part three hundred and sixty five

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[(Anonymous)]

anons is it me bored as hell under quarantine or was the internet just more fun like 5-10 years ago?

i miss so much stuff, like kpop in general was far more active on niche places like this. now it's so centralised on twitter and what not. i miss coming home from school and watching a new reality show with exo or some other group that would stick around for more than a year... now it's all so temporary and scandal-ridden.

there's other stuff too. like, i miss fanfic on livejournal (basically dead now), i miss gaming forums (also dead)... i never really posted on these but i loved seeing how active they all were. now it's all gone or filled with trolls and i don't know where everyone went. i miss going to a specific final fantasy or nintendo game forum or some niche jrpg game's forum and still seeing it active as hell. now they're either inactive or closed.

is everyone really just on instagram and tiktok? i know yt has grown in good ways (especially with gaming) but it doesn't feel like a community to me.

[(Anonymous)]

while i'm grateful for ao3 there's zero sense of community there and people don't submit comments. i have a community on discord but my activity on there fluctuates. on (kpop) twt i hide behind retweets and have sporadic conversations via dm. there's another social network i use to talk to one friend. other than those specified, i use the internet for looking up stuff, bills, window shopping, and email. idk about yt too impatient to watch videos now, even kpop mvs. i left ig when it got bought by fb and i will never use tiktok.

lol my answer is boring but ia that the internet felt different even 5 years ago. i wonder if the internet of other languages feel similarly to english language users like you and me.

[(Anonymous)]

yep i'm in the same boat anon. thing is, i've always been a lurker, so it's not really new territory for me... but it just hit me today as i was looking up old super mario games and reading about sailor moon (lol) that there's no LIFE anymore on major sites or niche sites... all the forums have been cut (like with imdb) or are inactive.

i never realised how much i enjoyed reading comments from people i felt i knew because i saw them comment so much. everyone's on social media now, and it all feels very transient there.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, lurking is my internet habit and i did the same here for a while until i felt like i understood enough of the terminology to even anon comment lol

aw you just reminded me of places like a sailor moon romance forums and television without pity. "places" like that on the internet are basically gone, eaten by social media ;; etc.

i wouldn't hate on social media so much if it weren't such a nightmare to track and keep all the info on there organized. specifically twt, ig, and even tumblr when it was a thing was messy even tho there were more tools for organizing. lol but also the massive amounts of mis- and disinformation on social media sigh.

[(Anonymous)]

anon i agree 100% especially considering i used to use the chat room in salor moon romance all the time LOL

twp was amazing and avclub was great... it's still alive, but it's a shell of what it once was and it just made me sad today...

i agree about social media as well, especially with the disinformation. i wonder if we'll see a transition away from social media over time, tbh, because it's surely not just us who get bothered by it. i dunno, i'm just rambling i guess. nostalgia sucks :/

[(Anonymous)]

lol the instantaneous nature or whatever of chat rooms makes me ill lmao i don't like them but ah i wonder if we ever ran into each other then

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i hope so, transitioning away from social media, or at least something else. the rise of so-called walled gardens or whatever of the internet surely sucks. let me browse i don't wanna make an account jfc. not sure that there were ever any 'good old days' for the internet, but i'd feel confident in my opinion of calling these days rn some real bad old days.

[(Anonymous)]

subreddits are completely hit or miss but there are nice ones for niche interests

[(Anonymous)]

the activity level is so low though, and the sense of community is often poor imo because you rarely get to know the other redditors

that said, some communities can revive themselves. tumblr is experiencing a resurgence now, it's kinda fun again

[(Anonymous)]

thank god fanfic is dead. you should be ashamed for having enjoyed it btw

[(Anonymous)]

i feel no shame anon! it was a beautiful time! unfortunately fanfic still exists... it's just mostly rubbish now and the fandoms i was into (supernatural, for instance) have mostly been abandoned.

i just wish i'd gotten the memo.

[(Anonymous)]

anon i was thinking about exactly this the other day ;; i know i should be happy my interests even have enough other fans to be this big but kpop on twitter and ig has no sense of community unless you have a set circle of friends

ao3 is so good because its an archive but it offers you no way to talk to the authors unless they have social media links and you follow them there so thats shot too... idk i just want to have fun and talk to people about a shared interest and it feels like it's solely up to luck these days