Over the years it’s becoming more and more relevant that the US consumer pool likes garbage. The music, the technologies(all in 1 cell phones, social networking, sports shoes made by little chinese kids), movies(twilight, “kick ass” genres with nerdy actors thinking they are the next Arnold), pretty much anything that’s out there for the US consumer to grab has become garbage, Look there’s a thread on Jersey Shore…I’ve never seen the show but again, it’s a clone of garbage that a lot of people seem to eat up because they themselves have BAD TASTE IN EVERYTHING.
So the only thing, which happens to be EVERYTHING in recent times, that is popular is garbage. I guess if I took a dump right now, divide my deification up, sprinkle some flare and what is considered “popular” right now, and sell it. I could probably buy a few Lambos and set up a reality show called “Denver Mountains” and have someone on this forum make a thread about how awesome yet horrible the show is.
I’m still in disbelief that Lil’ Wayne was and still is successful. I hate the overall sound of his songs with a fiery passion…this dude sucks AND he looks like one of the bad Gremlins…like he’s Stripe’s cousin or somethin’.
Twitter – the concept is so mundane and shallow… I’m still thinking why in the world should anyone care about this? *Sidenote-- “Million’s” twitter page actually is not done by me.
King of the Hill – why did that bullshit last so long? The only funny thing I saw on the show was 2 of Hank’s friends…that guy that talks fast and the fat bald guy with the stupid look on his face. In fact, I’d watch a show where just those 2 guys get themselves into stupid situations. Maybe they should’ve been the real main characters.
From wayyy back—> Turn-based RPGs. I played the first Dragon Warrior back in the day and thought it was a joke game from Nintendo Power (they sent it to me for free, if I recall). The music was nice but come on… I have to select attack from a menu? Then… I don’t even get to SEE my character attack anything? Then… the cpu can simply decide “you missed…because I said so.”? Are you serious? Then… the reaction “animation” of the monster getting hit (when the cpu allows it) is just that the picture vibrates a little and the slime or whatever creature flashes red for a brief moment? Get outta here with that. Later on, you got games where the heroes meet some monsters but they all stand in formation…and ONE character jumps out at a time to swing at the air in front of their enemies. Come on, get the fuck outta here with that. This is supposed to be entertaining? You cannot be serious.
Beyblade— in all these years…would you believe this shit is STILL on the air with new episodes? It’s terrible in every possible way, but apparently kids love it, I guess.
I don’t hate Lil Wayne at all, and in 04-present he really stepped up his MC skills from the late 90s. Rap is full of garbage, so why should I be surprised that a half-decent rapper made it big? HOWEVER, I flipped my fuckin lid when I heard he was considered a sex symbol. Looks don’t mean shit to women, evidently.
the thing is it pretty much is. the makers of, asian ave, friendster, hi5, myspace all must be kicking themselves. They essentially had the same shit years before facebook was ever around.
Only difference is they allowed users with no webdesign knowledge or a single creative bone in their body to design their own pages. Now Myspace is the proud owner of many of the most ugliest pages to grace the internet. Oh and the spammers!
I have to agree 1000% with this post. There were some pages that were so fugly, that just turned you off completely. In a way, myspace made it more complicated for non-tech individuals to join the fun and super hard to find people that matter. If facebook goes down the road of myspace page customization, then you know it’s going to flop soon.
Facebook keeps redesigning their pages so that they can squeeze in more adds. I found out this morning that my profile will be changed over to the new design because I had not manually done so. On the new design a third of the page is taken up by paid ads. Facebook has become more business orientated, they now do business pages, and many business are already using fan pages as marketing tools.
As mentioned, facebook and Twitter. I was a big myspace user, and I didn’t think the lack of customization would catch on. It was easier to use, and so flourished. Twitter further simplified things…
Myspace is a ghost town now, so I fb all the time. I’ll never tweet though.
I didn’t expect it to blow up, the thought of combining everything onto one device sounded flawed.
Didn’t say I was right :arazz:, people don’t use it so much as an iPod as a phone with apps, and that was the disconnect to me. When I finally get one I won’t have much music at all on it.