I met so many great people on internet forums and kept in touch for years with many of them, met up in person several times
the internet is so fucking bad right now. I want my friends back.
https://i.imgur.com/jDpsY1r.png
nothing, SwoleShack is as gay now as it was a decade ago
The furthest I can think back of having knowledge of SwoleShack's existence was like 2007 I think and I always thought of it as a "normie" (didn't use that term but that's the sentiment I had) place, kinda like somethingawful was compared to the small forums I used to frequent. I even had my own forum called TH that was pretty successful for a few years.
https://i.imgur.com/k2eYtOW.png
I'm so tired of people calling literally everything a "community".
I mean, homosexuals liking Jap cartoons doesn't make them part of a "community". That's just consuming media. It's not a hobby, nor a shared place you live or anything.
Cry about it porn addict retard. We told you this would happen and you all called us /misc/tard reddit insert buzzwords here
I miss Lookism.net, it was blackpilled on every topic, populated by millennials and most of the frequent posters were slayers. Looksmax.org is filled with literal children like 14 year olds and isn't anywhere near as funny.
Sorry, I should have been more specific for the terminally autistic that post here like yourself. I was referring to individually operated community forums that used to be commonplace on the internet. They used third party platforms like vbulletin, member counts in the hundreds to low thousands, a shared board culture, identifiable users, sense of community, etc.
>vbulletin
I miss vbulletin and phpBB boards so fucking much
why do normalfags have to ruin everything they touch. how is it even possible to ruin the entire internet? fucking inconceivable that this shit happened
The furthest I can think back of having knowledge of SwoleShack's existence was like 2007 I think and I always thought of it as a "normie" (didn't use that term but that's the sentiment I had) place, kinda like somethingawful was compared to the small forums I used to frequent. I even had my own forum called TH that was pretty successful for a few years.
>vbulletin
I miss vbulletin and phpBB boards so fucking much
why do normalfags have to ruin everything they touch. how is it even possible to ruin the entire internet? fucking inconceivable that this shit happened
these boards still exist, just like back in the days. you are just to lazy to check them out
very traumatizing. I fucked a 40 year old when I was 23 and her pussy was amazing. I also dated one of those Ukrainian refugee girls for almost a year. She was 24 and her pussy was so damn busted. Lips hanging out and it felt like I was spelunking in a cave fingering her. it was extremely disappointing.
cutybe still exists, I get that its not the same but still good enough for me, just avoid the "video game room", its literally there just so the mods can power trip on random users
It's genuinely a crime what happened to the internet in the past 15 years, it was so much more social back then, before everyone just started interacting with abstract communities mediated by politics and memes. I don't hear about people making friends organically all the time as we did posting in forums or playing online games.
I'm so tired of people calling literally everything a "community".
I mean, homosexuals liking Jap cartoons doesn't make them part of a "community". That's just consuming media. It's not a hobby, nor a shared place you live or anything.
People can and do form communities around those topics, but that doesn't mean that everyone who comsooms [topic] is automatically part of a community. But if a bunch of people go out of their way to form groups, have discussions and share their interests with each other then their little group becomes a community
The infamous bb misc was so much fun lads. Rep and post history made interaction much more complete and genuine than SwoleShack although both had a purpose. I would laugh out loud (in the literal sense) all the time. People are/were so funny. I still laugh at a post title I saw literally a decade ago. >Should I go to the waterpark with 5 Indians tomorrow? (srs)
Hilarious.
To answer your question, women ruined it. Not the women involved in the community back then, but when social media made working out a conduit for attention, the number of girls who lift exploded.
How many girls on IG just happen to "lift, bro", like anime(?), wear "pump covers" and full makeup to the gym? Literally millions, because they're clones.
>The infamous bb misc was so much fun lads
The majority of offtopic boards were fun back in the mid to late 00s. Started going downhill quick during Obama's second term.
Two factors combined: > LULZ reach out backfired, we managed to get them interested in (physical) self improvement but the self loathing and the entitlement mindsets remain > For various reasons /misc/ grew exponentially and stopped being ironic and leaked into SwoleShack.
