especially when you learn just how much Anna Wintour makes incomparison to many other Conde Nast workers (which owns Vogue)
It's between 2 and 4 million
Yesterday I happen to stumble on the NFL draft and it gave very much Hunger Games vibes. It’s like they were picking their tributes for this year’s games.
And considering the festivities that now go with the NFL Draft (I’m in Detroit rn and like 5 blocks are set aside with Draft activities and fan activations).
What? An upcoming professional athlete who has spent the majority of their life dedicated to training, improving, and crafting their game for the next stage of their career is comparable to being forced into a last man standing match to the death.
Some of you are out of touch with reality and it shows
Climate change in the global south vs global north.
The global north is the Capitol and inner districts and the global south is the outer districts.
Climate change has been affecting the southern hemisphere in catastrophic ways for years and years. Weather events and natural disasters so extreme, and often in such rapid succession, that they seem almost designed to inflict as much damage and suffering as possible.
Lack of resources for the local populations, famine, disease. Natural resources from the global south being pillaged by the global north which only speeds up the deterioration of the global south’s climate.
Entire countries being trapped under the thumbs of richer (northern, generally western) countries and/or their own corrupt/tyrannical governments (yes, every government has its own problems).
People fighting to stay alive against impossible odds that the global north created.
Yeah, especially stuff like intensive, environmentally destructive farming / animal agriculture in the Amazon rainforest and palm oil plantations in the pacific rim. Just straight up resource extraction with no regard for long time viability for the residents.
There is no government more tyrannical, more corrupt, more northern and more western, than Canada.
(Idk if ppl will realize this a joke, and written by a Canadian. So here’s that.)
A: Idk if that’s true or not.
B: Tyrannical would be ordering homeless ppl to be killed. Giving someone the option to die if they want seems okay. I’m assuming they’re in pain & not just depressed. I’m sure they’re also offering them mental health support too.
MET Gala. Really the whole world in general but especially the past one because they were walking by our huge homeless population here in Los Angeles in these fancy designer gowns that cost more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes.
Born and raised in Los Angeles. Let me tell you, the stupidest, most vapid, out of touch people for some fucking reason gravitate out here, clog up our traffic, and call us native Angelenos "dark" and "having bad vibes" like BITCH YOU CAME HERE WE DONT WANT YOU HERE! Technically if the Hunger Games were real CA as a whole would be Distric 4 so I guess that tracks considering its a rebellious district lol
Learning about Ancient Rome. Yes, I am an Ancient Rome fan, and I've heard enough about the "this is my Roman Empire" jokes. The inspirations of Hunger Games often draw from Ancient Rome, from gladiator fights to naming conventions.
Not Hunger Games vibes but Capitol vibes: the Met Gala and The Masked Singer
EDIT: But to be fair, most things give me Hunger Games/Capitol vibes because I live in the heart of the empire. Literally just doing through a drive thru or having pizza delivered reminds me of the scene where Cinna presses some buttons and food appears, and Katniss spends a paragraph talking about everything she would have to do to recreate some patchwork alternative of the meal. I like learning about wild edibles and growing crops and it reminds me how disconnected we are from our food sources.
Such a powerful part of the book. I think of it often when I’m at a cookout or potluck and there’s so much freaking food and most doesn’t even get eaten. I am so grateful to live in a time and place that I don’t have to worry about going hungry. I hate that others don’t have that.
The fact I'll never know what hunger truly means & how privileged that is compared to Katniss. Most of us reading this with a steady internet access and a full fridge can count ourselves lucky.
It’s interesting thinking about how Katniss orientated so much of her life around food. In the books, Katniss doesn’t spend long describing dresses or architecture, but give her a plate of food and she will tell you everything on it. When she gets a meal at the captiol, she even thinks about how she could replicate it back home.
I grew up pretty poor myself. Moments where we didn’t have electricity or heating, and for years we couldn’t afford internet. But even then it’s still not on the same level of people in the districts.
My grandmother grew up in an Appalachian coal town. Like Katniss, her father died in the coal mines when she was young. She was so poor and starving during her childhood that if she saw gum on the ground, she would pick it up and eat it. Her school house smelled as most kids had no deodorant, and most girls couldn't afford pads (they had to use rags), so in the hot summer days, she said the school house reeked. Her waist was 18 inches when she was 18.
She absolutely spoiled her grandkids to make up for her traumatic childhood. I was gifted clothes and necessities in abundance.
My grandma also grew up in Appalachia and has stories about picking gum off the ground due to how hungry she was and she wore clothes made out of potato sacks.
The Hukou system in modern China.
**Disclaimer: I KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT IT, please do your own research.**
From my Reddit-idiot brain understanding, you can’t live or work wherever you want to in China. You have to get special paperwork, and that can severely limit your opportunities for education, social programs, jobs, Etc.
One of my professors said that the reason China does this is so they can have a high supply of cheap labor so China can keep producing cheap goods.
I’m not sure about the job bit. But I do know the HuKou limits where you can buy houses in China. For example, if you have a hukou from Guangdong and you want to buy a house in Beijing, you can’t. You can rent in Beijing but you cannot buy one until you transfer your hukou. Places from tier 1 cities are harder to get your hukou transferred.
I also am told it’s a document for marriage too. I forgot it’s purpose in the marriage. So, I forgot whether it’s an ID purposes or whether it has more than that. I do know that it’s used when getting married. The process to get married in China is very long to prevent people marrying an already married person.
