Was 2000-2010 one of the worst decades in all of human history?

Was there a single good thing that happened this entire decade? I'm drawing a huge blank. All that comes to mind is terrorism, mass surveillance, endless war, pop culture reaching peak degeneracy with tranny weirdos being hyped up as something to be celebrated, big banks crashing the world economy and escaping the slightest punishment, an apathetic and fatigued populace, and what else? What am I missing?

It doesn't even feel like there was a unifying theme or vision that defines this decade, it was just ten years of nonstop shit and feeling worn down and directionless.

Discuss.

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So basically the 90s. Any decade with a libshit president is garbage.

The 90s at least had the dot-com boom and technological progress that made it seem we were going somewhere. It plateaued in the 2000s.

The first half of this one was worse. But the future is looking bright.

You are right op. The 2000s sucked as a decade.

We got some good vidya until 2009.
But that's about it.

Bionicle, rock music, 4chan and the 6th (and early 7th) generation of gaming don't make up for the wasted lives due to the Iraq War, the recession and Obama's presidency.

Come to think of it, we ended the '90s on one of the darkest notes ever: Y2K. Millions of people believed the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. People were hoarding food and water and moving innawoods to prepare for it.

That's not a good way to start off a decade.

Planned obsolescence.
I know it didn't really gain traction until mid/late-2000's, but if I had to pick any fucking theme for that chunk of time, I would pick that. In my opinion, it led to more cancer in the 2010's in terms of consumerism.
Big companies sat around manufacturing needs, wants, and desires for products that were re-hashes of things that already existed. They just reskinned them and sold them like they were something new. Perceived scarcity and fashion trends made this even worse. Because tech started learning from Ty, they were able to pull this off. From a strategic communication perspective, it's the pinnacle of marketing, even though it causes damage to the population and leaves people numb when it comes to advertising.
That being said though, it caused more havoc leading into THIS decade than it ever did in the last one.
Part of the problem in the 2000's was also the entirety of the Iraq and the slow-motion car crash that was 9/11 and its fallout. People turned to escapism because questioning the motives of anybody was looked down upon. The media shilling went into overdrive, second to what we saw with the election, to cover up all the bullshit going on in the Middle East. Simple word changes, like calling a bombed-out area a "village" instead of a "town" gave people this false sense of hope that "terrorism" was being "defeated" and absolutely nothing suspicious was going on at all.
Obama didn't fix jack shit at all either. Identity politics became mainstream, because speaking against a nigger based on policy made you subhuman scum. This also led to the spread and total sperging out of critical theorists after 2012, seeping into universities and creating increasingly more autistic arguments.

I miss Circuit City. I miss CompUSA. I miss shit like Gateway and their cow-spotted mouse pads that would dry rot after a year. I miss some of the games of that time. I miss going to barren industrial parks near the desert to pick out tile for a kitchen, that are now built-up with lefty shit. I miss the little things of that decade, but overall, it wasn't particularly great, considering what it led to.

Maybe the most defining thing of that time is how fucked things got afterwards.
I'm very very very very excited for what's to come, though.

I'm sure the 1920's beats in, even in term of degeneracy.

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I've always had the subconscious feeling that everything since 2005 is unreal or illusory. A sort of grotesque nightmare or caricature.

Video games were still in a golden age until around 2005, and we got some okay movies like the LotR trilogy. Otherwise, it was pretty much a total abortion of a decade.
Makes you realise why Millenials are so consumed by pop culture. It's the only thing they had in their formative years that wasn't totally bleak and depressing.

Bush was president from 2000 to 2008.


Truth.

11.09.2001

There was a sense of optimism to the 90's. The year 2000 was right around the corner. There was this feeling that while some things were bad right now, the future was coming and it was all going to get better. And then 2001 happened.

Politically, maybe. But I came of age in the 2000s. Turned 18 in 2006. Some of the fondest memories of my life are during that decade.

Nothing good about 3000 workers and emergency responders dying due to Jewish greed and bloodlust.

Nothing wrong with dead americans

Daily reminder iPhones came out of 2007 and ruined the internet.

The 2000s were some of the worst, most toughest years in my life. To be quite honest, if it weren't for my family (and more precisely 4 specific family members: my parents, my brother and one of my cousins) there's no doubt I would have left this earth a while ago.

10/10 post. I'm tired and there's too many points here to respond to, but the idea of the 2000s as the decade of marketing makes so much sense. Everything about that period of time seems illusory and fake.

Early 2000's had great vidya. That's the only thing good about that age.

We have ourselves an edgelord in here

Hell yea it did

Not just the internet, the people as well. Before social media was teenagers talking to friends on myspace using a desktop and the only people who would play with their phone while talking to you were the same group on myspace. Now everyone and their mother is glued to their phones and can't be without them for long.

i was playing L4D2 when it happened…

suddenly it wasn't okay to call someone a fag…

there was a girl on com…

you know the rest

Ahem.

www DOT anime-planet.com/anime/years/2001

The years 2000-2009 had some decent anime.

2007 to 2015 or 2016 was definitely the lowest point

stop larping you retard.

It was a very valid concern. If you had pajeet code on your mainframes, then you could have expected rollovers and bad math fucking up your financial calculations. For a large bank it would have stopped transactions for weeks, while they did a robacl and correct things… it could have been a death knell for many companies and banks, but it wasnt.

