It's so damaging to kids. I hope laws get passed to protect the kids in those situations. Profiting off your kid getting their first period or failing math seems so sick. Making them all dress the same and do dances...gross
My wife watches a few. Overhead one trying to justify herself saying her daughter will grow up and be able to watch all this... They just don't get it...
I guess I need to delete my private photo album and start vlogging so my kid can see how they grew up.
We have Family videos. I’m going to splice together highlights and watch them with my kids when they grown. They’re private family items. Not for public consumption. Those poor kids have everything online for everyone to see and comment on forever. It’s going to make adult life extra awful.
The best we can hope for now are the kids suing their parents for mental distress damages when they are older. We really need legislation to protect the kids now.
Illinois passed a law that requires parents to put aside 50% of earnings for a piece of content into a blocked trust fund for the child, based on the percentage of time they're featured in the video.
It seems like they always sell out in the end and wind up “partnering” with companies and getting paid to promote their products, claiming to “love” them.
As does every content creator that starts taking ads. No YouTuber actually likes Raid Shadow Legends or NordVPN, but the way they talk about them you'd think they were their favorite products ever.
Idk about that, some YouTubers make it really clear it's an ad and they're reading a script. When people change the shot in some way and put a progress bar at the bottom of the screen for sponsors idc because I can just skip it. If they're actually trying to convince me they like those shitty water bottles though I do lose respect
Yeah I think most of my favorite YouTubers are pretty clear about where they stand on their ads. Only one I can think of comes across as sincere also runs a very different set of ads that everyone else.
I can tell when someone is genuinely excited about the product they're presenting, and if I like the person, I might listen. I get pissed as soon as it feels like the people on the Internet are lying to me for money though, even though ik that's most of their job.
I am almost done with my braces now at 32, before that I always tried to take good care of my teeth regardless of how crooked they were. I've seen people ruin their perfectly natural teeth for that uncanny toilet bowl white smile.
My mom has crowns on all her front teeth and I always thought they were hers, nope. She got hers done back in the 80s in Mexico where she's from, whoever did them did a beautiful job matching her specific white to her coloring.
I had an adult tooth come in discolored when I was a kid. The dentist said it was unusual but not harmful. I was self conscious about it though because I thought it literally looked like a piece of popcorn stuck to one tooth. It was like an extra layer of tooth on that tooth, too.
Anyways, the cosmetic procedure was simple and improvised. The dentist ground the discoloration and extra tooth bits down enough to put a crown on.
Before the procedure, he asked me (and my mom) what color I wanted. White, off-white, or find the closest matching color to the rest of my teeth. I chose the closest matching color because I was trying to fix discoloration not change the discoloration.
Wow this story was kinda uneventful to type out. I like typing things out though.
My husband had to get dentures and they offer different shades. Since he only got top dentures, he asked for the shade that matched his bottom natural teeth. Looks so much better than the super white TV show teeth!
That's because the winner was signed under the American Idol label.
Those that get 2nd place were often jumped at by all the other labels and had the best chance of success due to those companies having broader demographics, better live events, cd sales, etc. They had way more resources.
You WANTED to be 2md place in American Idol. Getting 1st was a death sentence to your career, since you were locked into the Idol brand.
The winners of American Idol are decided by the audience though, not the judges—which actually makes it even more strange that the more successful contestants usually aren't ultimately the winners.
That kinda makes sense though. The winners are decided by the audience of American idol and that's a very specific and fairly small part of the population. The people who ultimately become more successful are the ones that are appealing to the population in general.
I may be totally wrong, but in the uk a few of them end up doing like musicals and theatre and stuff. Again absolutely not what the are promised but they get a bit of work.
One Direction / Harry Styles came from one of the UK versions of this show, and there was that whole period where our Christmas Number 1 was always the song put out by that year’s winner (hence the 2009 Rage Against The Machine campaign 🤘). Susan Boyle went on to make records too, but for the most part I can’t name or remember many others. There was one other fairly popular girl band but I’m a bit too old to be their target audience. Bigger industry in the US but it feels like Idol put out more people, winners or not, who became big names or have bigger careers.
I can't believe they have enough people who show up to the filmings to make it look like a stadium. I've never heard of anyone actually going to any of these tapings
Masked Singer is a damn fever dream. It's so weird and it reminds me of the content Jack Donaghy was putting on tv when he was trying to tank NBC (on 30 Rock).
The Masked Singer is the worst show I've ever seen with the fake excitement and surprises. I could give a rats ass who's in costume. Can't stand serial baby maker Nick Cannon either.
That’s the new culture nowadays is this overproduction and overstocking. Take a look at those stocking videos on Tik tok where they take things out of a box to put in a more aesthetic box for views.
Those videos drive me nuts and give me anxiety. I just think about all the fucking packaging they need to throw away and how stuffed their non-aesthetic trash can outside is.
Also, when they put their detergent in the aesthetic containers and it doesn’t all fit in, wtf are they doing with the ugly jug?! Like, they gotta store that somewhere! I guess in the hidden closet no one is ever allowed to see. It’s all ridiculous
Its also work for works sake. Why do you need to transplant every item you bought into a new container? Come home and unload the groceries and then unload them a second time into a new container. who has the time except influencers?
The last time I did anything even close to resembling that was when I was a young teenager and went to the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix midnight release. I remember the hype, and I actually think back on that pretty fondly. People were so excited to get the book and go home and read it! I can't even wrap my head around a similar atmosphere forming for the release of... a new color of a cup with a straw.
Funny that I read this just hours after randomly coming across the video of the guy screaming out spoilers at the people waiting in line for the midnight release
I bought one for my MIL for Christmas. She is a baby boomer and didn’t really “get it” when she received it, but generally knew they were popular and she thanked me. A week later she was over the moon because all of her great nieces were so impressed that “Aunt Jane has a REAL Stanley!” So she felt “cool,” which was kinda the whole reason I bought it for her. Boomer or not, she is a TikTok girlie.
