Fuck that was fun.

I really liked having Myspace back in Middle School. Like, you could still socialize and share photos with your friends, but it was still sort of secret, you know? Like a club house vibe with no adults, and finding a cool music video was still really special because YouTube hadn't really taken off yet around 2005-2007. It was just a cool time to grow up, before smartphones ruined the milieu.

AND FLIP PHONES MAN. I remember one time I was fucking my girlfriend, and she was int kinky shit, and wanted me to take a picture of me putting my cock inside her. SO I BUST OUT my fucking Zoolander mini cellphone and take a pic, but the lighting and resolution were all shit and pixelated, so we agreed to delete it out of shame, lol. Good times, fuck...

I also remember how I looked forward to growing up and getting an apartment and going to college, but none of it turned out like I imagined it :(. The crash in '08 and all the political shit that's happened since really fucked up the vibe for me.

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>>127669822
This.

2006 was such a great fucking year. It was like the future would be everything we thought that it would be.

I mean, my life is working out fine. But my country, my history, my race, and my spirit are under daily assault. It's fucking horrifying

>>127667546
Holy fuck? Is that 2007 a thing? My life went straight to hell in 2007 and I've been trying to recover since...

>>127672554
SomethingAwful users trolled a feminist group back in 2007 because they found a post about a woman looking to punish her son because she caught him fapping. One thing led to another and eventually that feminist group managed to subvert a few Goons who later moved on to create SRS around 2008/09.

Zoe Quinn was also an SA user in the 2000's but I don't think she had a part in that particular incident.

>>127667546
that was the year I took the black pill and became a nihilistic pos, but I think that had more to do with my age

Here's another piece of the puzzle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
Released in 2006, played in schools all over the world, including mine.
It completely undermined the American right world wide, made it very easy for Obama to become a superstar.

>>127673252
More like 1782. or 1789. or 1791

>>127673716

>Pure Pwnage

Excellent tastes even though its cringy as fuck to go back and watch now. It was an important part of internet culture back then.

Also 2007 was a fucked year for me personally as well. What is it with everybody on this site and 2007 being the worst year?

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>>127667546

2005-2007 downhill ever since.

Everything changed after I realized 9/11 was an inside job.

>>127671782
(((Bernake)))

>>127667546
Normal in terms of what? Maybe gender reassignment surgery wasn't being forced on kids yet, but they traditional family and traditional society were already long dead by then. 2007 was just around the time you started noticing

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>>127667546
It was the year STALKER came out... So.. there was that.

2007 overall was a pretty okay year for me, really. I don't think there's much to it other than people who would've been underage b& at the time probably discovered the world was shit and things weren't going to go their way. Anyone my age and older had already come to grips with it.

I'll say this: It was probably the last good year for the internet. Social media and ease of use has all but ruined the internet.

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>>127667546

It was 1996 for me anon. This is the year in which it seemed to switch from Gen X to Millennial culture, with 1996 being entirely Gen X and 1997 entirely Millennial

>>127667842

he's good to go, you fucking goof.

>>127667900
Bush did bankrupt us and sell us out to Israel in more ways than most will ever understand. But I don't think it was "Bush" precisely, and more so the enterprises behind Bush.

>>127673898
Gas prices are another aspect, I think. Steadily increased from 2000, but gradually. Jumped big in 2005, jumped OMGWTFBBQ in 2006, dipped and then jumped just higher still in 2007.
This had all been occurring during the Bush presidency, and simultaneous with the administration's other problems only further undermined the right wing and propped up the left.

>>127669403
This. FUCKING THIS.

>>127667546
It was a pretty normal year actually. I would pick 2009 as the beginning of The Shit. But maybe there was a delayed onset here in Canada.

>>127673420
/pol/ sucks now, this "alt-right" shit had its chance and it did nothing worth remembering. Remember when pol/news actually had diversity of opinion? One couldn't say conservative viewpoints without being attacked by someone else, and vice versa. I'm not saying it was better than but this new /pol/ is really different from how it was several years ago and people keep pretending it was more hardcore National Socialist or whatever when it never was

>>127674172
DUDE, desu Gay marriage getting approved by the Supreme Court completely blind-sided me. I thought the religious eight would of put up more of a fight, but it turns out they were just a paper-tiger whose power was magnified under the lens of the Bush-years. When that happened, I knew our society was truly, and fundamentally, fucked...

>>127674440
>>127669403
Well I'm glad you guys aren't concerned about being eliminated.

