With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
Newgrounds and flash animation in general.
Shock humour.
The huge amount of way more intense homophobia and sexism.
Sitcoms, fuck “Two and a Half Men”.
Many more that I’m too sleepy to think about
I always found that part weird. Like they threw in masons randomly just so the audience could have a “plausibly vanilla whitey” to relate to. Surely the fascists of the mid century didn’t actually target free masons… Surely
Is that clueless emoji supposed to indicate that you actually are aware that mid-century fascists targeted Freemasons?
No I’m actually unaware, I thought that was made up
Freemasons have been the subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories ever since the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, so Freemasons did face some amount of persecution in Nazi Germany and other fascist regimes as supposed “agents of the Jewish conspiracy”
Huh, okay good to know B )
Also the intersection of these two, these flash games with jumpscares that were all the rage for a while there in the mid 2000’s. Fucking hated that shit and it got to the point that I started telling people I had a heart condition to guilt trip them into not doing that kind of shit to me (I don’t, but I detest jumpscares with a passion)
Oh man, loved me some Exmortis though
I’m so glad I had enough insight the more awful animations/ games featuring characters from my childhood.
Some things were good like Final Fantasy A+, but a lot was weird fanfiction at best and really disturbing at worst.
On the one hand thank god morons like Dan Cook and Carlos Mencia are gone. But on the other hand I feel like general right-wing chuddery has replaced them.
I feel like sitcoms are still around - Abbott Elementary is pretty popular right now. Stuff like
and Schitt’s Creek were also huge.
I would say “maybe they’re marginally better”, but I’m not really into the genre to speak on it
Abbott is pretty good
I can’t feel nostalgic for Newgrounds at all despite using it occasionally as a teenager. Most of the content was garbage and there was a horrible site culture of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, etc. That site always sucked.