So is Internet culture as we knew it basically dead at this point?

>>38270120
>What even passes as Internet culture now?

Cash me outside girl.

Fucking normies came onto the internet and ruined it like they ruin everything they ever fucking touch.

>>38270120
what passes as major internet culture now is what ever flavor of the month meme normalfags like and that's really it but op you know you can still go on newgrounds and a few of those other sites the only difference is that there just not as popular now

Encyclopedia Dramatica is still up
Was it supposed to be better back then?

>>38270120
F-four chan, right?

Going on the internet for the sake of it wasn't quite so common, so it was sort of a subculture. When the internet boomed in usage, subculture was replaced with mainstream culture.

>>38270199
Reddit ruined internet culture
Normal fags in real life were exposed to the internet culture through reddit

>>38270342
i recommend using double chan now it is only slow if you just browse one board if you frequent 5+ boards all day then it's fine

>>38270357
Exactly
When normal Faggot's started going on the internet for the sake of going on the internet, they went on Reddit and subsequently ruined internet culture

Internet culture now is divided into two categories: retarded normie shit - and memers taking retarded normie shit and making it retarded enough to be ironically funny

Internet culture is now le dank maymays about le cripling depression and seize le means of production.

>>38270310
Yes and no, yes because it was outrageous for the time and no because you have to do so much just to edit a page.

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>>38270120
>YTMND
>YTPs
>Albinoblacksheep
>Classic CWC

Never heard of these.

>SomethingAwful
>Encyclopedia Dramatica

Heard of these, but I have no idea how they contributed to internet culture.

>inb4 newfag

Try making a decent informative response, please.

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>>38270120
The internet became centralized. Most people only use a handful of websites for everything now.

>>38271711
>Never heard of these
t. underage b&

>>38271711
>Try making a decent informative response, please.
Do you know where the fuck you are?
Fuck off reddit
Your mums a slag
ect

>>38270120

Due to the near 100% and ever increasing ubiquity of internet access, the entire internet and the culture contained therein is permeated by normies. All hope is lost at this point I'm afraid. We're on borrowed time.

>>38271711
before facebook and youtube dominated the social media landscape we had a a ton of decentralized niche sites which were effectively shitty meme factories.

YTMND you could create single pages filled with text and repeating images, strobing colors, and shitty music.

YTP im assuming refers to youtube poop
Idk much about ABS, never heard of CWC.

Something Awful was where the degenerates of the internet hung out before 4chan got popular, and was kind of a rival back in the day.

ED was a well done repository of all 4chan memes and a good source for raids and major events, but it was pretty cancerous too.

>people ruined the internet
lmao are you guys serious? the internet isn't like some fucking secret

>>38270120
Gentrification.

Internet culture is far from dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. What was once esoteric is not so much anymore. There are still plenty of hidey holes left on the internet, other chans, obscure forums, niche interest groups, etc.

>>38272025
>There are still plenty of hidey holes left on the internet, other chans, obscure forums, niche interest groups, etc.
What, like MPC? What if I'm not a white neo-nazi with a STEM degree?

>>38270120
I think your problem is that the internet has become incredibly specialized. You can still find old-timey-internet-stuff, you just have to be part of particular groups that have their own culture.

Same with the age of good cam whores.
ED doesn't have the nudes of famous camwhores from the randum board.
Zunechan vids are gone. Someone needs to reupload them.

All those good whores are gone. Oh sure they would age and get ugly but, the memory is fading. It wasn't all cheese pizza either.

So many good things are gone.

>>38270386
>they went on Reddit
It died long before reddit newfriend, the social media and youtube boom are what effectively killed old internet culture for good

>>38271711
>Try making a decent informative response, please.
Lurk moar

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>>38270120
>HAHA INTERNETZ 4 TEH WIN EPIC FAIL LOLCATS I CAN HAZ CHEESEBURGER RAGE COMICS XDDDDDD
not that much better than what we have now but still awful

>>38270362
This

Beta fags at universities started swarming reddit and to impress stacies and chads started showing them memes. Betas at reddit ruined the internet.... and black people

>>38270310
Girlvynil one of the founders of the previous Encyclopedia Dramatica decided to replace it with "Oh! Internet" which is even shittier version than Know Your Meme.

OhInternet crashed and burned for being a total failure, while a small team have restored ED along with the article data but most of their older articles have missing image files, they could not restore the website entierly but the ed is still glorious.

https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/encyclopedia-dramatica-legal-defense-fund

Reminder to support Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's a piece of internet history

>>38270120
Basically every thing you listed still exists and they're as good as they get now.

Social media ruined internet culture. When the average retard got internet access and started browsing Facebook the internet turned from being a niche to a mainstream phenomenon

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Web entertainment has evolved to browsing gigantic websites like facebook and YouTube to find the best trends happening across the world. This, along with the way YouTube has fucked over people with their algorithm has forced content creators to change what they do.

