So I wonder, was SA actually that important, or is it just a certain subset of mostly white, mostly affluent people who came of age mostly on the internet who remember it that way, and have an outsized presence online waxing nostalgic about it?
@pettter Well, 4chan arguably was created because of SA, moot was an active user and would promote it on there, and the oddball humor on Twitter from dril for example also picked up speed on there - many prominent accounts claim to have started on a subforum there from what I can find. Slenderman also comes from SA.
Whether something originated from SA or not is somewhat irrelevant though, what matters more is what it cultivated and grew, that otherwise would've just been forgotten
@ChlorideCull I mean that's the question I'm asking, really - did (some/most/all) of those things actually come from SA, or did they just spread to there as well and people for whom SA was The Internet think that's where they started?
People who, for the most part, now instead treat Facebook/Reddit/Twitter as The Internet are in many cases making the same type of mistakes.