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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 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.

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.

Generational categories aren’t real. They’re arbitrary lines made up for listicals and inflammatory content. There is every type of person in every generation, and most trends are more due to the natural progression of age than generation drift.

Comparing generations is only useful when evaluating the context in which they live(d).

"invented online bullying" yeah sure technically correct but people have bullied each other literally forever so to act like that's a millennial thing is really dumb

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.

Remember that the front page of reddit had jailbait and coontown posts hitting the top regularly. After that it was fatpeoplehate.

People were just as deranged back in the day it just manifested more aggressively.

In the cod4 days id regularly scream slurs at people and tell them to kill themselves. It was just what you did.

Do people actually say the first panel?

To be fair styles project and rotten.com were there well before millennials.

i wonder what kinda kid would say the dumb patrick thing, cuz that seems like it would make a good strawman

Liveleak

Calling out Millennials for Fascism when Gen Z helped elect Trump 2.0 is just fucking rich.

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.

Now there's 8chan, but what about future ones? Does it grow linearly (12chan, 16chan) or geometrically (32chan, 64chan)?

Technically Patrick is still correct. There are way more younger generations doing more fucked up shit than us. Yeah, we had fucked up shit, but there was fewer of us so the volume of fucked up shit is significantly lower 😤

He didn't say we didn't have any just that we had less.

We die all the fucked up things in the early internet. Things that are now forgotten. Theres not much that kids these can do on the internet that we didn't. The main difference now is the nazi pipeline. We didn't have that.

No LiveLeak? SomethingAwful? PORK CHOP SANDWICHES?

Pizza bombing

I don't think millennials are responsible for 4chan. That shit was a cesspool while most of them were in elementary school.

See the 4chan irony to fascism took work, and i think the algorithm.

Honestly. Many things were so much better before.

If you didn't like it on the internet, you could just not use it. Nowadays everyone with a pulse is forced to be on the internet, even if they shouldn't.

People used to understand that things existing digitally, meant that they would spread on the internet. Including and especially incriminating stuff. Trolling people who where clueless used to be fun too. The iOS7 update campaign where people were stupid enough to microwave their phones to charge them was incredibly funny.

There wasn't karmawhoring or attention seeking, in fact you would be chastised for acting like you wanted attention.

I’m so glad I didn’t participate in any of these trends when I was that age. So many regrets avoided.