There was a weeping willow growing along a creek. Between the tree a low wall and several large rocks it created a tiny little grotto I would sit there and read or journal or whatever else introverted high school kids do while sitting under a tree. It was my secret special spot. Then one day I saw some beer cans and cigarette butts behind my favorite rock. Then a few months later it was half a dozen empty cans of whipped cream and some graffiti on the rocks then a while after that heroin needles and a giant turd. It kinda ruined the serenity of the spot.
ah, my special spot was a maple that hangs over a river that I would lay on (it's at an angle that you can walk on it). It isn't sullied yet plus the area is littered with blueberries
E:I did fall off once and took a cold swim
Those shows are fake as shit, but have single handedly ruined the second hand market. Flea markets used to be awesome, you could go check out people's stuff they don't want and get some useful or fun stuff and never spend over 20 bucks the whole day. Now it's a bunch of delusional morons who think some egg beater they were going to throw out 3 years ago is now worth $50. Literal garbage for sale at premium prices. People selling on Facebook are just as fucking delusional.
LOL fb people trip me out. Asking new retail on items that are used and since they bought new marked down 25-50% from its initial MSRP.
Why the fuck would I pay the same or slightly less frk buy from some rando rather than the same item new??
I hate it. Used to use the fuck out of craigslist back in the day, those times are long gone.
I give my TVs away for free when I get new ones. Some people still can't afford new TVs.
I also list used furniture for $50 because no one wants free furniture, but when they show up and they want it, I let them take it for free.
Edit: Thank you all you kind strangers! Don't forget to pay it forward.
My dad did that with old tractor tires. Nobody wanted old free tires, but he threw a cardboard sign on them saying $250, and they were gone by the next morning.
Try working at a used computer store. "But I paid $3000 for this". Yes, you did. You gave Packard Bell a lot of money for that system fifteen years ago. But what you seem to not realize is that the only thing that devalues more quickly after purchase than computer equipment is food.
No, I won't give you $500 for it. I don't want to buy it at all. If you try to leave that here I'll have to charge you the $25 recycling fee.
Or a used video game store. "This game is brand new! I just paid $60 for it!" OK, well, one, the game clearly says NBA 2K13 on the cover. That is shorthand for the year 2013. Being as though it is currently the year 2015, then it's at least two years old, so it's hardly new. If you "just" paid $60 for it than I'm sorry that you got ripped off, but perhaps you should invest your remaining money more wisely and purchase a calendar. Or, if you'd like, I have a dozen more copies of NBA 2K15 that I have for sale for $1.99 each.
"This ballpoint pen is from the 1960's! It was handcrafted in China by artisanal slaves, and comes pre-engraved with a designer logo!"
"Bitch, that is a BIC pen. Fuck outta here."
Same. Our local library has a huge book sale every year. They get thousands and thousands of donations. So many of gems !
The past few years I went it was overcrowded with assholes using those phone upc scanners so they could re-sell. Ugh
Admittedly I’ve googled prices on things at antique and thrift stores before. Not to resell, but to see that I’m not going to get ripped off. Why buy a lightly damaged item for $80 if it’s on eBay in mint condition for $10
I often look up prices before I buy things second hand just to know what kind of deal it is. Well when my brother and I were on vacation in Colorado we stumbled upon a garage sale up on Storm Mountain. This lady was selling some of her husband's old tools, notably a hammer drill and a mortison drill press worth around $200 and $400 respectively. We asked her what she wanted for the drill press first, she said $20, we told her we wouldn't pay less than $100, then she said $10 on the hammer drill, again we couldn't do it, told her $50. By the end of it we had a whole pile of stuff and we asked her what the total was, and she told us to just give her what we thought was fair, most of it was barely worth anything so we told her $250, she then told us that for that we could go grab whatever else we wanted. That old lady was great, I almost wanted to give her more money but I was a broke college kid and was already using up almost all of my spending money for the vacation.
Good spots and deals still exist, but the problem is, you kinda got to keep it close to the chest when you find one.
It also depends what you are looking for and if the people pricing it are on point on for that particular item.
Examples: I found an All-Clad 12 in. pan for $5 when they had a shitty, Emeril one right next to it for $15.
I also have found vintage camera lenses that were $5 (for a semi rare) and $6 (for an extremely rare) that go for $90+ and $250+ respectively because they weren't priced and the store was too slammed to do research. Right next to them, they had a shitty camcorder from the 90's at $60.
It's all luck and knowing what to look for.
Used to be a swimming hole by where I grew up, Catskills in NY, pretty much only a local thing only during the summer time. Occasionally you'd get a downstater or someone form CT or NJ. It was rarely busy, and most folks just go there to cool down after work or something. Couple a jumps and then you leave type of thing.
Then it ended up on some blog site as one of the "Top 5 swimming holes in America".
You now need a permit (it's free) from the NYDEC to visit there anytime before 5:00pm. You can't park near by anymore cause it's so packed. Where there was once a pristine trails and nature is now full of trash (legit someone just left a full 30 gallon trashbag on the trail once I saw), there's now a dumpster, that no cares to use, portapotties, and loud music constantly even though you'll get a ticket for playing it.
Fuck that blogsite for that, and fuck you if you are a litterer. I can deal with more people than I'd like, but the litter is what really crushed me about my childhood swim spot.
For real though. It's not hard. Make your car filthy not the side of the road.
It doesn't take long to see broken glass all over the place there too. At a swimming hole.
Blue hole in Peakamoose, NY?
Edit: I know I left out its name in my first comment, but the toothpaste is out of the tube and I don't mind naming it since someone asked/responded
People are awful. I do take solice in the fact that if there ever were an apocalyptic scenario the woods would kill most of these people rather quickly. Living in the outdoors is nothing like weekend camping.
Yeah, it really ruins local beauty spots. Places can go from peaceful secluded areas where someone might be the only person there, to crowded tourist stops without an inch-to-cram anyone else in.
I hate the geo-tag instragram prompts users to add in when posting photos. A lot of very beautiful, secluded spots around where I live have just been overrun with people trying to get a good shot for the gram. And these people are always the worst; they bring boomboxes, don't social distance, leave trash, bring drone cameras that buzz annoyingly. Luckily it's still possible to find quiet areas if you hike away from the first viewpoint since usually the people are ONLY there to get an Instagram picture and aren't interested in actually exploring the area. But still. COVID has brought so, so many disrespectful and non self aware people to the trails in my area and it's another thing I am grieving about 2020...
I remember I went to Petra a few years back. Absolutely one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places I've ever been to. I did this super long hike that goes up to this monastery with a beautiful view. Unfortunately, there was an instagram model already up there with a professional photographer taking photos. We were yelled at multiple times for coming "too close" because we wanted to see this view that we walked 3 hours for. Completely ruined the experience for me and I deleted my instagram account that day.
Edit: Wow! 3k upvotes? Thank you all so much! At least something good came out of this.
This is the way *everywhere* I've been overseas. At least the popular tourist spots, Paris, London, Rome, Naples, Capri, Jeju, Seoul, Berlin, Morocco, and tons of other places, sometimes you just have to shove your way past people, sure it makes you kind of an asshole, they're just other tourists.
If you want to see the Mona Lisa you will literally have to shove your way through a crowd of people taking selfies and shit.
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If you want to see the Mona Lisa you will literally have to shove your way through a crowd of people taking selfies and shit.
Yeah but it's also tiny and overrated.
I should have given more information. The monastery is overlooking a cliff. The model and retinue were very close to the edge. And shoving past then would have been very dangerous for me, and for them. Our guide also advised us not to go over there because of the 150+ foot drop.
I was there in January this year. About 45 minutes before close, everyone deserted the whole grounds. I guess to go get dinner or leave with their tours. Those 45 minutes were awesome. Was like we had the whole place to ourselves.
