Did anyone notice a cultural shift around 2007/08?

I've noticed multiple people say that everything went to shit after 2007, is this true? If so, what caused it? Obama? Recession? Social media?

Also general 90s/00s nostalgia thread

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The internet got flooded with normies

as a /qa/fag i can say for sure it was a mixture of normies accessing the internet (myspace, iphones, youtube) and immigration finally paying its toll with the election of obama

remind yourself that "newfags" from 07-10 grew up to be the liberal retards you see at antifa rallies today pic related it's boxxy in her current form

There is almost nothing to be nostalgic about when it comes to the 2000s. The best thing to come out of that decade is the wealth of alternative/emo rock music.

Atheism exploded around 2006 2007. Like you couldn't escape it. Every major site was tipping as hard as they possibly could.

unfortunately, a lot of newfags from 2015 have come to believe that 2008 was somehow the pinnacle of Sup Forums because of a bunch of 09'er leftist weebs shoving it down their throats. that's anything but the case. everyone from 2004 hates everyone from 2009, everyone from 2009 hates everyone from 2015...the cycle will continue
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Imagine if you had a time machine, and you went back 10 years ago to post on Sup Forums telling everyone that Chris would turn into a tranny and Donald Trump would be president of the United States.

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i feel like it can be pinpointed to rebecca black's 'Friday'

White nationalists should be deported or sent to Gitmo.

>3rd world Immigrants to America deserve to be honored, respected, admired, and loved.

is boxxy a tranny now?

Hyper connectivity. It REALLY took off in 2007/2008, and it’s been snowballing ever since.

And that Moot wasn't always going to control Sup Forums.

Obama, 100 times...not necessarily anything he did ), but the mentality of blacks to become a hivemind kicked into overdrive when they voted for a black President.

Look up interviews...they had zero knowledge about his stances, policies, history, experience...they just knew he was black and thought it was "bout time we had a black president" youd see them shouting at cops "obamas got our backs now crackas" and god help your social life if you admitted to voting for McCain.

>Obama?
Yes, he did a great deception to become elected
>Recession?
Yes, in particular how Obama handled it with boundaryless criminal mindset
>Social media?
Yes, especially this, combined with the commercial introduction of next gen mobile phones

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shes a fat irrelevant sjw. this is what happened to everyone from that time period. they never grew up. they're still acting like retards online and probably have 1000+ hours of tf2 logged on their steam profiles

also if you play tf2 you should kill yourself.

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This. They drug all the bullshit that their lives encompass online so now there's no where to get away from it. I still remember how they used to mock and ridicule people who spent time online or only interacted with people online in the media or in person.

That's about the time that Millenials were turning 18. Boomers may be selfish narcissists, and Gen Xs are pretty much just useless couch potatoes, but millenials are menatlly fucked and actively self-destructive.

I hate my generation and I worry for the future.

32-year old, old fag here. Everything went to shit after 9/11. Before we were an anti-PC largely centrist libertarian nation. After 9/11, this country lost it's fucking mind and it's been a steady downward spiral.

Thanks to George Cocksuckin' Bush, we got the Patriot Act, the beginning of the death of our economy and the beginning of our country plummeting from a 90% white nation to this diversity filled joy we have now.

Social Media also gangfucked this country. Obama was absolute cancer. But it all started with that faggot and two planes crashing into the WTC buildings.

Watching liberal outlets suck George W. Bush's cock now is one of the most offensive things I've ever seen.

What do you have against? I have 2296 hours in it, its pretty funny

Smart phones. Specifically the iPhone.

Before that, using the internet required sitting for long periods in front of a computer to make a point or have a conversation. So having an argument with one or more people on the internet was a time consuming and difficult task.

The iPhone put the internet into people’s pocket, and unleashed idiots casually vomiting dumb shit into every corner of the web while they go about their day.

Plus it mean any reply could access them personally and directly through a device they always had on their person - which meant any comment or criticism were suddenly interpreted as a direct personal attack and violence against them - especially with women.

Smart phones allowed shit like Facebook and twitter to be accessible and it ruined society.

>also if you play tf2 you should kill yourself.

this part of the post can't be stressed enough

the internet went mainstream and smart phones came out. Prior to this, it was nerdy and dorky to use the internet. People did not discuss things they saw online in public. People did not have smart phones with instant web access, photo sharing, apps, etc. All of that started in 2007. Ultimately, this is when WOMEN got online, and fucked it up with their idiocy. That time ended in 2015

This the anti theist renaissance with Dawkins, hitchens.

