Pinkanator said:
As someone who was VERY active during that period, probably a little too active, I do hold a very special place in my heart for International Shitpost Day, and I'd still probably welcome it back, but really, we did kind of drive it into the ground. It stopped being clever, relevancy was lost, and honestly we were kind of all edgelords back then?
I do think the hub, personally, has lost a lot of the sense of COMMUNITY we had back then, a lot of the old guard has drifted away, moved to other sites, or just stopped being as active, I know I've found much less reason to interact here these days. Would I have any remedy for that? No, no not really, maybe it's just passed us by, maybe sites like this just CAN'T foster that kind of relationship anymore when we have things like Discord, (great guys over there, btw) but it's still not quite the same.
I do love this site, I feel I discovered myself here, I've started and ended several life-changing relationships with people I've met here and I wouldn't give that up for the world, and I hope we can keep hanging out here for another 10 years at least, but I think there'll always be a special magic to those early years.
Sorry if this got like, COMPLETELY off-topic but, nostalgia will do that to you I suppose ^^;
I appreciate this particular reply. And I agree with a lot of what you said. My first post seems to not be the most popular opinion. Hell, someone even redid this thread because of the tone. I was, mostly, joking. Though I do miss the way the site was back then. Just thought that, since image posts are no longer really welcome, dialogue was the next best thing.
In terms of community, that really ties in, I think, to the bonus question. The themed months were fun, I think. When the community would come together and make manips based off a theme.
I dunno. If there was a way, I'd possibly just delete this thread and go back to being silent in my sphere of mental fuckery.