Much more credence than that 2012 apocalypse shit

Do a rollback*

2004-2014 was the best decade for anime cartoons. niche enough but still profitable enough for high quality shows. unfortunately the normie influence is seeping in and you have tons of meme animes like isekai, monster girls, boatwhores, kickstarter shit. i'm afraid the ride soon will be over

I don't know about all human history but it sure was much more soul sucking than the 80s/90s. No first hand experience with the 70s but I hear tell it was a pretty miserable time.

The star wars prequels :^)

2000-2010 was during Pax Judaica, so sure, why not?

>>>/polblog/

I agree, but I think you could further cut it down to 2009-2015

Interesting. I've felt that in some occasions as well. It's hard to believe everything went the way it did. It's almost as if I've slipped away from the main timeline and I'm on some weird fucking tangent where everything stews in its own flaws and becomes rancid, yet people still consume it.

up until 2007 it was bearable.
from 2008 it became very bad
the 2010s were peak leftism and degeneracy
thankfully in 2016 the tides turned

90's Had Some Good American Cartoons and Vidya. 00's had some Good Vidya.

It makes you wonder however; whats the identity that the 2000-2010-2020 has?… the 40s,50s,60s,70s,80s and Even the 90s had a distinct style. Whats the style the 2000-2010 era gave us?

Good question. Maybe the scarf wearing numale?

The 1970s were a time when American and the world realized the dreams of the 1950s and 1960s were not going to happen. Our future unencumbered by gravity was stripped from us leaving us with nothing to do but deal with our problems on the ground.

The 2000s were very much the same. In the 1990s we had the promise of computer design making everything better. Higher quality products for the masses, miracle materials, better efficiency, etc. The 2000s were supposed to be a decade of competence and achievement. Where with the assistance of computers everything was done in nearly the best way possible. Once again our future of living an unencumbered daily life was stripped away from us leaving us to deal with the same old social and political problems. Except this time it was constant trouble in the middle east, and trying to cope with the social medial revolution NOBODY FUCKING WANTED.

Another thing about the 2000s. We reached a point there were all the special snowflakes had become so normalized, nobody gave a shit. It stopped being an issue. Then by the end of the decade everybody was a victim and screaming for extra rights because being treated just like everybody else wasn't good enough.

90s had the early days of the internet. It was awesome.

Music was still better than 2000s, but not as good as the 80s.

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2000 - 2007 was good and optimistic, though our enemies were fully mobilised and were allowed to operate unopposed. The 10 years since have decadent and culturally and technologically stagnant.

browsing halfchan during the final years of the bush era and playing wind waker was the greatest years of my teenaged life

Regarding computing, the 2000-2010 decade was the best decade as far as practical technological leaps went.

In 2000, a ton of people still didn't even have PCs in their house. And a lot of the ones with PCs didn't have the internet. For the early part of the decade, most people who had the internet were still using 56k modems. For those too young to recall what these speeds were like, you had to wait a minute or two for images to load on webpages. It took 15 or 20 minutes to download a 3 minute song. It took hours to download a video clip. I remember downloading the piss poor quality Paris Hilton sex tape that was like 10 or 15 minutes long. I had to do it on the family computer, and leave it downloading over night in the living room. I knew I was the only one who used the computer, but still. I had a computer sitting there for close to two days downloading one shitty porn video.

Mobile tech? Yeah, there were Nokia Bricks for the plebs and the wealthy could afford flip phones.

That was the early 00's

Middle 00's were actually kind of awesome tech-wise. High speed internet, wifi, and wireless everything started to become common place. Online data collection, personalized ads, and everything being linked to google accounts and facebook weren't things yet. It was the end of Internet 1.0 or 2.0 depending on whether you are an uber old fag or not.

Mobile tech had reached it's pinnacle as well. Almost everyone had a flip phone. I remember Razor's were top tier at the pleb level. You had the ability to call, and text, and take photos and videos, and text those photos and videos to people. There were some really shitty data plans you could utilize that were only used in emergencies. This mobile tech was perfect, in that you had all the tools you needed in your pocket. But at the same time you didn't have a bunch of apps that everybody buried their heads in.

While you could use the internet if you had to find something out, it was a pain in the ass and was awkward to use. Most people did not use their phones for anything related to the internet.

The late 00's is where the cancer set in.

Not a whole lot changed at the PC level from the middle 00's. It's the mobile tech that destroyed the world.

Smartphones came into existence. Tablets soon after (I can't remember if they became a thing slightly before or after 2010, there were right at that line)

Meaning that every idiot now had easy access to the internet in their pocket. And the trendy people opting for the "convenience" of a tablet over the computing power of a PC. Meaning that "programs" became a thing of the past, and everyone now decided to use apps.

This cancer has now persisted for close to a decade now. So while the late 00's did destroy the internet, it's indisputable that smartphones, touchscreens, etc were a big leap.

It feels like everything besides storage and processing power has stagnated for basically all of King Nigger's reign. Some advancement towards AR and VR systems is all I can think of that's happened. And of course, these systems are all being bought up by jews, and will most likely also become cancer.

