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No. 1806853

Thread to talk about stuff you miss, but that doesnt exist anymore, like a fashion trend, a place, a show cancelled too soon, animals or whatever you wanna talk about. Not a nostalgia thread.

No. 1806861

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>>1806853
I wanna start by saying i miss practical effects so fucking much. I think the reason why people enjoy bad 80s movies to this day but stuff like Megan become irrelevant in a year it's because of the use of practical effects over CGI. It doesnt matter how good the CGI is in a movie, it will always feel cheaper and less creative than some good ol 80s effects made with love.

No. 1806879

I miss cable. And I bet all the actors and producers do too, considering the fact that streaming has totally raked residuals through the coals. I don’t pay for streaming services I just pirate old shit now because every netflix and hulu and hbo serious is just ugh.

No. 1806885

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No. 1806888

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And Hollywood videos.

No. 1806892

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the weekend farmer meetup

No. 1806901

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Novelty shaped snacks like PB Crisps and Doritos 3Ds, it feels like junk food used to be so much more creative. Trix isn't even shaped like fruits anymore.

No. 1806915

Being able to rent videogames, I’m playing Mario Kart 8 and while it’s fun it definitely could be a game I have for like a week or just a party with friends

No. 1806916

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>>1806901
i miss when trash food tried to lure in children with goofy mascots. They made a law in my country that forbids cereal boxes to have mascots, so now they all look really boring.

No. 1806919

I frequently dream of places that no longer exist, like my sister-in-law's house and my high school. The first was torn down due to pest infestations weakening the roof. The second was torn down and replaced by a new building right on the same site. Even my college cafeteria has been torn down and yet I'll still have odd dreams of walking around in an endless buffet that could only be there.

It makes me a bit wistful to dream of these places that no longer exist but still seem as "real" to me as still existent things. I'm not even 30 yet. As I grow older, there will be more and more relics in my slumber.

No. 1806922

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I miss e3 during it's prime before every publisher and company started doing their own showcases/directs. I remember looking up the schedules so I could make sure I was able to watch either at home or follow live updates on my phone/computer at work. Used to be one of my summer highlights, the anticipation and hype was something it'll probably never have again

No. 1806923

Speaking of mascots, i miss fido dido. I dont think we will ever have creative ad campaigns again.

No. 1807029

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4:3 aspect ratio anime.
I didn't get to watch them on their proper display but the frames always look more full and interesting.
Usually the artstyle of the show isn't cluttered with gradients and other boring details, the colors are more flat but also vivid and give more attention and life to the characters, i think this is also why the animation looks more expressive and smooth than the average 1.78:1 shows, wish it could come back even if we all mostly watch stuff on our computer screens or phones now.

No. 1807038

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flip phones. the designs are beautiful and so compact. they fit right into your pocket and look adorable with charms. using my iphone makes me feel like an ipad baby because of how big it is. it’s so heavy too and hard to bring around. i wish phone companies especially apple would try and design something more compact and cute

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>>1807038
>i wish phone companies especially apple would try and design something more compact and cute
Samsung has a phone that folds, there's a version that folds horizontally as well like a book. I've been wanting to get one as my next phone. I do here that after a long time it does develop a streak across the part where it folds.

No. 1807042

>>1807038
I loved flip phones when i was a kid! I always envied my sister for having one and i would often think about what charms i would use, but then smartphones came and now it's all about covers and that soulless butterfly flip phone, i wish we could have an alternative that it's close to old models but not outdated.

No. 1807044

>>1807040
I have the Samsung fold 4 and I love it sm

No. 1807108

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Can you miss something you've never experienced? I would like the vintage perfumes with the little squeeze balls to come back. It just always looks so beautiful and elegant and glamorous to see a woman using one. No idea how well they actually worked as an atomizer though.

No. 1807131

I miss early anime conventions, when the costumes were made out of duct tape and altered clothes from Goodwill. Everyone was some level of socially stunted so you could just act like a retard without shame. Legitimately fun and full of inside jokes.

Now half the attendees don't even watch anime so there's very little collective consciousness. Everyone's just trying to be ironic and gain SM followers and it all feels really fake.

No. 1807133

>>1807108
I remember when victoria's secrets would sell perfumes with that kind of atomizer.

No. 1807137

>>1807108
Wouldn't it give more control than modern spray bottles? You can puff out as little as you want, depending on how far you squeeze

>>1807040
This is one of the coolest devices I've held but I've chatted with electronic engineers who warn that they are best for people who do not open their phone an excessive amount per day. They said the screen basically has a statistical upper limit of opens and closes before the screen will malfunction due to the hinge. There is a lot of mechanical movement added compared to a regular smartphone which reduced device longevity. So it's great for those who replace their phone every year anyway or don't open it hundreds of times a day.

No. 1807142

>>1807137
What is even the point of creating a flip phone if flipping it's the downside of it kek, well i hope that better models will come in the future for people who like it

No. 1807147

>>1806916
That sucks. I still eat count chocula around halloween.

No. 1807149

>>1806885
The amount of Megaman toys I collected from 2008-2012. RIP

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No. 1807226

>>1806916
Mexico?

No. 1807237

>>1806892
Based.

No. 1807285

>>1806892
be the change you want to see in the world and make a new thread

No. 1807394

The mall like it used to be. It was a few big stores with a lot of random small shops, now it's the same big stores without smaller shops. It used to be so fun.

No. 1807395

>>1807394
anon, fucking same. Now its all brand name clothing store and fast food chains, there isnt a single fun shop anymore.

No. 1807404

>>1807285
That wouldn’t be right. The old one isn’t maxed out and it required farmhand participation to lock and unlock the gates.

No. 1807450

>>1807395
Ikr, I miss those small shops we used to have. My city has one cool clothing store now and that's it, I miss the mall being a hangout spot.

No. 1807453

Samefag, I miss niche websites and blogs. Like lookbook.nu, songmeanings, random fan forums with a kiwifarms tier layout, doll blogs, beauty blogs. It wasn't bad until 2016, I feel like most forums died out or turned to shit then and most bloggers stopped posting.

No. 1807474

>>1807453
most forums turned to shit due to the politificacion of the internet+troons. I used to be a regular in a TMNT forum and it was really fucking fun, until it devolved into politisperging thanks to april being racebent and a tranny becoming the writter in the comics.

No. 1807479

>>1807453
There's still a few very, very niche places hanging around but they're locked down tight since zoomer users would be the final death blow. I'm grateful I never deleted my accounts on them, they are very comfy.

No. 1807484

>>1807474
We lost the internet space we used to have. I was a huge part of the livejournal communities for Code Geass, Gundam 00 and many other fandoms and it never ever got political. It's super strange that know all people talk about is politicals and trannys when we used to have genuine cringe conversations about the shit we love. I feel like the actual space for being who you are is gone, and now everyone is putting on an act online and irl, so they won't get cancelled. It's too exhausting.
We used to be able to separate the internet and ourselves in person, but thanks to social media addicted zoomers, they cannot live without Social media for a single day leaking into real life or having to photograph/videotape everything to post to their followers.

No. 1807485

>>1807474
I know what you mean nonnie, a teenage shitpost forum I used to go basically turned into /pol/ a few years back.

