Why did this particular year (and 2008) feel so different? Something

It's the year I turned 18 is what. I've been busy.

I guess I sorta lost my innocence towards the world around that time too

probably a combination of 4chan going mainstream, facebook and other shit

>>34968346
no, it was really just the social media and smartphones. They ruined the Internet, and if you are anything like me, the internet is pretty much your world. So they ruined your world

>>34968346
in 2007 the real matrix happened. That's why you often feel something's off.

>>34968346

Economic crisis? I'd say it was definitely more 08 than 07 which felt the paradigm had shifted.

>07 was when the normies decided now of all times to become "nerds" after years of ridiculing anyone with geeky hobbies

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the beginning of the end

The economic crisis, the election of Obama, and the widespread adoption of social media. The culture changed in reaction to that.

>>34968346
2007 is around when normies started flooding the internet and made it a carbon copy of real life with their bullshit social media, rather than the semi-obscure club it felt like before.

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>graduated highschool
>started college with fresh hopes and optimism
>truly believed I was going to turn it all around
>the last year before everything started crashing down
>tfw still posting here 10 years later

I didn't make it, anons

>>34968346
I was much younger & less self aware back in 2007-2008, but I definitely noticed something change. It's been hard to place but, though I'm not great at explaining it, the mood of reality changed. It went from apathetic positivity to instability & negativity. At times true apathy. Things got worse, people, the economy, music, games, TV, since 2007 it's like nothing matters anymore, like everything meaningful died between 2007 & 2008.

Maybe I'm just paranoid & dumb, that's the most likely reason for thinking this, but I'm convinced that 2007 was a fundamental shift in reality away from whatever future originally awaited us. Nothing feels as real as it did before that watershed year.

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>>34968424
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

>Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the public on January 9, 2007

It's already been more than 10 years. If I hadn't looked it up, I would have instantly called BS and thought "This doesn't sound possible. There is no way smartphones have already been around for a decade."
And yet it is. What a bizarre state of being I find myself in.

>>34968526
Are you serious? Everyone had a computer in 2007 ya dumb idiot. To answer OPs question it was social media Facebook, twitter etc and the smartphone.

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>>34968604
>tfw the illuminati kidnaps you and begs you to run the world
I DIDN'T KNOW THINGS WERE THIS BAD

>>34968633
You just re-iterated my point in your second sentence, dumbfuck. And no, back in 2007 many people didn't have computers. Even a lot of people that did weren't super internet savvy and didn't spend tons of time on it like every normie and their mother does now spamming selfies on Instagram/Facebook/Whatfuckingever. Are you 12?

>>34968346
The rise of social media and excessive consumption really hit bars 2007, by 2008 a significantly larger amount of people had developed an existential vacuum without seeing it.

>>34968346
The year facebook became ultra popular, so around 2009, my life would have been completely different without it.

>>34968546
This. The very year that ruined my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7qPAY9JqE4

Steve Jobs fucked us all to satisfy his ego...
Now, anyone can shitpost from anywhere, but because they tend to use their phones in brief moments, they only could give short bursts of attention.

Friendly reminder that Steve Jobs prohibited his own children from using these products, knowing how harmful it is to childhood development.

He didn't care about anyone else's children.

>>34968663
literally everyone in the middle class in first world countries had computers in 2007 and every fucking special snowflake teenager had myspace.

>>34968346
>be me 14 years old
>facebook exploded when I was 13
>starting highschool, different class, know almost nobody but one person
>people in my class post hundreds of photosof themselves hanging out at parties/clubbing with their friends
>realize I'm a weirdo creep
>excluded, became ultra anxiety ridden and develop OCD (which I managed to almost completely eradicate now)

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>>34968346
That's the year. That's the fucking year.
Why do so many robots keep mentioning 2007?
How do they fucking know that's the fucking year light turned to darkness?
The year in which it all fucking shattered.

>>34968743
Go compare the Myspace traffic stats in 2007 with the Facebook traffic stats now. And that's not even counting Twitter and all the other shitty social media sites. Christ, how many of you are teenyboppers?

>>34968743
No one here in Italy had myspace, Facebook ruined everything.

We had messenger which was comfy obviously because it was nothing like Facebook and pretty much just like whatsapp

>>34968663
Bro where u live. Everyone had at least 1 computer in 2007. I got my first laptop and I was fucking 15. As a matter of fact everyone had one. And there were other forms of communication other than emails. It wasn't 1998 dude.

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>graduated high school
>had a ton of friends
>was busy all the time
>had it all before me
>the uncertainty of my future caused me to become more reclusive though
>that summer changed me and I've never really recovered
>i felt like my life was over before it had even begun

Teenage years passed in the blink of an eye. No romance, not much of anything really.

2007 was the peak of the world economy basically, the most (artifically) prosperous time in human history.

