Everything is because of corperations and the effects of moneyholders to monopolize and dictate culture to their own personal tastes and beliefs

hmm I wonder why?

I couldn't possibly explain all the past 15 years of the cultural and economic events at both national level for western countries and internet-wide level combined with the way new generations are now using the internet and being raised by it in one post. I can name two major reasons why however, both related to each other. First is the mega centralization of the internet, back then you'd frequent around 15 websites for whatever thing you're looking for (stuff related to gaming, movies, anime, manga, etc). Now mostly everyone goes to the same 5-6 websites, almost all of them being social media which are by design made to ruin your fun and mental illness, and the entire planet posting in the same websites feels extremely noisy, hectic, and really annoying.
The second being the mass-scale corporatization of the internet from both website to user level. These websites no longer push content to you coming from small passionate creators about their niche interests, instead, it pushes on to you commercialized fake garbage or the opposite of your politics in order for you to click on videos, watch ads, and generate the website revenue. The user is also monetarily rewarded by creating content that is just as sensationalist, fake, repetitive, sanitized, and commercialized (youtubers and influencers).
Basically, it's because the mainstream internet is fake and gay, you know it's fake and gay, yet you still frequent it and become bitter and bitter. Now your choice is to either abandon that side of the internet to go into way slower, smaller, and niche spaces, or go outside more often to clear your head.

>It's just a massive No Fun Allowed zone now.
It started in the late 2000s with a very loud minority of SJWs wanting to censor anything they didn't liked, once they infiltrated janny positions on every site they did, and if they couldn't infiltrate they just complained to domain registrars and hosting services to take down anything they didn't liked. But that was years ago, today now that gen z and gen alpha are growing up and expanding their presence we got something even worse than SJWs: Puriteens

I personally blame the centralization through companies in combination with insanely quick widespread adoption the most. All relative to how it was before, by which I mean that of course you already had inofficial "hubs" like AOL, if you'd even want to count those, but ultimately, those were still just some of many addresses.
Now the vast majority of people appear to be gathering on only a handful of sites like YT, Twitter, Reddit and 4chan, which makes it so that a lot of users perceive a "general consensus of the internet" that they seem to focus on for their content and behavior. Everything feels like it's getting recycled to no end - common tubers expand on common social media trends in a common way to not stray too far from the common consensus and common people will continue to echo this common content on common social media that common tubers like to get their common content from to expand on. At least that's how it all feels like to me, while comment sections in the past showed very different behavior on every site.

At the same time, I don't really encounter different hobbyist places anymore because search results are filled with Wikipedia, Reddit, YT, random articles and fake sites, whereas in the past I could find 3 or more separate anime communities right on the first page alone. I have a hard time blaming anyone for this though, because my questions usually get answered right away and it's also my fault for not trying to dig further, although I'm also unsure if more digging would even land me in other places.

I think it's just up to ourselves to find our own spaces on the internet and that's fine, what bugs me is that it's hard to find ones that don't parrot the supposed consensus from everywhere else and just so happens to host your interests as well.

>>165930
Yet the majority of people on my platform who suck dick are americans.

The decline isn't only in creative output. Search engines suck for information nowadays.
20 years ago you could find dozens of websites with lots of good information on whatever topic you wanted.
Today you look for information and you find the same short summarized sanitized content regurgitated across several sites. Now if you want actual info you either have to scour the internet to find the few useful websites or open a book.

>>165936
Yandex search is the closest thing to google from 20 years ago. Even google itself is phasing out search results since their AI-thing now answer your queries before you even click on any link, SEO is dying.

>>165931
>>165933
I think an interesting point, tying into centralization, is that now instead of becoming accustomed to navigating various places with different cultures by using compartmentalized identities, the default is for a person to uphold a single identity across a few vast platforms with no clear separation between one set of people and another. That, and that the basic incentive of social media is to gather a following, to construct an appealing source of regular "content" for others to reply to and upvote, which orientates people towards becoming competing entertainers instead of fellow community members. This is not to say that the aforementioned things no longer exist, but that visibility is given the most to those who play into these tendencies.

I was going to say I have the same personality across most platforms but then I realized that's completely wrong and I act like a total fool in some places.

I, for one, welcome the drug becoming unappealing.

>>165930
Imagine 1997 statistics but with 116 million of Japanese on top...

It's really self-sabotaging to rely on internet for your mental comforting and entertainment.

>>165938
Give it time, and Yandex will probably go to hell too. If it keeps getting popular, it may fall prey to SEO practices and become another mess like the rest. We can't have nice things once the masses find out and ruin everything again.

What I like about Yandex is that it's like going from a self-driven AI powered taxi car to a soviet era Lada. No technology to decide what's good (or relevant) for you, so you start seeing all the crap Google downranks or removes for not being mobile layout friendly, 100% html 1.0, or completely bonkers. I have a bookmarks collection of the craziest (actual head crazy) shit I have found.

normies

AI, third-worlders

>>165972
>AI, third-worlders

More like:

¥Third-worlders with AI

"You may live to see AI generated horrors beyond your comprehension."

>>165958
The Japanese internet of the 1990s was incredibly S O V L F V L L, I remember spending nights on the webring rabbit holes, so many personal artist galleries and schizo horror pages that are forever lost. I wish I knew about 2hu then to see if there were any early PC-98 fans.

>>166221
And it still has soul, at least compared to the rest of the world. Last time I checked, they still prioritised text over images and there was a lot less whitespace.
>>166222
Nah, I don't think there will be blood today

Norms weren't built for the internet and smartphones gave them access to it. Even worse is that they try to take things seriously on a the internet, something that's only meant to be used to pass the time at home as entertainment. It's disruption of nature, plain and simple.

>>165928
>and i'm not just talking about the third world getting internet access

elaborate