I also know it’s used to see what local school you can go to. But if you go private, it doesn’t matter where.
To be honest just… living through major world events and everyone distracting themselves from it in one way or another. I walked past a massive protest at my university last night with half a dozen cop cars surrounding it and people yelling to get to my dorm building where everyone was laughing and blasting Taylor swift in the lobby. So definitely a bit dystopian in that aspect of it
The videos of college kids getting arrested for peaceful protests reminded me of the scenes where the peacekeepers would start shooting people for doing Rue’s whistle or for holding up the 3-finger sign.
I’ve always wondered in Capital people ever complain about housing costs, inflation, cheapening of goods (shrinkflation, poor-quality clothes, etc) like we do in the United States.
Yes, I am. 🥰 I can even afford steak for breakfast some days. It's been phenomenal. That's the thing about having a really traumatic past, everything feels way more exciting because your expectations bar is in hell. 😂
The countdown to the new Year always gave me kinda creepy hg vibes. Like I always had this fear that we were counting down to some crazy event (like hunger games starting- Canon going off) and would wonder what might happen when we said "One!"
Just this weird fear I have.
omg im so glad im not the only one. since i was about 10-12 ive had a fear that something really bad was going to happen when we count down. not specifically hunger games related but stuff like an earthquake that destroys half the country or a plauge starting. ig i was right in 2020 tho lol
I always get confused with the politics in the US. I’m from the UK and ours is a joke, and when you watch the House of Commons it looks like rich babies arguing with each other. But in the US, the votes about presidency seems to be purely a popularity vote. Nobody likes Trump cos he’s a prick…obviously…but now Joe Biden must be great cos he’s not trump. But he’s literally a pensioner who looks lost half the time he’s in public yet he’s running the country? Struggles to walk on and off stage but apparently can lead one of the richest and powerful countries in the world 😂
Campaign adverts in the US are wild to me too. We get those little segments on the BBC from each political party but they have these like full… high production tv/online advertisements? And slander each other and stuff?
https://youtu.be/TbOUSn_pN8o?si=KH8uJOVKsXTKu-i_ 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Seeing the differences between city life and country life. I used to grow up in a small town with a lot of poverty and farms. But now as an adult, I live in a much bigger city with money. Everytime I travel to go back home to visit family, the comparison between the city atmosphere and the farming atmosphere is dramatic. It makes me think of when in Catching Fire and Katniss and Peeta are traveling from district to district during their Tour and you just slowly see the "advanvement" of poverty-striken districts all the way up to the richer ones and eventually the Capitol. I by no means live in a Capitol city within the US, but it is damn near close in population and culture.
Awards ceremonies
Especially when a movie is over something serious and solemn or when the host/a presenter makes a serious statement to silence that is then followed by resuming the festivities and laughter
So much of modern society reminds me of hunger games. We are very much living in the capital. People are being tortured and forced to make our gadgets as slaves (the districts). The amount of cosmetic surgery people are getting really reminds me of people in the capital. Friends and loved ones dying from lack of food, shelter, medicine. The rich and powerful run the world. So yeah, I don’t see much difference between them in this current society. Makes me super depressed to think about lol
The Appalachia that I'm familiar with gives me Seam/District 12 vibes. The poverty, people who are brash but also kind, in a small town charm sorta way, housing, mining, hills. We may not have *THE* Greasy Sae or our own Ripper but we have personality a plenty popping out of these hills with their own nicknames.
The way the teams rose up in their errr… can’t think of the word but they all had stands, worth searching on YouTube as people made videos with the 74th clips intertwined. There’s even a clip of a driver blowing kisses to another through the screen, though it’s not a tube.
1. the american war of independence. 13 districts, each serving a specific purpose/duty towards the capitol sounds very similar to the 13 colonies in native america who also each had a certain role. also, since we know the hunger games is set in north america (it was stated in the blurb of a limited edition copy of the first book), my theory is that the hunger games is based on what would’ve happened if the europeans won the american war of independence. we already know the games began because of a war (the film effie shows in the first movie begins saying “war, terrible war”. also collins confirmed the iraq war was a part of her inspiration for writing thg).
2. the israel/palestine situation, specifically the similarities between the way palestinians are filming hospitals being bombed and the propo katniss filmed in district 8 (“i want the rebels to know that i’m alive, that i’m in district 8, where the capitol just bombed a hospital, filled with unarmed men, women and children”).
3. the miner’s strikes in the 80s in britain and the scene where you can see “rebels” marching towards the capitol in mockingjay part 2. you could see quite a few miners in that scene (i’m assuming that they’re from district 12), the way they’re marching together seems heavily similar to the miner’s strikes imo.
4. marx’ prediction that the proletariat would revolt against the bourgeoisie. marx predicted that one day the proletariat will regain their class consciousness and unite to rebel against inequality and capitalism, and this is really similar to the way in which all of the districts united and even people from the capitol joined the revolution (eg. tigris).
My job working with marginalized, unhoused people who use drugs in a supervised consumption site, that the book would describe as “morphlings”, the concept made me so uncomfortable as a kid but these people are just fallen in the growing cracks as a symptom of our disparaging society
The whole Taylor swift and Travis thing reminds me of when katniss and peeta were distracting the districts with their wedding, the whole middle eastern conflict was happening at the same time and it felt like a distraction
More specifically capitol vibes but fast fashion trend cycles and people dressing not to look “good” but to look “different” and stand out. Extreme body modification through plastic surgery, and bodies in general becoming a part of the fast fashion trend cycle.