No. 1807546

>>1807131
Same nona. I remember going to a few and seeing a lot of really cringe people and laughing about it with friends, even though we weren't much better. It was never a boring time at a convention back then. Nowadays conventions feel more like a Twitter convention in that people are more loud and obnoxious but in a less entertaining way and you have to walk on eggshells. Last modern convention I went to was a small one and all the workshops focused on inclusivity, shit that had nothing to do with fandom, or were otherwise not fun. I remember one workshop had the title "Fandom and how it intertwines with Activism" and you bet your ass the person hosting had their pronouns next to their name.

No. 1807551

>>1807546
The whole zoomer mentality that you are not allowed to like any piece of media or fandom unless it's involved with politics must be exhausting. People aren't allowed to just have fun anymore and enjoy things.

No. 1807569

Fashion blogs and lookbook. For some reason a lot of the blogs I followed were from Sweden, they're all inactive or completely gone now.

No. 1807671

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i miss these old psa commercials. i just found out that the group that made them (concerned childrens advertisers) doesn't exist anymore. rip

No. 1807698

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No. 1807733

I miss when Youtube didn't have ads

No. 1807773

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I made so many life long friends through AIM. AIM and Yahoo were my first instant messengers and I truly miss them. Those days of the internet without social media was such a blessing.

No. 1807780

>>1807773
I miss the days of AIM so much

No. 1807784

I miss phone booths so much. It could be so convenient in case of emergency if you don't have your cellphone for some reason or if your phone is broken or is low on battery. It could have been so useful when I got assaulted and got my phone stolen from the same guy. I'm especially thinking about kids and if you don't want to give them a cell phone when they're too young, especially a smartphone.

No. 1807804

>>1807773
i miss the yahoo winks! i remember spamming them to this one girl i had met at a wedding when we were like 8. i sent her so many of them when she was offline and then never talked to her again because i thought afterwards that maybe i sent so many it might break her computer when she logged in kek

No. 1807828

>>1807698
I never got to experience these, THANKS MOM

No. 1807859

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>>1807131

I think a huge reason is normies with Netflix can just put any anime on and half pay attention to while they scroll tiktok whereas back then you actually had to go out of your way to watch anime(Even with stuff like toonami, you had to actually catch it while it was on) so everyone who liked it was actually passionate about it.

No. 1807873

>>1807859
That pic gave me pain but after reading that i realized that you're right, i wonder how it all felt for people around the 90's when anime was even less spread out in the west.
I remembered hearing that most of today's younger generation doesn't even know about torrents kek.

No. 1807879

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It's not that it doesn't exist, but I'm too old for it now. I miss the spinning seat, and other spinning playground equipment. It was so fun to play in.

No. 1807890

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>>1807879
Do you remember these? You would sit on the round plate and hold onto the pole. When I was young, my dad spun me so fast on one of these that I threw up in the middle of the park

No. 1807894

>>1807890
ntayrt but I remember being so terrified I would fly off and holding on for dear life as my body pulled away from the pole kek I was a weak child

No. 1807899

>>1807890
I've never seen one of these! Looks fun though. Spinning rides always fuck me up though, I remember being in kindergarten sitting on a giant tire swing that was spun around super fast and I got sick from it kek

No. 1807906

>>1807899
Maybe it is only in bongland kids playgrounds? But god it makes me feel queasy thinking back

No. 1807921

>>1807873
I can confirm, at least for the zoomers and young millenials I know. They stick strictly to subscription based services. We've discussed having an unofficial Christmas movie afternoon for our department, and I said we're not restricted to XYZ colleague's Netflix account, they seemed genuinely confused.

No. 1808051

>>1807890
I have seen those before! I love them, though they probably aren't safe, kek.

No. 1808107

>>1806901
I miss everything from the times before every last aspect of life got goodheart'd to oblivion, they don't need to be creative if they can make it hyperpalatable and get people addicted to the taste

No. 1808223

>>1807108
Nona they sell these bottles at Hobby Lobby you just have to funnel your stuff in and it's not as high quality.

No. 1808452

>>1807546
I went to one this year that was half of that nonsense and the other half was panels hosted by literally-who influencers.

No. 1808695

>>1807773
I miss ICQ!! I would spend my afternoon playing games with random people and sending my friends stupid emoticons (idk if that's how it's called)

No. 1809808

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>>1806922
and naturally this happens two days after making this post

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No. 1809946

>>1807038
Older technology in general. I hate how expected it is that everything is online. I hate how much influence technology has on our lives to the point where you can literally be traumatized on the Internet now

No. 1809953

>>1809906
YESSSSSSSSSSSS my Girl Scout troupe had a lock-in at one and it was amazing we were allowed to sleep anywhere we wanted and there were to my knowledge zero men on the premises.

No. 1809955

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>>1809906
I remember begging my mom to have a laser tag birthday party there. I also miss owning this laser tag bazooka. My mom gave them away without asking me.

No. 1809961

>>1809808
E3 used to be about real show casing, then it became a fart sniffing content. End of an era though.

No. 1809963

>>1809906
I went here three times as a kid for three different birthday parties. Then we did laser tag after. I really miss DZ! It was such a great highlight to look forward to as a kid.

No. 1810014

>>1807733
brave + ublock
I haven't seen a youtube advert in years.

No. 1810117

The 2010s felt like a slow shift of being extremely social to basically being stuck at home and having no spaces anymore. Extra judgement left and right and everyone is so hateful

No. 1810173

>>1806888
>>1806853

i used to get into so many fights with my brothers over what games to get

No. 1810177

>>1807038
imagine waiting to get a cool flip phone but the only phones that exist are "smartphones" that are too wide for your hands and you always feel cramps just holding it. I will make it my life's mission to bring back flip phones

No. 1810180

>>1807671
I have the TV one memorized

No. 1810183

>>1807698
THESE TASTED LIKE SHIT

No. 1810185

>>1810117
it made us all nerds and shut-ins for the sake of the economy, full time wage cages are next

No. 1810234

>>1810183
They were so chalky and nasty and coated my mouth in this waxy film yet I ate so many.

No. 1810299

I don't know if I miss the dreamcast or the time period around the consule

No. 1810305

Blockbuster and Border's are the biggest ones. I miss a lot of other things but can't remember rn. Can't miss cable because I never had it to begin with

No. 1810352

>>1810299
I wanted a Dreamcast for Shenmue so bad as a kid (I had a walkthrough guide magazine that had one part about Shenmue). Never got near one, and nobody I knew back then in school got one either. Probably because most parents got either an N64 or a PS1/PSX for their kids, they were the more popular consoles back then.

No. 1810650

I honestly miss watching stuff on Comcast On Demand. I binged so much anime on there. I also miss MTV/MTV2 being mainly music videos and animated shows. Oh, and Cita's World on BET, there was something really cool about it having a virtual host.

>>1810299
Honestly, I'm happy Sega is releasing new games from that time.

No. 1810656

>>1810117
being a teen in the 2010s was so fucking boring, i dont have a single good memory from growing up as a teen. I know most of my generation will feel nostalgic over minecraft/pewdiepie/MCU but since there was no counter culture and i wasnt into that shit i cant really feel nostalgic over anything. Truly the worst decade in terms of culture.

