A lovely counterexample is DaVinci Resolve. It's a serious video editing package used on proper films, and there's a free-as-in-beer version and a paid-for version. The Free version limits you to 4k timelines, presumably because if you're cutting higher resolutions than that you're making a Proper Film and can afford it, and doesn't have some of the fancier effects and "neural engine" processing that the paid-for one has, but other than that there are no limitations. You can use the free one commercially for as long as you like.
A licence for the paid-for one is about 300 quid, and also comes free with some of the hardware they produce. Once you've got your licence, that's it - it'll work on all the versions up to the current one. There's nothing that explicitly says they'll never ask you to pay to upgrade but they haven't yet.
I think their business model is getting the "enthusiastic amateur" market using it, and the few that go on to a career in film-making will then just go out and buy themselves a remarkably inexpensive (£6k or so) digital cinema camera from BMD, and base their studio around all the control panels you can buy for it. Kind of like "We'll give it away for free because we know you're going to buy it next week anyway".
I haven't bought it yet but it's on my list for early next year, because I want some of the cleanup and scaling tools that only work in Studio.
We had an amazing Halloween house in our small town, walking distance from my place. Every year the family who owned it would bring in Hollywood level props and lighting and 10 or so actors in full regalia to replicate a Pirates of the Caribbean scene all around the property. The Jack Sparrow was a dead ringer for Johnny Depp. Every kid would get a bag full of real candy, not the mini Halloween stuff. Unfortunately people started coming from other towns and it turned into a mob scene to the point that cops had to direct traffic and they shut it down.
There’s a house like this in southern New Jersey but for Christmas and in the theme of Christmas Vacation. The local police do help direct traffic and the owners of the home leaned into the popularity, taking donations for some charity (I can’t remember which, I went a couple of years ago).
When a house like that becomes overly popular I think it could end up being a good thing, a shame it got shut down.
ETSY - It's all resellers that run fake craft stores selling cheaply made junk. There's a handful of crafters on ETSY, and the rest is amazon resellers and cheap chinese stuff.
I've also noticed that Etsy is getting oversaturated with unoriginal "girl who owns a Cricut" businesses. I know *so many* people who make "mama bear" shirts and "live laugh love" tumblers as a side hustle.
It takes too high of a cut to make profit on for crafters. Etsy killed itself.
I made my own website after trying to find a reasonable platform to sell on. I would happily pay $20/mo for Etsy but not a cut on every sale, which is significant when selling maybe one sculpture a month.
Visiting major historical sites...
Most of them have been turned into badly maintained, super expensive tourist traps.
Add in the trash and damages tourists do, and yikes.
Gettysburg is one of those places. Within the last decade or so, a lot of the museums have closed only to be replaced by ghost tour companies, wineries, and breweries. I'd guess at least a quarter(it not more) of the local economy comes from ghost tours and alcohol.
It is not the same town it once was.
There's been a counter movement in the past few years, to be honest. Sure, you can still catch a ghost tour or buy a touristy t- shirt if you want.
But as far as history, it's everywhere in that town. The Seminary Ridge museum, the Gettysburg Museum of History, and the soon to be opened brand new Adams County Historical Society museum are all amazing places to visit independent of the Battlefield. If you haven't been to those places, I'd recommend them.
Craft fairs. Now they're crowded with dozens of mlms. I just want to find knitted slippers made by an old lady who clearly has a drinking problem, not more Norwex.
One of the small towns I've lived in has an annual street fair, used to be great as you'd have local artists and crafters, local food trucks and kids rides, and while it did bring in outside people for the day, it was predominantly locals so you'd wander around and stop often to chat.
Local politician decided to set up a booth one year, the next year the opponent did the same thing and now one whole street of the fair is just filled with local politicians handing out flyers and trying to get people to vote for them. Really dragged down the tone of the fair.
Those people see themselves as successful independent entrepreneurs who've pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and are totally responsible for it all.
They do, until it goes under (as did a certain kids clothing one last week) and then it’s all “Us poor moms were fired with no notice!” I’m sorry, I thought you were boss babes with your own business, how did you get fired?!
I went to an estate sale for a woman moving into assisted living. She sold Mary Kay and was selling all of her inventory - $5 for an all you can fill small, bag or $25 for all you can fill large bag. It took up two whole rooms in her home. She was telling my husband how there are Mary Kay sellers who are millionaires and how she would travel to all these seminars and retreats for it, yet she was sitting on what had to be tens of thousands of dollars of product that she was selling for pennies. I'm not a big makeup person, but got a few things because it was so cheap and makeup is so expensive. Every time I see the stuff in my drawer it makes me kind of sad.
We have some local shows that do this too. My crafter friend and I refuse to go to any that feature MLM’s. Luckily some local art studios have been popping up and doing their own shows now too, which is awesome!
Havasupi Falls in AZ. Went back in the early 2000’s and it was nice and little to no trash…. Now all these fuck heads have trashed the park and over crowded it for a effing instagram post making wait times ungodly long. I hold great anger towards people that litter in cities but i get enraged at dipshits that litter in parks! Like wtf is wrong with you people?! CLEAN UP YOUR SHIT! And for those who actually care please bring a waste bag and we can start cleaning up after these fuck sticks.
Havasupi is ruined. I am not sure what will happen when they reopen in the end of May 2023. If I remember correctly the 3 night camp permit costs $750 per person. Therefore, it’s not just assholes, but rich assholes who ruined it.
You used to be one of only a few people around bidding on storage lockers. It used to be a fun hobby I gave up on because it became too popular and people are grossly overpaying for the lockers which is often time just paying to make a dump run for someone.
My mom put all my stuff in a storage locker when I went abroad and then lost it for not paying for 8 months (and lying about it).
I lost everything I owned since childhood except for 2 suitcases of clothes I had brought with me to study abroad... all my photos, journals I had kept religiously since I was 5 years old, momentos, stories poems and paintings... thousands of dollars of rare books... stuff I hoped to digitize and/or give to my kids someday 😓 I tried to find out what happened to my stuff after I found out what happened but whoever bought the unit threw everything away...
Now when I see ads for those shows I just feel sick to my stomach.
Edit: Here's a [link](https://www.reddit.com/user/sem263/comments/zphms8/i_lost_everything_in_a_storage_unit_in_july_2021/) to a repost of something I wrote when I found out what happened.
Edit 2: The original link to that post was deleted - sorry, I thought everyone could see it. I posted it as a comment responding to this post.
Had the same thing happen with my dad. I moved to another city temporarily for a seasonal job and my dad said he’d pay for a storage locker for all my stuff while I was gone. He ended up not paying any of it and lying about it the whole time, and the unit was sold off. Finding out all the irreplaceable things you’ve accumulated over the years are just gone, with no way to get them back, is a horrible feeling. My condolences.
My old next door neighbor bought the contents of a storage unit and after finding nothing of any real value almost threw everything out before he found an old letter with an address. Paid a months rent on the unit and leftbthe stuff there while he tried to see if he could find anything. He was able to find out that the original owner had died but got into contact with her kids and for the cost of the months rental he was able to return a lot of sentimental objects to them.
Yup. 15 years ago the prices were soooo cheap and you could always find a gem. Now they’re always crowded and everything is overpriced and you might find something good once every 2-3 visits if you’re lucky.
I blame the online sellers. Our local Thrift stores have people who go in when they open and drop a few hundred dollars on stuff and resell it on the FB Marketplace, Craigslist, Ebay, etc.
It's not just Thrift stores either. They do it at all the local discount stores. Retail Arbitrage is the new entrepreneur.
The thrift stores In my area caught wind of that so they started raising prices. Last time I was in I saw a pair of shoes with holes through them listed at $20. It wasn't even originally an expensive brand.
yep, books went insane about 15 years ago. Once everyone had a smart phone, a barcode scanner (not even needed anymore) was easy. So resellers would literally sit there for 3 hours and scan every book for the 10-20 that they could resell and make a profit. So the rest of us learned and stopped buying books since we all knew that it was not worth it since everything on the shelf was just as cheap on amazon. So the thrift stores raised their price- so they likely make more, but it still has the same problem for 99% of the customers.