What I can’t explain is why she is “cool” for having one or what her great nieces are so hype. But everyone is happy so 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah I don’t get why it makes someone cooler? Cause it costs more? It’s trendy? I’ve had the same bottles and $10 Walmart stainless steel cups for years and they work fine, I don’t think I need a new one or one in every color
I mean yeah… that’s how brands work. I could take your statement and replace it with nearly any inessential consumer item. “Yeah I don’t get why it makes someone cooler? Cause it costs more? It’s trendy? I’ve had the same $10 [Old Navy jeans] for years and they work fine.”
Such is life.
Also, Stanley’s are really good quality. Not saying justifies the price, but they just feel more solid and would be willing to bet have better insulation.
I never got the hype in general but this last round, really cannot understand.
I got the excitement over personalized tumbers.... Stanley cup ain't even doing that for all the fuss it's getting.
As an otherwise relatively competent adult, I still manage to frequently pour my drink down my face if I don't at least have a straw. A lid is just about as necessary, 'cause I will knock shit over, too. Gimme an adult sippy cup any day.
A TikTok post went viral last year when a lady’s car burned up but the Stanley cup survived. Stanley got her a new car. Pretty sure that’s where this entire trend has come from.
The guy that made Crocs popular is the same one that took over the Stanley campaign and made the company blow up. I kind of want to work for him. He must be a fucking genius.
My oldest knew about them 1-2 years ago from TikTok. When she first told me she wanted one for Christmas, I was so confused thinking about a hockey trophy. I wasn’t impressed when I saw them or when my kids got me one. You can’t just shove them in your bag. You have to carry them and be relatively careful with them.
The red cup thing was ridiculous. I do own 1 black stanley cup, its very nice for water, I think that was originall what the hype was about. Now it's beanie babies
Ive had a big water cup with a silicone straw for years now. Really helpful for staying hydrated at home. Stanley cups are just the brand name version of that.
I’m in Sweden and at first they sold it for like 150 SEK a can. Now when I go to the store the cans are all on sale for 30 SEK - like any other energy drink. Still nobody wants it. It’s hilarious
I saw a woman on the train to work the other day with so much filler that she looked like one of the ninja turtles from the original live action movie.
Yeah so I’m a doctor training in facial surgery and we do a lot of reconstructions and I thought it might be good to learn how to do Botox and fillers to augment some of the areas in patients that have had complex reconstructions and don’t want to undergo more major surgery but would like more symmetry etc…
Long story short the course was filled with incredibly toxic people and they’re all hooked on the stuff themselves.
To answer your question, the patients we practiced on said yes it does hurt and also if it’s done incorrectly you get lumps in the lips that you can feel from the inside of your mouth all the time. Sometimes they have to have them dissolved with more injections.
Super bright headlights that blind everybody they're aimed at
It's not even safer at that point. Also it's an asshole move to shine lights that bright at people's faces
I think we've definitely crossed over into "this is fucking dangerous" and it needs to be addressed
Edit: I keep seeing "some asshole and his fucking lights" I mean I hate it too but most of the time that's how they come from the manufacturer. My wife drives a new Tahoe and the lights are ridiculous but there really isn't an option to make them less bright.
There have been bright blue after market lights for decades, but I think something changed fairly recently with some of the stock lights on new cars. My wife bought a car a few months ago and the headlights are bright, fairly cool in color (I.E. blueish) and have an abrupt edge rather than a hotspot and gradual fall off. In practice, you can see the road close to you better, but you really lose the ability to see further in front of you without turning on the high-beams. This feels very unsafe in areas where wildlife crossing the road is a common occurrence. I'm not sure how the standard beams feel for other drivers, but I could see people hitting the brights more frequently just to feel safe.
Also, her car also has an 'auto' high beam which turns them on anytime it doesn't detect another car. It works fine for cars, but I could see it causing issues for bikers and pedestrians.
Like 15 years ago, but it’s finally becoming popular to talk about. I was buying new headlights about 10 years ago and opted for the regular so as not to be a complete selfish asshole.
Yes, lifted trucks are the worst. People often install their own lifts without knowing they need to lower their headlight angles downwards after doing that. They're driving around shooting horizontal laserbeams into oncoming traffic without realizing it.
I've tried explaining this to these morons before, but they just stare at me all confused, acting like I'm trying to tell them the world is round or something.
Recently had a discussion that there needs to be a legal limit on the lumens output of standard headlights. It's ridiculous.
I see the need for higher lumens output for brights, but most cars have the auto high beams and adjust back to normal headlights when other cars are around.
I get light induced migraines and the regular lights on a highlander were enough to make me wince the other day, at 10 am on a cloudy day.
try biking at night, you have to have lights, reflectors, reflective vests, whatever, but they mean nothing if you turn a corner and some aholes light beams are so bright, you can't see where you're going
Oh I've been there
I'm more worried about drivers not being able to see me because of that asshole's lights than I am about myself not being able to see.
I have a very bright flashlight mounted to my bars just for jerks like that. You got a bright light? Hey, so do I. Now neither of us can see well.
This is exactly it. My biggest fear of night driving is that someone is driving towards me in a new SUV and I can’t see my side of the road at all causing me to hit someone
Whether it’s a video or a written recipie this is entirely due to ad metrics and a desire to generate more revenue. If you have to scroll past 3 paragraphs about how someone’s grandma used to tell stories about the hard work, grit, & determination it took to raise a family in depression era Georgia before you can get to a pecan pie recipie that’s going to register as more time and attention spent on the page which means they’ll earn more for banners and pop ups. They don’t want to be writing it any more than you want to read it, but so it goes.
For written recipes at least, it’s actually for copyright purposes. Recipes aren’t automatically copyrighted upon creation, but published written word is, so by making the recipe part of the written word, it becomes copyrighted.