No. 1810678

>>1810667
i am not from america so maybe it was fun there but all i can remember from my teen years is inviting my friends over and them just wanting to watch youtube, or friends wanting to play nothing but shit like lol which is a total cancer

No. 1810689

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>>1810299
I'll never forgot I skipped school that day to see what the dreamcast was about. My friend and I played hooky and went to a local, family owned video game store. They were showing ads for Sonic Adventure 1 and Resident Evil: Code veronica. I begged my mom and saved up all my allowance to get a Dreamcast maybe a year and a half after it was released. It was definitely an underrated console that just came out at the worst time with PS2 around the corner.
I don't have my original Sega Dreamcast, but I managed to get one years ago from a goodwill and I will never forget that feeling of insane joy to have it again. I still have my Shenmue and Sonic adventures for it. Space Channel 5 got me heavily into rhythm games, along with Parappa. I wish they would make rhythm games like that again for PS5. At least I still have my Re: Code veronica X on PS2, which is he best way to play it imo.

No. 1810691

>>1810678
also, i am late 2010s. We got the short end of the stick compared to other generations
>have to live through everything becoming political
>shitty reboots and marvel shit everywhere
>people wanting to play nothing but lol/dota/minecraft
>had to see two of my 3 friends from hs turn into trannies
>the other one turned into a kpoopie
>everyone was watching lets players and fast food youtube content
>conversations are beyond irony poisoned
>discord replacing messenger live
it was horrendous, i dont miss my teen years at all I do miss my childhood though it was really fun and i am glad i am the last generation of children phone-free.

No. 1810693

>>1810691
>>1810678
>>1810667
This is not the generation nostalgia thread. It's talking about things that dont exist anymore.

No. 1810729

>>1810693
Who cares, let people talk about overlapping subjects if they want.

No. 1810944

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I miss Newtype USA. I miss looking at the amateur fanart sent in by fans. I miss the articles about food and games and cosplay and all the new series hyped up for the coming season. I miss the behind the scenes looks they'd give us with several pages worth of concept art and backgrounds and set pieces. I miss the shitty lil DVDs that came with every issue that had a handful of episodes of whatever was big or new at the time. I miss the postcards and the centerfolds. I miss having a new issue to look forward to every month.

No. 1810951

>>1810944
I wish I could marry Dante…

No. 1810975

>>1810693
How do you feel about ban evasion

No. 1810983

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>>1810944
I used to be super into these magazines. They would sell them at my local comic book store and I would save up to get every time it was released. It makes me sad when we used to get a lot of our info on new anime from magazines. Now that's useless thanks to the internet and social media. The DMC anime had so much potential. I wish it wasn't shit. I still love Dante. I miss the fan parts of the magazine, and even the cosplay photos from way back. People used to be passionate about making their own stuff then

No. 1810986

>>1810983
Anime fags today don't know shit about the real stuff we watched and read back in the late 90s, early 2000s.

No. 1810998

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I miss the "Good Heavens!" flavor of Bluebell ice cream. It was chocolate with sugar cookie dough and vanilla with chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough. Ben n Jerry's Half-Baked flavor is an adequate substitute (which uses chocolate chip cookie dough and brownie batter chunks instead), but I remember the Bluebell sugar cookie dough having a strange, smooth, and almost marshmallowy texture and flavor that I really liked.

Pic is the only image I can find of it.

No. 1811107

I miss the times before everyone was an out and proud weaboo (or other type of otaku/fandomfag). I hate seeing merch everywhere especially men's clothing stores, I hate the social pressure to watch everything. I can't keep up with all the latest hype, so whenever a random person brings up anime to me I just churn out some bullshit I saw about it on the internet to pretend I know - I started using this technique at 15 with my local weeb group, and 10 years later as a grown adult who talks to other grown adults, that is still something that works and now it works with everyone. I was socialized by weebs due to my appearance and liking some Japanese things, now I'm tired of them and I don't want to interact with them outside of here, but even the normiest normie won't stfu about shonen shit. Watching anime with a scrote isn't a romantic date to me. Overall I miss the going outside age… Now everyone is like a mixture of a teenage autist and an old guy with TV brain rot. It all feels so empty.

>>1810689
I was too young for the Dreamcast, but I bought a japanese one a few years ago (with Space Channel 5 and Jet Set Radio ofc). I'm not sure if it's the right term but it strongly radiates that sort of new millenium technopositivism, opening that box and starting that console for the first time impacted me almost the same as when I got my actual first console. It made me feel like I was entering a bright new era, even though I live in the actual future and it's bleak af. I smile at it like a retard sometimes

No. 1811136

>>1810650
man i remember the vh1 top 20 countdowns (i know you mentioned mtv but its similar). I remember when they would have the morning music blocks on weekdays, my dad left for work at 5:30 and i got up at 6:00 for school and my mom would let me blare the living room tv loud enough so i could hear it while i got ready

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>>1810944
Kek I still have my 2007 issue of shojo beat that I bought at fucking hot topic. Everyday I’m glad I got to experience it before the pandemic weeb take over.

No. 1811332

>>1806879
Same, you just branch out less and everything feels less special on demand. I used to watch Chiller and Syfy whenever there was nothing on my usual channels and would discover the most unhinged, entertaining things that way.

I would sometimes even discover new music from TV which is unthinkable now.

>>1806885
I literally dream about KB now and then. In my dreams they always gave cool shit I never saw anywhere else, which was true IRL too.

>>1806901
They’re shaped again; Trix, that is. I really miss 2000s snacks too; Hershey’s Kissables, Bagelfuls, old Sobes and the random soda flavors like Pepsi Lemon or Sprite Remix. Glad Vanilla Coke stuck around. I loved those BB versions of Butterfingers and more too!

>>1807038
I miss my Samsung Juke so bad.

>>1807394
I hate the state of malls. Even the stores that have always been around sell shit tier quality stuff now. Used to be so cool finding random local stores, mall ninja shit and imported anime merch. Hell I even miss the stands and stores selling counterfeit pokemon cards.

>>1811107
God yes the 100s of isekai fantasy harem shit with the same rounded art style and the notification of porn addicts in weeb spaces. Back when I was a kid all our dumb Geocities fansites had ANTI HENTAI banners on them lmao; cringe but far more wholesome than this bullshit.

Normies are the other half ruining it with their basic MHA/shonen sperging.

No. 1811346

>>1806885
Aw I remember when they’d do sweepstakes stuff too! Like their very famous sonic one. I still remember the commercials for the Nickelodeon magazine too kek

No. 1811413

>>1811307
same nona, i have a few old shojou beat laying around and i love to flip through and really enjoy the nostalgia

No. 1811670

>>1810177
>I will make it my life's mission to bring back flip phones
please do, i fucking hate modern phones so much! first of all i hate touchscreens and prefer tactile buttons because that means I can use them without even looking at the screen. and i agree about
>the only phones that exist are "smartphones" that are too wide for your hands and you always feel cramps just holding it.
I can NOT comfortably use my phone with just one hand because my average woman hands are too small for the big screen. It's too heavy and doesn't fit comfortably in any kind of pockets. Even in a big jacket it's still a big heavy lump you have to carry around. I would seriously love a phone that's half the size but they don't make them and instead just keep making phones even larger. The only way for me to get a smaller phone is to get one that's more shit that doesn't work as well. And now they take away earphone jacks too, dear god can they stop making these things more shit for once?!
And all phones look the exact same now, I miss when they were all different and had personalities.

No. 1815577

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I miss Nicki Minaj’s harajuku-inspired eccentric fashion. It was so refreshing and unique

No. 1815587

>>1809906
I was in the McDonald's version of one of these and I districtly remember those places to be extremely filthy/unhygienic. I wasn't the cleanest kid either but at some point I started panicking because thre was pee in front of the slide that lead out of the maze.

