27 years is a real damn long time for an internet message board. Things change, folks come and go and new folks show up and come and go and so on. This crowd has always kept pretty much on the same path because we have made a point to keep it that way. It never makes a profit and we have always resisted corporate takeovers. Sometimes a big time advertiser like Academy would come along and we would take their money. But then they would demand that we ban folks for talking bad about Obama. Outback and Wiley were one of those guys who said mean things about Obama, which were deserved. Instead of taking the money and keeping the popular advertiser we told Academy to pound sand and dropped them.
Despite the irritations with the current political and social media climate things are still on that same path. Divisions like to be created by folks who make a practice of doing so, that is apparent across all social media platforms these days. The cancel culture of the Obama years caused a crap ton of problems, and its coming back again though differently and its AI driven.
Fortunately Aldeer is shielded against intelligence of all forms and we should still be here putting along until the censorship police find another way to come after us.