There are events that cause very big shifts in how a given timeline plays out. These events are often global in scale and widely seen. There's not much you can do to take advantage of this kind of knowledge unless you're in the vicinity of the catalyst for such an event.
Best thing to keep in mind is to always prepare for your life to be under drastically different pressures.

I see a more powerful cultural shift now.
Our enemies lies are beginning to collapse under their own weight.
We are beginning to remember who we are.
The old gods awaken and old traditions are renewed.

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i think you were trying to reply to me: Tf2 and Steam are perhaps the epitome of leftists who lack and sort of life outside of the internet. I'm not saying all NEETS are bad - in fact I think a lot of them are really cool. But, especially in this day and age, they almost always vote democratic because they don't want to work and can't live in a house if they don't pay taxes so they require welfare (this is just one of the major reasons)
i came from a community that sort of reached its peak in 2010 and back then no one was really political, people occasionally made fun of FOX but they would also be fine with saying the word nigger and no one would get mad. They still are fine with saying nigger, but now they take their politics seriously and all vote socialist. Look at Sup Forums, it's one of the most leftist boards on this site. And look at neogaf.

yeah there are a lot of gamers out there who are conservative, that's very clear with the likes of internet aristocrat and whatnot but the gaming community has been coopted by leftists, especially with the type of games that end up on steam like overwatch. kids who played xbox were more likely to actually get lives and vote republican than those who use steam

Most issues started around the same time the Large Hadron Collider came online and testing began. I doubt it is a coincidence.

this was really incoherent but im really tired
the point is tf2 is for neets who actually thinks spy vs spy and SFM animations on youtube are actually funny. little do you guys know those types of videos were one of the driving factors of killing youtube in 2010. the content creators who were more likely to play tf2 (the animators, the streamers, vloggers etc.) also produced absolutely garbage content which ruined the actually random and fun nature of the internet

oldfags dont have twitter, you people do

There's been too many factors to address them all but this one is a good point What happened is that people polarized theirselves too much. I can't speak for the US but in Spain I had commie friends, fascist friends, punkies, tecnos, etc. You could belong to any "urban tribe" and still be social towards other people or just have different opinions on stuff.

Now if you think one way you can't have friends that think the other way. There's been more confrontation about it and people have become more reactionary and involved in political agendas when what was used to matter was family and friends (and work).

There have been two cultural shifts. One was the internet becoming popular when Facebook and iPhone became popular around 2007, then there was another cultural shift around 2013, with the rise of radical SJWs.

The left-wing shit has been continuously gaining ground since the 60s, with its ups and downs in the mainstream. Back in 2013, the extreme SJWs were rallying again, but there weren't that many of them in the public sphere. I remember polls being taken in the years leading up to Gamergate in 2014 where most women said they weren't feminists because it wasn't needed anymore. Some people even proclaimed feminism dead. Then almost overnight, the media started pushing feminism hard, and suddenly everyone considered themselves a feminist.

Don't believe me?

Here's a Huffington Post article from 2013, before Gamergate:
huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_3094917.html

Here's one from Washington Post in 2016:
washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/feminism-project/poll/

It went from 23% of women, and 16% of men calling themselves feminists in 2013, to 60% of women and 33% of men in 2016.

I'm almost 30, in b4 >huhhh fucking old shit bag faggot

But, seriously - I feel pretty luck as my childhood/teenage years were fucking awesome.

>no internet
>no social media
>no mudslimes
>no threat of terrorism/pedophiles/rape gangs/etc

Life was honestly simple, safe, and fun as hell

100% social media

The Berenstein Shift occurred

What the hell are you talking about? If you're 29 now, that means you were a teen back in 2007. There were plenty of muslims in the 2000s, and the internet had become mainstream long before 2007. I remember buying my first shit off of Amazon back in 1998, and playing Diablo, Ultima Online and Quake online in 1997.

>the internet had become mainstream long before 2007

Only among middle and upper class white people, then the subhumans got access

It was all the shift from Myspace to Facebook.

On Myspace you could do a "send to all" bulletin which would appear in a tiny box in the lower left hand corner. People HATED this; it was annoying, full of chain letters, and a massive sign of narcissistic ego. Then Facebook made it the primary feature.

Socializing is not about relationships it is about broadcasting what you value to everyone. A like is a like, it is an integer value that is the same for everyone.

All the other bullshit is either coincidence or not explicitly a sign of the times. (Economy, technology, political change). We don't talk anymore, we broadcast.

People wonder why twitch is so popular, but it's the closest you can get to genuine conversation anymore. Successful channels will interact and answer questions from the chat, something you can hardly get from your actual friends anymore.

