>How did 00's internet (and vidya) culture go so wrong?
It became formulaic and bland (like shovelware) formulas that did work became changed when they shouldn't have. Social media and subsequent media cheapened our popular culture, and then the atom bomb dropped: cultural Marxism became popular with the stupidest people in our young echelons of society (SJW's, Feminazis) and they tried (far to successfully) to ruin everything good and fun about everything with their particular brand of political correctness, which polarized half the country against the other half (reactionaries).
I'm about to be 34 years old. Back in the early 00's when I was a teen, most kids if they died did so in car accidents (i.e. having fun), nowadays they either die from suicide (from misery) or drug overdose (from trying to escape misery). Shit just got to the point of sucking harder than space.
There is far more complexity and intricacies to it than what I just said, but yes, things are worse than they were back them. Some of the best years were from 98' up until 9/11.
9/11 was a turning point where things really started changing for the worse politically and socio economically. Obama's presidential victory was where things really started to go to shit culturally.
I'm just mulling off random memories at this point.
Kids suck without street racing or some other kind of reckless dangerous past time.
The 128 bit era was the last great era of video games before they got so much like movies and shovelware that we didn't get excited about them anymore.
The greatest days of the internet died with the rise of facebook and the death of flash/html/php forums. Newgrounds was the shit back then.
Dreamcast and PS2 were the zenith of the home console experience in respect to interesting, imaginative, and fun times. That's not to say that we don't have great new games now, but....it's all been done at this point, and Seag is really only a shadow nowadays of it's former glory.
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