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.
I fall under this category, and have had complete strangers yell insults and throw garbage at me for existing while being fat. Why am I fat? First, back when I was a distance runner, I got very painful shin splints and collapsed arches, and it took 8 years of hounding medical to get them to do anything more than give me motrin and tell me to f*ck off. Then, my antidepressants stopped working (the infamous Prozac Poop-Out), and just getting out of bed in the morning was nearly impossible, let alone eating or working out. Finally, I developed not one, but TWO thyroid diseases that make it all but impossible for me to lose weight or try to maintain a normal diet. But nobody who harasses me cares about those things, they just see a woman having the audacity to be overweight, and think that means I deserve their deliberate, targeted cruelty.
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Hhhmmm Packet of chips is $4, half a cauliflower is $8. Bottle of fizzy drink is $2, bottle of water is $4. Junk food is cheaper. Fat shaming is huge, no one overweight wants to leave their homes to exercise because of it. No wonder we're getting bigger.
Yes, terribly wrong. Struggling families having to buy food poor in nutrition but high in carbs or fat to feed their families... it's just so wrong. Any decent govt would tax junk food and provide initiative to grow healthy food
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The worst of anything is usually the cheapest.
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The endless grind, poor city planning and a bastardized food system got us here! Brought on by none other that our exploitative economic model!
I was finally able to lose those pesky 20 pounds that I gained during the first year of Covid. How did I do it? I had a god damned heart attack. Thank you, heart attack. You got me to clean up my diet in a messed up heart beat.
I've lost almost 5 stone since January by my diabetes diagnosis Nothing quite motivates you like learning you could die....soon because of your lifestyle choices. And congrats on the weight loss!
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Our obesity problem is NOT from being WELL fed. it is from all the c**p they put in the food to satisfy the poor. Nutrition wise, a poor person is malnourished and obese at the same time. Working 2 jobs 7 days a week they do not have the times to prepare meals that take hrs to cook. and the food that is affordable is not the healthiest. For those who say rice and beans are affordable - tell me how many weeks did you eat JUST ONLY that? If more than 2 (then you might have a say) But I HAVE been there, I now would rather not eat then have to deal with that again.
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Strangely enough, obese people get next to no help. No, it's not just "eat less and get off the couch", and people who say that out themselves as bullies who don't give a rat's a**e about the healthcare system or other people's well-being.
Being underweight is as dangerous as, maybe even more, being overweight and nobody makes a problem out of it. I wonder why is that so. I'm sure it's not related to the fact that skinny bodies are generally seen as aesthetically pleasing...
A little underweight is not a problem, nor is a little overweight.
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I feel kinda funny about this topic because ik that eating disorders and stuff are real things so I don't think it's fair to those people, and I don't wanna body shame people, I personally think that everyone's body is beautiful, coming from someone who has always been self conscious about her body. I developed very early, and to people who said that your tall or big or curvy is not a compliment! I think it is important to consider what other people are going through and how some people just can't help it, the pressure to be skinny and starve yourself is horrible and much worse than people being obese. So personally I very much disagree with this one and it's not really fair especially if your skinny due to genetics and other things to be saying this. But if your skinny just know I'm not saying that's a bad thing! Everyone is beautiful bo matter there body size! Also to everyone saying eat less and get off the couch, just please think about that, it's like my saying don't try so hard and eat more to you if you're skinny. Not very nice huh?
Cheap processed "food" - appeal to the starving and underpaid created by companies, and sell them garbage...and gates is stepping up his fake foods and destroying farms...
Obesity is not the problem. It is the healthcare systems and junk food manufacturers. Junk food has a lot of calories, but not the right ones. Obesity is caused by these. And it is also economic inflation that is bad. Prices for healthy foods (note: I did not say organic food. GMO’ed food can actually be better, it is cheaper and easier to sell) rocket up due to inflation. I am not saying that healthy food is everything, but can help a lot, but not always. McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants are so bad. They sell things at a price increase of a lot. Money that could be spent on other important things. Capitalism sucks. ( I am not a nutritionist or economics expert, so I probably got a few things wrong. If I get something wrong pls don’t downvote, just comment on this. Downvote culture needs to change. This is another big issue, I will do a rant on this when the time comes up.)
In America, it doesn't so much as strain the health care system, as much as make it richer.
If the healthcare system was concerned enough for us to be healthy, they’d go after the food companies which add sugar and unhealthy sweeteners to every possible thing, including “healthy” foods. The fact that they don’t is a pretty good indicator that those who profit immensely from the healthcare system don’t want that profit to change - unless it is an increase.
We are surrounded by unhealthy food, everywhere. As long as people continue to buy it, we will continue to be surrounded by it.
I would change that to junk food. Yes, obesity can complicate people’s health, but a lot of doctors will blame problems on obesity that are really caused by something else so those people don’t get help for their actual problem. Junk food consumption has definitely gotten out of hand, but people come in all different sizes. Don’t shame people for having body fat. It’s a natural part of being human. What’s really gotten out of hand is fad diets. 98% of diets in the US do not work, and many of them are more unhealthy than just letting people stay as they are. If you eat healthy and exercise, no one should care how big you are.
Does anyone know if obesity has increased or decreased over time? I'm going to search through google.
USA has 42% and Australia 31%. Yes it is climbing higher.
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Yea this thread is a perfect example of the previous post about nobody being accountable for their own actions.
As much as I hate to say it, walking the dog isn't exercise, neither is taking out the trash or bringing in the groceries. Exercise is hard work and doesn't include surfing the internet or watching tv.
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.
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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
Noise. Too much noise. And our night lighting is mucking up the migrations of hundreds of species.
You know what's really out of hand? Hyperbole. *Literally everything* is out of hand these days!
Bored Panda can get out of hand lately. I appreciate their dredging through Reddit to serve up what’s really worthwhile from there, but more and more I’m seeing rage-clickbait articles, which encourages mindless hate in the comments
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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Noise. Too much noise. And our night lighting is mucking up the migrations of hundreds of species.
You know what's really out of hand? Hyperbole. *Literally everything* is out of hand these days!
Bored Panda can get out of hand lately. I appreciate their dredging through Reddit to serve up what’s really worthwhile from there, but more and more I’m seeing rage-clickbait articles, which encourages mindless hate in the comments