It's interesting because even here in Russia 2007 is remembered as "the last good year" by the popular culture. Everyone's joking about wanting to go back to that exact year for some reason.

I would not be surprised to be honest

>tfw entire world is waiting for Trump to jail Obama so everyone breaths sigh of relief

Absolutely this. Social media, on demand dopamine hits, and liberal echo chambers fucked everything.

The 2000s were awful. Sure, the radical SJWs hadn't yet taken complete hold of our culture yet, but the 2000s were a cultural black hole. It was like an even more superficial version of the 90s, with more immigrants, shittier music and the rise of reality shows.
The last decent era in western civilization was the 90s, and even the 90s weren't very good.

Smartphones. That is 100% what did it.

I don't blame Bush. The Patriot act has a sunset provision; he knew this was only something people wanted today but would ruin the future.

All of his most spectacular "failures" we're rousing, bipartisan, veto proof, super majority decisions. Iraq, Afghanistan, Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, the tax cuts, and TARP were literally veto proof, he couldn't have stopped them even if he wanted to.

I am not saying these were good things, quite the contrary. I am saying that going with the will of the people, even when it will go to shit is admirable in it's own way.

Idiots can easily connect with other idiots more easily than ever.

Things were ok in aus for while, didn't really hit us until 2007ish when social media took off.

Spot on.

8 years of social degradation via Socialist subversion thanks to the Obama admin. mixed with Smartphones and Social media augmenting reality.

This desu

Internet used to be the wild west. Now it is so corporate and sanitary.

>boxxy
>fat irrelevant sjw
Hahaha no, that can't be. I refuse to believe your lies. See, she went to space. Everything is just fine.

It was smartphones and social media.
Humans weren't meant for this shit.

Dude what the fuck. She used to be so cute.

>the machines recreated human society as the matrix when the human race was at the highest before machines did all the work

The 90's

Steve Jobs invented the iPhone in 2007, which was the beginning of a permanent, persistent connection to the Internet for individuals. Compound that with social media, and all of a sudden, you’ve revolutionized society without even realizing it.

I theorize that the Internet, smartphone, and social media has allowed humanity to tap into our collective unconscious and manifest genuine effects into the real world. The zeitgeist has been democratized, and the elites have lost control.

Buckle up faggots.

This might get me ripped apart but I liked Big Bang Theorys first 3 or 4 seasons. A lot of the le physics jokes were still uneccessary and not that clever but there was still some good humor and a few witty ones in the episodes. Of course it's all shit now though, just like everything else and I don't watch it now or many other forms of entertainment or services because the people involved and their personal politics. And everything has an angenda shoved in these days. Wish we could go back in time sometimes bros

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theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/how-to-get-more-women-and-men-to-call-themselves-feminists/277179/

Here's another article from 2013, when feminism was effectively considered dead, with several mayor female celebrities stating that they weren't feminists.

Sup Forums seems to be unaware of this fact.

Obama and the crypto-jews who are trying to start a race war and really jack up the cultural Marxism.

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before 2008-2011 politics was something for boring people to talk about at dinner

now normies are inundated with clickbait dogshit on their social media that they read literally all day every day on their phones being exposed to political thought perpetually and its the norm to be getting worked up about it

plus all the bullshit that comes with social media like never actually talking to your friends face to face so your bonds are lessened, worrying about who your partner is talking to, being insecure about everyone having a better life than you in their pictures, ect ect

>also if you play tf2 you should kill yourself.

Is Barb still alive?

The answer to 1933 was 1945

>1000+ hours of tf2 logged on their steam profiles
Hey fuck you. I've been playing since 2009 and have just around 2000 hrs.

You have to be over 40 already. Just to have an idea about the life feeling you are describing.

tf2 is one of the most fun fps games, faggot

I don't think GG is the only reason...surely there was something else that boosted feminism.

He's a filthy casual Overwatch blizzdrone
What did you expect that he has any taste in video gayming?

There were pedophiles back then ... you just must've been an ugly child.

I lived the 2000s and it sucked. 2000s Youtube sucked. Numa Numa and that Muffin meme video sucked. The cartoons sucked, and yeah I'm talking about Teen Titans and Camp Lazlo, they were fucking trash. The music was unmemorable. Movies, tv shows, and video games: all forgettable. People were still the same as we were, only now more fringe groups and no social media besides cringey profiles on Myspace. Things got a little less edgy and more wholesome in the 2010s. Don't know what's going it's gonna be in the 2020s.

It actually started at the turn of the millennium, the world was going to be united under one government and we were all going to sing Kumbya living happily ever after under a one world government run by the UN. Soviet Union was shattered and the west was standing victorious. It's really quite impressive how quickly the world fell apart once we went down the no borders trans national body route.