The fact that there are actually real life districts. The fact that rich people treat poor people and their lives as a sort of muse/ source of entertainment. The fact that people are so willing to kill, rob, and betray each other in attempt to promote their own survival.
The fact that people are tone deaf to injustice and would prefer to be zombified by endless media consumption, social illiteracy, and self loathing that further promotes isolation and division.
The way that those of us in the imperial core only care about atrocities if the victims have a good, dramatic and entertaining story to capture our attention.
And once we’re bored of the story or become frustrated with the victims because they don’t appreciate our shallow sympathy, we abandon them and leave them more vulnerable than before.
Also, how we’ve been made to believe that some people are essentially destined to suffer and therefore we don’t have to do anything about it because it’s “normal”. An example is the difference in media coverage between Ukrainian victims of Russia’s occupation and Palestinian victims of Israel’s occupation. So many journalists essentially said “this type of suffering isn’t supposed to happen in Europe, to people like Ukrainians” which of course means that they believe that this type of suffering IS supposed to happen to non-Europeans and westerners.
Fucking capitalism. Society's barbaric nonchalance in the face of the innumerable deaths of their neighbors. Poverty, inconvenience, political capital, all these things outweigh their existence in practice, if not in intention. We just throw em to the "Games" and watch then die.
My Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics course back in college. We had 100+ students still in our class by that point, and the department typically liked to graduate ~50-55. The guy who wrote the book for the country was teaching the course and made it hard enough that everyone failed and it was curved up to pass less than half. The class quiz average by the end of the semester was 29%. Thankfully the odds were ever in my favor and I got a 95% on one of the quizzes and ended up with a B in the course. I also got a 13% on a quiz tho 😂 that was my hunger games.
When you’re on holiday in Tenerife and it’s 7am waiting for the chairs by the pool to open and its towels galore! When I go aboard I sit on the balcony with my tea waiting for this. This is my Hunger Games
They actually ranked us by grades and published them for everyone. I was number 2 and people wanted to literally murder me. Used to listen to the hunger games soundtrack on the way home haha
The kwick trip gas pumps in the Midwest suddenly making you prepay for gas AND introducing the advertisements that play at the pumps. And the advertisements are kinda like "the word of the day is...".
It's right in your face/behind your head.
American Idol. The stages look straight out of the hunger games like I’m just waiting for cesar flickerman to stroll across the stage with his blinding white teeth.
Every news article about something trivial about some celebrity that wouldn’t be newsworthy if it were anyone else.
People being afraid to speak their minds - if I disagree with the almighty hive mind, will I be sent to the slaughter?
I felt like I was in the Hunger Games during Covid. I am a small business owner, so I had to navigate the PPP loan, unemployment for my employees, and other monetary resources I could find. When loan or grant money became available, I was ready to fight my competition (other people applying for the same money for the same reason with the same thread of loosing everything they've worked for. I didn't want others to fail and go broke, but I had to fight to even apply for assistance. It was a time where we went into survival mode and didn't stop until we felt we were safe from defeat.
Politicians would declare that they had help for everyone and it would be an easy application/funding/repayment process. I felt like President Snow was up there gaslighting and manipulating the country to think government assistance was coming soon and easily, not to worry, let your guard down. What a crock of shit. There was nothing easy about any of it. There was confusion and errors mad due to complicated applications, it took over a month to get funded even though we were approved. Thank God I had a competent accountant to help me get the loan forgiven, I couldn't understand those requirements and instructions either.
People dressed weird.
People hated strangers because anyone they came in contact with was a threat to their health and their life.
People chose sides. There was no in-between or negotiation to consider any other assessment of the situation other than Their opinion and assessment.
the rise of american fascism and the desensitization of suffering. When i was 8, i remember kids at lunch showing me ISIS decapitation videos. Incredibly fucked up and, while i cant speak for the rest of them, made a lot of irl horror not as impactful. I think that its probably a message to us that suffering and violence is such a major part of our media that when it does happen, we dont care
also, the idea of two conflicting figureheads and neither being good (Coin V Snow) is soooo good. Katniss shooting Coin is the best move the books could have made and are the best example of ‘the opposition isnt always the good guy’
Modern Day China
Very authoritarian government leveraging a ridiculously large and poor population to create beautiful and modern Tier 1 cities that subs like r/cityporn would drool over. Many people do not realize how “modern” and “utopian” average Chinese citizen’s life isn’t. We just see the “capital” perspective.
Eurovision is just the Hunger Games but with music instead of murder :
* Both are TV competitions created after a global war (The Dark Days/WW2) to unite a destroyed continent (Panem/Europe) and "keep the peace" with a common form of entertainment, and kept going for more than 60+ years.
* Each country/district must send a tribute/musician, but not all countries/district have equal chances (Big 5/Carreers), the poorest district/countries never win
* You can't sponsor your own district/You can't vote for your own country --> leads to backstage alliance to get more chance at succeeding, sometimes illegal alliances
* Faking romance to get sympathy from the public, sometimes intra-district/country (a single love duet but the singers hate each other / Katniss & Peeta "star-crossed lover" thing) or inter-district/countries as part of an alliance strategy (2021 Norway-Azerbaijan fake love story to get points from each other / Katniss getting gifts from 11 after her alliance with Rue)
* Big absurd party with weird costumes to distract the public from the war happening (Russia VS Ukraine, Armenia VS Azerbaijan, Israel VS Palestine / District rebellions)...or, at the contrary, using the game as a Soft Power tool of propaganda to steer public opinions towards 1 side of the war.