You can totally still use a PC from 2000 if you don't care about vidya gaymen. I do it sometimes, for perspective. I bet if you bought a decent PC this year you could unironically use it for the next 20 years and miss out on nothing. My main is almost 10 years old now with no conscious effort or inconvenience.

Jesus.

2000-2016 was the era of peak jew

Other than some shitty used Mac from the 80's that my mom bought me in the mid 90's, my first computer was some Optiva piece of shit that had like 2 GB on the hard drive. I think that was in 1998 or 1999. I would not want to try to use a computer from the year 2000. Although Windows 98 was OK, and Windows XP which came out in like 2003? was pretty good.

I'm not a Holla Forums guy, I just use the shit. But I wouldn't want to run anything that old other than for fun. What is even compatible with something that old? Ironically, I guess I could still do some video gaymen,. The only game I still occasionally play is Diablo 2.

You can drop linux on it and stuff just werks. Windows 98 needs a lot of annoying drivers.

Also if that computer was an apple II then you had the only good machine apple ever made

we used to plya games on our Ti calculator in the earyl 2000s.. that's the thing that makes me feel the oldest.

t. level 31

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Maybe, no idea, it's long gone now and I was way too young to remember much about it.

Regarding


I use Mint now, not cool enough to use a real distro. Like I said, not a Holla Forums guy, I like shit that works out of the box. That being said, I feel like I would run into a shit ton of problems if I tried to run a modern Linux OS on a machine that old. I guess I still have an Ubuntu OS saved on a CD that some kid I went to school with gave me in middle school.

Sadly, I used to make fun of that kid all the time in middle school for being such a weird fucker. He probably was an early chan user looking back at his personality and Holla Forums skills.

for the majority of the 00s, the internet was largely still the wild west like I think it should be
video games were still largely good
cartoons were still largely good, just like they were in the 90s, though as time went by more bad ones started airing, while many of the good ones were still airing and some new good ones came into being

but then, 2007 came around
after that year the quality of new video games and cartoons that weren't already airing a year ago started dropping

and big bang theory began airing in 2007
and tumblr was founded in 2007
hipsters hadn't come into existence yet, and neither had scenesters as some of you might remember; they were still emos who had yet to evolve into either of those, then into SJWs

2008-2015 was awful, barring trump announcing his presidential run and making it as far as he had at the time

these days:
marvel and DC's comics suck barring the flintstones comic, despite its forced pozzing from DC that the authors don't seem to like and try to work around at times
star wars was pozzed after lucas died
the vast majority of AAA games are garbage
the majority of cartoons are garbage
i'm not so well versed about other TV shows, but i'd assume that those generally suck too
there were still some good movies here and there though, but most of the movie industry got AIDS, but at least illumination entertainment came around, who notably can COMPETE with modern-day dreamworks and pixarhas pixar produced a single good movie after up and toy story 3? I don't think i've seen any of the newer ones
i wont even talk about the "art" industry

the entire entertainment industry I guess just decided during and after 2007 to appeal to a broader audience, aka bottom of the barrel normies, and by appealing to the lowest common denominator, they thought they would make more money
whether they were right or not, they turned most of this country's entertainment industry into a landfill, and then they dumped about 10,000 AIDS-infected rats on top of it too

Politically yes, but early sites such as cuckchan (whwn it wasn't normafag infested yet and when it wasn't still runned by SJWs yet), Newgrounds and YTMND were great.

also just in general.. 2000-2005 pc games used to use individual CD keys to verify purchase and that was the only think linking you to your nickname. Most games let you choose random names as many times as you wanted and only required a cd key. This leant an air of distance and anonymity. It was a dark, weird world where you were truly someone else.

Steam, forced email signe up logins, tie-ins with facebook and social (remember the backlash against starcraft 2 for trying this?) have changed that about videogames. It has lost its mischievous, dangerous, wild west feeling.

Ever since Battlefield 2 when they inroduced this stats, earning guns, customizing your kit thing I stopped enjoying online pc games.

i hate mmorpgs so no commetn

I'm using mint right now as well. I've only tested puppy linux on that computer as well as a surprisingly full featured knoppix disc from 2003. As far as I know shit goes in to the linux kernel but never comes out. Some faggot in the year 2400 is probably going to install a kernel that's full of references to palm pilots and shit.

No I'm not a luddite or a nostalgiafag, I actually love my highspeed internet connection.

Why you gotta make me feel these feels?

Did you live in the third world? Everyone I knew had a computer by the mid 90s

Proud white male craftsmen dominating late night cable TV. Shows like Jesse "alleged Nazi" James and his Monster Garage and Motorcycle Madness, to a lesser degree American Chopper, a further lesser degree Myth Busters or Junk Yard Wars. This was still when there was no real alternative to any narrative being pushed by the TV as internet was too slow, YouTube hadn't really starting being a factor until late 00's, and these were popular shows, dominant mass media, promoting men that build stuff with steel and science.

For the most part hacking was still hacking, and was used to describe making electronic technology do elite things, not a phrase used by NPC's to describe little tricks to use popsicle sticks and paper clips to help with your laundry.

Also Chappelle's show was a show allowed on the air that made it okay to be racist.

For the most part the "achievements" of the 2000's can be summed up as increased computer power being used for increasingly degenerate narcissism.

