

This year also saw a growing concern with social justice in sites like Tumblr, Reddit and Something Awful, but apparently it’s most vocal defenders don’t what how what social justice even means. The old userbase never left, but were easily outnumbered by the new, twitter-addicted youth. Meme culture kept evolving on content aggregators like 9Gag and /r/funny, distortions which 4chan and even Reddit has grown to hate.

On the bad side, the site became flooded with NORP teens, prompting a considerable increase of moralfags and people without a sense of humour on /b/. They arrived at the same time the popularity of the worst aspects of 4chan’s Dark Age began to die. Unlike what /b/ was used to, these user were more moderated, a part of the “Mainstream”, with little semblance or knowledge of Internet culture. This prompted a third wave of new users curious about the source of all those memes, probably reading about them on Reddit or Cheezburger’s Knowyourmeme. The popularity of said comics became massive, spreading to Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and even real life, with many pieces of merchandise based off them. These sites became known mostly for utilizing and popularizing the rage comic format 9, along with many of the rage faces and trollface variants that existed. Reddit was a site that could be considered a “moderate” 4chan, where people made similar jokes and had a propensity for black comedy, but never went off the rails.
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The site I can haz cheezburger, which managed to successfully monetize meme culture, spawned a series of content aggregators with a simple model, which became notoriously popular with the rise and consolidation of the social sites Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. Every three years or so, as the site got more popular, the userbase of 4chan would be completely unrecognizable from what it was before.
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All traditions where dictated by whatever social group was on the site all the time, and mods didn’t enforce any kind of culture beyond what was specified by moot’s site rules, making the site flow along in the direction the Internet as a whole went. This may be due the fact that 4chan’s core never had any basis for a truly solid culture. The old sites like Newgrounds, YTMND, Something Awful and Fark became a small spot in comparison to their enormity. Now that everyone is connected, the Internet became truly mainstream, with (Relatively) new faces such as Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit and Facebook becoming massively popular, attracting much of the youth culture. During late 2011, a sudden explosion of /r/funny’s prefabricated rage comics combined with the gigantic market of cellphone Internet and apps made Internet Culture hit the mainstream – Ultimately concluding the death of Internet Culture. The Internet began to reach new corners, especially with new and more efficient Smarthphones and Apple products.

More and more memes and events were broadcasted by the old media. The turn of the decade marked a vast change for the Internet.

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By 2010, everyone and they mothers had access to a cellphone and an Internet connection, and all those people spent their free time, during job breaks, waiting for the bus, or simply in their houses, browsing the Internet. On the late 2000s, cellphone market was making huge leaps in size and technology.