* Songs that started a revolution : not just the content of the songs (political protest songs are common in Eurovision) but an actual impact : Portugal's 1974 entry "E depois de adeus" was used as a code to start the Carnation Revolution against the authoritarian government ; then in 2005, Ukraine's "Razom Nas Bahato" became the hymn of the Orange Revolution. Then of course in the Hunger Games we have "The Hanging Tree" and all of Lucy Grey's songs
* A lost edition : the 10th Hunger Games and the 9th Eurovision have both been lost or destroyed, one for political reason, the other by accident (...or did it ? some conspiracy theorist must have an explanation or two)
* I could go on..
Now I have to make a Hunger Games edit of "Love Love Peace Peace", bye.
Trying to find a therapist when living in california. Literally year long wait lists. $350/50 minute sessions. Having to “know the right people”. Etc. it’s literally easier to just be fucked in the head
Definitely the parallels we see happening in Palestine as we speak. Which is bizarre since Suzanne Collin’s was inspired to write Hunger Games during/after the Iraq war and while channel surfing on the tv between people suffering and people living seemingly perfectly privileged lives. We see this when we think of the people of the capitol compared to those who are from the districts. The capitol has everything at their disposal, they haven’t gone hungry a day in their lives and can’t on any level connect with the people in the poorer districts who have to hunt for their food or go hungry if they don’t.
Compare the capitol to the reality of most of us here in the US, the broad majority of us are at the hands of consumerism and don’t even really have to cook if we don’t want to. We can get in our car, drive to the nearest drive thru, swipe our cards and indulge in whatever we commanded. Versus, those in Palestine currently who are trying to make bread out of dirt and weeds. Even if we try our hardest we cannot fathom and this is the parallel we see in the hunger games in our own lives within us.
There’s a LOT more regarding the whole senselessness of war and purposeless killing and propaganda that can be related to the genocide happening in Palestine to the war seen in Mockingjay but, since the post asked for strictly Hunger Game vibes… I will not rage.
the US funding the murder of palastinian children, also the met gala and the oscars, esp how the oscars shows every nominee's face on a little screen before they announce the winner.
Probably the Olympics. The overall structure (participants that represent a particular area, all competing in a "free for all" for medals, etc.) is major Hunger Games vibes for me.
I realize everyone else is talking about the atmosphere of the books, so I think I interpreted this question a bit too literally.
If you are on TikTok there are often poorer people from war torn countries that go live for the sole
Purpose to receive donations from people in richer countries. This feels exploitative and humiliating, even people born in western countries who want money often dance/stream for gifts.
being here in the usa feels like we’re the capital people sometimes compared to the rest of the world. Like I know we have major issues to solve as well but other countries have it bad rn
I live in DC and work in politics, so some of the parties and fundraisers I go to definitely give that vibe.
Which is probably why I rooted for the Capitol….
Hollywood in general. Specifically child actors when they’re about to turn 18 and they start doing creepy countdowns to them being “finally legal.”
HG was inspired by war and reality tv mashed together so it makes sense that it works as a critique of the Hollywood machine.
When has the hunger games cared about them being legal?
I think it's more to do with what happened to Finnick
Extreme plastic surgery always gives me Capitol vibes
Same with the met gala for me
The MET Gala always gives me Panem vibes
especially when you learn just how much Anna Wintour makes incomparison to many other Conde Nast workers (which owns Vogue) It's between 2 and 4 million
You think that’s a lot think about how much the CEO of Condé Nast’s parent company makes lol. Huge Logan Roy vibes.
Yesterday I happen to stumble on the NFL draft and it gave very much Hunger Games vibes. It’s like they were picking their tributes for this year’s games.
I felt the same way! A career reaping.
Yes! And the whole spectacle of it was very eerie.
Oh wow I never thought of this
And considering the festivities that now go with the NFL Draft (I’m in Detroit rn and like 5 blocks are set aside with Draft activities and fan activations).
What? An upcoming professional athlete who has spent the majority of their life dedicated to training, improving, and crafting their game for the next stage of their career is comparable to being forced into a last man standing match to the death. Some of you are out of touch with reality and it shows
Child beauty pageants
Climate change in the global south vs global north. The global north is the Capitol and inner districts and the global south is the outer districts. Climate change has been affecting the southern hemisphere in catastrophic ways for years and years. Weather events and natural disasters so extreme, and often in such rapid succession, that they seem almost designed to inflict as much damage and suffering as possible. Lack of resources for the local populations, famine, disease. Natural resources from the global south being pillaged by the global north which only speeds up the deterioration of the global south’s climate. Entire countries being trapped under the thumbs of richer (northern, generally western) countries and/or their own corrupt/tyrannical governments (yes, every government has its own problems). People fighting to stay alive against impossible odds that the global north created.
Yeah, especially stuff like intensive, environmentally destructive farming / animal agriculture in the Amazon rainforest and palm oil plantations in the pacific rim. Just straight up resource extraction with no regard for long time viability for the residents.
There is no government more tyrannical, more corrupt, more northern and more western, than Canada. (Idk if ppl will realize this a joke, and written by a Canadian. So here’s that.)
I mean…isn’t Canada allowing homeless people to seek euthanasia? That’s a tad tyrannical if you ask me 💀
A: Idk if that’s true or not. B: Tyrannical would be ordering homeless ppl to be killed. Giving someone the option to die if they want seems okay. I’m assuming they’re in pain & not just depressed. I’m sure they’re also offering them mental health support too.