Everyone was making so much money so easily that nothing really felt like a problem. Everyone thought the future was bright, everything would be alright in the end.

In 2008 our perception of reality changed because it slowly started to sink in that anyone who didn't already own a house was fucked

>>34969116
>2007 was the peak of the world economy basically

If we're talking the entire world, I'm pretty sure late-90s economy was better. If we're just talking North America, it was the 50s. By 2007 things were beginning to fall apart everywhere.

financial crisis
iphone and mobile internet (smartphones existed before but normies didnt care)
big bang theory (everyone is now a nerd xD)

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>>34969223

perhaps the level of growth per capita was better but in terms of real global wealth that was it

>>34969223
yeah 07 was when the housing crisis was starting. In the US there were states that were almost entirely dependent on real estate markets to survive, like AZ and Nevada, and so hundreds of thousands were about to lose their homes and livelihoods.

for what it's worth 07 was also the worst year in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan casualty wise. The US alone had over 1,000 KIA. I know compared to other wars historically that isn't much but it was a tough year for them. They also had 15 month deployments back then.

smartphones / women on the internet / housing crash

now I'm gonna read what the thread says

>>34969280

The Big Bang Theory is probably worse than the economic crisis or iphone.

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>>34968346
kys now please and save us from your faggotry

>>34969402
okay, took only 7 posts for all of those points to pop up
thx

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>>34969425
Get lost blue pill

>>34968379
housing bubble
social media
smartphones
obama
culture kind of shifted from random edgy fun loving early 00s and echos of the late 90s to cynicism, being miserable about everything and not allowing yourself to enjoy anything, from emo/scene to hipsters to whatever the post-ironic fuck it is now

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>>34969547
>tfw too young to be exploited by subprime mortgages
>tfw deleted all social media
>tfw smartphones
>tfw nobama

>>34969547
``post-ironic fuckscape'' is a good way to phrase our present zeitgeist.

>>34969314
Get ready for the next, which is going to be caused by student debt to universities. I wish I knew when that bomb is going to explode.

>>34970347
Early-mid 2020s.

>>34970347
I know, I'm one of them that will be part of it. I have an amount of debt that is just not sustainable. I have a decent paying job too but with all this debt I feel like I'm drowning.

The year I met my first boyfriend. The same guy who spend most of his time at the gym and cheated on me with a prettier girl

The rise of social media (branching out from universities) really did change a lot no matter how much you wish it didn't.

The housing market was about to crash and the US nearly went into full depression mode.

The economic downturn changed a lot of peoples' attitudes and shifted a lot of beliefs within society, i.e. more pessimism particularly in men, and women tending to flock to so-called "alpha males" for survival

This shift, combined with the rise of social media, created a perfect storm. It was the beginning of what we're seeing a lot of today. People began to group themselves according to certain core beliefs. Within these groups, certain ideas would bounce around and cause these core beliefs to veer closer to the extremes. It turns into a cycle or downward spiral because any ideas that go against the group in any way are immediately rejected. The ideas that survive and bounce around the longest are the ones that elicit the most emotional response.

Being exposed to these ideas on a constant, daily basis (via smartphones) shapes the way we view the world, and often it happens without us realizing it.

OP, 2007-2008 was the beginning of this era.

>>34968633
Yeah but normies were starting to leak from the contaiment zones like myspace gaia and facebook

>>34971729

Can it be stopped? Is there anything that can be done to stop it? Because if this cant be stopped then Black Mirror's future isnt too far away

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>>34971142
jesus christ. men are scum. let me guess, he made the excuse that men need to spread their seed?

2007 literally just felt like a different time in space. 2006 was like the twilight of an era, and 2007/8 were the primordial ooz of what is to become this new era that we're currently in. Either that era of post-modernism and idpol is now over that Trump is elected and the culture has changed and we're in a new era now, or this is the culmination of that and things are going to get much more extreme and this is all just part of the set up to a large global event in the next 10 years. Kind of like how the early 1900s and late 1800s had foreseeable signs of the makings of WW1.

The world just felt smaller in 2005 and 2006, it felt cozier and comfier, it's like suddenly everything began to be exacerbated and opened in 2007 and nothing had any special or sentimental value to it anymore. You only now have a mockery of such things with all the wannabe nostalgia 90s kids. It seemed like everything became fake and over analyzed and like it was just trying to live up to myths of the past. I assume this is largely due to the internet becoming mainstream and realizing just how many people are out there that are way better and more accomplished than you could ever be.
It reminds me of that Haruhi episode where she talks about how everything changed for her when she went to that baseball game as a kid and saw how many other people there were and felt small and irrelevant. Speaking of which, Haruhi was one of those shows that felt like it had one of the last true 2005-2006 feels to it along with the atmosphere and events in it. Same thing with Bleach (especially during first season) and others.