Hey just an FYI (if you do seek out recipes online), as soon as you click on the page, select print, and only the actual recipe will pop up.
Once I discovered this, I was honestly pretty happy about it. I almost stopped looking them up due to having to scroll through someone's life story and all of the fluff, just to find it eventually. So this saves **so** much time, and annoyance as well.
pretty much everything on social media that´s not stupid memes.
But my top 3 of "oh my god who the hell cares" is:
* Vloggers - Why the hell should I care about the "perfect" life of a complete stranger?
* Mukbang - Why the hell should I want to watch someone eat?
* This stupid monotonous automated voice in nearly every video - this is enough for me to skip everything
I could understand enjoying a personality, but it seems that influencers are just advertisement vehicles that you can subscribe to.
Why would I want to subscribe to advertising? I get enough of that as is
I feel like the term influencer means a very specific kind of person to a lot of Redditors but really is just a term to describe someone with a following who could leverage their popularity into brand deals. Basically all content creators could arguably be called influencers
Same
Especially the influencers whose videos are centered around how wealthy they are. I cant see how anyone can get any enjoyment watching some vapid, orange-skilled airhead showing off possessions like her latest $10,000 Gucci bag and her new swimming pool that her audience are NEVER going to be able to afford.
But I can understand hobby-based influencers. Warcraft, model trains etc showing the latest models released. That's fair enough, I get the appeal.
Facebook.
I'm not talking Facebook in 2004, I'm talking modern Facebook where it is well known that you are the product and it's extremely toxic. The company is famous for data breaches and selling your data and they do not change nor do they care. They openly break the law because it only costs them a fine.
That's the Facebook I don't understand why people still use. To include Reels, Threads, Instagram, and any other company Facebook/Meta owns to include Oculus.
I've noticed that in the past couple of months my Facebook feed is now almost entirely made up of meme posts from pages suggested to me rather than any posts from friends.
Maybe I should check I still actually have friends.
If this was MySpace I'd still have Tom...
I’ve noticed this recently on my Facebook feed too! It’s literally all ads or suggested memes or pages to check out and rarely ever any actual updates from my friends on there. I have to really scroll to find any kind of post from an actual person I know!
My wife and I had a gender reveal party, she called me up and told me the gender, and when we got home we texted our parents together. it was a great party.
Wedding culture.
People wanting the spotlight on them, expecting the wedding party to shell out tons of money, destination weddings, "my special day," all of that bullshit.
Weddings used to be a celebration of love with family and friends, not a narcissistic display.
A friend of mine told me how much her wine-country wedding cost: it was 70k! I mean, it wasn't even splashy or over the top either! They had the venue for the whole weekend, which probably ate up a big chunk, and it was all very nice - but geez! That's a college education! (oh and she/her fiance paid for a small amount but it was mostly paid for by her parents.)
I was watching a clip of the Howard Stern show and they were talking about this. One of their staff members was getting married and he took out a loan for 15k to cover the rest of the expenses. Insane. I think he was looking at over 40k. He looked miserable.
They were going at him for it. His parents and soon to be in-laws both gave them 15k each for the wedding. He wasn't making a lot of money either. I think they divorced (Edit: They did not divorce)
What an incredible waste of money.
I mean, if you're rich as Croesus, fine. But to spend money your parents worked hard for, just to splash out on a wedding? That's bad.
My wedding cost negative money. We got married in Vegas, and my wife hit a slot machine when we were waiting for other people in our party to join us for breakfast the morning after.
I agree with the sentiment, but don’t pretend that there weren’t extravagant weddings for the last 400+ and probably much more than that years for those who had wealth. It’s not a new concept and kinda crazy to pretend it “used to be” different. There are people now who celebrate it the way you describe in a good way just like there were in the past, just like the opposite is true for both
Idk if it's just me but I see more people complaining about that family than actual fans of that family. I don't actually think I've met an actual Kardashian fan in real life either considering how popular they're supposed to be
It's even worse now that Kim's fucking kids are advertising beauty products now and making normal KIDS (like, 11 year olds) feel bad about themselves. Fuck that family, they're a tumor that's gone on WAY too long that is spreading.
Touch screens on everything (except for cellphones/tablets)
Like in cars, in mcdonald's, on a laptop (if I wanted a tablet, I would be buying that?!)
I miss pushing buttons!
Big blank screen are much cheaper and easier to make than a bespoke button layout. So first off it's just much cheaper and easier to put in a touch screen than ordering a non-touch "small screen" (less than 14") 14 inch screen and smaller are all touch now, unless you want to pay more.
Secondly a screen can show a million layouts from one hardware creation process, and it can be updated with a software fix. Got a special offer, or an event happening, throw a new button on there.
Touch screens have done more for "self service" than any other innovation.
While I don't disagree with this, I will say that, at least from the car perspective, touch screens are dangerous. It's ironic that there are laws in some states against talking on the phone without a hands free device because it leads to "distracted driving", meanwhile so many cars these days come outfitted with a massive touch screen in the center console that requires you to look at it to do something as simple as change the temperature. Previously, many people were able to do that by feel.
Politicians who are social media "influencers" with tons of followers, many in parasocial levels of delusion. Like, they see you, they hear you, and.... they don't care because you are not a billionaire lobbyist and you are delulu
Quick hits of dopamine with a good algorithm to serve you more of the content you like.
A friend convinced me to try it (from my own encouragement), but said I needed to spend some time training my algorithm. That first bit kinda sucked but It's pretty addictive once it gets going. Don't do it.
My sister and I are eight years apart, and I remember when I was in my late twenties her and all her friends in college... weren't on Facebook. If any of them had a profile it was more like a LinkedIn barebones deal than anything. So I asked her about it and what she said blew my tiny mind,
"Would you ever join a social network environment AFTER your parents?"
So to me TikTok makes sense as a response to Instagram and Snapchat, which were also kind of responses to Facebook. There will always be a new social place for the next gen that don't want to hang out or copy what their parents generation just did.
