Asklemmy

I guess TikTok, because I tried it once and uninstalled it. It felt like the app was using me, not the other way round.

P Diddy. He did an Apprentice type show and was overall pretty creepy. There were a handful of scenes that made me think his closet was stocked full of skeletons.

The phrase "based off of." It's always been stupid. I'm still ahead of the curve because many people still think it's OK. It's not.

I never liked the Twilight books when they were just books

Centralised, monolithic online services. Even when they were 'good', I was leery of services like YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp because they made no attempt to be interoperable or peerable. Two GMail users will have a richer experience emailing with each-other than they would with someone on, say, Yahoo Email or an Exchange server, but it would always work, eventually, somehow. Obviously we now have the concept of the Fediverse, but federated peers forming ad-hoc connections using an lowest-common-denominator protocol is the basis of the whole Internet.

Myself.

Amanda Palmer. I've always thought she was a narcissistic asshole who uses people like she's rearranging furniture. And that has turned out to be extremely true.

Mr. Beast

The stock market. Only when society collapses due to climate change and whatnot the Western hoi polloi will realize it had become a cancerous pyramid scheme that eventually runs out of tissue to metastasize in.

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The Sims 4. As soon as that shit got officially showcased i was a hater. Felt gaslighted by the community for years, and now most people hate it too lmao.

Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000's, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010's and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.

Remeber when facebook was about "connecting with old friends" and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was "broadcast yourself" and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.

Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because "more future customers pay for the present ones"

Apparently, the large gaps in stall doors. 22ish years later, a number of places around my region are finally installing stalls and floor to ceiling walls without gaps. Making eye contact while taking a shit was always awkward AF.

Plastic, the patriot act, the Iraq war, AI, the internet, social media, I managed to avoid all platforms except Facebook which my spouse talked me into after months of trying to get me to join and finally deleted it recently, I kind of just hate tech in general, the never ending cycle of “upgrades” that actually make your life significantly shittier, competition, gender roles, giant SUVs, porn, extremely exotic pets, Tesla (test drove a high end model when it first came out and said it was like eating cafeteria food off a really nice tray and didn’t buy it) I’m sure plenty more… as an elder millennial the rise of the 21st century has just been so incredibly disappointing and shallow.

Entitled middle aged women (Karens). I started ranting about them in 2007, I guess.

Car ownership, I guess.

Facebook, Twitter, "influencers", most social media in general.

Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.

MrBeast.

• reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
• Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
• Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
• and twitter, and BlueSky

Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn't aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans

One I hate that I am unsure of a term for but I call it "Family time" is when a show or movie makes everyajor twist revolve around the main characters family...

Star Wars is a great example that no one notices it in

Darth Vader is Lukes father Leia his sister

Both rolls could have worked without those twists

But it is far worse in other shows and series or even ruins them for me

Fringe was ruined by it imo

Slow horses is falling into this trap with season 4

It's a cheap ploy to try and make the moment or stakes more dramatic by involving the characters in ediate family as ploys or villains. At the same time it just feels out of place most of the time that the entire world these characters are in revolve around 1 family.

So many shows use this trope but I don't even see a proper term calling it out and at the same time it has ruined so many shows and just shows a lazy writing or plot narrative.

The author does not know how to write for the dramatic response they want the audience to have for the villain or ploy so they make some dramatic reveal that their family member was secretly involved making it more difficult for the main characters to make decisions or take action.

Trans women competing as men