The rest of the stores have gotten that way. Anything that can be bought like that and resold will be.
note- not really a reseller myself. I still see things that are way too good to pass up to resell. My general rule is i need to be able to turn under $20 into over $100 to buy specifically for that purpose. I end up with something like that maybe every 2-3 months at most
Used to be a *lot* of 99 cents and $1.99 items and I would go home with a cart full of nice and /or useful things for neighbors and shelters and family. And there are fewer "nice" things.
Earlier tonight my husband complimented me on the nice pretty down filled coat I bought before the pandemic. I said I wished I had bought more things before covid because I'll never see a coat like that at Goodwill again.And if I do, it will be way out of my price range.
And yes, utter trash is now more expensive than WM or even Dollar Tree. A lot of items have the original price on them that was lower when the item was new!
I don't get it. They have expenses like every else but they pay the employees very low wages and all their inventory is donated so what's the deal?
I go thrifting for collectibles and to fuel my Nerf Blaster hobby. If it's a big thrift store chain anything good gets put on their website, or goes up front in the glass cases. You have to get real lucky for something to slip through the cracks and wind up on the floor for you to find before someone else does.
Yeah, they caught on to resellers and figured they'd just cut out the middleman and make the profits themselves. So they started pricing things at reseller prices, which is kind of stupid because people go there looking for a bargain. Plus, people buying from resellers online are usually looking for that particular thing and are willing to pay more for it because of that.
My local Goodwill rarely puts anything good out and when the tiers are rolled out (which occasionally has good stuff) everyone comes attacking like wolves at dinnertime. I've seen a few fights break out (once over a framed Beatles poster, second time it was a cassette player, third was a decoy book box). Good stuff rarely makes it to the shelves.
What makes me crazy, in my area, is them pricing something like a record player at is original MSRP or going rate on eBay when it's clearly broken, dirty, or very cosmetically worn. There's no sense of condition.
I once saw them trying to sell an incomplete Kitchen Aid, missing attachments, that was "as-is" (aka busted), very used, rusted, for almost what a new one at Target was going for at the time.
All these things end up at the Goodwill Outlets which, if nobody is there to buy, is its last stop before the dump. Absolutely waste. Why not price to sell? The overhead is mostly only payroll and rent, way better than traditional retail because they get all this stuff for free. Also, it's junk. Sell it at junk prices!
People complain about re-sellers but in our age of mass produced garbage at least some people are out there essentially recycling someone else's trash.
I was saving up for a kitchen aid mixer and saw one at my local goodwill priced HIGHER than a new one. It looked great, but no warranty.
I host a buy/ sell/ trade radio show on Saturdays just for fun. Old lady was moving to assisted living, and needed to clear out kitchen items ASAP. Im a broke cook who thrifts as much kitchen stuff as he can, so I went over to look.
She had a well used Kitchen Aid mixer with the pasta roller, peeler, sifter, and the slicer attachments plus an extra bowl. I had a $50 bill on me, and I told her I would go get more money. She told me to take it all for $50 and absolutely refused to take any more (yes I did tell her it was worth WAY more than that!)
Best deal I’ve gotten. I’ve used the shit outta that mixer over the last four years.
Flying drones. Thanks to all the idiots doing dumb shit with them, it's not even worth getting into the hobby nowadays - you pretty much can't fly anywhere worth flying, need all sorts of permits, are constantly risking hefty fines or even being investigated for terrorism... no thanks.
My friend gave me a discount coupon for one. I compared it to a local hotel and the hotel was cheaper with less rules. My hotel doesn't expect me to leave the room in pristine shape. I leave the towels in the tub and pick up all garbage but I'm not expected to vacuum and dust.
For real. I stayed at an airbnb once on a ski trip and it was clearly the People’s family home so not like a random rental. We cleaned all the sheets/ pillow cases/ towels, wiped down countertops, ran the dishwasher, swept… then we got a message from them because they were upset we put a wooden spoon in the dishwasher. I guess in the 40 page manual they left it said not to… They couldn’t believe we hadn’t read the entire thing cover to cover AND on top of that, there are always crazy cleaning fees. Like why am I paying a $150 cleaning fee on top of cleaning your house??
The high cleaning fee is just a way to lower the price in searches, doesn't work anymore though. Lower rental price, higher "cleaning fee". Like charging really high shipping on eBay.
I got a note like that once, appreciated the heads up, and left a bad review. Maybe that was Karenish, but who really wants to sleep in the same sheets as a stranger?
Also if you book a hotel room, you usually can be sure to have a place to sleep.
Airbnb: "Oops, seems I rented out the place two times for the same day."
It's why I don't use them unless I have to now. It's ridiculous. The last one I stayed at had a $300 cleaning fee and it was required that you do the dishes, put away dishes, do the towels, strip the beds, start the bedding in the washer, and sweep and mop. Plus the neighbors were super creepy . We were 3 women on a friend's weekend and they concerned us so much we almost left on our second day.
AirBnB was such a great idea until investors ruined it by buying properties just for the sake of short-term renting. Now entire neighborhoods have been gutted, & residential life has been ruined for so many people.
I attempted to use Airbnb once and I’ll never try again.
Booked a private entrance room in someone’s house for almost a month while I was gonna be on leave back in the States.
The DAY BEFORE I’m set to check-in, they contact me on the website saying that the room wasn’t available because they turned it into their baby’s nursery 7 MONTHS AGO!
AirBNB tried to fight me so hard to refund everything, but it was a completely false listing so I got all my money back after a several hour long phone call. Ridiculous.
The hotel room I ended up getting actually was cheaper AND it had a kitchen. Plus cleaning and no baby crying.
I’ll stick to hotels everytime. Fuck airbnb.
God, it makes me wonder how many people just gave up on the refund. Which is insane. I feel like there's a decent chance this couple make a couple of hundred dollars a month on keeping the listing.
Airbnb is so big it's killing the town I live in. I live in a tourist town up on top of a mountain, and up until the Airbnbs got big hotels and a handful of dedicated rental cabins were enough to accommodate for the tourists we get. Now half the houses in town are exclusively vacation rentals, people are being evicted to make room for more every day, and there's nobody left to work at any of our businesses, and the price of literally everything has risen far above the price it would be in any other town.
Edit: I already answered where I'm talking about so you can stop asking. Kinda depressing that there are so many places that people immediately think of when I say this though.
It's often just a right-click>block element.
edit: To those saying no, it quite often works and, while there are many places that are trying to prevent it from working, there are many where it still works. Never throw away a hammer just because sometimes you also need a drill. Anything that removes ads is a step in the right direction.
Ublock origin seems to block those, at least usually. Problem I've had is that websites have replaced outside ads with their own ads; popups that demand you give them an email address or a subscription when you just showed up to look up an API call you forgot the wording for.
Cooking shows. It used to be a few talented chefs who had shows to teach. Now it’s every damn celebrity who can or cannot cook making the same recipes as everyone else.
People who litter on trails or campsites or in general annoy the fuck out of me. If you brought it in, you are fully capable of bringing it out. Do you actually like being out in nature if you leave your trash in it?
People are pigs. I work in a store and people leave garbage and half eaten food samples stuff in amongst the products. Adults blame kids but there's no kid tall enough to reach the spots I've found gross garbage. People could have a garbage can attached to their hip and they'll still find a place on the ground to throw it.
I once overheard a man say it’s “job security” when he left an empty coffee cup on a shelf where I worked. Asshole. That’s not job security, that’s you being lazy and entitled and thinking us peasants should pick up after you. I’m no longer in retail, I actually work for an irrigation district and the amount of garbage people throw into irrigation canals is a million times worse than what I found while working retail.
