Asklemmy

I guess TikTok, because I tried it once and uninstalled it. It felt like the app was using me, not the other way round.

The phrase "based off of." It's always been stupid. I'm still ahead of the curve because many people still think it's OK. It's not.

P Diddy. He did an Apprentice type show and was overall pretty creepy. There were a handful of scenes that made me think his closet was stocked full of skeletons.

I never liked the Twilight books when they were just books

Centralised, monolithic online services. Even when they were 'good', I was leery of services like YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp because they made no attempt to be interoperable or peerable. Two GMail users will have a richer experience emailing with each-other than they would with someone on, say, Yahoo Email or an Exchange server, but it would always work, eventually, somehow. Obviously we now have the concept of the Fediverse, but federated peers forming ad-hoc connections using an lowest-common-denominator protocol is the basis of the whole Internet.

Myself.

Amanda Palmer. I've always thought she was a narcissistic asshole who uses people like she's rearranging furniture. And that has turned out to be extremely true.

Mr. Beast

The stock market. Only when society collapses due to climate change and whatnot the Western hoi polloi will realize it had become a cancerous pyramid scheme that eventually runs out of tissue to metastasize in.

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The Sims 4. As soon as that shit got officially showcased i was a hater. Felt gaslighted by the community for years, and now most people hate it too lmao.

Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000's, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010's and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.

Remeber when facebook was about "connecting with old friends" and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was "broadcast yourself" and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.

Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because "more future customers pay for the present ones"

Apparently, the large gaps in stall doors. 22ish years later, a number of places around my region are finally installing stalls and floor to ceiling walls without gaps. Making eye contact while taking a shit was always awkward AF.

Plastic, the patriot act, the Iraq war, AI, the internet, social media, I managed to avoid all platforms except Facebook which my spouse talked me into after months of trying to get me to join and finally deleted it recently, I kind of just hate tech in general, the never ending cycle of “upgrades” that actually make your life significantly shittier, competition, gender roles, giant SUVs, porn, extremely exotic pets, Tesla (test drove a high end model when it first came out and said it was like eating cafeteria food off a really nice tray and didn’t buy it) I’m sure plenty more… as an elder millennial the rise of the 21st century has just been so incredibly disappointing and shallow.

MrBeast.

Car ownership, I guess.

Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.

I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it's widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.

Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was

Facebook, Twitter, "influencers", most social media in general.

Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.

Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with "just use google, it's free".

Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.

I hated Donald Trump long before he became president.

Twitter. Just never saw the point.

Tesla/Musk.

Back in 2014 Tesla and Ecotricity had an agreement to upgrade Ecotricity's charging network to be compatible with Tesla's superchargers. Tesla whined that it wasn't being rolled out fast enough. Ecotricity wasn't a very big company and was basically working for free, so asked Tesla to actually support the roll out if they needed it faster. Musk went mental has been trying to destroy the company ever since. The 2014 Tesla patent release was never about collaboration or saving the planet, he just hoped somebody, somewhere would use it to undermine Ecotricity.

Russell brand, back when he was just a homeopathic, somewhat progressive pseudo-intellectual moron. I remember specifically avoiding Get Him to the Greek bc I thought he was a creep, didn't think he'd actually be charged with SA though. His pivot to manosphere right wing bullshit doesn't get enough attention, bc of worse people like Rogan.

Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like "I knew that guy had to be a total asshole". Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.

I think I was ahead of the curve hating on "generative AI".

Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he's putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.

Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn't really as well known at the time, I don't think.

I'm realizing a lot of these are technology-related.

I've hated Harry Potter since the first book came out - someone lent it to me and I gave up after 100 pages cos it was shite and really badly written.

Drake

• reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
• Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
• Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
• and twitter, and BlueSky

Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn't aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans