Disliked fad: Political Compass Memes are a scourge on the human race.
Green bad, blue good.
You are legally allowed to laugh now.
The only good thing about pcm is they all call libertarians pedophiles
Bottom left: Joke about being gay or trans
Bottom right: Joke about liking money, but still valorizing wealth uncritically
Top right: they were just too dang efficient
Top left: literally hitler
I miss before the internet felt centralized on like 3 sites.
I don't miss pranking videos
One thing that I loved and hated were the edgy atheists of the late 2000s. They weren't scared to tell people like Nick Fuentes what some people thought of them. We were "the offensive ones", we were fighting against the "soccer mom moral panic", and younger people saw the left as the "fun" side. Good times. Some places like Quebec and France have strong secularism laws so one could feel patriotic while dunking on chanbrains and nazis.
Then there's the part that I DESPISE about them, is that the demonized ALL Christians and Muslims, not just the hogs. Muhammed Ali and Mr. Rogers were great people, Bin Laden and William Pierce were not.
Oh yeah, i should have mentioned them too. There was a very odd political stance back then of making sure to be critical of the American state, but also of Muslim terrorists in the same degree, without nuance, and to blame the problem of both on religion. Except it was almost never that, it was just racism disguised as some progressive concern for women's rights or something.
It was fun for a while. I remember so many pissed off chuds in the 00s over any number of weekly moral panics. Flag burning, same sex marriage, not standing for the pledge, Pokemon teaching evolution, harry potter teaching witchcraft.
I'd piss off my fundamentalist aunt as a kid by saying Harry Potter spells she thought were real. I'd tell chuds at school that Texas was mandating gay marriage. Was fun for a bit.
But overall I'm also glad Dawkins, Harris, and etc have no prominence at all now. Fuck them.
Agreed, I may dunk on 'murica a lot, but we definitely hit the nail on the head with this attitude:
"Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, nor shall it prohibit the free exercise thereof."
I wish Dawkins didn't turn out to be such a shit. I loved his book The Greatest Show On Earth
*awkwardly still friends on facebook with random atheist internet celebs I haven't paid attention to since 2010*
I never understood why those were popular. They all conveyed such a miserable outlook on the world, why would you want to publicly associate yourself with that on social media?
I know a popular trend was to have the same quotes but over an instagram’d photo of Drake
I always thought based was like the right wing’s version of woke
Liked fad: Arcades. When I lived in Japan I would hit up the Sega arcade near me with friends every couple weeks, it was our version of going to a bar or something like that. In America the only decent quality arcades are Dave and Buster's, and while those are fine they don't fill the same niche (and there are none close to me).
Disliked fad: God damn I hate minions.
The popularity of Minions among the boomers strikes me as tapping into the little class consciousness they have while they also are completely and totally obedient to the ruling class.
It's also somewhat indicative of a sort of internalised classism because the Minions are incompetent at pretty much everything. The petty-bourgeoise boomers like the Minions because they see their workers in that way while the prole boomers like it because they have been fundamentally broken-in by capital and have internalised hate for their class.
It's a really interesting situation, the minions are self-inserts for hyper obedient completely broken-in proles. A mindset that I suspect is only possible among extremely positive people who have generally had a reasonably ok time as a prole, the reason the appeal is so high among boomers but less so among the young is because that hyper positivity is just not there among millenials and younger. Only Gen X and above (and children) really latched onto Minions in this way and that comes from the different material conditions that created them.
I suspect it's impossible for us to win the Gen X and above crowd of people to socialism. They were created by specific material conditions and those material conditions are a core of who they are, re-molding that is probably possible but requires resources and time that we do not have.
I just want a place I can go and play old-school shoot-em-ups like Raiden and Donpachi.
The Pizza Hut where I grew up used to have a Raiden 2 machine. I'd always play it and even though I sucked and couldn't make it past the first level, little kid me was devastated when the removed it.
Liked Fad...Romantic Goth fashion with the corsets and the annoying amount of lace and the music that you just sort of swayed to because your outfit didn't really accommodate rave moves. Yes it looked stupid, but it was my kind of stupid. Cottagecore would be an acceptable replacement except for the trad infestation.
Disliked fad...So, so many...but I'm gonna go with...minions.
I realized the other day that L and W are just the updated versions of epic fail and epic win and idk I kinda miss the old ones. The new ones feel less fun
L and W are always used in a much more toxic context than epic fail and epic win ever were
All I want is a scrolling starfield background theme for Drupal, I will become the most powerful e-commerce web dev on the planet!
Demonic libs just don't want to acknowledge the truth of a four-sided harmonic day smdh
Closed/secret facebook groups in that sweet spot around 2016-2018 where they're getting good with lots of overtly specific groups linked into unspoken "circles" where you're likely going to see the same few people, and before a lot of them either burns out or when bug fucking crazy.
