The years 2007 and 2008.

>>127800713

>The theme being the somewhat "downfall" of society and the overall "when things started to go bad" sort of thing

are you retarded? shit started to go bad around the turn of the 20th century.

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>>127800713
Something happened. Simulation theory comes to mind.

>>127800996
this thing is such a mystery

Facebook was opened up to non-college students in 06. Facebook and twitter happened.

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>>127800992
Don't attack me, this makes you look stupid, bromeohomeo. What you say is true, but things started to get *really* shitty during 07 and 08.

>>127800713

Economic crash of 2008. We are in a depression, maintained with heavy borrowing and money printing. Money lost some of its psychological power that year.

>>127801202
Facebook was opened to the public around late 07. I distinctly remember my college buddies begging me to sign up, and asking them if you still needed a .edu email address to sign up.

>>127801311
Can you explain a bit further?

Social media and also "geek" culture turning our men into sissy manchildren

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>>127801453

Yes

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>>127801453
Because the economy collapsed in 2008, they printed money, handed it to the banks, and increased lending to maintain the illusion that the economy is fine.

Go to bed Isaiah

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>>127801311
Our economy isn't growing, we are simply borrowing money and continuing to spend in a consumer economy to maintain the illusion that our economy is actually functional. If they stopped lending money, and we had to pay back the debts, corporations, people and Governments would instantly go bankrupt.

This created a second problem, with Gold Bugs and Bitcoin. People realize that the economy is actually a debt bubble of have lost faith in the economy. If the desire to accumulate money loses it's appeal, people are no longer motivated by being financially successful.

Student loan is a perfect example. Students are so indebted, that it would be more cost effective to destabilize the economy than to work and pay off the debt.

>>127800713
IPhone is what happened. People were getting left wing propaganda 24/7.

>>127800713
The recession. Everyone now lives for instant gratification because the future is so uncertain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJhirtG5hDs

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Interesting, thanks. I *somewhat* understand the economics of it all, but something drastic happened during those two years and again I'm not alone when I say that it had nothing to do with economics or money. Something just changed.

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>>127802383
I sort of want to blame it on money and the economy and Obama, but I feel, my gut feeling, is that it was something bigger. Oldfags will get it.

>>127802383

THE NWO TURNED THE HEAT UP.

>>127802383
Obama, and the mass doxxing of our species

>>127802148
Are students exempted from employment figures?

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>>127802383

Are you young? You must be young if you don't remember it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQzEWeGJLP0

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>>127802575
No, I am 36. I remember it clearly. Something changed though, what I'm sort of getting at is a timeline change for lack of a better phrase... i don't know, im drunk and I hate my life

>>127801491

Yep. First Iron Man movie came out in '08 and for some bizarre reason it really caught on and started/super-charged the trend

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>>127802516
Just because you feel that way, and because a lot of people feel that way, doesn't make it true. All it takes is a few charismatic figures saying that that was the case, a few anecdotes, and all of a sudden people jump on it. It builds momentum, it feels substantial, but that doesn't mean that it necessarily was substantial.

>>127802767
I'm drunk and I hate my life. Wanna talk for a bit?

>>127802559
Not sure, I think so.

>>127802767
We went from a society of making things, to a society of buying things that year.

>>127800713

Nobody seemed to remember Autism Acceptance happening in those years, while it had good intentions it was really the start of people labeling themselves with some sort of mental illness to make them stand out more or be unique.

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>>127803482
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMl1ptqi3Y

>>127803482
i dunno. leave 4chan while you're still young
>>127803716
autism isn't real

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>>127800713
maybe CERN LHC?

>>127803716

It also allowed SJWs to really get a good stranglehold on the media too along with the internet thanks to the boom of social media.

>>127800713
Housing market crash and the second worse recession since the Great Depression. Even though things are picking up economically, the job market still sucks. Low wage work or jobs that require a specific degree/certification.

SLIDE THREAD

STOP MAKING THIS EVERY DAY

STOP REPLYING

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

>>127800713
what happened in around 2007/2008 that caused all of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008

>>127804064
what exactly is a recession or depression though?

>>127804164
get a job you fucking loser

>>127804175
what does germany think of the US?

>>127803928
>The LHC first went live on 10 September 2008,[47] but initial testing was delayed for 14 months from 19 September 2008 to 20 November 2009, following a magnet quench incident that caused extensive damage to over 50 superconducting magnets, their mountings, and the vacuum pipe.
'magnet quench' my hole.. SHUT IT DOWN, OH FUG S TOO LAAATTTTEeeee...

>>127803718

E=MC(2) isn't God. God isn't a formula for energy.

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2007 was the last year of true happiness

>>127800713
Things have been this shitty since the Clinton Administration anon, you just didn't have the means to see it until 2007-08 when the internet took off to learn about the world and understand how political corruption and globalism has steadily ruined it.

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>NIN: Year Zero
>Released: 2007

It's not just pure coincidence.

>>127805492

I don't think Clinton era globalism is malicious myself. I think they were trying to make the world a better place, tear down borders (like the Iron Curtain) and bring free trade and free travel for all people.

I think the mistake was doing that only in Western countries, and we just ended up with a flood of migrants and no one leaving for third world countries.

>>127800713

>2007 to 2008
>2+0+0+7 to 2+0+0+8
>9 to 10

Basically things on the fucked up scale went from a 9 to a 10....

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smartphone proliferation turned every woman into an instant liberal. Same thing happened for faggy beta-men.

It really was smartphones.

>>127806485
This. We had been steadily virtualization our lives through improved technology for all of history at an accelerating rate, but smartphone introduction was a strong inflection point upwards.

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>>127806886

There's a reason why liberals love Steve Jobs so much, even while he looks like a normal no-consequence faggot/geek to most people (despite being rich of course).

The reason is that he got a smartphone into everyone's hands, and that's how people started reading news.

If you judged by online news, you'd think everyone who mattered was a liberal. This is precisely what all the followers thought (e.g. women, faggots, weaklings, etc) when they began reading news online. They didn't want to feel "left out" so they started spouting that bull shit too.

Simple fucking truth m80s.

>>127801202
Basically this. Social media happened.
In the 1980s you went to people's houses and knocked on the door. Your friends were a circumstance of geography. Sometimes people weren't home. That was life. You did life. Then you had free time, so you went and saw the people you cared about. You vidya when it rained.
In the 1990s things remained the same for normies but the internet started becoming a thing for social outcasts. IRC culture. Not everybody could internet. The internet could be frustrating at times in fact. Instant messenging eventually became a thing... but even still.. socializing with people on the internet meant going out of your way to connect with people.

It started getting more popular in the 200X's and that was a good thing... until fucking Facebook came along.

Things have slowly degraded socially. You hand pick your acquaintances. Now adays you can go about your entire life without ever having to be exposed to other opinions.

And it's worse now because people don't even converse properly with their fucking acquaintances anymore. In the last couple of years conversations have died. People post everything on Facebook. There's no point in conversing with them anymore. Like your photo. Cool vacation bro. See you never.

People expect ideological homogeneity. The political implication of this is that everybody goes into politics with an absolutist mindset. Pragmatism is dead. It's all about grabbing the ball and running like hell now.

Is Twitter seriously popular with normies? Honestly don't see how it could take off considering it seems utterly pointless unless you're a celebrity.