Does anyone else miss 2012?

It feels like it was the last year before shit started to get gradually gayer, more retarded, and more politicised. It was also the last year in which Any Forums was, overall, truly great and enjoyable. I wish so badly that I could wake up tomorrow and have it be 1st January 2012 again.

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I think people still had some sort of tiny lingering doubt that "maybe the world really will end when the Mayan calendar says" which kept them subconsciously on better behavior
Then when nothing happened, all hell broke loose

2005-2008 and 2011-2013 were the ideal years of my life. i would gladly go back

There is the theory that the world actually did end on 21st December 2012. But rather than it being apocalypse as in "fire and meteors raining down and destroying everything", it was apocalypse as in "the destruction of the old world, and the beginning of a new one". Everything feels completely different since 2013 onwards, like we don't even exist in the same world as we did before.

I mean the three things that were the final nails in the Any Forums coffin didn't occur until 2014 so....

After 2012 there was an absolute explosion in the number of users accessing Any Forums from a smartphone. There is a graph that shows this, but I don't have it saved unfortunately. Literally it gets to the end of 2012/beginning of 2013 and the number of phoneposters SHOOTS UP basically immediately. Before then, the vast majority of people browsing and posting on Any Forums were doing so from a desktop/laptop PC.

I don't doubt that, I'm just saying gamerg8, the fappening and moot leaving was the actual end.

In 2012 I was still in school so no I don't miss that fucking shit at all.

>In 2012 I was still in school
Fucking zoomer dog.

well user had moot not brought back the political board back Any Forums today would be more like that , basically a disinterested party mocking the political discourse outside of it,
but thats not the case now is it?

>well user had moot not brought back the political board back Any Forums today would be more like that

lol no, I don't know what would've happened to Any Forums if moot never brought it back but Any Forums would have no way in hell remained the same. Any Forums is not immune to entropy.

I think it was in 2012 that things really started to decline. Or maybe it was the last proper year, but I'd feel more secure in labeling 2011 as that.
It was in 2012 that I first started seeing SJWs, which are a large part of how things have declined.

That isn't true at all. Any Forums doesn't exist in a vacuum. The political extremist movements of both left and right that ruined the rest of the internet would have done so regardless of Any Forums's influence. SJWism came out of Tumblr for instance, and people also forget that Reddit used to be a hub for shit like the Red Pill movement, MGTOW, r/The_Donald and associated alt-right nonsense. So even without having Any Forums here, that shit from elsewhere would have had an impact on Any Forums culture inevitably.

And to be honest, even discounting political shit, unless you could somehow stop the massive increase in phoneposting as I said here there was going to be no possible way of stopping the general decrease in quality of posts and lack of OC from the mid-2010s onwards.

Another factor that people don't talk about enough is the increase in posters from third world countries. You notice it if you ever frequent flag boards like Any Forums or /sp/. The number of Brazilians, Mexicans, Indians, Middle Easterners, North Africans, etc who post here has reached fucking ridiculous levels. 2000s and early 2010s Any Forums was almost entirely a North American, British, and Western European userbase, with sprinklings of random Eastern Euros like Poles and Russians on some boards. In the mid-2010s all these shithole 3rd world countries started getting cheap internet access and smartphones, and that opened the floodgates to a whole lot of bullshit.

all i remember about 2012 was going home from school and playing 8 hours of roblox every single day and then sleeping

Yes, because you are a soulless zoomoid and you need to go back.

I do not remember any year past current.

Based honestly, I miss 2012 especially for some reason. I guess I was only 10 so maybe it's just nostalgia or something gay

People used to pine over the year 2007. Now we are pining over 2012? Someday people will pine over 2017.

2012 wasn't necessarily the peak, maybe 2007 was the best, but suppose 2012 was the last year before everything fell off a cliff, even if things had been in decline for a bit before.

Is there any reaon to pine over 2017? I think we may get people longing for 2019, the last year before everything changed, is there any reason to want 2017 over 2019?

2007 + 5 = 2012
2012 + 5 = 2017

That's why I picked 2017.

Same I had 2015 and 2022
2020 2021 were still dope because
Off corona Chan but it got ended too soon now were in the gay ukraine bullshit

2004-2010 was the only time of my life where everything wasn't dysfunctional like it is now. My life took a deep dive off a cliff in January 2011 (I was 12 about to turn 13 in March at the time). Ever since I have never been the same. I developed Schizoaffective Disorder (depressive type), severe stress, anxiety and panic problems resulting in poor health and physical problems with my heart, mania, anger problems and so on during that time. Things are starting to get better this year, but slowly. I would still say I'm in the worst period of my life that will sadly probably never end. I have to be constantly medicated after suffering through so much depression stacked on top of psychosis, mania, irate rage and stress/panic/anxiety to where I think I've developed PTSD. I suffered so much bullying, abuse and neglect by society at large and at home from my own family that I became a shut-in. My family never helped me get anywhere in life, they just wanted to drag me down to their level. All I can say is that I'm glad the worst is finally over after 11 years of hardcore suffering.

I still miss the '00s.