• Boomkop3@reddthat.com
    351·
    8 个月前

    Depressed people reaching out for help while being too socially anxious to admit they are… is still a thing

  • Norgur@kbin.social
    313·
    8 个月前

    “the old Internet” is pre-social-media, dude. If you were moody back then, you put a Comic sans text on your free lycos Webspace, and if you were really fed up, you made it blink!
    L

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      7·
      8 个月前

      Oh man…this brings back such cringey memories of ANGRY away messages that everyone knew exactly who I was mad at…

      Jesus, the cringe…

      And yes, the lyrics were screamo. Thrice, to be exact.

      • skooma_king@lemm.ee
        2·
        8 个月前

        Side note, Thrice has a really deep catalog now and are still putting out great music. A lot of it is kind of allegory but they really moved on from the teen screamo type music.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    117·
    8 个月前

    Is that really “the old Internet” though? That seems more like the Internet from like… 15 years ago maybe? That’s definitely not “the old Internet” lol I’m pretty sure people still do this don’t they? I don’t have any real social media accounts anymore so I haven’t really kept up with it

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      8 个月前

      The internet from 15 years ago is the old internet for anyone under 30.

      And anyone over 30 is obviously a Boomer so we can safely disregard their perspective.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 个月前

        i would place the old/new internet divide on the commercialization of smartphones. Not on the user age but how we got online. Internaut profile too has changed from people who work with computers + gamers to anybody

        Smartphones changed the internet after 2007

          • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            8 个月前

            it’s the smartphones that rose social media

            when people started posting while waiting for their shit to come out, shit started oozing on these lines too

            excuse my misanthropic moment here

            • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              8 个月前

              i would say it was social media that really kicked off smartphones. The concept of being to communicate on a platform like myspace, but on a phone, and from anywhere, was truly revolutionary. It was a cyclical process, much like it is today.

              Otherwise a smartphone is just a fancy flip phone, which is what people were primarily using back then anyway. Until something gave the smartphone a reason to exist, nobody needed one, i would argue it’s primarily social media that was that factor.

      • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
        31·
        8 个月前

        Fuck man, my oldest is 15 now lol. He’s about to be the same age as I was when I was first dating the girl that I’m with now.

        I disregard everything anyone says so maybe that’s either delusionment or enlightenment. Time will tell

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    8 个月前

    There’s no way vague posting isn’t still a thing. People have always been and will always be passive aggressive sadsacks from time to time. It’s just changed formats, not disappeared completely.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      8 个月前

      my discord status for the past, fuck me, 5 or 6 years now, has been some form of vauge moodposting because it amuses me.

      It’s very cryptic and means almost nothing though.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    8 个月前

    You’re probably right, this time, but I don’t want to listen

    You’re probably right, this time, but I don’t even care

    And if it was mine to say, I wouldn’t say it

    And if it was mine to say, I wouldn’t speak