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Why the frick did this picture give me a panic attack? I am literally hyperventillating right now looking at this
Watching anime as a child? I was watching 'Best Breaking Bad moments'. We are not the same.
>breaking bad was out when i was a child
Youre on the wrong website youngster. If you dont remember 9/11 you shouldnt be here.
9/11?
9/11, you remember what happened?
I drove through blood and bones to find my brother
he was in Cinemaphile at the time
The place that sold slurshies?
They let you browse Cinemaphile in the old folks home?
oh he means 11/9
why is Breaking Bad known as a young person's show? That's a moronic perspective. At least he's not the gay who grew up on anime
You wouldn't have been a child when BB was coming out, unless you're a zoomer
It doesn't matter when it came out, it was a show aimed at adults you fricking moron. The fact that zoomers came of age when it was out is inconsequential to the point
>i remember BB as a kid
>>that makes you underage, frick off
>reeeeeeee pffffttttplbplbbpblblb
ok
late millenials were 12yrs old when Breaking Bad was airing
i would've been 14 but yeah
I'm a mid-millenial and I was born pre-1990. Get your facts straight you dumb zoomer
I was born in 2006.
If 9/11 was so great then why didn't they make a 9/12?
I was alive for 9/11 and old enough to have theoretically remembered it, but I don't.
>if you aren’t 30 years old like me you shouldn’t be here
grim
>being young and wasting your life away on Cinemaphile
even grimmer
Pedophile
>Breaking bad came out in 2008
What the actual frick? How come I never heard about it until the 2020s? If anyone asked me when it came out I would've guessed 201u at the earliest
>How come I never heard about it until the 2020s?
you live under a rock?
I was watching YouTube Poops or Tourettes Guy. I didn’t get into anime until I played the Ace Attorney trilogy when I was 21.
The real patricians had two videos 11 minutes each
Hello zoomer, please be informed that in that time period the OP picture is referencing, it wasn't possible to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
But the 10 minute length limit was actually 10:59.
I know this because I was "abusing" this myself at that time.
Unless it was originally 10:00 exactly and then later was changed to 10:59 while the wording stayed the same.
- diff anon
>they didn't watch DBZ split into 3+ .rm files that periodically opened a website
>.rm files
Those were the tough days kek, it was either that or getting a VHS through a distro. By the time Youtube existed, anime was already huge on the internet and there were multiple options to download episodes, like XDCC Bots on IRC, Torrents, Emule, Kazaa, etc.
>you must be a member to download files
>you must make 10 posts to become a member
>you must...
etc etc
>Click our ad banners to unlock the download link
Good times. All for 160p rm files of a VHS rip of unsubbed, uncut dbz clips.
>.rm
frick you for making me remember
Christ, I hated Realplayer more than anything.
>Christ, I hated Realplayer more than anything.
Look, nobody liked realplayer, but the real browser plugin did the job for if you wanted to rip any kind of video media from a webpage.
>watching The People Under the Stairs on youtube on 11 parts
>part 10 is a blank screen
Many such cases.
Your panic attack was a result of seeing Kushieda, one of the single worst anime characters in history.
What’s bad about her?
I dropped the show halfway
She's a cuckquean.
She's a lesbian
She’s a genkidere
Imagine making that claim about someone from Toradora who isn't Taiga.
Youtube didn't exist until I was in college
You were in college im 2004? You're in your late thirties? Jesus, time flies.
Time only moves in one direction and spending time reminiscing about the past won't make it any better.
>doesn’t know about Closed Timelike Curves
That reminds me of a time I just wanted to watch the Goku vs Frieza fight and ended up staying up until like 5am because of how fricking long it was
>8 minutes
zoomer don't know the pain of 5 monute videos being the max and how glorious it was when yt allowed 10 minute videos
Remember video replies?
i watched this recently and wanted to kill everyone in it
Because you're a fricking shitskin or a troony from Cinemaphile
in fact I'd wager you're both considering the type of threads that are suddenly being left up with the new janitor they hired from that Hispanic board for this one
schizophrenia
>toradora
>child
>youtube
what the frick? you weren't torrenting anime by 2008? literal fricking babies browse this board i swear holy shit.
Well she is
I want to impregnate
I was 4 years old in 2008
Why would I torrent when I could watch it on youtube?
Youtube has worse video quality than the fricking YTS/YIFY/RARBG "mini-rips".
And THAT era's youtube, with flv? *Even worse*.
Worked fine on my machine. I watched all of Elfen Lied on youtube and had a great time.
