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180 I think the 4 eras are 1. PR-2008, the Poetic Dre...
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To be fair, I don't remember you
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this seems like a fair way to divide it. at least for my pa...
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I think I'd probably do like Pre-2008: PR / Mythical Time...
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I agree with this but I feel like ITE and Obama Term II were...
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Interesting write-up thank you. Do you think the optimism c...
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I think we can make a difference this very year.
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2006 had earnest young intelligent faggots who thought they ...
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'09-'10 had its own crew too.
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Date: January 24th, 2023 11:04 PM
Author: Curious parlor



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Date: January 24th, 2023 11:05 PM
Author: Ivory vigorous abode



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Date: January 25th, 2023 4:50 PM
Author: Curious parlor



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:01 PM
Author: swashbuckling sticky marketing idea

Heh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841224)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:04 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

it's a little staggering how different the 2006, 2012, and 2020 crews were. i don't think any of us would still be here if we didn't like the feeling of an absolute thunderdome as an oasis in a world of milquetoast bullshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841239)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:05 PM
Author: swashbuckling sticky marketing idea

tp.

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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:17 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:53 PM
Author: lilac talented ticket booth background story



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Date: January 25th, 2023 11:00 PM
Author: thirsty business firm



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Date: April 20th, 2023 2:02 AM
Author: Seedy tantric school coldplay fan



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:07 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

Please provide a high-level precis describing the '06 vs. '12 vs. '20 crews. Thanks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841257)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:16 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

i wasn't here for '06, but from doing my DUE DILIGENCE as a young poaster: there were a lot more law and law school threads, niggerthreading was still very experimental and bizarre, and generally threads were less likely to get nearly as many poasts as some do now. some classic threads were 30-something poasts. there are some old timers still here, but the cast of characters were different, and a lot of people seem to have changed. petro is probably my all-time favorite poaster, even though we only overlapped for maybe a few years, but i doubt we'll see the likes of him again. less despair too. there was more optimism, hence why someone like HAHAURFUCKT was edgy. that wouldn't be edgy at all now. we all know we're fucked.

'12 the economy had really started to come back. hiring freezes were over, and poasters tended to be happier. MFH v. chicago was still a pressing concern, and there were fun, weird schticks like "hey bros it's me again" that made most of us laugh our asses off after a while. there were still earnest poasters like even mountain dood, who ended up being a little nuts. we could talk about anything, yet a lot of us chose to talk to midnight cowboy about our breakfast every morning. it was an optimistic time after a dark one.

we (broadly, precis requires generalizations) learned that politics are bullshit in 2014, and grew into increasing cynicism. enthusiasm for trump was high for most of his first term, but nothing happened. by '20, a deep cynicism set in. many had become much more internet and even more ironic too in some ways. most youthful glimmers of hope were so long gone that i'm guessing many can't even remember them. law is bullshit, investing is bullshit, any form of governmental intervention is bullshit, medicine is bullshit, and god help you if you plan to buy real estate ITE2. we're all older, too, which both increases to the detachment and the cynicism, i think.

that's my summary at least. someone can probably correct me on the earlier years or poke fun at how beloved the WHOOSH refrigerator thread was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841325)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:18 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

ITE was peak XO

Shoutout to DC rooftop parties and chipwich threadding

Trayvon threadding was also peak zozo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841333)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:19 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

i can't find the thread but have mentioned it before, yet i learned how to be poor during ITE xo. specifically thread was something like "for all you nouveau poors out there"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841340)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:20 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

180

I think the 4 eras are

1. PR-2008, the Poetic Dreamer/bel/JBD years (this Age ended with the Lolsuit)

2. ITE 2008-2014

3. TRUUUUMP!/Halford 2015-2020

4. 2020- Libpocalypse/Age of Floyd/Covid/Lockdowns*

To be clear, Whokebe/Jinx peaked in the 1st era.

I think most active poasters today came on during ITE and never left imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841341)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:23 PM
Author: avocado laughsome reading party casino

2020 on should be the lockdown years. it enabled a lot of previously unknown poasters to really shine and delve into mentally ill megapoasting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841352)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:25 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

Cr I was pumo from the Second Age, didn't poast in the Third Age, and then copped a Sudo for the first time during the Fourth Age. I, too, found myself during the Lockdowns. Added*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841365)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:29 PM
Author: avocado laughsome reading party casino

basically my trajectory but i always had a moniker, just didn't poast enough for anyone to notice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841398)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:58 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

To be fair, I don't remember you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841554)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:32 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

this seems like a fair way to divide it.

