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_TheDoctor_ posted...

Literally my first time logging in in...months...

This forum is is different. I think we just live in a day and age where a lot of people get their more serious information from mediums that promote more visual stuff. It's just easier to find a walkthrough on youtube than read through a walk through or post a question on a forum and wait for a response.

So a lot of what's left on forums are the trolls and fanboys. People who don't have much else--as those who have time constraints use faster mediums--so they can easily troll idly on forums. And people who previously may have talked to through forums only now have plenty of other options staying in touch.

I one time saw some weird prediction that by 2019 facebook was going to be almost exclusively video posts with text almost gone from the equation completely. I think forums are already kinda' feeling that.

I don't see that working for everyone, people love to text and hardly use facetime for a reason.

I just think the whole video response thing is a youtube personality thing, the kinda thing where only a minority who are very public personalities are using it.

Still, I think you got a point there. People used to go to forums for information and just to discuss things, but now that everything has been taken over by fanboys playing a never ending game of one-up it's like nobody reasonable wants to stick around. I think most people just get frustrated by the people on forums these days and just moves on with their life, getting their information on youtube and sticking to facebook for discussions.