Literally everything.

Earth

Tourism! Many sites, forests and towns used to be great to visit but are now completely overrun (Paris, London, Venice, Dolomites, sites in the alps, Yellowstone, …)

Tokyo trains. Because jobs and opportunities keep disappearing in the countryside, it's getting more and more packed and there's not really much that can be done; trains already run every 2-3 minutes during rush hour.

They could drop all the green cars (JR can fuck right off and should be nationalized), but that's not going to buy a ton.

Businesses all want to be in the same trendy areas with name recognition so spreading the load that way isn't working.

I moved to the countryside for a "work from anywhere in Japan!" company, but now they're trying to kill that and make me come to Tokyo and give up on my community. This is why no one trusts deals like this (and yes, I am in a union and they are fighting for me).

Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg. I used to go at least once a year, usually on a whim. Then they blew up on social media and you have to book months in advance. Haven't been for ages.

I find it strange how tiktok people all imitate each other. Someone posts a video of a "hidden" tourist spot and then suddenly there's loads of people waiting in line to take a selfie at the same spot.

The Internet. It was fine before 2005ish.

Cars.

Honestly, owning a car should be a hobby, not a requirement. I've never owned one, but I have a healthy appreciation for the people whose eyes light up when they talk about the engines they've fixed or the skills they've gained. For them, cars make them happy. Why would that piss me off? I have niche hobbies that make me really happy too.

For the rest of us, cars are just... there. A means to an end, that end being surviving the modern infrastructure designed to accommodate the least efficient means of transportation ever.

Fuck cars. If the only people who drove them were the people who honestly actually liked them, the world would be a much better place.

This is why I dont tell anybody about my spots.

Thrifting.

It disgusts me to go to those Goodwill buy-the-pound stores, with the bins, that people get very competitive as to what they get. Thrifting is supposed to be the last line of affordability for people who can't afford the latest of anything. To get a vacuum cleaner for their home or apartment that they can't spend even $20 on. To get a toaster oven that they don't want to throw $50 down on.

But, they're now having to compete with dozens of hyper-competitive people who've been groomed from years of Storage Wars, Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Hardcore Pawn, Auction Hunters .etc Where, they believe that almost anything that they can find, can be and will be flipped for profit. It's like running into micro-capitalists, is exactly what it is but these people disguise themselves as "passionate collectors" or "aspiring bargainers".

And thrift stores for a while now, have been catching on to this behavior. To where, they've remodeled their business to reflect it, so that's why you see absurd pricing, color-sale discounts and the like. It's just gotten ugly. So, thrifting is almost no longer for the struggling and that last line of affordability is but non-existent.

I can say the exact same thing for the used video games market, something I used to have been involved in for 9 years. 2007 through 2015 was to me, the optimal time to have gotten into the used games market. Where things felt sane. But thanks to WATA, thanks to YouTubers/Streamers alike, they've corroded the market to now there being many used video game nerdy stores that hyper-inflate the value of any old games.

Which is why it makes me scoff at those who shame people who pirate old games by telling them to "go buy them on ebay!". Yeah, with those awful prices? Get real.

I live about 2 hours from Centralia, PA

If there's anyone here who hasn't heard about it, a coal seam under the town is on fire and so the town has mostly been abandoned. The internet would have you believe it's a real life silent Hill or something, full of abandoned houses with smoke and steam billowing from the ground.

In actuality, it's a lot less dramatic. If a house becomes vacant, it gets torn down because it's not safe to live on top of a fire. And there is some smoke and steam and the ground is noticeably warm in some places, but at this point the fire has mostly moved out from under the town. If a building is still standing, it's because someone is still living there.

And I'm not gonna say it isn't/wasn't worth the visit, it's pretty cool to drive through and see the grid of streets where a town used to be, but it's not exactly the urban exploration wonderland a lot of people imagine it to be. It was really only good for maybe an hour or two of walking around, and probably best enjoyed as a quick detour if you were in the area on your way to somewhere else.

And one of the bigger draws is what became known as the "graffiti highway" a stretch of highway that was bypassed because of the fire. It was blocked off, it has some areas that are all cracked and warped because of the fire, and as it became more popular it was covered in graffiti.

I first visited Centralia as a pretty young kid, before the internet discovered it. My parents made a stop on our way somewhere else. There was little or no graffiti on the highway then. One of the locals saw us and came out to chat with us, and pointed out a couple things for us to check out. I don't remember seeing anyone else around at that time.

Fast forward 10 or 15 years, the internet had discovered it, and a couple of my friends wanted to check it out, so I went with them.

The highway was now covered in graffiti. There were more people around, it wasn't exactly crowded, but it wasn't empty like it had been when I first visited. We saw some people walking around in places they probably shouldn't have been (the ground can be kind of unstable in places, tends to happen when the bedrock underneath has just burned away) and we saw some people doing stuff like driving trucks and dirt bikes onto the abandoned highway. There was also a decent amount of trash just sort of left around.

So I wasn't exactly surprised when a few years later they decided to bulldoze over the highway and generally discouraged people from visiting. It had just become too popular, and people were being dumb and disrespectful.

And that's sort of the way of it for abandoned places. If they stay relatively unknown, a handful of people can get away with visiting them as long as they're not being dumb. Once they get popular though you can't keep the idiots away and they become a problem that needs to be addressed.

The rest of the biosphere

Tragedy of the commons

I walked past a Mr Ramen tonight in little Tokyo. It wasn’t overly busy for a Thursday , but the Daikokuya next door has had a line out the door every night that I’ve seen it open for the past 5+ years. I remember going there maybe 15 years ago and maybe having to wait in a queue of 1 or 2 at worst.

Their ramen is good, but ramen has a limit on how good it can get. The amount of people going there has made it less appealing.

"Sex with my wife" (shamelessly stolen from another commenter on the other hellsite)

A threesome?

Memes

Thanks to every moron and their mothers, at some point camping became illegal over here.

Any auction website :)

Mobile phones

RRFM (Really Really Free Market)

Early 2000s. At the first market, everyone had a chill time on a rug in the park.

Then it got featured on the nightly news. The next one had a hoard of 200 frantic 'shoppers', 'buying' at zero price. A hilarious mad rush to grab-and-go.

I didn't mind, because along with our clothes and other items, I'd burnt and packaged about 30 TTCS-OSSWIN CDs, and they went in record time.

Other people were pretty annoyed, and it wrapped up for a while after that.

EDIT: I just checked, and it is alive and well, with RRFM events happening this year.

Reddit. In the early days it was a lot like Lemmy/Fedi is now. There was even a push to get more “normies” on board. Then they did. And now… look at it.

The Isle of Skye.

Sex