>>152282 Video games, TV, and movies were all way better at the beginning of the 2000s. The Internet hit its peak in the 2000s too. Also, there were more sensible beauty standards and "transphobia" was recognized as being normal. It was a pretty crappy decade but looks good to a lot of people nowadays because of just how bad things have gotten.
Redditors fucking hate the 00's for being "edgy". Is a wigga era, but still pretty good regardless of society becoming more no-white and dumber.
I would say that books had already fallen into decay by then, but movies, music and vidya still produced a lot of quality in a sea of shit, enough to still be easy to find as a continent in the sea, not just an islet like we have today.
2000s nostalgia has been a thing for a while now. With that said, it was a much simpler time. Sure there was chaos but, compared to today's chaos, it's nothing.
>00's nostalgia isn't happening >zoomers hate the 00's You people literally just never leave this bubble, do you? Have you not noticed how like Shadow the Hedgehog is legitimately popular right now, and the last Deadpool movie was an outright celebration of all of those Fox Marvel movies from the 00's, or how Linkin Park are getting back together, or how people have started sating "epic" again? This is LITERALLY the era we're in, and you have no idea, because you just sit around talking to five other weirdos on an irrelevant corner of the internet.
>>152415 They were actually one of the best times to be alive in this declining era, I think they owe the 80s and 90s a lot of that success however as those two decades served as a springboard for the climax of what little decent stuff was left in the West Post WWII.
>>152416 >those two decades served as a springboard for the climax of what little decent stuff was left in the West Post WWII. Good point, it's all over now though
>>152485 Oh yeah…its fucking over, I honestly can see a revival of imageboards once the kikes go full censorship again, I can see them being unironically useful for dissident voices, but the golden age of the interner essentially died with the first five guys thread on /v/.
>>152282 >What do you miss the most about this mediocre decade you were growing up in?
-appreciating jailbait was normal male sexuality and there weren't Karens everywhere shaming men for it -race traitors and faggots were the dregs of society -troons hid in the shadows -anime filtered normalniggers -you could get fast food 24 hours a day, usually prepared by Whites, and dollar menus were a thing -core music was getting the pussies wet -women's hairstyles and fashion peaked, most women still cared about their appearance -Whites dominated the culture and in spite of this, race relations were better
>>152282 >What do you miss the most about this mediocre decade you were growing up in? Internet culture. Before normalfags and corporations got a hold of it and pre-smartphone/social media days. Nerdshit like comics/games and their adaptations like movies/TV were getting bigger but being a big fan of it was still not a normalfag thing so it wasn't totally ruined yet. PS2 and GBA games were my jam, local multiplayer like splitscreen with friends was awesome, I never got on online gaming and it was never as fun as local multiplayer. The golden age of kids cartoons which started in the 90s still were strong in the 2000s. It was a great era of sports too, icons all around. I enjoyed the humour of the time too. People could still make edgy jokes. Nowadays everything is too ironic and nobody takes anything seriously and people get offended over everything, PC took over.
>>152486 Catchy and funny Never heard this one, thanks!
>>152526 I feels like it's getting better, people are sick of this corporate censorship and manipulative cancer. Including the Zoomoids and Alphas that grew up in this shit.
>>152282 Pretty sure cyberbullying laws were conceived during that age.
>>152511 >race traitors and faggots Eminem, Smashmouth and even Kurt Cobain's rotting corpse were still popular, liberalism was already there but subtle for the cattle.
>>152544 >Eminem, Smashmouth and even Kurt Cobain's rotting corpse were still popular, liberalism was already there but subtle for the cattle. Of course, the seeds were being planted in the media, but it hadn't really trickled down to how regular people behaved yet. Contrast it with today, you can't go anywhere without seeing a mudshark with her pet ape, or some flaggot abomination. There's so many of them around now, we are literally in a Weimar Germany situation, except there is no Hitler coming to save us.
>>152552 >victim of incest This is a pretty dumb phrase. She was raped by a family member. Does it have to do with cognitive dissonance? Normalfags always go on about not caring about what consenting adults get up to privately. They also usually oppose incest even if it's hypothetically happening among consenting adults who are using contraceptives or are infertile.
