Such reflectionallowsus to paint a clearer image of reality, empowering us to make informed decisions and navigate the evolving landscape with greater understanding.
To get started, Reddit userStaclearmade aposton the platform last month, asking everyone on it: “What slowly went away in the past decade that no one noticed?” Here are the answers that people related to the most.
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Finding a recipe online that doesn’t involve the author’s life story, author’s pet’s life story, and the author’s pet’s squeaky toy’s life story. 😂
Actually owning items without a subscription
Consequences for blatant lies
Decent quality clothes at affordable prices.
The ability to buy a house as a young adult
Insects. My car used to get covered with dead insects during the summer. Now, it’s just one or two every so often. Lightning bugs, butterflies, moths flying around my porch light. They’re all gone.
A sense of shame. I’m looking at you obnoxious tik tokkers dancing in traffic.
The intelligence of the average American. There’s an awful lot of stupid people walking around these days.
voicemail. Nobody bothers leaving one. I get about 1/10th the phone traffic I did a decade ago anyway, and people would rather text why they called now in lieu of a vm.“text/don’t call” is one of Millennials' greatest contributions to society.
Affordable cost of living
Color in public spaces. Everything is minimalist and grey now.
Objective journalism.We used to know that some outlets were biased (Fox, NYT) but now for literally any story you have to: read between the lines of a conservative source, read between the lines of a liberal source to balance, read an independent Substack to see what both of them omitted… and its too much work to just find the basic facts of a story.
In general, “third spaces” esp. for like teens, i feel bad for them. Not too many indoor places you can just hang out without paying for something
Being able to see the stars at night. I live in a small college town. I have to drive several miles to get far enough away from the light pollution to see anything.
The middle class. You are now either rich, or poor
Attention spans
Politeness. Not being d***s to random strangers.
Magazine shops. The ones that sold obscure magazines that you can’t get at Walmart or the grocery store or even the big box bookstore.
Free articles! Almost everything is behind a paywall nowadays
product reviews that is not an affiliate link
Public pay telephones. Sucks for those in trouble that don’t have a cell phone (with battery life).Edit: Also sucks for Superman when he wants to make a quick clothing change.Edit 2: It’s cool that Australia turned theirs into free public phones.And yes, I missed/ignored the “past decade” part of the question.
Privacy
Privacy. Workers’ rights. Consumer rights. Americans’ sanity.
Left over money after paying bills
Lightning bugs.
good Google search results
Over 10 000 unique species and several hundred unique natural habitats.And that’s probably a very conservative estimate…
Good screenwriting
Recording horizontally on your phone instead of vertically.
Land lines…products with quality…wood instead of particle board, leather, linen, cotton…what is that….food without fillers or preservatives…non cookie cutter bodies and faces…
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Having actual physical copies of music and movies. People are so used to just watching YT, or using streaming services. Not saying some people don’t, but it’s more for a “collection” than actually that being the only way to have the material. I hadn’t bought a CD since at least 2008, and the only reason I bought DVD’s at P**n Shops cheap AF was to build a collection.
Waiting for things and being “bored” waiting.Every minute we are multi tasking everything because everything is always available. We used to have time to get bored because there wasn’t enough to do at all times. Now we are inundated with on demand stuff and I no longer get time to daydream or be bored. I used to love having time with my thoughts.
Actual newspapers and coupons on Sundays.
Why don’t cars today come with spare wheels? What the f?!
Anything happening without a f*****g algorithm
Hope for the future
House phones.
3D logo designs have pretty much vanished. I don’t know the exact timeframe, but basically every single major company’s logo has become minimalist over a very short period of time.
Frozen yogurt. Where the f**k is all the frozen yogurt?
Car antennas. You know what I mean.
i suppose people have noticed, but no one has their phone with a ringtone anymore. It’s mostly silent or for some poeple still on vibrate
Sobe. They’re only available in specific places…I miss Pina Colada Sobe.
my hair
Malls
Photo shops
Phone books
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