>>127674529
/pol/ sucks if you read shit threads and reply to retards, imo
make /pol/ the /pol/ you want to see

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>>127672541
>no doubt this place has more normals and newfags
Great, more people getting red pilled on the JQ.

OFFICIAL THREAD THEME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPcmlCMfNM

Fits so perfectly, it's not even funny brehs.

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>>127674997

>pic

So true it hurts. Holy fuck.

2001 was a normal year before September.

>>127674926
This seems fake and gay, but who knows??

>>127674780
I try. The only quality threads we have are those Why does architecture suck now? Or whatever that Swedish guy does. South Africa threads, probably the Syria generals, though it's not my cup of tea.. I think that's it. Any time I try and have a serious thread or contribute serious discussion the thread usually dies

>>127668430
This.

The Internet became heavily commercialized and opened up for normies. Normies that should get out.

>>127673252
2 / 10 for making me respond.

Rat board to infinity and beyond.

>>127675312
It doesn't matter if it is fake, this is how (((they))) think. A few of them are actually honest about it.

>>127667546
You're way off. Things haven't been normal since 1965.

>>127675439

You know using the term "normie" isn't something you should do. Try and say "normalfag" instead.

>>127667900
right here bitch

>>127675505
Hell things in the US, haven't been normal since 1870 tbqh senpai.

>>127667546
That's when social media and smart phones took off and completely destroyed our capacity to build meaningful relationships

>>127675383
I should clarify that I don't think /pol/ was ever consistently good. It just used to feel a lot more diverse. I do enjoy being legitimately and unironically racist and not being called a stormfag though, that is nice

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>>127668432
>required a .edu email address to join

But first you had to be invited(emailed) by someone and use their link to join.

>tfw typing www.thefacebook.com

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>>127667546
>mfw I realize that it's been a decade since 2007

Pre 2007 the internet was a place to get work done, text your friends on messengers, or be a nerd on.
Then everything changed when the normies invaded thanks to Steve Jobs and mark cuckerburg.
Between world of warcraft, facebook/myspace, youtube, and the infernal iPhone the pieces were set.

>>127667546
Smartphones, internet culture hitting the normies and tumblr SJW rehtoric coming off the keyboard and into every fucking hobby I've ever held dear

Literally the year of the Eternal Summer, we're all cancer now

>>127669199
what are you talking about they still exist I am part of one . you just need to know what you are doing on the site

>>127667546
did someone forget 2001 and all the time before that?

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>>127669403
I graduated HS in 08.

I honestly don't think I can imagine a world without stress or despair. It's my default-state, and I've never known anything else.

There was white people music then. Kind of stupid, the tail end of "rock" that was so goofy and sanitized. But it was still by white people for white people. Even that sort of emo/mall goth shit was unapologetically white and middle class. Not to mention the preppy culture then, when everyone wanted Polo shirts

>>127675383
I'd recommend to make threads about what you want to see, but build them like troll thread OPs. And bump your thread with relevant (non-troll) content so that it stays up.
>>127676055
wake me up when september ends

160 replies but only 2 mention chanology. This is the state of this board. But yes, for 4chan it had to do lejunfags going around dickwaving and attracted cancerous newfags. For the internet as a whole, I think it was about that time smartphones started being produced, wasn't it?

>>127675691
I think the time period between 1870 and 1913 was the comfiest in American History because the nation was still nationalistic and outside the control of the Federal Reserve. Also, the people could enjoy the fruits of subduing a continent without paying the price of being a superpower.

>>127676311
All the white people music now is dominated by guys who weigh less than their girlfriends.
I honestly couldn't name a current rock star. The foo fighters are the closest thing we have and they're played on the "classic rock" stations now and considered old.

>>127676450
Now 3 with (you).

>>127676656
If I release a record, will you buy it?

>>127676450
He was talking about reality, not mongolian cave painting discussion boards
4chan objectively went to shit beyond repair in 2010 with the continual Reddit invasion

>>127676830
It would be very painful

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>>127676311
Checked

>emo/mall goth shit
>white and middle class

Before emo there was Marilyn Manson. I was so scared of the kids that dressed like and listened to his music.