There was a level of optimism for the future that started in the 80s and reached its zenith in the late 90s-early 2000s, even though (((9/11))) really yanked it down but it still didn't entirely stop it. I am just thinking about the sort of optimism that came with Sonic Adventure and even pokenigger. Entertainment sort of half reflected this optimism and even when it was weary and sort of showed cracks of a darker future in some kinome more mainstream like cowboy bebop or ghost in the shell it still wanted to show off the cutting edge technology of the future.
Sadly it all died with the advent of the cuckphone and the way that soyny sort of lagged behind with the PS3 and microshits red ring. soytendo was able to maintain that bubble with the wii but still reality of the decadent calm before the storm was showing itself, and it was subsequently pushed back more years for us internet autists with the advent of quality entertainment in the form of youtube poops and content creators like AVGN and the NC. Anime also continued to be a decent form of escapism along with other internet autism. Even with the advent of the truth of the world with the news board we could still escape a bit longer, till gamergay came crashing down. >watches avgn christmas special in 2006 >remember the nintendo wii Are we really at that point? Oh god I feel so old.
>>152899 The Wii had plenty of good games, I guess your perception of it depends on whether or not you had the discernment back then to avoid the slop.
>>152904 Also if you were one of those gen x faggots who hated the easy to use gimmik controls that you could easily replace with the classic controller for the most part. The wii was a great console, the last console in Widescreen as well.
>>152897 The Internet and computer culture were pretty much at their height. Everything else was pretty much garbage by the time 2007 came around though.
>>152905 For me, the Wii classic controller was a gimmick. I never played a game that required the use of it. The Wiimote + Nunchuk had enough buttons.
Would you rather go back in time and live as the same age during the 2000s? Or go back in time as the current age and live as an adult during that time?
>>153647 If I go back and live as the same age, do I get to bring the knowledge I have now? Because I would love to go back and fuck all the girls I found out later who were into me.
>>153723 Oh my bad its actually a very ingrained traditionalist way of organizing society. Fascism and National socialism were partial resurrections of it.
>>153726 Yeah, it's just that people like to think it means big business steering the direction of government. They'll often throw in that fake Mussolini quote too, although even if it were real it wouldn't help their case at all.
>>152282 >There won't be kinos that trash tryhard corporate libtards <It's all redditors swallowing the semen after getting impressed by the new star spangling heavily advertised turd
I liked that coomb8 wasn't actually a big thing rule 34 was very niche, not everything was pornified and the porn addicts of the old days, aka basement dwelling autist that used the image boards of the day knew that their specific forms of hentai were a cheap substitute to relationships they were meant to have.
These days everything is just fucking porn, literally everything, porn is humor, everyone is a larger porn addict than the biggest coomer of 2007. Its fucking depressing because porn is literally something (you) get your rocks off to and than you feel nothing but emptiness.
>>157206 >These days everything is just fucking porn, literally everything, porn is humor, everyone is a larger porn addict than the biggest coomer of 2007 Terminally online weebs and furries aren't "everyone". Get some perspective
>>157218 Every kid with a smartphone is a porn addict, even the sex-havers. Porn influences them to engage in casual and risky sex. They're having sex in the school bathrooms.
>>157206 >implying Everyone I knew IRL was jacking it to some HUB pornsite and some were jacking it to hentai manga. That's besides all the degenerate shit in forums.
>>157338 That tranny who wanted to decapitate Dup's head but instead made a livestream raping his dog, he certainly took the cake when it comes to deranged terminal online spergs and abused the lack of IP permabans at DeviantArt by creating a fuckton of accounts.
During the 2000s I could buy three Kinder Eggs for a few cents and return home with my chrome bmx and play MtG with the other kids on the street outside my house without worrying that a drag queen or nigger would show up to ruin things.
It's weird that MMOs basically peaked in popularity the 2000s and is basically a dead genre now despite improved internet speeds. The social aspect was neat, people used to use it to hangout online but now they do so on other games but it isn't quite thr same.
>>157607 What are you referring to? >>157513 Nowadays these games are played only as a cope mechanism between failed normalfags and autistics. Taken a look at the new game from the creator of RuneScape, there is no interaction or fun, just repetition and a false sense of accomplishment.
I recently watched the documentary about Woodstock 99 and holy shit, they said "white males" at least twenty times as the ones to blame for everything bad that happened in the later 90's and 2000's.