No. 1815601

>>1815587
I always assumed the teenage workers just never cleaned that play area. I only saw them once or twice as a kid, but my mom told me not to play in them, so I only went to DZ.

No. 1816215

limited too

No. 1816233

>>1815577
I really like how she often actually wore Japanese brands from Harajuku instead of ugly American knockoffs. Felt more like she was genuinely interested in it compared to Gwen Stefani or whoever.

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>>1816233
>Gwen Stefani or whatever
>or whatever
Does Avril Lavigne count as half-assing jap culture? I heard she got backlash for the music video, but I never looked into it. Just realized the song came out ten years ago.

No. 1816325

>>1816320
IIRC she did get a bit of backlash but came back with "the video was directed by a Japanese guy and its set in Japan so its ok" and that "its not meant to be Japanese culture but just cute" she didnt get as much as Gwen bc this was the only time she did this whereas Gwen did a whole tour with those dancers who were not allowed to speak.

No. 1816327

>>1816325
>whereas Gwen did a whole tour with those dancers who were not allowed to speak
Well damn.

No. 1816334

>>1807029
I agree. 4:3 aspect ratio should come back even for tv shows and displays too. I honestly want to get a small 4:3 crt tv but retrotech scrotes ruined prices so fucking hard. I prefer it on computer too, on par with 5:4 aspect ratio.
>>1807038
Same, I also miss candybar nokias… Planning to get myself one after decoupling from mobile internet use, but too bad, retarded le y2k zoomers and scrote hoarders made prices worse than they were few years ago.
>>1807131
old cosplays were more charming, even if they were homemade on a goofy dorky weeb. it's more soulful than bought cosplays nowadays
>>1807137
flip smartphones feel like peak consoom shit and trying to reinvent the wheel.
>>1807394
I miss times when there were independent stores carrying various brands at once, I miss old clothing stores like this. Fast fashion dominated everything and only stores that aren't fast fashion are carrying clothes for 35+ women only
>>1807453
Same, zoomers try to revive it but they fail miserably with it. They still have social media brainrot and only thing they can make is halfassed blog with shitty weeb layout with lolis or forums that die after a week.
>>1807484
>lj
I wish it wasn't so dead


Anyway, I miss print media like magazines being actually good. Now they get filled with same bullshit that is published in digital versions, issues are cut to 1-4 times a year in many cases and print is only revived once in a while for zoomerbux. I also hate zoomer made magazines that are just le y2k larp combined with fruits magazine fetishism. Established titles go to shit, like Vogue fallen so hard and both Anna and Edward (soon out though) literally consolidated most of content, pushed translations of same articles and reprints of editorials into more and more editions that make no sense.

No. 1816356

>>1807131
The first time I went to an anime convention was in 2013 because I had no idea the one in my city was so cheap when I was in high school. I regret not going there back when I was in high school. Now it's more expensive and less interesting, made to attract more normies, they don't invite small names mangaka or J-rock bands anymore, there's no karaoke anymore, they don't show episodes of new anime to promote them anymore, etc. A few weeks ago it seemed smaller than the previous years and the only nerd/otaku related things that seemed popular were the same old bootleg figurines vendors (some of them still selling dakimakura of art stolen from pixiv of course) and the arcade games. Next year I'm going to the summer comiket even if the trip will be expensive. I need to compensate for this disappointment.

No. 1817538

>>1815577
this is the nicki I grew up with, is till miss her, her latest album was so boring

No. 1818143

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Whoever took this screenie was balling

No. 1818147

>>1818143
I still play this stupid game

No. 1818149

>>1818143
God I fucking miss 2004 era Neopets SO MUCH. I stopped playing after they made the pets customizable because all my hard work making them look nice with paint brushes went down the drain. It was a really fun game and I have a lot of nice memories related to it.

No. 1818151

I miss when small/medium town markets were handmade stuff. Now its all dropshipped china bullshit, the same tumbler vinyl word drink cups, resin cheeseboards/cutting boards.
I miss buying homemade jam from some little old lady or knitted baby clothing.
Hadmade earrings, rather than shein ones.
I went to one last week and they had candles made from $3 shein molds and selling them for $45. Like come on, its the same ugly coomer women body candles that fat middle aged women see and go "wow so empowering" when its literally proportioned worse than a blowup doll.

No. 1818175

>>1818147
Same, are you keeping up on the advent calendar? I nearly went into a coma when I got the snow kadoatie

No. 1818178

>>1818149
Yes, this layout was when neo was at its prime imo. So many great memories

No. 1818183

>>1818151
This has become such a thing lately. I see wigs and accessories for cosplay being sold on etsy for three times the price when I just google it and it's on aliexpress for like $15. I wish more of these users would be banned or exposed.

No. 1818184

>>1818151
Take me back. I used to love going to craft fairs, because it was all hand made by a woman who booth it was. At least back then the losers of the community were only the MLM sellers. Now, I go and everything is mass produced garbage in over crowded booths. Sure Cindy, because I want to pay you $40 for a dress you bought off alibaba for $6. Let me just pull out my card so that when you flip the screen around it can recommend a 20% tip for walking up and buying a piece of clothing hanging in a plastic booth set on muddy ground. This really sets you apart from the forty other booths selling the exact same thing.

No. 1818189

>>1818183
Oh yeah, my wedding dress came from aliexpress and I saw it drop shipped for 4x the price on etsy.
It was a backyard tiny wedding so didnt want to spend much $$ and it wasnt white, but wearing it I could tell its aliexpress made. I couldnt imagine spending $500 on the same quality of dress I got, from etsy. Id be seething.
>>1818184
Yeah, as someone who loves to window shop cheapy websites I could pick out so much shit thats marked up at the market lol

No. 1818242

>>1818151
I hate those aliexpress stands with a passion

No. 1818557

I ironically miss blockbuster and renting games and anime.

No. 1818598

>>1818175
>snow kadoatie off advent calendar
wow, why would they do this? the only people still playing the game is autists that are on it due to the hard to get collectables, way to shit on your fanbase.

No. 1818629

>>1818557
I had no idea you could rent video games back then, only VHS and then DVDs in the equivalent of blockluster we had in my country because my parents would only rent movies and sometimes some episodes or seasons of TV shows when I was a kid. I only learned about it because of some Japanese video games being harder in the West to make it longer to beat them, to discourage people from renting them, like DMC 1 and 3 (especially 3 but only in the US) and Metal Gear Solid 1. Thinking about how I find some older video games hard because devs made them harder on purpose to encourage you to buy your own copy or because they wanted shitty pretexts to sell guidebooks before the internet could give you info for free is a bit frustrating sometimes.

No. 1818643

>>1818629
Yeah, I used to rent anime and video games on the weekends in my country. DMC were fun games. Glad I'm not the only one who found older games harder!

No. 1818664

>>1818643
I used to rent pokemon games as a kid. Since I was a child I could never finish them in the week you got to keep them, but I would still just rent the same one over and over again replaying the same stuff.

No. 1818666

>>1818643
Some games were made easier for the west too but it seems like it was mostly some JRPGs but these ones tend to be long enough that I can't imagine renting one for one week and beating it before giving it back. But yeah I played DMC for the first time just a few years ago, the PS2 game, struggled a little at first not just because of the controls but in general, and when I got curious and looked it up it I found out that the enemies did a little bit more damage to Dante and Dante did a bit less damage to the enemies, but it's corrected in the HD version so I want to try that version someday. It does feel like games are easier and way more straightforward in general nowadays.