>tfw the old days will never come back

>>127676656
Really? I have never listened to them as I thought they were faggot shit for little kids, and I was born in '94. I don't think rock is even around anymore, except indie stuff. It all seems to be
variations on electro-nigger part music. I don't really care that much as I'm not one of those guys that blindly worships everything produced in the 60s/70s

>>127676997
you're a rich guy

This is pretty eerie desu. Things got weird for me in 2005 but the despair really cemented in 2007. Maybe the darkest year of my life. Like others in this thread, I've been trying to figure out what went wrong and fix it since then. In 2007 my parents lost my childhood home because of a financial fuckup, it was on a bunch of beautiful land and it's like I've literally been homeless since, even though I'm a functional adult and stuff now.

Best years were 1996-2004. Fuck this is depressing and weird.

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>>127677037
they will if we will them to be

>>127676450
Who cares? That anonymous shit was cringey then and people called those posters out at the time. It's basically identical to kekistan shit now

there may be something to this
i just got out of elementary school and into middle school in 2007 so life kinda went from blissful joy to monotonous struggle

>>127667900
>Promising to literally commit suicide if Paul didn't win
>Wonder where they are now

>>127677308
I need it to happen. The old days were real life. This current shit is like some kind of Philip K Dick dystopian knockoff.

>social media takes root
>YouTube takes root
>About a dozen high end video game releases (Halo 3, Bioshock, AC, etc)
>Begin of the recession
>Begin of 2008 presidential race
>Chanology

A lot happened that year. Nothing has been the same since

>>127677353
We must destry Kekistan

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I had a Motorola flip phone with Nextel and a second generation iPod "touch". I never thought texting would replace Nextel 2 way for instant communication. Didn't get an iPhone until 2011 lol. That Motorola was a fucking tank though. You could drop it off a two story roof and not worry about glass shattering lol

>>127677198
I assumed the same during their peak popularity. Went most of my life without listening to them. Not bad really. They and the chilli peppers are the last groups I'd consider rock stars.
Music became fractured once the internet hit. We don't get big dominant groups like we used to.

>>127677639
My best friend had that exact phone and used to use the 2 way thing with her boyfriend all the time.

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>>127668323
2007 'recession' (depression)
The bailout. Banks got a handout and got to keep people's houses.

The economy TANKED.

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>>127676311
>Literally everything is rap now

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I know one guy that doesn't miss '06/'07

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>>127677639
I remember that one.

Pic related. My first phone.
These phones are the reason behind the term "butt dial"

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Along with the reasons already posted, 2007 was the year that it became clear that we were going to be in Iraq and Afghanistan for the long haul, and that the "War on Terror" was a fact of life.

>>127677815
I'm surprised almost nobody has mentioned it. I was 12 at the time and my family had lost a Mcmansion. I was homeless and living out of a van for about a year

>>127677639
Almost every construction guy I know in the South used the fuck out of PTT until like 3-4 years ago when Sprint bought out Nextel and phased it out. It was infinitely better than sending texts like a faggot.

>>127677501
>Philip K Dick dystopian knockoff
That sums it up damn well. It's like we're living in the work of trash author Phillip J Cock.

How can we make life comfy again, /pol/, instead of living out our days in this shitty mentally ill simulation?

>>127678193
YES, anon. That is exactly what I'm getting at. Phillip J. Cock 100%.

>>127677639
lol Nextel, I remember them they were bought out by Sprint.

>>127667546
Jagex killed the wilderness in 2007.

>>127677634
Who cares enough though? I don't, it'll fiz out and amount to nothing; it'll seem really idiotic and naive to people in five years time. Kekistan doesn't make /pol/ shit, kekistan is just a manifestation of the worst elements of the current zeitgeist, as was anonymous, as will be the next thing.

I do have one overall prediction and I'd throw money down on it. Liberals will end up having a fond memory of Trump in office; a goofy and childish president, almost cute and endearing. Conservatives won't though

>>127678080
Damn that sucks man. The economy in my town sucked ass after the Recession hit. We had hundreds of people fighting to work at McDonalds... It took literally until THIS FUCKING YEAR for shit-tier wagecuck jobs to become reasonably plentiful, Fuck man...

It wasn't that specific for me.

When people stopped having flip phones was the last straw. I had a gf with one in like 2009, so it was after that.

Funny enough 06 was the worst year I had
>uncle killed himself on brother's birthday
>then got depressed because I was bullied in school and didn't know how to take it
>parents were the closest they ever got to divorce
07 was just a lull for me, we had a Wii and I spent the year playing pokemon and watching shitty old youtube videos. But yeah, 07 was the last "good" year before it went to the toilet. Link related.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtW9SDW4iug
If you didn't watch this on google video, you're a fucking normie.

