>>179834When it comes to defining a period when things went bad, we can go far back.
It doesn't matter the subject. Virtually every people of the Bronze Age and earlier established an idyllic period, before things went bad, generally a world without women (greeks, even amazonian tribes).
I would say that 2005 and then 2017 were the times when I made the most use of the internet, these were periods where shitposting, having real conversations, and finding creativity were strong.
But both form cycles. Normalfags of all kinds end up emerging during these periods and creating a bad period, before small communities organically form again.
The problem this time is that there aren't as many possibilities anymore. Normalcattle are omnipresent.
The internet has become a piece of garbage that reflects the culture in general more than ever.
The internet will only improve if society as a whole improves, but online idiots think the opposite is true. Spend the whole damn day complaining on Twitter, and magically the world will get better.