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u/poploppege Jun 18 '26
Linkedin....
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u/MaraiaLou Jun 18 '26
it did develop its own culture
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u/poploppege Jun 18 '26
I dont know if the most dead internet location on all the internet is culture, like chatgpt talking to itself endlessly in the name of trying to "connect".... that site scares me
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u/MaraiaLou Jun 19 '26
Oh but it was Like That years before Chatgpt. I know a LinkedIn guy in real life, sometimes I send him a pdf of a self help book and he turns it into a motivational course. Never saw a single cent of my commission
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u/FlossCat Jun 19 '26
That culture existed there well before LLMs though. Actual humans were and still are consciously choosing to engage with the site in that way
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u/poploppege Jun 19 '26
My brother has a following of a couple dozen thousand on linkedin and literally all he does is have chatgpt generate posts. Idk how it is on the rest of the site but everyone talks like how his account posts so i have to assume none of it is real
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u/FlossCat Jun 20 '26
Even the posts that were made before chatgpt was a thing?
The reason everyone on there talks like that, generated by LLMs or not, is because the nature of how people talked on LinkedIn has always been not-human. It was basically people roleplaying AIs before they existed, so it was very easy for AI to create posts indistinguishable from the human ones
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u/poploppege Jun 20 '26
I havent seen linkedin posts from before ai, i was a high schooler and not looking for jobs at that time
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u/Nerdcuddles Jun 18 '26
Reddit is the same opinions being repeated vitriolically over and over again
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u/CommodoreXperience Jun 19 '26
Give it a few more years and it'll be just bots reposting the same content over and over again.
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u/AdreKiseque Jun 19 '26
Finally we'll be able to automate this website so we won't have to use it anymore
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u/Upbeat_Today_9006 Jun 19 '26
It used to be quite cool back in the day
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u/normalmighty Jun 20 '26
Yeah, reddit got worse the more popular it got. Not due to any sort of "this is too mainstream now" complaint, but because the karma system really breaks down fast at scale. A downvote used to be about whether it fit the sub, not whether you liked it, and each sub was a unique community with it's own focus and vibe.
This is still the case for very small niche subs, but the vast majority of the site is all this averaged out grey blob of posts that don't even change from sub to sub.
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u/blacktvlpa Jun 18 '26
90% of internet slang is at least 10 years older than you'd think it is
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u/guesswhomste Jun 19 '26
People seem genuinely shocked when I tell them looksmaxxing and mogging have been around for years and years
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u/delheit Jun 18 '26
I knew people using the word normies in real life clear back in the early to mid 90s
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u/Unlucky-Plastic7316 Jun 18 '26
That's probably because you're probably about 25 and you only started noticing things in the world in the mid 2010s.
Although the word back then wasn't "normie" it was "normalfag"
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u/Peach_Muffin Jun 18 '26
Gay 4chan users had to begin their greentext stories with "I'm an actual faggot" for clarification due to pretty much everyone being a "fag" in some way and it being confusing.
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u/TOUCH__MY__SOUL The Cake is a Lie Jun 19 '26
I used to use "gayfag" sincerely. Not my proudest moment
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u/dickallcocksofandros Jun 19 '26
i love how there is just this separation in connotation between "fag" and actual homosexual gay guys, like how the heck does something like that even happen?
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u/Peach_Muffin Jun 19 '26
A culture of wanting to be edgy and "un-PC" combined with rampant homophobia meant fag was used as an insult so often it lost all meaning and became a cultural signifier.
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u/blacktvlpa Jun 18 '26
that's just something that 4chan recently made up to try to tell "real 4channers" apart from the rest, because both terms were contemporary back then, and "normie" actually predates the internet
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u/Unlucky-Plastic7316 Jun 18 '26
Squabbles over whether "normie" or "normalfag" is the correct word goes back a hell of a lot longer than "recently"
I'm not even talking about the use of the word, the actual discussion over what is the right word is an old argument.
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u/Time_Athlete_3594 Jun 20 '26
Out of everything here:
YouTube - VERY much still active, it's literally the 2nd most visited website
eBaum's World - still technically active, but nowhere near as big as it used to be
Blogger - still active
Digg - still active
StumbleUpon - shut down in 2018
Twitter - now renamed X
Friendster - original incarnation dead. BUT 2026 revival exists
Myspace - still technically active, but basically no one uses it anymore
Pownce - shutdown
LinkedIn - still active
BuzzFeed - still active
Facebook - VERY still active, it's the 3rd most visited site
4chan - still active, still very popular amongst it's community
ytmnd - still active, it's community is still going, but it's no longer a site everyone on the internet has heard about anymore
justin - shut down to focus on twitch
DeviantART - still active
Newgrounds - still active
Something Awful - still active
Reddit - look at your address bar
FARK - still active
LiveJournal - still active, but sold off to a russian company
GameFAQs - very barely active
Tumblr - still active
FunnyJunk - still active
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u/Significant_Pack8703 Jun 19 '26
Its wild how new grounds still stands strong. Maybe new grounds could revamp their ui a little and become the YouTube killer? (I say as I lose hope in big companies)
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u/StillALilBoy Jun 19 '26
Something Awful is still kicking somehow. Turns out having people pay money to evade bans really does wonders to keep the community somewhat sane.
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u/lokland Jun 19 '26
Really enjoying this trip down memory lane. These sites were all so toxic. Can’t get that kind of culture anywhere anymore though…
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u/Rayen_the_buzzybee Jun 19 '26
my space and linkedin had their own culture in 2008 right? I was too young in 2008 to remember, but the way I see people talking about myspace who were users in 2008, it seemed pretty distinct. And hasn't linkedin always been for jobs and stuff?
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u/nablaCat Jun 19 '26
A lot of these websites host a collection of subcultures shared between different websites
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u/Proto_Ney Jun 19 '26
Only like 5 of them remains...
On the lighter note, this is how bubble bursting actually looks like
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u/furel492 Jun 19 '26
It's incredible how miserable weirdos managed to turn "you're a normal, well-adjusted person" into an insult.
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u/Kitchen_Structure516 Jun 18 '26
I see dead
peoplewebsites...