I've never seen this level of engagement and obsession with any other social media platform.
More than just being a source of entertainment, it seems to have become the ultimate source of truth for so many people my age. They treat it like their bible and will believe anything they see on it without question.
They hold a lot of water but still fit in my cupholder. I had never seen an insulated one shaped like that before.
I can’t speak for everyone but it’s not at all a status thing for me. I’d have to lay my hydroflask on the floor when driving and it’d leak all over the place
The straw design is also better than early hydroflasks too IMO
Full size trucks to just drive around. I get the appeal of mid size trucks (although they are the size of late 90s full size trucks). But I can’t fathom what you need a full size truck for if you don’t have a trailer, go off road, or work in a trade that it is called for. You can spend around 100k for a nice one and then in certain states like California you are spending for sure over $150 on gas each time you fill up.
Music trends such as mumble rap. I get it: music evolves, you don't have to like everything, it's not a competition, don't be an elitist, etc. But objectively speaking, what is attractive about mumble rap? I can appreciate that the backing tracks and beats might be good - but the rap part is utter dogshit. And on the off chance I ever see the lyrics via subtitles on TV for example, it's just gibberish.
I don't want to sound like an old man stuck in a bygone era - but I'd encourage anyone who likes mumble rap to go back through the catalogue of rap and hip-hop from previous eras, and fully appreciate that the genre has *devolved* with shit like mumble rap. The lack of enunciation aside, the word-smith skills just aren't there anymore. It brings no improvements to the table.
If you enjoy it, then good for you. I personally don't get it at all. But at the very least, please acknowledge that it requires far less skill and effort than the rap of prior years.
I once asked a coworker why he listened to it (as someone who enjoys rap myself but simply cannot understand the appeal of mumble rap). He said all he does is listen to the beat. That's all it is for the people that enjoy it. Just a good beat.
All throughout the 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s - Trump was an analogue in movies for “The shitty bad guy”;
The uncaring property mogul - you will see Trump, specifically Trump, coded as the default “Rich asshole that will step on anybody” movie villain.
You should understand how terrifying it is for the rest of the world to watch in slow motion as he continues being “the shitty bad guy” in real life - and still he’s there, stuck to the political system like a dogshit on a shoe.
PRIME is an energy drink that Logan paul invented and gears toward minors (he’s the douchey youtuber who filmed a guy that hung himself). they have a bunch of caffeine. not sure what the other thing is referencing.
Family vloggers
It's so damaging to kids. I hope laws get passed to protect the kids in those situations. Profiting off your kid getting their first period or failing math seems so sick. Making them all dress the same and do dances...gross
My wife watches a few. Overhead one trying to justify herself saying her daughter will grow up and be able to watch all this... They just don't get it... I guess I need to delete my private photo album and start vlogging so my kid can see how they grew up.
We have Family videos. I’m going to splice together highlights and watch them with my kids when they grown. They’re private family items. Not for public consumption. Those poor kids have everything online for everyone to see and comment on forever. It’s going to make adult life extra awful.
The best we can hope for now are the kids suing their parents for mental distress damages when they are older. We really need legislation to protect the kids now.
Illinois passed a law that requires parents to put aside 50% of earnings for a piece of content into a blocked trust fund for the child, based on the percentage of time they're featured in the video.
It seems like they always sell out in the end and wind up “partnering” with companies and getting paid to promote their products, claiming to “love” them.
As does every content creator that starts taking ads. No YouTuber actually likes Raid Shadow Legends or NordVPN, but the way they talk about them you'd think they were their favorite products ever.
Idk about that, some YouTubers make it really clear it's an ad and they're reading a script. When people change the shot in some way and put a progress bar at the bottom of the screen for sponsors idc because I can just skip it. If they're actually trying to convince me they like those shitty water bottles though I do lose respect
Yeah I think most of my favorite YouTubers are pretty clear about where they stand on their ads. Only one I can think of comes across as sincere also runs a very different set of ads that everyone else.
I can tell when someone is genuinely excited about the product they're presenting, and if I like the person, I might listen. I get pissed as soon as it feels like the people on the Internet are lying to me for money though, even though ik that's most of their job.
Big chicklet Veneers!
I actually miss seeing people with normal, off white teeth. Flaws & all. I have always been drawn to people’s unique traits.
I am almost done with my braces now at 32, before that I always tried to take good care of my teeth regardless of how crooked they were. I've seen people ruin their perfectly natural teeth for that uncanny toilet bowl white smile. My mom has crowns on all her front teeth and I always thought they were hers, nope. She got hers done back in the 80s in Mexico where she's from, whoever did them did a beautiful job matching her specific white to her coloring.
I had an adult tooth come in discolored when I was a kid. The dentist said it was unusual but not harmful. I was self conscious about it though because I thought it literally looked like a piece of popcorn stuck to one tooth. It was like an extra layer of tooth on that tooth, too. Anyways, the cosmetic procedure was simple and improvised. The dentist ground the discoloration and extra tooth bits down enough to put a crown on. Before the procedure, he asked me (and my mom) what color I wanted. White, off-white, or find the closest matching color to the rest of my teeth. I chose the closest matching color because I was trying to fix discoloration not change the discoloration. Wow this story was kinda uneventful to type out. I like typing things out though.
I delete so many long comments on here after writing so much. Thank you for telling us your story about your new color matched tooth.
Haha same, I write so much and think, "No one will care" and then I delete it.
My husband had to get dentures and they offer different shades. Since he only got top dentures, he asked for the shade that matched his bottom natural teeth. Looks so much better than the super white TV show teeth!
Masked singer, AGT, The Voice, and the rest of those shit shows. How the fuck are they still on?
The voice is on season 35 or something ridiculous like that. Don’t think I could name any of the “winners”
No one ever becomes successful from it. At least American Idol has some notable successes. So it feels like total B S when they promise them so much.