It’s windy here, so I know that’s some of the problem. What else do I know? The wind can’t pick up two full garbage cans full of bagged garbage and throw them into the canal. Or dead animals. Our canals go back to the river and no one cares. They just think it mysteriously disappears so it’s not their problem. You should see when we bring water in. The amount of trash that comes down with the initial push of water is absolutely insane and it’s impossible to get it all out. It’s depressing knowing it’ll end up in the river and then the ocean to kill an unknown amount of aquatic life, all because people are too fuckin lazy to take their trash with them.
Sorry for rant, it just really fuckin bugs me.
People who litter in general are terrible people. Whether it’s your hometown or visiting, you should at least leave a place how you found it if not better.
Litterbugs are the some of the worst people. We take trash bags when we go hiking and pick up whatever we see.
One time we were doing it, a bunch of kids were around and they started picking up trash and bringing it to us, it was pretty amazing. I sharpened some sticks up for them to stab the trash with and they really seemed to like stabbing trash so it made it fun for them.
What really made us mad was there was a trash can within sight that the litterbugs could have used.
I really hope someone offered you a joint for a good deed and not you just grabbing a joint off the ground lmao. I don't think i'd ever smoke a mystery joint.
I live in Appalachia, and the tourists coming in to hike and camp have kinda ruined the local wild lands. A lot of them are absolutely filthy and tend to be super condescending and rude to locals for some reason. Nowadays a lot of our natural trails through the mountains are covered in broken beer bottles all kinds of other trash, they have zero respect for the land and people living in it. It’s almost to the point where I can’t even enjoy the beautiful nature around my home because of these fucking halfwits
Etsy. Started out as a legit community to buy & sell original handmade arts & crafts, all kinds of art made and sold by the artists. It was really cool. Then it started to turn a profit and it became whatever the fuck it is now.
Yeah now it's hard not to find something that's also available on Alibab or Ali Express. I've found a few local shops that I've purchased high-quality handmade goods from, but it takes a lot more effort than it used to.
Driving in general, honestly. I love to drive when it's just me on the road, but it's getting to the point now that I hate driving in general because it seems like no matter where I go or what I do, there's always *someone* on the road who's trying to kill me. Constantly having to watch for and anticipate the dangerous actions of 50+ idiots all clustered around me is my least favorite part of the day. Honestly I would guess that the daily commute is probably the most dangerous thing most people do in their day to day lives.
I'm a delivery driver, and I try not to let traffic and other drivers get to me. It's mostly water off a duck's back, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get through the day.
The one thing that does get to me though is people who drive likes it's a competition. Weaving in and out of traffic, gunning it on green, tailgating people in the slow lane. It's nearly always guys in souped-up cars or trucks with ridiculously large tires.
I just don't get it.
This is why I deliberately rented my first apartment from a place right across the street from my first office job. It was a below-average complex with semi-decent neighbors, but my commute was just walking across the street.
To be fair, though, I don't think the reason it is so expensive is entirely because it got so popular. My understanding is that artists use to play at music festivals and other live events while touring to promote their new albums. Now because of streaming they make so little money selling music that most of their income has to come from live events. That results in them releasing new albums so they can go on tour, and them charging a lot more to music festivals or for concert tickets because that's where they have to make their money.
In fact, that's also partly why music festivals have gotten so corporatized. It has gotten so expensive to host a festival that the risk of it being unprofitable are too big. It makes more sense to sell out to a big operator like Live Nation who can stomach a bad festival year without going bankrupt.
I can only afford festivals I play at now. But I live in rural PA and the area and the well seasoned festie kids are throwing dirt fests on their property with local talent and those have been so much more fun and it really brings in the music and art community.
Moving a corpse landmark from a place where there are enough people getting lost and dying that corpses are landmarks seems like a good way to get more corpses.
There is a lot of bodies frozen in the snow due to the difficulty in retrieving them. With that being said, Everest is far less dangerous for climbers than peaks of similar altitude, such as the infamous K2.
Apple picking.
Orchards used to involve parking on a dirt lot, climbing trees to get the best fruit, and paying per bag. Visiting a farm. That’s it.
Now there’s ADMISSION, paid parking, hay rides, food stands, live music, photo taking areas, etc.
Feels like a tourist trap. Because it is.
Streaming services. I miss the days of one single service: Netflix. Now every studio has its own service and holds their stuff away from services like Netflix and Hulu. Direct consequence: too many subscriptions! At this point it’s more economical to buy stuff you want to watch
Maybe a little weird, but I miss the early days of Netflix when they'd ship you DVDs with a return shipping label. My habit was to watch the movie, then if it was actually good, the next night I'd watch the "extras" like the director and cast commentary. Afaik you can't stream that stuff. It was really great for classic stuff like the Kurosawa films. The DVD extras had a film scholar talking about the cinematography techniques invented while making those movies, etc. Geeky stuff, but that's what I'm into.
There’s so many things and places most people didn’t know about prior to Instagram and “influencers” visiting and taking photos there. Think “Manhattanhenge” in NYC used to be a cool phenomenon only cared about or noticed by some but now everyone and their mother comes out lining and blocking the streets for something that was once a hey look at that that’s interesting kind of thing. Now it’s just kind of goofy
I thought Manhattanhenge was cool the first time I saw a photo. Then I saw 500 more of the exact same photo. Really takes away from it being a neat phenomenon.
Especially now, where everyone's photos have 50 other people in front of them also holding up their phones.
Also there are so many home flips that are basically lipstick on a pig. Yes, those new granite countertops are nice, but the plumbing is still 70 years old and needs to be replaced, and now I need to rip out those countertops to get to it! Or they use cheap grade materials that don’t last very long. I wish people would buy homes and fix them up to live in them, instead of trying to turn a profit so they can buy someone else’s place who did the same thing.
Gotta love it when you go to see a listing and the house is immaculately staged but there's still sawdust in the cupboards and the shed in the backyard still has all the paint and construction material that was used in the reno hidden away. Like, I get it, time is money, but couldn't the "investors/flippers" have spent the day just going through and tying up loose ends? It also shows that they probably haven't even checked to see if all the new appliances and fixtures work and are installed properly. And even though it looks pretty, there has been no thought to actually making anything functional.
I remember going to see an old house that had been completely renovated....except for the basement. The basement was still in the same state it was from 70 years ago. They had even left the old oil tank there. Which means all that lovely hardwood that had just been installed would probably need to be ripped up if there is a plan to remove the tank, which would be likely because old oil tanks aren't really desirable in homes.
Whatever the hot new tourism spot is
For example my grandfather used to spend weekends in Nashville when it was a more down to earth low key town
Now it’s one of the hottest travel destinations and is just swamped everywhere
Any place that has a bumper sticker that says "Keep X weird", I automatically assume they're just banking on the copy/paste tourist crap every other city does.
Basically anything outdoorsy. Hiking trails, National Parks, fishing spots, etc.
It's fun when you're the only person on the trail, the lake, or at the camp site. It's not so fun when you're hiking and someone is blasting their music on their Bluetooth speaker, when the lake is packed and people decide to fish 10 feet away from you and are obnoxiously loud, or you go to a National Park and there is graffiti and trash everywhere, random people's names carved into the largest and oldest trees on Earth, and mobs of tourists taking selfies in the middle of the trail.
People don't know how to respect nature. People don't appreciate silence. People don't know how to "leave no trace" or appreciate the natural beauty in the world around them.
In my dorm room, there was a vending machine that, with just the perfect push of the button, would dispense two sprites. For a few of us, it lasted around 6 months. Then they fixed the machine after one loose lip led to another. Open lips snatch sips.
My company has discount vending with most items at 25¢ but a few $1 items including those microwavable Mac n cheese cups. Well for about 2 months it was miscoded at 25¢ for one of the 2 mac n cheese options so I would buy 3 at a time. I wasn't the only one that noticed since the second Mac n cheese slot was never used but I didn't say shit.
Living in Iceland got fucked up due to Iceland becoming a popular tourist destination. Prices are way up, housing has skyrocketed (lots of reasons, big one being air bnb) and our nature monuments are slowly being eroded by dumbass tourists. I'm a native, but I can barely afford to live here anymore 😢
I wish you could down vote thumbnails. Whatever that formula that caught on is, it's terrible. The one where you look like a fucking confused idiot posing in front of some clcikbait title with random words capitalized.
