>>1203144212000-2008 was my adolescence and of course I cherish it but I'm not going to pretend that going from getting made fun of for liking Pokemon to getting made fun of for liking YuGiOh to getting made fun of for having a GCN instead of an Xbox to getting made fun of for liking Naruto to getting weird looks for being a weeb to getting weird looks for being a
furry to getting weird looks for frequenting 4chan was anything but an unhappy experience. And even many of my fond memories from those years involved communicating through a screen with people I never met or who don't talk to me anymore. Even the politics weren't much better.
The only unequivocal advantage is that the internet didn't suck as much back then.
