Everything has a life cycle. So after Reddit user WarBeast86 made a post on the platform, asking: "What was ruined because too many people did it?" people have been paying respects to their life's treasures that have been (slowly) fading into irrelevance.
Some of the most common examples focus on over-saturated internet trends; for example, influencer culture has become so prevalent that it has led to a loss of authenticity and genuine connection online. Numerous hobbies and activities such as thrift shopping have also been mentioned as hurting from commercialization which, in turn, has led to a loss of their original appeal.
Overall, the post serves as a vivid reminder that it's important to appreciate the stuff that makes you happy because you never know when it can be taken away from you.
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Basically anything outdoorsy. Hiking trails, National Parks, fishing spots, etc.
It's fun when you're the only person on the trail, the lake, or at the camp site. It's not so fun when you're hiking and someone is blasting their music on their Bluetooth speaker, when the lake is packed and people decide to fish 10 feet away from you and are obnoxiously loud, or you go to a National Park and there is graffiti and trash everywhere, random people's names carved into the largest and oldest trees on Earth, and mobs of tourists taking selfies in the middle of the trail.
People don't know how to respect nature. People don't appreciate silence. People don't know how to "leave no trace" or appreciate the natural beauty in the world around them.
Subscription everything...especially software. I want to buy Office/AutoCAD one time and use it for a decade. I don't want to buy it every year.
Craft fairs. Now they're crowded with dozens of MLMs. I just want to find knitted slippers made by an old lady who clearly has a drinking problem, not more Norwex.
For anyone not in the know, MLM = multi level marketing. Basically pyramid schemes pretending not to be pyramid schemes like Amway, JuicePlus, Younique, Osbourne Books, BodyShop at Home, etc etc. The people who sell this at craft fairs, to friends and family and so on are actually the customers and usually make little to no profit, but the business model works on gaslighting. Really worth a google, very interesting and good to be aware of.
declaring their pets as service animals when they are not., thus making it extremely difficult for actual service animals to get their certification, or permission to be around to provide their service
"Emotional support" animals. Every pet is one - doesn't mean it's a service animal.
Tipping culture in America. I can justify a standard 18-20% for good service in bars/restaurants. Why the actual f**k am I being asked to tip 20-30%+ for carry out to eat at home or when I buy retail goods?
Streaming services. I miss the days of one single service: Netflix. Now every studio has its own service and holds their stuff away from services like Netflix and Hulu. Direct consequence: too many subscriptions! At this point it’s more economical to buy stuff you want to watch
ETSY - It's all resellers that run fake craft stores selling cheaply made junk. There's a handful of crafters on ETSY, and the rest is amazon resellers and cheap chinese stuff.
And they still charge "homemade" prices on the resold products/cheap Chinese stuff.
Airbnb.
Mend35 replied:
Used to love Airbnb years ago. Now, it's pricier than a lot of decent hotels, and some of the house rules are nutty.
College almost guaranteeing a good job and career. It is not the ticket it used to be. Over, over, over saturated.
the internet. it might sound strange because on a surface level it's richer and more accessible than ever, but the experience now is so much worse than what early internet used to give you.
(yes, I know I sound like your crotchety old grandma)
Thrift shopping.
charlesdexterward replied:
Yup. 15 years ago the prices were soooo cheap and you could always find a gem. Now they’re always crowded and everything is overpriced and you might find something good once every 2-3 visits if you’re lucky
Perhaps a sign of the times? rather than you finding your bargain, the economics are pushing more people into shopping at these places.
Living in Iceland got f****d up due to Iceland becoming a popular tourist destination. Prices are way up, housing has skyrocketed (lots of reasons, big one being air bnb) and our nature monuments are slowly being eroded by dumbass tourists. I'm a native, but I can barely afford to live here anymore 😢
Enjoying nature. Turn the damn music off you inbred.
Drowning out nature sounds with loud music never made sense to me. If you want to live in a loud noisy place, stay in town and don’t come to the country.
Cooking shows. It used to be a few talented chefs who had shows to teach. Now it’s every damn celebrity who can or cannot cook making the same recipes as everyone else.
Cooking shows became about personalities instead of food. Which sucks, because usually if I am watching a recipe video, it's because I need to see how a step is done and not because I want to hear some made up backstory about making croissants with their grandma.
The housing market.