I downloaded 30s long porn clips and tried to combine them into a full movie. Those were the times.
content was so shitty back then
This
>modern content
>Astrophysics explained
>”I built a truck mounted laser cannon”
>Well animated history documentarirs
>”golden age”
>This game is a diarrhea dump!
YouTube nowadays is just TV-lite. My main issue with it is how most channels are a single person churning out videos, so you can guarantee that they are loaded with shitty research. Genuinely good stuff is buried among piles of absolute crap. I preferred back in the day when it was just a place for creative people to try to do something cool or funny. I can get well animated history documentaries on the TV, at least then I know there would have been a team of researchers.
>YouTube nowadays is just TV-lite.
The entire Internet is now like this.
Why do you think there was such a push for wide 16:9 monitors instead of 4:3 ones?
16:9 is comfortable for passive content consumption, but 4:3 (as long as it's "taller" and not simply "less wide") is much much more useful for actively creating something and working on stuff.
There was a time when PCs, and Internet, were for people who were driven to "do" something. Yeah obviously PCs and internet were used for fun, SURE, but the experience wasn't so consumption-oriented. A lot of subtle things in the experience add up and make the experience from that era better fitting for active creation of something.
>most channels are a single person churning out videos, so you can guarantee that they are loaded with shitty research.
They 100% are. As soon as they make a video on some topic you know a good deal about, you immediately call out the absolute lowest-grade bullshit, and then it becomes apparent that all of their videos are like this, you just probably didn't know it because you're not an expert on those other things. Neither is the author.
My favorite giveaway of this is when the author(s) don't look up how to pronounce names of people, places and other stuff from other languages. I don't mean that they say it with an accent or otherwise not perfectly, but they don't even place the stress on the right syllable. Motherfricker, the wikipedia article about this very famous person has a pronunciation right there at the very top of the page. You didn't have even THIS amount of effort.
For the last month's commute I've heard this radio ad for a concert featuring Ralph Vaughn William's Dona nobis pacem and half of it is completey mispronounced.
content
explained
>>”I built a truck mounted laser cannon”
>>Well animated history documentarirs
... and all of them have zero substance.
As an autistic child I was fond of reading various "pop science" (I guess you can call them this?) encyclopedias on various scientific fields, adapted to curious children of school age.
This shit was magnitudes better in delivery of content than modern Internet videos that have to be a certain way to be successful. And all of them are made to be successful.
At least in 2006, people uploaded content to the Internet not to monetize it and otherwise profit off it, but to help other people. To make their day with something funny, to let them know something useful. Sure the skills of making / editing videos etc etc could use some work, but it was genuine and wasn't driven by greed, and had actual substance when it comes to educational stuff.
/thread btw. Its basically what cable tv was but much quicker and easier to access. that and the algorithm back then was different.
>muh research
>muh substance
You are competing with pic rel
What's going on in the pic? A man in a bunny fursuit has shit poured onto him?
I’ll show you son one day
it's true
something about the bigger youtube channels just makes me feel like I can watch some educational infotainment and get literally nothing out of it, like it's all knowledge I've already heard before just reorganized in how it's presented
this is how history is erased btw
>this is how history is erased btw
I bet that anyone over 30 who has some deep enough interests in something - not necessarily a full-blown hobby, but just thorough knowledge of something, even maybe simply a fan of some pop culture stuff - very likely already discovered that, due to corporate interests, the public knowledge about that specific thing was changed to something Literally Completely Wrong, but if you try to argue online about it with random people like an autist, you'll be downvoted or something, because the current consensus is this new Completely Wrong version. Even when it's something not controversial, political, etc, but something rather mundane instead, and the only reason is that the actual truth was inconvenient for some moderately big corporation who owns something related to it. And that counts as a comparatively small player, as far as possible interested parties that can exist go.
you will never know the pure joy of watching a full grown man superglue his butthole shut, place thumbtacks on the toilet seat, then proceed to eat a ton of taco bell and laxatives on youtube
I dont know, there was something rustic qbout Urban Ninja and Evolution of dance.
Amateur video, like what youd take with a home cam. Attempts at production, it had unironic soul. More than can be said for todays portrait-sized 8 second canned advertizments
they were unpretentious and spontaneous with titles like "washing machine destruction" "fat kid bike fail" which was exactly what it sounded like (and with key moments looped 3 or 4 times in successive slower motion for maximum hilarity)
now they're all clickbait "we bought 10,000 pingpong balls and then THIS happened"
At least it was humble and put out by hobbyists instead of self-censoring VPN shills.
it was shit then and shit now. the site is a literal toilet and always has been.
but before I go into why, have you heard of nordvpn?
t. People who were literal newborn fetuses at the time
Videos with money in mind will always be objectively worse than videos that were made just for fun.