>>127667546

the jews lost a lot of money

then they just printed it

When did amazon go big? Since the internet went mainstream around 07 I'm gonna just assume it was not long after.
The online economy has irreparably fucked brick and mortar locations.
Walmart wounded the local shops, amazon killed raped and ate them.
Used to be you could go to different places across the US and see different things. Now every strip mall looks the same. A subway, a t mobile store, a walgreens, same shit different place.

>>127678089
Are these things different then Chirps? I didn't have a cellphone until '08. But I remember Chirps distinctly and that construction workers used them

>>127667546

In 2006, I graduated from college, got a shitty job, and looked for a real job.

By 2007, it was obvious that job was never coming. I adjusted to the reality that I would not start my life on time.

By 2008, it was clear that this was the new normal for everyone, not just me.

by 2009, everyone had lost all hope. The market died in front of our eyes.

By 2010, I could start to see that non-whites didn't want to be equal to us after all -- they wanted to destroy us. I could see that women wanted to hurt men too, and that feminism wasn't about rights, but about blame.

by 2011, I was redpilled and angry.

by 2012, I was praying the mayans were right.

by 2013, I had already created adaptive strategies for people who assumed I was a piece of shit for being a straight white male.

by 2014, I was blackpilled and actively sabotaging others who I used to be aligned with.

by 2015, I began practicing kabbalah to help bring the end.

I am now surrounded by the red light. Its swirling fires are my blood and its anthem is devastation. I am a vessel for its purifying flames and my crucible shall be known to some as The War of Great Lies. From my loins pours forth the destiny of the righteous and from my mouth the inverted solar logos. I have come to eat souls.

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2007 was the year when a dark and malevolent realization within the depths of many people's minds came to be: the subconscious realization that we all live in a world burdened by falsehood, that everyone is without compass, that everything you thought you knew is wrong, that most of humanity is doomed and you need only look on the Internet to see why.

>>127678028
Fuck you're right, I remember that feeling that took years to sink in. Super depressing. I also remember being excited about Obama's first win, thinking he was gonna save us from the evil republicans and bring us peace.

Foolish middle schooler.

>>127678685
Must be before that. I was buying pro wrestling VHSs on Amazon back in '02.

>>127678685
>Walmart wounded the local shops, amazon killed raped and ate them.

And the '08 recession left a lasting impact that retail never recovered from. Most companies really should have seen it coming though. The gradual decline started in the 60S/70s when department stores left their fancy flag ship stores in major cities after the second to last wave of white flight hit. Then Macy's began buying them out by having less overhead expenses and being better suited to the new mall environments. The 80s and 90s gradually saw the end of quality shopping experiences and the favoring of cheapness and abundance of sales, which kept getting crappier exponentially until the recession hit, made things worse, and then Amazon and online shopping exploded. The issue was that they had so diminished the quality of the actual shopping experience that it became irrelevant and people would pursue the cheapest and easiest way to acquire goods, which became Amazon and other online services

>>127667546
>What do you think of the 2007 phenomenon?

>Be an ElderFag who personally remembers the advent of Eternal September, and the huge collective groan that arose over *that* ...

Like, as if Eternal September was going to destroy the 'net, such as it was.

Did it?

>>127668022
Indie music hipster fashion was the in thing

it was a different time

>>127678828
I think you're right, dear leaf. 2007 was when the unrelenting shitty and amoral nature of so many humans made itself agonizingly clear to me, personally and on a larger political/social scale. Basically I haven't felt good about humanity since.

>>127668109
I feel ya.

>>127677815
Oh yeah occupy wall street became a thing as well
yeah 2007 was def a thing

>>127678828
>>127679222
It's like you feel you don't have to hide that you're jewish.

>>127667546
The lies we've been fed came crashing down in on themselves. Too many people still cling to the lies and create this weird dystopian state of mind where people know everything is fucked but no one wants to say it. Everyone knows but everyone also thinks no-one else knows, so they stay silent in fear of being outed as insane.

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>>127676311
Much this, nowadays its either baboon-rap or some electronic jew shit.

>>127671786
>Democracy
>Google
Muahahahah

>>127678685
I'm not exactly sure that was a significant event of ~2007, specifically, but god knows it's a major contributor to how we've come here. When I was a kid, my hometown had a huge variety of bookstores, hobby shops, independent record and video game stores, places to buy musical instruments and accessories, skateshops, outdoor suppliers. Whatever your niche was there was a place for it and they all had their own inventory and offers and it was an exploration just to see what they had.