I honestly think there should be laws about owning multiple properties. There's a housing shortage in the UK, at least, and you have landlords buying up all the properties and charging extortionate rent, pricing out first time buyers who are subsequently locked into the extortionate renting model. Not to mention all the fricking AirBnBs! As a millennial, if you don't have help/inheritance from your older relatives it's nigh on impossible to get onto the property ladder in some areas.
Flying. Before there were so many people flying, we had leg room, food, a carry-on, and two checked bags all in the ticket price. Now we are crammed in like sardines and get nickel and dimed for everything.
Having a dog.
They’re wonderful companions, and many working dogs do great jobs at their tasks, but there are SO MANY people who have dogs and can’t be bothered to do even very basic training. And SO MANY people who are inconsiderate pricks with their dogs in public spaces — letting their unleashed dog charge others, start fights, bark uncontrollably, jump on people, s**t on the trails and not picking up after themselves.
Same with cats. People think they're low maintenance and don't bother to play with them and interact with them. They think that giving them food and water is more than enough. They also mistreat them a lot...
YouTube.
I miss the days of amateur videos. Classic Smosh. Crappy, but still sent entertaining music videos of video games. Actual real reactions that didn't feel like a fake, acted out script.
Now everything is about fitting in to the algorithm, likes and subscriptions, obnoxious influences. YouTube is all clean, square, corporate, and sanitized.
I won't deny there is also really good content to be found as well, but it's mixed in with a lot of crap.
I used to like turning on Youtube for when I only wanted to watch something for a few minutes. Now it seems every video is bloated to ten plus minutes with ads and begging for likes and subscriptions.
Visiting major historical sites...
Most of them have been turned into badly maintained, super expensive tourist traps.
Add in the trash and damages tourists do, and yikes.
Stick with the locals! When it comes to traveling. We visited the Taj Mahal, wasn't all it was cracked up to be, but took a hint from a local and saw another cool building, no crowd!
Moving out to "the country". Traffic used to be that one light that didn't cycle right, now there's backups every day because they failed to upgrade the infrastructure. Urbanites spazzing out because they heard a gunshot from the farm down the street, calling the police because they saw a coyote and "someone needs to do something about it!" All of them putting 10,000 watts worth of lighting all around their house, completely washing out the night sky. Can't forget their bored f**k trophies breaking into garages and trespassing and street racing on dark narrow country roads because there's nothing else to do here. Oh and there's been a couple murders now, before all this the last time we had one was in like the 60s.
We just retired and moved to a small rural town. Bought a fixer upper old house only to discover there is a shortage of tradesmen to hire to fix what I cannot manage myself. It takes months to get a plumber, HVAC or handyman to come out. Call the six HVAC guys in town and lucky to get one to even call you back.
Writing children's books. Used to be an art form, then every celebrity has written one.
It's not just children's books. Celebrities are everywhere now. Fashion, beauty, food. Everywhere
Festivals. I use to enjoy going to some local festivals. Now they’re just overcrowded and expensive.
Saying you used to enjoy festivals when they weren't so popular and crowded is a rite of adulthood. We all have ones we swore we never miss in our lives then stopped going because they now feel different. For me it was Lollapalooza.
When I was young we had this tradition before our cities yearly festival started. We would each get a rubber boat (anything that floated really) and just drift in a nearby lake while drinking beer. The drift took around an hour or so. Then we would go to the festival.
Started out with maybe 20-30 of us for a couple of years. Then some douche bag "popular" guy took note of it. Had to turn it into some massive event with musicians playing and calling for the media to come there etc. Just turned a chill event with friends to something where you couldn't hear your own thoughts because there were so many people there. They even had to close it down after a while because some of the visitors littered too much. Left their boats and s**t in the river etc.
Same thing happened in a university town not that far from us. Some students started a "festival" where we played a more relaxed form of baseball. Sign up as a team, play a tournament, first price was like a bottle of vodka or some s**t like that. Completely free of charge. We slept in tents and drank, super chill and fun thing.
In comes the capitalist mind. Turns the whole thing into some commercialized shitshow where its now the world championship tournament of that casual baseball. Huge entry fees, beer tents, artists.
Like f**k man. What's wrong with setting up a tent, drinking a couple of beers, playing baseball drunk and just having a good time? Noooooooo we need to capitalize on this.
Made both of those things boring as hell.
Podcasts. They used to be funny or insightful or informative or in some way valuable. Now anyone with a microphone and half a funny story thinks they should make a podcast.