>>38270310
it had hardcore autists that would post new lulzcows and update them frequently
>>38274880
I think she got desperate because no advertisers wanted to touch ED

>>38271933
ABS was sort of like newgrounds but edgyier

CWC was the chris chan wiki before he went tranny

>>38274634
that was like 7 years ago the dank shit was 13 years ago

I miss the era when normies didn't even know what memes were. Thanks to facebook, every normie loves to share their "dank memes XD"

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It died for me the day Jeff hunter decided to close down The Temple of the screaming electron (TOTSE)

The only reason I came here was during the tragic exodus of my peoples.

Any oldfags remember it?

>>38275023

Damn, yes, I remember Totse. Haven't heard that name in many years

>>38271933
>Something Awful was where the degenerates of the internet hung out before 4chan got popular, and was kind of a rival back in the day.

Wait... Something Awful isn't relevant anymore? When did this happen? Actually, when did any of these become irrelevant? This is still the internet culture today.

>http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/385183

The most important website is still up.

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Facebook is pretty cool. The groups saved it. It's like you can make your own board about any topic and the format is great. It can be great if you find the right groups. All except the zucc (getting banned) which happens to me too frequently for a month at a time...

>>38275023
no, but I just googled it and it seems like it was a really cool place. sounds really interesting

Ma nama Jeff xD

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>>38275075
people would bet their accounts on the US election and would get banned if their guy lost.

lots of people to the right of Obama were banned in 08. This happened again in 2012. Republicans did not want to spend $10 again to get their accounts unbanned and so all the mods and posters who were left became super left wing SJWs.

SJW mods would ban people for triggering them and being un PC. Less people posting meant the site slowly died and no nobody goes there. Lowtax could have been a millionaire if he had sold it in 02-03 when it was hot but now it barely brings in enough ad $ to cover the server costs


Also Reddit and other fourms killed it. All the dank photoshop fags moved over to reddit and all the celebrities started going to /r/AMA so nobody felt the need to pay $10 to post on an internet fourm

t. ex goon who joined in 08 and switched to 4chan in 11

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>>38270120
pic related ruined the internet

>>38270120

Newgrounds is still up and running.
Youtube poops just got replaced with vines and meme compilations
Albino black sheep was just a good flash site for its time with relatively cringey material. I don't see why it should be missed.
Creepypastas have whole archives dedicated to them.

rage comics and troll comics were always cringey as shit, and I believe appeared not quite in 2007, but closer to 2009.

No idea what cwc is.

For me current internet culture is just good porn and hentai: Pixiv, sadpanda, nijie, the boorus.

There is greater quality, quantity and variety of hentai than ever before, and it would be a shame to let this golden age pass you by.

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>>38275198
>troll comics were always cringey

There's the occasional golden one.

Also, holy shit, if you're into deep diving on a topic, just go to the CWC wiki. The tl;dr is that the internet (largely 4chan) discovered a Sonic loving autistic teen and then ran his life into the ground. It's pretty fucked but incredible all the same. I mean, people have documented this guy's entire life, hundreds of pages of worth.

Its pretty telling when most people name 2007 - 2008 the time when shit went downhill.

>>38272565
>Zunechan vids are gone.

Wait, wasn't she 16 in them? that would be illegal.
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

>>38275010

No, 7 years ago is SHIGGYDIGGY and Costanza.

LOLcats and FOR TEH WIN is precisely 10-13 years ago and in retrospect, cringeworthy and simultaneously endearing.

Internet culture ages like milk.

>>38275004

>edgyier

Maybe we visited different sites, because newgrounds was as edgy as it gets from the very start, whereas albinoblacksheep was full of kid-tier flash series like "on the moon" and retarded songs and flash loops about owls and waffles.

>>38275290

>No, 7 years ago is SHIGGYDIGGY and Costanza.


JUST. Only feels like a few years ago

>>38275132

Sliders fuck off.

Old style youtube with the full naruto episodes, a bunch of teens vlogging for fun and Lets Plays that weren't for money, they were either detailed walkthroughs or someone's genuine blind reaction to a game.

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>>38275117
It was my first exposure to internet culture as a youngun. So any funny memes born on that site.

Anytime someone asked for advice the advice was murder/suicide yourself. Pretty edgy in the wake of columbine. Yes there was a time when columbine threads were edgy.

The best one though was on the drugs subforum. You would always get someone asking how to get high off shit in their house. You got the usual hurr durr nutmegbro and banana peel posts. One day though someone starts telling kids you can get high of huffing raid and some kid actually apparently does it and gets hospitalised. His mum called the cops on the site and logged I to his account telling people she was going to make sure everyone was arrested over it. Thus
KYS fag equivalent became "huff raid"

There was also the time they got Jenkem on Fox News. (A made up drug made from fermenting peepee and poopoo)

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

4chan used to always raid and spam us and that was my first exposure to this Nepalese basket weaving forum. Anyways then the legal troubles started, TOTSE featured in an Australian anti terrorism advert and our Moot (Jeff Hunter) could t hack it anymore and shut the servers down.

It was a real community and happy distraction from shitty teenage life. RIP TOTSE, you were the best.

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>>38275473
Sorry fucked up the pic related. Leaked police memo about jenkem, literally had TOTSE and the username of the hoaxer on the bottle.