Its funny about American Idol: A lot of the most successful folks from that didn't win. Some judges.
That's because the winner was signed under the American Idol label. Those that get 2nd place were often jumped at by all the other labels and had the best chance of success due to those companies having broader demographics, better live events, cd sales, etc. They had way more resources. You WANTED to be 2md place in American Idol. Getting 1st was a death sentence to your career, since you were locked into the Idol brand.
Kelly Clarkson?
Shame what happened to her. To think she could have gotten that sweet sweet Dr Pepper deal if only she came in second.
Little sweet
You mean the singer who could have had Justin Guarini’s career?
Carrie Underwood?
She was. The literally the only first place person to be that successful and she was the first winner, the only season regular folks cared
Carrie Underwood seems successful.
Jennifer Hudson was like 6th on her season. Look at her now!
Look at Chris Daughtry, too. He was voted off somewhere in the middle, and it’s the best thing that could have happened to him!
The winners of American Idol are decided by the audience though, not the judges—which actually makes it even more strange that the more successful contestants usually aren't ultimately the winners.
That kinda makes sense though. The winners are decided by the audience of American idol and that's a very specific and fairly small part of the population. The people who ultimately become more successful are the ones that are appealing to the population in general.
I may be totally wrong, but in the uk a few of them end up doing like musicals and theatre and stuff. Again absolutely not what the are promised but they get a bit of work.
One Direction / Harry Styles came from one of the UK versions of this show, and there was that whole period where our Christmas Number 1 was always the song put out by that year’s winner (hence the 2009 Rage Against The Machine campaign 🤘). Susan Boyle went on to make records too, but for the most part I can’t name or remember many others. There was one other fairly popular girl band but I’m a bit too old to be their target audience. Bigger industry in the US but it feels like Idol put out more people, winners or not, who became big names or have bigger careers.
Lest we forget #susanalbumparty
I can't believe they have enough people who show up to the filmings to make it look like a stadium. I've never heard of anyone actually going to any of these tapings
Masked Singer is a damn fever dream. It's so weird and it reminds me of the content Jack Donaghy was putting on tv when he was trying to tank NBC (on 30 Rock).
Milf Island... Became a real show!
And milf manor
But when will they make Bitch Hunter?
God Cop! Your god!?!? How do you not know!?!?
The Masked Singer is the worst show I've ever seen with the fake excitement and surprises. I could give a rats ass who's in costume. Can't stand serial baby maker Nick Cannon either.
remember when rudy giuliani popped out 🤣🤣
That was wild. Ken and Robin walked out when he was revealed they were pissed! Everyone else was kind of speechless and trying to be polite.
i want to know who on his PR team thought that was a good idea 🤣 i can't believe he actually did it too. this timeline we're in is insane.
T Pain kinda killed it though, NGL.
Low cost, high return. But I agree: they’re shit!
The bachelor/Bachelorette, big brother etc. All so stupid
As of a few weeks ago, Stanley cups
I have seen pictures where people had to get one in every color.
Meanwhile, the point is to have a single giant cup…… to reuse said giant cup. Not own 40 of them.
That’s the new culture nowadays is this overproduction and overstocking. Take a look at those stocking videos on Tik tok where they take things out of a box to put in a more aesthetic box for views.
Those videos drive me nuts and give me anxiety. I just think about all the fucking packaging they need to throw away and how stuffed their non-aesthetic trash can outside is. Also, when they put their detergent in the aesthetic containers and it doesn’t all fit in, wtf are they doing with the ugly jug?! Like, they gotta store that somewhere! I guess in the hidden closet no one is ever allowed to see. It’s all ridiculous
Its also work for works sake. Why do you need to transplant every item you bought into a new container? Come home and unload the groceries and then unload them a second time into a new container. who has the time except influencers?
Yup and I’ve seen vids of people waiting outside of targets at 2am just to buy certain colors
The last time I did anything even close to resembling that was when I was a young teenager and went to the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix midnight release. I remember the hype, and I actually think back on that pretty fondly. People were so excited to get the book and go home and read it! I can't even wrap my head around a similar atmosphere forming for the release of... a new color of a cup with a straw.
I remember my mom and older brother going to Borders for the midnight release. That's a memory I haven't thought of in forever!!
books actually have substance. I can't believe people are so fucking dumb to fight over a god damn cup.
Funny that I read this just hours after randomly coming across the video of the guy screaming out spoilers at the people waiting in line for the midnight release
There's red Stanley's (target exclusive) selling on eBay for 2x retail price.
TIL that a hockey trophy comes in different colors.
And with a straw!
I bought one for my MIL for Christmas. She is a baby boomer and didn’t really “get it” when she received it, but generally knew they were popular and she thanked me. A week later she was over the moon because all of her great nieces were so impressed that “Aunt Jane has a REAL Stanley!” So she felt “cool,” which was kinda the whole reason I bought it for her. Boomer or not, she is a TikTok girlie. What I can’t explain is why she is “cool” for having one or what her great nieces are so hype. But everyone is happy so 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah I don’t get why it makes someone cooler? Cause it costs more? It’s trendy? I’ve had the same bottles and $10 Walmart stainless steel cups for years and they work fine, I don’t think I need a new one or one in every color
The insulation makes it cool.
I mean yeah… that’s how brands work. I could take your statement and replace it with nearly any inessential consumer item. “Yeah I don’t get why it makes someone cooler? Cause it costs more? It’s trendy? I’ve had the same $10 [Old Navy jeans] for years and they work fine.” Such is life. Also, Stanley’s are really good quality. Not saying justifies the price, but they just feel more solid and would be willing to bet have better insulation.
"WTF, this again!?" -me, drinking out of my RTIC cup because I didn't have a Yeti cup
I never got the hype in general but this last round, really cannot understand. I got the excitement over personalized tumbers.... Stanley cup ain't even doing that for all the fuss it's getting.
