I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it's widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.

Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was

Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.

MrBeast.

Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with "just use google, it's free".

Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.

I hated Donald Trump long before he became president.

I've hated Harry Potter since the first book came out - someone lent it to me and I gave up after 100 pages cos it was shite and really badly written.

Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like "I knew that guy had to be a total asshole". Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.

I think I was ahead of the curve hating on "generative AI".

Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he's putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.

Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn't really as well known at the time, I don't think.

I'm realizing a lot of these are technology-related.

Twitter. Just never saw the point.

Russell brand, back when he was just a homeopathic, somewhat progressive pseudo-intellectual moron. I remember specifically avoiding Get Him to the Greek bc I thought he was a creep, didn't think he'd actually be charged with SA though. His pivot to manosphere right wing bullshit doesn't get enough attention, bc of worse people like Rogan.

Drake

Facebook, Twitter, "influencers", most social media in general.

Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.

Joe Rogan. I described him many years ago as "the reality TV equivalent for podcast dudebros" and my (largely well educated, liberal) friend group jumped down my throat for it. Apparently I was being judgemental and shouldn't judge people for their entertainment choices.

Called my shot.

The stock market. Only when society collapses due to climate change and whatnot the Western hoi polloi will realize it had become a cancerous pyramid scheme that eventually runs out of tissue to metastasize in.

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• reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
• Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
• Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
• and twitter, and BlueSky

Plastic, the patriot act, the Iraq war, AI, the internet, social media, I managed to avoid all platforms except Facebook which my spouse talked me into after months of trying to get me to join and finally deleted it recently, I kind of just hate tech in general, the never ending cycle of “upgrades” that actually make your life significantly shittier, competition, gender roles, giant SUVs, porn, extremely exotic pets, Tesla (test drove a high end model when it first came out and said it was like eating cafeteria food off a really nice tray and didn’t buy it) I’m sure plenty more… as an elder millennial the rise of the 21st century has just been so incredibly disappointing and shallow.

Apparently, the large gaps in stall doors. 22ish years later, a number of places around my region are finally installing stalls and floor to ceiling walls without gaps. Making eye contact while taking a shit was always awkward AF.

Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn't aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans

Car ownership, I guess.

Mr. Beast

No use or missuse of turn signals on roads. Furious.

X/Twitter/BlueSky I like long conversations with lots of information and while I use them now, it’s only because that’s where people post.

Always thought BBC Sherlock was boring and obnoxious

The phrase "based off of." It's always been stupid. I'm still ahead of the curve because many people still think it's OK. It's not.

I guess TikTok, because I tried it once and uninstalled it. It felt like the app was using me, not the other way round.

Hate hatred, I'm avant-garde in the West. 👀

Trans women competing as men

I hated Elon Musk well before he got involved with Trump. It was obvious to me that there was something deeply wrong and evil about that man. People keep falsely assuming rich = smart. Elon is proof that's not true.

I hated Beanie Babies when it first became a craze. The company who made these stuffed toys had full control over their value and was deliberately causing shortages & errors to drive up perceived value.

I hate NFTs and cryptocurrency for the same reasons I hated Beanie Babies. I advised my sister against investing her savings into cryptocurrency, but she wouldn't listen. She lost everything.

And now I hate what Nintendo is doing with the Switch 2. I can see the writing on the wall, this is a shameless cash grab using deeply unethical anti-customer tactics.