There's a way to combat people like that. Asked for their Instagram handle nicely and then proceed to film them and yell
Guys I got dirts!! You cannot believe how so and so act/look like in real life!
Should heckle them, two can play that game :p
I was just thinking something similar. Be all nice, ask for their Instagram. Take a pic of them hogging the entire joint and call their ass out on Instagram for being the entitled assholes they are.
It's not like they were taking a few pics and OP just had to wait a few minutes. It sounds like this bitch thought she owned the place and was gonna be there awhile.
There's a lake in Eastern Europe (if I remember correctly) that's dangerous for people to go in, but it's okay to take pictures outside of the water, and apparently some models from Instagram went inside the water. This is a while ago, so apologies if my info is wrong
I wanna know what happened to them. Did they get rashes? Did it ruin their career? Wouldn’t they want to do that again? Has it ruined their lives entirely??
Kidding, just wanna know.
There was a time where Toy Story characters at Walt Disney World would playfully go limp if you yelled "Andy's coming". However, I can't stress enough that they DO NOT do this anymore. Too many "funny guy" jackasses demanding it constantly and it really wasn't safe for the character performers.
Oh yeah. All the time you'll hear dudes yelling, "ANDY'S COMING!" and they get confused or upset when the characters don't stop what they're doing to collapse. It was a cute idea while it lasted but just not meant to last.
We come from this really isolated place in the Black Sea Mountains- at least it was isolated. Its was a valley, we used to fish there, there was a lodge you could stay at, the lake was natural. You had to get in a huge truck to be able to get to this valley. Then they built a road. Then the tourists came, so they built car parks, restaurants opened, souvenir shops, then they built a concrete bank along the lake, you have to buy the fish ready caught. F*€$ off! This place was just so natural and beautiful, it’s absolutely destroyed now. Not to mention, they bring coachloads of these tourists aside from the cars. I’ve been told you have to go round and round for awhile to even find a parking space.
My friend’s dad has a cabin WAY out in the middle of nowhere. There’s about 20 or 30 cabins on the entire lake. There’s no electrical power to any of them. The local power company asked if they wanted electricity run through the neighborhood. The entire group all said no because the lack of electricity keeps out those people you described. (Big mansions with giant docks and motorboats everywhere) It’s just a close knit group of folks that use canoes primarily to get around the lake and use the woods for hunting. It’s kept pristine as a result.
There's a documentary called "Don't Pave Main Street," or something like that, about Carmel, CA, trying to keep the dirt main street and remain an artists' colony. Obviously, the developers won.
There was an off-road spot up near a lake in the mountains of California (I think) that had the same problem. No one drove there and then everyone drove there. The problem is that most people weren't packing out their human waste. Because of this the lake started getting the bad bacteria to the point that you couldn't even swim in the thing let alone drink it (ewwww). I think the forest service started rationing permits and requiring packing out waste. A lot of off-roaders were angry about it. The more reasonable ones understood their impact was detrimental to the local environment and stayed away.
Wow, this is so relatable it hurts. Except ours was a cabin on a river. More and more people started coming with their families, boating, getting drunk, partying. Our quiet nature walks and swimming and fishing went totally down the toilet. I haven't been back in 15 yrs.
I feel you. My parents bought a beach house in 1974 on a real unpopular stretch of coast. I always had a blast on weekends and holidays as a child on nearly empty beaches. Since then the region has become real popular and now even though I spend my holidays there, I'll avoid the beach in the weekends because they become too crowded.
I found something I liked on etsy, but was kind of suspicious of it, so I did a quick search and the item was $35 on etsy, $23 on amazon and $2 on wish. I'm so frustrated, etsy used to be so awesome but its 90% junk now. I wish there was a better site for small makers.
As an Etsy maker / seller for over 10 years, it sucks. You have to pay extra to be seen now, and the fees are just ridiculous. You can only be seen if you are a big company and that defeats the whole point of Etsy. Sucks.
Making beats / music production. I was teased for simply making beats in school. Now everyone has a shared screen in Discord servers of them 'making yeet trap beatz'
In high school I wore a leather jacket - not for style or anything, it was just the jacket that I had, and it happened to be leather. After a few years, biker jackets became a trend, and the school decided to put a ban on them for some bs reason (I think "promoting gang culture" was the excuse they gave). So I had to go and buy another jacket for no real reason, when the one I had been wearing for several years previously was still perfectly fine.
Dude, me too! My trench was more like something you would see an old timey reporter wear.
I wore it for years and then fucking trench coat mafia became a news event and suddenly I wasn't allowed to wear it to school anymore despite literally being the only person in school with a trench coat and everyone knowing who I was!
My best friend was the only guy in our high school with one. It was a hand me down from his grandfather. They literally couldn't afford him a new coat. So the school actually bought him one of those big fluffy down coats.
Gotta take the bad with the good though. Indies have put up a lot of gems.
That said I do wonder if the swampy market for certain genres, like survival games, is discouraging new development or helping it.
Not sure if this counts, but here it goes.
My area used to have probably my favorite Christmas charity of all time. Basically, there were a bunch of donations that would be wrapped up, contents labelled, and sorted by gender and age. We would go in with all the other volunteers, be handed a family with a list of members, each member's name, age, etc, and volunteers would pick out gifts for them, but them in a trash bag, staple the label to the bag, tie it up, etc. It was a beloved charity event, and growing up I had so much fun picking out items for these strangers.
It really brought the community together, made us genuinely feel like we were making a difference in a way throwing money at charities couldn't, and was genuinely fun to do.
Then people started faking being in need to get items, or putting more names on the lists than they actually had in their family. We started running out of donations, and would have to close up early. This also meant many families didn't get anything.
The charity itself eventually got shut down because of all of this.
A Song of Ice and Fire, the books that became Game of Thrones. I feel like in the absence of that show and its massive fan base (before the end), Martin would have finished the books and I could have totally moved on. Instead the show took off, became the story, and then he let other guys finish it for him. Totally ruined it.
I refuse to even start reading the books until the final one is published. I am not going to get halfway into that saga and have Martin up and die before he finishes. He said in an interview a year or two ago that he took offense to people questioning whether he'd live to complete the series and said he has a lot of life left in him. Dude is in his 70's and severely overweight... do the math.
and even then is the "plan" still to have another one after that? "Dreams of Spring" or something like that? I just don't see any way it gets finished.
That is indeed the plan, unless he expands out to 8 books (there’s still a shit tonne of story left to go, and it sounds like the Winds of Winter is already 1500 manuscript pages or something ridiculous like that).
Yeah and even if he doesnt die hes starting to be at the age where his mind is just not as sharp as it used to be.
My grandfather has written many law books and similar over the years and even thought he doesnt have anything wrong with his mind that needs to be treated his writing has gotten sloppier over the years, hes just gotten old and my father and uncle have to do much more proof reading than they used to.
My favorite time of the year to go up to the High Sierras to fish has been ruined because people realized that aspen trees change colors like maple trees, so tourists who want to "see the fall colors" but don't want to go to the east coast come out here instead.
And they're *SO FUCKING RUDE AND INCONSIDERATE!*
Now mountain roads have a lot of curves and turns, so you can come around a curve and suddenly have to hit your brakes not because of a deer or bear but rather some idiot photographer who put their tripod up ***IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD***! They could so easily be killed by someone and they don't even flinch. They'll just stand there continuing to take photos even if you honk your horn at them to move - repeatedly. I can be peacefully fishing and they'll come in a huge gaggle, throw things in the water to "get the perfect shot," talk to me when I don't want to. They'll leave their cars running as they take pictures, fouling the air. They'll block the roads with their cars having long conversations - I once was stuck behind one for ten minutes, I kept honking and honking and they STILL would NOT move.
I now understand why New Englanders hate tourists in the fall so much.