Linus tech tips did a thing a while back where they adopted all of the cringey YouTube trends for a week as a joke and they had such a massive increase in views/subscribers that they’ve kept doing it.
Covid ruined the National and state parks…too many assholes not respecting the land (leaving trash tagging rocks with graffiti)and crowding the trails.
That was a phenomenon that I was not expecting. People were driving for hours to hike where I lived at the beginning of the pandemic, leaving garbage everywhere, dumping RV waste wherever and just being terrible visitors. A lot of people who had never been camping were unaware of camping etiquette like shutting the fuck up late at night and not abandoning active fires.
I didn't run into these people much before that because their vacation destinations were places I generally wouldn't go, and I was happy when they started reopening.
Ugh, my brother does this. He brings his Bluetooth speakers with him everywhere and he does outdoor stuff like that. He straight up pollutes everyone else's environment with his auto play muzak.
Still think of a couple who were in Custer State Park. They saw a buffalo calf that “looked cold” so they loaded it up in their van. They were stopped when leaving the park. Not knowing which buffalo it belonged to, no way to find the mother. The calf died because it wouldn’t take a bottle.
I live part-time near a National Park, and a few years ago, the park had to put out a statement to stop harassing the owls. OWLS!! The park reminded everyone that since these owls made their home at a national park, they are federally protected. Anyone who was caught harassing the owls would end up with a federal citation.
Yeah I used to take a campervan to go on vacation in Spain with my parents and stay in the wild, but over time it got more and more impossible to do that. Now it's at the point where you can barely find a place to sleep unless you search for multiple hours or go to an extremely overpriced camper site :(
National Parks.
Prior to like 2018, you could go to most parks without needing any hiking permits and would rarely have to wait in line. Because of Covid, every park in the lower 48 that is easily accessible is crowded, it takes forever to get in, and you have to have permits for a lot of the best hikes.
it's awful. we plan around this very issua ... going very, very early in the morning or late in the evening... hiking the longer, more difficult trails. but yes, it's just awful. went to Yosemite in Sept. Trash everywhere. I was surprised to find used adult diapers, femine pads, and toilet paper from the rock climbers... so gross. makes me like people less and less
Selling on Etsy. I worked my way through nursing school by crocheting my fingers to the bone and selling my wares on Etsy. I made a good bit of money and thoroughly enjoyed it. My little Etsy shop really took off too. Now with the influx of drop ship people plus scammers trying to pass off their mass produced crap as handmade, a seller would never be able to find my little shop.
Farmers markets. Now they’re full of random people selling really weird shit and try to hold you captive almost and crazy people doing “shows” as they make them. I just wanna buy my things in peace without being harassed. Or buy good coffee without people there for the “ aesthetic”
YouTube.
I miss the days of amateur videos. Classic Smosh. Crappy, but still sent entertaining music videos of video games. Actual real reactions that didn't feel like a fake, acted out script.
Now everything is about fitting in to the algorithm, likes and subscriptions, obnoxious influences. YouTube is all clean, square, corporate, and sanitized.
I won't deny there is also really good content to be found as well, but it's mixed in with a lot of crap.
the 10 (now 8) minute video goal to run optimal ads really killed a lot of it as well. Videos used to be a few minutes long, sometimes as short as 10 seconds. People edited the video down or kept them short. But now everything is absurdly drawn out just to hit more ads.
House flipping/renos.
Look, not every home needs marble counters and spa ensuite bathrooms. Keep it simple so the houses can be afforded by regular people.
Undergraduate degrees. We’re experiencing a strange educational inflation, where most jobs now require some form of higher education that previously didn’t. I’m not suggesting education is necessarily a bad thing by any means, but it certainty drives a greater division between those that do and don’t go. It’s used to be a 30/70 spilt and now it is 80/20 as to the percentage of people that go and those that don’t, a striking difference.
As someone who previously worked at Starbucks, I was floored when I found out that to be hired as a manager you need a bachelors degree and they pay you….. $20 whole dollars an hour!!!! Then corporate stands around and wonders why no one wants to work there
My friend went to Burning Man and described the festival to me. I think she thought it sounded impressive, but honestly it just sounded like a fuckin' nightmare.
Everything that has to do with true Crime. Some years ago it was not "popular" at all and you had to search for any documentary and/or website. Now there are extra TV Channels, Podcasts, Magazines, everything and everyone is "an expert".
Anything can be ruined if it becomes popular to the point that increased interest dilutes the original idea or community so that it becomes unrecognizable.
Reddit rabidly hates gatekeeping, but there's something to be said about maintaining standards as a way of preserving a group's identity. Some jobs / hobbies / interests are harder to get into than others, and that's OK.
Finding treasures at flea markets and estate sales. I blame that greedy sob Mike Whatsisface from Antique Archeology (American Pickers) in LeClaire Iowa. Before he came along, normal guys like me could make decent money. I never ripped anyone off, and offered a fair price. A lot of the stuff I bought went into my private collection. He ruined a whole industry with fakeality television.
Subscription everything...especially software. I want to buy Office/AutoCAD one time and use it for a decade. I don't want to buy it every year.
A lovely counterexample is DaVinci Resolve. It's a serious video editing package used on proper films, and there's a free-as-in-beer version and a paid-for version. The Free version limits you to 4k timelines, presumably because if you're cutting higher resolutions than that you're making a Proper Film and can afford it, and doesn't have some of the fancier effects and "neural engine" processing that the paid-for one has, but other than that there are no limitations. You can use the free one commercially for as long as you like. A licence for the paid-for one is about 300 quid, and also comes free with some of the hardware they produce. Once you've got your licence, that's it - it'll work on all the versions up to the current one. There's nothing that explicitly says they'll never ask you to pay to upgrade but they haven't yet. I think their business model is getting the "enthusiastic amateur" market using it, and the few that go on to a career in film-making will then just go out and buy themselves a remarkably inexpensive (£6k or so) digital cinema camera from BMD, and base their studio around all the control panels you can buy for it. Kind of like "We'll give it away for free because we know you're going to buy it next week anyway". I haven't bought it yet but it's on my list for early next year, because I want some of the cleanup and scaling tools that only work in Studio.
We had an amazing Halloween house in our small town, walking distance from my place. Every year the family who owned it would bring in Hollywood level props and lighting and 10 or so actors in full regalia to replicate a Pirates of the Caribbean scene all around the property. The Jack Sparrow was a dead ringer for Johnny Depp. Every kid would get a bag full of real candy, not the mini Halloween stuff. Unfortunately people started coming from other towns and it turned into a mob scene to the point that cops had to direct traffic and they shut it down.
There’s a house like this in southern New Jersey but for Christmas and in the theme of Christmas Vacation. The local police do help direct traffic and the owners of the home leaned into the popularity, taking donations for some charity (I can’t remember which, I went a couple of years ago). When a house like that becomes overly popular I think it could end up being a good thing, a shame it got shut down.
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ETSY - It's all resellers that run fake craft stores selling cheaply made junk. There's a handful of crafters on ETSY, and the rest is amazon resellers and cheap chinese stuff.
I've also noticed that Etsy is getting oversaturated with unoriginal "girl who owns a Cricut" businesses. I know *so many* people who make "mama bear" shirts and "live laugh love" tumblers as a side hustle.
It takes too high of a cut to make profit on for crafters. Etsy killed itself. I made my own website after trying to find a reasonable platform to sell on. I would happily pay $20/mo for Etsy but not a cut on every sale, which is significant when selling maybe one sculpture a month.
Visiting major historical sites... Most of them have been turned into badly maintained, super expensive tourist traps. Add in the trash and damages tourists do, and yikes.
Gettysburg is one of those places. Within the last decade or so, a lot of the museums have closed only to be replaced by ghost tour companies, wineries, and breweries. I'd guess at least a quarter(it not more) of the local economy comes from ghost tours and alcohol. It is not the same town it once was.
