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The 2000s fucking sucked (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the "war in terror".

The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just saw an extremely cringy post in the modlog that reminded me of how much I hated that whole Maddox edgelord garbage that was so popular online at the time cringe

The only thing I'm willing to give Maddox is that he liked Ikaruga, one of the greatest games ever.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was unfortunately fully a Maddox fan until around when he started making video content and was associated with that dick Masterson guy

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

The number of people who actually kept watching his video content has to be like 1% of the people who used to visit his site, at best.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

his approach to web design was way better than all the slop that was starting to be made at the time and has continued to be terrible