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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”

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It can take thousands, or even millions, of people to popularize something: a game, a hairstyle, a style of music. But unfortunately, it can all be changed in an instant, as it only takes one bad apple to turn something from fun and exciting to inappropriate (or even illegal). 
One curious Reddit user recently asked others to share some of the things that one person managed to ruin for everyone else, so you’ll find their most relatable responses below. Enjoy reminiscing about "the good old days" before these things were tainted, and be sure to upvote everything you wish was still the same today!

#1

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
The female body image, by the Kardashians. Yes, I consider them all one person, since they all seem to have been built by the same plastic surgeon. Millions of girls and women worldwide seem to think that surgery, teams of hairdressers, nail and make-up artists, personal stylists, shapewear, Instagram filters and photoshop make them real women. That whoie family should be cancelled, instead they're billionnaires. Sign of the times ..
575points

#2

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Tipping. Businesses are pushing their customers to tip because they don’t want to pay their employees fair wages.
483points

#3

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Twitter, by Elon Musk. Pretty basic, I know but geez. This man's just an arrogant child with waay to much money.
452points

#4

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Vaccines by Andrew Wakefield. Thanks to that a*s hat we have way too many antivax idiots.
383points

#5

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
I hate to be dark but, as a gymnastics coach: people like Larry Nassar and my own coach
As a gymnastics coach myself, I have to be extremely careful how I touch a kid in a sport where I have to….pick them up and move their body around and stuff. And obviously, I’d never purposefully put my hand in an inappropriate spot, but if I accidentally do while saving a kid from falling or something I have to profusely apologize and feel anxious. 99% of the time, the kid doesn’t even notice I grabbed them or something. Or, they don’t care because they’re happy I saved them from snapping their neck.
Some gyms ban coaches from giving a kid a hug and whatnot. We have strict rules in the gymnastics world where two or more adults have to be with a kid if they are alone in the gym. Which hey, I support. When I train male coaches, I tell them to be extra careful since they are more likely to get accused. Groomers gonna groom, but if a guy accidentally brushes a girl’s boob when he spots her, it shouldn’t be world ending. With the abusers that people know of primarily being men, male coaches are watched like hawks. I can get away with a gaggle of little four year olds tackling me and laying on me for a group hug. A male coach has to be veeeery careful.
But, it’s sad it has to be like that. I wish I could text a kid myself, set up a private lesson, meet them at the gym alone, we work on stuff, their parent picks them up. That’s not reality. People should just…not be weird to kids. Adults should be respectful and not abuse their privilege and a child’s innocence.
Now, people have a terrible perception of the sport I love because of the abuse myself and others faced. And, I don’t blame them.
343points

#6

The internet was ruined by whoever it was that invented pop-ups. And video ads, for that matter.
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334points

#7

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
A s**t ton of symbols have had their meaning completely changed because some mentally ill dude got rejected by an art school.
281points

#8

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Telemarketing. Owning a phone used to be a good thing, now almost every phone call is some shady insurance scam or panhandler looking for money.
274points

#9

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
The name "Karen".
273points

#10

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
A small town permanently cancelled Halloween because one kid was bullied and the mother lobbied and won. Turned out the kid was not bullied but was stealing other kid's candy and they fought back.
258points

#11

Sex ...by my kid.... wtf little dude. You can watch paw patrol for 2 hours straight but then I snatch yo momma in for a min and we can't even get through the warm up!?
250points

#12

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Guys on 9/11 ruined flying honestly. All the security means when u fly u have to get there super early and stand in lines all day.
247points

#13

The arsonists who set the Quebec forests ablaze, placing the North western hemisphere under smoke for a third of our summer..... Natural disaster caused a lot of the fires still going today but intentional sabotage didn't help.
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247points

#14

American flag… every time I see one I automatically think the person flying it is racist. I think we all know who.
247points

#15

The Cosby Show.
Because of Cosby.
242points

#16

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
The a*****e who poisoned Tylenol in the 1980s and made it acceptable to make everything, not even just medications, very tamper-proof, but also pretty damn user-proof if you have any dexterity limitations at all.
226points

#17

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Gender reveals during fire season.
226points

#18

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Giving out free product when we are just going to throw it away anyway.
We used to do this at the end of the night, last few hours of the day if we had a lot of donuts or bread BUT because of certain people who use this as an opportunity to sue a business with the excuse of "They gave me spoiled food and i got sick" now it's not allowed and we have to put coffee grounds on everything we throw away.
Also the drug addicts who think it's funny to just throw it all over the parking lot too.
Also bathroom privileges. Since it's apparent that people don't know how to use one properly, we don't have to let the public use them and yes that includes your kids as well since you don't clean up after them.
208points

#19

Not sure if its been said but Kanye ruined Kanye for everybody.
197points

#20

40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person”
Red baseball caps.
dishonourableaccount replied:
"MAGA hats" became popular with his supporters and very unpopular with those who hated him.
Issue is, baseball caps are pretty popular and common to wear in a lot of places. Especially among sports fans. Teams like the Kansas City Chiefs, Washingtons Nats, and the Phillies all have red caps that-- at first glance-- looked like MAGA hats. So people felt self-conscious, not wanting to be mistaken for supporters.
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