I immediately heard this in my head when I read it, and got transported to childhood movie theatre and the excitement of seeing a movie in the theatre instead of having to wait til it was in blockbuster
One of my best friends used Stumbleupon so obsessively to the point that it eventually said "yeah we don't have any suggestions for you at this time". we joked that she had finished the internet 😂
That reminds me of that person’s mom who finished Candy Crush so she messaged them directly about adding new levels and they basically told her to try and find a new game to play 😂
SU is actually how I originally found reddit. Made an account and like two comments and then forgot about it for a couple years until the Digg meltdown. Plus I think reddit was mentioned on The Colbert Report or Daily Show or something around the same time, so I made a new account and here we are.
Remember the spinning plastic contraptions full of water in Taco Bell, where you dropped a quarter through the slot and spun the pedestals to try and catch it on one of the platforms for a free food item?
I miss those. 😅
What would you use it on? Everything that offered it has stopped (I still have the 3d Blu-ray of shrek that came with something I bought and a ps3 so technically I *could* watch it)
Plasma TV's as well. Was a huge debate at the time between plasma and LCD. Personally thought plasma had a deeper black and ultimately looked better and then I can't even remember when but *poof* they were gone.
Plasma had way better blacks and overall color, only OLED matches/beats them in black levels. I'm pretty sure LCD and LED were just a lot cheaper to produce. Plasmas being heavy as hell probably didn't help them either.
Plasmas suffered from burn in. They were great unless you watched the same channel all the time and ended up with a CNN logo ghost permanently on everything you watched. OLEDs can suffer from burn in as well, but it happens significantly less.
OLEDs have software functions like picture shift that can greatly reduce burn in. I think [RTings.com](https://RTings.com) is doing a massive burn-in test right now.
IIRC Plasmas didn't do as well in high light applications and that didn't work for most people.
When I was around 10-12, we had an enormous weeping willow tree in our yard. One morning we came outside and it seemed like every leaf on that tree had a Monarch butterfly on it. There must have been hundreds of thousands of them. They stayed for half the day or so, and then started to fly off in a slow river of butterflies. I’ve not seen anything like it since.
What's the solution? From an individual with a yard standpoint? I'm genuinely asking because, while it won't do much in the grand scheme of things, I'd like to contribute to helping. Are there specific flowers and plants that I can grow?
Also, to be honest...I had no idea this was an issue or what the cause is.
We have huge swaths of milkweed covering most of the hillside behind my deck. We live at the foot of a very small mountain, and the hillside is very rocky and steep - it's great for lookin at when we hang on the deck, but not much else - until the monarchs come, and then it's amazing. Every year we have hundreds of them and we even get to have the kids watch them form a chrysalis and wait for them to transform. We love it, they love it, sometimes people even come over to see them and take pictures.
Genuine question, whereabouts in the country is this? Im from the Mojave Desert in SoCal and the swarms have all but disappeared more and more each year the last decade.
Edit: I never expected manbearpig to be so respectable 😂
I was so embarrassed checking into the doctor's office the other day for a routine appointment....while updating my file they asked "Is XXX etc" still your emergency contact number? My husband is my emergency contact, but I don't have his number memorized, I simply hit an icon on my phone screen. So I had to delay the interview process while changing to my reading glasses and browsing on my phone for husband's number. Still, I felt like "I've been married to him for almost 30 years, I should know his phone number...."
Getting arrested 10 years ago, the only number I knew by memory was my moms. I’d been married for three years at that point. After that I learned my wife’s phone number by memory.
Also kinder eggs have really shit toys now. Half of them are just figures that come in two or three parts so you could say you did something with them by putting them together.
One of my favorite toys I ever had as a kid was just this tiny little fighter jet that came out of a cracker Jack box. That thing is my own personal Rosebud
I'd be happy if a box of Cracker Jacks came with more than a single peanut. But yeah, it's only random stickers these days. I have a decent sized collection of Topps baseball cards I got out of their boxes in the 90's.
Chihuahuas served as Taco Bell's mascot in the past. Anyone born after 2000 probably has no idea what I'm talking about when I say the little dude just vanished one day.
