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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 t
by 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 agoAs 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 agoI 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 agoRIP Seattle.
- lotsofpulp 3y agohttps://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- piva00 3y agoWoah. 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 agoYou 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.