Oh wow! He's pretending to be a stripper! That's so fucking funny!

This is why no one liked tf2fags. You people are unfunny cancer

Tracer sucks
your waifu a shit and a dyke

The Patriot Act wasn't a distillation of the will of the people - it was about ready to go, in what, a week? A weekend even? They'd had it in the wings looking for an excuse, IIRC.

Rise of the """social""" Internet. Facebook, MySpace, MMORPGs, YouTube, etc.

>TF2 killed YouTube, which is the entire Internet
>XBox owners are less likely to be nu-male millennial pieces of shit
Commit yourself to a mental health facility. You are a danger to yourself and others.

People were willing to trade it all to get the job done. His approval rating was through the roof both before and after, and people weren't complaining about it, they were complaining about the financial costs of the war.

>t I liked Big Bang Theorys first 3 or 4 seasons
you would enjoy this then

Jews like John Stewart going full blast on conservative whites and people loving black people like Dave Chapelle

SMART PHONES

Ahhh yes...the great Cuntural shift.
When having a shaft became a sin.

10 years later, having a white shaft is the greatest sin of all.

What do you think going to happen to Chris when Barb dies?

I'm not saying GG was the only reason, but it was certainly part of the reason, or perhaps a response to the sudden growth of feminism.
The point is, the massive rise of feminism happened within a period of one to two years. As I said, it was effectively dead in 2013, but had gained massive traction by the end of Gamergate in early 2015.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'm actually starting to wonder if feminism was pushed so hard in 2014 in preparation of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. As I said, feminism was incredibly unpopular in 2013, but Hillary, who has never been particularly feminist or liberal, based a huge part of her campaign on feminism just three years later.

Ironically, it ended up backfiring and helped get Trump elected.

I noticed the SJW bullshit really taking off around 2010 mostly.

Another thing was the whole WMD farce created a huge backlash from you Euro liberal cunts and we felt so guilty we started to listen to you cucks.

There were MMORPGs before, they simply were better. There was just something about them that made them feel legit, and not kiddie bs like so many games these days. You had to put in effort and there was a true sense of progress. Modern games seem all about in how many hours you can finish them. WoW is a good example of that, since now you can start with a level 90 character. On a related note, I'm glad I stopped being a game addict years ago

Remember that stupid Brit series Merlin?

>the great Cuntural shift.

It started in the 1970s. That's when leftism became mainstream. Haven't lived through the era but have spoken to different people who lived through that decade and the response is always the same: hippies were just a counterculture in the 60s, but the liberal mindset became widespread in the 1970s. That was when the welfare state, multicultural indoctrination, and feminism was being spread.

Social media, Fox news """investigation""" on annonymoououas, chainology (although that was in 2008), memes going mainstream for the first time, Tumblr was created and one year later 9gag was created.

2007-2008 were the year in which the National Resistance first woke up properly for the first time. Only it was a minority compared to today. Nevertheless, without their preliminary work, we would not exist. A tribute to our forgotten and silent heroes.

Mhhm that's a sexy supra

>WoW is a good example of that, since now you can start with a level 90 character.
And before WoW you had EverQuest then Ultimate Online...
MMORPGs dindu nuffin infact Hitler was worshiped openly in Ultima not to mention griefing thought that's just stories I've heard.

I think Ultima Online was actually Sup Forums before Sup Forums even existed.

The Janet Jackson boob controversy of 2004 was the start of the shift, Youtube was created soley to host the video. Then Youtube gave rise to social media by giving faces to people who were just usernames before.

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2007 iPhone comes to life

Yeah. 2006 was when I noticed it. It's all been downhill from there.

You've been discovered as a lying fucking idiot. But yes, all the players should be swiftly gassed pic related it's a recent pic of the not at all fat boxxy

>the beginning of our country plummeting from a 90% white nation to this diversity filled joy we have now.

That was 1965, actually.

youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU

youtube was a great place up until 2009. a lot of people congregated there.
and xbox people usually played with their irl friends instead of gross steam Sup Forumstards who shit up the internet with their bullshit, xbox people typically dont go on the internet at all
although there was a boom in cod trolling videos in 09, there still would've been a big counterculture to that and youtube would've still somewhat resembled itself as it was in the golden age but you faggots called yourself the counterculture, you faggots tried resembling oldfags but failed horribly because one of the reasons the older internet generation was so much better was because there were no steam groups or skype groups where people would form distinct and often shitty cultures and in jokes and then spread them onto youtube

>Vote democratic

Vote Democrat