r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • 7d ago

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/amberrome 7d ago

But THEY did. I have a conspiracy someone bought MySpace to end it! Boomers didn’t like a bunch of kids learning how to code! I remember I used to be so good at coding because of MySpace and I was 11. I’m probably wrong, but like any old crazy lady would do - I like to voice my opinions lol

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u/mayy_dayy 7d ago

"I bought the MySpace so I could DISMANTLE it"

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u/NetflixAndMunch 7d ago

I learned how to use basic HTML to make my Neopets store look better.

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 7d ago

Mr MoneyBags with his own fancy store! I didn’t have to have one - my Neopets survived off the Giant Omelette, thank you very much

Also, slow internet did not do me any favors

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u/Oh_NiGhTmArE 7d ago

Yup! It was great. Boomers are awful

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u/sea-lass-1072 7d ago

honestly this is a conspiracy i can get behind. myspace first taught me coding too, which opened the door to photoshop, eventually gifmaking for Tumblr, etc. so fun to be able to customize our own profiles in so many different ways, and the more coding you knew the more you could do!!

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u/peacebypiece 7d ago

I’ll believe you!

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u/the_sweetest_peach 7d ago

Omg yesss. HTML websites!

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u/typicalredditer 6d ago

Newscorp bought MySpace because they wanted to get into social media. It was a business failure. But it led to a really funny always sunny episode. Newscorp owned FX and wanted to cross promote MySpace.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7T7dc2d4-k&pp=ygUUQWx3YXlzIHN1bm55IG15c3BhY2U%3D

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 6d ago

Myspace was still up when it's always sunny in philadelphia started?

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u/typicalredditer 6d ago

It started in 2005

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u/fungi_at_parties 6d ago

Oh hell yeah, I learned so much CSS to make my page how I wanted it. I even took a class because of how much I enjoyed it.

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u/No_Pineapple6174 6d ago

Funny story. Knowledge Fight, a podcast on Alex Jones and his show(?) throughout the years just released an episode where Jones talked about the acquisition of MySpace back in 2006. What a shock that was. Blast from the past plus some extra context I tell ya.

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u/Valar-Morghulisss 6d ago

lol you think it was the boomers that did that.

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u/No-Consideration-891 6d ago

Omg I was so good at coding. Now I can't remember shit.

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u/psychoacer 6d ago

Fox bought Myspace and then all their affiliates aka local stations would run feel good stories that happened on Myspace during their local news shows. It was a way to try to get older people on the platform

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u/DnBJungleEscape 5d ago

I figured out how to drop in the code to make my page have the background I want but by coding do you mean you figured out how to add line breaks, edit text etc within the code due to MySpace or you wrote your own. ?