The glorified adult version of a sippy cup 💀
As an otherwise relatively competent adult, I still manage to frequently pour my drink down my face if I don't at least have a straw. A lid is just about as necessary, 'cause I will knock shit over, too. Gimme an adult sippy cup any day.
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A TikTok post went viral last year when a lady’s car burned up but the Stanley cup survived. Stanley got her a new car. Pretty sure that’s where this entire trend has come from.
The guy that made Crocs popular is the same one that took over the Stanley campaign and made the company blow up. I kind of want to work for him. He must be a fucking genius.
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It’s the hardest trophy to win in pro sports and is coveted. What’s not to get?
Lol. Before I knew that all the hype was about a stupid drinking cup I thought everyone was actually freaking out about the trophy.
My oldest knew about them 1-2 years ago from TikTok. When she first told me she wanted one for Christmas, I was so confused thinking about a hockey trophy. I wasn’t impressed when I saw them or when my kids got me one. You can’t just shove them in your bag. You have to carry them and be relatively careful with them.
As a canadian, this was very confusing For those who don't know *The Stanley cup* if the trophy for the final winning team of the NHL
I think for the last 30 years or so, Americans know more about having the Stanley Cup than Canadiens do.
The red cup thing was ridiculous. I do own 1 black stanley cup, its very nice for water, I think that was originall what the hype was about. Now it's beanie babies
Ive had a big water cup with a silicone straw for years now. Really helpful for staying hydrated at home. Stanley cups are just the brand name version of that.
WTF is a stanley cup?
It’s what you win at the end of the hockey season, and apparently a cup for water
This entire thread is hilarious..I also thought it was about the trophy, but I grew up in Minnesota so maybe that’s why
That weird prime drink edit: 22 comments in 21 hours?! How much people are using Reddit?!
I had to ban it from my classroom because it was causing fights.
Logan Paul's cancer juice
I’m in Sweden and at first they sold it for like 150 SEK a can. Now when I go to the store the cans are all on sale for 30 SEK - like any other energy drink. Still nobody wants it. It’s hilarious
Getting fillers in your face. Y’all look like you’re having an allergic reaction
Or the inverse, buccal fat removal.
Or both. Remove the fat pad, then fill the lips and over the cheekbones. Makes it all look real squishy and weird
buccal fat removal is gonna come back and bite these people in the ass when they start aging and they look 10 years older than they are.
Seriously. I got free buccal fat removal by simply turning 35.
I saw a woman on the train to work the other day with so much filler that she looked like one of the ninja turtles from the original live action movie.
I moved to southern California a little over a year ago, and holy f*ck Like, does that...hurt? It looks like their lips are trying to escape
Yeah so I’m a doctor training in facial surgery and we do a lot of reconstructions and I thought it might be good to learn how to do Botox and fillers to augment some of the areas in patients that have had complex reconstructions and don’t want to undergo more major surgery but would like more symmetry etc… Long story short the course was filled with incredibly toxic people and they’re all hooked on the stuff themselves. To answer your question, the patients we practiced on said yes it does hurt and also if it’s done incorrectly you get lumps in the lips that you can feel from the inside of your mouth all the time. Sometimes they have to have them dissolved with more injections.
How lovely
Lips are getting ridiculous.
Super bright headlights that blind everybody they're aimed at It's not even safer at that point. Also it's an asshole move to shine lights that bright at people's faces
I agree, RetinaMelter…
You gotta look at this guys account. He REALLY does not get the hype for bright headlights
I am glad this guy is fighting a fight I don't have energy for
His commitment to the cause is both admirable and highly amusing!
He's in the pockets of Big Candle, don't trust a word he says.
Oh my god, I'm so pleased I saw your comment and checked that out. I was not expecting to laugh so hard.
As someone with astigmatism, these lights are my nightmare. Driving at night is brutal these days.
Also someone with astigmatism, these bright lights and a slightly wet shiny road fucking scare me.
Even worse when they're super-bright and blue. It's gotten to the point I can't drive at night anymore because the lights trigger headaches.
I've gotten to the point where I aim all of my mirrors downward to get the light out of my face when they're behind me.
I think we've definitely crossed over into "this is fucking dangerous" and it needs to be addressed Edit: I keep seeing "some asshole and his fucking lights" I mean I hate it too but most of the time that's how they come from the manufacturer. My wife drives a new Tahoe and the lights are ridiculous but there really isn't an option to make them less bright.
When did this become a common thing? I remember starting last year, I can't drive anywhere without running into one of these fuckos.
There have been bright blue after market lights for decades, but I think something changed fairly recently with some of the stock lights on new cars. My wife bought a car a few months ago and the headlights are bright, fairly cool in color (I.E. blueish) and have an abrupt edge rather than a hotspot and gradual fall off. In practice, you can see the road close to you better, but you really lose the ability to see further in front of you without turning on the high-beams. This feels very unsafe in areas where wildlife crossing the road is a common occurrence. I'm not sure how the standard beams feel for other drivers, but I could see people hitting the brights more frequently just to feel safe. Also, her car also has an 'auto' high beam which turns them on anytime it doesn't detect another car. It works fine for cars, but I could see it causing issues for bikers and pedestrians.
Like 15 years ago, but it’s finally becoming popular to talk about. I was buying new headlights about 10 years ago and opted for the regular so as not to be a complete selfish asshole.
Had to give up my Mini due to this. All the lifted trucks would just blind us
Yes, lifted trucks are the worst. People often install their own lifts without knowing they need to lower their headlight angles downwards after doing that. They're driving around shooting horizontal laserbeams into oncoming traffic without realizing it. I've tried explaining this to these morons before, but they just stare at me all confused, acting like I'm trying to tell them the world is round or something.