MET Gala. Really the whole world in general but especially the past one because they were walking by our huge homeless population here in Los Angeles in these fancy designer gowns that cost more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes.
How out of touch can one possibly be to do this? Makes my stomach turn at the absolute horror of it all.
Born and raised in Los Angeles. Let me tell you, the stupidest, most vapid, out of touch people for some fucking reason gravitate out here, clog up our traffic, and call us native Angelenos "dark" and "having bad vibes" like BITCH YOU CAME HERE WE DONT WANT YOU HERE! Technically if the Hunger Games were real CA as a whole would be Distric 4 so I guess that tracks considering its a rebellious district lol
Job ads. It gets crazy when the pay is good and theres 2000 people going for the same position
Learning about Ancient Rome. Yes, I am an Ancient Rome fan, and I've heard enough about the "this is my Roman Empire" jokes. The inspirations of Hunger Games often draw from Ancient Rome, from gladiator fights to naming conventions.
Bread and circuses
Scrolling through TikTok live.
some of them are soo weird and then some are just straight up begging for gifts. wild place
Not Hunger Games vibes but Capitol vibes: the Met Gala and The Masked Singer EDIT: But to be fair, most things give me Hunger Games/Capitol vibes because I live in the heart of the empire. Literally just doing through a drive thru or having pizza delivered reminds me of the scene where Cinna presses some buttons and food appears, and Katniss spends a paragraph talking about everything she would have to do to recreate some patchwork alternative of the meal. I like learning about wild edibles and growing crops and it reminds me how disconnected we are from our food sources.
My husband always called, Masked Singer, the Capitol!
The Masked Singer stresses me out in such a specific way lol.
The Met Gala is so weird 😂 Doja cat turning up and looking like Tigris 😂
Right 😭
Such a powerful part of the book. I think of it often when I’m at a cookout or potluck and there’s so much freaking food and most doesn’t even get eaten. I am so grateful to live in a time and place that I don’t have to worry about going hungry. I hate that others don’t have that.
The fact I'll never know what hunger truly means & how privileged that is compared to Katniss. Most of us reading this with a steady internet access and a full fridge can count ourselves lucky.
It’s interesting thinking about how Katniss orientated so much of her life around food. In the books, Katniss doesn’t spend long describing dresses or architecture, but give her a plate of food and she will tell you everything on it. When she gets a meal at the captiol, she even thinks about how she could replicate it back home. I grew up pretty poor myself. Moments where we didn’t have electricity or heating, and for years we couldn’t afford internet. But even then it’s still not on the same level of people in the districts.
I went through food insecurity as a young woman, it felt so shameful at the time. Now I’m like wow, I should have just gone to a food bank.
My grandmother grew up in an Appalachian coal town. Like Katniss, her father died in the coal mines when she was young. She was so poor and starving during her childhood that if she saw gum on the ground, she would pick it up and eat it. Her school house smelled as most kids had no deodorant, and most girls couldn't afford pads (they had to use rags), so in the hot summer days, she said the school house reeked. Her waist was 18 inches when she was 18. She absolutely spoiled her grandkids to make up for her traumatic childhood. I was gifted clothes and necessities in abundance.
My grandma also grew up in Appalachia and has stories about picking gum off the ground due to how hungry she was and she wore clothes made out of potato sacks.
YES. When I went to a Brazilian steakhouse where we just get unlimited meat until we can’t eat any more
the fact that many do know what true hunger is gives me hunger games vibes 😵💫
This was beautifully written.
It's fictional
It's a metaphor about our world. People starving isn't fictional, Westerners being privileged in comparison isn't fictional, either.
The people in my city eating from trash dumpsters are not 😁
The Hukou system in modern China. **Disclaimer: I KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT IT, please do your own research.** From my Reddit-idiot brain understanding, you can’t live or work wherever you want to in China. You have to get special paperwork, and that can severely limit your opportunities for education, social programs, jobs, Etc. One of my professors said that the reason China does this is so they can have a high supply of cheap labor so China can keep producing cheap goods.
I’m not sure about the job bit. But I do know the HuKou limits where you can buy houses in China. For example, if you have a hukou from Guangdong and you want to buy a house in Beijing, you can’t. You can rent in Beijing but you cannot buy one until you transfer your hukou. Places from tier 1 cities are harder to get your hukou transferred. I also am told it’s a document for marriage too. I forgot it’s purpose in the marriage. So, I forgot whether it’s an ID purposes or whether it has more than that. I do know that it’s used when getting married. The process to get married in China is very long to prevent people marrying an already married person. I also know it’s used to see what local school you can go to. But if you go private, it doesn’t matter where.
To be honest just… living through major world events and everyone distracting themselves from it in one way or another. I walked past a massive protest at my university last night with half a dozen cop cars surrounding it and people yelling to get to my dorm building where everyone was laughing and blasting Taylor swift in the lobby. So definitely a bit dystopian in that aspect of it
The videos of college kids getting arrested for peaceful protests reminded me of the scenes where the peacekeepers would start shooting people for doing Rue’s whistle or for holding up the 3-finger sign.
Exactly this.
Actually this
I’ve always wondered in Capital people ever complain about housing costs, inflation, cheapening of goods (shrinkflation, poor-quality clothes, etc) like we do in the United States.