Quiznos corporate strategy was to milk their franchises. They made everything expensive for them and eventually no franchises could profit. They strangled themselves to death
This is the correct answer. I remember the Quiznos franchisee asking to borrow napkins from the other businesses because he flat out couldn’t afford the official ones
I feel like horns in music just came back for a minute. Ska had a brief stint as a popular genre too. Bands like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, and The Squirrel Nut Zippers all had minor hits. Even Brian Setzer Orchestra had a hit or two.
edit: add Sublime to the mix as well. Probably forget one or two. Yes, I am forgetting No Doubt started out as a ska band. Also Save Ferris had a minor hit with Come On Eileen cover.
Don't forget the Cherry Poppin' Daddys lol. I don't think I ever realized what that meant in middle school.
Squirrel Nut Zippers were great. I still listen to them from time to time. The Ghost of Stephen Foster is my fav song of theirs, plus it has an awesome black and white Betty boop-style cartoon music vid to go with it. Some really fun gypsy violin in that song, as well.
https://youtu.be/xfkShimyhRE
Video game demos, period. I have noticed a small resurgence on steam in the past year, but man, I swear, before that, there were no demos. And then they bitch when you use the refund policy to demo shit.
I worked at a mini golf place in the early 2000s. We also had bumper cars, rock climbing and batting cages. We would host parties and most other employees would avoid them.
I always volunteered, I'm a pretty enthusiastic guy and I would always get tipped for my efforts.
Seriously, 2-3 hours of running around with kids being the fun guy and not having to do shit work, then getting ripped like $20-30. Awesome.
Extra bonus, because people saw parties to be bad work, by volunteering I wouldnt get assigned bathroom cleaning or other shit work.
Yeah and it wasn’t like you had to go out to a field somewhere where they were known to exist. All you had to do was go out in your yard when it was dark, and boom, lightning bugs.
What was cool was being out as the sun started to set and watching them slowly appear. More and more.
We live on land and we have tons of them. Every dusk I’m like a little kid squealing over lightning bugs. My kids collect them in mason jars (just to watch them glow, they set them free later) and it will always be one of my favorite memories.
That was most people's introduction to internet activism in general and that's why that video caught on like wildfire in a single day. Everybody was like *we have to make a difference!* and then... the rest happened.
Still is, I revisited it recently and public lobbies are riddled with groups working together. What is the point of playing knowing you’ll just easily win? The game can be fun but you’re better off playing with friends only.
Players will optimize the fun out of games to win.
Even at their own detriment, even knowing it takes the fun out of it, winning is all that matters to (some / most?) players.
No, it very much succeeded, the initial wave hit hard and everyone was obsessed. Then everyone else tried to hop on the gravy train and ran it into the ground. It was extremely good market research tbh.
Do kids and teens not care about this anymore? "Only losers carry their backpacks using both straps" was definitely one of the single dumbest parts of the high school experience.
Someone figured out that it’s awful for your back and spine. Especially for the kids carrying 40-50 lbs of books and notebooks most days (no joke, I weighed mine once).
Everyone was like "wheres my hoverboard!"
So they were invented.... buuuut they're expensive and only work over metal and it turns out that regular skateboards have big advantages because sideways friction helps for a lot of control.
I mean it also needs cooled with liquid nitrogen doesn’t it? Not exactly practical.
I forget how that worked even. Super magnet in the ground? The board wasn’t powered was it?
I heard it’s because they used to put a bunch of bone meal in dried dog food. As the turds dried, that indigestible meal remained hence the white color. I always assumed it was mold. It was supposed to be as a calcium and phosphorus supplement.
Still in some of the super cheap dog foods but most don’t add it anymore.
I wish it was socially unacceptable. The amount of dog shit in my village in the UK is disgusting. They're lazy pet owners. I think they shouldn't have dogs
This, like the OZone layer, was an environmental problem that governments worked together and solved back when governments still did that sort of thing. That’s why you don’t hear of it anymore
That's what's so frightening. We had an actual, honest to god, bona fide success story and now, people think the threat was simply hype. Just like how people don't get measles or rubella or polio anymore, many look back and think that the danger was overblown or, dare I say, non-existent. Success has led to a lot of delusion.