Thot posting used to elicit “LONDON” or “BRAAAAAP” and now it gets “I hate women they should be banned from the gym”
And we have too many users following meme diets and routines because are “white/right wing/troll leftists”
>Thot posting used to elicit “LONDON” or “BRAAAAAP” and now it gets “I hate women they should be banned from the gym”
A novelty can be joked about, it can be accepted. When they outnumber you in your own spaces it begins to grate on the nerves
I remember when deadlifts were considered bad and no one did them. Anyone here remember brooks kubricks and dino training? Hard to believe that it was revolutionary at the time
>I remember when deadlifts were considered bad and no one did them
are you sure you mean SwoleShack?
squats and deadlifts have been shilled here since I remember, it's only recently when some people finally realized they could avoid having busted back by the time they were 30 moods are kinda changing, but most people are still brainwashed into doing or at least trying to do powerlifting
i miss when the gym was a niche thing to do, old SwoleShack, old misc, pre instagram, pre tiktoks kids and clout chasing girls, you used to know everyone in the gym and chat
Internet anonymity used to give people the confidence to goof off and not take themselves seriously. That was the case for people who were properly socially developed, untainted by unlimited internet access from a young age. Now a significant amount of people who frequent the internet have been raised entirely through screens and they are terribly insecure because they cannot possibly live up to the insurmountable expectations they've put on themselves due to the "follower" arms race that is social media.
Everyone is so serious, myopic and unauthentic online nowadays. People rarely have actual discourse and conversation because they're so desperate for validation and thus too afraid because someone might not agree with them.
It's why zoomer slang is extremely reductionist and vague and why they just parrot the same few phrases. It's socially safe to use because it's already preapproved language.
SwoleShack culture is just as bad in this regard as the rest of the internet. Possibly worse. >cope >seethe >dialate >based >normie
All fine in their own context tbh, but overused to the point where they're meaningless reflexive buzzwords.
>Have an open community >Everybody does irreverent humor >Lots of laughs >Someone steals a skull from the catacombs in France and sticks their dick in it with a timestamp >Give people the best advice possible and brutally honest opinions
BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM EVERY TIME
>The nazis show up >The lax moderation culture doesn't do anything about it >Suddenly Calvanist philosophy follows >There are the chosen and rejects/Chads and incels >There's no point in lifting >What about the parts of my life I can't control? >My wrists, my skin, my canthal tilt, country of origin, etc. >WoW players turned ravers are just mindless druggies with nothing good to say >That embarrassing time you tried to talk to girls is actually indicative of something wrong with you and Chad never deals with it >MORE SHAME THAN IF YOU JUST TRIED TO HUNG OUT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO BULLIED YOU ORIGINALLY THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE
I wouldn't want to meet any of you. This is the shit that happens when you tolerate intolerance. It doesn't even mean you have to be an inclusive space where you're never racist. It just means you can't advocate for literal Nazism.
>you cant advocate for literal nazism
Go back. I've been here since 2010 and its been on the board since and prior to then. Frankly, if you exist in any western country as a white man and don't at least have vague fondness towards it then you're either pathetically spineless or deliberately ignorant. Really the more I lift the angrier I get at the current state of things. If you're not white your opinion doesn't matter.
I've noticed a lot of nostalgia posting for 2012-2016 lately. Is this from millennials turning 30 and in turn being mogged into annihilation by zoomers?
>What went wrong?
Nothing went wrong, because nothing was ever right to begin with. I love the gym, the science behind muscle growth, looking good and most importantly feeling strong and healthy.
And that's it. Outside of the weights, the exercises and the lessons learned, there is nothing but a cancerous sub-culture of narcissistic, delusional and often mentally ill retards. Anf that was always the case, with Arnold being the biggest homosexual ever, a man of theatrics who turned the gym into a convention center for retards back in the early 70s.
Despite the fact that physical activities make up most of my life, I rarely come to fit. Or watch videos of "fitness influencers", unless there's actual data and other science and biomechanics-related stuff that could be interesting.
