A continuation of this series.
I'm gonna keep going until I hit when most people stop remembering.
As far as cuckedness, 2018 was a rough year. That whole #MeToo thing started late in 2017, seeding the theme for what 2018 would be like. 2018 was also, I think, the height of the "Incel Scare." There's a handful of major periods on the incel community timeline. There's when r/incels was big enough to worry about, there's when r/Braincels was taken down, there's the BLM culling of the subreddits in 2020, and I think it's important to be able to say where you were during each of those times. But 2018 I think saw the most actual chatter about incels, especially in mainstream media. Because 2018 was also the year of Alek Minassian's Toronto Van attack.
And where was I when it happened? I hadn't joined the forum yet. But I soon would, because of this very attack. I was still mostly on Reddit, my "incel" spot was r/ForeverAlone. But I discovered just how cruel they can be on r/ForeverAlone and I decided to hang out there a little less.
2018 was the year Tumblr "died," I think. Today we talk about Twitter and Reddit being the havens for SJWs. But in Tumblr's heyday, they were the one home for SJWs. And with Tumblr dying, I think that's why 2018 seemed to have a spread of SJW-ness to Twitter and Reddit. Tumblr was dying, and the vermin were spreading out. If it wasn't Tumblr changing management hands that did it, it was certainly the "No Porn Allowed" rule by the end of the year. So while I wasn't sad to see Tumblr go, I was sad to see it infect the rest of the Internet.
It's after Labor Day now, and after Labor Day I like to look for seasonal content to enjoy. Like maybe a "Countdown to Halloween" stream on YouTube I can hang out in. But I couldn't find one. I think 2018 was the last year I could find stuff like that. Special holiday/seasonal uploads from YouTube channels and stuff, or seasonal streams/radio channels. 2018 was also the year I decided to try and ascend by going to a Halloween fetish party.
It didn't work. Which reminds me, 2018 was the year of that god awful Bowsette fad.
I'm into prank calls, both soundboard and otherwise. @fred_herbert would understand. But early 2018 saw the sharp decline of the prank call community, because the real Fred Herbert died on February 24th of that year. Also dying this year? Musical.ly. Only to be reborn as TikTok. And obviously it took off. Nyannyancosplay seems like a million years ago. How are we already oversaturated with TikTok?
Video games making news in 2018? Detroit: Become Human, and 2018's God of War. The Five Nights at Freddy's fandom was entering its winter. Undertale was the new hotness, and it was only getting hotter with Undertale 2. Five Night's at Freddy's was reaching "Wasn't this series supposed to be finished by now?" stages.
Years from now, what am I likely to look back at 2018 and remember? Probably my time spent here on Incels.whatever. Like when @K.Y.Vocel supposedly admitted to being a woman and the thread went crazy. I saw our true nature that night.
I'm gonna keep going until I hit when most people stop remembering.
As far as cuckedness, 2018 was a rough year. That whole #MeToo thing started late in 2017, seeding the theme for what 2018 would be like. 2018 was also, I think, the height of the "Incel Scare." There's a handful of major periods on the incel community timeline. There's when r/incels was big enough to worry about, there's when r/Braincels was taken down, there's the BLM culling of the subreddits in 2020, and I think it's important to be able to say where you were during each of those times. But 2018 I think saw the most actual chatter about incels, especially in mainstream media. Because 2018 was also the year of Alek Minassian's Toronto Van attack.
And where was I when it happened? I hadn't joined the forum yet. But I soon would, because of this very attack. I was still mostly on Reddit, my "incel" spot was r/ForeverAlone. But I discovered just how cruel they can be on r/ForeverAlone and I decided to hang out there a little less.
2018 was the year Tumblr "died," I think. Today we talk about Twitter and Reddit being the havens for SJWs. But in Tumblr's heyday, they were the one home for SJWs. And with Tumblr dying, I think that's why 2018 seemed to have a spread of SJW-ness to Twitter and Reddit. Tumblr was dying, and the vermin were spreading out. If it wasn't Tumblr changing management hands that did it, it was certainly the "No Porn Allowed" rule by the end of the year. So while I wasn't sad to see Tumblr go, I was sad to see it infect the rest of the Internet.
It's after Labor Day now, and after Labor Day I like to look for seasonal content to enjoy. Like maybe a "Countdown to Halloween" stream on YouTube I can hang out in. But I couldn't find one. I think 2018 was the last year I could find stuff like that. Special holiday/seasonal uploads from YouTube channels and stuff, or seasonal streams/radio channels. 2018 was also the year I decided to try and ascend by going to a Halloween fetish party.
It didn't work. Which reminds me, 2018 was the year of that god awful Bowsette fad.
I'm into prank calls, both soundboard and otherwise. @fred_herbert would understand. But early 2018 saw the sharp decline of the prank call community, because the real Fred Herbert died on February 24th of that year. Also dying this year? Musical.ly. Only to be reborn as TikTok. And obviously it took off. Nyannyancosplay seems like a million years ago. How are we already oversaturated with TikTok?
Video games making news in 2018? Detroit: Become Human, and 2018's God of War. The Five Nights at Freddy's fandom was entering its winter. Undertale was the new hotness, and it was only getting hotter with Undertale 2. Five Night's at Freddy's was reaching "Wasn't this series supposed to be finished by now?" stages.
Years from now, what am I likely to look back at 2018 and remember? Probably my time spent here on Incels.whatever. Like when @K.Y.Vocel supposedly admitted to being a woman and the thread went crazy. I saw our true nature that night.
