When things get big it’d usually because the hobby is changed in a way that makes it accessible to more people. Sometimes the things you found fun/interesting about the hobby was that thing that made it hard for others to get into. Now you’re left with a watered down shit version of your hobby and a bunch of people who talk about the watered down shit version the same way you talk about the good version.
Old school runescape is ruined and I’m sick of pretending like it’s not. We need oldschool-oldschool runescape 2 start it pre zulrah and nothing gets passed without 75% votes and boss drop-tables must be community approved.
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The only good hobbies are my hobbies.
The only way to participate in hobbies is the way I participate in them.
This is an objective fact.
You’re too wrong to even try to correct. But it must be made clear the right way isn’t yours, it’s mine.
If a certain critical mass of people like it, it suddenly gets expensive and simultaneously the quality of parts gets worse
The tiktok-ification of fucking everything into a trend is the worst in regards to this. The last few years, it feels like any time I’m interested in picking up a hobby that seems like it would/should be cheap and simple to get into, tiktokers have already blown through, turned something into a ‘-core’ for content, and left nothing but over-inflated prices in their wake.
First off, I don’t think tiktokers have as much influence over the cost of a hobby as inflation and every other market force that has increased prices. Everything is more expensive and blaming influencers doesn’t help.
With that said, it’s like Gen Z saw Millennials being Hipsters who pay wayyyy too much for ‘vintage crap’ and said ‘Hold my vape,’ then went and did the same thing to literally anything else.
So I can find out you’re all enjoying the hobby incorrectly? I think NOT.