Im a boomer and ill admit this. Of course there was some good stuff but you had to dig around. Not that current youtube is the best but its easier to find what you want to watch if you ignore the front page
There was some really good shit back then but you had to look for it and now most of those videos are gone. Same with megaupload and the all the lost content that went with it.
>worst rated
I miss the old internet
Very underrated observation right here.
true
Content was so kino back then
SOVL
>longest vid 11:06
take me back
It hurts
For me, it was comic soccer
>ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIIIIIIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
>Cascada - Every Time We Touch
I'm back in Warsong Gulch
I wonder how many of these videos still exist.
>18 years
I WISH I COULD GO BACK
a million views used to be an achievement
a billion views used to be consired a once in a lifetime landmark
>that tasha video
>she looks better now than then
its true when they say millennials aged better than zoomers do
HR moms and zoomers ruined youtube like they fricking ruin everything
What's an "HR mom"?
>zoomers
In what way? I'd easily say it was boomers shitting it up and normies with access to the internet in the literal palm of their hands that really did it in.
>real life simpsons intro
I miss when people would attempt to recreate their favorite shows, ditto for parking lot rp fights.
>parking lot rp fights
ROXAS! WHAT'D YOU DO WITH KIARI?
I hate that everything constantly gets worse and worse every day
the content is higher skill now but it lacks the pure soul these vids had
too corporate now days but one thing is at least there is stuff to watch now.
I was 18 when YouTube was created and had already been torrenting anime for a few years by that point.
Momento animori
because you're a zoomer and the tiniest thing can break your brain
>Zoomer
Pic related: zoomers when toradora came out
>2008
The oldest zoomers then were already 12.
That's Gen-A. Zoomers are in their late teens, early 20s now. 2014 was 10 years ago
They were actually 16 years old.
Actually they were 2 years old.
Actually I changed my mind. The oldest zoomers in 2008 were 295 years old.
Did you seriously figuratively "Actually,..." someone over something defined arbitrarily, dumb frick?
kys moron
Yeah that is exactly your answer, you low IQ shitstain. You don't even have a comeback, a snappy zinger or humorous banter. Nothing. There's just nothing in that head of yours, and if you tap it, a hollow sound sounds. You are just an obese waste of carbon.
because you're a pedo
>mfw all these boomers are accidently revealing themselves by claiming they torrented back in the day.
i torrent anime now. it just werks.
30 y/o boomer here, kazaa and dc++
I never stopped
>zoomie b***h pretends he belongs on a millennial site
kek
>torrented
>back in the day
moron
tfw this literally happened to me at 31 when I went back to college for a second degree and tried to make conversation ith a guy next to me
I'm 40
Youtube was created in 2005. Torrents outdate it. Even though i mostly used shit like kazaa until like 2004
I started watching anime at 14, and I torrented everything. How fricking dumb are zoomers?
These days I watch my shows as they air on TV.
>accidentally
homie
we torrent and you can't open a can with a can opener. we are not the same kind of human.
No one here is afraid of being known as old.
>torrented back in the day
>still do
Life is good boys.
well, you are not wrong. Zoomers are too stupid or "brand loyal" to pirate.
Sad.
>was already torrenting shit like Gundam SNEED and Love Hina when I was 13 with my 15 kb/s turd worlder brownoid internet in 2002
>also used DDLs when Rapidshare and Megaupload were at their peak
>still do to this day but with better speeds
Sounds like a you problem.
Most folks will never know what its like to be happy to see your download will only take 12 hours cause it means you'll be able to watch that same day if you stay up late. I download HD movies in <20 minutes now and I never forget what a luxury it is.
It's not just an age thing, it's a culture thing. In the US, torrenting was never huge, it was always a shady underground thing that you probably couldn't even talk in the open about. So it was "a thing" in American corners of the internet for a little while, but died out when the Internet became a place for normies.
In other places, typically poorer countries and/or ones with lax law enforcement, torrenting is widespread and normal.
>boomers
You aren't wrong.
My father from the fricking 50s liked to make CDs and showed me how to download shit off of Napster back before Metallica happened.
Since then I download everything for free in his honor.
I used file sharing when you were still in your dad's ballsack
Real men downloaded their animu on IRC.
Actually, you can still do this today.