Kid: Mommy, where do podcasts come from? Mother: Well honey, when men love their opinions very much... (Not my joke, found it on Twitter. Thought it fit here) Edit: To those calling me sexist, I’m well aware that it is. I was just posting a joke I found on Twitter because the post reminded me of it. I didn’t mean anything by it
A once-pristine mountain lake that was peaceful and excellent for fishing and swimming was ruined by development.
As I've previously commented, the pine trees surrounding the lake have been cut down and houses built everywhere.
Discharge from motorboats and runoff from development have polluted the once-pure water. The fish are gone and the air stinks of pollution instead of being lightly scented by surrounding pine trees.
Rap music ... it's everywhere and it's just terrible ... Some songs have good lyrics, but the melody, the "music" is just the same beat everywhere, it's just boring ...
The popularity of online gaming has ruined campaign based play. Story mode is now backseat to online multiplayer.
The popularity of online add ons is also very annoying, because now games seem purposefully incomplete. The game sells with a short bare bones storyline, but don’t worry, you can buy “extra” story modes.
An ever smaller niche that has died a death is couch coop. My wife and I love playing together, but so many games that would be sooo good, either involve two copies of everything or are poorly implemented so the player 2 feels like a guest in the game rather than an integral part of the experience.
Covid ruined the National and state parks…too many a******s not respecting the land (leaving trash tagging rocks with graffiti)and crowding the trails.
And the park strangers who insist of listening to music or podcast on loudspeaker or talking in their phone without head set.
Farmers markets. Now they’re full of random people selling really weird s**t and try to hold you captive almost and crazy people doing “shows” as they make them. I just wanna buy my things in peace without being harassed. Or buy good coffee without people there for the “ aesthetic”
I remember a few years ago I visited a farmers' market where an older gentleman, maybe around 70, sold pickled veggies in jars. He had cut the carrots and cucumbers right against the glass into cute shapes, and made up little stories about them for the buyers- there were little bears with carrot slice heads and cauliflower bodies, "maidens" with big, poofy, cucumber-skin skirts... I miss those kinds of sellers so, so much. The older people just selling things they made for fun, mostly to make room in their homes for more.
Burning Man. The old guard of the old hippies of yore are long gone. It's over run by hedge fund college kids and raver frat kids.
My tree hugging tie dye wearing, pot smoking, nicotine vaping, classic rock listening, Colbert watching hippie liberal heart is sad and heavy now. Where have all the flower children gone…
Driving to work early. I used to do it, but now it's the same as morning Rush hour.
Same with driving on back roads. They used to be pretty much empty, and a shorter and way more pleasant drive. Now it seems everyone has found them, and they’re just as s****y a drive as the highways and main roads.
Adblock.
Now every website has a warning. It used to be a rare sight.
Flying drones. Thanks to all the idiots doing dumb s**t with them, it's not even worth getting into the hobby nowadays - you pretty much can't fly anywhere worth flying, need all sorts of permits, are constantly risking hefty fines or even being investigated for terrorism... no thanks.
Miss the days when folks would go out in the desert and fly remote control airplanes. Amazing to hang out and watch these five foot planes doing aeronautics. No it’s all drones. Anyone fly remote control planes anymore?
Undergraduate degrees. We’re experiencing a strange educational inflation, where most jobs now require some form of higher education that previously didn’t. I’m not suggesting education is necessarily a bad thing by any means, but it certainty drives a greater division between those that do and don’t go. It’s used to be a 30/70 spilt and now it is 80/20 as to the percentage of people that go and those that don’t, a striking difference.
Being a musician. Oh, you have a computer? Guess you're an "artist" now. Don't worry if you can't sing that's why autotune exists.
Apple picking.
Orchards used to involve parking on a dirt lot, climbing trees to get the best fruit, and paying per bag. Visiting a farm. That’s it.
Now there’s ADMISSION, paid parking, hay rides, food stands, live music, photo taking areas, etc.
Feels like a tourist trap. Because it is.
Another thing I find ridiculous is when there's a food truck fair, and there's an admission fee. It's like, we're already going to pay a fortune for the plate of food we buy, and on top of that, pay admission?! F**k off.
Black Friday
In Australia, it's also now a thing - I can't stand it as it's not a part of our history, just retailers doing commercialism.