I would consider YouTube, blogs, and "web 2.0" as positive if you already had the desire for the truth. Without this stuff 9/11 would have gone off without a hitch as a war instigating mechanism, but instead has become a massive redpill for nearly everybody.

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against white people?

I'll agree with the other posters and say that the past 10 years have been cancerous bullshit years. Not much real change in a positive way in things that matter. It's been a steady decline in general life along with more and more marketing to make people feel like things are better than before. I know a few people who think Apple and their iPhones are the pinnacle of human achievement, a prime example for technological progress and a beacon for the greatest of our time. It's just a damn phone with internet capabilities. It's a blend of two technologies, not a great invention on it's own. Yet people will hang their hat on it as proof that this period has been a great time and things are not getting worse and worse. If there's one thing that got turned up to 11 since the early 2000's is marketing. Ads, tv shows/movies, even the products themselves are simply tools of marketing to convince people that everything is not totally shit. 9/11 set that in motion in a big way and then it really got amp'd up after 2008. Tons of effort in trying to sell the argument that it wasn't a depression but a recession and that everything will be ok when we're still dealing with the effects of 2008 (and the dot com crash of the early 2000's too since they go hand-in-hand). But hey, the Dow is really high and if you had money to invest in stocks or buy property when prices were low for that short period before getting propped up, then you probably made a lot of money.

But 2008 was sort of pic related as it was a big start on the path towards a certain political awakening for me. Before then I was apolitical as you could get as I found all the lefty bullshit in college to be distasteful and all the conservative mainstream junk felt fake. So I never bothered until I graduate college in 2008 (worst fucking time for that) and I struggled out of school. But I had the time to discover 4chan Holla Forums and 4chon /new/ and etc etc.

90s software aesthetics are fucking unreal

My fucking nigger, Glad to see a fellow chonfag here.

Don't forget kampfy and coonman too

Yeah there was some anti-white stuff in the show, but the show was way more about taboos about blacks. It was a vehicle to spread truths about niggers that was okay to laugh at for nomral people because the host was black. This aspect of the show escaped Chappelle's himself and when he realised it he quit the show and went back to Africa.

Forgot pic

Well the first few Pokémon games after red and blue came out during this time. That was pretty good

AH I wouldn't know I never watched it.

sti did literally nothing wrong

Still kicking, still haunting .pl and still wishing .co had worked. Still unable to let go.


STI A SHIT, LEARNINGCODE A SHIT, HDV A SHIT, A POX UPON THEIR PUCKERED ASSES

Interesting perspective user.

ttp://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/the-niggar-family/81602872/

Here is a link from eBaums to make it extra 2000's-y

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9/11 was the biggest reason why the 2000's and 2010's became shit.

Shit. That's what it gave us. Vapid, trite, unmemorable shit. Only good thing to ever come out of it all were largely, if not solely in the 2000's old flash toons and games, not to mention early 4chan

I was born in 1996, so I have some personal fondness for the 00s, even if I do recognize that they were negative. Everything back then seems a little hazy, like I don't remember much of it beyond the fact that I was young and happy, so everything seemed great, even if it wasn't. I lived in a place that was… behind the times, so that may explain why no particular trends really pop into my head when I try to remember.

That said, I'm quite curious about the 90s, as my memory of those is pretty much zilch. Were they as good as people say they were? Maybe our current problems weren't as advanced then, but I can't help but be skeptical of the "only 90s kids will remember this" people. Surely, they are just expressing nostalgia for childhood (or maybe web 1.0, or the video game scenes of the era), with the time-period merely serving as a proxy, right?

A nihilistic vaudeville show with Bill Clinton and grunge music isn't exactly my idea of an ideal time. At the end of the day, I can't think of a single modern decade worth fetishizing.

Yeah, it sucked. I liked some of the post-hardcore music that came out around that time. Playstation 2 was cool. Not much else I can think of.

Don't you mean Nu-10's? The blackpill is magnetic in its message. Fuck, it's too enticing now.

Except that's been a part of consumer culture since the 40s.

Pretty sure the 40s have us beat, dude. Destruction of the last vestiges of true European culture, Stalin genociding millions of Germans, to say nothing of the eastern and central Europeans, destruction of rights in the US and abroad.

4chon was good times until it shat the bed. I owe a lot to /new/ at it's beginning as it exposed me to things I don't think I ever would have encountered had I graduated college and got a big boy job right out the gate. This seems to be a common thing in people I know. Those who didn't struggle much thru 2008 are now dipshit super normies and those who did are somewhat Holla Forums-tier with a refreshing view on politics and history, in general.

Fellow 96 here.
I'd wager this is the '00 asthetic. The beauty of the death of the old, and the freedom of the new. It's dear to and popular with every counterculture in the people in our generation.
It's a direct response to globalization, marketing, etc.

Simulcara and simulcarum. Living room. Decay of the old, with only the best of what our society had to offer surviving. That's our mindset. One may extrapolate that the appreciation of overriding greenery is a symbol of the force of nature, and by proxy a symbol of reinstating tradition. Nature was the first tradition.

Practically everyone in our generation considers them to be objectively beautiful, and it's not because zombies or puzzles. It's something, I think, to do with the idea of free space, being able to innawoods anywhere, choosing to stay in the social systems you and your friends have created. This is something our generation lacks because we were raised to think there's too much of us, we were raised to know that our existance was overpopulation.

