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.
Nature is getting tired of our s--t. If we don't shape up, She will ship us out. COVID-19 is only a warning--
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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?
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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.
Yes. It all just sounds like "Nostalgia ain't half as good as it used to be".
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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. 🙂
not people. people over consuming / over doing / over using
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So to sum up, everything as been ruined by overconsumption (aka capitalism). Maybe at some point people will realize...
For the rest of this statement, please send $1 to: Happy Dude, at 742 Evergreen Terrace ;)
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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.
The problem is we still have the mentality that people (especially women) should want to be parents. I've told people I like kids in small doses, but wouldn't want one full time and the response was "it will be different if it's your own kid." Like, that's not a good reason to have a kid, especially because it isn't always true. Although, I do think if people are going to be hiking and stuff, they should be considerate of others. Don't blast your speaker near other people and pick up your dang trash. There's no janitor in the woods cleaning up after you.
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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. 🤮
Yeah.. I like true crime but I have never once seen anyone I watch fan girl over any murderer. You're obviously watching s****y people. Check out Stephanie Harlowe or her podcast with an ex cop called "Crime weekly" or try Kendall rae or Sherrilyn Dale (I think I spelled that wrong) or if you like Twitch there a woman called "BOZE vs the world" she does live streams where she covers new & old cases. She's awesome. Or my new favorite is Kimberly Flower. She mostly covers child cases but she's a brilliant woman who cares deeply about the kids she talks about. She WOULD NEVER glorify a murderer. She doesn't hold back on how she feels either. There so many quality true crime creators. But yeah... there's also a lot of a******s who exploit the victims. Just don't give them your digital currency.
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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.
Yes. It all just sounds like "Nostalgia ain't half as good as it used to be".
Load More Replies... 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. 🙂
not people. people over consuming / over doing / over using
Load More Replies... So to sum up, everything as been ruined by overconsumption (aka capitalism). Maybe at some point people will realize...
For the rest of this statement, please send $1 to: Happy Dude, at 742 Evergreen Terrace ;)
Load More Replies... 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.
The problem is we still have the mentality that people (especially women) should want to be parents. I've told people I like kids in small doses, but wouldn't want one full time and the response was "it will be different if it's your own kid." Like, that's not a good reason to have a kid, especially because it isn't always true. Although, I do think if people are going to be hiking and stuff, they should be considerate of others. Don't blast your speaker near other people and pick up your dang trash. There's no janitor in the woods cleaning up after you.
Load More Replies... 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. 🤮
Yeah.. I like true crime but I have never once seen anyone I watch fan girl over any murderer. You're obviously watching s****y people. Check out Stephanie Harlowe or her podcast with an ex cop called "Crime weekly" or try Kendall rae or Sherrilyn Dale (I think I spelled that wrong) or if you like Twitch there a woman called "BOZE vs the world" she does live streams where she covers new & old cases. She's awesome. Or my new favorite is Kimberly Flower. She mostly covers child cases but she's a brilliant woman who cares deeply about the kids she talks about. She WOULD NEVER glorify a murderer. She doesn't hold back on how she feels either. There so many quality true crime creators. But yeah... there's also a lot of a******s who exploit the victims. Just don't give them your digital currency.
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