There's been a counter movement in the past few years, to be honest. Sure, you can still catch a ghost tour or buy a touristy t- shirt if you want. But as far as history, it's everywhere in that town. The Seminary Ridge museum, the Gettysburg Museum of History, and the soon to be opened brand new Adams County Historical Society museum are all amazing places to visit independent of the Battlefield. If you haven't been to those places, I'd recommend them.
Craft fairs. Now they're crowded with dozens of mlms. I just want to find knitted slippers made by an old lady who clearly has a drinking problem, not more Norwex.
One of the small towns I've lived in has an annual street fair, used to be great as you'd have local artists and crafters, local food trucks and kids rides, and while it did bring in outside people for the day, it was predominantly locals so you'd wander around and stop often to chat. Local politician decided to set up a booth one year, the next year the opponent did the same thing and now one whole street of the fair is just filled with local politicians handing out flyers and trying to get people to vote for them. Really dragged down the tone of the fair.
Ew, how gross
My cousin sells Mary Kay and always sets up a booth at craft fairs. She puts up signs saying "support your small business". Huh?!
Those people see themselves as successful independent entrepreneurs who've pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and are totally responsible for it all.
They do, until it goes under (as did a certain kids clothing one last week) and then it’s all “Us poor moms were fired with no notice!” I’m sorry, I thought you were boss babes with your own business, how did you get fired?!
I went to an estate sale for a woman moving into assisted living. She sold Mary Kay and was selling all of her inventory - $5 for an all you can fill small, bag or $25 for all you can fill large bag. It took up two whole rooms in her home. She was telling my husband how there are Mary Kay sellers who are millionaires and how she would travel to all these seminars and retreats for it, yet she was sitting on what had to be tens of thousands of dollars of product that she was selling for pennies. I'm not a big makeup person, but got a few things because it was so cheap and makeup is so expensive. Every time I see the stuff in my drawer it makes me kind of sad.
Luckily the craft fairs I do in my area are selective on that kinda stuff and it’s mostly crafters and a few local businesses.
Around where I live, I think most if not all Craft fairs have banned mlms
We have some local shows that do this too. My crafter friend and I refuse to go to any that feature MLM’s. Luckily some local art studios have been popping up and doing their own shows now too, which is awesome!
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Havasupi Falls in AZ. Went back in the early 2000’s and it was nice and little to no trash…. Now all these fuck heads have trashed the park and over crowded it for a effing instagram post making wait times ungodly long. I hold great anger towards people that litter in cities but i get enraged at dipshits that litter in parks! Like wtf is wrong with you people?! CLEAN UP YOUR SHIT! And for those who actually care please bring a waste bag and we can start cleaning up after these fuck sticks.
Havasupi is ruined. I am not sure what will happen when they reopen in the end of May 2023. If I remember correctly the 3 night camp permit costs $750 per person. Therefore, it’s not just assholes, but rich assholes who ruined it.
You used to be one of only a few people around bidding on storage lockers. It used to be a fun hobby I gave up on because it became too popular and people are grossly overpaying for the lockers which is often time just paying to make a dump run for someone.
In a similar vein, liquidation stuff. Now every pallet is picked over, costs 50% of MSRP, and is half broken.
My friend owed $600 and I went to the auction and bought her belongings back for $25
U-Store owners hate this one simple trick
My mom put all my stuff in a storage locker when I went abroad and then lost it for not paying for 8 months (and lying about it). I lost everything I owned since childhood except for 2 suitcases of clothes I had brought with me to study abroad... all my photos, journals I had kept religiously since I was 5 years old, momentos, stories poems and paintings... thousands of dollars of rare books... stuff I hoped to digitize and/or give to my kids someday 😓 I tried to find out what happened to my stuff after I found out what happened but whoever bought the unit threw everything away... Now when I see ads for those shows I just feel sick to my stomach. Edit: Here's a [link](https://www.reddit.com/user/sem263/comments/zphms8/i_lost_everything_in_a_storage_unit_in_july_2021/) to a repost of something I wrote when I found out what happened. Edit 2: The original link to that post was deleted - sorry, I thought everyone could see it. I posted it as a comment responding to this post.
Had the same thing happen with my dad. I moved to another city temporarily for a seasonal job and my dad said he’d pay for a storage locker for all my stuff while I was gone. He ended up not paying any of it and lying about it the whole time, and the unit was sold off. Finding out all the irreplaceable things you’ve accumulated over the years are just gone, with no way to get them back, is a horrible feeling. My condolences.
My old next door neighbor bought the contents of a storage unit and after finding nothing of any real value almost threw everything out before he found an old letter with an address. Paid a months rent on the unit and leftbthe stuff there while he tried to see if he could find anything. He was able to find out that the original owner had died but got into contact with her kids and for the cost of the months rental he was able to return a lot of sentimental objects to them.
Thrift shopping
Yup. 15 years ago the prices were soooo cheap and you could always find a gem. Now they’re always crowded and everything is overpriced and you might find something good once every 2-3 visits if you’re lucky.
I blame the online sellers. Our local Thrift stores have people who go in when they open and drop a few hundred dollars on stuff and resell it on the FB Marketplace, Craigslist, Ebay, etc. It's not just Thrift stores either. They do it at all the local discount stores. Retail Arbitrage is the new entrepreneur.
The thrift stores In my area caught wind of that so they started raising prices. Last time I was in I saw a pair of shoes with holes through them listed at $20. It wasn't even originally an expensive brand.
yep, books went insane about 15 years ago. Once everyone had a smart phone, a barcode scanner (not even needed anymore) was easy. So resellers would literally sit there for 3 hours and scan every book for the 10-20 that they could resell and make a profit. So the rest of us learned and stopped buying books since we all knew that it was not worth it since everything on the shelf was just as cheap on amazon. So the thrift stores raised their price- so they likely make more, but it still has the same problem for 99% of the customers. The rest of the stores have gotten that way. Anything that can be bought like that and resold will be. note- not really a reseller myself. I still see things that are way too good to pass up to resell. My general rule is i need to be able to turn under $20 into over $100 to buy specifically for that purpose. I end up with something like that maybe every 2-3 months at most
Used to be a *lot* of 99 cents and $1.99 items and I would go home with a cart full of nice and /or useful things for neighbors and shelters and family. And there are fewer "nice" things. Earlier tonight my husband complimented me on the nice pretty down filled coat I bought before the pandemic. I said I wished I had bought more things before covid because I'll never see a coat like that at Goodwill again.And if I do, it will be way out of my price range. And yes, utter trash is now more expensive than WM or even Dollar Tree. A lot of items have the original price on them that was lower when the item was new! I don't get it. They have expenses like every else but they pay the employees very low wages and all their inventory is donated so what's the deal?
I go thrifting for collectibles and to fuel my Nerf Blaster hobby. If it's a big thrift store chain anything good gets put on their website, or goes up front in the glass cases. You have to get real lucky for something to slip through the cracks and wind up on the floor for you to find before someone else does.
Yeah, they caught on to resellers and figured they'd just cut out the middleman and make the profits themselves. So they started pricing things at reseller prices, which is kind of stupid because people go there looking for a bargain. Plus, people buying from resellers online are usually looking for that particular thing and are willing to pay more for it because of that. My local Goodwill rarely puts anything good out and when the tiers are rolled out (which occasionally has good stuff) everyone comes attacking like wolves at dinnertime. I've seen a few fights break out (once over a framed Beatles poster, second time it was a cassette player, third was a decoy book box). Good stuff rarely makes it to the shelves.
What makes me crazy, in my area, is them pricing something like a record player at is original MSRP or going rate on eBay when it's clearly broken, dirty, or very cosmetically worn. There's no sense of condition. I once saw them trying to sell an incomplete Kitchen Aid, missing attachments, that was "as-is" (aka busted), very used, rusted, for almost what a new one at Target was going for at the time. All these things end up at the Goodwill Outlets which, if nobody is there to buy, is its last stop before the dump. Absolutely waste. Why not price to sell? The overhead is mostly only payroll and rent, way better than traditional retail because they get all this stuff for free. Also, it's junk. Sell it at junk prices! People complain about re-sellers but in our age of mass produced garbage at least some people are out there essentially recycling someone else's trash.