I did this up until the mid-10's because it let you start watching an episode as soon as you started the download, and I didn't want to have to wait 15 minutes for a file to torrent
I stopped whenever I got better internet and switched over to Nyaa full-time but there's something that just warms your heart about using IRC for piracy, it feels right
What pishagidaloo
When I finally found Minori, someone who is good for me
This isnt over you dumb b***h
god i couldn't stand early youtube with the horrible postage stamp resolution. if it wasn't a downloadable quicktime video I didn't click it
I remember watching full episodes on YouTube back when it was good for a whole 10 months
I figured out torrents when I was in 2nd grade though so no matter
Old YouTube was soooo fricking comfy holy shit I’m angry
Current youtube is almost unusable. Back in the days if you watched a video the recommendations would be something similar, now you just keep getting recommended to watch things you already watched or random videos that pay to get recommended. You can't use it to explore new content.
Current youtube is great until you get baited into watching one shitty video, then the algo will shove garbage down your throat forever.
they're all shit.
I can watch a 50 minute video of some aussie dude rebuilding a crane boom arm, shot in 4k and well edited to remove downtime.
Youtube is only shit if you're watching slop. It's great for hobbyist type content.
>its not slop if I like it
Just click on the "..." and select "Not Interested" or "Do Not Recommend".
You mean the "please make two thirds of my reccomended videos trash like this for the next three days" button. As far as I can tell, if you do anything but close the video in less than a second they assume you love it. Thumbs down, do not reccomend anything is positive. The worst thing you can do is leave a negative comment. Any engagement is a win for the trash uploader.
If you click the video it's already too late. It starts to count as soon as you hover over it with your mouse and the thumbnail starts playing.
just stop using the youtube site
use a frontend like freetube or newpipe, import your subscriptions and hide everything else.
don't even need a login, no more shitty algorithm, no more google datamining you
Both good points
delete the video in your history
I watched a single video about alchemical grimoires and now my recommends is full of Orthodox Christian theology videos. I think the holy spirit is trying to tell me something.
>I think the holy spirit is trying to tell me something.
>now you just keep getting recommended to watch things you already watched
This. And if you click on the option in the search options to show videos you haven't watched yet, it still does that.
Frick it.
because your memory is omitting the part whete half the time you spent watching videos was staring at it buffering
I do NOT miss slow ass internet
You recognize what you will never experience ever again.
Do you boomers still watch anime today? If so what anime do you homosexuals watch?
The same ones as Vaush
Nothing. All anime sucks now.
I only watch yuri now that I'm an adult
Patlabor.
Patrician taste.
G Gundam
Precure
Barely any, maybe one or two a year, usually some easy slice of life or CGDCT.
Or I simply rewatch the best anime, Hidamari Sketch.
there's dungeon meshi and the new spice and wolf anime
that's basically the only thing that's held my interest since Parasyte, and that was years ago
>and the new spice and wolf anime
you what mate
the first six or so episodes are already out, anon.
It's good, but pretty much just a slightly different version of the old show at this point.
I see, could be interesting I guess. It's been a minute but I think I remember feeling that the original ones were a bit inconsistent/weirdly paced.
Music probably isn't as good though.
It's actual alright. OP and ED are VASTLY inferior though, but it's hard to beat one of the best OPs in existence.
>Music probably isn't as good though.
Music is by Kevin Penkin this time (Made In Abyss OST), make of that what you will
Its more true to the book and I am enjoying it now that I'm several episodes in. I've actually come to like the ED, feels like a song you'd whislte while travelinging on a journey:
Honestly I cry after every episode and thank Studio Passione for not raping the story. After the Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer anime I'm terrified of actually being hopeful for an adaption.
Frieren was pretty good. I like Dungeon Meshi too but the homosexual tumblr side of the fanbase is getting progressively more insufferable
reminder that animeonlys have no souls
therefore you cannot actually offend them no matter how hard you shit on them
I had already finished dungeon meshi before the show came out but overall you are correct. I can't wait for the meltdown when its revealed that Marcille is a mule and the other elves consider her inferior because of it
I haven't watched Frieren, The premise doesn't sound like it can hold my interest. I've heard a lot of good things about it, though. Maybe one day.
Again, I highly recommend it. It's classic fantasy without any kind of subversion and it works. If you like stuff like Dungeon Meshi, Lodoss, Spice and Wolf, etc, you'll almost definitely like Frieren too
It has a neat hook but it's trash. Author didn't know what to do with it so it tuns into a walk and talk simulator through the most bland and generic rpg setting imaginable with the occasional laser lights show.
The moment you feel bored or wanted it to explore what it was doing a little more just shut it off and don't look back because it doesn't recover. It's very shallow.
Not much. I have a vague interest exploring motorcycle themed anime but haven't really looked into it. I see random bits of shit my gf watches, anything from the 80s to now, but I'm usually doing my own thing.