The dream of the 00's was a world where greenery/tradition cannot destroy the true beauty of the past, yet there are no useless people, and the world has room for us all.

This dream is the founding stone of the ideology that will propel us to mars.
The common 96 won't agree with killing people you don't like, but we innately lust for the beauty of an empty planet, new or old.

90's were great, the letist rot hadn't spread as deeply yet. Most people were pretty damn happy in the 90's, towns were still together, white kids still played in the white neighbor's pool, it was a different world. Everybody is miserable in this new cultureless broken decade.

That's simply false, a man couldn't wear a dress and go outside in the 1920's without getting his skull bashed in. There were no gay pride parades in the 1920's, there were no gays putting out ads as to how they wanted to impregnate another gay with HIV. It's not even remotely comparable.

In human history? No, not really..
In recent history? Absolutely.
I would call 2010-2015 far worse.
Now this is all connected of course, as 2000-2010 did get things rolling. I was still a child in the year 2000 so I remember there being a lot of talk and celebration about the new millenium, lots of hope, lots of new beginnings and blah blah blah. There was still rock music on the radio, there were still single income households (though they were dwindling fast) and there were still original movies being made.
Then SHTF. I and any of you could go on and on about the political, financial and jewish reasons behind this, but in general things did really start to go to shit only by then end of the decade, around 2007 to be precise we narrowed it down to that year a few times already. Of course, I could go on and on about the hows and whys, but to discusss your last point, I am in full agreement that there is no unifying culture that sums up that era except maybe a creeping growth of consumer electronics in our lives. Sure, cellphones had been around for a long time by that point, but they were mostly just phones with maybe Snake or Breakout on them and little else. Now of course everyone young and old are glued to their phones 24/7. The lack of identity is further increased by the fact that this was the era that (((diversification))) started to become hip and you were seen as a better human being the more disenfranchised and muddled you were.


I sense I am rambling so I'll end this by saying

You are my nigger, and I 'm off to the lefty march thread, I may be back.

is that site still around? i remember when i found out about moonman through there

Actually the second half of 2000s and the first half of 2010s is what really sucked.
I would say the darkest was the period from 2008 to 2017, basically the whole Obongo's presidency.
Good thing it seems that it's finally over, now we take control.

The 90's had the best music

TBH we were just became conscious enough to perceive the horror.
But the 00' weren't bad. I still have fond memories on the complete anarchical shithole that was the internet in 04' and onwards. To partake in threads where
memes were born.
Music was shit but we still had some from the 90'. Movies were great with LOTR. Games were good till 2008. After then big money started poring in.
Didn't have phones so we still fucked around the town with the lads.
Bashed emos all the time and hipsters just evolved from them at the end of the 00'.

From 08' onwards, shit hit the fan when the nog became president.

TBH I miss those old ass mems from old old 4chan. I know that modern ones are just as good but noting beats shitty stick figures and badly drawn bears.

HOLY FUCK THIS. For my whole life its been hell. We live in a world where everything is cucked and my existence is hated because whites are always the bad goys. Inauguration day felt awesome. Either trump's inaugurated or someone just gave us an excuse to rev up the gas chambers. Ive never had that hope in my life. And you can thank Kek for our victory

90s music was fucking terrible. Everything about the 90s was shit.

Bitcoin, that's it

I miss playing block dude on my ti84 while waiting for the schoolbus.

The only good music was the underground scene in the early 90s, such as shoegaze and black metal.
The rest is crap that either tries to sound like Nirvana or eurodance trash.

Implying Bush was actually conservative.

like what? nickleback? foo fighters? august burns red? 2000s rock musick sucked donkey balls

i'd say aidsbook is also very blameable

wait george lucas is not dead, is this just a small mistake on your side or am i in a new universe?

Dude, Eddie Murphy had the same act in the 80's. Archie Bunker and All in the Family was way more popular than any Dave Chappelle-show and that was in the 70's. The 00's was shit.

The End begun.

A few things. This , Yuri's Revenge, Megaman Legends 2, and imageboards became a thing in the West.

Otherwise, embed related.

Most of them are indeed being overly sentimental nostalgic faggots, but it's objectively provable that children's entertainment in the 90's and tapering off into the early 2000's, especially animation, was of significantly better quality and variety than today and certainly previous decades.

As it is with any particular cultural moment or movement, the foundation that made it possible was the state of society at the time. The economy was prosperous. The average person had more spending money and more leisure time. The US was trading internationally and making a killing over it without the consequences catching up to us quite yet. Hollywood was thriving after spending the last decade refining the moneymaking juggernaut that is the blockbuster into an art. The collapse of the Soviet Union meant a new untouched market to claim, a renewed faith in the superiority of Western culture and industry, and a general perception of peace and opportunity. Demographically, the Baby Boomers had come of age and were now having children of their own on a large scale, which meant that investors saw dollar signs in anything and everything family friendly (similar to how now the general attitude is that going into the healthcare field is a sure thing now that the Boomers are getting old and sick).

