care-tags.org

superfuture, styleforum, stylezeitgeist, mfa, /fa/...

i think for all the toxic behaviours that were there, sufu still lives in my memory as one of the best communities of an era of the internet now gone. so much stuff discovered, finding people that likes the same stuff that you do etc. styleforum was kinda weird with all those jeans afficionados

care tags dot org

mfa irc is what became care-tags so... that

CMYK wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 4:15 pmcare tags dot org

care-tags is that old?
i thought it was made a little after sufu was already going downhill and instagram was killing all the fashion forums

something awful

pokecommunity

gaiaonline

final fantasy extreme

any of literal hundred niche fan forums with their own budding ecosystems. shoutout proboards/conforums for making creating a forum something any teen could do.

neopets "has turmy woken up today" thread

spent a lot of time on the wc3sear.ch forum which was a map modding community for warcraft 3. i built the terrain for AOS maps (what are now called MOBAs) and learned to write in JASS (blizzard's scripting language). the community was great and this incredibly niche hobby was huge for me as a creative outlet. i just checked back and the site is still active under the name "hiveworkshop," which is dope.


the only fashion forum i browsed was sufu which led me down the dark pathway of buying expensive japanese clothes that didnt fit me. went to haven A LOT, spent a ton of money, and dressed real bad for a few years.

half-life 2 dot net as a ten year old immediately after hackers leaked the source code and an alpha build, and right around when the doom 3 e3 demo came out

golden age (minus the slurs)

ohhhhh if we're talking non-exclusively clothing its gotta be https://www.newschoolers.com/forum and https://forums.insidelacrosse.com/

skatewarehouse

I thought Drew Curtis' Fark dot com was the greatest thing when I was in 9th grade. The Newgrounds forums were too hardcore and SomethingAwful cost money.

slap magazine's ideal pants thread

and bimmerfest

runescape community

sufu but only the el_Ronn thread