I miss the days when forums attracted normal people

[JayJ350]

It's always been a fun approach to social media IMO, at least the format. Just a place for everyone to leave messages with a focus on people replying to them. Sadly the popularity is total chit these days and it feels like it's harder and harder to find normal well adjusted people on forums these days. It's like whenever you see gatherings of degenerates/outcasts and totally phucked up living conditions on the internet it always turns out to be forum users. The audience seems to be dominated by people with serious issues, developmental disorders, that kinda chit.

The misc seems to have a pretty normal community as far as forums are concerned, that is what attracted me to this place, one of the few forums where it feels like I am just bullchitting with normal guys, but even then we still have a lot of phucked up people running around here. It's no wonder forums are dying off, if you didn't grow up with this approach to social media it's hard to see the appeal.

[BrawnySwoleman]

Those days never ****ing existed.

[wutevs]

Sorry man, I'm actively trying to work on my mental issues. I'll be normal again one day, have some faith in me.

[JayJ350]

Those days never ****ing existed.

Maybe it was just an 00's thing but I swear there was a time when forums were just a thing normal people used, at least for teenagers back in the day. There's a good reason why most forum users these days are in their late 20's or 30's or older.

[MetroBrah]

Those days never ****ing existed.

fuarking Brawny Swoleman. Haven't seen this name in legit years

[Fang2]

Now the misc attracts *******s who spam onlyfan and tik tok thot threads, like Ernie

[BrawnySwoleman]

fuarking Brawny Swoleman. Haven't seen this name in legit years

Lol thanks man. Haven't been on here much, thought I'd check it out, only to find that the thread selection is just as pathetic as ever.

[BrawnySwoleman]

Maybe it was just an 00's thing but I swear there was a time when forums were just a thing normal people used, at least for teenagers back in the day. There's a good reason why most forum users these days are in their late 20's or 30's or older.

I think you might have a point there: before it used to just attract relatively normal people and then warp their minds. Now, people who are already mentally fukked up are drawn to forums.

[Hector002]

Everyone that made it has left the misc

[Kiop]

bastER

[elterrible987]

yeah OP real normal

[coast2coastam]

Idk about normal people. I don't think there's many of those anywhere.

The one thing I remember that made places like the misc better back in the day was the sheer number of posters on at any time. You could bump a thread and it'd be on page 5 in seconds. Now everything feels dead by comparison. Also, raid threads. Those were incredibly entertaining.

Even as little as 10 years ago the internet felt like the wild west. Now you can't even google anything without them censoring the results.

[coast2coastam]

yeah OP real normal

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lol I totally forgot about malodrax

[JayJ350]

Idk about normal people. I don't think there's many of those anywhere.

The one thing I remember that made places like the misc better back in the day was the sheer number of posters on at any time. You could bump a thread and it'd be on page 5 in seconds. Now everything feels dead by comparison. Also, raid threads. Those were incredibly entertaining.

Even as little as 10 years ago the internet felt like the wild west. Now you can't even google anything without them censoring the results.

Yeah it's true, the 00's era internet was truly the wild west era. Now a days it feels like living under and oppressive regime.

[eod8989]

Well there is a lot more liberalism and mental illness in the west now compared to 10-15 years ago

[coast2coastam]

Yeah it's true, the 00's era internet was truly the wild west era. Now a days it feels like living under and oppressive regime.

It's insane. Things have been on the decline for the last decade, but they really went all out this year. Search results are programmed to display one sided results. If you want to voice an opinion contrary to what's mainstream, you're either blacklisted or outright banned. Many platforms will auto delete your comments if you're criticizing something like BLM or how covid is being handled.

The misc, which felt restrictive in the past due to subjective modding now feels free by comparison to most of the internet. I miss the crazy days of the internet where you could actually express yourself in any way you wanted to, and had easy unlimited and uncensored access to information and its spread.

[Km2019]

Those days never ****ing existed.

They did. It used to be just a bunch of guys talking **** on here and joking around about relatively normal stuff. Playful insults, banter, etc. Now it's a bunch of angry incels, Trumptards, misogynists, racists, libertarian crazies, and just general right-wing nutjobs who come here to spew all the bull**** they're too pussy to say in the real world.

[JayJ350]

It's insane. Things have been on the decline for the last decade, but they really went all out this year. Search results are programmed to display one sided results. If you want to voice an opinion contrary to what's mainstream, you're either blacklisted or outright banned. Many platforms will auto delete your comments if you're criticizing something like BLM or how covid is being handled.

The misc, which felt restrictive in the past due to subjective modding now feels free by comparison to most of the internet. I miss the crazy days of the internet where you could actually express yourself in any way you wanted to, and had easy unlimited and uncensored access to information and its spread.

Yeah true. I think Google has a lot to do with the downfall of the internet. I know I hardly use Google search for anything these days because I simply don't trust it and I know they phuck with the results. Duckduckgo is the way I search these days, they are pretty much what Google used to be back in the 00's.

The censorship is definitely the biggest issue the internet is facing, what was a source of access to freedom and information where anyone could have a voice has become a closed off source of propaganda where only a select few are allowed to voice anything. ******** and Twitter has a lot to do with that, they took over the internet social scene and changed it for the worst.

[propreffered7]

lmao

also, how do you define "forum"? you're kind of using it like an internet message board. aren't all social media sites a form of internet board?

prob extends further than you think nowadays. just like i guarantee you more women lurk than you think

i see both having advantages and disadvantages but the self-interest of identity attached is the only constant of one

[MisquePhaggot]

Do you miss the days where forum *******s used words like flamed and flame suit ?

[witcher3fan83]

Late 90s to mid-00s was the best internet.

Unlike OP I think it’s normies who made the internet so bad.

It turns out that Arnold your friendly neighbour is actually a narcissistic politically radicalised psycho. And so is his wife.

[batmanman]

They did. It used to be just a bunch of guys talking **** on here and joking around about relatively normal stuff. Playful insults, banter, etc. Now it's a bunch of angry incels, Trumptards, misogynists, racists, libertarian crazies, and just general right-wing nutjobs who come here to spew all the bull**** they're too pussy to say in the real world.

Meh, we're all the same, we didn't change, just everywhere else on the internet is so extremist left/communist that this place seems right wing, when in reality everyone just isn't censored