I guess it was around 2005 that I saw those places beginning to close, but it was around 2006-2007 it peaked and by 2009 it was fucking done. Everything was homogenized. I can get on google streetview in any state and find, time and time again, that exact same stripmall you just described, and I'll be fucked if I can pagan bookstore half a block from the martial arts supply store, like the block I grew up within biking distance of.

>>127671786
Yeah and Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and FDR imprisoned the Japanese without trial. Yet, somehow, America went on. Bush didn't "end" democracy any more than other president who followed the general trend of transforming the position of president into an emperor

everything changed when Crysis came out on PC

>>127680464
*fucked if I can find.

>>127667546
Can confirm, 2007 is when I last had sex. Fucking jews ruining my sex life.

>>127679995
Even the electronic stuff has gone to shit. Trance used to be a very experimental genre where I would just drift off in a dark room alone with no drugs and no alcohol into another world of weird sounds, while the dj slowly mixed tracks. There's now """extended mixes""" that are less than five minutes long, when most tracks used to be 7 or 8 and many were longer than 10 or 12. The sound design is shit now too, so many presets and vengeance loops.

Nothing like this gets made anymore, although Lange did a pretty good remix of it...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PspZrgNLg14

2007 was the year moot attacked /b/ with several days of anime music. He was so infatuated with Gurren Lagann.

>>127670609
I doubt anyone even remembers the rules, a sad day indeed.

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>>127667900
>pretending 14 year olds gave a fuck about ron paul
>pretending 14 year olds on gaming forums gave a fuck about ron paul

Gaming forums were all saying how shit Bush was and how great Obama was going to be. Every other avatar had the same retarded image or variation as pic related.

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Was in middle school at the time. It was a different life, i was butters to a t.
4chan, suicidal depression and other things fucked me up beyond repair. High school was a nightmare, failed to anhero. Silver linings though, if not for the horrificly black pilled 2009-2012, i would like still be butters.
>alone
>retardedly innocent/naieve
>happy in the tard kinda way
Sometimes i wish i was still retaded, id be happy. Years of sucidal depression and parents whos only response was more drugs burnt out my ability to feel anything, even if im not really depresssd any more. 2007 was 10/10 for video games though

>>127667546
The modern equivalent of September 1993.

>>127681678
>tfw you were born Sept 1993
uhhh sorry?

>>127681324
Seriously.
It's like niche culture doesn't exist anymore, in anything, not just electronic music. Or if it does it's there for like a day until some tumblr faggot blogs about it and buzzfeed picks it up and it's in the social media circuit within 3 days.
The world has become readdit where people pander for the attention of the hive mind and in so doing stifle creativity.

>>127681561
I remember anon. I remember defending Obamacare ffs. makes me wanna commit Sudoku desu

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>>127672398
>The internet got normalfag'd after Faceberg and Twatter took off, paving the way for a shitton of cyber gentrification

the day before fagbook came out. i can write a book about it.

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>>127669964

>>127668030
Facebook, the iPhone, and The Bazinga Show all happened. It ruined the internet forever.

>>127681885
I wonder if the Brony bullshit took off, partly because of that? Like it was the one niche so off-putting and alienating that it was guaranteed not to get overrun by normies, so fags just jumped all over that. God knows, I've seen so much Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, Marvel Comics, and Team Fortress crossover art. It seems like the last refuge of autists who are tired of Big Bang Theory immigrants wreck their fun.

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>>127682342
>It ruined the internet forever.

>>127667900
We're still here nigger.

>>127682372
>God knows, I've seen so much Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, Marvel Comics, and Team Fortress crossover art

Forgetting about Harry Potter.

>Geocities -> LiveJournal -> Tumblr -> Twitter/FB

This is basically the timeline for the loony left.

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>>127667900

Also bush cucked you so hard you will never recover from it. Your debt graph is exponential because of him, it was leveling out until 2000.

>>127667546
I've kind of felt that way about 2011/2012. But everyone has some time that they say everything got worse around. Remember, the current date/time is Tue Sep 8673 08:11:48 +02:00 1993
Almost 24 years since the beginning of the eternal september, when Usenet became popular and the wave of new activity that accompanied the beginning of the school year never ended.

>>127668109
Social media turned browsing the internet, broadly speaking, from a nerdy hobby to a normie hobby.

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>>127667546
A better question is if things will get to be good again..