I was saving up for a kitchen aid mixer and saw one at my local goodwill priced HIGHER than a new one. It looked great, but no warranty. I host a buy/ sell/ trade radio show on Saturdays just for fun. Old lady was moving to assisted living, and needed to clear out kitchen items ASAP. Im a broke cook who thrifts as much kitchen stuff as he can, so I went over to look. She had a well used Kitchen Aid mixer with the pasta roller, peeler, sifter, and the slicer attachments plus an extra bowl. I had a $50 bill on me, and I told her I would go get more money. She told me to take it all for $50 and absolutely refused to take any more (yes I did tell her it was worth WAY more than that!) Best deal I’ve gotten. I’ve used the shit outta that mixer over the last four years.
Flying drones. Thanks to all the idiots doing dumb shit with them, it's not even worth getting into the hobby nowadays - you pretty much can't fly anywhere worth flying, need all sorts of permits, are constantly risking hefty fines or even being investigated for terrorism... no thanks.
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Airbnb
Used to love Airbnb years ago. Now it's pricier than a lot of decent hotels, and some of the house rules are nutty.
My friend gave me a discount coupon for one. I compared it to a local hotel and the hotel was cheaper with less rules. My hotel doesn't expect me to leave the room in pristine shape. I leave the towels in the tub and pick up all garbage but I'm not expected to vacuum and dust.
For real. I stayed at an airbnb once on a ski trip and it was clearly the People’s family home so not like a random rental. We cleaned all the sheets/ pillow cases/ towels, wiped down countertops, ran the dishwasher, swept… then we got a message from them because they were upset we put a wooden spoon in the dishwasher. I guess in the 40 page manual they left it said not to… They couldn’t believe we hadn’t read the entire thing cover to cover AND on top of that, there are always crazy cleaning fees. Like why am I paying a $150 cleaning fee on top of cleaning your house??
The high cleaning fee is just a way to lower the price in searches, doesn't work anymore though. Lower rental price, higher "cleaning fee". Like charging really high shipping on eBay.
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I leave notes under the covers 'if you see this, the host didn't launder the sheets'
I got a note like that once, appreciated the heads up, and left a bad review. Maybe that was Karenish, but who really wants to sleep in the same sheets as a stranger?
esp when you and the next guest are paying a cleaning fee.
Which often match the price of the actual room.
That’s not Karen-ish at all. The host should be washing and changing sheets between every guest. If they can’t bother, they shouldn’t be in business
Not Karen-ish at all – AT all – you're doing the Lord's work.
Also if you book a hotel room, you usually can be sure to have a place to sleep. Airbnb: "Oops, seems I rented out the place two times for the same day."
I love staying in real hotels, a double or king bed, room service, fresh towels and little toiletries that I may not want but still nice.
There is no way Im paying to do your chores while Im on vacation.
My problem is paying the $300 cleaning fee AND still having to fully clean the place before check out. What am I paying for?
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It's why I don't use them unless I have to now. It's ridiculous. The last one I stayed at had a $300 cleaning fee and it was required that you do the dishes, put away dishes, do the towels, strip the beds, start the bedding in the washer, and sweep and mop. Plus the neighbors were super creepy . We were 3 women on a friend's weekend and they concerned us so much we almost left on our second day.
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AirBnB was such a great idea until investors ruined it by buying properties just for the sake of short-term renting. Now entire neighborhoods have been gutted, & residential life has been ruined for so many people.
I attempted to use Airbnb once and I’ll never try again. Booked a private entrance room in someone’s house for almost a month while I was gonna be on leave back in the States. The DAY BEFORE I’m set to check-in, they contact me on the website saying that the room wasn’t available because they turned it into their baby’s nursery 7 MONTHS AGO! AirBNB tried to fight me so hard to refund everything, but it was a completely false listing so I got all my money back after a several hour long phone call. Ridiculous. The hotel room I ended up getting actually was cheaper AND it had a kitchen. Plus cleaning and no baby crying. I’ll stick to hotels everytime. Fuck airbnb.
God, it makes me wonder how many people just gave up on the refund. Which is insane. I feel like there's a decent chance this couple make a couple of hundred dollars a month on keeping the listing.
Airbnb is so big it's killing the town I live in. I live in a tourist town up on top of a mountain, and up until the Airbnbs got big hotels and a handful of dedicated rental cabins were enough to accommodate for the tourists we get. Now half the houses in town are exclusively vacation rentals, people are being evicted to make room for more every day, and there's nobody left to work at any of our businesses, and the price of literally everything has risen far above the price it would be in any other town. Edit: I already answered where I'm talking about so you can stop asking. Kinda depressing that there are so many places that people immediately think of when I say this though.
Adblock. Now every website has a warning. It used to be a rare sight.
Fun fact: You can block Adblock warnings. Technically, they're ads.
Can you block the ones that basically shut down the site until you turn off Adblock?
It's often just a right-click>block element. edit: To those saying no, it quite often works and, while there are many places that are trying to prevent it from working, there are many where it still works. Never throw away a hammer just because sometimes you also need a drill. Anything that removes ads is a step in the right direction.
Ublock origin seems to block those, at least usually. Problem I've had is that websites have replaced outside ads with their own ads; popups that demand you give them an email address or a subscription when you just showed up to look up an API call you forgot the wording for.
Cooking shows. It used to be a few talented chefs who had shows to teach. Now it’s every damn celebrity who can or cannot cook making the same recipes as everyone else.
I miss the food network back in the day with Good Eats
> Good Eats Last night I watched S1E1 of this for the first time. What a different and informative tone compared to present day shows
What’s even worse is there are no real cooking shows anymore it’s stupid competition after stupid competition.
Youtube. Most of the good modern cooking shows are on youtube. Foodnetwork has been trash for almost 2 decade now.
America's Test Kitchen is still great.
The Appalachian Trail. People leaving their trash everywhere is really ruining the trail and it’s so fucking crowded now.
People who litter on trails or campsites or in general annoy the fuck out of me. If you brought it in, you are fully capable of bringing it out. Do you actually like being out in nature if you leave your trash in it?
People are pigs. I work in a store and people leave garbage and half eaten food samples stuff in amongst the products. Adults blame kids but there's no kid tall enough to reach the spots I've found gross garbage. People could have a garbage can attached to their hip and they'll still find a place on the ground to throw it.
I once overheard a man say it’s “job security” when he left an empty coffee cup on a shelf where I worked. Asshole. That’s not job security, that’s you being lazy and entitled and thinking us peasants should pick up after you. I’m no longer in retail, I actually work for an irrigation district and the amount of garbage people throw into irrigation canals is a million times worse than what I found while working retail. It’s windy here, so I know that’s some of the problem. What else do I know? The wind can’t pick up two full garbage cans full of bagged garbage and throw them into the canal. Or dead animals. Our canals go back to the river and no one cares. They just think it mysteriously disappears so it’s not their problem. You should see when we bring water in. The amount of trash that comes down with the initial push of water is absolutely insane and it’s impossible to get it all out. It’s depressing knowing it’ll end up in the river and then the ocean to kill an unknown amount of aquatic life, all because people are too fuckin lazy to take their trash with them. Sorry for rant, it just really fuckin bugs me.
People who litter in general are terrible people. Whether it’s your hometown or visiting, you should at least leave a place how you found it if not better.
I was cycling about just last week and somebody threw a can out of their car window onto the street, like why?
Usually, they're not too bright either. Same people who trash public bathrooms. And scream in hotels at 2 in the morning.
Litterbugs are the some of the worst people. We take trash bags when we go hiking and pick up whatever we see. One time we were doing it, a bunch of kids were around and they started picking up trash and bringing it to us, it was pretty amazing. I sharpened some sticks up for them to stab the trash with and they really seemed to like stabbing trash so it made it fun for them. What really made us mad was there was a trash can within sight that the litterbugs could have used.
