/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>1903455
I'm one of those oldfags that references those times way too often because I miss it so much, and it makes me feel out of place these days. Things were so fun back then just having fun and shitposting before political tourists took over. Even the political shitposting back then was way more lighthearted and silly. Commies and Nazis would joke with eachother and have fun banter instead of getting irrationally angry and taking shit personally. If anything maybe the fact /b/ was nothing but cp spam back then filtered out all the actual normies that came in after and ruined things.

>>1903549
I don't think it's wrong to feel nostalgia or romanticism towards those old times. Back then a lot of us felt nostalgia towards the 80's and 90's internet when everything was on Usenet and IRC and websites had 0 security so hacking was rampant. Anime like Lain are explicitly popular because of the faux-nostalgia factor and how they reference ideals and philosophical discussions that were relevant to their time but make those of us living in the present feel like we missed out on those discussions. At this point I look at newfags who repost Welcome to the NHK as a deep philosophical anime and it feels very similar. Like the whole discussion and culture around NEETs that was relevant back then has been sort of lost to time as general society has ostracized them to a small corner of the internet, and many of them are pining for how things were back in the day when NEETs ran the internet and could freely talk about their issues without getting called incels or told to take meds and get a job.

Part of what makes Beatani so charming is that she often references stuff from this old era of the internet that makes me instantly love her as a fellow oldfag. Even if she herself probably is only referencing it similarly to you, as someone who slightly missed out but is romanticizing it, it's like the way a grandpa gets ecstatic when their grandchildren ask them to tell stories about the past, like their experiences are valued and respected by the new generation.