I'm happy to see nostalgic videos like the E3 KH2 and Twilight Princess teaser trailer still online. Also lots of old, funny clips of playthroughts from JustinTV and other sites.
Yes, been watching Umaru-chan, Haibane Renmei, Angelic Layers, and now starting Clannad. I also am watching Dugneon Meshi regularly, and probably will start Pluto soon too.
I only read manga and light novels, anime is for morons and normies.
This season is mostly Yuru Camp, Spice and Wolf and Tsukimichi. Been rewatching YuYu Hakusho too. Will probably rewatch Gurren Lagann soon.
Milky Holmes on loop.
I'm currently watching Dungeon Meshi, last season it was Mahoako.
I'm an unabashed anime tourist. I just kept the shows I liked and ignored most of the rest, and steered far clear of the fandom. I still sometimes check out new shows and manga but I'm not a dedicated fan.
I just rewatched the ones I liked way back when. Evangelion, lain, cowboy bebop. those basic b***h animes
I'm just rewatching old classics.
There's only shit since 2011, when all this moe shit started, then only senseless harem, love polygon shit, now you only have this isekai shit.
Anime is dead.
You're a genuine estronaut. Very likely from a single mother home too. And if you're female then it's just your typical dogbrain
>estronaut
wow this can be used to imply both excessive onions consumption AND taking estradiol.
gemerald.
Zoomers will never experience actually kino-era anime lmao
%3D
literally anyone can download and watch old anime man. jesus christ.
But are they?
Anime is gay
I'm not a sub-70 IQ pajeet, so I knew how to use nyaa before youtube was a thing.
>nyaa
Everyone was using TT back then, homo. Way to out yourself.
Game of Thrones sequel show and the gaytank.
You could just find fansites and download .avis through your browser back in the day. That's how I watched a lot of Naruto.
I remember sending a friend every episode of Gurren Lagann over MSN messenger too
>being a literal child when Toradora was airing
zoomers get the frick OUT
>suggestions
>episode 12 part 1
>episode 12 part 3
I didnt even have to watch DBZ in parts back then
>he keeps replying to himself
>desperately
lmao
The notion of someone being a child when YouTube was around?
i never did that, i always found some alternative or just gave up
This is how real homies did it before youtube
>blocks ure path
Realizing life will never be as nice and simple as it was 15 years ago. You’ll never get to relax like you did watching goofy videos on YouTube. Your past loves haven’t thought about you since. Your best years are behind you and your worst unimaginable fears are here in your present and future. You exist in a state of discomfort that is impossible to permanently alleviate while uncertainty looms over the world in more ways then one. You mourn what you were and what you’ll never be.
You're supposed to be a depressed homosexual until you're 30 and then enjoy life. And yes you can enjoy life while having kids.
Watching anime like that sucked ass in retrospect.
The past is over. Stop looking that way because it's not where you're going
It's difficult because there's not much good in the world right now. Tell me something cool that we're in the golden age of right now.
>toradora as a child
Because that's when you were alive. You're in the underworld now.
I have my nostalgic moments too, but I'm not such a gigantic homosexual about it. Panic attacks over this? get help.
>be a child [...] on youtube again
I was 20 when youtube came online.
>he didn't download naruto episodes on limewire and accidentally get everybody loves raygold instead
ngmi
Being a millennial child/teen too technologically inept to download anime circa 97-2000 from irc or newsgroups was suffering. You know it was out there but the opportunity wasn't there when you only had scant moments of internet access at school. Somehow I still managed to download 30 second clips of dubbed DBZ which had to be like 160x120 resolution. They felt *extremely* strange and exotic to watch at the time.
>dubbed
*subbed
Luv me Taiga
is this the girl from the wagashi porn stuff, shit is she 18+?
>those Dragon Ball Z Linkin Park AMVs
SOVL
I remember watching TeamFourStar when they only had 4 episodes. They shoulda just stopped there tbh
>people are nostalgic for youtube
Just let me die.
This, but I watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Never had any interest in anime.
That era was objectively shit, I'd rather work part time at mcds and just buy crunchy roll access. Teens these days have it good.
>child
>2010
fricking zoomers.
My bad let me accelerate my aging
But I will be a 23 year old searching yandex for "watch full metal alchemist free online" on Yandex with my girlfriend 🙂
Anime is much better now
It's over
I remember discovering YouTube one day and spending hours on it watching anime, Beet the Vandal Buster iirc.
POST MORE TIGER
I would watch wrestling on YouTube back then. Not homosexual ass anime.
Take it from a 30+ anon, it's not the image as much as how the title is presented. It's telling you in greentext that you will never experience something [great]. And this is done over and over to promote doomerism. In all fast boards.
