>>139294591999 was near the tail end of this. The internet was annoying to work with but we adapted to it by not being pussies who needed everything to be instant, super convenient and high speed. The idea of free speech held more weight to it and people still had to try relatively harder to create movies, shows, games, art, music, etc. This helped weed out the lazy uncreative people who really only wanted to be special anyway when they see other people be great and get recognized for it.
A lot of 90s backwash seems to have spilled into the early 2000s despite tragedies such as (the obvious largest one) 9/11 killing a lot of the fun and making people gradually get too serious and sensitive about things overall. But companies and corporations had to start capitalizing on shit again so they could begin to regulate whatever made them more money and influence (which leads to more money). This had started up in the 90s but didn't really do a whole lot until the mid 2000s. By then, the 90s backwash was rapidly receding and technology was enabling things to get easier and more accessible. It was only a matter of time before older more soulfully crafted works would seem obsolete in the eyes of those who had been conditioned to react more to high-tech trends and numb towards what was losing familiarity (especially to those were just just coming of age and hadn't seen much outside of brand new things, the population of which inevitably increases regardless of which decade is the current one). But that's only the humble beginnings of the circus that was yet to come.
As for the 2010s I'm sure you already know the story.
But in my eyes, no year will be as unforgivable about this as 2007, the year that kicked it all into high gear and slowly but surely opened the floodgates in the first place. This is already getting extremely lengthy, so pic related summarizes most of what I wanted to say anyway.
It's probably obvious I've needed to get this off of my chest for years.
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