at least for my part, i came here ITE1 when i was trying to figure out how to ride out the recession. lol at me graduating into another one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841412)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:36 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

I think I'd probably do like

Pre-2008: PR / Mythical Times

2008 - 2011: ITE

2012 - 2015: Post-ITE

2016-2020: TRUMP

2021-Present: Your Title

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841441)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:59 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

I agree with this but I feel like ITE and Obama Term II were contiguous. Imho.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841560)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:22 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

Interesting write-up thank you. Do you think the optimism can return, e.g., could there be a chronological U-shaped curve of optimism so that perhaps we're currently at the vertex / nadir but there's a way upward from here? Or is it all just monotonically declining forever, people are going to get more cynical, more depressed. I find that the happier people are here the more they're willing to move more into the magic real / absurd / experimental which is fun; conversely, the rougher the times for an individual poaster (generally, and with some exceptions) the more the tend to stick to a very descriptive realist style of poasting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841349)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:25 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

We are all going to maek it FRIEND

Hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841368)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:26 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:54 PM
Author: lilac talented ticket booth background story



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:27 PM
Author: sexy amber pisswyrm national security agency

Do you think America is going to magically get better?

There was some hope during the initial Trump honeymoon but seeing the entire unified global powers that be squelch his POTUSSY was pretty disheartening

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841379)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:35 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

shooting from the hip, i think it's cyclical. we'll have more hopeful times again, even as we all grow older still.

agreed re: absurdist poasting. i've only become a recognizable poaster when i get depressed enough to obsess about irl. the best poasts are almost always more whimsical and playful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841439)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:47 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

I think we can make a difference this very year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841498)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:25 PM
Author: sexy amber pisswyrm national security agency

2006 had earnest young intelligent faggots who thought they were on the track to maek it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841363)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:33 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

i don't think i would've liked early xo without the ITE despair. in the early days, it was the sort of thing no one in polite company actually could talk about in any depth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841421)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:49 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

It's funny I have almost a polar opposite reaction to early XO although I wasn't there. I sort of mythologize it. To be fair, there was no doubt a lot of sophomoric and self-important faggotry, but it also seems to represent XO at its most, I don't know, literary, experimental, playful, adventurous? Maybe that's totally rose colored glasses and were I transported back in time 15 years I'd have found it to be miserable but from the documentary evidence I've seen it seems like a place where people were having a lot of fun with words and ideas in a way that is less present here now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841503)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:52 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

i came here when working a shitty job to try to understand what was happening and whether i should lolfag, but ended up staying for the whimsy and creativity. so i'm half with you, brother.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841524)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:54 PM
Author: exciting toilet seat shitlib

I think people underemphasize the criticality of the whimsy and when XO's history is written one day by someone, that'll be identified as an essential golden thread. It's one part of the site's secret sauce that often gets overlooked even as people are participating in it (or at least observing it). XO is a land where things are just slightly off in a beautiful way; the shadow on the spine of the book in your library overlooking the Park tilts ever so slightly in the wrong direction, this detail only to be picked up by that most observant of interlocutors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841536)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 6:00 PM
Author: Burgundy autistic lay depressive

agreed, it's a lot subtler than some of the other aspects of xo such as old-internet formatting and freedom of speech, but it really is one of the central things that makes this place special.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841567)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 6:04 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

Gödel, Escher, Solzy: An Eternal Golden Thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841577)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 6:21 PM
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Date: January 25th, 2023 6:56 PM
Author: frum bull headed preventive strike

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Date: January 25th, 2023 7:27 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew

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Date: January 25th, 2023 10:18 PM
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Date: January 25th, 2023 6:26 PM
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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:07 PM
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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:17 PM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew



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Date: January 25th, 2023 5:50 PM
Author: Curious parlor

'09-'10 had its own crew too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45841511)



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Date: January 25th, 2023 10:21 PM
Author: Galvanic rambunctious ladyboy

In all of those years, Rowan was a nigger fuckmachine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#45842779)



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Date: April 20th, 2023 2:04 AM
Author: Glittery opaque chapel jew



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Date: April 20th, 2023 11:37 AM
Author: Curious parlor



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Date: April 20th, 2023 2:05 AM
Author: Concupiscible Associate

i can’t believe how DELIRIOUS it is, if we’re making Eddie Murphy references

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#46208909)



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Date: April 20th, 2023 3:05 AM
Author: swashbuckling sticky marketing idea

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5277288&forum_id=2#46208977)



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Date: April 20th, 2023 11:38 AM
Author: Topaz adventurous chad

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