things that didn't annoy you until within the last decade or so?

[Sundancer]

Peopel talking/texting in movie theaters.

 

[Manic]

People didn't talk in the movie theatre 10 years ago?

 

[AllyBabble]

Millions of people illegally downloading tv shows instead of watching them on tv, the ratings slump, and the tv show gets cancelled.

Also of course, folk downloading films and albums, and it having a detrimental effect on the performance of the movie at the bo and the album in the charts.
But the tv one is a huge bugbear of mine, as the tv show can get cancelled, unlike a band's career.
Case in point: Heroes s4, the most downloaded tv show of the year, yet it gets cancelled due to poor ratings.

 

[Manic]

I'll give you movies and album sales, but TV ratings don't work like that. There's only a few thousand people out there who affect TV ratings. They're paid to keep journals of what they watch on TV and to attach special tracking boxes to their TVs that keep track for them. Unless you've been paid by the Nielsen company to keep track of your TV viewing, you have no effect on the ratings of your favorite TV shows. They guess whether or not you're watching the show based on some poorly paid random person who lives in your metropolitan area who fits the same demographic as you.

If I for some reason suffered brain damage and thought season 4 episodes of Heroes were worth downloading, I wouldn't have made any impact on the show's ratings. I wouldn't have had any impact if I was watching it on TV, either. Some other dude from my area was making that decision for me, and he was being paid to watch TV instead of download. Granted, he wasn't getting paid a lot. Still, when you've got a Nielsen box attached to your TV, I imagine you're gonna be compelled to watch more TV. When I tracked my radio listening for ratings, I went out of my way to make sure my favorite morning show got my attention.

Downloading does have a negative impact on DVD sales, though.

 

[bored]

"Jersey Shore". MTV and VH1 being reality tv channels instead of music channels in general.

 

[AllyBabble]

Ah, ok, I can get less annoyed about that now, I mean, I alwys thought, if someone does not have the channel, fair enough, but if they just can't be bothered setting their video timer and supporting their fav shows, and just dl it instead that's annoying, but that is a moot point now.
But i can still get rankled by dvd sales i suppose ...grrrr.
But yeah, if i was a practising musician I would get very annoyed by folk illegally downloading my stuff. I don't imagine that many musicians make money off their records, and instead rely on live gig fees and radio play. So what little they would get could be next to nil, if folk start passing them around on the net.
I am old fashioned that way, I want the album cover so i can give myself an eyetest by trying to read who made the tea etc on the credits while i take in the music.

edit: oh, here's another...big spoilers for movies and tv shows being blurted out by people, due to the prevalence of online reporting....I am guessing the twist of the Sixth Sense would not have had such an impact today, that would have been talked about online and spoiled , and that was just over ten years ago, so i guess that has increased a great deal.

 

[WompuM]

People were illegally downloading 10 years ago.

I'd say texting in place of conversation, particularly with young people, is an annoying new trend.
Facebook.
Constantly changing movie formats.
New Star Wars trilogy (technically 11 years).
Westboro Baptist Church.
War on Terror.
Energy drinks.
Twilight.
Unboxing video game videos on Youtube.
Youtube.
Self portraits in mirrors.

 

[WompuM]

edit: oh, here's another...big spoilers for movies and tv shows being blurted out by people, due to the prevalence of online reporting....I am guessing the twist of the Sixth Sense would not have had such an impact today, that would have been talked about online and spoiled , and that was just over ten years ago, so i guess that has increased a great deal.

That was still spoiled pretty heavily, by radio mostly (at least for me). And you act as though the internet didn't exist in 2000. It was spoiled there as well.

 

[AllyBabble]

That was still spoiled pretty heavily, by radio mostly (at least for me). And you act as though the internet didn't exist in 2000. It was spoiled there as well.

yeah, i know all that believe it or not, but they did not get to the 'annoying thing' stage yet, ie downloading would have had next to no impact on careers back then, and spoliers were not so prevalent as to be commonplace. How many things have you been privy to or spoilered for compared to ten years ago? Nowhere near as many i imagine.