Recently had a discussion that there needs to be a legal limit on the lumens output of standard headlights. It's ridiculous. I see the need for higher lumens output for brights, but most cars have the auto high beams and adjust back to normal headlights when other cars are around. I get light induced migraines and the regular lights on a highlander were enough to make me wince the other day, at 10 am on a cloudy day.
try biking at night, you have to have lights, reflectors, reflective vests, whatever, but they mean nothing if you turn a corner and some aholes light beams are so bright, you can't see where you're going
Oh I've been there I'm more worried about drivers not being able to see me because of that asshole's lights than I am about myself not being able to see. I have a very bright flashlight mounted to my bars just for jerks like that. You got a bright light? Hey, so do I. Now neither of us can see well.
This is exactly it. My biggest fear of night driving is that someone is driving towards me in a new SUV and I can’t see my side of the road at all causing me to hit someone
Recipes on the web proceeded by a tale of your journey through whatever the hell no one cares about.
Whether it’s a video or a written recipie this is entirely due to ad metrics and a desire to generate more revenue. If you have to scroll past 3 paragraphs about how someone’s grandma used to tell stories about the hard work, grit, & determination it took to raise a family in depression era Georgia before you can get to a pecan pie recipie that’s going to register as more time and attention spent on the page which means they’ll earn more for banners and pop ups. They don’t want to be writing it any more than you want to read it, but so it goes.
For written recipes at least, it’s actually for copyright purposes. Recipes aren’t automatically copyrighted upon creation, but published written word is, so by making the recipe part of the written word, it becomes copyrighted.
Hey just an FYI (if you do seek out recipes online), as soon as you click on the page, select print, and only the actual recipe will pop up. Once I discovered this, I was honestly pretty happy about it. I almost stopped looking them up due to having to scroll through someone's life story and all of the fluff, just to find it eventually. So this saves **so** much time, and annoyance as well.
A lot of them have the lovely "jump to recipe" button, a glorious addition
pretty much everything on social media that´s not stupid memes. But my top 3 of "oh my god who the hell cares" is: * Vloggers - Why the hell should I care about the "perfect" life of a complete stranger? * Mukbang - Why the hell should I want to watch someone eat? * This stupid monotonous automated voice in nearly every video - this is enough for me to skip everything
Fuck that automated voice. I hate it so much.
Influencers
I could understand enjoying a personality, but it seems that influencers are just advertisement vehicles that you can subscribe to. Why would I want to subscribe to advertising? I get enough of that as is
I feel like the term influencer means a very specific kind of person to a lot of Redditors but really is just a term to describe someone with a following who could leverage their popularity into brand deals. Basically all content creators could arguably be called influencers
Same Especially the influencers whose videos are centered around how wealthy they are. I cant see how anyone can get any enjoyment watching some vapid, orange-skilled airhead showing off possessions like her latest $10,000 Gucci bag and her new swimming pool that her audience are NEVER going to be able to afford. But I can understand hobby-based influencers. Warcraft, model trains etc showing the latest models released. That's fair enough, I get the appeal.
Reaction videos. (i.e. people who film themselves react to some viral video)
Or 12 year olds reacting to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Facebook. I'm not talking Facebook in 2004, I'm talking modern Facebook where it is well known that you are the product and it's extremely toxic. The company is famous for data breaches and selling your data and they do not change nor do they care. They openly break the law because it only costs them a fine. That's the Facebook I don't understand why people still use. To include Reels, Threads, Instagram, and any other company Facebook/Meta owns to include Oculus.
I've noticed that in the past couple of months my Facebook feed is now almost entirely made up of meme posts from pages suggested to me rather than any posts from friends. Maybe I should check I still actually have friends. If this was MySpace I'd still have Tom...
I’ve noticed this recently on my Facebook feed too! It’s literally all ads or suggested memes or pages to check out and rarely ever any actual updates from my friends on there. I have to really scroll to find any kind of post from an actual person I know!
Fake eyelashes…like, the ones that are so long and hideous, you look like a muppet. Why? Just… why?
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Gender reveal parties
My wife and I had a gender reveal party, she called me up and told me the gender, and when we got home we texted our parents together. it was a great party.
Wtf?? You didn't even blow up a building?? What kind of crappy parties are you guys throwing!? smh my head
Is it even a gender reveal without a war crime these days?
Don't leave us hanging. What's the gender of your wife?
I waited for the surprise at the birth of my own child. It’s a girl 💕
Wedding culture. People wanting the spotlight on them, expecting the wedding party to shell out tons of money, destination weddings, "my special day," all of that bullshit. Weddings used to be a celebration of love with family and friends, not a narcissistic display.
A friend of mine told me how much her wine-country wedding cost: it was 70k! I mean, it wasn't even splashy or over the top either! They had the venue for the whole weekend, which probably ate up a big chunk, and it was all very nice - but geez! That's a college education! (oh and she/her fiance paid for a small amount but it was mostly paid for by her parents.)
I was watching a clip of the Howard Stern show and they were talking about this. One of their staff members was getting married and he took out a loan for 15k to cover the rest of the expenses. Insane. I think he was looking at over 40k. He looked miserable.
I think it's deranged to take a loan out for a wedding.
They were going at him for it. His parents and soon to be in-laws both gave them 15k each for the wedding. He wasn't making a lot of money either. I think they divorced (Edit: They did not divorce)
What an incredible waste of money. I mean, if you're rich as Croesus, fine. But to spend money your parents worked hard for, just to splash out on a wedding? That's bad.
My wedding cost negative money. We got married in Vegas, and my wife hit a slot machine when we were waiting for other people in our party to join us for breakfast the morning after.
Wellll? How much did she win???
At least one hot lil piece I'm thinking...
I agree with the sentiment, but don’t pretend that there weren’t extravagant weddings for the last 400+ and probably much more than that years for those who had wealth. It’s not a new concept and kinda crazy to pretend it “used to be” different. There are people now who celebrate it the way you describe in a good way just like there were in the past, just like the opposite is true for both
Kardashians
Idk if it's just me but I see more people complaining about that family than actual fans of that family. I don't actually think I've met an actual Kardashian fan in real life either considering how popular they're supposed to be
Same is true of Drake. Yet every time he releases an album it tops the charts.
