Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, citizens were free to watch YouTube videos to their hearts’ desire, without being constantly bombarded with ads for fat-burning tea and companies that will help you build the perfect resume. These same residents could go to the grocery store and purchase a gallon of milk without wondering if they were going to be able to pay rent that month, and they could walk home without hearing TikToks blaring from other people's phones.
Romanticizing the past isn’t always the healthiest thing to do. But we have to admit, there are some things that have gotten way out of hand these days, so Reddit users have recently been calling them out. Below, you’ll find some of these annoyances that likely grind your gears too, so enjoy reading through and be sure to upvote the things you’d like to put an end to as well!
#1
Already out of hand and has been for a while, but keeps getting worse: advertisements everywhere.
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210points
#3
Illiteracy, be it scientific, biological, or media. Too many people are too comfortable with not understanding things.
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199points
#6
People doing outrageous s**t in public for views. No one cares, you’re not cute for being disruptive.
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177points
#7
Comment sections on social media. They used to be pretty fun to scroll through and engage with, now it’s mostly full of insufferable people who get off on arguing with strangers online picking fights over literally anything.
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167points
#8
The political divide in the U.S. is the worst I’ve seen it in my 43 years on this planet.
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160points
#9
Jobs asking for 5+ years of experience being listed as entry-level.
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156points
#11
People not knowing how to interact politely with their fellow humans. It’s wild.
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142points
#12
The US healthcare system. It just gets worse (greedier) year after year.
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142points
#13
Planned obsolescence. The absolute worst. How is it that a 400 dollar phone and 1500 dollar phone have the same 1 year warranty?
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139points
#14
Monthly subscriptions. Not just streaming services. Software, games and even vehicle features.
It's like the MBAs from MBB have their hands in everything now.
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138points
#16
‘Main character’ syndrome.
mh985:
Social media feeding into people’s narcissism.
_Perfect_Mistake_:
“Me me me” attitude. Social media has played a huge part of this attention-seeking attitude. Everyone feels the need to be recognized.
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126points
#17
Apps! Every business, website, service, you name it has its own damn app now. 3 Factor authorization also means that I have to download several apps on my personal phone just to be able to access sites required by my employer to do my job.
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125points
#18
social media & phone addiction, i work with kids and it’s surreal how they are born into it, it’s so normalised creativity is dying, I fear our next generation, everyone is glued to their phones.
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122points
#19
Climate change is getting scary now. People seem content to ignore it till it kills them though.
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121points
