Is it just me, or has the internet in the last 10ish years become a really shitty place to hang out

Is it just me, or has the internet in the last 10ish years become a really shitty place to hang out.

It didn't used to be like this? Who's to blame. People back in the day we're pretty chill and fun to talk to. Now everyone is a toxic asshole. Is it just because the lowest IQ people all have internet access now and respectably intelligent people are surrounded 10,000/1 by them?

This has carried over into gaming. I'm seriously considering never playing an online game again because of this. Why do I subject myself to these brainless idiots spouting hate. At least back then it was 15 year olds and they could be ignored but now it's 20 somethings who should have emotionally matured but never did.

Do you guys notice this crap as well these days? Do you think there will be a time where instead of people leaving things like Facebook, they'll leave the internet entirely? Like the internet becomes the hellhole of the most retarded the world has to offer and only fellow retards join them?

Do you think there will be a place for the intelligent to go in the future?

Kys

>Toxic
>Using riot words
Just kill yourself. The internet has always been full of tough guys, it's just hypersensitive normies and trannies joined the fray en masse and complain about it

dumb frogposter

If you want to discuss videogames properly join neogaf.

there's a greater variety and diversity of people than in the past

nowadays everything is always connected and always going on and that kind of hyperstimulation just gets to peoples' head, it's unavoidable and won't get better. all you can do is ignore it and maybe try to reach out to people that don't have a stick in their ass

got this image from google don't mind the watermark

If people are calling you bad. It's because you're bad. If you don't top score in every game like me, then you need to get better and deserve getting ripped on

We're in an economic ressesion fucking everyones lives and that in turn politicizes everything making the most retaded inane shit an us vs them question.

Sup Forums is partially to blame actually.

>toxic
>frogposter

J*ws

>It didn't used to be like this?
yes it did. every internet forum, irc group, etc goes to shit after three years. people just stopped abandoning them for greener pastures or making their own one like they used to

>toxic

You just have to go to the right sites and play the right games. There are a lot of friendly communites out there.

real question, why does >toxic trigger Sup Forums?

If everyone is a moron Asshole, then a nice smart guy can make a lot of friends :3

>posts loli sucking cock

honestly, probably reddit
not even kidding.

>Who's to blame.
Social medias.
Facebook became public 9 years ago.

>there's a greater variety of people
That's bullshit. There's a lot more people who all have the same interests. You had a lot of more interesting people in the early Internet.

Because it's a buzzword used by spineless faggots like OP who can't take any criticism

No OP I have noticed it also.

Back in the day it used to be all about having fun and enjoying everything nowadays it's all about being negative and hating on everyone.

It really is a toxic environment now and I hate it the only issue is I'm addicted to it because I've been online for 20+ years now.

It's usually used by terrible people.

in a lot of cases a new website attracts a like of young posters that gradually age and become jaded as time passes, even though the site is more or less the same as ever

Because it's a word that riot shills use, like "MOBA". It's shows you're neo as fuck and don't belong here.

People weren't generally dicks everywhere 10 years ago. There were genuinely great friendly communities. Nowadays everywhere you go it's like Sup Forums.

it was mostly nerds

Man, I remember back in the 2000s when there were often campaigns to teach people to never share information about themselves on the internet.
That shit sure flew right out the window, huh?

Because tumblr uses it. That's literally it.

Who have a wide range of completely different and awfully specific interests.

Not really

>back in the day
>playing wc3
>everyone having a blast playing sheep tag at 3am
>no hatred in sight
>go on BF2
>everyone having a blast
>playing quake
>just fun times all the time
>go on Sup Forums in 2005 just dumb memes about duckrolling and having a blast
>go on game forums in 2001-2006 for an mmo
>everyone posting pictures of themselves and really getting to know each other and having a fun time

I could go on and on about the good ol' days man

Reddit has some of the most foul and shitty people on the Internet. Moreso than Sup Forums imho.

Deleted my post because I didn't read the OP, I thought he complained about how the internet became pussified.

I miss it when the Internet wasn't an extension of real life.

Definitely, I hate main subs on Reddit it's just people making puns and shitting on anything that's not a part of their circlejerk opinion and 2000% SJW cuck loving faggots. The non default specific subs are fantastic though for hobbies.

I don't understand how people like OP can exist. People have moaned about the internet being worse than yesterday since ever, eternal September is 20 years old, why do you OP believe that you and your youth were special?

Internet has always been an extension of my life though :| been online since AOL back in like 1993 lol

You are wither a huge idiot or just didn't know Internet pre 2006.

>:|
>lol
Don't post on this board ever again.

>Do you think there will be a time where instead of people leaving things like Facebook, they'll leave the internet entirely

My friends and I actually discussed this the other week. We think, yes. The internet has been completely supersaturated by hate and generally awful people. This includes online games. I think in the next 5-10 years many people are going to quit those games entirely and opt for single player only. Outside of games it's already begun. People leaving social media is the first step. Then they'll realize the hate and annoyances of SM follow them everywhere on the internet. People will stop going places like forums, image boards and anywhere with a chat. They'll only use the internet to look up information and avoid at all costs anywhere the general public can be seen or heard giving their opinion.