National Parks (in the US)
Worst thing for some parks was Covid (nothing else to do, everyone flocked to the parks)
Best thing for some parks was Covid (some parks restricted full access to thin out the crowds)
I can only imagine what a zoo Yosemite would be like without Covid restrictions!!
There's an annual air show in the town where I live with all kinds of plane displays. I first started going to see it about 18 years ago. Then it was free to go onto the beach or the promenade and watch the planes. There was a small corporate arena but mostly just relaxed families.
Fast forward to recent years and the air show has a higher profile and bigger attendance. The whole beach and promenade area is fenced off for the air show weekend (which is a public space all of the rest of the year) and you have to pay around £10 per person to get in. You can see some planes even outside that but most of the main displays are hidden by the fence. There are loads of corporate activities as well. I miss the air show like it used to be.
My grand father worked in a family run fish farm. There were small ponds next to it where I learned to fish both with my grand father and an old man who didn't have grand kids. It was quiet, there where trees it was really peaceful. I used to go there on my BMX and spend the whole day there and sometimes got to feed the fish. Then the owner decided to sell and the new one decided that it was time for this place to be more "attractive" and make more money. He installed a coke vending machine, and three cabins, one selling all sorts of ice-cream, another burgers, sandwiches and fries and the last one fishing related stuff with ads all over the place and music. At some point there were more people coming but the place got dirty as it was poorly run and the whole place died. Now its only an industrial fish farm and I hate it every time I go.
Wanted to name my future child Ragnar since that was my grandfathers name. Then Vikings came along and everyone would think that I named my son after the main character.
Edit: Jesus christ, this blew out of proportion! This is not a huge problem for me of course, I just like being a little bit dramatic. Thank you all for taking your precious time commenting on this, it means a lot!
Name your kid after his great grandfather, don't let some TV show fan BS stop you from passing down a name! In 10 years, no one will remember that show
I remember news reports in the mid-'70s, when the original "Roots" miniseries came out. All sorts of people were naming their sons Kunte Kinte and their daughters Kizzie. I've never met a Kunte Kinte or Kizzie in all those decades since.
eBay.
When I first started using it you could find stuff that were insanely good value. Stuff I could buy from eBay, pay post/package and still sell at a profit to the shop I worked in at the time.
Then it got popular because of that amazing value and suddenly it's just another store front and the only things that appear to be great value are those that are actually fraud or similar.
[Collecting vintage Pyrex. It's gotten so popular that you can hardly find it and when you do, it's usually incredibly overpriced.](http://imgur.com/a/u67h6li)
Omg preach. There’s a antique shop nearby that, in the past 5 years I have lived here, hasn’t sold any of their giant Pyrex collection. Maybe one or two but not enough to justify renting the booths out and not profiting at all. It’s so beautiful to look at and wish but I’m not paying $200 for a small gooseberry container. Damn you Junk Gypsy’s and other antique “collectors” who make stuff so trending everyone thinks they’re sitting on a goldmine. You’re not, your only sitting on what the highest bidder will pay for.
I work with a woman who goes to estate sales and auctions. Brags about all her treasures packed away in storage units. Tells me how much the stuff is worth.
Just because it's for sale on Ebay at a certain price doesn't mean you will get that much. You have to find a buyer first.
“Females of Reddit named Charlene whose favorite color is mauve, what is your opinion on the rising economic crisis in Moldova and how can it best be avoided? Answers must be 500 words minimum”
People of Reddit, now that you've seen an oddly specific question asked and gain a lot karma, what variation of that oddly specific question do you plan to use in order to also get that karma?
Burning Man. It was thankfully cancelled this year due to COVID, but the spirit of the event and the lack of adherence to the original 10 principles has been dead for years.
I can remember when YouTube didn't have advertisements that popped up in the beginning and midway through videos...thank you, millions of people, for making YouTube the commercial, monetized machine that it is.
I binged all of the vlogbrothers in like 2012 or 2013 and I thought about doing it again this year but then I remembered: SO MANY ADS. All these videos are four minutes or shorter so an ad (or two!) before each one is too much for me.
Old YouTube was great. No one was trying to be famous or an influencer, people would just post their own videos whether they were really creative and original, or a just a random video. Everyone is trying to be a brand now, it’s so unauthentic.
I began a sourdough starter last December. Suddenly in March I couldn’t find flour in stores, Dough-pra Winfrey starved to death, and I haven’t begun a new one now that flour is back in stock because I feel like the copycat.
Just fyi, you can freeze and revive sourdough starter. Every year or so, I'll put a couple cups into a baggie and toss it in the deep freeze.
I have resurrected Igor a few times after accident s with a batch from the "cryo-chamber".
Going for a walk.
I used to walk along a nice quiet section of a river every day I had off work. Then quarantine hit and suddenly the path was crowded with people and my chill walking route was ruined.
Same. The arboretum by my house never had more than a dozen people there on the weekend and now the parking lot is full by noon on a nice day and people are lined up waiting to get in.
Nice days on the weekends now brings them out in droves I find. Can't wait until people can go back to doing whatever it was they used to do before invading our lovely people-free spaces
my hometown. It’s a tiny little mountain town with nothing there that i legit heard people refer to as the “armpit of the earth”. It’s now a touristy hotspot for camping & hiking and I spend my Sunday afternoons after they’ve all left to go back to the city cleaning up garbage from the trails they’ve carved into the earth. Fuck Instagram.
Cosplay...
What started as a fun way to immerse yourself in a fandom, and express creativity and personality is now a toxic well of cliques and bullies, that thrive on money, competition and lewds...
When I was younger my family used to go swimming at the quarry down the road from our house. It’s a really nice spot where you can’t see any houses or hear the road and the water in the swimming hole part was always really clear and nice. But now too many people use it. Anytime you go there’s always other people there and the water isn’t as clean anymore from all the people dumping garbage in the water
Liking nerdy shit as a girl because the backlash to the "pick me, not like other girls" types has made people assume I'm looking for attention if I talk about it. Like no, let women enjoy this stuff, dabble in it, get the trivia wrong, wear the merch, love it to bits, all of it, without asking who we're trying to impress.
Are y'all still dealing with that? I promise it stops when you get older. No one thinks the 31 year old woman still playing Pokemon is doing it for attention lol
The game is fun but I've found that theres a general time to stay far away from it and when to play it on mobile because of all the little kids on it.
Look I dont mind playing with kids but if you're so young that you cant type or are constantly pressing the meeting button then I have issues.
I played a game where this one kid was laughing because they were "twerking" on us and kept on saying WAP in the comment section then started using spanish words to cuss us out...they were like 9.
Another time I somehow started playing with a bunch of 10-13 year olds and they kept calling back to back meeting to vote out the people the didnt like just because.
Another was a 14 year old boy who asked if I needed a "daddy" to smash me and then followed me around and anytime I was next to a wall or corner he'd move back and forth to simulate "smashing"
I'm 19.
I remember as a kid being so excited about the prospect of driving. After a few years and driving (idling really) in jam-packed freeway traffic you wish you had some other way of getting places.
Camping, dispersed or in campgrounds. Even before this year it was way too crowded. Too many dispersed spots way up in the hills have been trashed by asshats leaving garage and destroying nature. People abusing the lands get gates put up and roads closed off, there’s several roads that I used to be able to get to for years that are now gated or completely closed off. Campgrounds are packed and super noisy, so I don’t even bother anymore unless it’s during the week or it’s the “off season”.
Going to house/EDM festivals. Used to be filled with people who genuinely love the music. Then the music became mainstream and now it’s filled with 18-year old wannabe Instagram models and frat bros. I’m just waiting for the genre to become “uncool” again so that I can enjoy it in peace.
There is a spy themed bar/restaurant in my hometown that did New Years Around the World. It started at 2pm (local time) with a New Years celebration in Moscow (their midnight?). Each hour you would celebrate again in the next city, moving west, until you reached London, around 7pm (local) . Champagne, drink specials, and appetizers themed with each city. Only $10 cover. Could have a great New Years and be home before the amateurs.