>>127682372
Maybe, but they don't seem very self aware.
Like here for example we post gore and other "unacceptable" shit to scare off the normies, but also because we aren't shaken by it.
If you can stomach something terrible it keeps the faggots and women out.
Just look at the "alt right."
Most of them aren't nazis. They just do this shit to piss people off. And even then they've become far too mainstream for /pol/ to accept and we've essentially had to disown our own child. It's like a never ending search for a cohesive coherent ideology untainted by platitudes and boring political correctness.
Maybe they don't even recognize it. The_donald certainly doesn't and yet they're part of it.
There might be something to the hipsters who always complain about the mainstream. The mainstream seems to be toxic and kill everything it touches.

>>127681879
this was roughly the time that everyone knew that the world had become "weird." Before the early 90s, people behaved in predictable fashions and were mostly normal. Social decorum and behavioral norms were all dissolved by the early 90s.

In the movie, "Mrs. Doubtfire," Robin Williams plays a cartoon voice actor who gets a divorce and decides to put on an old lady suit and pretend to be en elderly Scottish woman so that he can be a nanny to his own kids. In this movie, there is a scene where he is on a date and his family shows up to the restaurant, so he has to go back and forth, changing in the bathroom. He gets drunk and makes mistakes as the night goes on, and he comes back to the table wearing lipstick and makeup and earrings. His date is confused and asks him why he has these things on.

He pauses, shrugs, and says .... "Hey... It's the '90s."

We were self-aware that the rules of society were dead by the time that movie came out. That line itself was a major marker of decline for anyone who was paying attention.

>>127682656
Fugggg

>>127672288
This
This iphone changed everything

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>>127667546
2007, the year Runescape died

>>127667546

Sure. Maybe 2007 was the year (((their))) human database system came online containing a record for each of the living 7 billion people on the planet. Then they could flag the troublemakers and destroy their careers, finances, etc. They reward, or at least don't kill, the brainless people who don't cause any trouble.

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>>127670115
>mfw I am 19 and I was too young to truly remember pre 9/11 days.
I swear, everytime I hear people talk about pre 9/11 it sounds like some ancient legend or age of myth.

>>127667546
The year I started to get fully redpilled, the worm definitely turned for me.

2007 Americas Army was at version 2.8.x and still going but bleeding players. I miss that game.

>>127683456
It changed a lot. Just as importantly, there were things that it didn't change, trends that had been gathering momentum for a while, that it only shed new light on and brought into public attention. That lent the impression that 9/11 was the cause, when it was really wasn't.

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>>127667546

It all still feels normal.

>>127667546
2007 was the year when I ejaculated for the first time (1 week before the 14th bday). Until then, my orgasms were dry.

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>>127667546
It got one thing right.

2007 was the year I turned 18. So yea it's been all downhill since then.

>>127683146
Part of the reason why is 4chan's natural tendenacy to be contrarian. 90% of memes and internet trends are from 4chan. Once they get co-opted by normies its no longer funny or cool. Its not everything, NatSoc and similar will always, be around, but its most memes. I find baneposting is so funny becuse somehow it has spawned so variants and will never die despite being co-opted
Kekastan is a eventual offshoot of baneposting
>baneposting
>real plane crash with extremely similar circumstances
>its almost as if memes can control reality
>praise kek.
>kekastani

>>127667546
it was my college years

things were normal desu i dont get this modern shit now :( this SJW shit was nowhere to be seen back then! NO WHERE! at most you would hear about dirty hippies being beaten at a protest that was it.

>>127683456
I'm 27 and feel the same way except I can remember them. Going places was fun back then. I had no goal when I left the house but found something fun to do every time I did. And it wasn't just because I was a kid. There were fun stores to go to, festivals to wander around, local food shops to try out, people playing sports at parks, flying kites, launching model rockets. Even just chilling in a populated area and people watching was energizing.
You know what I spent my teenage years (2007) doing? Just fucking driving around looking for something to do.
My graduating class hung out in parking lots. We went to Walmart when we were bored.
I would just get in my car with my friends turn on my ipod and aimlessly drive looking for anything interesting and I never found it. We'd end up at a fast food joint, go walk around walmart and buy some candy, and then say fuck it and go play halo at somebody's house.
The only activity we could consistently rely on was the movies.

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>>127683977
>90% of memes and internet trends are from 4chan
lmao!

>>127667546
I totally agree. It was the last year of Bush and the beginning of the financial crisis.