There was a fish sauce that Romans used to eat. No one is sure what the recipe was precisely, but accounts say it was delicious. Even if we had the complete recipe, we would never be able to make it. The Romans ate so much of it that the fish species they made it from went extinct.
As "Garum" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum) actually was made from rotten fish intestines, I think I would pass anyway... But they also managed to get the Silphium plant extinct. The plant was used primarily for birth control in roman times. Obviously the romans had a huge need for this, as they eradicated the plant completely.
You used to be one of only a few people around bidding on storage lockers. It used to be a fun hobby I gave up on because it became too popular and people are grossly overpaying for the lockers which is often time just paying to make a dump run for someone.
Social media.
iwbia123 replied:
Really enjoyed Facebook when you had to use a college email address
There’s so many things and places most people didn’t know about prior to Instagram and “influencers” visiting and taking photos there. Think “Manhattanhenge” in NYC used to be a cool phenomenon only cared about or noticed by some but now everyone and their mother comes out lining and blocking the streets for something that was once a hey look at that that’s interesting kind of thing. Now it’s just kind of goofy
Not to mention holding everyone else up just to take a stupid posed picture to upload. Some people actually live there and have to get to work, and you’re holding them up, a******s.
The house flipping trend has certainly not helped home affordability. It's good to make an junk house habitable again, it's not good to turn a $220k house into a $350k house.
I would never buy a flipped house, the bottom line is profit and they do everything as cheaply as possible. When I was looking for a house it was obvious that a house was flipped as soon as we started walking around,. Buy a fixer up for cheap and do it yourself, that way you control the work done.
Theme parks. I went to one once on a weekday when it was supposed to rain years back. There was no one there no lines for any rides at all. Was actually pretty fun. Every other time I have been was miserable I dont want to wait in a 1-3 hr line for a 3 minute ride.
We had an amazing Halloween house in our small town, walking distance from my place. Every year the family who owned it would bring in Hollywood level props and lighting and 10 or so actors in full regalia to replicate a Pirates of the Caribbean scene all around the property. The Jack Sparrow was a dead ringer for Johnny Depp. Every kid would get a bag full of real candy, not the mini Halloween stuff. Unfortunately people started coming from other towns and it turned into a mob scene to the point that cops had to direct traffic and they shut it down.
The beach resort I live close to used to be pretty much just vacationers from within my state. We’re not southern enough to be warm year round, so the busy season is mid-May to end of September (lots of people don’t want to be there until after the kids go back to school, plus it’s not as hot and the ocean water is still warm). 50-60 years ago, kids who just graduated high school or college would spend the week after graduation there. We call them “Junebugs”. One week for high school and one for college (they graduated different weeks), and only kids from the local or in-state schools. Then word got out, and now kids from schools in all the surrounding states started coming down, and their schools graduate different weeks than ours (some states get heavier snow than we do), so now Junebug season isn’t just one or two weeks, it runs from the end of May all the way through the end of June. The kids got to be so rude, obnoxious, drunk, wasted (and not laid back and happy drunk or wasted, either, but dangerously and violently drunk and wasted), and so destructive to people’s property that the local police force has to hire a load of summer cops to handle the amount of calls they get. Basically double their year round number of officers. There have also been murders and sexual assaults resulting from unsupervised 18-22 year olds, who are just not old enough to recognize when a situation is going bad and it’s time to leave before it gets worse, and not authoritative enough to very loudly nd publicly tell someone to f*****g leave them alone. Throw in raging hormones and a lack of critical thinking skills, and you get the picture. It is a f*****g mess, and drives the family vacationers away. Oh, and the f*****g entitled parents of the f*****g entitled kids! “Oh, MY honor student wouldn’t do that!” Well sir, they took Polaroids of everything they did, if you’d like us to send you copies (yeah, you know damned well that hefty check for the damages their “honor student” did would be overnighted! Still wonder if the parents ever made their “honor students” pay them back as a consequence. Probably not. Sadly). Sorry for the F-bombs. I used to both live and work IN the resort. Off season was nice and quiet. In season was a f*****g nightmare. When I changed jobs and moved way outside the resort, I swear it was like getting out of jail. Summer months, summer holidays, and summer weekends aren’t the pain in the a*s they are at the beach. And it is QUIET out here in the boonies!
Everything that has to do with true Crime. Some years ago it was not "popular" at all and you had to search for any documentary and/or website. Now there are extra TV Channels, Podcasts, Magazines, everything and everyone is "an expert".