Try just watching anime and having fun if you like it and set aside these rando fricks who are trying to provide a framework for how you should perceive all things as hopeless.
Do zoomers really fear a world without constant advertising?
Probably because you're a huge homosexual
Panic attacks are for little b***hes
And now that we can have high res hours long videos, everyone is watching 30 second videos.
I still can't believe Youtube was handled better under a israeli woman than an indian man
This is how I watched both of the 90s Sonic the Hedgehog shows AND the early 2000s one (Sonic X?) that covered the stories from the Sonic Adventure games. All three were top tier cringekino but I only remember the memes like PINGAS these days.
I wasn't allowed to watch YouTube when I was a kid because my mom thought it was an adult site full of porn
[buffering]
why are you even doing this? It's like your 5th post
the video that made me get a crush on naruto and start a anime fase
Tsunade was always the best girl in Naruto
i'm so bored of nostalgia. stop living in the past. create something. do something
I was in college when YouTube came around.
Try getting anime fansubs on VHS or at least .rm files burned on a CD.
Anons from places outside North America, what was your local early Internet experience like?
Russian anon here
Modern unfortunate politics aside, what most people don't know was that early Internet was genuinely really great technology-wise in Russia, especially European Russia. Some of the best speeds (for the era) at cheapest prices in all of Europe. Generally caused by the nearly complete collapse of governmental interest in all but the most key areas of life. Where "American" Internet had glowies and assorted government oversight since day 1, the Russian corner of the Internet was a self-regulating free wild west in many ways, most of them good ones.
The nearly complete lack of anything resembling enforcing any copyright laws also meant that piracy and general "free sharing" was just a normal way of life. "Western" anons grew up from the very first day of their life in a world where IP laws and other such stuff are well-established and there are watchdogs etc. Meanwhile, Russian citizens didn't have a well-established concept of "copying can be illegal" drilled into them. There was nothing "sketchy" with the idea of downloading an album in mp3 or a movie in avi from the internet. Torrents were very normal when speeds allowed for it (that is, if you have a shitty dialup connection for now, you'll just go buy a pirated movie on a bootleg DVD, not try to torrent it).
Many of the same points apply for other European ex-USSR countries, to some slightly varying degrees.
you're acting like p2p wasnt a thing everywhere the internet is
I don't think you fully grasp the extent of "the populace having no concept why sharing might be bad"
Yes of course a North American "geek" of the early 00s spent many hours on Limewire or Napster or something, yes, duh. But it's still something illegal. Well-known lawsuits and takedown operations. Universities frowning upon this stuff on their campus networks. Try to sell bootleg DVDs of movies at a large scale IRL at that time in North America and see where it gets you. Also, fast forwarding to modern times, I know of many, many, many "western" online places that are dedicated to some specific thing, typically forums, full of fairly nerdy people who know their stuff, and these places very often disallow anything copyright infringing in any form. P2P, sharing, copyright infringement are all things that are pushed out of the broad daylight into the darker corners in Western society. Maybe not always super efficiently, but still.
Meanwhile, on a Russian forum, you can ask "hey people, I have an issue with your video encoder, here's a sample of the problematic file", upload a chunk of a movie, and that's fine. A university professor will tell his students to go to torrents.ru (now rutracker) and to grab the software that he's talking about from there. ISPs have their own well-known internal DC++ networks full of warez. Physical stores chock full of bootleg "counterfeit" DVDs are everywhere, and no one is bothered that they are somehow "unofficial" copies. Fan websites of music band, full of people who genuinely love the band, have their albums in mp3 for anyone to download. Everyone has a pirated Windows at home, even the "not tech savvy" people (they asked someone to help, they know it's pirated, they don't give a frick and aren't afraid of some repercussions).
This very, very slowly started to change only when huge international media conglomerates entered the market and started promoting legit content and introducing no-hassle ways to get it.
music piracy decimated the industry in america and it was because of napster which was american software, goofy russkie. tons of bootleg DVDs as well if you knew where to look but when renting was such an insignificant expense for us back then it didn't matter anyway.
what you're saying maybe applied to people in small towns and rural areas that still had mostly dialup connections into the 2000s. you have a strange view of what things were like here
thats the thing in eastern europe we didnt have dialup connection and the culture still stands now, it was fast. you could have a cd writer and sell bootleg games
^ this anon is right
Fast internet speeds in European Russia and most of Eastern Europe, free unregulated landscape of Ru-speaking Internet, free-for-all piracy by everyone including people who weren't even online. Like I wrote, some of it started going away gradually, but still, even today, everyone knows what a torrent is and how to use it, even if they don't do it super often. Meanwhile you can to go to the /t/ board right here on Cinemaphile and it's full of people asking the dumbest entry-level shit possible, because in the US culture, outside of pockets of nerds, torrenting was and is this thing that isn't used casually and can often result in scary lawyer letters if you just bareback it without an anonymizer like VPN.
