fornite floss dance for me.
NFTs.
Cryptocurrency was already a bad idea overall, but at least it had some function and purpose compared to rent-seeking ledger slots that are associated with ugly cartoons.
This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.
The thumbnail of a person with their mouth wide open used in every YouTube video
Guys wearing florescent orange or yellow knee high socks with Adidas slides and shorts that was all over a few years ago.
Dudes setting flat billed hats on top of their head way too high.
Yeti stickers on trucks. Glad you like your cooler dude.
Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn't the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube. Seeing Oakley gear kills me, I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley's aren't even good glasses. You paid too much for the privilege of looking like a tool.
I wonder what set off the wearing caps too high. It made kids at my school look like they had enormous heads
I like my Oakleys, but they're regular prescription glasses. Pretty durable and in the (bland) style I prefer.
Yeah. Censorship resistant, globally distributed, irreversible ledgers are so useless.
FTX was not on a censorship resistant, trustless, globally synchronized ledger. They were a company that promised you they had your stuff on that ledger, but didn’t.
No one should hold funds on an exchange, that’s akin to a bank. These trustless ledger were built to provide a place to store assets WITHOUT trusting a bank.
No one can freeze my native assets held on one of these “blockchains”.
If you don’t understand the difference, I can get more technical.
Keto, it "works" only as a side effect of you ending your intake of something that's necessary for its balance. You don't need vigorous exercise to lose weight like some claim but you also shouldn't take precipitated shortcuts. I bet nobody here has ever had their own doctor tell them "keep up the keto, you're doing good".
it depends what kind of keto you're doing - I think there's like a vegan keto? but for most people, keto seems to mean increasing the amount of animal products you eat which is undeniably awful for your health. a lot of them start eating tons of meat, putting butter in their drinks, eating tons of eggs and end up with obscene cholesterol levels.
Any of the 'fad' diets. No, carbs aren't evil. Protien isn't evil. You didn't magically lose weight by "not eating carbs". You lost weight because you cut out an entire food group from your diet - you were eating less. Otherwise just known as dieting. Make it easier on yourself and just limit your calorie intake. That's pretty much it.
You can eat pizza and still be dieting. You may be eating 1 slice for an entire meal because it's just a calorie dump, but you can do it.
Isn't that just collecting? Could replace with any object and that's hardly a fad.
Collections of anything, unless for educational or preservational purposes, are petty sus. Like you just buy and store stuff? Consumerist mind rot.
I feel like there's a great vibe difference in people collecting things that are unintentionally rare and those that collect intentionally rare things
To stick with the given example: I think some guy collecting vintage Mockbas would be a lot cooler than some guy collecting the newest limited edition sneaker.
If you like the way they look, you tend to display them. Just like literally all other collections. You know, like art?
I find the trends of sheepishly hating something just because it's trendy to extremely telling about the state of people's minds and their (lack of) autonomy.
E.g.:
- hating Justin Bieber
- hating Miley Cyrus
(Both of above largely correlated with their gender nonconformity at the time which seemed to be backed by homophobia)
- hating Nickleback
- hating tribal tattoos
There's more, but this is from the top of my head. I also remember people hating on basically any big musician, like Imagine Dragons. I don't believe any of these are genuine, because I've never seen these people giving any reasoning, if not brief "they don't conform to societal standards enough!!!!".
I think that's a bit reductive. I know nothing about the gender identities of Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus. What I do know is that I'm an Old and their 'music' sounds like overproduced pop crap to me. I don't dislike them because it's trendy or because of homophobia, I just dislike them because I find them obnoxious.
Plenty of bad music, but the targetted harassment aimed at JB and MC was far beyond any other.
I find them obnoxious.
You know them?
Obviously I don't know them personally; obviously I'm talking about their public personas. I remember they each pulled a bunch of attention-seeking antics, and coupled with the shitty music it all just seemed very manufactured to gain fans, which yes, I found obnoxious. 🤷🏻♀️
"Hating furries" was basically a default personality substitute for the first few decades of common internet use, too.
