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I can't be the only one here experiencing culture shock right?



Basically I feel like grandpa in this here gif. (I couldn't find a bigger and clearer gif plz no bully me)

So I joined a few months ago, maybe I kinda understand the culture here? Seems like users have conflicting opinions and my only guess is the blog section and the forum section have different sides of the userbase. Could be an age difference too. But anyways I came here after being told it was like a 'revival' of old internet and it's users are reliving the late 2000s. Well so far, I have not met a single person here who is anything like the people I was friends with back then.


Maybe this just proves I was that much of a loser? A geek? An outcast? An edgelord? And the sites I primary used 2010-2015 was only ever used for people like that? I will say around the 2015 my main social site was dying out, other sites were also dying, were shut down, or were abandoned by the sysop, and niche sites were getting fewer and fewer as the big corporate ones only grew.


Okay so kids these days aren't going to be into what I was into as a kid, I get that. But the other adults I meet here are only into what's popular for this year currently too. It sounds like I am struggling to let go of the past and move on to new things, but yeah I guess I am, I just have no interest and desire in whatever else everyone here is into. I like my Touhou, Nico Douga Medleys, edgy anime pictures, Vocaloid covers, being super into video games in general, and I even still feel like getting back into role playing from time to time.


So yeah where's all my Otakus who used Nico Douga over Youtube, the edgelords who flex about owning knives, guns, and swords, the role players who probably had a half angel, demon, wolf, neko, vampire, human character as a kid, did any of you guys used to post overly depressing and jaded messages in chatrooms with emo anime pictures as your profile picture? Message me please I am alone and scared among all these pink and rainbow colored profiles with people who have a grocery list of mental disorders and identities and the only old internet things they can name are "MCR and flip phones"


I give you bonus points if you have seen this video before in your life time OR if you know a lot of the songs and get the references
(NSFW Warning. A few parts of the video get suggestive)




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Hisui

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not gonna lie i can relate to a lot of this, especially:
>I even still feel like getting back into role playing from time to time.
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>But the other adults I meet here are only into what's popular for this year currently too

i get that people here more than likely have other social media accounts too and keep up with those trends, but man... i'm always reminded of Pantera's Great Southern Trendkill song when people start talking about new things i'm entirely unfamiliar with.
"Fuck your magazine, and fuck the long dead plastic scene
Pierce a new hole, if Hell was "in" you'd give your soul"

and as for roleplaying... holy shit i miss it. my favorite middle school and high school memories come from the various RPs i used to do. i even ran my own little RP group for awhile, but eventually that imploded in on itself because roleplayers are a very... dramatic bunch and we had a few incompatible people constantly at each other's throats.
i used to roleplay viking characters but i had a few angels and eldritch creature characters too.

as for NND... i haven't seen the video you posted specifically but there are quite a few i really enjoy, even if they are pretty well known even in certain internet circles today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRZX9eDpCs
(NSFW warning: there are suggestive comments in this video, but if you know Aniki then you won't be surprised at all)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEYU7gZtdeQ

ANYWAYS! I'm super sorry for the longpost! I hope I didn't come across as trying too hard, this was just my stream of consciousness after reading your post.


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Gosh me too with the role play thing. I had no life irl cause overprotective parents, so role play chatrooms were my closest thing to 'hanging out' with friends. I would be with them or be in some other chatroom every day just doing a weird mixture of being IC and OOC, which everyone did that until we finally settled down like "Hey wanna rp and make an actual plot with our characters" Also I am well aware of that drama, top reason why I never ever dared to even touch those "RP Family" type groups that were popular around my time. That and because at least half of them were into incest so we're not getting into that.

Ah yes the gay wrestling men, I knew about him but I never got invested in him but I did see the memes everywhere. As for the second video I never seen that video, which is shocking cause as a teen I was waaay more heavily into Touhou and NND memes, but this video is similar to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEYU7gZtdeQ
Man as a teen I could name every meme in that video but I'm rusty now.

I don't mind the long post! I came to this site hoping to meet people who are actually wanting to speak and do whatever. So it is nice seeing someone around my age who acts as if they never touched the internet outside of Facebook and Instagram or something.

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>I would be with them or be in some other chatroom every day just doing a weird mixture of being IC and OOC, which everyone did that until we finally settled down like "Hey wanna rp and make an actual plot with our characters"
ah man how nostalgic. spending a solid 3 hours just standing around and shooting the shit until finally everyone decides it might be best to roleplay. i remember drawing a lot of inspiration from the music i listened to at the time as well. Turisas's Stand Up and Fight album is what inspired one of my best characters and a subsequent 8 month long RP. i dont think i'll ever top that even if i do end up roleplaying again some day.

>That and because at least half of them were into incest so we're not getting into that.
yknow what that's entirely fair, i would've avoided that like the plague too. i remember one guy wanted to ERP with an angel character i had. i was so weirded out by it i just stopped playing angel characters entirely. that stuff's icky

>I did see the memes everywhere
Van Darkholme used to absolutely hate gachimuchi, especially ones that used clips from that infamous video he did. he ended up throwing away his signature mask in anger but has regretted it ever since. he tried getting it back actually, even going so far as to contact the studio he used to work with, but he couldnt find it. of course they also dont make it anymore. i think he was trying to get one custom made but i havent followed his streaming career in a long while. all i know is he's a fan of gachimuchi now which i think is absolutely awesome. aniki would be proud.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEYU7gZtdeQ
did you post the right video? this is the one i posted lulz0rz
either way i really like youmu so this NND is something i accidentally uncovered many years ago lol.

>So it is nice seeing someone around my age who acts as if they never touched the internet outside of Facebook and Instagram or something.
as much as i hate to admit it, the only contact i've really had with the internet since my favorite forums died are imageboards, neocities sites, and facebook (which i stopped using in 2016). im glad that's what you were looking for though!

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Oh sorry I am the most retarded person on earth. I swear I remember copying the link twice before pasting it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrWGlr_aNE

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Neo

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It's just due to the aesthetic novelty of it, prevalent in circles on Twitter and Instagram as a fancy DNI. I think some people choose to use this site as an alternative to carrd.co essentially, and even so there seems to be a balance of users so I'm not entirely peeved by it. I fall into the camp of deciding to make a profile to help the issue of modern social media being a thorn in my side, and that seems to be a common mentality here so I feel welcomed


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nail

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I'm here, but there arn't many of us anymore i guess, people move on. I found this really cool meiko cover of the afterburner soundtrack tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfdmjn_ZKUQ


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Alveus Nosville

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Well most people I've seen here threat this place less so as a revival of the old and more the alternative to the new. Can't exactly blame anyone, many don't know what internet used to be and are going off of vague ideas and the ones who do largely moved on, some were just a little too old to get into many of those things at the time too. If we want to see more of the authentic content, we're pretty much the only ones who can share them.
The problem with me is that I spent my time on Polish internet, what I can spread as authentic will not take off here.


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That's a good point, I might of misunderstood or was mislead since others made it sound like people my age or slightly older made up most of the userbase here. I'll have to keep in mind about showing what old interest was actually like and the kind of things people were into.

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Hika

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See I like a lot of that stuff I just suck at striking conversation :c

Reminds me of when I was in middle school and I was an emo dork. I literally made an email address called "hikarithevampire" and it still follows me because I have accounts connected to it I don't wanna lose lol!


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Oh my goodness how did I forget that everyone used a vampire identity back then xvx;; Gosh even my friends at school pretended to be either a vampire or demon online

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Jon 🐇

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I'd say to give it time. There are people on here like what you're looking for, I've seen some.
And maybe just take Spacehey for what it is. ?


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