Hey Pandas, What Are The Most Overrated Things Nowadays?

What doesn’t deserve its popularity? Whether it be a book, movie, way of life, or other trend, I’d love to hear about it!

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Most reality "stars", namely the Kardashian/Jenners.

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Kim Shannon

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Julie Snelling 1 year ago

If I could upvote this more I would

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Influencers. They are not a god

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Got hacked lol

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I love it here 1 year ago

Not even sure if this is a legitimate job title. Seems everything can be done with internet nowadays. What ever happened to good old labor?

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Tik Tok

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Bored Retsuko

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LoyalHufflepuff07 1 year ago

Amen!!

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1) The expectation that life owes you something.

2) The need to have the very best the very first go. My first car wasn’t what I wanted, it was what I could afford, same with my first rental, my first house, my first job…

3) The belief that your opinion is sacrosanct and that anyone who disagrees with it is “Disrespecting” you.

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Ozzyols

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girlsrock4ever 1 year ago

Basically, entitlement.

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Beyonce

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Vermonta

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Julie Snelling 1 year ago

Totally agree

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Beauty standards. Do I need to elaborate?

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I love it here

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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

No. We know.

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homophobes and transphobes!

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️‍️‍️TRAINS RIGHTS️‍️️‍️

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girlsrock4ever 1 year ago

Not sure why this is downvoted. Here, have an upvote.

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Goddamn politics. This needs to go away. I don't know what system to replace it but the cult followings and popularity contests it has all devolved into are childish and keeping us as a whole from reaching our potential.
I can imagine a Galactic organization of civilizations occasionally checking in on us - "No, they are nowhere near ready for contact."

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Chich

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Nicholas Harrison 1 year ago

Politics is people not hitting each other with rocks and clubs. As bad as it is, there is worse.

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music used to be good quality music coming out of the radio now most of the stuff that gets played i have no clue how they got signed to a label let alone make it all the way on the radio

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krys collins

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Julie Snelling 1 year ago

That's a sign your getting old

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Taylor Swift. I like some of her songs, don't get me wrong, but I just don't understand Swiftie culture. Basically I'm saying I wouldn't stand in line for 3+ hours to get a T Swift concert ticket.

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LoyalHufflepuff07

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God Chasers Something pursued 1 year ago

Online only I thought but we get it

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Grading on the curve. Students should be graded on their own accomplishments, their own progress.

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Jane Alexander

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago (edited)

There are many places where grading on a curve is appropriate. When picking a surgeon, I want the one who has a 99.97% rate of survival who is graded an "A" on the curve over the surgeon rated a "D" with a 91% survivability rate. That 91% isn't an "A" effort. If doing surgery every day, the first one loses a patient every 9 years. The second one loses a patient about every 12 days (32 a year).

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Dark Fantasy.
It completely dominates all media (Game of Thrones in TV, Dark Souls / Elden Ring in gaming, The Witcher in literature) while always using the same rehashed medieval-European settings, the same tropes, the same character archetypes. Plus the authors seem to have a contest about who can create the most bleak, depressing and needlesly violent story ever. Never understood the appeal.

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Luke Branwen

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Daria 1 year ago

I didn't enjoy GoT and its Dragon prequel for precisely this reason. My life is already bleak and depressing, so why would I want to make it more so?

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Food. Fancy restaurant food that has flowers or unnecessary garnish. cupcakes with cereal on the icing. Looks pretty, how does it taste?

Medicine advertised on TV

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Vermonta

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yellowphantom 1 year ago

Even worse are dishes that combine really questionable ingredients like "goat liver tartare with a souffle of pickled heirloom tomatoes, kimchi, and brussels sprouts topped with a crumble of truffle-oil infused limburger cheese and crisped plantain skins".

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#14

Dining out/ fast food.
It used to be good, but I swear every place just sucks nowadays.

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Luke T

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Stacia 1 year ago

And the expected tipping from carry out too

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I’ll start, I guess. My biggest pet peeve is this “aesthetic studying” trend. I think it’s great to have cute pens, a clean study space, etc, but honestly, I feel like a lot of study posts nowadays are more focused on the pretty aspect of studying rather than, ya know, being productive and practical. It’s really bad, learning should be about learning, not making cute notes.

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Matcha

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Mickysixxx 1 year ago

I don't know what that is but I'm a more of a I'll do it on the day kinda guy. I read stuff but I never had any fancy study space and I reckon I only ever took notes because everyone else was lol I know teach high school and have led personal development classes for teaching staff on how to better engage at risk students.

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#16

Pronouns and Victimhood. Go ahead and downvote me you pigs!

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Matt C

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PiscesInTheWild 1 year ago

Well, technically everyone has pronouns, even if you're not part of the LGBTQ+ community. They're just parts of speech. If we didn't, it would just be "Matt went to the store with Matt's friend and Matt got some birdseed for Matt's bird feeder..." etc.

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#17

Internet. Everything is "use this website, log on here, buy online" blah blah blah. Just a modern trend that I refuse to have anything to do with. You'll not see me using this new fangled internet.

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Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het.

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Danish Susanne 1 year ago

I think I understand, but the internet is a great help for us all, so I assume your irritation comes from the firms who refers to their website for help instead of offering a phonenummer you can call to get what help you want. Or worse insist that you have to ask a chatrobot, who is really hard to get to understand your problem as I usually find out.

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#18

Competitive Exams. Like it is a near 1% chance or less that you might clear them on the first attempt. But what about the ambitious ones? On average, an aspirant wastes 3-4 years of the peak of his/her youth studying for an exam. And unfortunately, most, like most, end up pursuing other career pathways because you gotta pay the bills, right?

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28points