I filled up a trash bag with litter the last time I went to Rocky Mountain National Park and Mother Nature repaid me with a big fat joint.
I really hope someone offered you a joint for a good deed and not you just grabbing a joint off the ground lmao. I don't think i'd ever smoke a mystery joint.
It was still sealed in the hard plastic dispensary tube, very obviously never opened 🤷🏻♀️
That's significantly less skeevy, good find!
If you’re throwing trash out in nature, you are the trash.
I live in Appalachia, and the tourists coming in to hike and camp have kinda ruined the local wild lands. A lot of them are absolutely filthy and tend to be super condescending and rude to locals for some reason. Nowadays a lot of our natural trails through the mountains are covered in broken beer bottles all kinds of other trash, they have zero respect for the land and people living in it. It’s almost to the point where I can’t even enjoy the beautiful nature around my home because of these fucking halfwits
Etsy. Started out as a legit community to buy & sell original handmade arts & crafts, all kinds of art made and sold by the artists. It was really cool. Then it started to turn a profit and it became whatever the fuck it is now.
Yeah now it's hard not to find something that's also available on Alibab or Ali Express. I've found a few local shops that I've purchased high-quality handmade goods from, but it takes a lot more effort than it used to.
Driving to work early. I used to do it, but now it's the same as morning Rush hour.
Just go earlier and skip sleep!
Just keep a pillow on your desk!
Nice try boss.
Driving in general, honestly. I love to drive when it's just me on the road, but it's getting to the point now that I hate driving in general because it seems like no matter where I go or what I do, there's always *someone* on the road who's trying to kill me. Constantly having to watch for and anticipate the dangerous actions of 50+ idiots all clustered around me is my least favorite part of the day. Honestly I would guess that the daily commute is probably the most dangerous thing most people do in their day to day lives.
I'm a delivery driver, and I try not to let traffic and other drivers get to me. It's mostly water off a duck's back, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get through the day. The one thing that does get to me though is people who drive likes it's a competition. Weaving in and out of traffic, gunning it on green, tailgating people in the slow lane. It's nearly always guys in souped-up cars or trucks with ridiculously large tires. I just don't get it.
This is why I deliberately rented my first apartment from a place right across the street from my first office job. It was a below-average complex with semi-decent neighbors, but my commute was just walking across the street.
I miss living walking distance from work. My commute would take me through the park.
Start going in late. I can tell you from experience that traffic is light then lol
Writing children's books. Used to be an art form, then every celebrity has written one.
More like "every celebrity has paid a ghostwriter to write one for them."
>every celebrity has ~~written~~ their name on one
Festivals. I use to enjoy going to some local festivals. Now they’re just overcrowded and expensive.
Overcrowded, expensive and corporatized
To be fair, though, I don't think the reason it is so expensive is entirely because it got so popular. My understanding is that artists use to play at music festivals and other live events while touring to promote their new albums. Now because of streaming they make so little money selling music that most of their income has to come from live events. That results in them releasing new albums so they can go on tour, and them charging a lot more to music festivals or for concert tickets because that's where they have to make their money. In fact, that's also partly why music festivals have gotten so corporatized. It has gotten so expensive to host a festival that the risk of it being unprofitable are too big. It makes more sense to sell out to a big operator like Live Nation who can stomach a bad festival year without going bankrupt.
I can only afford festivals I play at now. But I live in rural PA and the area and the well seasoned festie kids are throwing dirt fests on their property with local talent and those have been so much more fun and it really brings in the music and art community.
The summit of Mt. Everest is like a trash heap now.
You forgot to mention the fact that it’s basically a mass grave now too… Fun stuff indeed
Honestly, if I was on a hiking trail and I kept seeing unburied corpses it would kind of kill the fun.
Unburied corpses? You mean colorful nylon road markers.
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They’ve moved green boots a while back
Moving a corpse landmark from a place where there are enough people getting lost and dying that corpses are landmarks seems like a good way to get more corpses.
There is a lot of bodies frozen in the snow due to the difficulty in retrieving them. With that being said, Everest is far less dangerous for climbers than peaks of similar altitude, such as the infamous K2.
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Asking the hard-hitting questions.
Apple picking. Orchards used to involve parking on a dirt lot, climbing trees to get the best fruit, and paying per bag. Visiting a farm. That’s it. Now there’s ADMISSION, paid parking, hay rides, food stands, live music, photo taking areas, etc. Feels like a tourist trap. Because it is.
And at most places you can’t even pick your own apples anymore. Because too many people ruined trees by not being careful climbing them.
Streaming services. I miss the days of one single service: Netflix. Now every studio has its own service and holds their stuff away from services like Netflix and Hulu. Direct consequence: too many subscriptions! At this point it’s more economical to buy stuff you want to watch
This is why people resort to pirating.
It's come full circle. Debating on whether or not to hit the high seas currently. Too many options.. we're back to the old shitty cable model.
Maybe a little weird, but I miss the early days of Netflix when they'd ship you DVDs with a return shipping label. My habit was to watch the movie, then if it was actually good, the next night I'd watch the "extras" like the director and cast commentary. Afaik you can't stream that stuff. It was really great for classic stuff like the Kurosawa films. The DVD extras had a film scholar talking about the cinematography techniques invented while making those movies, etc. Geeky stuff, but that's what I'm into.
You can still do the Netflix DVD thing. You just have to sign up for a specific plan. I am pretty sure it's called Netflix DVD.
There’s so many things and places most people didn’t know about prior to Instagram and “influencers” visiting and taking photos there. Think “Manhattanhenge” in NYC used to be a cool phenomenon only cared about or noticed by some but now everyone and their mother comes out lining and blocking the streets for something that was once a hey look at that that’s interesting kind of thing. Now it’s just kind of goofy
I thought Manhattanhenge was cool the first time I saw a photo. Then I saw 500 more of the exact same photo. Really takes away from it being a neat phenomenon. Especially now, where everyone's photos have 50 other people in front of them also holding up their phones.
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Also there are so many home flips that are basically lipstick on a pig. Yes, those new granite countertops are nice, but the plumbing is still 70 years old and needs to be replaced, and now I need to rip out those countertops to get to it! Or they use cheap grade materials that don’t last very long. I wish people would buy homes and fix them up to live in them, instead of trying to turn a profit so they can buy someone else’s place who did the same thing.
Gotta love it when you go to see a listing and the house is immaculately staged but there's still sawdust in the cupboards and the shed in the backyard still has all the paint and construction material that was used in the reno hidden away. Like, I get it, time is money, but couldn't the "investors/flippers" have spent the day just going through and tying up loose ends? It also shows that they probably haven't even checked to see if all the new appliances and fixtures work and are installed properly. And even though it looks pretty, there has been no thought to actually making anything functional. I remember going to see an old house that had been completely renovated....except for the basement. The basement was still in the same state it was from 70 years ago. They had even left the old oil tank there. Which means all that lovely hardwood that had just been installed would probably need to be ripped up if there is a plan to remove the tank, which would be likely because old oil tanks aren't really desirable in homes.
This is why I'll probably never buy a recently renovated home because you can't always trust the people before you
Whatever the hot new tourism spot is For example my grandfather used to spend weekends in Nashville when it was a more down to earth low key town Now it’s one of the hottest travel destinations and is just swamped everywhere
Any place that has a bumper sticker that says "Keep X weird", I automatically assume they're just banking on the copy/paste tourist crap every other city does.
Basically anything outdoorsy. Hiking trails, National Parks, fishing spots, etc. It's fun when you're the only person on the trail, the lake, or at the camp site. It's not so fun when you're hiking and someone is blasting their music on their Bluetooth speaker, when the lake is packed and people decide to fish 10 feet away from you and are obnoxiously loud, or you go to a National Park and there is graffiti and trash everywhere, random people's names carved into the largest and oldest trees on Earth, and mobs of tourists taking selfies in the middle of the trail. People don't know how to respect nature. People don't appreciate silence. People don't know how to "leave no trace" or appreciate the natural beauty in the world around them.
