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Yeah me too.

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As the cycle continues the more niche places will continue to have that feel. Always vigilant for the nuttos but comes with it being a non mainstream community. Good and bad.

Thats the crux of it all. The a lot of the funniest videos 15+ years ago were just random videos on random accounts. There was no monetary incentive, so a lot accounts were just people who luckily captured something funny and uploaded it. Creative stuff felt authentic too, they were not chasing a trend, they were just trying to show off their original skills. I still love a lot of what we have today, but it is getting buried by trend chasers.

Nowadays...

If there is one eternal constant in human history, it's that every generation inaccurately believes that the problems they face are new.

Human creates thing.

Thing is cool.

Humans exploit thing.

Thing is no longer cool.

Humans reminisce about how cool the thing used to be, and lament the loss of cool.

If Lemmy gets popular enough, it too will be monetized and we'll al have to find somewhere else to go.

I don't think there will ever be a place like the old web again. Lemmy is better than reddit, but lots of the crap from there is just as common here, stuff that really wasn't as common before. I'm absolutely certain a disturbing amount of people say dumb shit, make spelling mistakes and stuff like that simply to get "interraction".

It hasn't reached the critical mass for monetization. It's not ripe for the picking yet.

I was to comment that this realization came to me when I've found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can't access it anymore, and I'm stuck thinking if it's for the better.

Where you can do anything! I love that this still exists.

I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom so I didn't even pirate it really.

Good times.

had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…

We really did not like that.

Didn't be a dipshit. You can't understand their point?

They're not talking about technology. They're talking about creative quality of content.

All is temporary. Change is the only constant.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

- Percy Shelley

OP sails off into the west

What points on 4chan?

Yeah, plenty of Gen Z memes still make me laugh. They're just in different forms, including some video "templates" where you just slap some captions on characters in the same scene:

• Starship troopers "I'm doing my part" montage interrupted with Tim Robinson "I didn't do shit!"
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid scene with kids auditioning from by singing Total Eclipse of the Heart, giving way to some kid who's actually good.

Are they really that different from some high quality gifs or deep fried memes from the late 2010's, advice animals from the early 2010's, demotivational posters or absurd flash animations from the 2000's, or joke websites from the 90's?

People will always be funny, and some internet jokes will start fresh before being run into the ground. Remember the ones you like, and then forget the ones you don't.

They're molding after all

spotlight ruined my humor the latest to do so.

https://leekspin.ytmnd.com/

YTMND

Strange this site still exists, thought it would have been well gone by now.

Beans, jeans and 💩

Idk about the minus part

I think that's the whole point. But before, it was all just a simple Google search away, no SEO in sight. Being capable of surfing the web properly already was at the time THE test to get in, much like private forums often have some kind of interviewing process. It felt a little more nerdy, and well organized, as you actually had to be both things to contribute. As it always was.

Light the way friend.

Nice try, FBI agent

BackInMyDay.jpg we used the net for looking stuff up. Mozilla 1.0 was faster than gopher and something something altavista web crawler grey hair getOffMyLawn.gif

But it was a special time, back at the uni in 92 and using the 56k link (!!) to play muds/moos on a server in f'n Bosnia. Or read the MTG mailing list. Uh, I mean, do class work. No commercial things even on there really. Before Amazon, Google, Myspace, etc.

I remember being excited when people on the television or "irl" would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.

Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!

Now the internet is the mainstream culture.

... ... Wocky Slush

web

real old school is BBS.

Can you explain what that is for us youngsters? Something like RSS feeds?

Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!

In my experience a lot of programming blogs still have them, but then again those are the people who are most capable of adding them and who are mostly likely to find them

Oh wow that meme brought my mood way down, childhood is long gone now.

/b/ was never good and Milhouse is not a meme.

Eeyp. If you remembered the stuff that isn't memorable, you'd run out of memory.

The internet died when the eternal September started

One of the many features it shares with CamelCase

LOVED stumbleupon. I even met some cool people IRL through it.

These days kagi.com/smallweb is the closest thing I've seen. It's a lot of fun to stumble around, but of course the larger internet has changed. You didn't have all of these content streaming behemoths vying for your engagement back then.

Seems like a pretty good use of /c/lost+found

The advantage of youtube is that it's user generation and low barrier to entry allows anyone to produce creations that are targeted to niches so specific, people would be unwilling to make something that targets them due to the lack of profit, if they are even aware of the existence of said niche. It also means that said creations can be made relatable to specific groups.

Things like parasocial relationships also apply, where we watch someones videos in order to get to know them to the point you may unintentionally believe you are friends with them, Something let's players, bloggers, streamers and podcast/radio hosts all are able to effectively exploit. It probably helps that most start off being relatable to there viewers due to there similar (and often worse) economic status.

How it feels to chew five gum

Important videos is amazing

It's still there!

YOU'RE THE MAN NOW, DOG!

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Arnold noises

Andrew?

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Explain the long form 20 second videos i get in my recommendations then

Hey we're making a pretty cool little part of the internet for ourselves right here on the fediverse at least :)

It's when they crank up the saturation and lossy compression for... irony or something? Idk I'm old

Nah, deep fried.

Tfw I used 4chan for years before bronies were a thing. Those were truly the golden years.

Man I thought that was a joke when I first started seeing it. Nope.

Though many of us remember the early internet pre-ponies; pre 4chan, even