To be entirely fair, anon, I think the constant admin meltdowns and general instability of message boards and forums are one of the reasons people prefer these large, impersonal social media empires.
That said, look at Elon and twitter…
Ya’ll. Ya’ll it is the 19th anniversary of our livejournal account.
Here’s some of the reactions when we shared this post around 🤣
Otto: All Your Base Are Belong to Us is a classic. Practically the father of meme culture. Show some respect to your elders.
Peter: Badgers, Badgers, Badgers still gets stuck in my head. “look, a snake!”
Ben: Does anybody remember the Llama song? I hope people remember the Llama song.
Wesker: if I hear “you’re the man now dog” loop one more time I will reconsider sparing humanity.
Thinking about how small the active self ship/ f/o community is.
If we imagined the current community on the old web, we could easily all be sharing the same busy, active message board, with an irc chat and a dozen mods.
I’m imagining one sub-forum for ask games; each ask game is it’s own thread, and people who want to play all answer the questions in the same thread.
One sub-forum for f/o art. Each user has their own thread to post their art in– mod rule one thread per user, not per f/o! Post as much at as you want, but please only bump for visibility once every 24 hours.
Another sub-forum with similar per-user rules for gushes, and one for imagines. One for self insert fics, and one for x-reader fics.
A chitchat forum where we could talk about our day and play non-f/o related forum games.
If I was really ambitious, i’d say it should have a forum avatar dress up game like gaia online or neopets.
And of course the whole forum would be moderated to be rated pg, with all of the adult/18+ content kept strictly on the hidden 18+ parts of the forum. Maybe even with an extra hidden “dark” area for especially taboo f/o material.
I wish forums were still a thing…
Is there like, an app or mobile friendly site that mimics old oekaki / tegaki boards?
Or something?
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“The pains series” referred to a series of images commonly circulated on the old internet with the intent to cause pain and disturb the viewer.
These images were passed around untagged, uncensored and unwarned for, often under deceptive links, to force unwilling and unsuspecting people to click on and view them.
Many of these images were gore images from rotten dot com, but they also included things like medical waste, pornography generally considered to be unappealing, etc.
Some of the more famous and prevalent images were:
Lemon party: a bunch of geriatric people engaged in sexual activity
Goatse: A man stretching his anus extremely wide in full view of the camera.
Tubgirl: a fat woman in a bath tub, i believe the tub was filled with supposed fecal matter.
2 girls 1 cup: two women supposedly consuming fecal matter
Harlequin fetus: a deformed fetus
Those are the ones I remember most clearly. They were impossible to avoid.
Yep. Up until The Voltron Discourse, and The Reylo Discourse after it, spicy ships were the norm.
That’s because conflict is the core of good storytelling, and good storytelling is the key to an appealing ship.
They really would not have survived the experience!
These children have never even heard of the “pains” series.
They’ve never been on DeviantArt and seen whole accounts dedicated to editing pictures of cartoon women to look more like the Grinch.
Their Internet world is very small.