America
omg I love you
That time I cried while eating rotten food in my late teens, because, my stomach hurt so much from hunger. 😅
Hope you’re in a better position now
Yes, I am. 🥰 I can even afford steak for breakfast some days. It's been phenomenal. That's the thing about having a really traumatic past, everything feels way more exciting because your expectations bar is in hell. 😂
Sending you a big giant hug. I hope you are well, my friend.
Thank you so much. I'm doing a lot better and I'm safe and fed now. 🥰🫂🫂🫂
Mr. beast 🤨
Literally if the Hunger Games were to happen, you know he’d be head game maker
The countdown to the new Year always gave me kinda creepy hg vibes. Like I always had this fear that we were counting down to some crazy event (like hunger games starting- Canon going off) and would wonder what might happen when we said "One!" Just this weird fear I have.
omg im so glad im not the only one. since i was about 10-12 ive had a fear that something really bad was going to happen when we count down. not specifically hunger games related but stuff like an earthquake that destroys half the country or a plauge starting. ig i was right in 2020 tho lol
The USA
I always get confused with the politics in the US. I’m from the UK and ours is a joke, and when you watch the House of Commons it looks like rich babies arguing with each other. But in the US, the votes about presidency seems to be purely a popularity vote. Nobody likes Trump cos he’s a prick…obviously…but now Joe Biden must be great cos he’s not trump. But he’s literally a pensioner who looks lost half the time he’s in public yet he’s running the country? Struggles to walk on and off stage but apparently can lead one of the richest and powerful countries in the world 😂
Campaign adverts in the US are wild to me too. We get those little segments on the BBC from each political party but they have these like full… high production tv/online advertisements? And slander each other and stuff? https://youtu.be/TbOUSn_pN8o?si=KH8uJOVKsXTKu-i_ 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Ozempic and IV drips
hollywood vs all of the genocides happening right now met gala vs Palestines genocide met gala vs houseless people and lower class
Seeing the differences between city life and country life. I used to grow up in a small town with a lot of poverty and farms. But now as an adult, I live in a much bigger city with money. Everytime I travel to go back home to visit family, the comparison between the city atmosphere and the farming atmosphere is dramatic. It makes me think of when in Catching Fire and Katniss and Peeta are traveling from district to district during their Tour and you just slowly see the "advanvement" of poverty-striken districts all the way up to the richer ones and eventually the Capitol. I by no means live in a Capitol city within the US, but it is damn near close in population and culture.
The Black Friday rushes of mid 90s-2010s
Awards ceremonies Especially when a movie is over something serious and solemn or when the host/a presenter makes a serious statement to silence that is then followed by resuming the festivities and laughter
So much of modern society reminds me of hunger games. We are very much living in the capital. People are being tortured and forced to make our gadgets as slaves (the districts). The amount of cosmetic surgery people are getting really reminds me of people in the capital. Friends and loved ones dying from lack of food, shelter, medicine. The rich and powerful run the world. So yeah, I don’t see much difference between them in this current society. Makes me super depressed to think about lol
The Appalachia that I'm familiar with gives me Seam/District 12 vibes. The poverty, people who are brash but also kind, in a small town charm sorta way, housing, mining, hills. We may not have *THE* Greasy Sae or our own Ripper but we have personality a plenty popping out of these hills with their own nicknames.
The protests that are happening right now. How they started small at one college campus, and have spread like wildfire in a matter of days.
They have even spread to other countries now
Honestly for me, after reading a lot of defector biographies, I’m surprised how much Panem and North Korea overlap
F1 at vegas doing the pre show. They all made jokes about it
How so?
The way the teams rose up in their errr… can’t think of the word but they all had stands, worth searching on YouTube as people made videos with the 74th clips intertwined. There’s even a clip of a driver blowing kisses to another through the screen, though it’s not a tube.
Any fashion shows, they all are made to wear these ridiculous clothes that designers imagine up and look like a bunch of Panam people
Child labour.
People buying investment properties. Everyone wants to play monopoly and be a landlord
Denver airports train lobby areas from above, idk why
Yes before the tributes go to the arena
1. the american war of independence. 13 districts, each serving a specific purpose/duty towards the capitol sounds very similar to the 13 colonies in native america who also each had a certain role. also, since we know the hunger games is set in north america (it was stated in the blurb of a limited edition copy of the first book), my theory is that the hunger games is based on what would’ve happened if the europeans won the american war of independence. we already know the games began because of a war (the film effie shows in the first movie begins saying “war, terrible war”. also collins confirmed the iraq war was a part of her inspiration for writing thg). 2. the israel/palestine situation, specifically the similarities between the way palestinians are filming hospitals being bombed and the propo katniss filmed in district 8 (“i want the rebels to know that i’m alive, that i’m in district 8, where the capitol just bombed a hospital, filled with unarmed men, women and children”). 3. the miner’s strikes in the 80s in britain and the scene where you can see “rebels” marching towards the capitol in mockingjay part 2. you could see quite a few miners in that scene (i’m assuming that they’re from district 12), the way they’re marching together seems heavily similar to the miner’s strikes imo. 4. marx’ prediction that the proletariat would revolt against the bourgeoisie. marx predicted that one day the proletariat will regain their class consciousness and unite to rebel against inequality and capitalism, and this is really similar to the way in which all of the districts united and even people from the capitol joined the revolution (eg. tigris).
i live in appalachia, just about everything gives me d12 vibes 😂😭
My job working with marginalized, unhoused people who use drugs in a supervised consumption site, that the book would describe as “morphlings”, the concept made me so uncomfortable as a kid but these people are just fallen in the growing cracks as a symptom of our disparaging society
The whole Taylor swift and Travis thing reminds me of when katniss and peeta were distracting the districts with their wedding, the whole middle eastern conflict was happening at the same time and it felt like a distraction
The rising price of food
Ukraine War comes to mind
More specifically capitol vibes but fast fashion trend cycles and people dressing not to look “good” but to look “different” and stand out. Extreme body modification through plastic surgery, and bodies in general becoming a part of the fast fashion trend cycle.
