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Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

RapturesoftheDeep posted:

I read the forums on occasion starting in 2000 they were mostly incomprehensible and stupid to me. They just seemed like a bunch of high school kids with Tourette's jabbering about video games and anime.

The very early forums were actually like this because the userbase was originally teenage, but we quickly matured past a lot of the memes we ended up pioneering. Legends have it, Lowtax made the fist Impact-font stroke-outline "meme" as we know it, because he was tired of his teenaged users constantly beating jokes like dead horses (he was in his 20's).

Things did change pretty fast though, and GBS had a few "versions" before arriving to this current one, which, yes, is actually GBS at its best.

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Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

TrashMammal posted:

the forums used to be embarrassing but now they’re merely shameful

You could say,

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
Comparing anything to the Coupons forum sets an unreasonably high standard...

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