Can confirm, stopped playing WoW in 2007, life has been in shambles ever since.

>>127675280
I was in a college in the Midwest when this happened. Everything was great before that and it was the summer of my life.

By the end of October, i was watching the Afghan war unfold and i kept thinking that this was wasn't winnable, yet news was going on with how we will be home by Christmas.

It's been sixteen years now. What the hell.

How do I get back to 2007? I need to go back to before things went to shit.

>>127683456
Imagine a world where videogames were actually good, where the internet wasn't the all-consuming monstrosity it is now but merely enhanced your real life, where you would actually call people on your phone and talk to them, and meet up with your friends to play outside.

Basically, imagine your nation and society isn't falling apart around you, and you could earnestly look forward to things.

>>127684817
You want to go back to 1996 if you want to experience at least 10 years of prosperity and fantasy growth.

2007 was the year the normies finally conquered the internet. They'd always had a presence before but following 07/08 it all went mainstream, YouTube changed massively etc

>>127671094
Another Jehova's Witness on /pol/?

>>127684955
10 years ago something like 95% of the internet traffic was spread between 10,000 different websites. Today that 95% is spread between something like 15. Fat cat capitalism fucked the internet and the west, I agree with the commies that capitalism is evil, however it is the best system so long as its majority small business + small government

>>127667546

It was my fault. I got sick for a very long time, I screwed up the timeline. Please forgive me.

>>127683221
you think that's bad? we are 19 trillion in debt now and that graph ends at 10 trillion. Shit is insane

It's the year my life went to shit for half a decade at least.

Chanology was bad, but late 2010 is when 4chan as a whole stopped being enjoyable.

>>127685157
1914? try Constantinople

>>127672288
Why do you think a brand called "Apple" made one of the first and most widely-used smartphone?

Did the popularization of the iPhone signal humanity's mass exodus from the Garden?

>>127670836
Common core bro

>>127683456
Unless things change I doubt you'll ever live life in such an optimistic age. Right now we're in wartime against people who are trying to destroy white countries.

I graduated high school in '07. Something really did change. Imagine a world without the popularity of reddit and facebook, before the financial crash, before people even cared about the NSA, before globalism and mass immigration finally conquered the world, when western countries were still white and had a common culture and shared history, when the US was reasonably wealthy and still had a middle class. I visited France and England that summer and Paris still looked like Paris and London still looked like London. I havent been back in 10 years but I can't imagine what it looks like now.

>>127672288
The iPhone in its early form wasn't part of the problem, it just enabled the problems to come.

When the iPhone came out it was "Holy shit, we're living in the future! I have maps, my email, and even a real web browser!"

Everything went to shit when smartphones became cheap enough for nogs and SJWs to buy and ruin social media platforms.

>>127667546
2007 was fucking awesome until the economy what itself. Social media hadn't dominated our lives and we didn't have to worry about migrants.

It also looked like Islamic terrorism was about to be destroyed but then Obama decided to fuck it up.

2017 feels like a dystopia. Fucking governments monitoring more than ever before, Freedeom of speech and opinion is defacto illegal, news media acting like the ministry of truth.

>>127670533
That card doesn't mean what you think it means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Revenants_(TV_series)

>>127672398
>>Obama's candidacy gave birth to the modern left's race baiting and identity politics they've grown so accustomed to using
That shit has existed for over 20 years dude
see: south park

>>127672479
The Trayvon Martin sjw shift. I remember hearing about the Trayvon story and just wandering why this was such a big deal, and then I saw how the media was using a picture of his 12 year old image to gain sympathy, it all made sense after that.

>>127667546
>Dot-come bubble (2000)
>9/11
>Iraq & Afghanistan leads to defeat & division
>2008 crisis

I'd say things went wrong in 2001, and 2008 was the last nail of the coffin. Social media taking off was just a side dish on the "Downfall of the West" buffet.

>>127677815
I think that was a tipping point for humanity as a whole. The people who caused the greatest economic crisis in 70 years got to coast on Uncle Sam while the rest of us took the fall. When we saw that there were no consequences, that a man in a suit can bet the world and lose it without a dime in fines or a night in jail, something broke in us collectively. We just plain stopped giving a fuck. Got Osama? Whoopee. Contractor reveals the existence of the greatest illegal spying ring in world history being perpetrated by our own government? Hey how bout that.

Maybe I just don't have the distance to develop an appropriate perspective. I don't know.