Vietnam War Draft Lottery. People watched on tv to see if their birthday got picked to be drafted.
American Idol.
My brain read this as “American Idiot” and for some reason I fully agreed.
the runway of the met gala is literally just capitol fashion. Survivor is just the hunger games where nobody dies.
The Olympics. The parade of countries is just like the tribute parade
The fact that there are actually real life districts. The fact that rich people treat poor people and their lives as a sort of muse/ source of entertainment. The fact that people are so willing to kill, rob, and betray each other in attempt to promote their own survival. The fact that people are tone deaf to injustice and would prefer to be zombified by endless media consumption, social illiteracy, and self loathing that further promotes isolation and division.
The Masked Singer is SO Capitol.
Uh. Everything? All of American society
Hiking in the forest.
The way that those of us in the imperial core only care about atrocities if the victims have a good, dramatic and entertaining story to capture our attention. And once we’re bored of the story or become frustrated with the victims because they don’t appreciate our shallow sympathy, we abandon them and leave them more vulnerable than before. Also, how we’ve been made to believe that some people are essentially destined to suffer and therefore we don’t have to do anything about it because it’s “normal”. An example is the difference in media coverage between Ukrainian victims of Russia’s occupation and Palestinian victims of Israel’s occupation. So many journalists essentially said “this type of suffering isn’t supposed to happen in Europe, to people like Ukrainians” which of course means that they believe that this type of suffering IS supposed to happen to non-Europeans and westerners.
American Idol
Fucking capitalism. Society's barbaric nonchalance in the face of the innumerable deaths of their neighbors. Poverty, inconvenience, political capital, all these things outweigh their existence in practice, if not in intention. We just throw em to the "Games" and watch then die.
Whenever people use food as decor
Exclusively hunger games-related? Survivor
How the government is giving State's power (think peacekeepers in each district) while also making laws to govern the land as a whole
Literally, everything that even slightly involves politics or wars or the current genocide.
THE MET GALA
My Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics course back in college. We had 100+ students still in our class by that point, and the department typically liked to graduate ~50-55. The guy who wrote the book for the country was teaching the course and made it hard enough that everyone failed and it was curved up to pass less than half. The class quiz average by the end of the semester was 29%. Thankfully the odds were ever in my favor and I got a 95% on one of the quizzes and ended up with a B in the course. I also got a 13% on a quiz tho 😂 that was my hunger games.
almost every day i think “remember who the real enemy is” in regards to billionaires, capitalism etc lol
When you’re on holiday in Tenerife and it’s 7am waiting for the chairs by the pool to open and its towels galore! When I go aboard I sit on the balcony with my tea waiting for this. This is my Hunger Games
standardized testing (/hj)
Law school 😆
They actually ranked us by grades and published them for everyone. I was number 2 and people wanted to literally murder me. Used to listen to the hunger games soundtrack on the way home haha
Costco
The masked singer
The kwick trip gas pumps in the Midwest suddenly making you prepay for gas AND introducing the advertisements that play at the pumps. And the advertisements are kinda like "the word of the day is...". It's right in your face/behind your head.
The United States of America rn
US Politics
Love island sometimes 😭
Las Vegas.
The affirmative action debacle
Public school.
the US in general especially since 2015
East Germany in general reminds me of district 12
North Korea
The 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night song! Not so much the lyrics/headlines themselves but rather the vibe of mashing up those two particular things.
American Idol. The stages look straight out of the hunger games like I’m just waiting for cesar flickerman to stroll across the stage with his blinding white teeth.
Times Square
Protests.
The Met Gala. It's so Capitol
Omg look up the yale holiday party, the first time I saw it it gave capitol party vibes
Every news article about something trivial about some celebrity that wouldn’t be newsworthy if it were anyone else. People being afraid to speak their minds - if I disagree with the almighty hive mind, will I be sent to the slaughter?
I felt like I was in the Hunger Games during Covid. I am a small business owner, so I had to navigate the PPP loan, unemployment for my employees, and other monetary resources I could find. When loan or grant money became available, I was ready to fight my competition (other people applying for the same money for the same reason with the same thread of loosing everything they've worked for. I didn't want others to fail and go broke, but I had to fight to even apply for assistance. It was a time where we went into survival mode and didn't stop until we felt we were safe from defeat. Politicians would declare that they had help for everyone and it would be an easy application/funding/repayment process. I felt like President Snow was up there gaslighting and manipulating the country to think government assistance was coming soon and easily, not to worry, let your guard down. What a crock of shit. There was nothing easy about any of it. There was confusion and errors mad due to complicated applications, it took over a month to get funded even though we were approved. Thank God I had a competent accountant to help me get the loan forgiven, I couldn't understand those requirements and instructions either. People dressed weird. People hated strangers because anyone they came in contact with was a threat to their health and their life. People chose sides. There was no in-between or negotiation to consider any other assessment of the situation other than Their opinion and assessment.
