>>23692713That specific Reddit-like brand of Ultra Political Correctness and Wokism hadn’t necessarily metastasized so much.
It felt innocent and freer. Not so corporatized and restricted to a few major platforms. Instead lots of different various obscurer forums, blogs, image boards, felt more personalized, people could make their own dorky Geocities page but if it was on something other people were interested in you could actually google and find it, just obscurer stuff made by real people instead of mega-corporations.
You had to be a little dorkier to even be as much on the Internet in the first place, so maybe selected for somewhat less “normie” people.
Libertarianism was a big ideology. New Atheism, too (represented by guys like Hitchens, Dawkins, etc.) was pretty big, too, and its followers felt it was genuinely edgy and revolutionary for them then, but, in reference to the former point about PC (politically correct) culture, funnily enough many of these type of libertarians and New Atheists loved to criticize things from feminism to Islam lol. Still kinda proto-Redditors but with this edgier, less PC bent
It was more of the “Wild West” back then. From child porn to gore and disgusting shock videos, that’s more on places like /b/ though. And shocking your friends with
lemonparty.com, 2 girls 1 cup, or goatse lol
I wasn’t there myself, I just made this all up.
