Text was never good and everyone complaining about the state it's in needs to STFU already.

Brian Bryan · 09-02-2013, 11:50 AM

Keep it 100.

Certain · 09-02-2013, 11:52 AM

God Of War · 09-02-2013, 12:05 PM

text was always dope

Geno · 09-02-2013, 12:11 PM

Textliness is next to gawdliness.
You just mad I ain't put you in that piece, I got you next time

Brian Bryan · 09-03-2013, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Genocide

Textliness is next to gawdliness.
You just mad I ain't put you in that piece, I got you next time

this thread has nothing to do with you.

Neighbor · 09-02-2013, 12:11 PM

Yikes

Wise Wiggles · 09-02-2013, 12:18 PM

lol

oats · 09-02-2013, 02:06 PM

nah you should've seen text back in the day, everyone was at least 5X doper than people now, lots of OMs going gold and plat.

Witty · 09-02-2013, 02:15 PM

I have genuinely heard people saying text was at its best in 2006, or 2005....which makes me laugh cuz back in 2005 people were saying text sucks and it was best in 2000-2003....people will always think their era was best....same as anything.

I don't know when text was at it's best, and honestly I don't really care.

Frank Metts · 09-02-2013, 02:20 PM

Its always had its ups and downs ... and its always had its politics

09-02-2013, 02:28 PM

Summers are always down a bit more.

Shit will pick back up in fall/winter.

Diode · 09-02-2013, 03:32 PM

i feel like it never moved on from the mid 2000s

the hens/kung/etc style kind of took root and stuck

nothing really changed since then. don't see how it could, either.

oats · 09-02-2013, 03:49 PM

Text is on that new shit, people say the art died
If you want that old text then check the old archives

Witty · 09-02-2013, 03:51 PM

Perfect.
A+

Fart · 09-02-2013, 03:54 PM

it got popular with 8 mile and went downhill right along with em's career
in a nutshell Eminem is the alpha and omega of text

Witty · 09-02-2013, 03:56 PM

Can't lie, 8 mile is the only reason I am here today.

YDK · 09-02-2013, 03:59 PM

i was never a big fan of text tbh, i just liked writin stories an poems an shit lol then i found out about topicals so i stuck around

oats · 09-02-2013, 04:09 PM

I was active from 99-03ish, then completely absent till 2010, so IMO shit has changed tremendously. I was honestly shocked to see that it was still around tbh. I think people just get nostalgic. I know I do.

Frank Metts · 09-02-2013, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by oats

I was active from 99-03ish, then completely absent till 2010, so IMO shit has changed tremendously. I was honestly shocked to see that it was still around tbh. I think people just get nostalgic. I know I do.

Yeah but your smart enough to know text in still kind of in its infancy stage in these terms .... talk to any sports fan who's over the age of 65 about his favourite sport snd he will tell you about the game that was not is ... he will almost always speak of a different era and how much better it was even if it wasnt ... text hasn't been around all that long so all the proverbial 65 year old fans remember better days ... because it was new and pure and they were having fun ... now their older prob burnt out etc etc

oats · 09-02-2013, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Frank Metts

Yeah but your smart enough to know text in still kind of in its infancy stage in these terms .... talk to any sports fan who's over the age of 65 about his favourite sport snd he will tell you about the game that was not is ... he will almost always speak of a different era and how much better it was even if it wasnt ... text hasn't been around all that long so all the proverbial 65 year old fans remember better days ... because it was new and pure and they were having fun ... now their older prob burnt out etc etc

Nailed it. When I first got into text it was super fun. I was also a kid so I had tons of time to do it. Now I primarily come in here to bullshit and read others' work, occasionally post mine. Just don't have the time to make it as fun as it used to be, and even if I did it will never captivate me as much as it did when I was 11 lol

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Diode PR's Finest Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 14,165 Battle Record: 12-7 Rep Power: 85899410	i feel like it never moved on from the mid 2000s the hens/kung/etc style kind of took root and stuck nothing really changed since then. don't see how it could, either. __________________

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oats Steel Cut Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 5,084 Battle Record: 19-10 Accomplishments - OM HOF (2x) Champed - Fight Night LXXXIV - Art of Writing League Rep Power: 79005428	I was active from 99-03ish, then completely absent till 2010, so IMO shit has changed tremendously. I was honestly shocked to see that it was still around tbh. I think people just get nostalgic. I know I do.