Before the algorithm took over, natural cruelty ruled supreme.
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I think it is so funny that people seem to forget that Gen X set the stage for internet culture when most millennials were teens and preteens.
Absolutely love that millennials are once again taking all the blame for actions that the whiny generation also partook in and indeed cultivated with glee before behavioral regulations online became a thing. When that happened, millennials were also being blamed for being too soft.
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It goes way further back than that: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/controlling-the-virtual-world/history/rape.html
I used to frequent LambdaMOO. Things weren't all that different back then than they are now.
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You're forgetting a lot of the original imageboards (eg. Blueboard) and calling them "hate and revenge porn subreddits" is a gross oversimplification...... eg. r/jailbait is NOT a simple revenge porn subreddit! It was a straight up you know what subreddit! It's a shame to see Redditors defend Michael Brutsch (u/violentacrez A.K.A VA A.K.A "Pimp of Reddit") as a "troll" even till this day! Apart from this, there were also a lot of disturbing subreddits during the mid '10s like r/beatingtrannies, r/beatingcripples, r/strugglefuck, r/askarapist to name the few.
Yikes, what a terrible day to know how to read
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I think it is so funny that people seem to forget that Gen X set the stage for internet culture when most millennials were teens and preteens.
Absolutely love that millennials are once again taking all the blame for actions that the whiny generation also partook in and indeed cultivated with glee before behavioral regulations online became a thing. When that happened, millennials were also being blamed for being too soft.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah. Fuck you!
/sBeing born august 79 i am bordercase of both horrible generations
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Yeah. Fuck you!
/sBeing born august 79 i am bordercase of both horrible generations
You got it from both sides, you poor thing haha.
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Every fucking generation helped elect Trump
They meant that young men breaking away from the rest of their cohort in a much more significant manner than the last couple generations helped tip things in his favor.
It was a departure from the norm
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Don’t forget r/picsofdeadkids and r/beautifulcorpses
R/rape was a place for rape porn for the longest time. Posting to Reddit for advice coping with sexual assault is 100% a bad idea, as you will mostly get DM’s and chat requests from people who want to get off to your trauma. I believe the moderators of those “support” communities also get off on it too.
There are still currently beastiality subreddits and r/guro. The beastiality subreddits post simulated images/hentai, but the discussions include advice on how to participate.
People tried to defend r/jailbait by saying it was girls close to 18. (Uh akshually it’s ephebophilia
) It was not. It was mostly 13-14 year olds or younger. Actual pornographic images weren’t posted there, but it was clear that the admin team and others were running trading rings.Didn’t Reddit even ban Gawker links for a while for doxxing Micheal Brutsch? Redditors always fell over themselves to defend all of this shit as “free speech.” R/ShitRedditSays was considered worse than any of these subreddits.
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Now there's 8chan, but what about future ones? Does it grow linearly (12chan, 16chan) or geometrically (32chan, 64chan)?
420chan was fun.
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I managed to dodge a lot of bullets growing up as a ‘gamer girl’. I played EQ instead of WoW and later on instead of CoD lobbies I played MAG. Still have really fond memories of this group of older guys that took me in as their medic. Never anything creepy, they just knew I was happy to play that role and got pretty good at it.
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i wonder what kinda kid would say the dumb patrick thing, cuz that seems like it would make a good strawman
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It covers shared experiences decently well. Like obviously there is overlap but in the U.S. as a whole most millennials were kids who have a memory of a pre 9/11 world. Most zoomers grew up with WiFi being common in their houses. Most Gen Xers have memories of being a child near the end of the Cold War and were in the work force before Internet was common. Most boomers either served in the Vietnam war or have a memory of someone close to them going off to fight in an unpopular war.
A lot of those experiences have lasting effects in how those generations behave. It doesn’t mean everyone is the same but instead that you can follow trends that are more true for each generation
Then there is also the advantage of tracking a groups shared experiences like for example many millennials were relatively unaffected by the dotcom bubble but for the 2008 recession they were hit much harder
Right. So, my last sentence then.
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Every fucking generation helped elect Trump
The trend was that every younger generation was more progressive than the last. Gen Z polling breaks the trend. Gen Z voted for Trump at a higher rate.
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The dominance of social media and total financial exploitation ruined the internet and now is damaging society at large. It‘s now a machine that amplifies anxiety, hate, and addiction.
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The dominance of social media and total financial exploitation ruined the internet and now is damaging society at large. It‘s now a machine that amplifies anxiety, hate, and addiction.
I'd argue that exploitation is so rampant, next gen will avoid it like wildfire.
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I'd argue that exploitation is so rampant, next gen will avoid it like wildfire.
The current generation of young people is the opposite of rebellious.