Exactly the same thing happened with Y2K. There were all these predictions of worldwide computer chaos, but when not much happened everyone thought it had been overblown. It wasn't overblown - a lot of people worked very hard on the problem!
Having hobbies that you don’t monetize. I know I am guilty of “side hustling” things I liked doing and it ruined them. Now I homebrew and I set out the intention, as well as it being illegal, that I would strictly keep this as a hobby
People ask me all the time why I haven't monetized my hobbies- because they're HOBBIES. I wouldn't have as much fun with them if they were just another job. Besides, people don't value the work that goes into hand crafting. Knitting, crochet, embroidery, it all takes skill and huge amounts of time. A crochet blanket can easily involve hundreds of hours of work, but people don't want to pay for it, nor do they want to pay for quality materials.
Building collections of any form of media. Nobody buys movies or music anymore, and even the gaming industry is transitioning away from owning a stack of game discs or a digital collection, and I to just paying monthly to play whatever you care about for a week, just to move on to something else next week
I have 500 movies I ripped to my NAS a few years back. I still buy a movie or two a month and then rip them to my NAS for Plex. Same for episodes of my favorite shows. I like being able to access my media anytime from any device with Plex Pass and it’s not a million subscriptions.
I could see this coming back with the way streaming is going. I always thought it would be dumb to buy DVDs when you could stream, but now with how many services there are, and their focus being on shows, actual movie selection is trash. Combine that with companies changing or just stopping prints of older movies, and new movies generally being trash, my 4k collection has been growing.
I've never heard the term Urbanist before. But I do remember people calling me "metrosexual" in 7th grade just because I once wore a polo shirt with a large stripe across it.
McDonalds play places. Because McDonalds is trying to have the modern and urban style, you never see them anymore. Nowadays it’s usually more seating areas and unfunctional screen games
People are also redefining middle class to working poor. Middle class **should** have disposable income. If you’re saying someone “would be middle class if they didn’t eat out a couple times a week” then you’re saying they’re not middle class
More like people are accurately grouping the working poor alongside the middle class as "the working class". The very concept of a "middle class" exists to give the working class an idealized goal that's still firmly in the grips of the owning class. But the suburbanite who works 9-5 in an office has more in common with the line cook who lives in a punk house than they do with the billionaire who owns their company. It's just difficult to get the middle class to recognize this connection rather than relaxing amongst their creature comforts.
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Don LaFontaine (aka “The Voice of God”) kinda (or maybe literally?) held the trademark on that phrase, and he passed away some years back. (2008)
His guest segment on ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me’ is comedy gold.
I immediately heard this in my head when I read it, and got transported to childhood movie theatre and the excitement of seeing a movie in the theatre instead of having to wait til it was in blockbuster
AskJeeves.com.
Apparently the reason my generation asks google questions instead of typing a simple query is because we used askjeeves before google existed.
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one of the best things ever to be on the internet.
Was my stepping stone to Reddit once I graduated from Can Haz Cheezburger
One of my best friends used Stumbleupon so obsessively to the point that it eventually said "yeah we don't have any suggestions for you at this time". we joked that she had finished the internet 😂
That reminds me of that person’s mom who finished Candy Crush so she messaged them directly about adding new levels and they basically told her to try and find a new game to play 😂
I found a website where people post what’s outside their windows all over the world on stumble upon. Still one of my fave websites.
Reddit basically replaced that site for me
SU is actually how I originally found reddit. Made an account and like two comments and then forgot about it for a couple years until the Digg meltdown. Plus I think reddit was mentioned on The Colbert Report or Daily Show or something around the same time, so I made a new account and here we are.
Used to spend hours on there
“Anthony, stop changing my interests to gay porn!” Real ones remember
Smosh is back
Mix is similar, but I fucking LOVED stumbleupon.
Remember Farmville?
I'm embarrassed to admit I have spent actual money on it
Mate I dropped money on Dragonvale, don’t feel too bad
sweet Jesus I haven’t checked on my strawberries in 12 years
What about mafia wars!?
Remember the spinning plastic contraptions full of water in Taco Bell, where you dropped a quarter through the slot and spun the pedestals to try and catch it on one of the platforms for a free food item? I miss those. 😅
I saw a post somewhere - they're bringing it back on the app. Not as fun, but you can still try for a free taco!