No. 1818679

>>1810177
>the only phones that exist are "smartphones" that are too wide for your hands

its so evil and stupid that phone companies dont make phones for female hands any more. thats how you know they dont have any women on their design team

No. 1818683

>>1818664
That's really nice!

>>1818666
DMC was like a wild ride to play! Especially with the music. And I agree games are less strategic? And more cinematic these days? I really miss the puzzle games or the cinamatic RPGs.

No. 1818684

File: 1702941794635.jpg (112.2 KB, 617x619, pocketbishonen.jpg)

I used to post my pocket bishonen on my geocities page back in the day. I miss how stupid and innocent everything was back in the early 2000s.

No. 1818685

>>1818684
I miss geocities

No. 1818701

I miss myblog, rapidforum, all those "small" websites with individual styles, individual topics, not those big social media sites where everything looks the same and everyone acts the same. You could meet people with the same interests without having to go through thousands of people that are just completely shit and dead zombies.
I also miss regular TV, the times you would have to record stuff because it was the first and only time it would air and there was no other chance to see it for maybe a year or more. And I miss the anime nights one of the TV stations in my country had. Sure, there was some stupid shit, but they showed the good stuff, not anime with characters being adults looking like 10 year old girls. And not everyone was talking about anime and hentai was a thing maybe 1% of the population would know about.
And mostly, I miss the time when people would only share little information about themselves online, no one would tell you to which school they went or their full name and sometimes they wouldn't even tell you their hometown, today you just need one second and you know mostly every basic information about most people. The internet became too big and too loud and it's hard to find the quiet, interesting people today.

No. 1818707

>>1818684
i miss when anime boys were attractive now its all roidpigs and old men

No. 1818716

>>1818707
How can boys be roidpigs?

No. 1818734

>>1818716
NTA Companies don't really draw bishonen anymore and it's depressing.

No. 1818745

>>1818716
have you ever looked at jojos?

No. 1818749

>>1818745
Have you looked at Jojo since the early nineties?

No. 1818754

>>1818749
jojos have always been roidpigs

No. 1818837

>>1818745
Nobody gives a fuck about jojo

No. 1818879

>>1818837
its one of the most popular anime of the last decade, retard

No. 1819584

>>1818879
and it sucks kek

No. 1819726

>>1818175
Yeah, but the kadoaties were already like under 1 mil because they're given out as a weekly prize at the quest log thingy. They've been giving out previously rare/expensive items like candy recently

No. 1834778

File: 1703981280493.jpeg (507.86 KB, 1179x730, IMG_7985.jpeg)

I miss the 1800s when men looked interesting. Interesting looking men don't exist anymore.

No. 1834781

File: 1703981507862.jpeg (49.12 KB, 441x440, IMG_7990.jpeg)

>>1834778
All moids look like this. I don't give a fuck, I want Abraham Lincoln.

No. 1834783

>>1834781
No no no anon, you're overestimating how much hair they can keep on their heads.

No. 1834784

>>1834778
How old are you?

No. 1834785

File: 1703981688584.jpg (278.46 KB, 1440x1264, Antique man.jpg)

>>1834778
>interesting
Kek he looks like he reeks

No. 1834790

>>1834785
Is that real? Is that really that moid's grandson? You know that meme with the wolf and the pug where the wolf asks the pug "dude, what the FUCK happened to you"? Yeah, sometimes that's what it seems like looking at zoomers and their parents or grandparents. Maybe the anon who theorized that humans are getting uglier because of microplastics are right.

No. 1834793

>>1834778
for me its 70s/80s/90s nerds

No. 1834842

>>1834785
if i lived in an era where i could treasure the beautiful photograph of a well dressed and groomed handsome young man instead of whatever ugly moids are trashing around today i would not be a virgin i swear
need a mix of past beauty and morality i hope moids will unlock in the future

No. 1834844

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>>1834778
Nah too far back, their beards were probably dirtier than even today's scrote beards. Gimmie something like this.

No. 1834853

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>>1834844
need them back
i once had a flight attendant that looked almost close to this (the uniform helped too) and i blame how common ugly moids are if i freaked out when i accidentally touched his bare fingers as we exchanged money, he was so polite and well-spoken too

No. 1834858

File: 1703988969804.jpeg (87.87 KB, 417x734, IMG_8004.jpeg)

All of you are too modern. No clean shaven or big mustache, This man had the perfect amount of facial hair and also impeccable drip. I could've fixed him and become queen.

No. 1834859

>>1834853
even if the men on the right shaved, they wouldn't have the beauty of the men on the left. wtf happened

No. 1834861

>>1834858
why the fuck does he have a cock window

No. 1834862

>>1834858
He looks like Ham Smith

No. 1834865

>>1834858
he looks like my retard vice-president wearing a retard nightgown tho

No. 1834871

>>1834859
laziness, fatty foods, overall less discipline on men. now they expect to look like pigs in exchange for a young egirl. they say women's standards are too high but that's laughable when the female of any animal gets to pick which is prettier.

No. 1834872

>>1834858
he was inbred, fat, retarded and spoiled
a prototype of a modern man

No. 1834873

>>1834853
Gosh I fucking hate greasy stinky neckbeards so much any moid who has them is instantly punchable and hideous.

No. 1834906

File: 1703995084087.png (397.21 KB, 307x496, string thing.PNG)

Man these were satisfying. Not like I can eat them nowadays even if they existed anyway kek

No. 1834933

All of mine are Internet related. I miss fan sites. Maybe a few still exist, but not many, it seems. I loved how they'd have all the spergy info and photos the official sites wouldn't. The best were the ones with big communities, and where the actual creators would post there and answer questions. Anything even remotely similar now is just relegated to Facebook.
I miss a time before everything became consumed in politics and culture wars and Gamergate and post-Gamergate shit. Don't get me wrong, forums and all have always been political you'd always have sperging about the Iraq War or whatever, and of course they'd be misogynistic. But it feels even worse now.
I miss when no one talked about troons, and if they did, it was to laugh. Now troons infiltrate even the smaller forums that sometimes still exist, with their tranny shit, talking about gender shit in music, etc.
I even miss when places were moderated by people who used the sites, not corporate overlords. Old school mods could often be fags too, but at least you could halfway shit on them. Unless they were so bad they actively destroyed the forum (I've seen it happen). Nowadays you can't even push back, and branching off to your own place is often futile because everything is shoved onto social media, which falls under the same corporate rules.

No. 1834978

>>1834853
Soyfacing genuinely pisses me off so bad in such a deeply like disgusted and uncontrollable way

No. 1834979

>>1834785
Isn't this just a little kid? Am I missing something here, he just looks like an 11 year old with baby blub…

No. 1837554

>>1834785
Sounds like twitter racebait

No. 1837557

>>1834933
I fear I’ll never get to see anything resembling the old internet in my lifetime ever again

No. 1838172

File: 1704328387955.png (1.62 MB, 1170x1843, Screenshot 2024-01-03 at 4.32.…)

you say you miss me and i wanna say i miss you so much

No. 1838309

File: 1704332524989.jpeg (56.06 KB, 500x684, image0.jpeg)

>>1834778
Nah bring back the 1980s-1990s instead

No. 1838478

File: 1704343010239.png (87.53 KB, 677x768, 1693384178409.png)

>>1838309
>tfw could have a cute long haired porn free bf but i was born in the wrong generation

No. 1838480

>>1838478
To be fair they were still porn addicted they just didn't have unlimited access

No. 1838487

>>1838478
There was still pornography in the 80s and 90s. My brothers had stacks of porno mags they found in the woods or in our dad's room, and also read our dad's mass market paperback "Anonymous" erotica. Just talk to any older millennial, they'll tell you

No. 1838552

>>1834781
Where do you live where all of them look like that

No. 1838556

>>1838487
It’s bad but i feel like like used and abused anal incest teen gangbang that 8 year olds can easily watch is way worse

No. 1838790

File: 1704375050057.jpg (40.25 KB, 464x475, A3_yd3LCMAE0MCQ.jpg)

Bring em back

No. 1838791

>>1838487
That's entirely different from what's available to children now.