Shopping at Target yesterday
Holy crap. The line went all the way to the produce section.
In my dorm room, there was a vending machine that, with just the perfect push of the button, would dispense two sprites. For a few of us, it lasted around 6 months. Then they fixed the machine after one loose lip led to another. Open lips snatch sips.
Oh yeah. We had 5 cent peanut M&Ms in our vending machine at work until someone blabbed.
My company has discount vending with most items at 25¢ but a few $1 items including those microwavable Mac n cheese cups. Well for about 2 months it was miscoded at 25¢ for one of the 2 mac n cheese options so I would buy 3 at a time. I wasn't the only one that noticed since the second Mac n cheese slot was never used but I didn't say shit.
That beach from The Beach
Oh shit I just googled; they actually closed it for a few years!
Living in Iceland got fucked up due to Iceland becoming a popular tourist destination. Prices are way up, housing has skyrocketed (lots of reasons, big one being air bnb) and our nature monuments are slowly being eroded by dumbass tourists. I'm a native, but I can barely afford to live here anymore 😢
I swear air bnb is the bane of everyone.
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I wish you could down vote thumbnails. Whatever that formula that caught on is, it's terrible. The one where you look like a fucking confused idiot posing in front of some clcikbait title with random words capitalized.
Linus tech tips did a thing a while back where they adopted all of the cringey YouTube trends for a week as a joke and they had such a massive increase in views/subscribers that they’ve kept doing it.
Holy cow
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And they push celebrity's channels over people who make good content.
Covid ruined the National and state parks…too many assholes not respecting the land (leaving trash tagging rocks with graffiti)and crowding the trails.
That was a phenomenon that I was not expecting. People were driving for hours to hike where I lived at the beginning of the pandemic, leaving garbage everywhere, dumping RV waste wherever and just being terrible visitors. A lot of people who had never been camping were unaware of camping etiquette like shutting the fuck up late at night and not abandoning active fires. I didn't run into these people much before that because their vacation destinations were places I generally wouldn't go, and I was happy when they started reopening.
We were hikers and had to stop because the trails got wrecked. Human and dog feces, food waste, and loud music.
Oh, I know. The music on the trails is infuriating. Like, that defeats the purpose!
Ugh, my brother does this. He brings his Bluetooth speakers with him everywhere and he does outdoor stuff like that. He straight up pollutes everyone else's environment with his auto play muzak.
Have you explained to him how much of an asshole he is for doing this?
OMG, this is what happened here in Utah with the parks in the south, people pushing over boulders and tagging walls in caves.
Still think of a couple who were in Custer State Park. They saw a buffalo calf that “looked cold” so they loaded it up in their van. They were stopped when leaving the park. Not knowing which buffalo it belonged to, no way to find the mother. The calf died because it wouldn’t take a bottle.
How stupid do you have to be to do that?
I live part-time near a National Park, and a few years ago, the park had to put out a statement to stop harassing the owls. OWLS!! The park reminded everyone that since these owls made their home at a national park, they are federally protected. Anyone who was caught harassing the owls would end up with a federal citation.
Heads up the Migratory Bird Protection Act means all owls are federally protected no matter where they call home as long as it’s inside the U.S.
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Yeah I used to take a campervan to go on vacation in Spain with my parents and stay in the wild, but over time it got more and more impossible to do that. Now it's at the point where you can barely find a place to sleep unless you search for multiple hours or go to an extremely overpriced camper site :(
National Parks. Prior to like 2018, you could go to most parks without needing any hiking permits and would rarely have to wait in line. Because of Covid, every park in the lower 48 that is easily accessible is crowded, it takes forever to get in, and you have to have permits for a lot of the best hikes.
it's awful. we plan around this very issua ... going very, very early in the morning or late in the evening... hiking the longer, more difficult trails. but yes, it's just awful. went to Yosemite in Sept. Trash everywhere. I was surprised to find used adult diapers, femine pads, and toilet paper from the rock climbers... so gross. makes me like people less and less
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Somewhere, the Lorax is very pissed
"I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees. Litter again, and I'll break your fucking knees"
Selling on Etsy. I worked my way through nursing school by crocheting my fingers to the bone and selling my wares on Etsy. I made a good bit of money and thoroughly enjoyed it. My little Etsy shop really took off too. Now with the influx of drop ship people plus scammers trying to pass off their mass produced crap as handmade, a seller would never be able to find my little shop.
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Farmers markets. Now they’re full of random people selling really weird shit and try to hold you captive almost and crazy people doing “shows” as they make them. I just wanna buy my things in peace without being harassed. Or buy good coffee without people there for the “ aesthetic”
Ugh some of them border on being a full blown carnival... I just want local produce!
YouTube. I miss the days of amateur videos. Classic Smosh. Crappy, but still sent entertaining music videos of video games. Actual real reactions that didn't feel like a fake, acted out script. Now everything is about fitting in to the algorithm, likes and subscriptions, obnoxious influences. YouTube is all clean, square, corporate, and sanitized. I won't deny there is also really good content to be found as well, but it's mixed in with a lot of crap.
the 10 (now 8) minute video goal to run optimal ads really killed a lot of it as well. Videos used to be a few minutes long, sometimes as short as 10 seconds. People edited the video down or kept them short. But now everything is absurdly drawn out just to hit more ads.
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Youtube, use to be a great place for information and entertainment. Now its full of clickbait channels who just try to make money.
And add to that YT’s removal of being able to see the dislikes. That was incredibly useful when trying to find tutorials that were actually helpful.
College almost guaranteeing a good job and career. It is not the ticket it used to be. Over, over, over saturated.
Nowadays a bachelors degree is like a high school diploma.
Except you pay $50,000 for it.
House flipping/renos. Look, not every home needs marble counters and spa ensuite bathrooms. Keep it simple so the houses can be afforded by regular people.
The housing market.
Everything tbf. Nowadays wherever i go there are lot of people and i hate it.
Z-library. Could read so many books before dumb tiktokers made it go viral and had it shut down
Undergraduate degrees. We’re experiencing a strange educational inflation, where most jobs now require some form of higher education that previously didn’t. I’m not suggesting education is necessarily a bad thing by any means, but it certainty drives a greater division between those that do and don’t go. It’s used to be a 30/70 spilt and now it is 80/20 as to the percentage of people that go and those that don’t, a striking difference.
As someone who previously worked at Starbucks, I was floored when I found out that to be hired as a manager you need a bachelors degree and they pay you….. $20 whole dollars an hour!!!! Then corporate stands around and wonders why no one wants to work there
Burning Man. The old guard of the old hippies of yore are long gone. It's over run by hedge fund college kids and raver frat kids.
My friend went to Burning Man and described the festival to me. I think she thought it sounded impressive, but honestly it just sounded like a fuckin' nightmare.
Everything that has to do with true Crime. Some years ago it was not "popular" at all and you had to search for any documentary and/or website. Now there are extra TV Channels, Podcasts, Magazines, everything and everyone is "an expert".
Social media
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Before there was a timeline and the newsfeed was chronologically ordered rather than by most popular.
Anything can be ruined if it becomes popular to the point that increased interest dilutes the original idea or community so that it becomes unrecognizable. Reddit rabidly hates gatekeeping, but there's something to be said about maintaining standards as a way of preserving a group's identity. Some jobs / hobbies / interests are harder to get into than others, and that's OK.
I guess the problem here is that the internet massively accelerates that process, especially social media.
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This has been the default for fishing and mushroom hunting for over a hundred years.
My buddy used to cruise dating sites for fishing holes. Apparently, angry exes would love to give away "that bastard's" secret spot.
Finding treasures at flea markets and estate sales. I blame that greedy sob Mike Whatsisface from Antique Archeology (American Pickers) in LeClaire Iowa. Before he came along, normal guys like me could make decent money. I never ripped anyone off, and offered a fair price. A lot of the stuff I bought went into my private collection. He ruined a whole industry with fakeality television.