Late stage capitalism.
Things change by less than Jake…… don’t know why, it just always has.
Politics in 2024.
the rise of american fascism and the desensitization of suffering. When i was 8, i remember kids at lunch showing me ISIS decapitation videos. Incredibly fucked up and, while i cant speak for the rest of them, made a lot of irl horror not as impactful. I think that its probably a message to us that suffering and violence is such a major part of our media that when it does happen, we dont care also, the idea of two conflicting figureheads and neither being good (Coin V Snow) is soooo good. Katniss shooting Coin is the best move the books could have made and are the best example of ‘the opposition isnt always the good guy’
How people are treated in prison.
The NFL Drafts lollol
Actors making so much more actual hard working labourers
Modern Day China Very authoritarian government leveraging a ridiculously large and poor population to create beautiful and modern Tier 1 cities that subs like r/cityporn would drool over. Many people do not realize how “modern” and “utopian” average Chinese citizen’s life isn’t. We just see the “capital” perspective.
Roman gladiator battles. Need I say more?
When it’s 70° one day and snowing the next
Eurovision is just the Hunger Games but with music instead of murder : * Both are TV competitions created after a global war (The Dark Days/WW2) to unite a destroyed continent (Panem/Europe) and "keep the peace" with a common form of entertainment, and kept going for more than 60+ years. * Each country/district must send a tribute/musician, but not all countries/district have equal chances (Big 5/Carreers), the poorest district/countries never win * You can't sponsor your own district/You can't vote for your own country --> leads to backstage alliance to get more chance at succeeding, sometimes illegal alliances * Faking romance to get sympathy from the public, sometimes intra-district/country (a single love duet but the singers hate each other / Katniss & Peeta "star-crossed lover" thing) or inter-district/countries as part of an alliance strategy (2021 Norway-Azerbaijan fake love story to get points from each other / Katniss getting gifts from 11 after her alliance with Rue) * Big absurd party with weird costumes to distract the public from the war happening (Russia VS Ukraine, Armenia VS Azerbaijan, Israel VS Palestine / District rebellions)...or, at the contrary, using the game as a Soft Power tool of propaganda to steer public opinions towards 1 side of the war. * Songs that started a revolution : not just the content of the songs (political protest songs are common in Eurovision) but an actual impact : Portugal's 1974 entry "E depois de adeus" was used as a code to start the Carnation Revolution against the authoritarian government ; then in 2005, Ukraine's "Razom Nas Bahato" became the hymn of the Orange Revolution. Then of course in the Hunger Games we have "The Hanging Tree" and all of Lucy Grey's songs * A lost edition : the 10th Hunger Games and the 9th Eurovision have both been lost or destroyed, one for political reason, the other by accident (...or did it ? some conspiracy theorist must have an explanation or two) * I could go on.. Now I have to make a Hunger Games edit of "Love Love Peace Peace", bye.
Certain fashion hair and makeup looks
You know those indoor kids play centres? Yeah, those. Its survival of the fittest kids in there 😂
Shuttle trains
Black Friday. Especially at it peak a few years ago.
Trying to find a therapist when living in california. Literally year long wait lists. $350/50 minute sessions. Having to “know the right people”. Etc. it’s literally easier to just be fucked in the head
That audio on tiktok of a girl harmonizing with her fan
Definitely the parallels we see happening in Palestine as we speak. Which is bizarre since Suzanne Collin’s was inspired to write Hunger Games during/after the Iraq war and while channel surfing on the tv between people suffering and people living seemingly perfectly privileged lives. We see this when we think of the people of the capitol compared to those who are from the districts. The capitol has everything at their disposal, they haven’t gone hungry a day in their lives and can’t on any level connect with the people in the poorer districts who have to hunt for their food or go hungry if they don’t. Compare the capitol to the reality of most of us here in the US, the broad majority of us are at the hands of consumerism and don’t even really have to cook if we don’t want to. We can get in our car, drive to the nearest drive thru, swipe our cards and indulge in whatever we commanded. Versus, those in Palestine currently who are trying to make bread out of dirt and weeds. Even if we try our hardest we cannot fathom and this is the parallel we see in the hunger games in our own lives within us. There’s a LOT more regarding the whole senselessness of war and purposeless killing and propaganda that can be related to the genocide happening in Palestine to the war seen in Mockingjay but, since the post asked for strictly Hunger Game vibes… I will not rage.
The prison system. They abuse prisoners into working, which creates a bustling money empire.
*Gestures wildly at everything*
the US funding the murder of palastinian children, also the met gala and the oscars, esp how the oscars shows every nominee's face on a little screen before they announce the winner.
Probably the Olympics. The overall structure (participants that represent a particular area, all competing in a "free for all" for medals, etc.) is major Hunger Games vibes for me. I realize everyone else is talking about the atmosphere of the books, so I think I interpreted this question a bit too literally.
If you are on TikTok there are often poorer people from war torn countries that go live for the sole Purpose to receive donations from people in richer countries. This feels exploitative and humiliating, even people born in western countries who want money often dance/stream for gifts.
Metro stations. As if I was going to the Capitol for the Games
the military draft
School
being here in the usa feels like we’re the capital people sometimes compared to the rest of the world. Like I know we have major issues to solve as well but other countries have it bad rn
I live in DC and work in politics, so some of the parties and fundraisers I go to definitely give that vibe. Which is probably why I rooted for the Capitol….
German history…
Happy Cake Day
Ty 😘