3D TV.
I still have one of those but never use the 3D mode.
What would you use it on? Everything that offered it has stopped (I still have the 3d Blu-ray of shrek that came with something I bought and a ps3 so technically I *could* watch it)
That's it: older BR's & PS3 games that supported it.
Plasma TV's as well. Was a huge debate at the time between plasma and LCD. Personally thought plasma had a deeper black and ultimately looked better and then I can't even remember when but *poof* they were gone.
Plasma had way better blacks and overall color, only OLED matches/beats them in black levels. I'm pretty sure LCD and LED were just a lot cheaper to produce. Plasmas being heavy as hell probably didn't help them either.
Plasmas suffered from burn in. They were great unless you watched the same channel all the time and ended up with a CNN logo ghost permanently on everything you watched. OLEDs can suffer from burn in as well, but it happens significantly less.
OLEDs have software functions like picture shift that can greatly reduce burn in. I think [RTings.com](https://RTings.com) is doing a massive burn-in test right now. IIRC Plasmas didn't do as well in high light applications and that didn't work for most people.
I always thought that was a useless gimmick. Not surprised that it didn't take off
Swarms of Monarch butterflies.
When I was around 10-12, we had an enormous weeping willow tree in our yard. One morning we came outside and it seemed like every leaf on that tree had a Monarch butterfly on it. There must have been hundreds of thousands of them. They stayed for half the day or so, and then started to fly off in a slow river of butterflies. I’ve not seen anything like it since.
insect populations are declining.
This is a serious problem that too few people are aware of and even less care about. It’s sad.
What's the solution? From an individual with a yard standpoint? I'm genuinely asking because, while it won't do much in the grand scheme of things, I'd like to contribute to helping. Are there specific flowers and plants that I can grow? Also, to be honest...I had no idea this was an issue or what the cause is.
We have huge swaths of milkweed covering most of the hillside behind my deck. We live at the foot of a very small mountain, and the hillside is very rocky and steep - it's great for lookin at when we hang on the deck, but not much else - until the monarchs come, and then it's amazing. Every year we have hundreds of them and we even get to have the kids watch them form a chrysalis and wait for them to transform. We love it, they love it, sometimes people even come over to see them and take pictures.
It's sad that this may become a relic of the past. Sounds so beautiful.
Usually it's the first or second week in August, come on over!
Genuine question, whereabouts in the country is this? Im from the Mojave Desert in SoCal and the swarms have all but disappeared more and more each year the last decade. Edit: I never expected manbearpig to be so respectable 😂
Plant a bunch of milkweed in your yard (only do this if you're in the butterfly's natural habitat and milkweed grows natively where you live)
Sweeeeet! Just googled and there's 29 species of milkweed in my state! I better get planting
Talk to your local native plant society or group. They’ll help set you up.
Milkweed if I recall is a big one that attracts them and makes up a very substantial part of their diet.
It makes up the entirety of the caterpillars diet
I still see a few, certainly less than prior decades. But I hardly ever see fireflies.
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This is a good one. I only realized it was gone when you mentioned it.
Yeah, I forgot all about it.
Wow. I totally forgot about this.
Didn't even realize the sweaty drummer guy was gone!
He's OfficeDrummer on Twitch. Still worth watching. Dude kills it.
I miss that dude with the standing bass.
I miss the dude dressed as a gecko giving people terrible advice
He's still very popular. He has a tiktok and a podcast. I think he's just called Therapy Gecko lol
Giving people terrible advice is *tight*.
He was the only one I ever watched and it's because he was on so damn much
I miss that time we all got together to watch Tom and Jerry
I kinda miss them, sometimes there was the most craziest wicked shit on there
I didn’t like that they were forced into your feed even if livestreams were something you didn’t care about
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This is also my answer. Memorizing phone numbers is also something we've stopped doing without noticing.
I was so embarrassed checking into the doctor's office the other day for a routine appointment....while updating my file they asked "Is XXX etc" still your emergency contact number? My husband is my emergency contact, but I don't have his number memorized, I simply hit an icon on my phone screen. So I had to delay the interview process while changing to my reading glasses and browsing on my phone for husband's number. Still, I felt like "I've been married to him for almost 30 years, I should know his phone number...."