The boom really took off with Disney's release of The Little Mermaid in late 1989. Disney themselves had been on a downward spiral for decades. They'd spent most of the 70's and 80's churning out low quality forgettable shit no one cared about. The Little Mermaid was intended to be a bold new project that went back to why people loved their classic movies while pushing the medium to a higher standard. They went with once again adapting a classical beloved fairy tale, one that Walt himself wanted to do but was unable to because of technical constraints, while pushing the quality of the animation, the cinematography, the writing, the soundtrack, and the performances (something that was also present in the earlier Who Framed Roger Rabbit, whose success convinced Disney that animation was worth pursuing seriously again). The film was a roaring success and, paired with later juggernauts like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, planted the seed that high quality children's animation could reap huge benefits and create fierce brand loyalty. Disney's role in this really can't be understated: even to this day children's entertainment will blatantly try to ape 90's Disney. Disney themselves have built their entire branding on the goodwill people have towards them because of this period.

Another important factor was the proliferation of basic cable. While it certainly had existed before his point, cable TV was mostly limited to richer households in years past. Now that more people could afford cable, specialized networks and programing were now much more viable. Children's networks in particular now had the means to make their original programming with higher budgets. Since they were free from the constraints of big networks, cable channels also had the freedom in the material they made. The generous budgets paired with lax networks itching for cutting edge content and a large demand for their product meant that animators and other assorted people in the field had the creative freedom to really push boundaries and explore the medium. The niche nature of cable TV also meant that programs that might not have had a chance to find an audience now had the perfect platform and exposed audiences to new ideas. The vast majority of anime fans in the west were introduced to the medium through cable blocks like Toonami. Given where we are, the importance of that is obvious.

The rise of VCRs as common household items also contributed to this "Golden Age". For the first time, audience's choices in entertainment were no longer dictated by what was playing in theaters and what was being shown on the big public networks. Entertainment industries now had a whole new source of revenue for their products: rebuying the same movie on home video for rewatches. Now, who do you think reliably spends a ton of money on VHS tapes? Parents who want to put something on to keep their kids quiet. Even smaller productions or movies that didn't do so well in theaters could now turn a profit due to the wide reach of the VCR.

grunge scene was okay but that's about it

So I suppose a tl;dr of this whole thing is that the average quality of children's entertainment in the 90's WAS legitimately and tangibly better because the economy and culture as well as technological advancements were just right in order to create an environment where the people behind the entertainment were allowed to thrive while consumers had constructive demands and the means to make them. I know that "le 90's kids" are absolutely fucking annoying, but honestly I think the MUCH more damaging attitude is the "hurr things were always like this there was always the same amount of shit to good things you just only remember the good things" fags.

It's poisonous as all shit because it actively encourages people to have low standards and be complacent with the status quo no matter what. It only serves to reinforce those in power in politics and culture to keep fucking things up. Even worse, it gives people an ignorant view of reality: the assertion that there will always be the same ratio of good to shit comes with the assumption that it has nothing to do with people's actions and that there is some unseen arbitrator that is maintaining the ratio of good to shit. Of course, the people who want to assert this the most are the people who are already in power.


If you say that it's impossible that things really used to be better and it's all just nostalgia, you're also saying it's impossible that a person or people willfully fucked things up and made them worse. Hell, the whole underlying fucking reason we have so many remakes, reboots, sequels, and adaptations for most big movies is that people don't fucking trust modern Hollywood to make anything of merit. The best they can expect is that they take something successful that worked in the past and rip it off, and they still manage to fuck that up. If you can't recognize that things were better and have gotten worse, you can't be expected to improve anything. That period of quality in the 90's happened because people willed it to happen. If no one acknowledges that things are bad, no one will come forward to try to change things and everyone will just accept their fates.

This is why Trump's message of Make America Great Again resonated with so many people while making leftists so fucking assmad. It put forth three very powerful messages:
>3) You don't have to accept this as an inevitability, you have the power to change this

tl;dr again- Nostalgia goggles are a cop-out meant to make you accept a shitty miserable existence

Forgot to mention:

This is also why Hillary's campaign was all over the fucking place. She had no choice but to acknowledge the hardships people were suffering under Obama's watch (you can't just dismiss people's problems) while telling them she was going to keep doing the exact same things. Normalfags have whined that any other Dem would have won, but truthfully any Dem would have to face the same thing because they all had to fall in line behind Obama. By making him above criticism, they absolutely fucked themselves when people came forward with legitimate greivances. This goes for the media too.

Fuck, I haven't rewatched this guy since before I was redpilled.

One more, because I love this guy. He's not redpilled himself, but he's much closer than any other comedian I know of.

How quickly you've forgotten. We all hated each other. Yet it was that mutual hatred that kept us coming back.

The 90's everyone was in a naive state of atrophy where the 2000's took away all of that and we entered the era of cynicism and fear and loathing. Only the strong survive in this world of eternal struggle user.

Born in '86 here, so the '90s are just a dim memory to me, but I can tell you a couple things. First, crime was out of control. Today's national crime rates are tame in comparison. During the LA riots, a truck driver got beaten half to death with a lead pipe on national television. People tend not to remember this about the '90s because there weren't smartphones back then documenting every single shooting and beatdown, but it was a national crisis. Remember Hillary Clinton getting in trouble this season for her '90s comments about "super-predators" in the inner cities? That's how bad it was.

