25 Things That Used To Be Good...Until They Were 100% Ruined By Popularity

1. "Campgrounds! These days, the affluent folks reserve each the spots up of time, and past often don’t adjacent amusement up. Even if you tin find a spot successful summer, asking $75 to parkland for the nighttime is ridiculous. Not to notation the 'campgrounds' are filled with luxury RVs and campers with each their over-the-top gear!"

—Anonymous, 61, Washington

2. "Autographs astatine conventions are getting mode excessively expensive. All the 'celebrities' making appearances, and THEN charging $50 conscionable for an autograph, oregon $40 conscionable to instrumentality a pic with them. Then again, similar truthful galore different things, they've go corporatized. Many of the small fan-run shows are fading out. At galore of the 'corporate cons,' it's $60 conscionable to get successful the door, and THEN, you person the $50 a popular for autos? I'm sorry, I've got BILLS to wage first!!!"

—jwsiegel1272

3. "Cable. Your monthly interest paid their costs, truthful determination were nary commercials during the programs. Just a fewer minutes betwixt shows. Now cablegram has much commercials embedded successful each of its contented than broadcast TV."

—Anonymous, 69, Minnesota

4. "The terms of chickenhearted wings! We usage to spell to the bars and get chickenhearted helping pieces for 5 to 10 cents each. Even successful the market stores, a ample tray was similar $2–4 dollars."

—Anonymous

5. "Florida has wholly changed since the precocious 70s erstwhile it became cheaper to person aerial conditioners successful your house. Since then, radical mostly from up northbound person virtually taken implicit the state. The outgo of surviving has gone mode up, and much radical were calved extracurricular of the authorities than existent Floridians surviving here."

"The comic happening is that alternatively of being extracurricular enjoying each that Florida has to offer, they beryllium astir inside, lone going retired erstwhile they person to. Then, they walk the full clip complaining astir the vigor and storms, oregon conscionable trying to marque it much similar wherever they came from. Look person adjacent time, astir of the idiots successful the Florida Man stories aren't truly Floridians."

—Anonymous

6. "Instagram has ruined each the 'local spots' connected rivers and lakes. Waterfalls are a gag now, overrun by 'influencers' that adhd thing of worth to the satellite and are truthful fake. We emotion radical coming to our town, but travel due to the fact that you genuinely privation to vanish into the mountains, not to monetize our backyard."

—Anonymous, 45, California

7. "Public formation entree points on coastal Carolina. It utilized to beryllium escaped parking, but aft COVID, they complaint $6/hour, and it's not a reserved spot. There are nary bathrooms, truthful conjecture wherever radical indispensable go? Lose your paid parking spot oregon pee successful the ocean!"

—Anonymous, North Carolina

8. "Fall and vacation trade shows. Used to beryllium capable to parkland up close, and each the vendors sold unique, handmade items. Now, you person to parkland truthful acold away, and it's overly crowded. Vendors are conscionable reselling manufactured items, and the charm is wholly gone."

—Anonymous

9. "Santa Cruz, California. It utilized to beryllium this scruffy small surf municipality with inexpensive formation shacks, a downtown with 'Hippy Corner,' and small traffic. If you wanted to get to the beach, you roughed it down a crumbly ungraded cliff to get there. Then, Silicon Valley tech millionaires recovered it, and everything changed. The small formation cottages that utilized to location artists, surfers, and working-class families are present million-dollar homes. The 'secret' backroads locals utilized to instrumentality are packed with Teslas and tourists, and a thrust crossed municipality that utilized to instrumentality 15 minutes tin easy instrumentality 45 now."

"My parents moved present successful the ’70s and raised 2 kids connected the income of a landscaper and a retail worker. That mentation of Santa Cruz fundamentally doesn’t beryllium anymore. A batch of radical who grew up present are getting pushed retired due to the fact that we simply can’t spend to stay."

—Anonymous, 47, California

10. "Vegetarian food! Certain brands utilized to connection GREAT meatless options that cooked, tasted, and chewed similar meat. Then, 'plant-based' became the caller tag enactment for vegetarian food, and ridiculous terms hikes and disfigured greenish packaging became the rage. The nutrient prices doubled, and recipes changed to thing hardly edible. One brand's blistery dogs, which plumped erstwhile cooked, conscionable similar the existent thing, are present creepy, tasteless, cocktail-sized weiners that aren't afloat cooked wrong unless burned and hard connected the outside. Just atrocious however large products are changed and repackaged to travel a fashionable inclination that volition vanish shortly."

—Anonymous, 50, New York

11. "Local breweries. Whatever happened to 'we tin marque it amended and cheaper?' Now, it's 'oh, we got popular? Let’s up the price!"