Ok, the source of the problems existed, the tech, but the problems to the extent that they are today, did not. So i am not talking about the tech, more of the long term impact on culture and careers.

edit:

I'd say texting in place of conversation, particularly with young people, is an annoying new trend.
Constantly changing movie formats.
New Star Wars trilogy (technically 11 years).
Westboro Baptist Church.
War on Terror.
Energy drinks.
Twilight.
Unboxing video game videos on Youtube.
Youtube.
Self portraits in mirrors.

out of all the things you have mentioned that others haven't already, I think 'Twilight' and the 'Westboro Baptist church' are the only two eligible. and maybe that last one.
'Twilight' is an easy win, we could all just post up any film series we don't like, it's harder to think of actual changes to the world's way of being.

The 'War on Terror' is a Public Relations name for something that has happened all the time in American history, go in and blow up a country who you accuse of having a long term threat to you,..Vietnam for one.

Energy drinks?! Lucozade has existed for decades, same junk as the rest of them.

Constantly changing movie formats is an exagration, i actually thought of putting that one down myself but decided it was not eligible... it happens slowly and gradually... dvd, blu-ray and hi-def, are not unlike betamax, vhs, and laser disc being brought in.

SW does not count, i was going to put that one in, over ten years, lol.

i have no idea what 'Self Portraits in mirrors' is, are you saying that people have actually started painting self portraits onto mirrors? I haven't heard of that.

so there, lol

 

[Prison Mike]

Facebook (but it did lead to the wonderful film, The Social Network)

 

[WompuM]

yeah, i know all that believe it or not, but they did not get to the 'annoying thing' stage yet, ie downloading would have had next to no impact on careers back then, and spoliers were not so prevalent as to be commonplace. How many things have you been privy to or spoilered for compared to ten years ago? Nowhere near as many i imagine.

Ok, the source of the problems existed, the tech, but the problems to the extent that they are today, did not. So i am not talking about the tech, more of the long term impact on culture and careers.

edit:

out of all the things you have mentioned that others haven't already, I think 'Twilight' and the 'Westboro Baptist church' are the only two eligible. and maybe that last one.
'Twilight' is an easy win, we could all just post up any film series we don't like, it's harder to think of actual changes to the world's way of being.

The 'War on Terror' is a Public Relations name for something that has happened all the time in American history, go in and blow up a country who you accuse of having a long term threat to you,..Vietnam for one.

Energy drinks?! Lucozade has existed for decades, same junk as the rest of them.

Constantly changing movie formats is an exagration, i actually thought of putting that one down myself but decided it was not eligible... it happens slowly and gradually... dvd, blu-ray and hi-def, are not unlike betamax, vhs, and laser disc being brought in.

SW does not count, i was going to put that one in, over ten years, lol.

i have no idea what 'Self Portraits in mirrors' is, are you saying that people have actually started painting self portraits onto mirrors? I haven't heard of that.

so there, lol

1) You're taking this way too seriously.
2) By self portraits in mirrors, I mean when people take pictures of themselves in the mirror. I'm sure people did this before 2000, but it is extreme today.
3) Energy drinks might have existed in some form or another, but it wasn't until recently they had their own category along with soft drinks and hard drinks.

 

[bored]

People were illegally downloading 10 years ago.


Westboro Baptist Church.
.

WBC has been around since the late 80s/early 90s. I grew up in Topeka, where they are based, and I've been seeing them around the entire time I've lived in Kansas. It is true that they've been a major national presence in the last decade, though.