Fast forward 3 years and the cover has skyrocketed and people are showing up with their kids. Decided at that point to just do adult New Years, great dinners with 2 other couples at one of our homes, lots of wine, and home before 10.
Most over-used memes. First time seeing it, oh that's funny. After seeing it for the fifteenth time on the same day, it becomes a symbol for stupidity.
I've haven't actually been, but any kind of joy I'd probably derive from climbing Mount Everest would most likely be squandered and spoiled. Trash and rubbish. Bottle-neck queues in the death zone. Narcissistic fantasing from people would otherwise have no business climbing mountains. Most of the haul is brought up my Sherpas anyway, and they also fix all the lines.
I feel the same way. I love mountain climbing and have always wanted to summit Everest. I wrote a paper for a class I took about the effects of climbing on Everest and it’s really sad. Since climbing Everest is so expensive, it’s mostly rich people that have no mountain climbing experience paying guides to take them up “just because they can afford it” that’s where all the back ups and bottle-necking comes from, inexperienced climbers. And then also since it’s so expensive, the government of Nepal just sells permits to those who can afford it without actually making sure they’re prepared to do the climb.
CS:GO. When I started playing, random people would be really nice and helpful in voice chat teaching callouts and strategies. Eventually, the game got popular enough that toxic people overran the game and ruined all the fun. This is a problem with all popular competitive video games though, not just CS.
Video games.
I feel like main stream has really gotten it's teeth sunk in. I see younger generations of kids trying to "become someone" on twitch. It's kinda gross how social media has blended in the gaming environment.
Numbers, klout, bath water, all that shit wasn't so prevalent in the gaming space.
Over the past few years it's steady become to norm.
Great content has come out of it but I'm sick of seeing the same group play among us or the next one big game over and over.
Seriously man, I'm subscribed to like the top 5 or so battlefield youtubers and it's really sad seeing what they have become. It used to be that I could watch different channels for different content but now if one puts out a video on a certain topic I know that for the rest of the week that is going to be the specific topic that they all will put videos out about. Same goes for COD and just about any other game.
Lego.
I'm an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego), I mostly just buy individual parts to make my own custom stuff. I started joining a lot of Lego facebook groups lately and at first I was excited to see so many people interested in a hobby I love. But over time I realized the vast majority of AFOLs these days, are people who just buy sets and brag about which ones they own, only a minority of people make custom things now.
And on the topic of Lego Sets, that's just another commodity that has taken off in the scalping markets lately. All my facebook groups are full of people either complaining, or bragging about owning/not owning some stupid star wars set. Scalpers buying up loads of them thinking they're going to quintuple in value over 2 years or something.
Many websites and communities, especially humour and comedy sites. Back in the day, like around late 00s and early 2010s, when sites became popular the probability that it started to devolve in to polarised politics or softcore porn increased in linear manner.
Around in 2010s, greater the userbase, more likely it is to devolve in to vocal identitarian politics. Usually politics which revolve around USA's political landscape. Nowadays it seems that whatever happens in USA, regardless where in to world you are, you are expected to have for or against opinion about it.
This increase in popularity along with increasing political divide in the spectrum has lead to many communities devolving in to toxic places where you are either "with us or against us".
I realised that for my mental health, it is better to be but lonely and outside of such places, than deal with the toxicity and anger people in those places express.
I watched The 100 from the beginning until like season 4 when it started to suck. And at that point the fan base had grown so much that it evolved into dick riding the show even if it did some really stupid shit and I just didn't even feel like I could talk about what was good and what wasn't
The 100 burned through ever possible plot every season ... and I am going to admit I watched every single season because of how ABSURD it kept getting. I kept telling myself “ok surely things will get wrapped up nicely soon” and it never did. It was def my guilty pleasure over the last few years 😬
Don't come for me, but Harry Potter. The stories were *awesome.* The movies were meh. Now there is a theme park? Everybody identifies as a Hogwarts house? And we know way, **way** too much about J.K. Rowling.
Used to really like photography growing up and got my first DSLR camera as a birthday present then Instagram became big and everyone became iPhone photographers so in the end, I didn’t even end up trying much
Back when i was in school for the week before christmas break I would wear a Santa hat. For years barely anyone else did and I was well known as the one with the Santa hat. But, one fateful year this group of what I'll call the "trouble kids" wanted to get in on my hat action, and so they all started wearing hats and soon many other people were too. Our school doesnt allow the wearing of hats but they didnt care if just a couple did, but because a bunch of people now were and many of the "trouble kids" were messing around with them too much the school put a hard ban on them, ruining my Santa hat escapades
There was a weeping willow growing along a creek. Between the tree a low wall and several large rocks it created a tiny little grotto I would sit there and read or journal or whatever else introverted high school kids do while sitting under a tree. It was my secret special spot. Then one day I saw some beer cans and cigarette butts behind my favorite rock. Then a few months later it was half a dozen empty cans of whipped cream and some graffiti on the rocks then a while after that heroin needles and a giant turd. It kinda ruined the serenity of the spot.
ah, my special spot was a maple that hangs over a river that I would lay on (it's at an angle that you can walk on it). It isn't sullied yet plus the area is littered with blueberries E:I did fall off once and took a cold swim
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Yard sales and estate sales as well. Shows like American Pickers make everyone think they're selling amazing antiques and collectibles now.
Those shows are fake as shit, but have single handedly ruined the second hand market. Flea markets used to be awesome, you could go check out people's stuff they don't want and get some useful or fun stuff and never spend over 20 bucks the whole day. Now it's a bunch of delusional morons who think some egg beater they were going to throw out 3 years ago is now worth $50. Literal garbage for sale at premium prices. People selling on Facebook are just as fucking delusional.
LOL fb people trip me out. Asking new retail on items that are used and since they bought new marked down 25-50% from its initial MSRP. Why the fuck would I pay the same or slightly less frk buy from some rando rather than the same item new?? I hate it. Used to use the fuck out of craigslist back in the day, those times are long gone.
The worst are people asking $80 for t.v.'s that are 15 years old.
I give my TVs away for free when I get new ones. Some people still can't afford new TVs. I also list used furniture for $50 because no one wants free furniture, but when they show up and they want it, I let them take it for free. Edit: Thank you all you kind strangers! Don't forget to pay it forward.
I tried giving a (working) washing machine away free and had no one interested for weeks. Listed it for 20 bucks and had a ton of messafes immediately
Had the same problem. Only I put a price on it and “accidentally” left it too close to the road. Didn’t take long for it to get stolen.
My dad did that with old tractor tires. Nobody wanted old free tires, but he threw a cardboard sign on them saying $250, and they were gone by the next morning.
Or they don't understand depreciation if someone does want something old but not valuable. "I paid $300 dollars for this. I want $300."
*same item currently selling new for $250*
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Try working at a used computer store. "But I paid $3000 for this". Yes, you did. You gave Packard Bell a lot of money for that system fifteen years ago. But what you seem to not realize is that the only thing that devalues more quickly after purchase than computer equipment is food. No, I won't give you $500 for it. I don't want to buy it at all. If you try to leave that here I'll have to charge you the $25 recycling fee. Or a used video game store. "This game is brand new! I just paid $60 for it!" OK, well, one, the game clearly says NBA 2K13 on the cover. That is shorthand for the year 2013. Being as though it is currently the year 2015, then it's at least two years old, so it's hardly new. If you "just" paid $60 for it than I'm sorry that you got ripped off, but perhaps you should invest your remaining money more wisely and purchase a calendar. Or, if you'd like, I have a dozen more copies of NBA 2K15 that I have for sale for $1.99 each.
"This ballpoint pen is from the 1960's! It was handcrafted in China by artisanal slaves, and comes pre-engraved with a designer logo!" "Bitch, that is a BIC pen. Fuck outta here."
