Old web forums (emo/goth)

[Nhasasite]

(I already posted this in the melon land forums)

So I started looking at old emo forums/websites in the website archive, and wow, was internet culture different back then.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227182955/

http://vampirefreaks.com/main.php,

https://web.archive.org/web/20080913100 ... howforum=2.

I guess the internet has just started feeling so unreal? Everything seems to be made by a bot and replied to by bots, and it's just an ouroboros of bots. The World Wide Web is not interesting anymore for me, I'm trying to find forums (like this one lol) or something more tangible other than my website to look at. (Im not making much sense)

I don't know, guess I need to go for like a hike or something.

What do u guys think of internet culture today?

[Onio]

Wow, I don’t remember the last time I saw so many topics in a forum timestamped ‘Today’! And now I miss it dearly XD

There is one forum I know of from the 2000s that is still active to this day, which would be https://overclock.net

The times have definitely changed, I think forums died out largely because everyone moved over to the big handful of dominant apps/platforms like Reddit or even Facebook and then began using features like Facebook Groups as a replacement. Other people seem to just be fine responding in comments on YouTube videos and Instagram, which really don’t seem like the best places to go looking for conversations.

The Internet is definitely different, I don’t think I noticed how different until I started spending time on personal pages again, but I’m not sure if I’ve noticed the whole ‘everything is bots’ yet! Most comments I see, for instance, seem real to me, but if they aren’t, then I genuinely can’t tell!

AI has definitely blurred a lot of lines. Of course there are AI videos that are fooling people into believing they are really, but stranger to me than that is weeing so many people convinced something is AI when it isn’t. I’ve even had comments on my own videos by people who were convinced my videos are AI generated.. and then when I bring it up with someone, I’m told those are likely bot comments! Who knows?!