seeing neo/pol/acks and SJWs getting pushback is nice for a change, would be nice if the same happened here and we could get back to actually talking about everything not-politics
yeah probably, reddit was the same actually until about 2010 when it became popular after Digg died, reddit only had a few thousand active posters and you could get into discussions with the original group that started it like admins and shit and actually tell them how stupid their opinions were without getting banned.
the same as now really, shitposting, idiots, edgelords, children. There are differences though, SJWs and unironic nazi's didn't exist,we used to mock both types all the time, back then stormfags were the polfags of today and we called them out constantly when they would show up. SJWs didn't exist in that sense, there were feminists but I don't remember them ever posting because they stuck to whatever corner of the internet existed for them back then, this was before tumblr and SJWs were called feminazis and were openly mocked everywhere by everyone in general in society.
The other difference was that you could post literally anything besides CP, you could also say whatever you wanted without getting banned, granted you could get shit on by a faggot mod sometimes but it was rarely permanent, m00t at the time wasn't an SJWcuck and sellout so things were more easy going.
Shitposting was generally a banable offense outside Holla Forums or very select threads, quality was higher, saging did something, there wasn't DMCA shit on images, and we actually made memes on a weekly basis. Ragefaces were hilarious, and actually meeting another Holla Forumstard in the wild was a muh privilege instead of a cringefest.
Thinking of the past now, I went to the beach last week and walked into one of those t-shirt shops and saw a wall with ragefaces, it used to piss me off but now I just get sad thinking of what was lost, how 4chan sucks because it's filled with normalfags and rules out the ass and Holla Forums also sucks because it's filled with angry no-fun-allowed people and Holla Forums autists.
I miss the old days because we fucking had fun, the shit was there but it wasn't front and center stage, people weren't polarized to hell and back on every fucking thing. I exclusively blame people for becoming sectarian and isolating themselves and avoiding real discussion for how bad things have become.
Back then we were forced to talk with each other, people shit on each other but also came together to do awesome things, now everyone with a different opinion gets isolated, their threads derailed, constant shitposting, trolling, political bullshitting.
tl;dr, the world is a dick and I'm old