>>159153 Boomers hippies and actual commies pushed that shit to Gen Xers pretty early in their life anon. They and early Millennials are the ones pushing it heavily in academia and media.
Funnily enough, Gen Z is doing a better job at rejecting this garbage than they did, but I guess they have more alternatives than just heavily curated books.
For me the early 2000's involved me hanging out with legitimate tomboys, not the LARPing e-thots, and play ps1 games with them, bully weak guys and even play doctor with them. Even in 2006 it was still easy to find a tomboy friend to go hiking or do extreme sports with.
>>163945 Having female friends back then was so much more innocent and simple. I could spend an afternoon in their room just talking and listening to music, without even imagining that we would reach this division and danger of #MeToo
>>166163 Deathnote, Code Geass, Samurai Champloo, Heaven's Lost Property, Lucky Star, Witchblade, Gunslinger Girl, Monster, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood, I also like a lot of shows which aired at the turn of the decade which wouldn't count as '00s.
>>166181 Couldn't the author deploy the first ever "tl;dr"? And just say: >Everyone in the internet is a sorry sack of autistic shit who make everything fucking sexual every run to the mill Hence cuckchanners went through HRT, the porn industry is so fucking kike'd.
Linkin Park perfectly fit the decade. I dont care about the memes, the fact that people trashed on them later, they were kino, probably the last great Rock Band.
When I die I hope I get transported to that July 2004 evening eating and drinking with friends at the yatch club while flirting with my childhood crush with this playing at the bar.
Things felt achievable back then, more social freedom, and that was already with a ton of cameras and security constraints around. Boomers must feel miserable everyday, imagine the amount of freedom you had in the 50s and 60s compared to today. It wasn't so much the amount of laws and social norms, more the fact that you could skirt around them easily since every mouthbreater didn't have a camera in their pocket so you could risk doing something silly, embarassing and/or offensive.
>>166248 >>166269 A few months ago I re-watched Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc, in order, and I found the first part better than the second, but it's still a good cartoon, even more so compared to what Western animation has become.
And this video clip is proof that even the so-called "degeneration" of the 2000s has more soul and aesthetics than the slops of today.
>>166521 We never got together, we lived pretty far away from each other at that point and she already had a boyfriend, she really didn't give a positive response to my more serious advances either so it never happened. It was all it was, flirting and a really nice summer night with friends I hadn't seen in years.
>>166543 It was still degeneration, everyone felt it. It was the end of an era and 2001 and 2007 cemented that. Media has been mostly complete garbage since then, a mirror of the times, financial and cultural decline.
Xtreme sports games of the time were incredible, nothing like it. Can do the craziest shit, filled with character, was just fucking cool. All of them had great soundtracks too, mainly with rock, metal, techno. Once in a while i listen to them and get blasted with nostalgia, almost teleported back to that era.
>>170166 Yeah, though stuff like Nickelback and Tokyo Hotel were absolute fucking garbage. Breaking Benjamin were sellout fucks but the music they produced was still alright.
I miss looking forward to new vidya, still believing in PC Gamer reviews. But then Doom 3 and Oblivion happened which killed all trust in reviews and later helped kill new games enthusiasm.
>>170181 Nickelback wasn't "absolute fucking garbage". That's way too harsh a critique and far too emotional an outburst for a band that's greatest sin was being offensively bland and boring. The "Nickelback was the greatest travesty of music" meme is just as gay as anything Nickelback ever did.
>>170205 I mostly play mods and some RTS niche titles now.
>>170212 I guess you're right, they were bland and it was played everywhere so it got into peoples nerves. At least I could hear it and not feel like someone is screaming into my ear like 90% of modern shit.
>>170239 They were absolutely overplayed because they were the corporations favorite middle of the road rock band that wouldn't cause any trouble. I'd rather listen to Nickelback on fucking repeat then listen to the any of the ooga booga mumble mouf'd niggers of the past 15 years. We unironically didn't know how good (mediocre in Nickelback's case) we had it, bros.
>>170266 >We unironically didn't know how good (mediocre in Nickelback's case) we had it, bros. I did, I was already missing it by 2009, every fucking TV channel and radio station played nothing but shitty pop with a nigger rapper in the middle of it. Consolidation killed mainstream music (and entertainment in general) and the internet raped it's corpse.
Just glad these kike companies are all struggling though.
