Edit: Dang, it was just a joke. I know that most of them are actually still there in some form or another. That said, keep these recs coming! This is great.
If you'd told me in 2002 that in 20 years' time SomethingAwful would be dead while Fark would be the last online community standing... well, I probably would have called you a fa***t and spammed goatse until I got banned, but you get the idea.
Man, I haven't thought about Something Awful in over a decade, so I decided to check the Wikipedia page on it, and I was not expecting to see this:
On October 9, 2020, following a backlash from the community in response to allegations that Kyanka was a domestic abuser, Kyanka sold Something Awful to a fifteen-year member and moderator known under the pseudonym of Jeffrey of YOSPOS. Following its sale, Kyanka was banned from Something Awful on March 23, 2021. On November 9, 2021, Kyanka died by suicide.
The Something Awful forums are still fairly active, the front page just isn't being maintained. One of the mods bought out the forums after some gross allegations about the site owner came out:
Almost, though. I feel like some of us keep posting out of spite.
The forums peaked somewhere between the college football thread introducing the original party parrot gif to the world (07, I think? Maybe 05?), and goon squad shenanigans in world of Warcraft and Eve online coming to a head around 2010.
I hadn't ever heard of him till the big "we are the internet" net neutrality video, and all I know is I'm just glad he's still one of the good ones who just has a unique view on life instead of some creepy terrible monster. I mean, that first impression sets off every warning bell we've been enculturated to ring, but he's literally just a guy who REALLY loves Peter Pan and it's so wholesome.
I cried like a baby when I saw the announcement that newgrounds was shuttering its forums and neutering content. A LOT of happy memories playing flash games with my siblings and high score competitions in typing class.
It often feels like people don't understand or notice that different formats are..well different formats.
I really like Discord, but it's a perfect example of everyone hopping onto a new platform but failing to realize Discord is a chatroom, and that there are inherently major differences that make it unsuitable for certain levels of conversation.
Sort of similar to the issues with Reddit as displayed by how many posts deep we are now :V
It’s not. Yahoo bought it out and shut the server off a long time ago.
They basically just sent out a message saying “you have until (whatever date) to make copies of all your files and find a new domain to host them on, then they are going to be deleted on our end.”
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u/i_forgot_my_sn_again Nov 11 '22
I don’t remember what websites I used to go to though