PSA: Digging up my old anime forum posts hit different

Scrolled through my account from like 2008. People wrote whole essays on character arcs. Now it's just gifs and one-word replies. Felt kinda lonely seeing those deep chats buried.

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ellis.uma6mo ago

I read a piece last year about how the MyAnimeList episode discussion threads for Haruhi in 2006 would get hundreds of replies dissecting the time loop mechanics. People wrote actual paragraphs trying to map out the chronology. Now you see a new episode thread and half the comments are just YouTube links to a funny scene with no text. The depth is totally gone, it's just reaction content.

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fiona1866mo ago

I was just on the Anime Suki suggestion board from around 2006. You would get these massive, multi-page threads debating a single plot point in a series like Ghost in the Shell. Now I check the same forum and a lot of threads are just image replies or "this." It makes those old pages feel like a library that nobody goes to anymore. There was a real sense you were talking to people who cared about the story as much as you did. The silence now is just different.

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abby9266mo ago

Back then, forums were like book clubs for nerds who actually read the book. Now it's more like a meme dump where everyone just points at the shiny pictures. No wonder those old threads feel like ghost towns now.

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