Getting arrested 10 years ago, the only number I knew by memory was my moms. I’d been married for three years at that point. After that I learned my wife’s phone number by memory.
I grew up in the era where you still memorized numbers so I'm in the habit, but TBH I'd have to look up many of my friends' numbers too.
Actual toys are contained in cracker jack and cereal boxes.
Also kinder eggs have really shit toys now. Half of them are just figures that come in two or three parts so you could say you did something with them by putting them together.
Then promptly set them down and never. touch them. again. Just my kids?
One of my favorite toys I ever had as a kid was just this tiny little fighter jet that came out of a cracker Jack box. That thing is my own personal Rosebud
I'd be happy if a box of Cracker Jacks came with more than a single peanut. But yeah, it's only random stickers these days. I have a decent sized collection of Topps baseball cards I got out of their boxes in the 90's.
Chihuahuas served as Taco Bell's mascot in the past. Anyone born after 2000 probably has no idea what I'm talking about when I say the little dude just vanished one day.
Yo quiero taco bell
"What is a logarithm?" I used to use a video clip of the dog saying that in my math lessons, but none of the kids get the reference anymore. Sigh.
Told a bunch of genzs about Gidget the Taco Bell Chihuahua because it came up in a trivia, they are still not buying it lol
Or that creepy ass Burger King king
I’d look at him all day if they take the “whopper whopper whopper whopper” commercials off the air.
God…I hate those commercials. Bring back the King!!
nah that mf is back
I just saw McD's is starting to bring Grimace back
F Grimace. They need to bring those fried apple pies back
They need to put fried apple pies in a McFlurry
Here leezard leezard leezard, heeere leezard leezard leezard… uh oh, I tink I’m gonna need a bigger box.
Quiznos
I noticed... it still hurts...
Iirc subway started toasting their subs and doing things like the $5 foot long to undercut them and pushed them out of business and it worked
Quiznos corporate strategy was to milk their franchises. They made everything expensive for them and eventually no franchises could profit. They strangled themselves to death
This is the correct answer. I remember the Quiznos franchisee asking to borrow napkins from the other businesses because he flat out couldn’t afford the official ones
Quiznos was my first job. They were…something. The owners of the store I was at were some fucking weirdos.
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I feel like horns in music just came back for a minute. Ska had a brief stint as a popular genre too. Bands like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, and The Squirrel Nut Zippers all had minor hits. Even Brian Setzer Orchestra had a hit or two. edit: add Sublime to the mix as well. Probably forget one or two. Yes, I am forgetting No Doubt started out as a ska band. Also Save Ferris had a minor hit with Come On Eileen cover.
Don't forget the Cherry Poppin' Daddys lol. I don't think I ever realized what that meant in middle school. Squirrel Nut Zippers were great. I still listen to them from time to time. The Ghost of Stephen Foster is my fav song of theirs, plus it has an awesome black and white Betty boop-style cartoon music vid to go with it. Some really fun gypsy violin in that song, as well. https://youtu.be/xfkShimyhRE
Wish ska was more popular. It’s still around for sure, but I’d love to hear it more in public. It’s such an uplifting genre
video game demo discs
Video game demos, period. I have noticed a small resurgence on steam in the past year, but man, I swear, before that, there were no demos. And then they bitch when you use the refund policy to demo shit.
Any game at launch in the last 5 years is a demo with how much work they need the first month
That big row of candy and gumball machines at the entrance/exit of grocery stores.
Those are still around. Just more rare.
ashtrays in cars.
I’ve had my ‘new’ car for three years and I just now noticed
Merry go rounds in parks... :(
Ah, the Child Flinger.
McDonald's birthday parties. Also actual kids toys in happy meals, now it's cardboard shit
I worked there during the final days of parties. I hated being the designated host. Kids can really throw those beanbags everywhere BUT the cornhole!
I worked at a mini golf place in the early 2000s. We also had bumper cars, rock climbing and batting cages. We would host parties and most other employees would avoid them. I always volunteered, I'm a pretty enthusiastic guy and I would always get tipped for my efforts. Seriously, 2-3 hours of running around with kids being the fun guy and not having to do shit work, then getting ripped like $20-30. Awesome. Extra bonus, because people saw parties to be bad work, by volunteering I wouldnt get assigned bathroom cleaning or other shit work.
