#capitalism has ruined everything

[glamourcryptid]

Smart technology? More like DUMB technology amirite

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

[backpackingspace]

Okay but xie lian really do just being lying the whole series

[theymightbegeorge]

at the end of the day it seems like these critiques are aimed at increasing retention, clicks, new viewers, blah blah blah

it ignores george's own personality and style that we love, the details he included that his community had begged for (e.g. patches), the fact that he was documenting some of the most important moments of his life

yes youtube is a job that people want to do well at but let's not forget the creative part of content creation

creativity can mean taking risks, doing what feels right to you, including personal details, making things fun rather than polished, and speaking from the heart

george's heart shone through in that vlog - through the filming, editing, music choices, EVERYTHING - he was documenting a dream coming true and you could feel the love towards dream who he met for the first time, sapnap who he also finally gets to live with, and his audience who have been on this journey with him

no graph can demonstrate how much that video meant to george, to his best friends, to me, to so many others that watched it

this was a heartfelt video that george made to share a hugely important and beautiful moment in his life - I'll take that ANY DAY over soulless content specifically manufactured to please an algorithm thank you very much

[undertow1993]

tool fans watching ghost fans get upset over exuberant VIP ticket prices and a no phones policy

[wellhalesbells]

LIAR YOU TOTALLY WATCHED ONE SEQUEL!!! 😉💜

https://www.tumblr.com/wellhalesbells/736050291745652736/friendraichu-jackironsides

HAHAHAHA, I should clarify that I just mean for super hero-y ones. I mostly watch the first one and rarely watch the second (or anything after...... or remakes, lol), I think the only Marvel one I've seen in recent history is Thor: Ragnarok. Actually, the Spider-man franchise pretty much encapsulates how I interact with Marvel properties: I saw the first trilogy because it was new and exciting at the time, then they remade it too fast and I refused to pay for something I just saw, that was so recent in my memory from the release date I could still remember exact scenes from it (THERE WERE ONLY FIVE YEARS BETWEEN SPIDER-MAN 3 AND THE REBOOT - THAT IS NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR ME TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THAT AGAIN. HOW IS THAT ENOUGH TIME FOR ANYONE TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THAT AGAIN???), then I watched the first Tom Holland one (fourteen years I can vibe with) and nothing that followed because that's generally when the gimmicks and cameos start in lieu of good story-telling, or they make it dark and gritty because that's the only way to ground this superhuman, right (I assume a random white guy: "Should we fridge a lady? Yeah, we should probably fridge a lady"). The first one generally at least tries to have a soul because they have to introduce the character and make you care about them but many of the ones that follow (the few I've seen from when the MCU was just starting out and I had hope *coughs*Iron Man 2, Thor 2, etc.*coughs*) are just cash grabs that don't try because you already love this character and there they are, right there, so money please!

Meg 2 however..... EPIC, NO NOTES. It knows if I was a shark girl, I was probably a dinosaur girl and it gambled correctly. That's what you're watching this for? Have three sharks and an unnecessary (probably stupid expensive) dinosaur intro that is nearly completely irrelevant to the story but that you will also not want to live without and for an extra special bonus: oblivious husbands and their brilliant daughter. Like. You got me nailed, my dude. Will watch every subsequent sequel, no questions asked.

[torgawl]

everyone here was soooo excited because a national channel was going to bring back this iconic tv series, directed specifically to the youth, from our childhood and adolescence that we are so nostalgic about after 11 years for them to disappoint us all with the trailer because it looks like elite 2.0

[murcielagatito]

the episode is "smokin hot"

setting the scene: modes fashion week show has finally begun after a typical series of the most unfortunate events ever to happen in a telenovela. betty, after getting approval of the designer she discovered from wilhelmina is finishing up helping style the models. as she does so, wilhelmina looks at her and then gently glares in her overseer self kinda way AND THESE ARE THE FUCKING LYRICS PLAYING WHILE WILLIE S LOOKING AT BETTY

they look like this btw and wilhelmina tells her this shit at the end of the ep:

whoever edited the music for the betty x wilhelmina scenes deffo saw something between them

[dyke-on]

Ice spice is the most boring rapper i've ever seen, there are so many much more talented rappers out their that will probably never get a fraction of the fame because they aren't conventionally beautiful like miss shirley anne temple

[sanstropfremir]

Oh I don't know how involved you are in the bts fandom and I hope you aren't but in response to your last bts ask and mentioning company shooters, the funniest thing has been happening recently. So you mentioned how bts is their friend and bts fans don't interact with other groups right? Well ever since hybe acquired pledis and started txt and all that other stuff, the company shooter fans actually scattered quite a bit. Not because they realised that bts aren't their friends that the company just wants their money but because, get this, they genuinely believe that hybe started/got other groups because they got corrupted by capitalism and these other groups are harming bts when bts should only be friends with their fans. So with hybe getting more money by first selling the friend imate and then getting more groups, they also effectively lost a massive amount of their company fans because those believe bts shouldn't have any friends except from their fans. And to be honest, unfortunately for bts, they genuinely cannot hang out with their friends anymore because there have been multiple cases where they hang out with other idols, and then their fans are in the comments telling them to get away and not be their friends because they're bad people..

[nexus-nebulae]

literally every single stressor i have right now is money and it's making me want to fucking tear myself apart

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[justtogetthrough]

Devastating to find out that amazing apps that were free in the 2010s now costs a shitload of money. Like. $80-100 dollars annually unless you agree to a deal for 50% off that’s time limited in some way.

I don’t *use* systems very long but I want to try some out. With $45, $55, $75 up front annual fees? Fuck my life. An expensive commitment to something I likely can’t commit to.

The free trials aren’t even an adequate amount of time to tell if you like it. They need to be 2-4 weeks long if I’m to decide to spend 50-70 dollars on an app.

That pricing is INSANE.

Modern tech is bat shit bonkers.

Capitalism has gotten so out of hand.

But I miss these apps. The versions from 10 years ago I really liked. I need to see how much they’ve changed to decide if the highway robbery is worth it. But it takes me longer than 7 days to get my shit together and learn a new app when change is hard and I don’t process information well. I need longer than 7 days but someone decided 7 and now everyone uses 7. With the audacity to charge you $99 annually going forward.

Some have useless free versions and some have no free version at all.

Capitalism makes me wanna die. The commodification of everything including our bodies and health and habits and executive dysfunction. Die.

I need help to not die and every little support for myself I find wants $100/year when there’s no guarantee the app will even help me over time.

[c1trvswurld]

Need a man so loving he makes me reevaluate my disdain for the western concepts of marriage as the end all be all in a relationship

[multifandomgrabage]

Take what the rich has stolen from us all. We arent stealing from them, they’re stealing from us!

i love this girl on tiktok who was like ‘no matter how times someone explains it to me i will never understand why we cant just print more money’

[gremlinghost]

I have officially stopped paying for all the streaming services (except cruchyroll) because it has become genuinely easier to pirate shit than it is to try and find out if a piece of media is on any of the 17000 streaming services available.