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Remember the good old days when everything was free, because my parents bought it

no man, you gotta understand, enshittification is when we used to have rental stores and now we don't

Millennials in general seem to be hitting the nostalgia phase of their lives. It is kind of wild watching people on here pine for their blackberry and a simpler web. All of which happens to coincide with their youth.

this happens whenever black slang hits the mainstream. it happened to the word woke

So you're saying community words are being enshittified. (kidding)

Every image of a woman is now “gooner bait”

I think enshitification (is there a double t?) is specifically when a tech company makes something worse intentionally for one reason or another (profit)

Slaughter Beach, Dog for instance used to be worse

Nostalgia will ruin you, purge that shit, live now.

ironically nowadays the "shitty" games are that way because mainstream never wants to go outside the safe zone of what works. there also wasnt as much to choose from in the past and it was more of a niche hobby, so the good titles that did exist were known by everyone

also, I feel that the "enshittification" has become a catch-all phrase that obscures pre-existing terms, more political and precise about what is intended: like capitalism, standardization etc how degradation of working conditions, wages etc, affect our fictional, playful universes

But I had my whole life ahead of me back then

Yeah, I’ve also seen people casually throwing around the term “slop.” I know that word obviously existed before (unlike enshittification), but something you don’t like is probably not slop. AI is slop.

life was objectively better when mommy used to pack my lunch and the fact that you are ignoring that means you will lose politics forever

ive seen people say that about Transformers (2007) and i just dont think they have rewatched it since it came out

I feel the same way whenever someone uses “slop” to describe something they don’t like. It’s a surprisingly effective word to describe something cheap and mass produced designed to be consumed without thought or input! It’s not just a random pejorative!

I mean older movies are better lit and have better costume design, but it's because gaffers and costumers are in the union and cgi workers are not. More of a labor rights thing.

Enshittification isn't about art, it's about useable items & everyday consumables (food, clothes, tech, furniture, UI, etc). Art being more commercialized/sanded down for mass appeal is an entirely different issue (tho they are done for the same reason: money).

Oh. I thought it was used to describe what I did to my toilet.

People need to understand they are not immune to nostalgia. Time moves and people reminisce on the past removed from all the faults and issues cause they eroded away in the sands of time.

The movies haven't gone through "enshittification" but they have gotten formulaic. It's a good formula! That's why it's being used so much! But it also means a loss of innovative plot structures. slate.com/culture/2013...

And it means a very specific way of doing that, to boot! It's just not just "thing got shitty"! Such enshittification of neologisms…

Enshittification was better when I was younger!

I get that it takes effort to find the things you like, and as you get older you have less time and energy to do so. And there's more to wade through now than ever. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to find.

when it comes to live service games i feel like it could make more sense, but the only part thats worse nowadays is how little people complain about microtransactions

put this guy in the rollercoaster that breaks every bone in your body

The Ocho

I believe you meant Rollerball (2002)

The term is getting disastrously diluted. People have no idea what it means but use it excessively anyway

So, where would you rank Mission: Impossible 2 among the top 10 movies of all time?

Even the nostalgia got enshittified.

Social media is largely just people gassing up whatever was happening during their formative years

The drift away from specificity of terms like this kills me, as much as I've done and contributed to that plenty of times before.

Movies have objectively stopped being lit well and I will die on this hill

The trick is to have had a terrible adolescence.

Right. There's enshittification, but some of the things that were better during my adolescence are unrelated to that. Yet both are worth learning from. Resist centralization of power. Take Control.

The enshittification of playing outside and drinking from the hose

"Each time, the thing that died was the thing that served the most people with the least pretension, and each time, the thing that replaced it was a genuine improvement that served fewer people while flattering the taste of a specific class." readfoundobject.substack.com/p/they-kille...

UI is one of the weirdest examples. I often think that UI gets worse redesigns but other times I think it's just me being stubborn to something being different

Watching millennials turn into boomers has this GenXer laughing.

I mean yeah have you seen Kappa Mikey?

It's a very easy temptation to give into the survivorship bias and just rant about how everything was better in the past. Heck, to be honest I feel better when I remind myself that bad things existed even when I was little. The present ain't special

Yeah and I think that's not a huge deal, but it bugs me when people use it to sound like they're doing socially aware commentary on a basically reactionary impulse.

enshittification does not mean "thing getting worse", it's a specific process where capitalists try to extract profit out of something at the cost of making it worse for the end user, after said thing reaches a certain threshold of users it's silly to use the term generally for thing getting worse

it was shitty but in a different way that I prefer