32 Trends That Disappeared Too Soon, From The Silly Ones To The Far-Too-Real

I still find useful forums like this to this day.

I ran a series of forums in the late 90s to about 2010. Amazing communities and people. Facebook pulled away a lot of traffic.

Yes, but there is always one àreshole who makes disparaging comments about new people asking sensible basic questions.

It's not that they aren't out there, but that the Internet community is so much larger that the signal to noise ratio has pretty much reached the point of uselessness. It takes a lot of hunting around to find a good forum, and then you generally have to hang out in it for a considerable time before you can get any attention to your problems. Social media also had the effect of wiping out a lot of text-based forums and the love of the WWW had already pretty much destroyed usenet.

I would upvote this 100,000 times if I could.

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I love christmas cards. Each year I write up to 15 cards for friends and family. Oftentimes they are handmade (diamond painting, cross stitching or with papercraft). They all love to receive them, but sadly I receive in the best of cases 1 or 2. And often they tell me, how sad it is, that no one writes cards anymore. Emails are simply not as great as real cards.

We still have New Year's Cards in Japan, but either I don't know enough people or a lot of people are stopping that as well...

Pm me your address and will send you one from Spain

I almost downvoted this for the "imma," but I always enjoyed getting lots of holiday cards.

I like getting them, but I absolutely loathe writing them. We stopped sending them this past Christmas. We weren't receiving many anyway.

You're a convicted r@pist who deserves more than a punch in the face, Mike.

I get what he's saying though. I don't condone the violent implications, but what he's saying, that people have come to understand that disrespect carries no consequences, is a valid point. Our society rewards assholery and accountability is step one in fixing it. Violence, just to be clear, is not.

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I’m not taking advice from a violent criminal, thanks.

It's not social media, it's anonymity

BP think a violent quote from a rapist is cool.

It's not so much using manners, it's knowing HOW to use them. Don't just say excuse me while shoving your way past someone. Don't say excuse me, and expect that person to instantly move out of the way. You say "Excuse me, please" as a way to alert someone you are waiting to get by, and you be patient and allow that person to do what they need to do to give you safe clearance to go past. It actually doesn't normally take that long. When someone does something kind for you, you say thank you, and they should say "You're welcome." This hatred for "you're welcome" is illogical and overly thought. It just means acknowledging the thank you. It's not that deep. You're welcome to help. You're welcome anytime. You're welcome to be thanked. I hope that provides better clarity.

Are you sure they were ever silent? I recall racist jokes were thrown around a lot in school.

It’s always been there, it’s just being recorded and going viral now. And on top of that a lot is f racists not thinking they are actually racist, because it doesn’t sound as vile as the so called “real” racists. There are for the most art two types of white people, the non-cross burning racists and the cross-burning ones. The first group thinks they are better than the second group, they fight with each other about whose worst, while ignoring Native and Black people telling them both groups are a problem. When only 4% of Black people benefited from DEI we just have one group of racists thinking they are better than another group of racists, while simultaneously doing nothing about systemic racism.

where did you go to school??

Or they end the season of an actual GOOD show on a cliffhanger, then leave us hanging by cancelling the show so there’s NO next season at all to complete the story arc. The other end of the spectrum are the shows that jumped the shark a couple seasons ago, and never seem to end, even though they’re virtually unwatchable. They cancel the quality stuff but keep cranking out the s**t stuff.

20? Bring back 32 episodes a season!

And WEEKLY RELEASES. This whole "binge release" trend ruined TV shows.

Nah, I like shorter seasons with higher production value and tighter storytelling. I can't stand filler episodes.

My favourite series was 40-42 episodes a season!

As a child, I had the impression that I would be offered free d***s by strangers far more frequently than the “zero” times that it actually happened!

Or standing up when the credits are still rolling.

I’m not sure that’s fair on the colour scale - my mother just bought an electric pink iPhone.

The world is turning beige. Gray scale, muted, earth tones, but not the fun ones. Blasé. Been looking for a nice bright purple, quality bath towel for my husband. Been looking for years.

You can include cars in this too. They used to be really colorful, with Yellow, Green, Purple and Orange. Now all you can find it Black, white, and silver.

N64 controllers - my favourite all-time controllers. I remember being excited to use them, loving using them, and now I look back on them fondly.

I just finished watching The West Wing, and it reminded me why people get passionate about politics. Then I went back to watching actual politics, and I was reminded that The West Wing is more of a fantasy than The Lord of the Rings.

Listening to the so-called leader of the free world struggle to put a simple sentence together is seriously worrying.