I've actually considered doing this recently. Just not sure how to undo 20 something years of residing on the internet.

those places haven't disappeared. niche forums still exist. if you're talking about trend followers that's always been around it just didn't permeate the internet so much

I still remember the exact same moment when I got "left out" of today's society.

because he's right? You're probably too young to know what the original internet was like.

The internet was always full of assholes, but that meant that the people who were on the internet the most became really thick-skinned and realised the internet wasn't real and because they were often pretty big losers in real life they were happy to leave their true identities behind.

Normies were the worst thing to happen to the internet because they simply can't leave their real lives behind and think the internet= real life. When someone insults them on the internet they equate it to someone insulting them in real life hence the amount of thin-skinned retards whining and trying to shut down "negativity" and "trolling" online. Women are the worst for this, of course. The idea of not being treated like a special snowflake and having people actually insult you is just too much for most of them to handle.

Oh sorry Mr. Moderator

Hey look my dude it's not such a big deal but try not to do it again okay?

Just create your own Discord server and invite people you find online who're chill.

>pick up City of Heroes in 2005
>be greeted by enthusiastic people who teach me about the game and give me free in-game money to help start. People on chat being helpful all day and giving out tips to newbies
>start ANY online game in 2016
>no one gives a shit about you other than to annoy or fuck with you and show off their e-penis

>join online community in 2005
>your talent and knowledge about the community theme are what makes you advance in the community
>join online community in 2016
>agreeing with the circlejerk and general political position of the administration will make you advance in the community

I actually can't think of a worse "community" than the internet. Awful people everywhere. I think even a death cult would have more supportive folks.

ive thought about quitting the internet and driving a truck in ETS2 full time.

It's the exact same thing that happened to this very place as well to gaming: the bar has never been set lower. Before then people at least needed to know their way around to find stuff, now they just go to bottom of the barrel tier places like reddit and get spoonfed everything.

Internet went to shit around 2010 when Facebook became extremely popular making the internet as a whole more accessible. Even places like Myspace still felt a little more underground.

What original internet? what decade exactly?

hate feeling attached to a specific group of people. like a public place like this since there's no real investment with saying anything here

I wonder if newfolks on Sup Forums even know what "sage" and "lurk more" mean.

>Normies

That sole word invalidate everything you said.

Eh the internet truly went to shit around 2012

Regressive liberals ruined it.
We need to go back.

SJWs and reverse SJWs contributed a LOT to make the Internet shitty.

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I always have sage on. There are very few threads that deserve to be bumped these days.

"What should I expect?" threads shouldn't be tolerated on Sup Forums. Spoonfeeding has made this board even more retarded.

They are talking about the 80s with BBS's and baud modems and shit

When i first discovered Sup Forums in like i didn't post for about a year, nowadays they just fucking scribble down there shit opinion or meme without even bothering to learn the etiquette or board culture.

>Is it just me, or has the internet in the last 10ish years become a really shitty place to hang out.

No, it's not just you. Now literally everyone is on the fucking internet and ruining it with their normie shit.

The internet used to be self-policing because the people using it understood computers. Now you have computer illiterates shitting everything up with their normie shit from their smartphone on the couch in front of the TV.

>toxic

I used to think games were getting worse. But if I think about it most of my complaints these days come from the shitty communities online gaming has. They literally only piss and moan about everything and go out of their way to make everyone else miserable.

The worst part is, they can be so loud that developers actually listen to these retards and it only encourages their behavior. I might be leaving online gaming this year. It literally only brings me misery these days.

There were a lot of very nice and supportive places online before. The problem is that everything seems to have become an extension of shitty popular communities like Sup Forums.

Apple products made it easier for the biggest idiots to access the internet. They casualized computers/electronics.

It's not only that. People used to behave, like they would in a public space, there was a degree of inhibition. This isn't the case anymore. Half of the population seems to live on the internet, posting stuff instead of working, and still doing it on their phone, when they aren't on a computer. Some people put their whole life on youtube and many others consume it. Everybody and their mother now has a sex tape, people willing put this shit on Pornhub. People don't know how to use the internet as a tool anymore, they are engulfed by it.

This will sound cliché and "meme" if you want to but that doesn't stop it from being true: I blame reddit for what this site has become on the last 5 years.

>They literally only piss and moan about everything and go out of their way to make everyone else miserable.
No one forces you to use Sup Forums.

What makes you think you are an intelligent person?

Lurk moar has been dead for many years, precisely when we started getting flooded by redditors which drove the entire place down to never seen before levels of garbage.

Just pay attention how the creation of OC has never been lower despite the population of the place having grown tenfold. The very presence of these people drives good fellows away.

FUCKING THIS!

You literally, literally, just proved his point.

