Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, citizens were free to watch YouTube videos to their hearts’ desire, without being constantly bombarded with ads for fat-burning tea and companies that will help you build the perfect resume. These same residents could go to the grocery store and purchase a gallon of milk without wondering if they were going to be able to pay rent that month, and they could walk home without hearing TikToks blaring from other people's phones.
Romanticizing the past isn’t always the healthiest thing to do. But we have to admit, there are some things that have gotten way out of hand these days, so Reddit users have recently been calling them out. Below, you’ll find some of these annoyances that likely grind your gears too, so enjoy reading through and be sure to upvote the things you’d like to put an end to as well!
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Already out of hand and has been for a while, but keeps getting worse: advertisements everywhere.
Illiteracy, be it scientific, biological, or media. Too many people are too comfortable with not understanding things.
People doing outrageous s**t in public for views. No one cares, you’re not cute for being disruptive.
Extra points if you can call someone sexist, ableist, or racist if they tell you to please stop
Comment sections on social media. They used to be pretty fun to scroll through and engage with, now it’s mostly full of insufferable people who get off on arguing with strangers online picking fights over literally anything.
The political divide in the U.S. is the worst I’ve seen it in my 43 years on this planet.
The UK is following in your footsteps, particularly after Brexit. We've imported "culture wars", "the war on woke", indeed our (sarcasm)beloved(/sarcasm)Home Secretary (Interior Minister) actually blamed in parliament "The Guardian Reading, Tofu Eating, Wokerati" (Guardian is a leftie newspaper) for failure to get policies enacted!
Jobs asking for 5+ years of experience being listed as entry-level.
Grocery prices.
Why are so many staples going up by 60% or more? Supermarket brand bread has gone from $1.00 per loaf to $2.60 in 3 years. At the same time practically no workers have had pay rises outside management and many have had pay drops. Management rates in the meantime get increases over 15% in many of the years.
People not knowing how to interact politely with their fellow humans. It’s wild.
The US healthcare system. It just gets worse (greedier) year after year.
Planned obsolescence. The absolute worst. How is it that a 400 dollar phone and 1500 dollar phone have the same 1 year warranty?
Monthly subscriptions. Not just streaming services. Software, games and even vehicle features.
It's like the MBAs from MBB have their hands in everything now.
"smart" everything. Leave my gaddamn appliances alone!
My phone doesn't need to be connected to the blinds...
‘Main character’ syndrome.
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Social media feeding into people’s narcissism.
_Perfect_Mistake_:
“Me me me” attitude. Social media has played a huge part of this attention-seeking attitude. Everyone feels the need to be recognized.
Apps! Every business, website, service, you name it has its own damn app now. 3 Factor authorization also means that I have to download several apps on my personal phone just to be able to access sites required by my employer to do my job.
A lot of those apps are just web pages and your company has strict security measures to protect the data in their care. That data will be personal so a data breach is bad news. Especially in Europe and UK where a GDPR breach can cost millions if the company is large enough.
social media & phone addiction, i work with kids and it’s surreal how they are born into it, it’s so normalised creativity is dying, I fear our next generation, everyone is glued to their phones.
Yeah this isn't getting any better either, I saw a kid that can't have been older than 2 with an ipad sitting in a stroller while the mom was on her phone and looking at make-up like wtf? Why did you get a kid if this is how you're gonna deal with them? What about interacting with them?
Climate change is getting scary now. People seem content to ignore it till it kills them though.
This why the younger generation have to think twice about having kids unfortunately.
The cost to simply be alive and take care of yourself.
Rent increases and mortgage rates.
Rent has gone from $200 a week to $550 a week in Tasmania Australia. In something like 6 years.
Gun violence. It’s BEEN out of hand but it’s absolutely terrifying to live in the US right now. Nowhere is safe - not church, not your local bar, not the bank, not the farmers market, not a music festival or concert, nowhere is safe.
I have a slight suspicion this is an issue in only specific countries.
Short videos on every social media app. It destroys the attention span and critical thinking abilities, mainly for children that grow up with these apps watching endless short videos. They will have no motivation to do something else that costs more effort and it is truly concerning.
Literally everything/everyone raising their prices for seriously everything. I have gotten so many "we are raising our prices this year to growing inflation" and yes the items are smaller, you dont get the same as you did before, or the product is worse. They all say we need to raise the rates for something because they cant afford to keep running their business on the prices now. But yet they show record profits. I'm looking at you Xcel.... among others and others and others just like this. Its insane.