NUMTOT radicalized me
It was like 15 years ago, there used to be a pretty cool bike culture in Los Angeles. I did two smallish rides with like 10 to 20 people where we'd cruise around for awhile then head to a bar. Then there was the big ride on that met at the Western/Wilshire station, which was like closer to 100 bikes and the monster midnight ride that probably had closer to a thousand fucking bikes, with people coming from San Diego and San Francisco to participate. Met some really cool people and had some good times.
I don't miss ska or swing dancing.
I don’t miss ska
IT'S NOT GOIN ANYWHERE BABY (if you're in LA or OC)
Then you need to pick it up, pick it up. If you actually like ska (rare I know) check your favorite bands' tour dates and they're sure to have shows in OC or LA this summer.
liked: rustled jimmies. i feel like that meme has been largely forgotten, i don't think it was even that big when it was around, but i always thought it was so good and I started eating gorilla munch because of it. It's also sort of a bridge from the advice animals-style memes to the more abstract memes of today imo which makes its sort of interesting.
disliked: doge. to me, that meme was the first to become mainstream, and around that time was when I first heard the word "meme" mentioned irl by non-terminally online people. My memory of it is, it was funny for like a month idek when, maybe like 2013, and it went away really quickly, and then for some reason it came back full force and was everywhere, being used by normies for like, club posters and all kinds of stuff. For years there was just insufferable "such wow" jokes and I hated it
Also I'm not sure if anyone remembers Chad Warden but that's also something I miss. The original videos, the responses to those videos, and the tons of remixes made were so good. I haven't really seen new chad warden remixes in a while. That meme might be a little racist though looking back so maybe its best if it's left in the past.
The doge memes got played out for sure, like saying "may the force be with you" in the year 2010. But it was pretty amusing when normal, everyday people would see a dog and go like, "dogue."
sort of a bridge from the advice animals-style memes to the more abstract memes of today
https://c.tenor.com/BehPOz2oZXEAAAAC/no-need-to-be-upset-chill.gif
I geniunely miss the communal experience of sharing music. When your friend would burn you a mix CD or when a person at store would tell "If you like XYZ album you gotta check 123 album, it's soo good!". Going somewhere and your friend plugs in their shitty aux cord into their MP3 player that stored like 18 songs. Getting a copy of some dank-ass music from a friends thumbdrive.
Music sharing is bigger than ever now, but it feels very lonesome. We don't get reviews from regular katz anymore, we get them from big name social media folks and the few relevant online magiznes. I geniunely like a lot of modern music from multiple genres, but I miss how social music used to be. It feels very isolated, that we like what we listen to but don't share it in a real sense anymore.
I miss the nerds at the indy stores. This girl was elated that I was buying a zounds cd. I only knew of them through a much cooler friend. She rattled off 10 bands I should check out and to let her know if they didn't have it she could order it. Then she picked up the other cd I was buying: the $winging utters$. She would have been less offended if I punched her in the face.
Cytibe reminds me of hanging out with friends in High School, showing each other our YouTube Favorites. I love it.
I like arcades a lot, wish that scene existed more. I actually liked the grimy neon atmosphere and feeling of camaraderie. Actually felt like a community with tournaments, battles for high scores, all that. Looking back it was probably misogynist or exclusionary in a lot of ways, but it was the last time I felt like part of something.
I kinda miss ytmnd and the lengths they would go to stretch a joke. I guess I also miss stupid flash cartoons. I definitely miss how experimental the early internet was and how sites used to be simple text on single color background.
I'm gonna make some enemies but I'm glad grunge music is dead. I genuinely hate that music, maybe at the same level I hate the trucks and beer type of country music.
There was a period before the marketers focused super hard on men though. Throughout the 80s arcade owners figured out that guys spent more than girls, and that guys spent more when they weren't talking to girls, and there was an intentional push to get women out of the arcades.
Re arcades. They are back in certain areas. Both in the old school, family-friendly version and in the bar / arcade combination.
I went to one in the trendy part of town. Like 10 bucks an hour all you can play. Had fun but it didn't hit like the dark smoke filled ran by a creeper old arcades from back in the day.
That makes sense. I'm too young to have experienced an old school arcade.
The closest I came was on a Middle school field trip, I remember a group of us walked away from where we supposed to be and found an old school pizza place that had arcade machines. We got in a lot of trouble, but it was fun!
Yeah, those old pizza places were fun. All that grease from the pizza ended up on the sticks though.
I was thinking about the old arcades. A lot of us didn't have money and would just go to hang out, do drugs, skate in the parking lot, be shitty kids. It was like a staging ground for the neighborhood to figure out what we were going to do for the rest of the day. A big version of hot couch guy's room.