>>34968585
this is exactly what i've always felt and i thought i was mental. i seriously think that something fucked up happened in the universe during 2007-2008. when i look back, especially 2008, it seems like the most miserable and apathetic year, almost like you could describe the whole mood of that year as nihilistic and off-putting.

>>34968346
I'm not sure about how important social media and the smart phone was, though I'm sure it is nearly as important as everyone else is saying, but I think their was a major political and by consequence social shift in 2007-2008. In all actuality, the zeitgeist itself did a whole 90 degree turn.

Politically those two years were the years that Obama rose to power, the left and ultra left swept the country, even in congress and many state governorships and congresses, and that is when SJWs really started to rise in prominence. They and the phrase had been around before that, but they essentially from 2008 to 2015 ruled America, it's academia, and the zeitgeist in general. 2007-2008 were the years America rejected Bush and neo-con ideas so hard they decided to try Obama's "fundamental transformation of America" which has become so loathed that Trump's "build a wall, deport them all, and ban all Muslims" became popular and viable.

It's just my opinion that Obama, the Democrats, and the SJWs stance on America was so anti-America and so America hating that from 2008 until now things have just felt really shitty. There has been no pride and nothing has seemed sacred because SJWs and the left has spent the last 8 or 9 years shitting on almost everything: America, men, video games, patriotism, being white, religion, Christmas, monogamy, they've fucked up cartoons, movie series, TV series, YouTube, Facebook, you name it, they have tried to shit on it for the last 8 years.

>>34968346
cuz its the year i started masturbating. 14 years old, on my sister's birthday coincidentally

>>34974152
I think that's why the 80s felt optimistic and cool, because Reagan had a significant impact on that decade, whereas, the 90s with Clinton and a neocon were depressing.

>>34974215
Did u get any "inspiration" from the party my dude...:]

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>>34968346
>>34973863
>>34973663
>the year that current 17-21 year olds began to grow up
>I'M CONVINCED THAT THE FABRIC OF REALITY HAS WARPED
this shit is as redditarded as the "mandela effect"

you are what changed

>>34974357
I'm 40 though
Nice try there, bud, looks like you need to turn off your projector

I remeber my coworker saying 2007 was the peak of man kind long before any threads started showing up about it. I just know halo 3 and wow burning crusade were out and that was a golden era of video games. It was like right before companies learned they could make assloads of money off micro transactions so they actaully put effort into games.

I noticed a change with how people started acting also. Everyone started become over sexual.

>>34974455
It was the golden era of anime too. A lot of good art forms died around that time and became corporate husks. That was when YouTube started getting ads and shitty vlogger normie YouTubers. I guess everyone was tight on money and was desperate to get whatever they could.

Hmmm

2017: Why did 2007 feel so different?

2007: Bros, why did 1998 feel sooo different?

1998: Dudes, why did 1988 feel so different?

1988: Guys, why did 1977 feel so different

ummm maybe because IT WAS 10 YEARS AGO YOU FUCKING RETARD

>>34968346
I was 10 years old and lived in Texas with a bunch of beaners.

Wew, what a change.

>>34974152
>they essentially from 2008 to 2015 ruled America
Trump was elected because of boomers who are beginning to die off now. I hear "generation Z is the most conservative ever" but they are mostly underage now so it remains to be seen. In the long term America is veering to the left and the far-left will only intensify.

Trump will probably only inflame it unless he actually drains the swamp and improves things thereby proving he was doing this for all Americans all along, not just white males as his detractors claim.

>>34968800

That's why he said MIDDLE CLASS not EVERYONE. Idiot

That was the year I fell in love for the first time.

That ruined everything.

>>34974357

Go suck off Tony Robbins dumbass anime poster

I wonder how 2018 and up will be.

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>social media shat everything up
>scene/emo in full swing, paving the way for all of the horseshit now
>iPhone came, smartphones stayed
>that news report on 4chan/anonymoose
>surge in Iraq confirmed everyone's permawar fears
>housing market crash really left a dent
>economic crisis hanging over our heads

It also sucked for me personally because it's when I became genuinely depressed, had some heavily impacting deaths of loved ones that year, my best friend moved far as fuck away, went from straight As to flunking, was taking Ritalin, and most of my friends became too cool for me/stopped talking to me.

My 2006 was the opposite of my 2007, and I was so full of hope. 2007 kicked my ass and rebuilt me a robot. Excuse the blogposting.

[spoilers]At least we had Halo 3.[/spoilers]

>>34975636

>fucked up spoilers because I've been posting for 15 hours straight

I'm out

>>34975247
I hope for this world to end in this year.

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Why didn't we listen?

