Hey Pandas, What Is The Most Overrated Modern-Day Thing? (Closed)

Want to access your bank account? Get the app! Want to order some food? Get the app. Want to know what's on at the local cinema? Get an app. Want to see our restaurant menu when you are sat down at the table wanting to order some food? Get the app. Want to use public transport? Get the app.

Soon it will be want to go to bed? Get the app. Want to go to the toilet? get the app.

If we dig deeper, another commonly mentioned overrated modern-day thing is celebrity culture. The excessive focus on celebrities' personal lives and the importance placed on their opinions and actions can be seen as overrated by some. I mean: who cares?

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The current fashion of people being offended by things from decades or more ago.

Overpriced designer brands.

The $4,000 blue agate crystal that one is supposed to put in their water bottle infuser to help "align their energies."

Reality TV. Who needs that? Scripted TV, you name it.

The 24/7 news channels. Most of their programming is not even news, but opinions! It's deepening political divides because people just hear all the yelling on these channels. They're not hearing information. There are channels that have information, but those are not popular. :-( So, for me, modern life would be way more bearable without the 24/7 "news" like certain channels (looking at _NN, _OX, et al.).

Please be happy and don't bother anyone else. Stop the hating. Stop shoving s**t down everyone else's throat. Everyone can have an opinion and leave it at that.

Instagram. (You asked: What Is The Most Overrated Modern-Day Thing? )
Do I have to substantiate? As of today, I don't know anything that has gotten better since the invention of Instagram. (Which is connected to Facebook which is connected to Meta, go figure that.).
Go get a life! And enjoy your real, analog life.

Cancel Culture...did you read a book you didn't like? Cancel it! Learn about something in History class that hurt your feelings? Cancel it! Maybe you find the "Venus de Milo" offensive, no worries, Cancel that too!

Grimdark genre. Seriously, it's like the authors these days were competing about who can write the most bleak, depressing, violent, gory, nihilistic story imaginable and they advertise it as "dark and mature" (looking especially at you, Game of Thrones). I kinda miss good endings achieved through power of love and friendship.

Remakes, reboots, spin-offs, live action adaptations. I haven't been able to be excited for those for quite a while now.

Modernist architecture and designs that are actually soulless, dehumanising and unnatural. Homes should not be huge concrete and glass boxes, with spaces, shapes and sizes that no normal human being can relax in, let alone relate to. These may be dwellings but are by no definition homely. It is as if people are expected to live in sterile office buildings devoid of comfort and beauty. Nothing flows, nothing is welcoming and organic or suited to human proportions. I particularly loathe all the monochromes of recent years. It's not "stylish" - none of these trends evince any real style or aesthetic sense. I want real art not generic decorator items. Your home is a place to enjoy the richness of your life, and should reflect that.

Forced inclusion

In The rings of power, people of the same race (elves, dwarves, men and harfoots) are all different colours even if they come from the same place.

Also, characters that exist for decades are remade to be gender swapped, a different race and different personality. (The velma show)

I for one, am for inclusion. However, it isn't something that should be so sensitive as it is now. Every show must now include a gay/lesbian couple, a transfer one, and the cast must contain fifty shades of skin color. That or risking getting cancelled

AI. Enough said.

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Making everything "smart". I mean FFS, there's a goddamn "smart" toothbrush out now. Really ?!? A simple task like brushing you teeth is now some overly-complicated sophisticated B.S. where a $2.00 toothbrush will do just fine. What now, "smart" tampons ?

This one's gonna be a bit of a mouthful, ya ready for this?

Fortnite.
That's all there is to it, don't think I really need to explain much else.

modern war. I know, most people think wars i a hiddeous thing. But too many must like it.