No. 1838798

>>1838790
wtf I was just thinking about this!!

No. 1838802

File: 1704376861885.jpg (119.67 KB, 780x438, 1000005943.jpg)

I miss these, it makes me think of whenever my family an I would travel to our beach house, before everything went wrong.

No. 1838808

>>1838802
I miss these, damn.
>the signature smell

No. 1838811

File: 1704378192286.jpg (762.16 KB, 4032x3024, rg354.jpg)

>>1807038
I keep finding them in antique stores and I don't like it. I miss when antique stores weren't selling trash like cookie tins from Costco and Crown Royale bags for $8 each.

No. 1838812

>>1838480
>>1838487
i know it was always a thing, but it wasnt as common. Now you will meet a men and he will shamelessly talk to you about that time he jacked off for 10 hours straight to loli femboy futanari incet hentai. At least they had shame before.

No. 1838815

>>1837557
I know it's not much but I've been feeling this crushingly bad the last five years. Signed up for Spacehey during the holiday break and I feel like I'm 14 all over again. It's the closest I've come to capturing that experience again.

No. 1838821

File: 1704379224911.jpeg (29.77 KB, 554x554, kyoob.jpeg)

I miss these blocky bastards.

No. 1838830

>>1838821
I impulsively let someone unload theirs for free a few months ago and it's just taking up space in my living room. It's legitimately like 600 lbs and I have no idea what to do with it other than occasionally play ps2 games on it. It's so fucking big it'll break any TV stand and I can't even move it so I have to sit down on the floor to use it, and it's uncomfortable. At this point I feel like if my house blew up the massive CRT TV would be the only thing standing. Anyways 10/10

No. 1839689

>>1838821
Moving your hand over the screen and feeling the electricity was the best.

No. 1840167

>>1807038
Agreed. I saw these in manga growing up and they were so cool! Now they're outdated.

No. 1842188

>>1834978
It’s not genuine and it speaks to a very juvenile mindset. Normally I like nerds, but I hate the idea of having to raise a grown man

No. 1842198

>>1838821
I feel sad whenever someone destroys these pieces of history in their videos, like just give it to me! I miss your blue screen, your grey static, most of my best memories are on that

No. 1857298

File: 1705440906911.jpeg (575.37 KB, 1179x1712, IMG_1539.jpeg)

>>1834778
Ok I know that this was likely a shitpost, but I kinda agree, men were more interesting back in the day. For example, today you can find many dentists, and many gamblers, and maybe a guy who's both a dentist and a gambler, but to have someone nowadays who's both a dentist AND a gambler AND a GUNFIGHTER and famous for all three?? Impossible!

Today's careers and ""celebrities"" are so boring, I bet the people back then had more fun.

No. 1857314

File: 1705441371895.png (259.48 KB, 500x500, IMG_2147.png)

this specific flavour is not longer available in my country and it was sooooooo good orz

No. 1857502

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>>1838478
>tfw men actually groomed themselves

Matt Dillon aged pretty well all things considered (strangely had the hots for him in the house that jack built), too bad he's taken

No. 1857522

>>1857502
honestly i miss actual attractive men in tv, movies and music where the fuck did the all go?! i hate that hollywood is trying to replace all the pretty boy actors like dicaprio with literal lab grown cia rats like tom holland or harry styles

No. 1857704

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>>1857522
Not that my daddy issued ass is usually attracted to men my own age anyway (my fatal flaw) but I feel like no actors born after the mid 90s are attractive. I've liked some weird looking men, or what could be considered basic men, it's not like I have high standards.

a few moids closer to my age like Devon Bostick or Dylan O'Brien are my "type". they're hardly in movies (latter had an accident that made him step back from films, the former just doesn't act a lot).

it is always the ones I find boring or ug shoved in my face like some kind of psyop to indoctrinate me that piss me off. Saltburn dudes or that Mescal guy, Timmy Chalalalamydia, some boring blonde or blonde adjacent man like Taylor Swifts ex. Kpop idols are also fucking bogged and gross looking to me. Ehhhh on all of them. There's no current looks match for a young Keanu or Matt Dillion any man I found hot from the 80s-00s, I wasn't even attracted to young Leo but he bests all modern "heartthrobs" in the looks department.

This generation deserves better. I was born in the wrong decade.

No. 1858480

I miss freedom of speech and toys in cereal boxes.

No. 1859906

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I would give my left arm right now for monster assault to come back and to be made available where I am

No. 2007601

File: 1716033679109.png (2.25 MB, 1600x1061, 52466.png)

I wish this cream white tone was still popular in technology related stuff. Computers, space travel, hospitals, i like how comfy and calm it looks instead of the cold pure white we see everywhere now.

No. 2007718

>>1857704
If you live in a big rich city you can find them on the streets, but otherwise you can only find cute male models. Influencers give me the ick but they're also objectively more handsome than this current gen of actors. Medias before 00-10s are also usually higher quality than what we have now, so I don't mind sticking to these and ignoring most recent releases. Camera work, acting and especially dialogues (where are the good screenwriters?) seem so half-assed now.

No. 2008651

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>>2007601
I agree, same with greys and browns. I even like the thought of my tech darkening with age and exposure. Wish retro futurism was bigger, but I'm glad it's popular enough to allow me to buy functional things like this.

No. 2037194

Raffles you can win by sending post cards.

A built-in radio in the seats of long-haul trains, where you plug in your headphones and hear the station of the place you happen to drive through at the moment.

No. 2037204

File: 1717615725980.jpg (98.02 KB, 640x677, ff7demodisc.jpg)

Demo discs. Hell, CD-ROMS, in general.

No. 2037212

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>>1857298
You'd probably like this book. At one point he worked in Papua New Guinea, buying slaves from tribes to be used for indentured servitude. He also later wrote that, in Hollywood, during a film shoot, Bette Davis once slapped across the face so hard that he nearly passed out, KEK

No. 2038088

Blingee. Rest in peace fren.

No. 2038167

File: 1717676995950.jpg (65.71 KB, 350x467, issue14.jpg)

i miss dark realms magazine. it used to be sold in hot topic back in the 2000s and was centered around goth fashion and dark subjects like horror films and morbid history. i was obsessed with it and one day my mother found an issue in my room and flipped her shit kek

No. 2038179

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bring back W.I.T.C.H. it’s probably one of the few things that deserve a reboot with good writing and animation

No. 2038180

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>>2038179
Sorry but…

No. 2038184

>>2038179
The new art style is so fucking generic and tumblr-esque though. At least the old style had character. Those faces are so punchable.