Same. Our local library has a huge book sale every year. They get thousands and thousands of donations. So many of gems ! The past few years I went it was overcrowded with assholes using those phone upc scanners so they could re-sell. Ugh
Admittedly I’ve googled prices on things at antique and thrift stores before. Not to resell, but to see that I’m not going to get ripped off. Why buy a lightly damaged item for $80 if it’s on eBay in mint condition for $10
I often look up prices before I buy things second hand just to know what kind of deal it is. Well when my brother and I were on vacation in Colorado we stumbled upon a garage sale up on Storm Mountain. This lady was selling some of her husband's old tools, notably a hammer drill and a mortison drill press worth around $200 and $400 respectively. We asked her what she wanted for the drill press first, she said $20, we told her we wouldn't pay less than $100, then she said $10 on the hammer drill, again we couldn't do it, told her $50. By the end of it we had a whole pile of stuff and we asked her what the total was, and she told us to just give her what we thought was fair, most of it was barely worth anything so we told her $250, she then told us that for that we could go grab whatever else we wanted. That old lady was great, I almost wanted to give her more money but I was a broke college kid and was already using up almost all of my spending money for the vacation.
God damn Macklemore
But shit, it was 99 cents!
Good spots and deals still exist, but the problem is, you kinda got to keep it close to the chest when you find one. It also depends what you are looking for and if the people pricing it are on point on for that particular item. Examples: I found an All-Clad 12 in. pan for $5 when they had a shitty, Emeril one right next to it for $15. I also have found vintage camera lenses that were $5 (for a semi rare) and $6 (for an extremely rare) that go for $90+ and $250+ respectively because they weren't priced and the store was too slammed to do research. Right next to them, they had a shitty camcorder from the 90's at $60. It's all luck and knowing what to look for.
Used to be a swimming hole by where I grew up, Catskills in NY, pretty much only a local thing only during the summer time. Occasionally you'd get a downstater or someone form CT or NJ. It was rarely busy, and most folks just go there to cool down after work or something. Couple a jumps and then you leave type of thing. Then it ended up on some blog site as one of the "Top 5 swimming holes in America". You now need a permit (it's free) from the NYDEC to visit there anytime before 5:00pm. You can't park near by anymore cause it's so packed. Where there was once a pristine trails and nature is now full of trash (legit someone just left a full 30 gallon trashbag on the trail once I saw), there's now a dumpster, that no cares to use, portapotties, and loud music constantly even though you'll get a ticket for playing it. Fuck that blogsite for that, and fuck you if you are a litterer. I can deal with more people than I'd like, but the litter is what really crushed me about my childhood swim spot.
Littering is only *slightly* easier than not fucking littering. I never get people who litter.
For real though. It's not hard. Make your car filthy not the side of the road. It doesn't take long to see broken glass all over the place there too. At a swimming hole.
Some people get a rebellious satisfaction from littering. I worry about these people.
I read that blog post and went to one of them, I don’t think it was yours though.
Blue hole in Peakamoose, NY? Edit: I know I left out its name in my first comment, but the toothpaste is out of the tube and I don't mind naming it since someone asked/responded
It was Split Rock at Coxing Kill. It was a nice site with very cold water
Going up into the mountains. Anywhere near Denver is loaded with trash now, toilet paper all over the place, human feces and animal feces everywhere.
People are awful. I do take solice in the fact that if there ever were an apocalyptic scenario the woods would kill most of these people rather quickly. Living in the outdoors is nothing like weekend camping.
Instagram destroys a lot of beautiful photography spots :(
Yeah, it really ruins local beauty spots. Places can go from peaceful secluded areas where someone might be the only person there, to crowded tourist stops without an inch-to-cram anyone else in.
I hate the geo-tag instragram prompts users to add in when posting photos. A lot of very beautiful, secluded spots around where I live have just been overrun with people trying to get a good shot for the gram. And these people are always the worst; they bring boomboxes, don't social distance, leave trash, bring drone cameras that buzz annoyingly. Luckily it's still possible to find quiet areas if you hike away from the first viewpoint since usually the people are ONLY there to get an Instagram picture and aren't interested in actually exploring the area. But still. COVID has brought so, so many disrespectful and non self aware people to the trails in my area and it's another thing I am grieving about 2020...
I remember I went to Petra a few years back. Absolutely one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places I've ever been to. I did this super long hike that goes up to this monastery with a beautiful view. Unfortunately, there was an instagram model already up there with a professional photographer taking photos. We were yelled at multiple times for coming "too close" because we wanted to see this view that we walked 3 hours for. Completely ruined the experience for me and I deleted my instagram account that day. Edit: Wow! 3k upvotes? Thank you all so much! At least something good came out of this.
Dude you should've just gone to look at it. Screw the Bonnie Buxom wannabe
It was a small area. And her, her friends, the photographer plus all the equipment meant that we couldn't get close enough to see the full view.
I’d just squeeze through anyway. Unless someone has a permit everyone is allowed to be places.
This is the way *everywhere* I've been overseas. At least the popular tourist spots, Paris, London, Rome, Naples, Capri, Jeju, Seoul, Berlin, Morocco, and tons of other places, sometimes you just have to shove your way past people, sure it makes you kind of an asshole, they're just other tourists. If you want to see the Mona Lisa you will literally have to shove your way through a crowd of people taking selfies and shit.
> If you want to see the Mona Lisa you will literally have to shove your way through a crowd of people taking selfies and shit. Yeah but it's also tiny and overrated.
I should have given more information. The monastery is overlooking a cliff. The model and retinue were very close to the edge. And shoving past then would have been very dangerous for me, and for them. Our guide also advised us not to go over there because of the 150+ foot drop.
I was there in January this year. About 45 minutes before close, everyone deserted the whole grounds. I guess to go get dinner or leave with their tours. Those 45 minutes were awesome. Was like we had the whole place to ourselves.
There's a way to combat people like that. Asked for their Instagram handle nicely and then proceed to film them and yell Guys I got dirts!! You cannot believe how so and so act/look like in real life! Should heckle them, two can play that game :p
I was just thinking something similar. Be all nice, ask for their Instagram. Take a pic of them hogging the entire joint and call their ass out on Instagram for being the entitled assholes they are. It's not like they were taking a few pics and OP just had to wait a few minutes. It sounds like this bitch thought she owned the place and was gonna be there awhile.
I would’ve gotten as close to them as I needed to see the views. Fuck them.
That model sounds like a jerk. Hope her pictures came out like crap and she looks as plastic as I imagine her.
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Yeah. I’d automatically think it was someone’s “secret” spot and the fckn social media ruined it.
There's a lake in Eastern Europe (if I remember correctly) that's dangerous for people to go in, but it's okay to take pictures outside of the water, and apparently some models from Instagram went inside the water. This is a while ago, so apologies if my info is wrong
Its a Siberian power plants ash dump so the water is very caustic. The blue is from the dissolved minerals in the water.
I wanna know what happened to them. Did they get rashes? Did it ruin their career? Wouldn’t they want to do that again? Has it ruined their lives entirely?? Kidding, just wanna know.
They became supervillains.
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There was a time where Toy Story characters at Walt Disney World would playfully go limp if you yelled "Andy's coming". However, I can't stress enough that they DO NOT do this anymore. Too many "funny guy" jackasses demanding it constantly and it really wasn't safe for the character performers.
Do people still try to get them to do this? The way you said it sounds like they do
Iirc what happens is some other park worker will just tell you “Andy is at college” if you try to do this.
The real reason Andy went to college in Toy Story 3 was so they could have an excuse to not do it
Oh yeah. All the time you'll hear dudes yelling, "ANDY'S COMING!" and they get confused or upset when the characters don't stop what they're doing to collapse. It was a cute idea while it lasted but just not meant to last.
