I Miss The Old Ninja Turtle Websites Man

[sdp]

Fan pages are slowly making a comeback, they're now called indie web. It's catching on, but it will of course be limited in its grown as people like it or not just prefer living in a "walled garden" of content and not find stuff. Old internet died with smartphones and normies being able to access it easily.

The way we got to today really began with Web 2.0, people got broadband and switched to blogs having blogs which incentivised people to post "news" daily or worthless content instead of Web 1.0 classic sites that you had sections with different information. You now had blog posts which in the past would've been separate sections of a site that you would see "growing" but now they were easier to lose through daily entries and seen as "old content" being pushed back by non important news that would eventually be dated.

Before monetization on the internet was a thing, it really was more of a passion project for people. But once google adsense made it easy for people with blogs to make money, the wrong people were now making the fan sites. And even the good folk that were making them switched to prioritized news cycles that would give them clicks and money.

That's when communities started to move away from bulletin boards and forums to just comment sections of blog posts. The deathbed was as Facebook grew and you now had "groups" you could join, people would go there and it slowly sucked away people who'd post or create sites to go there. When Reddit became a thing the hardcore fans went to those places while casual fans stayed on FB and the like. We now have Discord and Twitter communities and Tiktok ones for each franchise and all are different on their own.

It's weird how something can become a huge Pokemon trendon TikTok but Pokemon Twitter is having their own separate thing going on with memes. It's not too indifferent from when people would post on say on one pokemon forum or another and each one had their own feel. Same with TMNT, I think this is the only forum left really but each community is different. R/TMNTbeing the liberal half of the technodrome. If you go on twitter it's mostly people who just wage politics using TMNT. Facebook groups and Discord servers feel the most chill when it comes to TMNT content IMO.

I mean if you really want a "new' TMNT site like the old one just go to ResidentEvil7s site before it's taken offline. Created a year ago, it's basically one of those shtty websites from the 90s made with their webpage builder. It pretty much clicks all the nostalgia points you'd want. https://www.tmntforever.com/