Because you're awful people. Muh grills, muh this, muh gainz, muh e-celeb flavor of the week influencer, muh that. Pitiful humour, unfunny memes, trite bot-esque questions, abysmal understanding of the activities that make you so proud. Even during the Scooby and Zyzz era this place was shit. I know, I was there, unlike 90% of the users now.
It's very painful for me that my passion is shared by individuals like SwoleShack posters. Although to be fair here, it's shit everywhere. Modern social media just destroyed gym culture for me.
I blame zoomers for this, for the downfall of SwoleShack, the internet, gym culture, for everything. They are the boomers of the XXI Century, braindead zombies.
>I blame zoomers for this, for the downfall of SwoleShack, the internet, gym culture, for everything. They are the boomers of the XXI Century, braindead zombies.
I don't even have to agree with the rest of your post, but this is the truth.
I can't believe I stayed in during my formative years to shitpost in SwoleShack
Cry about it porn addict retard. We told you this would happen and you all called us /misc/tard reddit insert buzzwords here
SIR was right to leave
/pol/tards are just as much part of the problem as LULZcels and discord trannies
All /misc/ did was say the quiet part out loud
It's your fault for not filtering and ignoring for 15 years
not enough gatekeeping
One by one, all the containment zones (Bodybuilding.com, Reddit) fell until we ended up becoming the containment zones
I just want forums back
I met so many great people on internet forums and kept in touch for years with many of them, met up in person several times
the internet is so fucking bad right now. I want my friends back.
I miss Lookism.net, it was blackpilled on every topic, populated by millennials and most of the frequent posters were slayers. Looksmax.org is filled with literal children like 14 year olds and isn't anywhere near as funny.
Go back homosexual
just have a nice day homosexual
Forums were so much better than SwoleShack/reddit/etc
SwoleShack and reddit are forums
Sorry, I should have been more specific for the terminally autistic that post here like yourself. I was referring to individually operated community forums that used to be commonplace on the internet. They used third party platforms like vbulletin, member counts in the hundreds to low thousands, a shared board culture, identifiable users, sense of community, etc.
homosexual
Incel
>vbulletin
I miss vbulletin and phpBB boards so fucking much
why do normalfags have to ruin everything they touch. how is it even possible to ruin the entire internet? fucking inconceivable that this shit happened
The furthest I can think back of having knowledge of SwoleShack's existence was like 2007 I think and I always thought of it as a "normie" (didn't use that term but that's the sentiment I had) place, kinda like somethingawful was compared to the small forums I used to frequent. I even had my own forum called TH that was pretty successful for a few years.
A metal forum by chance?
i remember your forum being filled with many gays
>terminally autistic
wat
anyway yeah I used to use those. still do, really. SwoleShack is still a forum as well as being social media
these boards still exist, just like back in the days. you are just to lazy to check them out
This and, for me, Synchtube.
holy fuck you got any more of those?
how this, on my HD since 2014
very traumatizing. I fucked a 40 year old when I was 23 and her pussy was amazing. I also dated one of those Ukrainian refugee girls for almost a year. She was 24 and her pussy was so damn busted. Lips hanging out and it felt like I was spelunking in a cave fingering her. it was extremely disappointing.
i have a 46 yo fwb now and it's the best sex i've ever had
>should I let things cool off for a bit and call her back
Kek
cutybe still exists, I get that its not the same but still good enough for me, just avoid the "video game room", its literally there just so the mods can power trip on random users
It's genuinely a crime what happened to the internet in the past 15 years, it was so much more social back then, before everyone just started interacting with abstract communities mediated by politics and memes. I don't hear about people making friends organically all the time as we did posting in forums or playing online games.
2012 is rookie shit. I remember chatting with Harsh about megadosing Vit D back in 2008. It was so funny back then lads.
nothing, SwoleShack is as gay now as it was a decade ago
Nice glutes bro. Mirin
"fitness community"
lol
lmao
Fucking dumb cunt
I'm so tired of people calling literally everything a "community".
I mean, homosexuals liking Jap cartoons doesn't make them part of a "community". That's just consuming media. It's not a hobby, nor a shared place you live or anything.
frogcommunity, our response?
Where there is frens, there is community
hear, hear.
Hi frog frens!
