2015 must have been insane

It was! We could go outside.
We could go shopping.
And not every single aspect of life was considered some sort of political statement.
"You breathin' oxygen like some sort of COMMUNIST?!"

Ahh, the good ol' days...

It's absurdly different when you think about it, the Google Nexus was still a thing, htc was still a big smartphone player, Motorola was making a comeback, smart watches were blowing up, the Wii u was bleeding while the 3ds carried Nintendo's ass, PewDiePie still made let's plays, and I was in middle school.
But seriously, what's with all the art from 2015 in particular? When are some other years gonna get some love?

Times sure have changed... now everything sucks. At least there's drawing mediocre cartoon animal art to keep me distracted in the hours between work and sleep.

Ah, that... I'm bailing on DeviantArt and cross-posting the art that I really like here and on Weasyl so I don't lose it all when DA inevitably implodes. I'm just going in chronological order is all. It just turns out that 2015 was the one year I was enjoying art enough to have, like, a LOT of it that's actually worth saving and archiving elsewhere. You'll be pleased to know that I did improve slightly between 2015 and 2020.

I admit I'm probably a bit spammy at times with it though, my bad!

Is there any art complakning about how 2016 apparently "sucked"? We were so innocent back then, now 2016 seems like a wonderland.

Unrelated, but I miss htc, they made some beautiful and amazing devices, by far the best of thier time

Nah, I tend to avoid too much real-world stuff, and focus more on drawing pudgy cartoon animals making questionable fashion choices and/or showing off their butts. Sometimes you just gotta chill and take a break from current events and politics.

2016 was aight. I don't remember it sucking too bad, at the very least there weren't murder hornets, a plague, the potential collapse of civilization and a horrendous "update" to DeviantArt that made the site almost completely unusable to worry about.

I do remember htc but I never had any of their devices--in fact I still don't have a smartphone lol. I'm one of those people that, if I'm out and about, it's with purpose so I've never really felt like it was necessary for me to have a portable Facebook machine in my pocket. Get to work, finish my shift, come home to the computer. I'm a simple man with simple needs.

Fair enough, whatever happened in 2016 that was so bad? It feels like forever ago.
I do have a smartphone, but I all use it for is endlessly watching YouTube and calling my mom, I feel like my life would be better without it, but being in quarantine, I'd lose sanity without YouTube

My mom had a htc one, the last big htc phone, It was so much better than my galaxy S5 it was ridiculous. The camera wasn't great, but looking back the galaxy s5s sucked too.

Do you own like a dumbphone or something, and if so what one?

I don't recall much going on in 2016 aside from the US presidential race, and what a clusterfuck that was because both candidates sucked. I try to stay out of politics because it always devolves into an argument so that's all I'll say on the subject. And I think that's the year Carrie Fisher died?
Personal life-wise tho I got a better job and a new roommate so the year was aight in that regard, I guess.

Oh, yeah, I have an... LG30 I think it's called? I have one of those broke-boy prepaid/pay-as-you-go phones and they literally sent me that for free after I had the same Motorola flip phone for like 8 years lmao because that one was incompatible with their new network or something. I've considered upgrading but, like, the only benefit I can see for me personally is being able to order pizza online while I'm already out and about and pick it up on the way home or something. But I'm a fatass already and I don't need it to be that easy to order pizza.

You're not missing much, the app stores have gone to shit, and theres no good games anymore, they're All just freenium money sucks. And you can't buy music individually anymore, as now everyone is forcing you into another streaming service you don't want. Oh and The dominos Pizza app will spam you with emails it you use it like a normal person, and little Cesar's just makes me feel broke and their pizza isn't even that good. Smartphone s have gone to shit, they used to be way better when they were a luxury and not a necessity. The iPhone 4 cost 200 dollars, that's unheard of today. People.got mad when the iPhone 5 was 500! That's cheap today! And back In the day people actually cared about call quality, it hasn't been improved since 2015, and now companys can slack on stuff like speakerphones and be totally cool. My phone constantly has me hit the mute button by accident and it drives me up the wall.whats life like without the hell of smartphones?

That's the impression I've gotten of smartphones, they just seem like portable ad servers and tracking devices. I'll just stick to my PC for doing computer things. Bigger screen, proper keyboard and mouse, and I can put all sorts of ad-blockers and privacy plugins on my browser so Mark Zuckerberg can't spy on me even though I don't even USE Facebook.

The Domino's website spams me with emails anyways so that's nothing new--but I put up with it to get free pizza on occasion. Little Caesar's sucks but I was fine with them when they'd sell me a pizza for five bucks. It's HOT and it's READY I don't care if it's not that GOOD.

You could just, like, *not* use the smartphone as much, that's an option. I'm legit thinking of "upgrading" my not-smartphone to the flip phone they offer for the boomers, at least then I might make some phone calls on it once in a while. I only carry the damn thing in case I need to call a tow truck or something because my last two cars were shit.

You should get the new Nokia 8110 or the 3310 if you want to upgrade they're cool cheap new dumbphones, plus they have a good version of snake with no in App purchases.
I mean I could, but im so brain dead even video games can't hold my attention without a YouTube video blasting in my ears
I love the pizza emails they give, it's like so over enthusiastic about pizza it's insane. They act like you can drop 30 dollars every day for medicore pizza every day like it's a event
C'mon, the zuccs gotta know your search history so he can target shitty t shirts at you

Love the teef. *giggles*

Thank you very much!