—Anonymous, 56, Colorado

12. "The net earlier AI. It had already go an advertizing conveyance and had mislaid each of its probe capability. With AI, you can't get past the 3 words you enactment successful the hunt line; if you enactment much than three, it says it can't find thing that matches, and offers to find you what it's trying to merchantability you."

—Anonymous

13. "Pickleball. It was a amusive driveway athletics with a wiffle shot that cipher took excessively seriously. Now, it's overrun with overly serious, overly competitory jags who delight successful making it intolerable to really volley oregon bask the game. It's a wiffle ball, guys. A WIFFLE ball."

—Anonymous, 47, Oregon

14. "Sedona, Arizona. Traffic is congested. There's nary quaint municipality consciousness anymore. Try to find a restroom; successful a state station, you person to bargain gas."

—Anonymous

15. "Paintball. My archetypal clip playing was successful 1988. We each utilized Splattermaster paintball pistols (10 shots, past reload and alteration the CO2 cartridge). These were amusive games. A existent endurance game. When you had the accidental to seizure the flag, you had to find a mode to get backmost to your presumption fast. It was truthful amusive and exciting, and retired successful the woods, you ne'er knew what to expect. Then, during the '90s, companies started making full-auto and large-capacity models truthful they could merchantability much paintballs. Not amusive anymore."

"I haven't played successful implicit 30 years. It conscionable became a high-capacity shoot-out: nary strategy, nary stealth tactics, nary fun. Maybe if I had ne'er experienced paintball truthful aboriginal successful its time, I mightiness deliberation what became of it was good, maybe. I miss the '80s."

—Anonymous, 59, Massachusetts

16. "Thrift stores! We grew up mediocre and would get astir of our covering from thrift stores oregon gait sales. Now, determination are truthful galore people, and the prices person changeable up. Goodwill keeps going up. Gesh."

—Anonymous, 41, Georgia

17. "Road trips aren't worthy it anymore. Gas prices, edifice rates (including deposits, parking fees, and edifice fees), eating astatine restaurants oregon fast-food places, entertainment, etc. Just 1 idiosyncratic tin walk $1,000 oregon much successful 1 week."

—Anonymous

18. "Streaming is excessively expensive. The bully happening is it volition thrust much and much radical distant from television, frankincense redeeming household telationships!"

—Anonymous, 70, Nevada

19. "Seafood. Once upon a time, shrimp, clams, oysters, and crab were mediocre people's food. Once the much well-to-do recovered retired however delicious it was, we couldn't spend to devour it anymore."

—Anonymous, 55, Alabama

20. "Formula One. When the contention came to Long Beach, everything was accessible; you could spot the cars adjacent up successful the garages. The drivers were disposable to chat, and you could get successful connected Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for astir nothing. Now, it's hundreds of dollars for conscionable 1 day. Most radical who bask the athletics volition ne'er spot it successful person. Popularity ruined this spectacular event."

—Anonymous, California

21. "Comic-Con. I was astir comics, hard-to-find posters of subject fiction, monsters, and toys. It was astir attending panels to spot and speech to writers and artists of comics, magazines, and cartoons, to get personalized sketches from illustrators, and to conscionable chap readers and gamers. The occasional prima that you could get an autograph from for cheap. No lines to get to anything. Tickets to spell were abundant. Now, it’s conscionable monolithic lines to spot and bash thing if you are fortunate capable to triumph the lottery to get tickets to get in. People discarded their full day(s) waiting successful enactment to get a glimpse of a movie star, missing retired connected each that Comic-Con inactive has to offer. The crowds are conscionable truthful massive. Many conscionable spell to get a selfie and accidental however they went to Comic-Con."

—Anonymous, 59, California

22. "Screens successful cars. A tiny surface was good and occasionally helpful, but erstwhile the full dashboard is simply a screen, and you person to pat the surface to crook connected the AC/heat, it becomes an mishap waiting to happen."

—Anonymous

23. "Going retired for breakfast. It's chaotic to maine that a elemental repast similar an omelet and potatoes present costs $25, and they complaint $5 for a cupful of coffee. It's present conscionable arsenic costly arsenic going retired to dinner, and astir of the nutrient these restaurants service is worldly you could marque mode amended astatine home. Really disappointing."

—Anonymous, 52, Arizona

24. "Nail salons. You could get a mani and pedi for $40, and now, it's a minimum of $80 since it became truthful popular."

—Anonymous, 30, New York

25. "Tips and tipping. I utilized to similar leaving a bully extremity successful a edifice oregon for a haircut, but present everyone I tally into successful immoderate concern wants a tip. And the audacity to flip implicit a small POS surface (point of sales, not portion of sh*t) and suggest extremity amounts due to the fact that you handed maine a baked item? Hmmm, let's see...$2.00. What? It's each gone excessively far."

—Anonymous, Vermont

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