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Mr. Beast.

Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.

Partying. The whole idea of dressing up to leave one’s home after dark to visit a dimly lit, overly crowded place with overpriced drinks and snacks and music so loud you can’t hear yourself think.

Seems entirely unnecessary. I feel like social connection is so much easier when you can see and hear each other. Being able to get enough sleep and not needing to pay through the nose for 5 peanuts is also nice.

Twitter or any “microblog”.

I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.

Most superheroes.

EDIT: SJW admins confirms that I have indeed been downvoted by Superman and Spiderman

Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”

Alcohol. Or drugs for that matter. But alcohol is the one that actually pisses me off when depicted in media. It's always some character downing a glass of something and then having this super happy face and enjoying themselves. Like, fuck off? Anyone I know who drinks doesn't even enjoy the flavor of it, and it being romanticized into this fancy, social drink is genuinely infuriating.

As for drugs, I just don't understand the reason why someone would want to alter their mental capabilities.

Most social media stuff.

Omg did you hear X did Y?

I guess I'm just old but I don't follow most. Even with dogpiling PirateSoftware. Yes, he's wrong and probably lied. I just don't get the hype around it. I'm happy that the hype led to Stop Killing Games getting enough traction though, that was nice.

Mobile UI. It sucks. Yet the majority of people online are now connecting from it, and everything wants to be an app.

Vtubers. I get the cute anime girl thing and I like fan art of them as I do other anime. But the models move wayyyyyy to exaggerated. It hits uncanny valley for me.

Also I don't get the parasocial relationship of chatting in a huge room of other followers. The chat is scrolling by at a hundred miles an hour and you're competing with everyone else for their attention.

Labubu.

The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.

"Reality TV". Could anythjng be more contrived yet obviously "make it up as you go along"?

AI, the only people hyped about it are corporate heads, and people trying to get into the industry via grad school pipeline.

hyping content creator as the goal for younger people to become? these people arnt really good models to follow and you hear them get into some kind of drama and find out they are pos: sniperwolf, mr beast, siderman. also liek to mention most current creators are often rich/come from wealth themselves, so it doesnt help people who arnt as rich as they are.

and then people still defending PEWPEWDIE? why are people still trying to give his previous support of bigotry a pass, just because he had a child now.

Working for corpos. It's a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.

As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I'm currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.

Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.

Poekmon: It came out when I was in highschool doing band, theater, occasional sports, a summer job (fulltime), and a parttime job otherwise so I just never got into it. To me, it's a glorified paper-rock-scissors simulator with extra steps and zero nostalgia.

VTubers: it's just uncanny valley to me. I'm also super sensitive to audio-video sync issues and avatars seemed to always be slightly behind the couple of times I tried to watch it.

Shorts (and entire social media like TickTock, reels (I think it is called?), etc.): the forcing of vertical video is one reason since I'm almost always watching things in landscape (95% of the time on a TV, monitor, or tablet). I also just want to see more of the same topic, typically, and it's over and now I have to pay a mental context-switching fee.

I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.

The Office

Almost anything. As a neurodivergent I seem to be mostly immune and I see the hype circles people are running in and find them bad as all distracts from the immediate issues we are having and should turn our attention to (from personal to global).

The same in most institutions and companies afaik.

In-N-Out. Tried it. It's OK.

SUPREME

I struggle to understand hype for most things nowadays.

It's weird I just don't feel it now.

I went to see a band I should have went to see 20 years ago. I can't say I felt much hype beforehand. The hype only started when the intro played and the band started walking out.

Within the first couple of songs I was a mess with happy tears, but everything leading up to it? I was just chill, totally unphased.

I think I'm broken 👍

Grad school. Unless your getting a professional degree with a license that protected by the state and the profession is well established and compensated, don't waste your money and time if you could see yourself doing anything else.

Hell... Undergrad might be sliding into this category as well.

Krispy Kreme donuts. Cold Stone Creamery. Cake Pops.