-YouTube ads became more frequent.
-Musically turned into Tik ToK
-Instagram added videos and stories, and people started posting more performative content instead of random fun things in front of them. Instagram also took the feature away where you could see what your friends were liking and commenting on.
-BBLs became more prevalent, so women started photo warping their images more frequently to have a snatched waist and thick thighs.
-Fashionnova
-Vine shut down
-Mr. Beast became popular (I don’t trust him.)
-Memes became more main stream. Before a memes life span was months or years. Now people forget about a meme after 6 days.
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Did it go downhill or did you just grow up
Okay so there’s something called causation vs correlation, maybe take a look at it
idk what this has to do with harambe lmao but anyways i agree, new social media is so boring. nobody has fun anymore. 2013-2017 internet was peak
It went downhill after private equity took over in 2012
Dicks out for Harambe.
Who is Harambe?
lol it stated to suck when our parents got on it around 2007
I too think Harambe’s death and Mr. Beast’s rise are suspiciously related.
How can something that started in the bowels of hell go any further downhill?
Everything did
This makes no sense
Everything has been downhill since harambe died
Dicks out for Harambe, boys.
I don’t think this is unpopular at all. Most of internet culture acknowledges that the killing of Harambe irreversibly split the timelines (again) and we are now, for sure, living in the darkest one.
Correlation doesn’t mean causation
Dicks out forever
Everything went down hill after Harambe’s murder.
The real turning point was Boaty McBoatface. Combined with the very real hostile takeover of GOP taking place at the time and very real rejection by DNC of a class conscious based coalition, peoples brains got fried about what social media could and couldnt do- and many unable to separate truth from fiction, and online activism from nonsense.
Boaty McBoatface was a symptom of deep and unresolved issues and anomie within the western world. We all suffer still because of a joke that failed to even get its facts straight- they were naming a ship!
Oh don’t worry, I’ll go ahead and add the most important change:
Hoards of red pill men started attacking women left and right on every corner of the internet, making it difficult for them to simply exist.
I don’t get Mr beast hate. “I don’t trust him”. He’s quite literally directly changed thousands of people’s lives, smh
Man people really feel like BBLs attacked them personally lol
I agree with the other points for this theory I just always feel like the BBL thing has no real effect on any human that’s actively complaining
This was literally a popular trend for years, you’re extremely late to the party my guy. Doesn’t deserve to be in unpopular opinions.
Harambe dying has nothing to do with social media sucking. Monetization does.
Harambe post in 2025. Thanks for adding to the problem
Dang just say 2016
Common knowledge. Also, now there’s racism.
Do you think internet culture and social media when everyone was talking about bacon and pirates?
r/popularopinion
Not “when” he died, but BECAUSE he died. Whats left without Harambe? RIP
I assume bots got stronger, killed the vibes, like they did with Harambe
No, it went downhill when technology got better.
I think technology should’ve peaked in the 2000s era, not too smart, but enough.
I’m not sure this is the exact moment but i don’t think you’re far off either
Harambe was the straw the broke the camels back.
Harambe’s death really broke a lot of people. It showed a sheltered generation just how dark and cruel and unfair the world really was and rather than accept and confront that darkness they turned to the internet.