>join a community
>talk about anything
>someone brings up SJW or Sup Forums idiocy in conversations that have absolutely nothing to do with it
>keeps on happening
>everything goes to shit
>it ends with everyone from one of the sides getting banned and the place becoming a circlejerk

All the fucking time.

Neopets.

When there are too many people in a community, it turns to shit. That's it. Nothing to do with culture or anything like that. Once a community reaches a high enough population on the internet, the only posts that can get attention are spam and bait.
If you've been on any community as it grew (including Sup Forums) then you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, go to a slower board like /an/. It's still roughly the same culture, but it isn't as much of a cesspool of retards as there are on boards like Sup Forums or Sup Forums.
You want your comfy communities from the good old days back? Go find forums and servers with low, tight-knit populations. There's your only solution.

(the media)
academia
Leftists

In that order.

>games have to be realistic because graphics
>realistic games have to be politically correct because feelings
>feelings drive sales, so 100 million dollar game advertising campaigns that cost 90% of the game's budget

You're already dead. This is hell.

Yeah, it's the "reddit is for serious stuff, Sup Forums is for shitposting" attitude. Sup Forums always was shit, but not in an amount that drowned out any kind of productive posts. The balance has shifted too much and redditors bring their memes here, and if you don't actually frequent that website, you don't know that it doesn't belong here. Everything turns to mush.

To be fair that's not an internet-exclusive problem.

I find people have always been complaining about the internet being shittier with the more people having access to it because there's just more of the things they don't like or aren't interested available and being shoved in their faces.
The internet became more accessible and appealing to everyday people. Not just for research or other bullshit. Starting with MySpace and its clones, YouTube etc. With that new trends started cropping up and people either became cynical asshats or just fucked off entirely when new users didn't care to play by their rules, which in turn just created more hostility. Hell, my mother is 62 and just started using the internet last year, it's like watching a baby deer try to cross a busy freeway. She's completely taken aback by the amount of negativity and hostility there is even in spaces where she feels she can watch her little gospel concerts. Though she pretty much just uses it for that, cooking shows and funny animal videos.
Netiquette and internet culture itself has changed, before you had lessons on not sharing any of your real info, now it's common to immediately disregard some jackass on social media who has a name like DarkSoul KekSlayer and an anime avatar and if you don't care to argue opinions with him then clearly you're a butthurt-commie-sjw-nigger-faggot-tranny-feminazi who just got BTFO, "top kek".

Third Generation of Sup Forums users is taking the baton.

The first already left, now there is some Second Genners left, and the Third are taking over

It's really just you, thats what it is getting old, everything you liked and loved turns to shit.

It's only natural.

Maybe we are jaded or its nostalgia but i don't think so, there has definitely been a massive decline in thread quality on Sup Forums for a number of years now.

Shame that i can't ever leave for longer than a few days or find a decent replacement.

Sup Forums might be shit but it's still the best we got.

what does "toxic" mean?

'No religion or politics in polite company' is a saying for a reason.

Yeah. People back then understood it was best to keep the two separate. Don't go to shady websites. Never give out personal information that might be used to identify you. Never assume anyone is speaking the truth.

These were simple rules, and most people followed them. And the internet was better for it.

>Sup Forums
Stop posting.

Its a buzzword that was constantly pushed by riot. So much that like the term MOBA, it became a thing that everyone uses.

Talking shit in comp games is half of the fun. You shouldn't play if y can't handle the bantz.

I feel the same way. My reflexes are slowing down, and I'm realizing that the whole hamster wheel aspect of grinding for items is keeping me inside, confined to my computer to an unhealthy degree. Overwatch is the last multiplayer FPS I'll get into

>Plebbit
No.

Fuck, why do you people keep mentioning IQ?
The moment a poster actually tested their score, half the thread gets mad as fuck and derailed

awful to be near or around. Destroys everything it touches.

No.

Problem is that a lot of shitters can't defferenciate "banter" and "being an asshole".

can you be specific?

Do you guys use zeronet, just started

Pretty much.

I swear every fucking place I go I can only find two kinds of people online: politically correct tumblrinas being offended by everything and their mirrored image aka the stereotypical poltard and his kneejerk reactions to everything.

You simply can't go somewhere to actually have a nice time, it's always one side trying to push their completely warped social views on everybody else.

This was inevitable though. There has never been a more peaceful time in human history and the generation that is now in its mid twenties was by far the most privileged one this world has seen due to all the advancements in society and specially technology. Living has never been easier. This obviously contributed to the massive surge of a bunch of spoiled shitstains who think that the world revolves around their pampered butt and everybody else should follow suit.

I miss the naivety of the 90s and early 2000s when you could genuinely chat up with interesting and different people easily online, instead of facing nothing but these super cereal indocrinators who wouldn't know how to properly wipe their own asses but feel like they are fit to dictate everybody else's lives.

I also miss when viral and stealth marketing weren't a thing on the internet, specially for gaming. Nowadays there's always a bunch of shills trying to shove the "next big thing" down everybody's throats.

It's shit.