We're a special exception
People can and do form communities around those topics, but that doesn't mean that everyone who comsooms [topic] is automatically part of a community. But if a bunch of people go out of their way to form groups, have discussions and share their interests with each other then their little group becomes a community
>pepe reaction image
>absolutely atrocious post
Checks out.
>CHADpe the Frog, ICON of 4chad
>Groundbreaking post for the ages
Checks out.
The infamous bb misc was so much fun lads. Rep and post history made interaction much more complete and genuine than SwoleShack although both had a purpose. I would laugh out loud (in the literal sense) all the time. People are/were so funny. I still laugh at a post title I saw literally a decade ago.
>Should I go to the waterpark with 5 Indians tomorrow? (srs)
Hilarious.
To answer your question, women ruined it. Not the women involved in the community back then, but when social media made working out a conduit for attention, the number of girls who lift exploded.
How many girls on IG just happen to "lift, bro", like anime(?), wear "pump covers" and full makeup to the gym? Literally millions, because they're clones.
I think women have always ruined fitness even back then. Pretty much the result of elites pushing feminism onto the masses
>The infamous bb misc was so much fun lads
The majority of offtopic boards were fun back in the mid to late 00s. Started going downhill quick during Obama's second term.
Two factors combined:
> LULZ reach out backfired, we managed to get them interested in (physical) self improvement but the self loathing and the entitlement mindsets remain
> For various reasons /misc/ grew exponentially and stopped being ironic and leaked into SwoleShack.
Thot posting used to elicit “LONDON” or “BRAAAAAP” and now it gets “I hate women they should be banned from the gym”
And we have too many users following meme diets and routines because are “white/right wing/troll leftists”
>Thot posting used to elicit “LONDON” or “BRAAAAAP” and now it gets “I hate women they should be banned from the gym”
A novelty can be joked about, it can be accepted. When they outnumber you in your own spaces it begins to grate on the nerves
Fuck off idiot.
/LULZ/loser or /misc/tard?
Oooh, someone touched a nerve hehe
Absolutely correct
Gtfo pol9kcel
>What went wrong?
zoomers
tfw
09-14 really, things got pretty shit by 2016. This board was unusable by '18
It has literally nothing to do with how IT was and everything to do with how YOU were
Zyzz died
The closing of World Gym Delray was the official end of the golden ear of the fitness community.
I remember when deadlifts were considered bad and no one did them. Anyone here remember brooks kubricks and dino training? Hard to believe that it was revolutionary at the time
>I remember when deadlifts were considered bad and no one did them
are you sure you mean SwoleShack?
squats and deadlifts have been shilled here since I remember, it's only recently when some people finally realized they could avoid having busted back by the time they were 30 moods are kinda changing, but most people are still brainwashed into doing or at least trying to do powerlifting
Sorry, I mean pre-SwoleShack internet fitness. More like late 90s early 2000s. Back when everyone did brosplits from m&f and flex magazine
I kept getting banned from forums. Fuck forums
i miss when the gym was a niche thing to do, old SwoleShack, old misc, pre instagram, pre tiktoks kids and clout chasing girls, you used to know everyone in the gym and chat
yeah brother I remember those days
You could go suck cock in the locker room and no one even thought twice about it. Too much bullshit to deal with nowadays
I miss SIR's new years comics tbh, was a nice recap of all the shit over the year
Did anything happen this year? I can't think of anything worthwhile
No, it's all Sam Sulek threads, race baiting, demoralization, and is X good for you/will X get me laid. It's really shit this year.
the /fig/ arc was a bit entertaining, if only since it exposed just how many bitter virgin/incels who don't lift have infested this board
trip on goburina
I was more referring to the blonde
You homosexuals know we've moved to a different image board, right? I won't post link but if you're actually og you can easily find it
One of the other chans?
Internet anonymity used to give people the confidence to goof off and not take themselves seriously. That was the case for people who were properly socially developed, untainted by unlimited internet access from a young age. Now a significant amount of people who frequent the internet have been raised entirely through screens and they are terribly insecure because they cannot possibly live up to the insurmountable expectations they've put on themselves due to the "follower" arms race that is social media.
