In my case I’ve hated Harry Potter, skinny jeans and Tesla long before that became popular to do.
Twitter. Have hated it since it launched and stayed the fuck away from using it until I had a teacher who demanded I make a Twitter profile for a specific workshop. I still regret all these years later that I caved and did as she said. I should have just kept telling her no. Other than that, I have stayed away from that platform and when Felon Muskrat bought it I had no opinions on it because at the time I just saw him as a goofy edge lord and why wouldn’t he want to buy the goofiest platform on the internet?
But well, at least he has made most of the rest of the world realize how terrible Twitter is as a social media platform. It always was and it always will be. Fuck that place. I genuinely hope he runs it into the ground completely and that it dies.
Too bad new alternatives have sprung up in the meantime.
I still think it is utterly embarrassing that politicians around the world use these types of crappy as fuck platforms to communicate with the public. I cannot take any of them seriously. It is pathetic and embarrassing.
Proprietary software in general, Discord and Twitter in specific
Krzysztof Stanowski and Scott Adams
I hated Donald Trump in the '80s already. I thought he was a dishonest blowhard and was amazed that anybody believed anything that came out of his mouth.
I hated Elon Musk from pretty much the moment he showed up as the “darling awkward little geek bro”. He always struck me as inauthentic and a little bit stupid. (I was wrong on that last point, mind. He’s a lot stupid.)
I hated Elon Musk from pretty much the moment he showed up as the “darling awkward little geek bro”.
When they hyped him up in the first Iron Man movie as some super-intelligent philanthropist I really started to hate that guy.
I guess TikTok, because I tried it once and uninstalled it. It felt like the app was using me, not the other way round.
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Snapchat was fun back in like 2012-2015, didnt use it since.
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.
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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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.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.
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.
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”
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.
Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.
I always liked the idea of twitter but then humans human’d all over it. If everyone agreed to only use it for sensible things I’d love it so much. Useful announcements and updates and so on.
If I follow a singer for instance, I want to hear about concert announcements, album release dates and the like. I don’t want my feed filled with their opinions on global economics or hot dog condiments.
It sounds like you want an RSS feed of the singer’s events page on their own website.
In 2025, they might not have one because social media has replaced that (poorly), but in 2010 they probably would.
Why did you think it was a terrible idea?
It encourages hot takes over nuance, or awkward workarounds like replying to your own post a bunch of times if you actually have something to say.
I still think it’s a terrible idea for something like that to be popular and have an important role in society, though its addition of images and video mitigate the problems a bit. I don’t know whether it significantly impacted the platform’s success and eventual sale price. $44B is a lot of money, so I can’t say it was a terrible decision from the perspective of its creators.
Promotes lazy thinking that can be expressed in 240 characters and makes expressing the better mind much more difficult
The irony is not lost on me.
I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it’s widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.
Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was
I disliked him back when he was that dick from PayPal cosplaying as an automotive engineer and pretending he knew more than actual experts.
I started to loathe him after the pedo guy stunt where he slandered a caving expert for pointing out Musk’s submarine was a death trap publicity stunt.
Yeah, that was the “oh, shit” moment for me too. I bought into the bullshit until that point.
