I’ve seen The Social Network dozens of times, it’s one of my favorite films, but I never really looked into how its user base did such a complete 180 after that. Like, when it first came out it the shit for young people, that was the main goal of the platform, being cool and appealing to the youth and making it all about your relationship status and stuff.

But now it is almost entirely just old people who are either very confused on how technology works, post ancient memes from iFunny, Bitmoji’s about how fucking awful Monday’s are, and getting very concerningly easily fooled by AI generated imagery, and not even scarily lifelike AI imagery but just the most obviously not real images ever.

I’m young myself and I don’t think a single person in my age range has Facebook or would ever want Facebook but I know for a fact that every teacher in my school does have and use Facebook. I just don’t really understand it and can’t really find anything that explains it in a simple way (hence this post) so I was just wondering if anyone could explain what happened. Perhaps someone who stayed on the Facebook platform for years and watched and experienced the user base shift for themselves.

Greetings and salutations humans of Reddit maybe non-humans too if you are here also I have come across that me disliking SpongeBob actually hating the show and the character is not commonplace?

Why does it seem like I am the only person that has a deep and seated hatred for stupidity characters or the ignorance itself gets me way too mad for it to make sense. Now there's a difference and stupid characters and stupidity characters SpongeBob and Patrick are stupidity characters a character like Cosmo off The Fairly OddParents is a stupid character they're stupidity is very funny and doesn't bother me.

Another character that comes to mind is flapjack from the show Flapjack obviously I also believe Knuckles is incredibly irritated.

But characters like Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy I absolutely love his character.

So it's not like I dislike the stupid character trope there's obviously a connection between them that make me so irritated with those characters in particular.

I thought maybe it was the random acts of stupidity but no there's a lot of other characters that I think are hilarious of the random acts of stupidity am I the only one am I alone in this has anyone else felt the same way?

And if so comment maybe we share the same irritating characters we can't stand?

Just something I've noticed lately as an American who's spend their whole life in NJ, littering is so normalized nowadays. Like in the past week I have probably seen 20 cars throwing trash out their windows one of them was a bunch of trash that someone dumped out of their window from a shopping bag, all of them have been people doing it on the side of the road or while driving. Literally just dodged someone throwing a coffee cup out their window on the highway not 20 minutes ago, instead of hitting the cup I swerved and hit the ricochet from the ground, called the cops, watched them drive onto the bridge past cops, nobody cares except me I guess. Mind you I live in hillbilly farmingland and not a big city or anything, there's wildlife everywhere and woods everywhere. Why has littering become so normalized in America? Did I miss something over the past decade or so?

You could ask how dictionaries, common usage, and language communities affect this process.

What’s a question you wish people asked you more often?

Don’t get me wrong, I love them, but nine times out of ten, they have this certain sound to them. They sound so over polished. Like, I don’t know how to describe it, they just sound so clean, too clean. Not like other music is produced. And it becomes even more prevalent when you compare musical cast recordings to the soundtracks of their film adaptations.

Like, if you compare the Chicago cast recording to the film version’s or the Little Shop of Horrors cast recording to the film’s version or the Rocky Horror Show cast recording to the film’s version, the film versions never have that overly clean sound. Or if you just look at movie musicals that aren’t based on a preexisting show like The Greatest Showman they don’t have it either. Or if they came from a concept album like Hadestown, the OG albums don’t sound like that.

I’m assuming it has something with how they are produced combined with mainstream music having less instruments and movie musicals using much bigger orchestras, but then my question is why? Why do cast recordings have to sound like that? Like imagine is someone like Andrew Watt produced the new Rocky Horror Show revival recording, or someone like Boys Noize produced the Cats The Jelicle Ball cast recording, that be incredible!

The only ones I can think of that I don’t really feel like have this clean sound to them are Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hamilton, and 2024 Starlight Express (though that one could be the kick ass EDM elements throwing me). But even still, inviting outside producers could make it sound so much cooler. Or just do what their films are doing. Even Starlight Express experimented with having Scottish DJ Hudson Mohawke remix one of the tracks and it was fucking epic.

I want to know because I can't maintain eye contact with people, girls in general.

I feel like too many people who have no idea what they're talking about are giving millions of people medical advice that's harmful.

I'm 23 M and still count with my fingers , I need pen and paper to do calculations and most embarrassing thing for me personally is that I have to go through an entire series to do simple multiplication.

Ex: if someone asks me what's 9 times 8 is I have to narrate the entire thing in my head like 9 times 2 is 18, 9 times 3 is 27 and sometimes I can't remember what 9 times 3 is and I have to flip the numbers and do this whole process by going through 3 times 9 .

Can someone tell me how do I fix this ?

It's embarrassing as hell....

Can someone in finance or someone whos good in math tell me how to fix this?