Second, the '90s is when paranoia about the government really took off. There were a lot of problems with the Reagan administration, but there was no question that Reagan loved his country. During the '90s there was a shift where it seemed like the government was openly hostile toward its citizens. The scenes of men, women, and children being slaughtered by the feds at Waco were shocking. Also, Bill Clinton decided to side with Muslims over Christians in the Balkans, which left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

Delivery could be improved a lot more tbh famalam

Still miles better than Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham though.

The early 2000s were great because college students used this over a MacBook.

The world has been shit and has just been getting shittier and shittier each decade. The 80s sucked, the 90s sucked, the 00s sucked, and now the 10s sucked.


hmm, sums my post up quite well, actually.

I was just thinking that yesturday, that this millennium started out horrifically. Trump is going to have to make the world great again for 16 extra years after 3000 to make up for it.

MAKE THE MILLENNIUM GREAT AGAIN

Fuck you young fag, the 2k_ 2k10 was never good. Kill yourself faggot.

All these faggots talking about how good tech and video games were in the 00s or whatever are literally the most self-centered losers imaginable. Our governments were slaughtering people wholesale in false flag terror attacks, they carried out a massive black magick ritual sacrifice on 9/11/01. Screw you.

I am pretty sure everyone used these.

Degeneracy
here is the proper writing utensil

It becomes degeneracy if you write degeneracy.

Honestly I would never take this anywhere near a class room. I can't count how many pens I lost or got stolen.

2000 and on was a major decline and when the niggerfication of culture intensified to African levels on one hand while the other was the cultivation of the numale gigafag. Fuck you youngerfags you don't know shit.

I bet they used this. Perfect pencil for perfect penetration.

I agree with a bunch of what you said but this in particular needs emphasis. There were issues in the 90's (especially towards the end), but in comparison to post 9/11 years these were really good times.

I'm not sure if this was cause or effect but another thing that's really fucked up society is the normalization of divorce which coincides with a similar time period. Much of this was pushed from the Hollywood/celebrity world and is a destroyer of families. The traditional family unit has always been the backbone of America and almost every cancerous degenerate belief system opposes it. There is no doubt a correlation here.

The man is a musical genius.

good insights

One good thing that springs to mind is that The Dark Knight came out in 2008.

After September 11th, 2001, we witnessed the jewish coup of the USA. Marxist and Zionist jews went into high gear, but the internet was their undoing.

its greatest sin was being fucking boring as sin tbh

The Little Mermaid was a feminist movie teaching girls to be sluts and disobey their fathers. Same with Aladdin. Lion King was good though.

American lifestyle is about worshiping technology and mass pop culture.

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I've never played any of the Silent Hill games, but the music in that series is fucking immaculate.

2000s killed gameservers and forums. gameservers were crucial to gaming communities and forums were crucial to internet culture in general. Social networking cancer as a result of a giant influx of normalfags made good things impossible, as a complex game with a server browser and a console language couldn't out-compete a simplistic "experience"-based game anymore with sales being so high, and forums couldn't survive social media.

Really just fuck normalfags.

If you can emulate a PS2 you should probably emulate at least the first three, they're games that have a lot of passion put into them. The first one is on PSX and might feel too dated though.

2000s - 2010 was the beginning of the end. It brought us the glorification of frat-party culture. Back then, it was the kikes tearing down the white youth into degenerate drunks/druggies, then after 2010, after the white youth is degraded to an animalistic conglomerate, the noble negroe steps forward as the cool, new, edgy way white girls can degrade themselves.

Once the white males are degraded to retarded frat boy level, it makes it easier for niggers to compete. For who better at acting like an untamed animal than a nigger?

Shitty decades are great for redpills.

- 9/11 (government was complicit, as were kikes)
- All the middle east war corruption of trying to play every side. Basically jewry as a foreign policy.
- Neo-Cons exposed as kikes that infiltrated and subverted conservatism
- housing bust, all the banks bailed out… world economy on the brink of total collapse just to give niggers houses they can't afford.
- A lot of good music and books

This was an absolutely mandatory decade in order to achieve the spiritual and racial awakening we have.

Also think of all the crime and rape statistics collected in the Bush years that we're still using today.

The 1990s was nigger and drug worship so at least there was some good art.

2000s was faggot and women worship so there was nothing but corporate social smut.

Honestly I think the art of the 90s like the pre-SJW Simpsons and Married with Children mocked PC culture too much for it to survive. So it came back in the 2000s

Also 1080p video

That was around in the 90s. MTV beach house, all the college movies… Although American Pie was like 1998 and that really set it off big time make those kinds of movies

Fuck off Alex. The Jews did 911 for Israel and the Christians backed them up to bring on the end.

What? No… 80s and all the tranny bullshit, 70s all the cocain disco parties… 60s all the hippies… 50s the normalization of standards of living that promote materialism… 40s the largest loss of European people ever in world history… etc… There isn't a decade you can name that didn't contribute to this mess. It has been a steady march.

Yea, it helped me quit vidya before it was cool to quit vidya though. Killing private server hosting in games like COD made me instantly stop buying new releases.

match that to this and we have a pretty good diagram for the last 70yrs of total Jewish power

I picked up a macintosh IIsi on the side of the road with all accessories including hard drive. Kind of tempted to get an ethernet adapter and run netbsd on it.

At some point everything started to remind me of pic related.