Reddit. It used to be the social media you could go to that wasn’t overrun by idiots and kids. There are still some gem subs around, but for anything mainstream or front page it’s garbage.
Right now, fanfiction.
Oh boy, take a look through some of the nonsense started because of tictok and Twitter.
There's still a lot of great stuff out there, but the anti-everything-I-personally-dislike mentality and the if-its-not-100%-unproblematic-you're-a-monster-for-writing-it ideals that showed up in the last few years is baffling.
It's fanfiction. Sorry, I guarantee it's never going to be a 100% wholesome or sfw... that's literally the point.
Plus, it is fabulous to see minors suddenly invading established Fandom spaces and yelling weird regurgitated Christian purity slogans and censorship arguments straight out of the 1980s and the 1960s.
And they are SHOCKED when you point this out and show them sources from those times saying the exact same things. Like sweetheart, you're literally quoting stuff from the anti dungeons and dragons satanic panic days...
I'm a fanfic writer from back in the day when we first coined the Citrus Scale! When we had to bring it back because of Tumblr banning NSFW we were all stunned, but we knew how to work things safely out. I'll tell you, though, I've had my life threatened, accounts tampered with (kids trying to guess my pw), and a lot more just because they don't like what I write. Newsflash - DON'T READ IT THEN. That said I'm on Ao3 and still going lol
Nurse practitioners. It was meant for experienced nurses with decades of experience in one field to act as physician extenders. Now a bunch of 21yr olds recently graduated with a BScN directly go into part-time online NP schools and then go to become dangerous clinicians and prescribers that push for independent practice when they have a fraction of the supervised clinical experience and rigour that MD/DO physicians do.
When I herniated my lower disk the back clinic doctor was booked solid so I had to see a NP. She told me there was no surgery that could deal with my problem. I would just have to live with crippling pain the rest of my life. So I went to a neurosurgeon who did a laminectomy. Just a routine operation for him.
I've mentioned this before but in the early 2000s I got into record collecting. I got a record player from Salvation Army for like $5, and people would just give you records. I would buy boxes of records for $2-3 from garage sales. If every single record in there sucked a*s, who cares - I was out $2 and I usually got a milk crate out of the deal! I found so much great music that I probably would have never come across otherwise, and part of the joy for me was exactly that - finding new music to listen to. Now the same things that I picked out of someone's garbage are $30 at a picked over, overorganized store and god forbid you want to get a recent release - the 150 gram audiophile on super cotton candy swirl double album deluxe of whatever is the flavor of today will run you $60 and you better preorder so it can arrive at your door six months later than it was scheduled to in a package that isn't fit to transport styrofoam and left in a puddle and f****n A I hate my post office driver.
Collecting of anything that becomes popular (Comic books, Sports cards etc). The whole grading of items that turn a hobby more into an investment then what it should be, a hobby. Having anything and everything graded by PSA is getting out of hand. You say you have a sealed Back to the Future VHS ? Well send it in to be graded, they're grading a box.
That’s because the true collectors get priced out of their hobby by people who are merely in it for an investment. Same goes for art collecting. If you’re not a billionaire, you can forget buying any original—-unless you’re lucky enough to buy really early works from an artist who later become famous.
Financial news. It used to be non-biased and actually contain information and ideas. They genuinely wanted the readers go make money if it worked. For example, "Here's a good company that if you have some extra cash you should buy. It has these great qualities and here's the history of how it started and what it can do".
Now its b******t like 'Motely Fool' and 'Bazinga' that are owned by mega-corporations that lead sheep to slaughter. The mega corps buy a company on mass, causing a stock price increase. Then they release an article about why you should buy it, which causes slight increases in price. Because of said increases, they short it (bet against where they profit if the price decreases). Then, they sell their entire stake at a small % gain and plummet the price to cash out on the short options. Retail investors get screwed because of the 'News'
I gave up on Motley Fool years ago. I paid attention to them for a while, then slowly realized they were spewing B.S. Or maybe they started out honest and then became a B.S. factory.
The Appalachian Trail. People leaving their trash everywhere is really ruining the trail and it’s so f*****g crowded now.
Havasupi Falls in AZ. Went back in the early 2000’s and it was nice and little to no trash…. Now all these f**k heads have trashed the park and over crowded it for a effing instagram post making wait times ungodly long. I hold great anger towards people that litter in cities but i get enraged at dipshits that litter in parks! Like wtf is wrong with you people?! CLEAN UP YOUR S**T! And for those who actually care please bring a waste bag and we can start cleaning up after these f**k sticks.
