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49 People Share Things That Are Outdated, Toxic And Should Be Retired
Everyone's approach to life is different, but there are some things many of us agree on. For example, recent economic conditions have resulted in homeownership being less attainable, while the pandemic and the Great Resignation have made us realize the value of freedom, comfort, and flexibility. We understand that celebrities can't save us and that things need to change if we want to wake up with a smile on our faces in this ever-changing world. Interested in what that could be, Reddit user MustPlayVR made a post on the platform, asking people, "What needs to die out in 2024?" Here are some of the most popular answers, big and small.

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Layoffs while CEOs get paid 300x the average employee and still get a raise 5x the % of the average employee as well.
Gender reveal parties where they start forest fires just to announce their unborn child’s gender like seriously, just send a text to everyone saying “it’s a boy/girl”
Pumping in more and more advertisements into...*everything*, even premium/paid monthly subscriptions/streaming. Sports are taking longer and longer due to more ads. More ads are being injected into everything.
It's hard to imagine most ads are even effective at all. How many people have bought an item or service based on advertising? If anything it makes me more likely to not buy it, especially if the ad is particularly annoying or way overplayed.
Also, ad agencies used to put much more effort into ads/commercials. Commercials were never a good thing, but some used to be slightly funny or entertaining at least.
Influencers filming themselves “helping” others, you’re not helping them, you’re exploiting them for your own gain.
Filming everything. Filming at the gym. Playing phone speakers out loud in public. Price gouging. Rent hikes. Stagnated wages.
Lip and cheek injections - women are so beautiful yet they are trying so hard to look like filters. I truly wish they could be happy without that influence.
EVERYTHING BEING CROPPED. Jesus christ i hate cropped things. If i find a cute shirt it’s cropped, cute jacket? it’s cropped. cute sweater? ITS CROPPED. i don’t care if people wear it but ITS EVERYWHERE.
Probably about half of the US political leaders. A bunch of out of touch rich dinosaurs should not be making decisions for us
Still using covid as an excuse for everything going wrong. "We're understaffed because of covid" "Prices are up because of covid" "We're out of bread at the grocery store because covid affecting the suppliers" yea that last one was personal
Cancel culture, specifically when it is about something that happened ages ago, at a time that behavior was not considered problematic
Subscription services. But they won’t. They’ll keep replacing single upfront purchases. It’s a shame.
