this happens all the fucking time on SMR. someone comes to a random conclusion or submits vague info, then the rest of the commenters just take it at face value and run with it. absolutely 0 interest in proof or even validating claims.
Considering SMR posted and has left up a post claiming a now deleted DR post about a friend of mine asking for them to be publicly executed was nothing but the truth and said friend whined like a bitch to get it taken down?
I skimmed the comm again and they're collectively losing their shit and purposely (?) missing the point of our now resolved thread, so there's really no helping them.
Considering making a SMR Wank Thread a new permanent thing on our posts lol.
(Especially since 90% of them are probably too young to have ever known LJ, hence why they can't even navigate ARR)
eh, i dont personally think it would be a good idea to give them more attention that way. SMR is pretty shitty in terms of how it handles discourse but i feel like having a dedicated thread to SMR drama would just incentivize pulling more annoying stuff here. if something really is the cream of the crop it'll end up here anyways.
First thing. Why is the icon here a sparksylph i got so confused
Tbh. As an SMR regular who had to figure out how to use dreamwidth. I’m kinda curious when the livejournal era ended because I also grew up on the beginnings of the internet. The golden age of neopets and club penguin, when there was still kid specific social spaces and everything wasn’t sanitized to just make everything count as kid friendly (despite the fact that kids under 13 probably shouldn’t be online unsupervised anyway. And in most cases arent even allowed to have accounts on these samitized social media).
But also, i never freaking did social stuff. So idk if it’s a case of I’m too young to have seen that or a case of i dont even use real social media or forums. The 4chan comparisons are really best left to the older comms though. Even then they’re probably a bit extreme because 4chan can be pretty bad.
i personally stopped using livejournal and started using tumblr full time for fandom stuff in 2011. i had noticed more and more people navigating over there so i followed along. i also started using twitter in that same time period.
AYRT hmm, yeah i would have been in my mid teens around then so by the time i was looking at sites for more than just flash games it was probably either dead or dying. I basically just started with Tumblr and stuck to it (other than discord). Guess I’m one of the people who’s too young instead of just someone who didn’t notice.
Still don’t really socialize on forums. Only started actually saying anything here recently too (i have however been reading the older comms, even if they can be painful to get through at times. A lot of the tumblr links are dead. Links to places like tinypic. Empty imgur links. And ofc the general vibes of the older comms are, ugh.)
A few of them are ex-catholics (by their own admission, oversharing in fr drama replies lol) but don't realize they still have the same mannerisms and principles they condemn. It's always "good or bad" thinking with no nuance, always trying to make problems out of nothing to crusade about. I think many SMR regulars take the drama too seriously when most of the time it's a circus sideshow not a legal trial.
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anonrerising2022-08-02 07:34 pm
Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-01 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-01 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)SMR needs to get over themselves.
Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-01 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
Considering making a SMR Wank Thread a new permanent thing on our posts lol.
(Especially since 90% of them are probably too young to have ever known LJ, hence why they can't even navigate ARR)
Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-01 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-04 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)Tbh. As an SMR regular who had to figure out how to use dreamwidth. I’m kinda curious when the livejournal era ended because I also grew up on the beginnings of the internet. The golden age of neopets and club penguin, when there was still kid specific social spaces and everything wasn’t sanitized to just make everything count as kid friendly (despite the fact that kids under 13 probably shouldn’t be online unsupervised anyway. And in most cases arent even allowed to have accounts on these samitized social media).
But also, i never freaking did social stuff. So idk if it’s a case of I’m too young to have seen that or a case of i dont even use real social media or forums. The 4chan comparisons are really best left to the older comms though. Even then they’re probably a bit extreme because 4chan can be pretty bad.
Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-04 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-05 12:00 am (UTC)(link)hmm, yeah i would have been in my mid teens around then so by the time i was looking at sites for more than just flash games it was probably either dead or dying. I basically just started with Tumblr and stuck to it (other than discord). Guess I’m one of the people who’s too young instead of just someone who didn’t notice.
Still don’t really socialize on forums. Only started actually saying anything here recently too (i have however been reading the older comms, even if they can be painful to get through at times. A lot of the tumblr links are dead. Links to places like tinypic. Empty imgur links. And ofc the general vibes of the older comms are, ugh.)
Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-02 04:35 am (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-02 05:18 am (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-02 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-02 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)Re: https://imgur.com/a/rxOEzFb
(Anonymous) 2022-09-02 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)And because we can use it, we must be amazing hackers. *Facepalm*