Disney world toy story characters dropping to the ground if someone yelled Andy’s coming. It used to be a little known secret but it went viral and way too many people started yelling it out constantly that the actors had to just stop doing it
Any local joint ruined by Diners, Drive ins, and Dives.
Case in point, my favorite morning breakfast place, Pete's Breakfast, was awesome to pop into, grab a nice bite, enjoy some coffee, and b******t with your neighbors.
After D³ ran the Pete's episode, we were looking at a 60-90 minute wait, period. Never went back before we moved.
Grocery couponing. Apparently it only used to be done by a relatively small number of people, which is why they were able to get major discounts. But once word of it spread, grocery chains took them away.
Can’t find decent coupons for stuff people actually buy anymore. With prices of every little thing skyrocketing, every little bit of a discount would help. A buck saved us still a buck saved, and does add up over time. One per week is $52 per year.
Use of the word Karen
Photographers
When digital cameras first got popular in the mid-2000'a it was like an MLM. All your obscure friends and relatives you haven't seen or spoken to in forever are suddenly "professional photographers" and start hitting you up out of nowhere for photo sessions because they badly needed to pay for the 1 class they took, their camera, and the MacBook they bought. It got really weird for a while.
Watching anime.
I’m convinced anime got so unbelievably weeby and adding extra fan service because it got more popular which is my conspiracy theory as to why we don’t really get shows like yu yu hakusho, samurai champloo, etc
Anime has always been this way. Take a look at Crunchyroll, you'll see plenty of very *old* anime that has tons of fanservice. If you look through, however, you'll find the hidden gems, even now.
Skiing at any resort in Colorado/Vermont.
Yup. Aspen used to be cool 40 some odd years ago, now it’s a millionaire’s playground. Same with Vale.
Geek culture. Back in the day, being into stuff like anime, Star Wars, & Star Trek used to be its own subculture. Now all of a sudden being into geek culture is cool and has come out with a lot of s****y stuff lately.
Gatekeeping is never a good look. There is so much quality content around now, but because it's no longer niche enough for the Comic Book Guy types, they complain.
Sneakers. I miss the days of walking into footlocker and getting just about any pair. Only a handful of unobtainable ones. For the longest time people would tell me I don’t understand why you like sneakers so much. Now those same people are “into” sneakers. I hope this fad dies quick and we get back to a small community that actually likes them and not this trendy/reseller c**p we have now.
Liking sneakers was once obscure? When? Back in the late 80s everyone was into LA Gears. Those are technically sneakers.
Z-library. Could read so many books before dumb tiktokers made it go viral and had it shut down
Games, sometimes they have a wave of new players and it brings a*seholes which wreck the game for everyone else. For example Sea of Thieves, i can't play the game anymore without getting raided by other players regardless if i have loot, and even when i try to play a story adventure i can't complete it coz of tw*tty players.
this happened with splatoon 3. at launch it was a bunch of actually skilled players playing for fun, now its all small children who got the game for christmas.
Toss up between the Tik Tok Beyoncé dance thing or Wednesday prom dance re-enactments
In my dorm room, there was a vending machine that, with just the perfect push of the button, would dispense two sprites. For a few of us, it lasted around 6 months. Then they fixed the machine after one loose lip led to another. Open lips snatch sips.
Script writing is ruined by sheer amount of everyone who touches a pen today can write for big movies. It is a hunt if you want to watch a good movie and it is mainly a problem with the script.
It is inflated.
And from the number of movies that come out too, you basically habe no time or spafe to discover the golden script in pile of dogshit.
Whatever the hot new tourism spot is
For example my grandfather used to spend weekends in Nashville when it was a more down to earth low key town
Now it’s one of the hottest travel destinations and is just swamped everywhere
So basically most of the complaints about things being ruined is because the population of the world has increased and decent places to live are overcrowded. Yet half of the USA's population is against providing easy access to birth control, and promotes having more children on the planet.
Made lakeside cabins. A few cabins is peaceful and fun. Filling the lakeside with cabins makes it loud and like being in town. (Disclaimer, I don’t own a cabin) *this is me just remembering someone else saying this*
Toronto Globe & Mail literary quiz. 100 obscure literary questions. Winners got G&M merch. Obscure enough that you had to go to the library, the bookstore and antivirus your computer from all the little websites you had to search to find the answers. I was one of the winners once. The next year I shared answers with a couple of people who shared theirs with me. Little did we know where we shared them was searchable by Google. The G&M got overwhelmed with right answers and promptly retired the contest.