>>127667546
That was the year Facebook killed MySpace and when Reddit took off. So, yes.

>>127667546
I was deployed to Iraq for most of 2007. I say things changed for me after that.

>>127687271
Things started to go wrong in the US in 1965 after Kennedy sold the nation down the river so he could get cheap votes from Mexico.

>>127676311
>electronic music
>vaporwave
>country

Hold on, don't tell me any of those aren't "white people music" anymore.

>>127684819
It's so true, i actually feel slightly akward when i need to call one of my friends instead of just texting them all day

>>127687487
Mexicans don't seem to riot or cause crime as much as *urban blacks seem to.

But I bet the race-baiting & riots would still have happened. without 9/11 & 2008. America would just have been culturally, morally & economically stronger. 9/11 and Irak weren't "Pearl Harbors", because PH actually led to victory four years afterwards. 9/11 & Irak are like the modern-time Vietnam Wars, something that crushed & divided your country x10.

No offence because my country is cucked too, but I doubt you will ever recover.

>>127687487
And that was Lindy Johnson, not Ken.

>>127686050
desu if you don't still think of 2007 as 5 years ago then you're still too young to have a valuable opinion.

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As for France, Nicolas Sarkozy winning the election was also a breaking point. He couldn't get a single shit done, he vacationed to Guyana with his thirty-year old singer wife, he said BS all day long.

That's the day when we lost the stentorian, patrician politicians like Chirac & Mitterrand. Thanks to the trend Sarko has set we ended up with weak cucks like Hollande & Macron.

>>127678804
>I am now surrounded by the red light. Its swirling fires are my blood and its anthem is devastation. I am a vessel for its purifying flames and my crucible shall be known to some as The War of Great Lies. From my loins pours forth the destiny of the righteous and from my mouth the inverted solar logos. I have come to eat souls.

Cool story bro

>>127678804

You never take the k-pill

I want to wake up 9 years old in 2005 and redo my life

>>127676311
Spot on. Rap was still a degenerate form of music that no parents would approve of their children listening to (which made it actually somewhat cool), but than Lil Wayne blew up and normalized the degeneracy of rap, and black people being able to get away with acting all sorts of uncivilized.

>>127672288
This.

>>127677380
Weird. Middle school (grades 5-8) were the most glorious years of my life. High school was when everything went to shit.

>>127688655
Eventually all the things that are seen as the "underdogs" will go mainstream. It's happened with rock, electro, now rap.

The next decade will see the advent of fashwave. Trust. me

As much as I enjoyed pre social media internet I wouldn't mind growing up in today's age where everyone has a smartphone and social media everywhere with slutty teens on it

How someone grows up today as a loser when memes and gaming is normie tier is beyond me.

>>127678361
This is enlightening, because I hear Fox News personalities preaching about how a real recovery never happened and then citing certain labor statistics, while the stock market hits record highs. I'm lucky as fuck my parents work for the gov which provided a shelter for half their money.

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The internet ruined everything. It gave information to all.

Africans/Middle Easterners saw how much better Europe was and migrated there. Mexicans/Central Americans saw how much better America was and migrated there.

Everyone is brainwashed by what is on their phone.

>>127689642
Keep in mind that demographics always change. If there hadn't been minorities I'd bet you'd see more Italians than Swedes over time, etc cte. White flight accounts for a lot too, & whites putting their kids in private schools. Overall, unless you provide information concerning the area in general, this single graph is shallow evidence.

>>127690003
>Keep in mind that demographics always change.
Only if you have open borders.
>If there hadn't been minorities I'd bet you'd see more Italians than Swedes over time, etc cte.
Which is vastly preferred to non-whites.

>>127690562
Demographics always change, even with closed borders. You'd see more birth rates among the middle class. Some areas would have the poor displaced by the rich. That's how demographics works.

And you'd have perhaps some areas where "native Californians" would be displaced by those moving in from out of state, or Czech-ancestry people displacing French-ancestry Americans.

What worries me isn't change per se, it's the scale of the change.

>>127690759
>Demographics always change
You're falsely equating all demographics as equal. White people being displaced in their own countries is simply a non-starter.

>>127691414
>White people being displaced in their own countries is simply a non-starter.

>What worries me isn't change per se, it's the scale of the change.

I don't disagree, but we need to put things in perspective.

>>127683456
Or with the 50s
A single job could pay for an entire family and extra? Nigga you know how insane this sounds? The 50s sound like a fairytale compared to what we have today