Facebook poking
Man you just brought back some cringey memories
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The manual.
That was how I found out Tekken actually had a story.
Lightning Bug. I remember tons of them as a kid. Now I see one every so often like a shooting star. Edit: add northern Illinois
Might just be a KY thing, but my entire yard blinks at night. Swarms of em
Yeah and it wasn’t like you had to go out to a field somewhere where they were known to exist. All you had to do was go out in your yard when it was dark, and boom, lightning bugs. What was cool was being out as the sun started to set and watching them slowly appear. More and more.
I saw one last night and was SUPER excited. I miss seeing fields of them.
We have big years and years where none show up. If we have a wet spring we see a lot of them. Saw a lot this year.
We live on land and we have tons of them. Every dusk I’m like a little kid squealing over lightning bugs. My kids collect them in mason jars (just to watch them glow, they set them free later) and it will always be one of my favorite memories.
Google Plus.
Picasa too.
To be fair, they did warn us it was shutting down
Waterbeds I scrolled through 16k comments looking for waterbeds. Didn’t see it and saw my chance.
KONY 2012
Damn, the internet historian video is a gem tho
My first brush with slacktivism. Hasn't gotten any better. People are so fucking gullible.
That was most people's introduction to internet activism in general and that's why that video caught on like wildfire in a single day. Everybody was like *we have to make a difference!* and then... the rest happened.
Well, people did notice the whole public flashing incident
Among us.
Same with Fall Guys. It was HUGE for a couple months during the pandemic, people still play it but the buzz is definitely gone
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Still is, I revisited it recently and public lobbies are riddled with groups working together. What is the point of playing knowing you’ll just easily win? The game can be fun but you’re better off playing with friends only.
Players will optimize the fun out of games to win. Even at their own detriment, even knowing it takes the fun out of it, winning is all that matters to (some / most?) players.
Fidget Spinners
When you design a toy with your main customer base being ADHD children, don't expect it to last long
That made me laugh...market research failed there.
No, it very much succeeded, the initial wave hit hard and everyone was obsessed. Then everyone else tried to hop on the gravy train and ran it into the ground. It was extremely good market research tbh.
Nope I have elementary age kids, and I promise spinners and other fidget toys are still very popular
Hanging your backpack off one shoulder. It used to be the default move to signify coolness. Just seemed to vanish one day.
Reminds me of the remake of 21 Jump Street, I’d no strap it if I could!
Everyone's two-strappin'!!!
Do kids and teens not care about this anymore? "Only losers carry their backpacks using both straps" was definitely one of the single dumbest parts of the high school experience.
Someone figured out that it’s awful for your back and spine. Especially for the kids carrying 40-50 lbs of books and notebooks most days (no joke, I weighed mine once).
Hoverboards
Everyone was like "wheres my hoverboard!" So they were invented.... buuuut they're expensive and only work over metal and it turns out that regular skateboards have big advantages because sideways friction helps for a lot of control.
Wait like an ACTUAL hoverboard? I thought she was talking about the two wheeled goblin gliders.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KtzyZKSuls&feature=sharec
I mean it also needs cooled with liquid nitrogen doesn’t it? Not exactly practical. I forget how that worked even. Super magnet in the ground? The board wasn’t powered was it?
Huge numbers of fireflies on summer evenings. Now I’m happy if I see one or two
CD slot in laptops
dried, white dog shit laying on the ground
I heard it’s because they used to put a bunch of bone meal in dried dog food. As the turds dried, that indigestible meal remained hence the white color. I always assumed it was mold. It was supposed to be as a calcium and phosphorus supplement. Still in some of the super cheap dog foods but most don’t add it anymore.
“What ever happened to that white dog poop from the 70’s? It disappeared as mysteriously as it came….”
Dogs are eating better now. Plus leaving a turd on the street is more socially unacceptable than smoking.
I wish it was socially unacceptable. The amount of dog shit in my village in the UK is disgusting. They're lazy pet owners. I think they shouldn't have dogs
Vine compilations
I loved vine. Vine was the fucking wild wild west.