>>174304 I'm a bit too old to fit into that category, but a lot of that stuff still applied to people my age. I don't have much nostalgia for much of it though. I thought a lot of it was gay even at the time. I guess one thing I can relate to zoomers about is that I was an autist who spent too much time on the Internet, which wasn't as normal back then.
I looked up culturally to people older than me, but now I can see that they had plenty of problems of their own. I don't know when the last non-retarded generation was.
>>174304 >1995 Literally me, and it sucks Seeing all the good shit being replaced by pure fucking cancer killed any motivation I had to make something out of myself harder than my neglectful boomer parents.
Movies and TV were mostly trash already but some good stuff still popped up until around 2007, mainstream music was already pure fucking trash by 2004, videogames were fucking amazing until around 2007 and the internet was great until around 2009/2010, started to become more and more sanitized and corporate at that point and by 2012 was pure fucking shit and culminated into all the politics shit in 2014/2016.
8chan was one of the last refuges and now we are here. Western society has never been more brown and gayer and collapse is incoming which will likely culminate in violence once boomers die out.
>>174307 You were a teenager when White males were still on top in pop culture with the post-hardcore shit, if you didn't make something out of that, that's a you problem.
>>174309 93 early zillenial here. A lot of classic nostalgia in these pics. Fuck we had a lot of good stuff growing up . This retarded shithole is too scared to admit to liking anything though out of fear of what they like being criticized ( like the poster above )
>>174306 "A lot of it was gay" so what do you like the ? Inb4 fake pretentious chud answer that you prefer 1740s media lol
>>174309 Emos were not top of the pop culture food chain lol. It was sperry wearing Aeropostale captain america type preppy frat boy hummer driving white boy chads
>>174306 Lmao rereading this ofc you dont even wanna admit to liking ANYTHING. "Every generation was retarded" aka too scared to face criticism so just hate everything
>>174311 >"A lot of it was gay" so what do you like the ? Different aspects of different eras. I like movies going back all the way to the silent days up to maybe the '90s. That period covers most of the music I like too. I don't read that much fiction, but pulp stories from the early 20th century are enjoyable. I've always had a thing for the '80s and early '90s in general. The later '90s and early 2000s still had good computer games coming out. The Talmudvision was still watchable back then too. I'm not sure if there's one period that stands out to me above all others.
The 2000s were better than today in a lot of ways, but the biggest thing I miss is the Internet at its peak. It was fun coming home from school and watching SpongeBob or sitting outside playing Game Boy Advance SP or whatever, but I don't miss much of the usual pop culture from that time that I'm supposed to feel nostalgic for. >>174309 The xSCENExCOREx shit was still awful despite its lack of cultural enrichment. I had a thing for the girls back in the day though. >>174313 Older generations being retarded doesn't mean that they were totally without redeeming features. I can relate to the tastes of Gen-Xers and earlier millennials more than people my own age, but the whole soy thing they embraced is completely pathetic. When I was younger and more naive, I liked the boomers despite their obvious problems as a generation. People are also too willing to let the Silent Generation and WWII Generation off the hook for the things they're responsible for. It's a snowball effect of faggotry.
>>174331 Lol i love how you choose a favorite time period (80s and 90s) but then immediately after try denying that you did so (I'm not sure if there's one period that stands out to me above all others.)
I actually largely agree with a lot of what you say tho despite having to claw your opinion out behind all the channer hipsterism lol. 80s-2000s are my favorite decades. With 50s close behind. Kraftwerk is amazing too. Love them.
>>174337 >Lol i love how you choose a favorite time period (80s and 90s) but then immediately after try denying that you did so (I'm not sure if there's one period that stands out to me above all others.) I'm not trying to equivocate or anything. I'm saying that that period has been my favorite in the long term. I don't know if it is as much anymore. It goes way back for me. I remember seeing the 198x copyright dates listed playing NES games as a little kid and feeling like that must have been a golden era. Lately I've been appreciating the more organic nature of previous decades, but I don't know if that'll hold true in the future. My own opinions aren't really clear to me right now. >Kraftwerk is amazing too. Love them. I think I'm more of a Yellow Magic Orchestra guy, but I really like that song. I listened to Die Mensch-Maschine in high school a lot too. More recently I've really come to appreciate some of the tracks on Ralf & Florian.