I personally wouldn't call 4chan and its relatives fun, but they sure are weird.
There's dedicated, active, shitty phpbb forums for every single weird sexual fetish you can imagine.
And that's just the fun and weird patches of the internet that I happen to know about. There must be 3 orders of magnitude more. I'd wager that if you think the internet isn't fun and weird anymore, then you're just looking in the wrong places. The problem is with you and not the internet.
https://pouet.net is the unofficial home of the demoscene, even though it's much weirder than the demoscene itself.
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Half of tumblr is totally out there.
I personally wouldn't call 4chan and its relatives fun, but they sure are weird.
There's dedicated, active, shitty phpbb forums for every single weird sexual fetish you can imagine.
And that's just the fun and weird patches of the internet that I happen to know about. There must be 3 orders of magnitude more. I'd wager that if you think the internet isn't fun and weird anymore, then you're just looking in the wrong places. The problem is with you and not the internet.