> tons of bootleg DVDs as well if you knew where to look but when renting was such an insignificant expense for us back then it didn't matter anyway.
> if you knew where to look
You're missing the point again
The picture I'm painting is: EVERYTHING is pirated / counterfeit / bootleg. Music, movies, games, software, what have you. Yes, including in the the massive mega stores in malls, the kinds that are country-wide leaders in media and have dozens of stores in every city that is large enough. For the US analogy, imagine Walmart freely selling CDs with "best essential software for your PC, pre-cracked". Not just tucked into the corner somewhere in hopes that only people who are looking for it will find it, but entire walls of this stuff. If you were looking for a legit copy, that is, one where the % of the money goes to the copyright owner, or one where there is a legitimate license key inside the sealed packaging and you can activate that license key on the owner's website, 99.999% of people would straight up look at you funny. "Why the frick do you want to find THAT, when you can just grab this cracked copy for 10% of the price".
no, i understood what you were saying because i know very well that bootleg stuff was sold openly in russia like it was in a lot of non-western countries at the time. what you don't understand is that piracy was not some obscure shady thing here, people just didn't bother with physical bootlegs when they could download their own shit. to us buying those DVDs was kind of a poorgay immigrant thing since they didn't have the understanding or money for a non-shit computer to just get the file themselves, at least 70% of the convenience stores around my area had bootleg DVDs but buying those instead of downloading/burning was for middle aged immigrants
the ignorance around torrenting is because of zoomers and netflix becoming dominant well over a decade ago. the slower internet speeds were in more rural areas.
the way you guys are talking about america is like me describing "russia" while talking about stuff from some far eastern cuckistan oblast. not trying to argue or start some west vs east pissing match, you guys just have a strange view of what it was actually like here. i think the real difference was probably our huge rental movie chains, not sure if you guys had as much of that vs just buying bootlegs
I think you're under impression that I was talking as if the bootleg DVDs continued well into the late 00s and such. As soon as the Internet speed allowed it, people started switching en masse to torrents or DC++ networks or other online sources, and the whole bootleg DVD business started dying out fast.
You had the legit rental stores, yes. As well as a bunch of other legit options which co-existed with piracy options if you want. However, you'd be hard pressed to find "legal" copies of most media or software in Eastern Europe even if you wanted to.
i was thinking of 2002 which was when DVDs basically took over the market here. did you guys have movie rental places? for some reason the idea of a russian blockbuster equivalent with rental bootlegs is funny to me
2002 was still dialup era for the vast majority of online population. I'd pick something like 2005 or so when high-speed Ethernet connections really started taking off in cities.
>russian blockbuster equivalent with rental bootlegs
Rental existed yes, and yes it was all pirate discs (or VHS in the 90s). But it wasn't super popular I'd say. I was a little too young to have a birds eye view of the situation, but my impression is that many people valued having a collection of movies they like readily available. These pirate releases were cheap anyway. Also, people eagerly shared stuff with each other, copied each others' discs, or visited each other with an HDD and copied a whole bunch of stuff at once, etc.
Pirate rentals wouldn't be Blockbuster-type stores, they'd be more like picrel (a random pic I just grabbed online but looks about right).
>russia
Isn't he Swedish?
Sweden is rightfully Russian clay
That loose Lain drawing on the wall really is the cherry on top of this picture.
This guy has probably changed his name to Lilith Marrissa Cavendish by now.
Nice Shaggy cosplay btw.
Does the tinfoil actually do anything or is it just schizophrenia
I was 18 when YouTube launched.
god i miss when the internet was by the people for the people. frick this corpo shit now
and thank fricking god for that, i have zero nostalgia for this and google video
I watched Pivot stick-figure and clay animations + Transformers stop-motion videos.
I don't like how "professional" youtube is now. It feels so fake and insincere.
>why don't greedy media companies let me watch pirated shows conveniently for free! They didn't care back then!!!
>AHHHHHH IS THAT SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T WASTE 20 YEARS ON AN ANIME INCEL WEBSITE? I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!
mindbroken child
>mindbroken child
In my day we had 10MB real media files for all 2 anime, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z.
Time to grow up, you should not be allowed to post if you're bellow 6 feet
'92 here. I was watching VHS tapes of WWII footage as a kid.
