>>367528Laugh tracks are unnecessary and dumb, but I've always been able to tune them out.
>>367634I have some nostalgia for the 2000s, but it's mostly for what the Internet was like then. I don't get much of the appeal otherwise. At least rock was still alive in a sense, although I can't see I enjoy much 2000s rock compared to older music. I mostly gave up on TV around 2007. The 2000s felt like a cultural wasteland to me growing up. Even as a small child in the late '90s I was aware enough to notice the Y2K aesthetic that was taking over and disliked how sterile it felt compared to what came before, although I lacked the vocabulary to describe it. Even the late '90s and 2000s felt more red blooded than the current zombie era, so I guess that's another thing they had going for them.
>>367635>Yes the "rot" had set in but at least it was just another subculture back then.I disagree. The things I posted are examples of why. The Puzzle Place was a show I remember watching regularly on PBS and liking possibly before I could even read. I also recall another puppet show that PBS aired where a character once made a comment about how all cultures are equal. That actually stuck with me because, funnily enough, I remember being skeptical of it even being as young as I was. My thinking was due to believing non-Christian cultures were evil and wasn't based on anything sensible though.
Friendship's Field was distributed by Feature Films for Families, which was a Mormon company but catered to pretty standard evangelical audiences, and I recall seeing it when I was a little bit older than that (although I didn't remember the name of the movie and had to track it down). I saw other Feature Films for Families releases back then, and some of those were probably pozzed too. Here's another one I vaguely remember seeing:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155919/?ref_=ls_t_4And although Our Friend, Martin was a direct-to-video release, I remember seeing it on TV once (probably on PBS) and then being made to watch it in school in the 2000s.
I grew up in a pretty conservative family, and these weren't considered all that fringe in terms of the messages they were promoting. I could see The Puzzle Place getting negative reactions from some people, but that's more due to how on the nose the messaging of the show was than the message itself. That all goes to show both how mainstream race poz was back then and how ineffective conservatives are at combating it. '90s conservatives would have been up in arms over something that went against "family values" or had anything the least bit negative to say about Christianity, but they didn't care about defending their race. Maybe if it was from a useless race-blind perspective ("How dare they say that about whites! That's racist! We're all equal!") and not a racially aware one, but that would have been about as far as it would have gone.
>Thats a great example of what we're both talking about. The whole anti white thing but also how it was more fairThe anti-white hatred was definitely less over the top. On the other hand, maybe we're in a better place now. If serious anti-white hatred wakes people up and gets them supportive of white racial preservation in a way that will have real-world impact, then it's probably better that anti-whites are more vocal. I don't mean to sound like a better-is-worse accelerationist, but at the same time the old way of doing things was lulling whites into complacency.
>Btw what year were you born? Its the samefag 93 baby here as the previous postI'm a year older than you.
>>367636Same.
>>367637The 2000s had a nice balance between the older style of the Internet and all the newer stuff that was going on. You could still find plenty of old-school personal pages and everything alongside newer sites like YouTube. I remember coming across sites promoting fringe ideas and getting pretty engrossed in them. There was a sense of wonder that feels absent these days. Now the Internet feels hollowed out, fake, and like it's catering to people with lower IQs and shorter attention spans.