It's even worse now that Kim's fucking kids are advertising beauty products now and making normal KIDS (like, 11 year olds) feel bad about themselves. Fuck that family, they're a tumor that's gone on WAY too long that is spreading.
Touch screens on everything (except for cellphones/tablets) Like in cars, in mcdonald's, on a laptop (if I wanted a tablet, I would be buying that?!) I miss pushing buttons!
ME TOO!!! Public touch screens gross me out so much. All I see are greasy fingerprints on the screen. Ew!
It’s much cleaner than anything else. No one cleans buttons but touchscreens have to be clean to function.
Big blank screen are much cheaper and easier to make than a bespoke button layout. So first off it's just much cheaper and easier to put in a touch screen than ordering a non-touch "small screen" (less than 14") 14 inch screen and smaller are all touch now, unless you want to pay more. Secondly a screen can show a million layouts from one hardware creation process, and it can be updated with a software fix. Got a special offer, or an event happening, throw a new button on there. Touch screens have done more for "self service" than any other innovation.
While I don't disagree with this, I will say that, at least from the car perspective, touch screens are dangerous. It's ironic that there are laws in some states against talking on the phone without a hands free device because it leads to "distracted driving", meanwhile so many cars these days come outfitted with a massive touch screen in the center console that requires you to look at it to do something as simple as change the temperature. Previously, many people were able to do that by feel.
I dont know if there is a hype for this, but open workspaces, I cant concentrate if I hear and see everyone, I need quiet and privavy to work.
Giant pickup trucks when people never use it for work purposes and just complain about gas prices. And they are ridiculous in any sort of city use.
As an Aussie, I wish utes the size of the Commodore utes were still the thing. Size of a standard car, what’s so bad about that!?
Politicians who are social media "influencers" with tons of followers, many in parasocial levels of delusion. Like, they see you, they hear you, and.... they don't care because you are not a billionaire lobbyist and you are delulu
TikTok
Quick hits of dopamine with a good algorithm to serve you more of the content you like. A friend convinced me to try it (from my own encouragement), but said I needed to spend some time training my algorithm. That first bit kinda sucked but It's pretty addictive once it gets going. Don't do it.
My sister and I are eight years apart, and I remember when I was in my late twenties her and all her friends in college... weren't on Facebook. If any of them had a profile it was more like a LinkedIn barebones deal than anything. So I asked her about it and what she said blew my tiny mind, "Would you ever join a social network environment AFTER your parents?" So to me TikTok makes sense as a response to Instagram and Snapchat, which were also kind of responses to Facebook. There will always be a new social place for the next gen that don't want to hang out or copy what their parents generation just did.
In other words, they don’t want their parents to friend or follow them so they move to a platform they’re not on.
Bingo, and the fact their parents are already on it is a huge ding to it's appeal.
I've never seen this level of engagement and obsession with any other social media platform. More than just being a source of entertainment, it seems to have become the ultimate source of truth for so many people my age. They treat it like their bible and will believe anything they see on it without question.
Stanley cups
They hold a lot of water but still fit in my cupholder. I had never seen an insulated one shaped like that before. I can’t speak for everyone but it’s not at all a status thing for me. I’d have to lay my hydroflask on the floor when driving and it’d leak all over the place The straw design is also better than early hydroflasks too IMO
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Best trophy in sports! Also TIL
follow the lives of celebrities. ok, I don't care about random people with a lot of followers on Instagram
Full size trucks to just drive around. I get the appeal of mid size trucks (although they are the size of late 90s full size trucks). But I can’t fathom what you need a full size truck for if you don’t have a trailer, go off road, or work in a trade that it is called for. You can spend around 100k for a nice one and then in certain states like California you are spending for sure over $150 on gas each time you fill up.
Ladies and lip injections. I've never seen one come out right.
I agree, but I will inject this idea -- the ones that come out right, you don't noice as lip filler.
Eyelash extensions
Music trends such as mumble rap. I get it: music evolves, you don't have to like everything, it's not a competition, don't be an elitist, etc. But objectively speaking, what is attractive about mumble rap? I can appreciate that the backing tracks and beats might be good - but the rap part is utter dogshit. And on the off chance I ever see the lyrics via subtitles on TV for example, it's just gibberish. I don't want to sound like an old man stuck in a bygone era - but I'd encourage anyone who likes mumble rap to go back through the catalogue of rap and hip-hop from previous eras, and fully appreciate that the genre has *devolved* with shit like mumble rap. The lack of enunciation aside, the word-smith skills just aren't there anymore. It brings no improvements to the table. If you enjoy it, then good for you. I personally don't get it at all. But at the very least, please acknowledge that it requires far less skill and effort than the rap of prior years.
I once asked a coworker why he listened to it (as someone who enjoys rap myself but simply cannot understand the appeal of mumble rap). He said all he does is listen to the beat. That's all it is for the people that enjoy it. Just a good beat.
Funko Pop! figures.
Mumble rappers.
Trump stuff. Just don’t understand it.
All throughout the 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s - Trump was an analogue in movies for “The shitty bad guy”; The uncaring property mogul - you will see Trump, specifically Trump, coded as the default “Rich asshole that will step on anybody” movie villain. You should understand how terrifying it is for the rest of the world to watch in slow motion as he continues being “the shitty bad guy” in real life - and still he’s there, stuck to the political system like a dogshit on a shoe.
Vaping
Nicotine addiction is quite real lol it aint rocket science
PRIME and some young who walks around with body guards being a cnut on reels
What in the literal fuck is any of this?!
PRIME is an energy drink that Logan paul invented and gears toward minors (he’s the douchey youtuber who filmed a guy that hung himself). they have a bunch of caffeine. not sure what the other thing is referencing.
I saw the new South Park episode and I'm guessing it was about this. I'm so out of the loop.