A lack of self-awareness. People think its weak or whatever to be mindful of the people around you. It's insane the number of people that just don't care if they are an a*****e.
The level of brightness on new car lights.
And the arseholes that drive right up your a**e at night blinding you!
Entitlement attitude.
I'd comment on how I feel about these idiots but BP would just censor it
The lack of consequences & no accountability.
But that's only for the wealthy,:well-connected and members of law enforcement. The rest of us go straight to solitary or killed n the booking process.
Cancel culture.
Well, depends on the definition. "Cancel culture" can be both a shorthand for "unrepentant bigots finally facing consequences for their actions" and "people getting backlash for some stupid sh#t they did 20 years ago". Only one of those is good / justified.
People falsely claiming their dog is a service animal so they can take it with them anywhere they want.
Phone music and tiktok out loud in public.
I know right?! I don't know how people don't feel embarrassed doing that!
People at the gym recording videos thinking everyone should let them have their way always at the gym since they are recording.
Outrage. It’s totally out of hand. Everyone gets outraged about everything. It’s fueling the divides and tearing the fabric of society and culture.
Biased reporting- fake news; sensationalism and reporting with a clear agenda.
Forget actual facts. Every news outlet avoids doing any actual journalism because there's no money in it. Instead they copy/paste AP stories (edited to put themselves, their advertisers and the politicians they've bought & paid for) and listicles from reddit.
The way people treat hospitality and retail staff. This week I had a woman lose her 💩 at me when I had to tell her she couldn’t take food out of the restaurant, I’ve had people ask for drinks but basically demand them and not even say please, I’ve had tables let their kids make a total mess of the table and floor and show no remorse because that’s what the staff are paid to do
People treating political parties like sports teams. Yay democrats won! Yay GOP won! They are both f*****g you and 100% DO NOT GIVE A S**T ABOUT YOU OR YOUR PETTY LITTLE SOCIAL DIFFERENCES.
Part of the problem is that politicians are the new celebrities. It's all about how popular they are with the social media crowd. And, then there's the fact so many high ranking politicians spend a large amount of time on those social media platforms acting like children. I've seen governors, senators etc literally making fun of each other over their choice of wardrobe or what kind of car they drive, just to try to generate likes and shares.
Absolutely everything being a scam or a con.
From MLMs to literally fake products for "sale", to the ever increasing barrage of fake accounts trying to trick people into handing over money or credit card details, everything is a hustle.
It now takes effort to sift through the c**p to find real things.
People never reading articles and letting their opinions form around rage-bait headlines.
How people easily get replaced. Be it jobs, friendships or relationship.
Obesity. The strain it's causing on the healthcare system is enormous.
Blame food companies for loading up their food with sugar, fat, salt and worthless calories; blame the fact that healthy food is pricy and that your average min-wage, 2/3-job worker doesn't have the time or budget to prepare it. Blame increasing rates of depression, which makes even the most basic care tasks incredibly difficult, to say nothing of trying to exercise or maintain a diet. Blame long working hours requiring workers to sit for 8+ hours a day. I'm so f*cking tired of obese people being treated like dog$hit under the veneer of "concern for [your] health" or "the strain on the healthcare system" with 0 thought for the fact that these are human beings just as deserving of dignity and respect as non-obese people, or how they got to be obese in the first place.
Umm it’s 117 degrees outside and the state is on fire. A lot of places seem like they are burning.
Partisanship and disdain for expertise. Every moron in the world is convinced that watching youtube videos and regurgitating disinformation beats judicious study and qualifications, in forming an opinion.
And their own children pay the majority of the consequences for their parents’ blind stupidity.
Ignorance. So many poorly educated people with no desire to learn. Self education is now seen as a chore instead of a great skill or power. Knowledge is power.
I find the lack of basic biological education to be the most frightening. It's the cause for so much ongoing fear.
The pressure from social media to look absolutely perfect at all times, to the point where everyday people are having surgery to alter their looks.
Inflation.
Note: this post originally had 72 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Sorry, BP, but once again, we get a list full of redundancies: many posts with exactly the same idea as one previously. Please, make your lists shorter and more to the point!
I'd like to add: people complaining about inane things as of their opinion makes a difference
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alot of these were about the us, so I am going to move out of it asap
Sorry, BP, but once again, we get a list full of redundancies: many posts with exactly the same idea as one previously. Please, make your lists shorter and more to the point!
I'd like to add: people complaining about inane things as of their opinion makes a difference
Load More Replies... alot of these were about the us, so I am going to move out of it asap