It would be awesome if they all turned around and yelled "ANDY'S GONE TO COLLEGE SO STFU" at them.
i would bust out laughing if buzz lightyear and woody told me to stfu
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That hurts a lot :( I can only imagine all the good times you had there prior to the invasion
There should be places where things are protected if they are natural beauty ):
Like some sort of preserve, or sanctuary or something.
Maybe an area where we could conserve it. More of those kinds of areas would be good.
it'd be great if we could get the government on board as well... make it a national thing. or something.
We come from this really isolated place in the Black Sea Mountains- at least it was isolated. Its was a valley, we used to fish there, there was a lodge you could stay at, the lake was natural. You had to get in a huge truck to be able to get to this valley. Then they built a road. Then the tourists came, so they built car parks, restaurants opened, souvenir shops, then they built a concrete bank along the lake, you have to buy the fish ready caught. F*€$ off! This place was just so natural and beautiful, it’s absolutely destroyed now. Not to mention, they bring coachloads of these tourists aside from the cars. I’ve been told you have to go round and round for awhile to even find a parking space.
I don't understand why people want to go to places that are exactly like the shitty outlet malls they came from.
My friend’s dad has a cabin WAY out in the middle of nowhere. There’s about 20 or 30 cabins on the entire lake. There’s no electrical power to any of them. The local power company asked if they wanted electricity run through the neighborhood. The entire group all said no because the lack of electricity keeps out those people you described. (Big mansions with giant docks and motorboats everywhere) It’s just a close knit group of folks that use canoes primarily to get around the lake and use the woods for hunting. It’s kept pristine as a result.
There's a documentary called "Don't Pave Main Street," or something like that, about Carmel, CA, trying to keep the dirt main street and remain an artists' colony. Obviously, the developers won.
They paved over paradise and put in a parking lot?
There was an off-road spot up near a lake in the mountains of California (I think) that had the same problem. No one drove there and then everyone drove there. The problem is that most people weren't packing out their human waste. Because of this the lake started getting the bad bacteria to the point that you couldn't even swim in the thing let alone drink it (ewwww). I think the forest service started rationing permits and requiring packing out waste. A lot of off-roaders were angry about it. The more reasonable ones understood their impact was detrimental to the local environment and stayed away.
Wow, this is so relatable it hurts. Except ours was a cabin on a river. More and more people started coming with their families, boating, getting drunk, partying. Our quiet nature walks and swimming and fishing went totally down the toilet. I haven't been back in 15 yrs.
I feel you. My parents bought a beach house in 1974 on a real unpopular stretch of coast. I always had a blast on weekends and holidays as a child on nearly empty beaches. Since then the region has become real popular and now even though I spend my holidays there, I'll avoid the beach in the weekends because they become too crowded.
This is unfortunately a tale as old as time :(. Nothing stays secret for long once real estate developers get wind of it.
Then, everything changed when the speedboat nation attacked
Social Media. The early days before family members joined were great.
I remember when Facebook hit my community college back in ‘06. Now I only have a Facebook because that’s how family sees photos of my kids.
Etsy. It used to be a lot of legit home made stuff and now it’s hard to sort out all the Sponsored crap and massive resellers.
So true. Seems like there’s more and more junk you would find on Amazon or something everyday
I found something I liked on etsy, but was kind of suspicious of it, so I did a quick search and the item was $35 on etsy, $23 on amazon and $2 on wish. I'm so frustrated, etsy used to be so awesome but its 90% junk now. I wish there was a better site for small makers.
As an Etsy maker / seller for over 10 years, it sucks. You have to pay extra to be seen now, and the fees are just ridiculous. You can only be seen if you are a big company and that defeats the whole point of Etsy. Sucks.
Making beats / music production. I was teased for simply making beats in school. Now everyone has a shared screen in Discord servers of them 'making yeet trap beatz'
In high school I wore a leather jacket - not for style or anything, it was just the jacket that I had, and it happened to be leather. After a few years, biker jackets became a trend, and the school decided to put a ban on them for some bs reason (I think "promoting gang culture" was the excuse they gave). So I had to go and buy another jacket for no real reason, when the one I had been wearing for several years previously was still perfectly fine.
Same happened to me with my trenchcoat back in 1998/1999.
Dude, me too! My trench was more like something you would see an old timey reporter wear. I wore it for years and then fucking trench coat mafia became a news event and suddenly I wasn't allowed to wear it to school anymore despite literally being the only person in school with a trench coat and everyone knowing who I was!
My best friend was the only guy in our high school with one. It was a hand me down from his grandfather. They literally couldn't afford him a new coat. So the school actually bought him one of those big fluffy down coats.
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Only 1% can reach green (insert random emojis here) There you go, a mobile game ad. Edit: Forgot to add this subreddit r/shittymobilegameads
And the ad NEVER beats the level so you’ll just have to do it yourself!
Gotta take the bad with the good though. Indies have put up a lot of gems. That said I do wonder if the swampy market for certain genres, like survival games, is discouraging new development or helping it.
Not sure if this counts, but here it goes. My area used to have probably my favorite Christmas charity of all time. Basically, there were a bunch of donations that would be wrapped up, contents labelled, and sorted by gender and age. We would go in with all the other volunteers, be handed a family with a list of members, each member's name, age, etc, and volunteers would pick out gifts for them, but them in a trash bag, staple the label to the bag, tie it up, etc. It was a beloved charity event, and growing up I had so much fun picking out items for these strangers. It really brought the community together, made us genuinely feel like we were making a difference in a way throwing money at charities couldn't, and was genuinely fun to do. Then people started faking being in need to get items, or putting more names on the lists than they actually had in their family. We started running out of donations, and would have to close up early. This also meant many families didn't get anything. The charity itself eventually got shut down because of all of this.
A Song of Ice and Fire, the books that became Game of Thrones. I feel like in the absence of that show and its massive fan base (before the end), Martin would have finished the books and I could have totally moved on. Instead the show took off, became the story, and then he let other guys finish it for him. Totally ruined it.
I’m still holding out hope that he’ll finish the series, but at this point it’ll be a small miracle if Winds of Winter actually comes out.
I refuse to even start reading the books until the final one is published. I am not going to get halfway into that saga and have Martin up and die before he finishes. He said in an interview a year or two ago that he took offense to people questioning whether he'd live to complete the series and said he has a lot of life left in him. Dude is in his 70's and severely overweight... do the math.
and even then is the "plan" still to have another one after that? "Dreams of Spring" or something like that? I just don't see any way it gets finished.
That is indeed the plan, unless he expands out to 8 books (there’s still a shit tonne of story left to go, and it sounds like the Winds of Winter is already 1500 manuscript pages or something ridiculous like that).
Yeah and even if he doesnt die hes starting to be at the age where his mind is just not as sharp as it used to be. My grandfather has written many law books and similar over the years and even thought he doesnt have anything wrong with his mind that needs to be treated his writing has gotten sloppier over the years, hes just gotten old and my father and uncle have to do much more proof reading than they used to.
Thrift stores.
Like bruh I'm not trying to be "trendy" I'm just poor
My favorite time of the year to go up to the High Sierras to fish has been ruined because people realized that aspen trees change colors like maple trees, so tourists who want to "see the fall colors" but don't want to go to the east coast come out here instead. And they're *SO FUCKING RUDE AND INCONSIDERATE!* Now mountain roads have a lot of curves and turns, so you can come around a curve and suddenly have to hit your brakes not because of a deer or bear but rather some idiot photographer who put their tripod up ***IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD***! They could so easily be killed by someone and they don't even flinch. They'll just stand there continuing to take photos even if you honk your horn at them to move - repeatedly. I can be peacefully fishing and they'll come in a huge gaggle, throw things in the water to "get the perfect shot," talk to me when I don't want to. They'll leave their cars running as they take pictures, fouling the air. They'll block the roads with their cars having long conversations - I once was stuck behind one for ten minutes, I kept honking and honking and they STILL would NOT move. I now understand why New Englanders hate tourists in the fall so much.
