>>55516
It's easier to engage in ragebait when the ragebait pops up on one's screen while one is already active here. Not saying it isn't samefagging, but it could also just be hooking a sucker with some ragebait and then going at them for a bit. People tend to mirror the style of the person they're talking to so it could just look like samefagging. Or maybe it's just samefagging, who knows? Probably just BO and GMs.
>>55531
This one's simple, but don't blame me if you don't like the answer. Back at the start of the 10s a bunch of ABDLs on DailyDiapers realized that a handful of babyfurs kept popping up in every negative article about the community, including one irrelevance whose been dredged up around here lately, and the more vanilla ABDLs decided they wanted to effectively "make a sacrifice" to become more accepted. That "sacrifice" was purging the babyfurs in an attempt to say "see, we're NORMAL," which in hindsight was a terrible mistake that backfired spectacularly. Not only did ABDLs not look more normal, they hitched their wagon to the tranny train, and now they're being targeted for being too weird, which is what those of us who advised against purging the babyfurs warned would happen. Hilariously the babyfurs are more common there now than they were 15 years ago. Unfortunately, they've been purged from several other places. I'm not one myself, but the last few posts in this thread caught my attention.
>>55535
>In the early 2000s there was still over a third of all internet users having dialup and the most common option other than that was DSL
I know this is true, but it boggled my mind back then as much as it does now. I had cable internet as early as 2000 or 2001, and so did every other person that I knew. Then again, most people I knew also had a dedicated second phone line for dial-up after about a year of trying to share the main line. The places with (educated) people in them were largely wired up on cable and DSL by the early-mid 2000s, and the internet was usable as it is today no later than 2002. Ecommerce wasn't as easy as it is now, (I remember early 00s eBay orders requiring US postal money orders,) and you had to print your maps from Mapquest instead of just loading them on a phone/tablet, but the functionality was there and in use anywhere information typically came from.
Smartphones are what really fucked things up. Before if you wanted to get online you at least had to pull out a computer, turn it on, and if you were lucky you had wifi and if not you had to find a way to plug in an ethernet cable or USB adapter for one. Now any derp in a remote local has cell service. What's worse, the phones aren't just a phone with a web browser strapped to them, they're cameras, audio recorders, and entertainment devices in the hands of absolute morons who think they're the next Scorsese, Murrow, and Ed Sullivan when maybe two of them actually are. Pairing a device literally designed to be simple enough for a literal toddler to operate it with Social Media was a recipe for disaster. The people who use that shit have an attention span that makes a goldfish look like a deep thinker. Making tech this simple available to the dumbest among us is why we have an idiot populace online now. There was an actor/comedian who died about a decade ago who used to say that "The problem is that about 99% of the world has access to the internet and about 1% should," and he wasn't wrong.
I don't mind that we've eliminated technical obstacles, but we should have probably thrown a few more in front of social media just to make the stupid people think, even if only briefly.
Oh, and smartphones have also claimed the Boomers, not just the Zoomers and Gen Alpha, although there's still some hope for Gen Alpha since their Millennial parents seem to be trying to make using tech a little harder for them just to get them to think. The Boomers on the other hand, my god there are more of them doomscrolling while they eat than there are Millennials and even Zoomers. I've literally been in rooms where the Millennials don't even have their phones visible, and the old Boomer farts are scrolling away along with Zoomers giving them a run for their money. This is mind boggling because the Boomers are the same people who could barely figure out how to turn on a computer much less use one. (The Zoomers at least make sense being tech illiterate.)