No. 2038185

>>2038179
We should do a WITCH marathon in the movieroom if anyone's down for that

No. 2038202

>>2038185
I could throw it on today if you wanted but I'm already procrastinating on something important so I really shouldn't …

No. 2038208

>>2038180
>>2038184
Yeah I’m ignoring that kek. What is with these people fucking up these things so bad? It shows how much corporatism is full of incompetent retards making the wrong calls, nobody wanted that shit. I’m convinced after 2020 we decided to travel to another timeline stg
>>2038185
Hell yeah
>>2038202
Fuck yeah but take your time nonna

No. 2038220

File: 1717681410980.webm (531.23 KB, 640x360, his real name.webm)

>>2037212
>Bette Davis once slapped across the face so hard that he nearly passed out
Based Bette.

No. 2038296

File: 1717685508212.jpg (384.89 KB, 2048x1456, 1000014053.jpg)

Video rental stores. My mom would always take me to one on the weekends and it was SOO exciting. I loved browsing the covers and imagining what the plots would be like

No. 2038320

>>2038208
>>2038185
actually I lied I can't host it or I would be hosting xena but I'll add the files for anyone else who wants to do it. have fun, it's a good stream idea

No. 2038410

>>1818683
games are easier today because they're targeted towards normies…look at how whitewashed ffxvi is compared to ffx or the og ffvii. it's a beautiful game but it's very much normie friendly. then the devs complain and wonder why no one is buying the games yet refuse to listen to all the fans who beg them to do something more vibrant like ffx again.

>>1810983
i miss this anime art style. i hate hate hate the new chibi loli style - i want the soft feminine aesthetics back. there was a lot of cringy and perverted shit in the 90's and early 2000's but then there was also the sophisticated side of weeb culture like vampire hunter d or collecting posters of yoshitaka amano's artwork. i grew up reading sailor moon and one of my fondest memories is of my grandmother taking me to borders after school to get the latest tokyo pop edition of the manga as she had learned the release cycle (i think it was like every wednesday or thursday).

>>1811107
i miss y2k era weeb culture a lot. it was a lot more fun back then and as cringy as people could be, i have so many good memories of all the cute little things i collected from the local weeb store in my mall like pens, pencil cases, journals, backpacks. i miss the smell of kinokuniya, buying some insanely overpriced japanese fashion magazine, going home to savor it for hours with my family. looking up all the visual kei blogs online when i was bored, collaging different pics of all the pretty fashion ads from japan that were so different to what we were wearing in the 2000's in north america. i miss when people would talk about obscure anime and manga that wasn't just another gore porn fest or more screeching little girls. i miss lurking on livejournal or tumblr or early twitter to read con gossip, talking to my online friends about stuff like sailor moon or dragon ball z or even bleach. i just miss when people could be different and weird and we didn't have to worry about normies bothering us.

No. 2038829

>>2038167
This sounds so interesting I wonder if anyone has properly archived these digitally. I miss using vampirefreaks social media site. It was really fun and I loved talking to and looking at cute goth guys on it even though they were all extremely cringey in personality. Now the site is a clothing store lol

No. 2038847

>>1807040
I have one and I'm super happy with it.

No. 2038851

File: 1717707878814.png (373.19 KB, 640x574, 52707092.png)

Youtube channel layouts. I remember putting so much effort into mine.

No. 2038881

>>2038851
IIRC the really old youtube layouts used to have a bulletin board too. In general back then so many websites would have account layouts copying the myspace format even if it didn't really make sense

I miss how social youtube used to be, everyone was just shitposting and vibing before it got really corporate

No. 2038937

File: 1717712143668.webp (64.21 KB, 512x512, 1000002701.webp)

This. We would buy them in the summer for family birthday parties because of how cheap they were and do water balloon fights in the grass backyard

No. 2038945

>>2038088
strange that it went offline right after that izzyzz girl made a video on it, I wonder if the sudden influx of her fans made them finally shut it down kek

No. 2038953

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Well, I have two things if that's okay. First, these yogurt covered fruit snacks. I think they're still around if you buy online but you never see them in the stores anymore which is sad because I used to eat them as a kid and they were great. Second, I miss early 2010-s Tumblr. Yes, I know it could be a shithole sometimes, but I had a lot of friends on Tumblr that eventually just logged out/deleted by 2018. It was so fucking hard watching TikTok become the new app everyone was using and now Tumblr feels like a ghost town with nothing left but hikikomoris talking about Star Trek and those weird girlbloggers and the occasional troon rights advocate talking shit about slug/slugs pronouns.

No. 2038957

>>2038953
>Tumblr
I wish sane people would come back. It's a lot nicer now due to most of the wackos leaving for other platforms. It's one of the last places that still has the old web feeling but it's a complete ghost town yet. I wish it could be rejuvenated.

No. 2038972

>>1834979
>baby blub
what a nasty way to refer to fatties, kek. A phonetic crime. But no that's like a 25 year old TIF. My instincts wouldn't lie to me

No. 2040114

>>2038881
Old Youtube pre-2012 was great (and something I'd spend hours browsing). After 2012, it started to decline into a shitpit of Google+, excessively long channel URLs and broken algorithms that get a band-aid applied every once in a blue moon.

No. 2040732

Everything pre - 2012 woke 2012 culture.

No. 2045115

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I miss landline phones. I don't like how it's just expected that you'll answer somebody's call immediately now, it feels so intrusive.

No. 2045138

>>2045115
I share your sentiment. Sometimes when i get sick of people i turn off my phone for a week or so and i can feel my mental health improving.

No. 2045220

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I miss when cute wiggers would show you their undies(autism)

No. 2122215

>>2037194
>Raffles you can win by sending post cards.
I miss those. Even won a thing from a kid's magazine back in the day.

No. 2122474

there was a flash game called fantage where you could dress up. there were even miku and sailor moon outfits. it had a bunch of minigames and you could collect pets and host parties at your house. it was a cute little game with a decent player base

No. 2122688

>>2045115
I still pay for landline. If my job needs to call me when I'm not there, they have that number, and can leave a message on my machine if I'm not home. Same for any appointment-related stuff. I don't give my cell out unless it's a family member or neighbor strictly for emergency purposes.

No. 2122710

>>2122688
I need to do this again. My cell number is absolutely everywhere and I wanna get a handle on that. It's just ATT was asking for a crazy amount for just landline, and I also had an irrational fear of getting electrocuted/getting hit by lightning because we have a landline, or getting blown up because we might have a gas leak.

No. 2123617

A halfway decent job market.

No. 2123819

Interesting interior design for shops, malls, hotels, etc. Now everything is grey and depressing.

No. 2123875

The fact that there used to be more places to hang out, and now it's all being gradually reduced.

No. 2123877

>>2123875
>Libraries - filled with homeless addicts and smelly people
>Parks - filled with homeless addicts dog shit and dirty needles
>Cafes - overpriced and staff look at you dirty if you stay longer than 15 minutes
>All other interesting places - shut down permanently.
Guess I'll just sit in my car in a parking lot by McDonald's and think about how different life used to be before opiates and billionaires destroyed my country.

No. 2123891

>>2123877
Literally all I've done the last few times I've had a rare outing with a friend is fucking sit in the cafe at target or blab in the car

No. 2123898

>>2123877
there is nothing to do anymore, its honestly so boring.

No. 2123900

>>2123898
It's so bad that online has effectively become boring for me as well. I realized how full the internet is of bots and pointless circlejerk activity and I've just not been able to enjoy it either. Maybe I should try reading books again.