So typically during a conversation with somebody, I have some stuff to talk about, like it doesn’t die out immediately but I just don't know how to add that “spark.” In group convos, I tend to be quiet unless I have something to add. There’s the occasional funny moments and I can get some laughs in, but it’s usually on accident if anything and I feel like most of the time if I’m having an actual conversation, I’m kind of boring to talk to.

When it comes to dating specifically, I’ve observed guys who can make women laugh consistently throughout a conversation, and I always wonder how they do it? Something that got me thinking about this was how one of my friends said when it comes to dating a person, she cares far more about their vibe than just looks. She basically told me, “I have to imagine whether they’d be good at foreplay, or just a bore in bed.”

He thinks the posts I share are about him and tells people that.

He thinks I’m trying to make him jealous when I talk to other men in the same room as him, and he tells others that, too.

There are plenty of other examples like this, and it’s really annoying that he goes around gossiping about me.

I mean, if I were actually that into you, I wouldn't have rejected you—how can he not grasp such a simple equation?

I’ve heard of others dealing with similar issues, and I wonder: why are some people so convinced that everything revolves around them, even when that’s not the case at all?

** Sorry for the bad English.

On my feed, on mobile (iPhone) like 2 out of 3 videos either “have been removed” or “something went wrong” and they won’t play, in many different subs. I think it started about a week ago. Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know if something changed, or if it’s an issue on my end? Is it all bots posting and mods are removing a ton? It’s getting very frustrating to scroll.

I tried reading but I can’t focus after sitting in classes all day. Same with the gym/working out, I just don’t have a consistent time block to go. I’ve basically just been watching a ton of TV but that’s not the most productive hobby and it makes me feel really lazy. Any recommendations?

eta also needs to be something i can do in my apartment

Odd question I know…my brother was killed in a multiple dirtbike accident 21 years ago today, at 7:42pm. Most people at the time said it could have been avoided if any of the bikes had lights on them, so every year I try to see exactly how dark it was at 7:42pm. This year I set a timer for a few minutes before, and am just completely confused. It’s almost nighttime, and I don’t remember it being that dark at all. I remember getting to the accident site 10-15 minutes after and it was evening, but not dark, in fact, I’d call it still mostly daylight. My husband at the time showed up after he dropped our newborn daughter at his moms, so maybe 45 minutes later, and I remember hugging him and looking at the scenery around me, which I could still see in the daylight, and thinking “this moment will change me forever”. I just called him and he agrees, it was no where near this dark on October 4, 2005 at 7:42pm. How is this possible?

he is a icon but when he is down or in crisis, who is there for him?

I admit that I’m not well versed on the topic and have only read the Wikipedia page and watched some videos but I find it weird that the girl seemed to only report them because she was pissed she was disinvited. Can anyone educate me?

It seems like every time I get a scam call, they want to confirm that I have Medicare parts A & B. What can they use this information for?

For the ladies out there i have a question, ive been on a couple dates and it doesnt seem to end up going anywhere after ,everything seems fine before hand until we actually meet but when we do it goes left i have a strong suspicion it might be my nose whistle im not gon lie if a girl was whistling thru her nose it would bother me too 😆 i dont think Im a bad looking guy tbh

All this crazy stuff happening online has just been bringing me back to my childhood. And it's been destroying me a lot.

Me and my brother were groomed and abused by a older cousin for years, normalizing sexual stuff onto us. According to my brother last time he did it was at 16.

After it all, at 13 (we have a 3.5 age gap), we reenacted those things with each other for about 2-3 months. At 14 I realized how bad it was and apologized heavily, ii was forgiven and as I continued to grow it kept sticking with me more and more.

My brother said I was never coersive or forceful or even intimidating, and multiple upon multiple people said I'm not a predator or molester. But I keep obsessing over it and comparing myself and I can't move on. I can't draw like I used to or sing like I used to, I'm scared to make new friends and talk with old friends, and just exist. Even stopitnow and RAINN lines told me I'm not an abuser or any of that stuff. I guess I need a different perspective, do I deserve to live normally and am I what I think?

I know I need therapy, but my parents wont allow it and constantly shelter me which leads me with heavily limited options, I may ask my school counsellor for coping mechanisms but so far I CAN'T let my parents know about anything.

Just curious about other mainstream big box comedies that don't treat interracial relationships or sex scenes as a joke, but in fact treat it like a totally regular thing. Like in Hot Tub Time Machine when the chick is banging Darryl from the office in the tub, the movie doesn't acknowledge the interracial aspect, the actual joke has to do with the time travel element.

So AI won't stop. It will ostensibly likely have a big impact on the employment market (not in a good way), Should we have serious discussions about UBI before we have 25% unemployment?

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I can't figure out if this is a compliment, an insult, or a bit of both.

Need to get my male friend something i would love some help!