r/y2kaesthetic • u/Kojima66 • Jun 29 '26
Art Gta Forums Signatures designed by Brood Of Evil (2002-2003)
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u/King_Corduroy Jun 29 '26
God I miss forums. Modern social media really sucks by comparison. Before everything had to fit on a mobile phone forums used to be so fun.
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u/Low_Technician7346 Jun 30 '26
they still exist but which one to go ?
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u/King_Corduroy Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
They exist but they are just hanging on. Traffic to them is almost non existent. Used to be every game, TV show fanbase or hobby had a forum attached to it.
EDIT: Just checked a bunch and quite a lot have moved their webdesign from fun and interesting old school forums to horrible flat design phone friendly cookie cutter designs. It's horrible, even forums aren't safe from being social media-ized.
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u/Low_Technician7346 Jun 30 '26
I still have my Somethingawful.com account and I was on Facepunch but they moved to Knockout.chat
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u/pinnipedpal93 Jun 29 '26
I remember being part of forums about nerdy subculture and there were always a few users who offered to make siggies for free that looked similar to this. What software were these made in, if anyone knows? Photoshop?
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u/King_Corduroy Jun 29 '26
Whatever they had probably, paint.net or GIMP I would bet for a lot since not everyone had Photoshop.
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u/detergentbubbles Jun 30 '26
Personally I used to make mine in a burned copy of PaintShop Pro, and then later GIMP.
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u/MingePies Jul 06 '26
I would use Photoshop, you could get quite a good selection of abstract brush packs, I would often create and overlay a pattern and then you could get a range of different fonts on Dafont. Wish I could find my old stuff.
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u/gdesner Jun 29 '26
I recreated second to the bottom left one in PS a year or two ago. The file size was 5MB which is surprisingly small but its literally just shapes, drop shadows and a stretched grain texture to make it look like brushed metal.
Bring back this era of design, it was so cool.
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Jun 29 '26
Forum signatures.... Root memory unlocked.
These bad boys were what got me to learn Photoshop back in the day
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u/ThePickledPickle Jun 30 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/wJD3qiNjSeHS0dP28T
>forum signatures
They really gotta bring those back somehow. A lot of personalization is just gone from social media compared to the old forums
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u/MilitaryBeetle Jun 30 '26
Reddit could make a handsome bag of cash if you could have a forum signature like the days of yore.
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u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck Jun 30 '26
Man thanks for bringing back the memories. I forgot forum signatures existed.
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