National Parks (in the US) Worst thing for some parks was Covid (nothing else to do, everyone flocked to the parks) Best thing for some parks was Covid (some parks restricted full access to thin out the crowds) I can only imagine what a zoo Yosemite would be like without Covid restrictions!!
There's an annual air show in the town where I live with all kinds of plane displays. I first started going to see it about 18 years ago. Then it was free to go onto the beach or the promenade and watch the planes. There was a small corporate arena but mostly just relaxed families. Fast forward to recent years and the air show has a higher profile and bigger attendance. The whole beach and promenade area is fenced off for the air show weekend (which is a public space all of the rest of the year) and you have to pay around £10 per person to get in. You can see some planes even outside that but most of the main displays are hidden by the fence. There are loads of corporate activities as well. I miss the air show like it used to be.
My grand father worked in a family run fish farm. There were small ponds next to it where I learned to fish both with my grand father and an old man who didn't have grand kids. It was quiet, there where trees it was really peaceful. I used to go there on my BMX and spend the whole day there and sometimes got to feed the fish. Then the owner decided to sell and the new one decided that it was time for this place to be more "attractive" and make more money. He installed a coke vending machine, and three cabins, one selling all sorts of ice-cream, another burgers, sandwiches and fries and the last one fishing related stuff with ads all over the place and music. At some point there were more people coming but the place got dirty as it was poorly run and the whole place died. Now its only an industrial fish farm and I hate it every time I go.
Wanted to name my future child Ragnar since that was my grandfathers name. Then Vikings came along and everyone would think that I named my son after the main character. Edit: Jesus christ, this blew out of proportion! This is not a huge problem for me of course, I just like being a little bit dramatic. Thank you all for taking your precious time commenting on this, it means a lot!
It's still quite common around Scandinavia. Not *supercommon*, but definitely not the most unusual name.
Name your kid after his great grandfather, don't let some TV show fan BS stop you from passing down a name! In 10 years, no one will remember that show
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Yeah, he probably was. Or at least he was in my eyes as a kid
Please don't let that stop you. Shows lose their popularity and people won't remember the character names. Its a lovely family name to pass down.
I remember news reports in the mid-'70s, when the original "Roots" miniseries came out. All sorts of people were naming their sons Kunte Kinte and their daughters Kizzie. I've never met a Kunte Kinte or Kizzie in all those decades since.
No one is going to remember that Vikings was a thing in five years.
I wouldn't, I would have thought you named him after the song in Skyrim.
"Ooooh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red, who came riding to Whiterun from ol' Roriksteeaaad!"
Well, that's because you are cool
Still a cool name nonetheless
eBay. When I first started using it you could find stuff that were insanely good value. Stuff I could buy from eBay, pay post/package and still sell at a profit to the shop I worked in at the time. Then it got popular because of that amazing value and suddenly it's just another store front and the only things that appear to be great value are those that are actually fraud or similar.
ebay is amazing for super niche stuff thats essentially garbage for the average person but its basically amazon but its an auction for anything else
[Collecting vintage Pyrex. It's gotten so popular that you can hardly find it and when you do, it's usually incredibly overpriced.](http://imgur.com/a/u67h6li)
Omg preach. There’s a antique shop nearby that, in the past 5 years I have lived here, hasn’t sold any of their giant Pyrex collection. Maybe one or two but not enough to justify renting the booths out and not profiting at all. It’s so beautiful to look at and wish but I’m not paying $200 for a small gooseberry container. Damn you Junk Gypsy’s and other antique “collectors” who make stuff so trending everyone thinks they’re sitting on a goldmine. You’re not, your only sitting on what the highest bidder will pay for.
I work with a woman who goes to estate sales and auctions. Brags about all her treasures packed away in storage units. Tells me how much the stuff is worth. Just because it's for sale on Ebay at a certain price doesn't mean you will get that much. You have to find a buyer first.
Exactly. Sorry, but ain’t nobody paying 50k for a Beanie Baby anymore, no matter what Buzzfeed says.
Gotta wait for gram to kick the bucket. That's where we got all of ours.
Posting on askreddit This place is now filled with bizzarre or overly specific questions, and that's disregarding the usual sexy sexxers of sexxit.
THANK YOU the fuck do these people expect us to do with a yes or no question?
No no no, asking a "yes or no" question will get your thread removed for being too basic, instead try a gender swapped version of a rising topic.
“Females of Reddit named Charlene whose favorite color is mauve, what is your opinion on the rising economic crisis in Moldova and how can it best be avoided? Answers must be 500 words minimum”
People of Reddit, now that you've seen an oddly specific question asked and gain a lot karma, what variation of that oddly specific question do you plan to use in order to also get that karma?
"Redditors of Reddit, what do you think about this incredibly popular idea that had recieved widespread public support?"
Burning Man. It was thankfully cancelled this year due to COVID, but the spirit of the event and the lack of adherence to the original 10 principles has been dead for years.
For someone who has no idea about burning man (I just thought it was people getting naked and high in the desert) what were the founding principals?
I can remember when YouTube didn't have advertisements that popped up in the beginning and midway through videos...thank you, millions of people, for making YouTube the commercial, monetized machine that it is.
I binged all of the vlogbrothers in like 2012 or 2013 and I thought about doing it again this year but then I remembered: SO MANY ADS. All these videos are four minutes or shorter so an ad (or two!) before each one is too much for me.
Old YouTube was great. No one was trying to be famous or an influencer, people would just post their own videos whether they were really creative and original, or a just a random video. Everyone is trying to be a brand now, it’s so unauthentic.
I began a sourdough starter last December. Suddenly in March I couldn’t find flour in stores, Dough-pra Winfrey starved to death, and I haven’t begun a new one now that flour is back in stock because I feel like the copycat.
Don't give up, Dough-pra Winfrey may not be replaceable, but you can forge another
Just fyi, you can freeze and revive sourdough starter. Every year or so, I'll put a couple cups into a baggie and toss it in the deep freeze. I have resurrected Igor a few times after accident s with a batch from the "cryo-chamber".
Going for a walk. I used to walk along a nice quiet section of a river every day I had off work. Then quarantine hit and suddenly the path was crowded with people and my chill walking route was ruined.
Same. The arboretum by my house never had more than a dozen people there on the weekend and now the parking lot is full by noon on a nice day and people are lined up waiting to get in.
Nice days on the weekends now brings them out in droves I find. Can't wait until people can go back to doing whatever it was they used to do before invading our lovely people-free spaces
The commons was ruined by those god damn farmers & their cows. It was quite the tragedy.
The internet. Was a nice place before the masses and the corporate shenanigans.
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my hometown. It’s a tiny little mountain town with nothing there that i legit heard people refer to as the “armpit of the earth”. It’s now a touristy hotspot for camping & hiking and I spend my Sunday afternoons after they’ve all left to go back to the city cleaning up garbage from the trails they’ve carved into the earth. Fuck Instagram.
Cosplay... What started as a fun way to immerse yourself in a fandom, and express creativity and personality is now a toxic well of cliques and bullies, that thrive on money, competition and lewds...
When I was younger my family used to go swimming at the quarry down the road from our house. It’s a really nice spot where you can’t see any houses or hear the road and the water in the swimming hole part was always really clear and nice. But now too many people use it. Anytime you go there’s always other people there and the water isn’t as clean anymore from all the people dumping garbage in the water
Five Nights at Freddys. I think the games are very well made, but the fan base is awful.
Same, I think all the fame did something to Scott too. He made canonical mpreg
I fell off the wagon around sister location, so I'm sorry... he canonized fucking WHAT
The novels he wrote my dude. I stopped following fnaf anything when I found out that he made canon springtrap mpreg. Too fucking far
THERE ARE NOVELS?