Personally this happens to me because I realize my life literally did not change in almost 20 years
I saw this thread sitting in my room, which was the same exact room I grew up in watching anime (I inherited my apartment from my parents), still khv, still no friends, nothing at new at all
For me, it wasn't anime but watching Jeeves and Wooster episodes in small ~10 minute parts.
>35 year old pedophile too autistic to understand when people are trolling him
Damn, the election was 8 years ago and you still havent learned
I wasn't a fricking nerd as a kid watching chinese cartoons
I'm so sick and tired of 30 years old raving about duh good ole days of the internet, grow the frick up already damn, the internet is way better nowadays anyways.
Nta but modern internet is a literal nightmare compared to 15-20 years ago.
I'm a zoomer and even I know that isn't true. Compared to when I first started using the internet, things have only gotten worse.
And when was that exactly?
t. '97 zillennial
Sorry, you're gen Z. Firmly
Gen Xers who were born in the cusp between Boomers and Gen X years were referred to as Generation John, millennials who were born between the cusp of Gen X and Millennial were referred to as uhh....I dunno, but in any case, do you really think the concept of a cusp generation has never existed before?
the experience of someone born in 82 to someone born in 94 for example are very different despite both being millennials but i guess thats what you get when you compare the ends of any generation
2013
how the frick would you know
Everything is much more convenient. Speeds are faster, accessibility is easier, finding information is usually faster, and there are more websites than before. However, what is newly made and what is updated is a downgrade in most senses. Even social media websites like Facebook, which used to be considered the start of the downfall, are even worse nowadays too. It used to feel more personalized and easy going rather than corporate and squeaky clean. That said, you can still find great websites that are like the older internet of that time if you look deep enough. Some websites I used to frequent from back then are still active too (although maybe not 100% there).
>finding information is usually faster
this hasnt been the case for a while now, google is dogshit (both search and images) and yandex is missing a lot of the older stuff from google
>there are more websites than before
there arent, most of the internet traffic is aggregated to a few sites now and everything else is a wasteland
>google is dogshit (both search and images)
True, true. It wasn't that bad up until like late 2023 though. It is getting so bad I'm tempted to switch to a different search engine. For some reason a lot of websites updated and all got worse. I am guessing they are trying to adapt to Windows 11 or whatever? The interface and navigation is all just senseless and confusing (when it is even working).
>most of the internet traffic is aggregated to a few sites now
Also true, but that doesn't mean those smaller sites don't still exist (if they still do). Those are the real gold mines when you find them while researching.
Used to watch Naruto like this around 2006 lol
Great fricking times
Why did e-girl back then look like that had more class or dignity even tho deep inside they are probably the same type of prostitute? Like these days I expect them to have a fricking linktree and it goes to an OF
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Montezation of the internet and online hobbies
Nuh uh
>Gringos never knew about Spanish fan sub pages so they watched their anime only when YouTube slipped out
2000s piracy was awesome
recent/current decent-good anime:
>Yuru Camp
>Frieren
>Train to the End of the World
>Dungeon Meshi
>Jellyfish Can't Swim at Night
>Spice and Wolf remake
>Yuru Camp
>modern
>good
it made a guy cause a forest fire so it's cool in my book
Did the trees stole his idea for an anime?
I used to watch One Piece and Naruto like this until I discovered the power of torrenting on the shitty internet connection that required 8 hours for a batch to finish downloading, I'd leave the computer on overnight
you didn't miss much, although it was kinda funny to find actual porn on youtube during this era. I remember somehow coming across a porno of a chick fricking a dude on the beach and got sand all over her pussy
I remember being a kid and seeing a femdom video of a girl wearing a black bra and a red thong whilst choking the guy with her thighs as she flexed her arms, I thought it was the hottest thing I had ever since in my 8 year old life. Her name was Cindy Huntress, it had such an impact on me I still remember her name.
I won't even click on a video if it's under 15 minutes anymore
I won't even click on a video if it's over 15
nobody but turbo normalgay casuals did this.
This. Us real weebs torrented and had bookmarks for tons of different subgroup websites.
never did this because I'm not an american 80 iq muttling, I knew how to torrent since I was 12
hey pete remember when you'd get to the computer lab early to watch episodes of atla? crazy times.
Because you are weak.
Because you're going to die and you're reminded of how little time there is. You won't be able to do everything you want, and anything you do is potentially the last time you will ever do it.
You're going to die.
People are nostalgic for the dumbest shit. It's even worse than being nostalgic for the McRib lmao.
1998-2004 (pre-YouTube) was a completely different era from 2005-2012 (early YouTube days)
I preferred reading manga