"the old Internet" is pre-social-media, dude. If you were moody back then, you put a Comic sans text on your free lycos Webspace, and if you were really fed up, you made it blink!
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There's no way vague posting isn't still a thing. People have always been and will always be passive aggressive sadsacks from time to time. It's just changed formats, not disappeared completely.
Side note, Thrice has a really deep catalog now and are still putting out great music. A lot of it is kind of allegory but they really moved on from the teen screamo type music.
Is that really "the old Internet" though? That seems more like the Internet from like... 15 years ago maybe? That's definitely not "the old Internet" lol I'm pretty sure people still do this don't they? I don't have any real social media accounts anymore so I haven't really kept up with it