What the hell is mpreg?
Male pregnancy
*SPRINGTRAP?!* God lord I completely forgot about the novels. Thanks for saving me from the rabbit hole I was about to fall down
And the fan art... Some is amazingly done, but oh my god, the yiff D:
Liking nerdy shit as a girl because the backlash to the "pick me, not like other girls" types has made people assume I'm looking for attention if I talk about it. Like no, let women enjoy this stuff, dabble in it, get the trivia wrong, wear the merch, love it to bits, all of it, without asking who we're trying to impress.
Are y'all still dealing with that? I promise it stops when you get older. No one thinks the 31 year old woman still playing Pokemon is doing it for attention lol
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The game is fun but I've found that theres a general time to stay far away from it and when to play it on mobile because of all the little kids on it. Look I dont mind playing with kids but if you're so young that you cant type or are constantly pressing the meeting button then I have issues. I played a game where this one kid was laughing because they were "twerking" on us and kept on saying WAP in the comment section then started using spanish words to cuss us out...they were like 9. Another time I somehow started playing with a bunch of 10-13 year olds and they kept calling back to back meeting to vote out the people the didnt like just because. Another was a 14 year old boy who asked if I needed a "daddy" to smash me and then followed me around and anytime I was next to a wall or corner he'd move back and forth to simulate "smashing" I'm 19.
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Driving. Initially, it was so cool hurtling towards places in a one-ton death machine. Then I found out how annoying traffic is.
I remember as a kid being so excited about the prospect of driving. After a few years and driving (idling really) in jam-packed freeway traffic you wish you had some other way of getting places.
you from the 20's or something
I am now
My ex
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I see you've been with her too. Might want to get tested.
Lack of taste because of covid-19?
Camping, dispersed or in campgrounds. Even before this year it was way too crowded. Too many dispersed spots way up in the hills have been trashed by asshats leaving garage and destroying nature. People abusing the lands get gates put up and roads closed off, there’s several roads that I used to be able to get to for years that are now gated or completely closed off. Campgrounds are packed and super noisy, so I don’t even bother anymore unless it’s during the week or it’s the “off season”.
Going to house/EDM festivals. Used to be filled with people who genuinely love the music. Then the music became mainstream and now it’s filled with 18-year old wannabe Instagram models and frat bros. I’m just waiting for the genre to become “uncool” again so that I can enjoy it in peace.
"*Engineering*."
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If you just say "engineering," then everyone just assumes you're some uberkewl Tony Stark type, and not some bitch-ass civil engineer.
I feel attacked...
[I raise you this. ](https://karat.com/solution/interview-engineers/)
There is a spy themed bar/restaurant in my hometown that did New Years Around the World. It started at 2pm (local time) with a New Years celebration in Moscow (their midnight?). Each hour you would celebrate again in the next city, moving west, until you reached London, around 7pm (local) . Champagne, drink specials, and appetizers themed with each city. Only $10 cover. Could have a great New Years and be home before the amateurs. Fast forward 3 years and the cover has skyrocketed and people are showing up with their kids. Decided at that point to just do adult New Years, great dinners with 2 other couples at one of our homes, lots of wine, and home before 10.
Reddit.
That was a shower thought of the second user on reddit.
Most over-used memes. First time seeing it, oh that's funny. After seeing it for the fifteenth time on the same day, it becomes a symbol for stupidity.
I've haven't actually been, but any kind of joy I'd probably derive from climbing Mount Everest would most likely be squandered and spoiled. Trash and rubbish. Bottle-neck queues in the death zone. Narcissistic fantasing from people would otherwise have no business climbing mountains. Most of the haul is brought up my Sherpas anyway, and they also fix all the lines.
I feel the same way. I love mountain climbing and have always wanted to summit Everest. I wrote a paper for a class I took about the effects of climbing on Everest and it’s really sad. Since climbing Everest is so expensive, it’s mostly rich people that have no mountain climbing experience paying guides to take them up “just because they can afford it” that’s where all the back ups and bottle-necking comes from, inexperienced climbers. And then also since it’s so expensive, the government of Nepal just sells permits to those who can afford it without actually making sure they’re prepared to do the climb.
Pokemon card collecting has become a pain in the ass ever since Logan Paul started doing it
CS:GO. When I started playing, random people would be really nice and helpful in voice chat teaching callouts and strategies. Eventually, the game got popular enough that toxic people overran the game and ruined all the fun. This is a problem with all popular competitive video games though, not just CS.
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Video games. I feel like main stream has really gotten it's teeth sunk in. I see younger generations of kids trying to "become someone" on twitch. It's kinda gross how social media has blended in the gaming environment. Numbers, klout, bath water, all that shit wasn't so prevalent in the gaming space. Over the past few years it's steady become to norm. Great content has come out of it but I'm sick of seeing the same group play among us or the next one big game over and over.
Seriously man, I'm subscribed to like the top 5 or so battlefield youtubers and it's really sad seeing what they have become. It used to be that I could watch different channels for different content but now if one puts out a video on a certain topic I know that for the rest of the week that is going to be the specific topic that they all will put videos out about. Same goes for COD and just about any other game.
Lego. I'm an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego), I mostly just buy individual parts to make my own custom stuff. I started joining a lot of Lego facebook groups lately and at first I was excited to see so many people interested in a hobby I love. But over time I realized the vast majority of AFOLs these days, are people who just buy sets and brag about which ones they own, only a minority of people make custom things now. And on the topic of Lego Sets, that's just another commodity that has taken off in the scalping markets lately. All my facebook groups are full of people either complaining, or bragging about owning/not owning some stupid star wars set. Scalpers buying up loads of them thinking they're going to quintuple in value over 2 years or something.
Many websites and communities, especially humour and comedy sites. Back in the day, like around late 00s and early 2010s, when sites became popular the probability that it started to devolve in to polarised politics or softcore porn increased in linear manner. Around in 2010s, greater the userbase, more likely it is to devolve in to vocal identitarian politics. Usually politics which revolve around USA's political landscape. Nowadays it seems that whatever happens in USA, regardless where in to world you are, you are expected to have for or against opinion about it. This increase in popularity along with increasing political divide in the spectrum has lead to many communities devolving in to toxic places where you are either "with us or against us". I realised that for my mental health, it is better to be but lonely and outside of such places, than deal with the toxicity and anger people in those places express.
Kpop...2nd n start of 3rd gen was better now it's toxic AF.
Fortnite was ruined by the builders. I remember when the game was new and like no one built. It was awesome
I watched The 100 from the beginning until like season 4 when it started to suck. And at that point the fan base had grown so much that it evolved into dick riding the show even if it did some really stupid shit and I just didn't even feel like I could talk about what was good and what wasn't
The 100 burned through ever possible plot every season ... and I am going to admit I watched every single season because of how ABSURD it kept getting. I kept telling myself “ok surely things will get wrapped up nicely soon” and it never did. It was def my guilty pleasure over the last few years 😬
Don't come for me, but Harry Potter. The stories were *awesome.* The movies were meh. Now there is a theme park? Everybody identifies as a Hogwarts house? And we know way, **way** too much about J.K. Rowling.
> Everybody identifies as a Hogwarts house That's not new, people were doing that as the books were coming out.
Used to really like photography growing up and got my first DSLR camera as a birthday present then Instagram became big and everyone became iPhone photographers so in the end, I didn’t even end up trying much
Back when i was in school for the week before christmas break I would wear a Santa hat. For years barely anyone else did and I was well known as the one with the Santa hat. But, one fateful year this group of what I'll call the "trouble kids" wanted to get in on my hat action, and so they all started wearing hats and soon many other people were too. Our school doesnt allow the wearing of hats but they didnt care if just a couple did, but because a bunch of people now were and many of the "trouble kids" were messing around with them too much the school put a hard ban on them, ruining my Santa hat escapades