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> no one is posting on social media anymore "Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded".

mandmandam 3y ago
Yeah but who's in the crowd? It used to be my friends. Now it's a bunch of **s trying to piss me off for engagement clicks, or scam me. I feel worst for the vulnerable - older or less cynical people, who get caught in the layers and layers of bullshit that constitute the poisoned well. There are people who live and die warped by it.
piva00 3y ago
I feel this misses just one adjective: "nobody interesting comes here anymore, it's too crowded". A similar feeling I get from overtouristed places, initially they are interesting because of some attraction: the nightlife, the art scene, the food scene, or any combination of these (and other factors I'm too lazy to list) with some quirkiness that attracts people who are interested in the twist. Over time it becomes attractive to more people because they hear about it from others who experienced it, then it goes downhill where people will flock to a place but nothing that made it initially interesting is there anymore, it just becomes a self-perpetuating meme. It feels it's a pattern that develops in social media, tourism, products, etc., something fresh appears which gets overextended and bores us out in the end, the laggards missed the magic. Rinse and repeat.
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  As I've just posted top-level, "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" (2015) captures this sense quite well. <https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths>
- tmikaeld 3y ago
  I can resonate with this, the same applies to cities that are small and friendly. As they grow bigger, crime and scams rise, people are not friendly and more, stores that where quirky and odd close due to competition from low-cost big-store brands..
  - buildsjets 3y ago
    RIP Seattle.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
  - piva00 3y ago
    Woah. I had never crossed paths with this, it's great. It describes really well an experience I had with a few subcultures... And it hurts I can see it happening in real time to a subculture I've been part of since the early 2000s. Thanks a lot for sharing.
    - rightbyte 3y ago
      You care to namedrop them? I have never experienced this, but maybe that is because I am too late to the party each time to realize.
dade_ 3y ago
Too crowded with robots designed to piss me off. The bots are like tourists. The population of Venice is in steep decline, but the streets are congested.

Yeah but who's in the crowd? It used to be my friends. Now it's a bunch of **s trying to piss me off for engagement clicks, or scam me. I feel worst for the vulnerable - older or less cynical people, who get caught in the layers and layers of bullshit that constitute the poisoned well. There are people who live and die warped by it.

piva00 3y ago

I feel this misses just one adjective: "nobody interesting comes here anymore, it's too crowded". A similar feeling I get from overtouristed places, initially they are interesting because of some attraction: the nightlife, the art scene, the food scene, or any combination of these (and other factors I'm too lazy to list) with some quirkiness that attracts people who are interested in the twist. Over time it becomes attractive to more people because they hear about it from others who experienced it, then it goes downhill where people will flock to a place but nothing that made it initially interesting is there anymore, it just becomes a self-perpetuating meme. It feels it's a pattern that develops in social media, tourism, products, etc., something fresh appears which gets overextended and bores us out in the end, the laggards missed the magic. Rinse and repeat.

dredmorbius 3y ago
As I've just posted top-level, "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" (2015) captures this sense quite well. <https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths>
tmikaeld 3y ago
I can resonate with this, the same applies to cities that are small and friendly. As they grow bigger, crime and scams rise, people are not friendly and more, stores that where quirky and odd close due to competition from low-cost big-store brands..
- buildsjets 3y ago
  RIP Seattle.
lotsofpulp 3y ago
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- piva00 3y ago
  Woah. I had never crossed paths with this, it's great. It describes really well an experience I had with a few subcultures... And it hurts I can see it happening in real time to a subculture I've been part of since the early 2000s. Thanks a lot for sharing.
  - rightbyte 3y ago
    You care to namedrop them? I have never experienced this, but maybe that is because I am too late to the party each time to realize.

dade_ 3y ago

Too crowded with robots designed to piss me off. The bots are like tourists. The population of Venice is in steep decline, but the streets are congested.