Read a crazy cap on /fringe/ or /x/ that the Akashic records from 2007 to 2017 were destroyed so (((they))) could stop altering history. Anyone also have that?

Phones are cancer. I went on a coffee 'date' (if you call it that) in 2012 and I just thought she was autistic or rude.

Did we all forget the one thing that brought us here? that is responsible for changing our lives not just for the better, but in the only way that will allow us the hope of saving the white world? This autistic Cambodian smoke signal site created the only good things left in the world, and even now there's hardly anything that compares.

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As bad as 00-10 was only two things that really made my day then was I finally had a friend and I obtained a computer. I miss the old internet.

Yeah, I have to work (B2B shit, they are not employees) with younger guys and a lot of them are J-Roc tier wiggers or as Sholes that say brah and wear ball caps and beards.

underappreciated post.

pre-cancer chans ytmnd newgrounds
battlefield 2142
counterstrike was fun
gotdembraindawgs
…emo guys in tight jeans

wat?

logic doesnt work on leftists though, its only for our history writing as we continue making waves

I thought AAR, Paramore, old FOB, Panic at the Disco were great. However I'm 19 now so take that as you will.

the 2000s will be known to future generations as the lost decade or the forgotten decade
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2000s were fucking great, what are you talking about?

If it wasn't for 2016 and beyond I'd argue the 10s were worst.

I watched the time tick by on my TI calculator while sitting in class doing nothing. I'm not even that old.


Tons of research papers in physics, math, psychology, biology, medicine and computer science that all seem to be very promising.

The thing with modern university and research is that in the past researchers were sometimes completely unaware of other papers out there or had to wait until they could get a physical copy. With the internet you can find all research publications in your field that are of relevance so you have a much better idea what to build on and what ideas have been researched.

Technology also builds on itself, with technology its easier to get more and better technology.

Best AAA game at the moment is League of Legends…. it has over 100 million monthly users and at peak times Riot said they had 9 million players simultaneously playing.

Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2, and Chan Culture which pushed the limits of social unorthodoxy cultivating the think-tank that would one day normalize Hitler. Aside from that, nothing relevant.
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is this a common thing? I know normies usually have poor memories of their childhood besides nostalgia, but i always figured some people have decent memories.

Linkin park and the whole nu metal thing was pretty cool. Also all the early 2000s post blink 182 punk was ok.

sage for off topic but I love listening to FSR when I want to think about the 2000s
then I got a new powermac, so fuckin fast I almost had a heart attack
now it's torrents with bandwidth to our necks, looking backs crazy but I wonder what's next

Forums were their own little world in gaming (and in general), especially ones that were pretty much isolated from the outside internet. You could have an actual community and grow it.

archive.is/qZYrf
archive related

Yeah, if they had thousands of dollars to spend. More likely that you'd see budget brand laptops or iBook toilet seat laptops, if not 90% notebooks and paper. Laptops like thinkpads were made for buisnessmen who say, needed a laptop with a dock or could switch out the drive bay for more battery and had the corporate credit card to buy all the good stuff with.

To all the anons earlier talking about the 2000s being the age of marketing, you should watch a Frontline documentary called (((Merchants))) of Cool. It was made back in 2001 and is focused on marketing teams and how they evolved over the 90s into the millenium, and how they market to youth. If you grew up during this time, you will no doubt recognize a lot of the stuff they pushed back then. The documentary has a few things about MTV and the shitshow TRL, stuff about marketing WWE, etc etc. They made a updated version a decade later documenting how marketing changed in the age of social media. Instead of teens playing foosball and talking about PS2 they're talking about which selfie looks best for a profle picture.

ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=HVbexlXN6Rw

Holla Forums here, can confirm the 2000s were garbage. CPUs crashed head on into the laws of physics, XML abuse peaked in the middle of the decade, social media took off, most of the internet was gentrified and neutered.

We're going to take it back, starting now.

t. netburst

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Aol chat lobbies spammed with porn?

that would be preferable to the current state of the internet

I used Yahoo! Chat back in the late 90s and thankfully none of that shit happened there. I guess the kikes were using their porn weapon since the beginning but it was less prolific.


It was comparatively very nice. I feel like I was a pioneer looking at the frontier, but now that frontier is a concrete jungle of red light districts and giant speakers spreading propaganda 24/7, and it's as if all my fellow kin were either consumed by that or were taken out to some mass grave and shot because I sure do feel alone in this world, surrounded by retarded, niggerfied zombies that piss me off.

Moldbug.

95 here

KYS cuck

The 60's were worse.
That's when everything starting going to hell in a handbasket culturally.

Oh man, I remember listening to them along with Lifeseeker both are fucking terrible now that I look back on it but I loved them at the time Gone Guru still rocks, though

Could you imagine al gore instead?

Vidya, movies, and TV turned to absolute fucking shit in the 2010s. Maybe this is why we were able to turn things around. The bread got stale and the circuses got boring.

Sunset of the Clinton AWB in 2004. Access to design capacity magazines and "shoulder things that go up" caused liberal tears to flow in large quantities.

I feel that way kinda, 2005-2015 was pretty brutal looking back.

Feels good man

What, you didn't like BioWare's gay marine simulator?

We were in a different timeline. Thankfully the current one is much better.