More the bits when: shitty faceswaps became an acceptable substitute for actual jokes;
ignore2.0 hampered the back-and-forth flow of ideas; it became a forum for marketing your product to potential consumers rather than, y'know, a comedy website; and the mods fucked off and left a hypersensitive control freak in charge.

But also what you said.
(Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Thu 7 Aug 2014, 13:48, 2 replies)

"shittyfaceswaps became an acceptablesubstitutefor actual jokes"
About fifteen years ago, then?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Aug 2014, 14:04, closed)

I think we just became a bit bored fucking about in Photoshop
that's about it really
( Harpago ¯\(°_o)/¯, Thu 7 Aug 2014, 14:34, closed)