This whole post is just a bunch of hypocrites telling other people not to do the thing that they want to do. You think you're being insightful but you're just part of the problem.
The common thread to all of these issues? People. There's too many dang people. Stop having so many babies, please, so it doesn't keep getting exponentially worse. This concludes my TEDtalk. 🙂
So to sum up, everything as been ruined by overconsumption (aka capitalism). Maybe at some point people will realize...
When I was born there were half as many people on earth as there are today. It seems there are just too many of us, all wanting the same thing.
TL, DR: CAPITALISM... that's what it is. That's what all of this boils down to.
I honestly think a lot of the issue has more to do with overpopulation. Of course people want to move out to "the country" there's no room in the cities. I do agree with the farmers markets and craft shows. I went for a couple years to the local ones (which are small anyway) and had fun, but this last year over half the stalls were mlms or political parties. Im pretty disgusted with how much our local people ruined things with their campaign strategies. I'll never go to another fair on election year again. All that said, we did have some pretty fun events last summer that I'm hoping will be around this year too.
People think they are the ONLY ONES in the area. So all the other people trying to have their experience are robbed by all the uncouth loudmouth who think they are the only ones. We have noticed that people at hotels think NOTHING of slamming their door at 3 am or inviting their friends back to the room for a party. Just because you are not "home" does not mean you become animals. I had one guy who told me, at a hotel, that his room cost $600 a night and he could do anything he wanted...tough $hit for me in the $125 room down the hall. The noise level at 4 am was about jet airplane loud. Not to mention the smells emitted from the puke in the hallway.
I know about these republican johnny come lately's never a original thought only followers as in fox news aka fanook news. Trumps suks commie dik along with EVERY lame lemming white middle class never a original thought loser followers who vote WAY out of their racist low payscale like total inbred fools.
So, basically everything is ruined and we can't enjoy anything? I can't enjoy hiking, because other people are hiking too, I can't enjoy watching stuff like Star trek, because too many people like it.
True Crime. Nowadays it’s all about fangirling over monsters like Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez. It’s disgusting. 🤮
This whole post is just a bunch of hypocrites telling other people not to do the thing that they want to do. You think you're being insightful but you're just part of the problem.
The common thread to all of these issues? People. There's too many dang people. Stop having so many babies, please, so it doesn't keep getting exponentially worse. This concludes my TEDtalk. 🙂
So to sum up, everything as been ruined by overconsumption (aka capitalism). Maybe at some point people will realize...
When I was born there were half as many people on earth as there are today. It seems there are just too many of us, all wanting the same thing.
TL, DR: CAPITALISM... that's what it is. That's what all of this boils down to.
I honestly think a lot of the issue has more to do with overpopulation. Of course people want to move out to "the country" there's no room in the cities. I do agree with the farmers markets and craft shows. I went for a couple years to the local ones (which are small anyway) and had fun, but this last year over half the stalls were mlms or political parties. Im pretty disgusted with how much our local people ruined things with their campaign strategies. I'll never go to another fair on election year again. All that said, we did have some pretty fun events last summer that I'm hoping will be around this year too.
People think they are the ONLY ONES in the area. So all the other people trying to have their experience are robbed by all the uncouth loudmouth who think they are the only ones. We have noticed that people at hotels think NOTHING of slamming their door at 3 am or inviting their friends back to the room for a party. Just because you are not "home" does not mean you become animals. I had one guy who told me, at a hotel, that his room cost $600 a night and he could do anything he wanted...tough $hit for me in the $125 room down the hall. The noise level at 4 am was about jet airplane loud. Not to mention the smells emitted from the puke in the hallway.
I know about these republican johnny come lately's never a original thought only followers as in fox news aka fanook news. Trumps suks commie dik along with EVERY lame lemming white middle class never a original thought loser followers who vote WAY out of their racist low payscale like total inbred fools.
So, basically everything is ruined and we can't enjoy anything? I can't enjoy hiking, because other people are hiking too, I can't enjoy watching stuff like Star trek, because too many people like it.
True Crime. Nowadays it’s all about fangirling over monsters like Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez. It’s disgusting. 🤮