No. 2123906

>>2123891
If I wasn't a part of 3 clubs/activities that were held in different places I think I'd kill myself from lack of variety. I don't even live in a small town or anything, my city is like 200k people but there is nothing for me to do besides go to overpriced restaurants, clubs, cafés, and they all play shit music way too loud.
>>2123900
>It's so bad that online has effectively become boring for me as well.
It's because Web 2.0 is in it's death throes right now and Web 3.0 struggles to be born. 80% of websites are dedicated to either ragebait or coom. Nowhere to have fun.

No. 2123908

>>2123877
>Cafes - overpriced and staff look at you dirty if you stay longer than 15 minutes
I felt this so bad kek, I'd love to sit at a cafe just enjoying myself with cake and coffee but I always get guilty for not immediately getting up and leaving the moment I finish my food, and even when eating I feel like I need to be fast or I'll be side eyed. And all the interesting cafes are so small that you can't fit a group of people there anyway since rent prices are so high a small cafe can't afford anything bigger than three tables at best.

So I just end up meeting my friends at their places which is annoying because most of them have their partners present and I'd just like it to be between our group without a Nigel hovering over our conversations. The disappearance of the 3rd place is honestly so real, everything is so expensive, dangerous or hard to access. Just enjoying a day at the park has become impossible because as a woman you'll get preyed on by some slimy moid immediately (who's probably strung out and unpredictable). It's no wonder people are just stuck inside binging netflix shows and never meeting people.

No. 2123911

I miss niche shops nonnies! It feels like they all died in the late 10s. I mean shops related to niche subcultures. There were so many shops targetted at skaters, gamers, otakus, emos and metalheads growing up, and now they all went out of business. I am not from america so maybe things are better there, but i miss all the diversity on fun shops.

No. 2123927

>>2123908
I've actually experienced being asked to leave by staff after staying in a café for 30 minutes so that I could "free up the table." Mind you I still wasn't even done my cappuccino. It's so annoying. Not that there are many cafés to begin with besides 100 locations of the various chain. It's so annoying.

No. 2123932

>>2123927
Yeah I've had staff come over to clean up the table when I'm still finishing my drink multiple times, clearly asking me to leave. I understand that it's frustrating for them to have someone there taking up space so that new customers can't come in but I paid for the seat too, I should be able to sit there for at least an hour. The chain cafes are so boring and soulless and often noisy as hell because they're located in the middle of a mall. Restaurants are a bit more lenient on the issue but cafes are really notorious for this.

No. 2123940

>>2123906
>if I weren't part of 3 clubs / activities
I haven't even been able to find anything that interests me. I barely see anyone anymore. It's gotten me so despondent for some reason.

I don't even think I have proper hobbies or interests anymore. I'm struggling to find new ones. Everything feels so empty.

>It's because Web 2.0 is in its death throes right now and Web 3.0 struggles to be born. 80% of websites are dedicated to either ragebait or coom. Nowhere to have fun.

Web 3.0 the way things are headed will probably be a bots paradise. The most engagement I get these days is off old discord chats I joined ages ago, and it's nowhere near active.

No. 2123951

>>2123877
>filled with homeless addicts and dirty needles
Jesus, where do you live… The only thing stopping me from going to especially parks is that they're full of lovey dovey couples and annoying families with young kids.
As long as I remember you had to leave fairly quickly after you finish your food unless you order another beverage, it's only recently that you see people buying one coffee and then sitting there working on their macbook for hours. At least online people seem to do that (especially in asian countries), I would never dare to.

Thinking back as a kid we didn't really have places to hang out either, we just were in or sat in front of stores until we were more or less kicked out, searched for some empty bench, played in a nearby small forrest or we paid to get to the public swimming pool. Or of course simply in each others rooms. All those things still exist nowadays too.

No. 2123974

>>2123877
>Libraries - filled with homeless addicts and smelly people
How is this allowed?

>>2123908
>when eating I feel like I need to be fast or I'll be side eyed.
So what? Double down on hogging the place and they'll fuck off.

>>2123927
Review-bomb them on Google. And never be back. Tell everybody you know how shit that cafe is.

>>2123932
'CAN'T YOU SEE I'M STILL EATING?!' in a booming voice should do the trick. Be the asshole. Don't allow others to bully you. Why are you going to a cafe if you can just buy a coffee from a vending machine or a supermarket? It's because you want the cafe experience - NOT being treated like a destitute beggar at a soup kitchen. Have some self-respect.

No. 2123975

>>2123951
>I would never dare to
Broken home behaviour. See >>2123974

No. 2123979

>>2123875
>>2123877
I mean part of that is people's fault. I live in a city where there's always something new to try out, but most interesting places that aren't established tourist traps literally can't keep themselves afloat for more than a year.

No. 2123983

>>2123911
Oh god same nonna but regarding hobbies. Now it's all the same chain stores selling cheap crap for a markup.

No. 2123990

>>2123974
Nta but the library here in the city I live in is the same. It's not "allowed", but if you report them to the police they just dump them at the hospital for mental health checkup, aka free food and bed, and then it becomes the hospitals problem. When the hospital finally kicks them out, they just go back to the library. There's been multiple times where the druggies have killed themselves in the library, either OD but recently couple of suicide by hangings have happened. Feel sad for the people having to see that.

No. 2123995

>>2123983
>>2123911
Yeah, any of the cool little niche stores around me have pretty much closed. Even a lot of the smaller but well-established chain locations, and the ones that weren’t seem to have been bought out by larger companies who are out of touch with their customer base and clearly struggling to stay afloat.

No. 2124024

>>2123990
I worked back of house in a public library for a time and it seemed like every day there was a staff wide email issuing another year long ban to another homeless person. I don’t mind the ones who keep quiet, but there would be schizos screaming and pacing around all the time. Luckily it wasn’t my problem to deal with and there was a security guy there most of the time

No. 2124109

>>2123951
>Jesus, where do you live…
In a city that was hit very hard by the opiate crisis.
>>2123974
>How is this allowed?
I ask myself that same question everyday.
>>2123979
Sometimes this is true, sometimes it isn't. In the last city I lived in, there was a lot more to "do" compared to the city I live in now. Every city has it's own unique atmosphere and offerings, some are a lot more interesting than others.

No. 2124128

>>2123875
Too real. I hike and walk heavily wooded trails every weekend (there are loads by me, it’s criminal how many people don’t even realize) and they used to be full of people on weekends, cyclists and families walking with kids, groups of young adults having a nice morning outing—now when I go it’s eerie, there are maybe a few other people I see but typically I can hike for a mile or two without even seeing a cyclist. Part of me loves it but then another is sad. It used to only be weekday mornings the trails were so dead but now it’s even the most beautiful of Sunday mornings

No. 2124156

>>2123877
i miss going to the library. i used to go all the time growing up but the last time i went homeless men were using it as sleeping quarters and i never went back.
>>2123951
many burger cities are rife with mentally ill drug addicts. where i live they'll sit in front of businesses or hassle you in parking lots asking for rides or money. once when i was a teenager i made the mistake of giving a woman some money and she immediately started crying and begging for more. the other day i was feeling sick and as i was walking to my car trying not to puke a woman with extremely slurred speech holding a big gulp cup kept pestering me for a ride and got mad when i said no.

No. 2131262

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Telephone cards. The worst thing about being a late zoomer is slowly seeing art fade away. I know that most telephone cards were generic but i liked the ones that had pretty designs in them, they were like mini postcards. We see art so rarely nowadays.

No. 2131728

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a good old fashioned phone booth



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