>>34974601
>I hear "generation Z is the most conservative ever" but they are mostly underage now so it remains to be seen
If I've learned one thing, it's that if you meme it, it will come true, magic or not

I have to agree with others, what change in at least the last half century has had as much of an effect as when the internet becoming mainstream? Probably the last major shift was when drugs became mainstream.

>>34968346

Beginning of the smartphone era perhaps? The start of the debt crisis in the West?

Myself, 2007 was a year of change. I moved house, made new friends ect... also played Runescape a lot and didn't give a shit about politics.

>>34975661
>highlight text
>ctrl + s
ez pz anon

>>34968663
>And no, back in 2007 many people didn't have computers
Everybody who wasn't poor as fuck had one. Hell, even in the late 90s everybody I knew had a computer or at the very least had access to one.

It's almost like society reflects what party the president is

>>34968743
The vast majority of those people also had internet by 2007, contrary to what many seem to believe here.

>>34974563
I bet this or 2016 is going to be another "different" year.

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>>34968346
1st real mandela effect for people e.g. changes on a quantum level.

I'll tell you the real reason, OP.

THE GAME

2007 was the year, when new games no longer ran on my computer so it definitely meant a new paradigm for me.

>>34973663
It's so strange, that other people feel exactly the same about this very year.
Do you also have a similar feeling about 2012/2013? Not because of the Mayans, but something changed in 2013, it feels like.

>>34979839
Not OP, yes to both.

>>34968346
For a second there, I though your image was 2 Opera Browser logos.

>>34979839
In my mind, that's when the SJWs started exerting real power in most areas of the internet. Furthermore I believe that's when corporations and politicians started paying lipservice to them, and adopted much of their policies.

>>34981962
I also believe it was around that time that the distinction between illegal and legal immigration went away in polite conversation.

I was much more naive back then definitely less connected I think smart phones changed everything back then if you were in public it wasn't weird to just randomly hit up a conversation now it's weird because your expected to just look at your phone if your bored/waiting
having to sit down at a pc just to download anime or look something up made it more novel people also werent as sensitive about gay and faggot
anime has definitely changed since 2006 too

It was one of the last times I could unironically enjoy things.

>>34982074
Why would you miss striking up conversations with strangers?

Does anyone else get the feeling that we're currently going through another change of sorts.
I'm not sure if things are about to get better of even worse but I feel like we're gonna be looking back 5 or 10 years from now and be saying the same thing we say about 2007.

>>34982188
I think the overton window is going even further left. The democratic party will probably adopt some explicitly anti-white stances.

>>34974215
>coincidentally
suuuuuuuuure thing

>>34982188
Things will get even worse in the 2020s.

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>>34968546
Don't give up now. We're all gonna make it bro.

2007 is the year the simulation began. Everything prior that is just imprinted memories.

>>34983099
But it felt so real..

>>34983099
My uncle works for Nintendo (the true overlords) and I can confirm.

>>34975636
Are emos really the new SJWs?
I was really into the boston hardcore scene in the early 2000s and emo kids seemed alright but just a little too sensitive. The straight edge kids were the ones I really had a problem with, they just imposed their beliefs on everyone around them. I don't really know what scene SJWs came from or how it became so normal, maybe the commercialization of hip hop?

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>>34968346
we sure do live in these interesting times

>>34983135
If it's any consolation, it was as real as any of this right now.

>>34983278
Is...is this real tho?

>>34969352
Who cares military fags can burn in hell. They are Jewish pawns anyway.

>>34978303
It's this year because Trump's president

I can feel the tide turning. Music is changing, culture is changing, vidya is changing. It's happening again. We are slowly entering the 2020s.

>>34974248
90s was not depressing their was money to be made and opportunity for almost everyone.

>>34969547
>culture kind of shifted from random edgy fun loving early 00s and echos of the late 90s

I wish I could go back to this time. I miss it a lot.

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this explains why.

>>34983826
I thought about 2016 because that's when Trump was elected, Brexit started, more celebrities than in an average year died, etc., but you're probably right.

>>34983822
Deuce duece

>>34984200
that implies that things changed on a cosmic scale

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>>34984348
>Deuce
He still talking shit about Hollywood Undead?

2007 was the year I started being sexually abused, fuck 2007

but for real, big things happen every year for diferent people, its just conformation bias.

If you madea thread that said "oooh 2009, what a year right?" You'd get just as many replies

1987 to 2006 = Life before Facebook
>Go out with friends, have a nice time, come home, reflect positively on the event, go to sleep
2006 - 2012 = college + post college life with Facebook
>go out with friends, come home, wake up the next day, see pictures of yourself online. realize how hideous you are. develop horrible social anxiety and a self esteem complex, feel terrible
2012 to 2017: become tfwngf wagecuck and stop caring about facebook, lose all friends anway

g-guess i won that one guys