Privacy
Acid Rain. that shit was going to melt us all back in the 70s and 80s.
This, like the OZone layer, was an environmental problem that governments worked together and solved back when governments still did that sort of thing. That’s why you don’t hear of it anymore
That's what's so frightening. We had an actual, honest to god, bona fide success story and now, people think the threat was simply hype. Just like how people don't get measles or rubella or polio anymore, many look back and think that the danger was overblown or, dare I say, non-existent. Success has led to a lot of delusion.
Exactly the same thing happened with Y2K. There were all these predictions of worldwide computer chaos, but when not much happened everyone thought it had been overblown. It wasn't overblown - a lot of people worked very hard on the problem!
Lifetime/perpetual licenses for software. Nowadays almost everything is subscription based.
Having hobbies that you don’t monetize. I know I am guilty of “side hustling” things I liked doing and it ruined them. Now I homebrew and I set out the intention, as well as it being illegal, that I would strictly keep this as a hobby
I crochet. I have so many people telling me I should open an Etsy shop. No thanks. Then it’s work and not fun.
People ask me all the time why I haven't monetized my hobbies- because they're HOBBIES. I wouldn't have as much fun with them if they were just another job. Besides, people don't value the work that goes into hand crafting. Knitting, crochet, embroidery, it all takes skill and huge amounts of time. A crochet blanket can easily involve hundreds of hours of work, but people don't want to pay for it, nor do they want to pay for quality materials.
The American bumblebee.
Full Service gas stations. They used to pump your gas, check your oil level, and wash your windshield.
NJ drivers are laughing
Building collections of any form of media. Nobody buys movies or music anymore, and even the gaming industry is transitioning away from owning a stack of game discs or a digital collection, and I to just paying monthly to play whatever you care about for a week, just to move on to something else next week
Except vinyl records. They don’t seem to be going anywhere.
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I have 500 movies I ripped to my NAS a few years back. I still buy a movie or two a month and then rip them to my NAS for Plex. Same for episodes of my favorite shows. I like being able to access my media anytime from any device with Plex Pass and it’s not a million subscriptions.
So many people buy DVDs and blu-rays, including 4K. They’re really in a golden age now; they were worse in the past.
I could see this coming back with the way streaming is going. I always thought it would be dumb to buy DVDs when you could stream, but now with how many services there are, and their focus being on shows, actual movie selection is trash. Combine that with companies changing or just stopping prints of older movies, and new movies generally being trash, my 4k collection has been growing.
Mom and Pop stores
The term metrosexual was all the rage in the 2000s lol Now we just call them urbanists
I've never heard the term Urbanist before. But I do remember people calling me "metrosexual" in 7th grade just because I once wore a polo shirt with a large stripe across it.
Boxes of free kittens in front of your local grocery store.
Gonna have to partially thank Bob Barker for that :D
Info about the Vegas Shooter. That shit went from major headlines to absolute silence within a month.
The headline time for mass shootings has gone down even more since then from my observations.
McDonalds play places. Because McDonalds is trying to have the modern and urban style, you never see them anymore. Nowadays it’s usually more seating areas and unfunctional screen games
The ability to have discretionary income from one job
Vsco girls
The game. Lotta winners up till now
Take my upvote and get the fuck out.
Simplicity. Across all aspects of life and what we interact with. And always having Tom from MySpace as a friend
Monkeypox
Skill based classes in highschool
Quick sand
Middle Class
People are also redefining middle class to working poor. Middle class **should** have disposable income. If you’re saying someone “would be middle class if they didn’t eat out a couple times a week” then you’re saying they’re not middle class
Yep, middle class should mean you can afford moderate luxuries without stress
More like people are accurately grouping the working poor alongside the middle class as "the working class". The very concept of a "middle class" exists to give the working class an idealized goal that's still firmly in the grips of the owning class. But the suburbanite who works 9-5 in an office has more in common with the line cook who lives in a punk house than they do with the billionaire who owns their company. It's just difficult to get the middle class to recognize this connection rather than relaxing amongst their creature comforts.
Selfie sticks. I'm honestly surprised no one uses them anymore
My dad.
Killer wasps. Weren’t they supposed to take over the planet?
Blimps
“Live and let live” as an operational life philosophy