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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon thinks it's too late (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lostmypasswordanew 63 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, but that was still before social media. As weird as it sounds, social media is probably more damaging than the early oughts shock sites

[–] MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yeah social media just adds so much undue mental pressure, especially the non-anonymous ones.

People are constantly seeing perfectly filtered and perfectly arranged photos of influencers apparently enjoying the perfect life and then comparing their own reality and feeling inadequate.

The FOMO pressure to be always available and seek validation via DMs, comments and likes.

The bombardment of political slop and seeing the opinions of every single fucker in the world and a few million bots about some mundane shit is bad for your mood.

Sending and receiving Goatse was just a tiny bit of fun in comparison.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

They killed the pro-ana site but replaced it with the mass normalization of lesser body image issues. Replaced stormfront with wide sharing of fascist talking points from people who wouldn’t call themselves national socialists. They sanitized the worst aspects of the old internet, but in trying to get people hooked they took a lot of the same things they sanitized and promoted versions that were palatable to the masses. They made an Internet that feels safe in the same way painkillers do.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

trueee, the closest i got to social media back then was a forum for a game i liked with less than 50 regular members