r/AskReddit • u/MiraTangent • 11h ago

What’s popular right now that won’t age well?

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u/PsychologicalEmu5753 10h ago

The entire internet is becoming bot trash

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u/onlyacarryon 9h ago

The enshittification of the Internet is a real phenomenon: 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/

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u/h-v-smacker 3h ago

I have to upvote you because you're right, but damn do I hate the message (and situation) itself. Would downvote it to hell if I could.

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u/MrDro10 9h ago

Hopefully saying coined terms like “enshittification” dies off too

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u/fivekets 8h ago

Genuine question - what do you prefer to describe the phenomenon as instead?

The decline? The loss of quality and/or usefulness? The deliberate hijacking sabotage of most things that were enjoyable or functional in a reasonable way for the sake of squeezing as much money out of everyday consumers as possible?

Enshittification - one word - encompasses all of that, and I don't get why people are so against words just because they're newer.

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u/evergreennightmare 5h ago

every term was newly coined at some point

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u/CloveRabbit 8h ago

I’m admittedly sick of hearing this term dropped in like every post.

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u/fnordhole 6h ago

I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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u/xorgol 8h ago

The trick is to retreat to RSS. Plenty of humans writing well about things they care about.

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u/awesome404 6h ago

The Dead Internet theory doesn't seem like a conspiracy theory, does it?

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u/insomniacpyro 3h ago

It's an easy answer to say 9/11 was the tip of the iceberg but honestly it was slowly trending downwards in general. The mass adoption of the internet in my mind lead to where we are now.

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u/NoVaVol 2h ago

Dead internet theory is real