 

[terry78]

*******s have been around since the dawn of time, but they just have access to technology that allows them to do it on a more global scale.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

edit

 

[AllyBabble]

1) You're taking this way too seriously.
2) By self portraits in mirrors, I mean when people take pictures of themselves in the mirror. I'm sure people did this before 2000, but it is extreme today.
3) Energy drinks might have existed in some form or another, but it wasn't until recently they had their own category along with soft drinks and hard drinks.

dude, i thought the 'so, there', at the end of that rebuttal would have told you that I was not that serious when i typed that up, there was an air of playful childishness there. as it's not a serious debate.
but i think there was an ever so slightly patronising tone in your reply and rebuttal, that i was parodying, i mean, you tell me that downloads existed back before the ten yr mark(also implying i did not know the internet was around either), and then try to justify that energy drink thing? lol ah......they existed too buddy! and you could say your defensive argument was just as valid, if not less so than mine.

re the mirror thing, you mean just photographs? that's a phenomenon?!

anyway, i am taking it easy, not being anywhere as serious as you, or others may think i am, i will use smilies next time to illustrate that, ah, nah i won't, can't stand smilies most of the time, prefer to rely on language.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

John Cena being the lead man in WWE

Spider-Man 3(love getting that in there when I can)

People on youtube doing the same style videos(parody of famous people, followed by cap titles and a picture of themselves photoshopped for the title card)

The Script

X-Factor

 

[AllyBabble]

WBC has been around since the late 80s/early 90s. I grew up in Topeka, where they are based, and I've been seeing them around the entire time I've lived in Kansas. It is true that they've been a major national presence in the last decade, though.

oh damn, that gets Wompum's score of 'annoying things' down to two..Twilight and that mirror thing that is going on somewhere.

joking wompum!joking!



ok i added a smilie, tone of post now acceptable

 

[WompuM]

We're keeping score?

Alright, let's do this.

4chan
YouTube "celebrities" (numa numa guy, justin bieber, leave brittany alone 'guy') and fake "celebrities" (Kardashians, Hiltons, Heidi and Spencer)
Wedding dress shows
Midget shows
Cake shows
Twitter (including the words "tweet" "retweet" and "tweeted")
Using "Fail" as a noun and complete sentance.
Sexting
People bragging about Hybrids
Video game "instruments"
Atkins diets (10 yearish)
Fake 3D movies
Finger mustache tattoos
Skinny jeans
Bloggers who think they are journalists
A living Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, and Jason Todd
post-mortem Michael Jackson fans
Toy guns that look nothing like guns
Tea partiers

 

[AllyBabble]

you have been away phoning up your friends and compiling those while i was in the bath haven't you?

well.....




i got nothin'

Wompum and his friends and family - 15(or something)

me - 0

midget shows? cake shows? we don't get those in the uk.

 

[WompuM]

 

[AllyBabble]

Holy moses wompum, that was fast with the image response, thanks, and my god, i suppose you guys have so many channels you have to fill them up with something.

i thought of one(i think)...motion comics....what i have seen of them annoy me anyway....rubbish voices, the drawings don't look as good once they have been manipulated, and i think the comics should just be read as they are.
i suppose you could say the old Marvel cartoons of the 60s were practically that, but to take a comic and do it panel by panel is a little different i think.
I am thinking of the Watchmen one i saw bits of, why bother going to all that trouble and then not even get a female voice artist for Silk Spectre?

 

[Manic]

Twitter (including the words "tweet" "retweet" and "tweeted")

The word "tweet" existed long before this past decade.

Skinny jeans

Those have been around forever. Baggy and looser fitting jeans came into style during the 90's, but practically all jeans were tight fitting before that. Every time I see a picture of someone wearing jeans from the 70's or 60's or something, they're pretty much skinny jeans.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Airport Security

 

[Manic]

Why do people keep naming stuff in this thread that's been around for a long time?

 

[Sundancer]

OKAY GUYS!!


Instead of arguing that things didn't exist before so to ten years ago, I think what most people are trying to say is the "extent" to what those things have become within that last decade (or so). Like airport security.

In my initial post I was referring to people talking on cell phones, but if people have been increasingly talking in theaters from my point of view, that would be relevant too.

Skip precise history and rant in the name of pop culture etc. and have fun!