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Random homophobia in movies and tv shows back in the day for no reason whatsoever.

I was watching a Police Academy clip the other day, and while the 'Blue Oyster' bit from those flicks was always notorious, it's probably one of the only bits people remember from them. What really hit me was this scene (paraphrased because I don't want to go watch PA clips again just to get the exact dialogue):

Hightower waking up Mahoney in the middle of the night

Hightower:"I'm nervous about my driving exam, because I don't know how to drive."

Mahoney:"I can teach you, when is your exam?"

HT: "6 AM."

M:"Tomorrow!?"

HT:"Can you help me?"

Mahoney: "Yeah sure, why not? Sleep is for F**s anyway"

This of course is the brilliant, biting humour that the Rogansphere complains got taken away by Woke.

Disposable cameras. The wastefulness of an object made to be thrown away aside, they took bad pictures, and if you wanted to take more than 10-15 pictures of your trip you'd have to bring a bunch of the things with you. Price wise an inexpensive traditional camera and half a dozen rolls of film were about the same price of five of the things IIRC.

Smart phone UI design still sucks but its so much better than it was in the early-mid 2010s

The word "epic" being used colloquially, and tangentially related to that, the le bacon craze.

Open horniness online, I'm glad that's more frowned upon these days, especially the kind of "I can't wait for [teenage celebrity] to turn 18" creepiness that was generally accepted in the 2000s

Anyone nostalgic for stomp-clap ho-hey music of the early 2010s played by people with ridiculous mustaches? Me neither.

Does UlyssesT himself count?

On a more serious note, I'm glad the whole valorization of "nerd culture" seems to be dying/dead. There was a recent cultural shift of making "nerdy" shit "cool" and it got really obnoxious really fast, especially since a lot of fandoms still seemed to keep this victimhood mentality even as their interests entered the mainstream more and more. Obviously a lot of nerdy stuff is still popular, but I get the sense that a lot of people now consider the construction of whole sub-cultures around it is a bit cringe, it seems pretty normal now to just accept that most humans have a few niche interests and being into Star Trek or Steam Trains or Anime doesn't mean you have to do this performance of being a social pariah and you can just, like, be a normal person who also likes those things.

Newgrounds and flash animation in general.

Shock humour.

The huge amount of way more intense homophobia and sexism.

Sitcoms, fuck "Two and a Half Men".

Many more that I'm too sleepy to think about

proprietary charging cables

2000s beauty standards

silver plastic home electronics

nimh and nicad batteries in everything that lasted all of 5 minutes

paper encyclopedias were kinda before my time but also seemed pretty bad

Smoking. I love my friends and family, but I hated how much they fucking reeked of cigarettes. I also hated when the died of illnesses that were obviously caused or exacerbated by their smoking. Most of the survivors have quit, and I really appreciate them taking the effort.

Also not nostalgic for old cars. I totally understand people vibing with them and thinking they're cool, but I gotta be honest about how fucking shitty the ride feels, how uncomfortable the seats are, and how much anxiety I'm feeling about the painful death I'm going to experience if we get into a minor crash.

Since you brought it up, I don't miss UlyssesT. dude was an asshole debate pervert, was on the other end of all of the worst interactions I ever had on here, and never knew anything about the things he was malding about to boot. It's a lot nicer now that he's gone.

Fake plants, I feel like I've been seeing less and less of them over the years and I hope that plastic garbage stays gone forever

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People having their ringers on in public

Carpeted flooring, especially high-pile carpets

Being an absolute asshole online. Sure places like reddit and 4chan still exist but it feels like in general the internet has gotten, nicer? Like the other day I was playing an online game in someone in chat was popping off anti-immigrant shit and praising Trump and the entire guild chat turned on them shitting on them and telling other players how to add them to your blocklist. The general edginess I used to see in the aughts online feels like it's dissolved into people being nicer, maybe it has something to do with irl being more ruthless than ever.

The stigma around mental illness and neurodiversity. It's not like we're ableism-free, far from it, but being able to just say "I suffer from depression", or "I'm going to therapy" and no one really caring, or, in the best scenario, being understanding and supportive, has made things so much easier.

Not to mention that I wouldn't be able to understand a lot of my life and work on a lot of self-hate and preconceived ideas about myself without the lens of AuDHD giving me a bit of an out for me to get care.

The idea that you're not allowed to enjoy things that are for kids anymore once you become an adult.

Im glad he's gone, he was very annoying. A good comrade, but desperately needs to stay offline.

God I hope everyone continues the america hate train im so glad its dying

Restaurants with no vegan options

I don't miss much because the 90s especially was kind of shit as a whole. But especially not missing the way women got treated in the 80s and 90s and up to the 00s.

I know its grim still, but oh boy how much nicer it is to live life when not nearly as many men think it is ok to just touch you.

All the cringe movies where the upper was normalized could also be forgotten.

For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.

Comparing what my kid eats to what I ate at her age is always a trip lol.

On top of that, getting rid of smoking inside of restaurants and bars is probably a good thing.

This is more 2010s but I want to say rage comics, yet we can’t seem to rid the culture of that completely we just rebranded to wojaks or whatever

Computers having hard drives that failed every few years or would break after a drop or bump. SSDs are a godsend for more than just speed.

I haven’t been exposed to shitty reactionary nationalist slop music in a long time, I recall Bush having a weird cult of country and rock songs about how great he was and how America kicks ass or whatever. I know that still exists and Trump has some white “hip hop” sycophants slobbing his knob but I will pretend that doesn’t exist because it doesn’t get the same mainstream exposure.

General shittiness to marginalized groups seems less accepted today (but is making a comeback). Growing up even “socially progressive” figures would make jabs at trans people, gay people, mentally disabled people etc as punchlines. I hear that bigoted garbage more now than a few years ago but still far less common than during the aughts

Skinny jeans. Curse on mankind.

the chintzy consumerist aspects of geek culture/chic

"i fucking love science!!!!!!!!" - couldnt be me (it was). Hey remember Michio Kaku??

Traditional taxi service was always bonkers garbage for me. No idea why, just always taking forever to arrive, randomly disappearing, and taxi drivers taking an extra long route for "no reason". I only took them about once year when I couldn't walk or get public transport.

Unassigned seats in movie theaters

Memory cards for game consoles. Switch still has them, but they're not as necessary for saves alone.

Having to burn CDs.

Having to wait until a TV show aired at a specific time