Everyone is so serious, myopic and unauthentic online nowadays. People rarely have actual discourse and conversation because they're so desperate for validation and thus too afraid because someone might not agree with them.
It's why zoomer slang is extremely reductionist and vague and why they just parrot the same few phrases. It's socially safe to use because it's already preapproved language.
SwoleShack culture is just as bad in this regard as the rest of the internet. Possibly worse.
>cope
>seethe
>dialate
>based
>normie
All fine in their own context tbh, but overused to the point where they're meaningless reflexive buzzwords.
anon... That IS part of the zoomer slangs nowadays...
Bro I just miss the delray missfits
Big lenny and jannoy
it cold...
big lenny has his own channel
jannoy may be coming back. He still lifts occasionally.
>Have an open community
>Everybody does irreverent humor
>Lots of laughs
>Someone steals a skull from the catacombs in France and sticks their dick in it with a timestamp
>Give people the best advice possible and brutally honest opinions
BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM EVERY TIME
>The nazis show up
>The lax moderation culture doesn't do anything about it
>Suddenly Calvanist philosophy follows
>There are the chosen and rejects/Chads and incels
>There's no point in lifting
>What about the parts of my life I can't control?
>My wrists, my skin, my canthal tilt, country of origin, etc.
>WoW players turned ravers are just mindless druggies with nothing good to say
>That embarrassing time you tried to talk to girls is actually indicative of something wrong with you and Chad never deals with it
>MORE SHAME THAN IF YOU JUST TRIED TO HUNG OUT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO BULLIED YOU ORIGINALLY THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE
I wouldn't want to meet any of you. This is the shit that happens when you tolerate intolerance. It doesn't even mean you have to be an inclusive space where you're never racist. It just means you can't advocate for literal Nazism.
but if I don't blame the israelite then it's all my fault, FUCK THAT
>you cant advocate for literal nazism
Go back. I've been here since 2010 and its been on the board since and prior to then. Frankly, if you exist in any western country as a white man and don't at least have vague fondness towards it then you're either pathetically spineless or deliberately ignorant. Really the more I lift the angrier I get at the current state of things. If you're not white your opinion doesn't matter.
>I wouldn't want to meet any of you.
I don't understand this complaining but lingering. If you don't like it here, leave
>come to anonymous bangladeshian mountaineers posting repository
>expect to meet people in real life from it
I've noticed a lot of nostalgia posting for 2012-2016 lately. Is this from millennials turning 30 and in turn being mogged into annihilation by zoomers?
Reddit tourists that overstayed their welcome (read: were never welcome)
owari da
>What went wrong?
Nothing went wrong, because nothing was ever right to begin with. I love the gym, the science behind muscle growth, looking good and most importantly feeling strong and healthy.
And that's it. Outside of the weights, the exercises and the lessons learned, there is nothing but a cancerous sub-culture of narcissistic, delusional and often mentally ill retards. Anf that was always the case, with Arnold being the biggest homosexual ever, a man of theatrics who turned the gym into a convention center for retards back in the early 70s.
Despite the fact that physical activities make up most of my life, I rarely come to fit. Or watch videos of "fitness influencers", unless there's actual data and other science and biomechanics-related stuff that could be interesting.
Because you're awful people. Muh grills, muh this, muh gainz, muh e-celeb flavor of the week influencer, muh that. Pitiful humour, unfunny memes, trite bot-esque questions, abysmal understanding of the activities that make you so proud. Even during the Scooby and Zyzz era this place was shit. I know, I was there, unlike 90% of the users now.
It's very painful for me that my passion is shared by individuals like SwoleShack posters. Although to be fair here, it's shit everywhere. Modern social media just destroyed gym culture for me.
I blame zoomers for this, for the downfall of SwoleShack, the internet, gym culture, for everything. They are the boomers of the XXI Century, braindead zombies.
you don't even lift homosexual
>I blame zoomers for this, for the downfall of SwoleShack, the internet, gym culture, for everything. They are the boomers of the XXI Century, braindead zombies.
I don't even have to agree with the rest of your post, but this is the truth.