Just found out about this whole "community" while making a neocities of my own recently. I was shocked at how infected it was with this shit. It's literally inescapable.

Part of the appeal of old internet to me was that all this nonsense didn't exist. Yes, I love the shitty, tacky aesthetics. But it was way more open. People always lament about the wild west of the internet without realizing that they are the ones preventing that with their attempts at censorship and controlling speech that they deem not progressive enough. Yes there were small crazy communities but this restrictive nonsense where you get ostracized for not going along with it did not exist, and that's part of what made it superior to the modern internet.

I'm being extremely autistic about this but idk it makes me MATI. They have no real appreciation for the old internet. They cry about how evil and bigoted the real thing was because people weren't sucking troon cock back then. What's the point of bringing the the old internet back if you put one of the biggest problems with the modern internet into it? It's not authentic or comparable to the real thing at all. It's just troon virtue signaling with a geocities-themed coat of paint. A completely shallow, hollow imitation. That's what pisses me off the most.

It's another thing troons have co-opted and ruined. 2000s art styles, internet, fashion have a special place in my heart. But it's been completely infected by this nonsense to the point where you can't avoid it if you want to participate. And again, they don't even really seem to appreciate it for what it actually was, just use the old aesthetic with their modern sensibilities while talking badly about the era itself for how problematic it was.