After a pair of failed attempts to try and squeeze a yearender blog out of my brain, I just decided to scrap the entire thing and just go with more of a stream of consciousness thing.
But yeah, I did skip more than a year of blogging, and to tell you quite frankly, I did miss it. :P
Anyways, this one is about pet peeves, mainly the things I have unfortunately seen on the net, and this will be a short list since I'm not really in any shape for long-form writing right now. So here we go..
- I dislike reading things where people write "y'all" all the time, even if they are presumably not American. This goes double for those grown, fully educated people who start off their discussions with this, thereby showing off their inner hillbilly. Whatever happened to proper language? You can call me a grammar nazi all you want, but that won't change the fact that you are either too lazy to write properly, or too stupid to care.
- Equally annoying are those people (presumably children) who comment "i'm wheezing". I mean, really? 🙄 Because if you are, its either you go grab your nebulizer or bring your ass to the ER. As a lung doc, I take wheezing very seriously, and some patients live in total dread of it. So stop making light of a potentially important symptom and learn to react properly to those dumb videos you are watching.
- Short form vids are temporarily, amusing, but when you take a step back and think about it, these are just absolute wastes of time, especially those that show randos doing stupid dances that nobody really cares about (apart from other similarly inclined randos who have nothing better to do with their lives). The focus today on generating content for just the views, likes, and subscriptions have ruined Youtube. Instead of a great repository of interesting discussions, in=depth investigations, or well-made entertainment, it has become just a total dump of random pathetic people putting in anything and everything just to glue your eyeballs to the screen. You still get the serious content, but sometimes these get lost amidst all the trash. The sad thing is that this is here to stay, since the conceited nature of humans makes it impossible to wean people off the desire for attention.
- Comments sections in general. I miss the days when skimming through the comments section exposes a person to lively civil discussions. Now it is dominated by bots, spammers, and trashy individuals (mostly children who don't know better and probably never will). The anonymity of the web has emboldened cowardly assholes with worthless and oftentimes misleading opinions. I wonder how many of these individuals would actually have the guts to say what they wrote in an actual face-to-face conversation. (So yeah, I don't read random comments sections now)
- There are way too many vlogs made by way too many untalented people with nothing good to say or have zero skills in putting their ideas forward. These people are just obviously in it for the money and should not be rewarded for their pathetic attempts at content creation.
Wow, that got very real very quick. I guess I had so much pent up frustrations that I needed to air out.
This felt great, I should do a part two another time.
