'Asking for upgrades on flights. Man oh man, TikTok...messed this one up': The internet shares what's been ruined for them after it became popular

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Jan 6, 2023 11:00 AM EST

Once something is popular online, it's hard to undo the hype! On the r/askmen Reddit page, one person posed a great question: "What was ruined because to[o] many people started doing it?" 

Alongside all the joke answers of husbands declaring, "my wife," there are some interesting real answers! People shared in depth reasoning behind their answers – everything from the popularity of van life to the allure of thrift shopping. Due to the internet, and the fact that there are many billions of people on Earth now, it can seem like even the most low-key hobby will eventually be found out. 

Scroll down to see if you agree with these folks' popularity annoyances. Then, click here to read this influencer fail of a woman whose secrets got leaked to the world without her permission. 

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    Font - Roosted 13 3 days ago AirBNB 4.4k Reply Share Argentine Tango. 3 days ago Once upon a time that was my go to website whenever I traveled. Now, with all the added fees and 'experience' oriented stays, hotels are much cheaper. Plus, it's bad for the local housing market. It's still quite affordable in certain countries in Latin America, but I can never see myself using it in the US or Europe again.
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    Font - Illustrious-Sir6135 - 3 days ago S . Thrifting 5.9k Reply Share LysWritesNow. 3 days ago This one, big time. Checked out a local store I thrifted at a lot my first year of University (and first year living alone). That store saved me so much money and grief in 2013, but there's no way I could have afforded the current prices
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    Font - Old-Refrigerator340 3 days ago The retro game market has been destroyed by 'I know what I have' types and needless grading. Reply Share 483 Continue this thread → shadi1337 3 days ago D you Macklemore
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    Font - of 201 GrayBox1313. 3 days ago Male Not to mention eBay...everybody knows about collectibles now. Assume old comics, cards, toys, band shirts etc have value. Look it up and see. Some chains like goodwill even hold all that back and sell online only. The days of finding a vintage guitar, or comic are over
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    Font - The-Real-Nunya. 3 days ago Antiques Roadshow followed by all the pickers and pawn shop shows is to blame, everybody thinks they have something valuable because some flogger on the telly makes up b numbers and then buyers see value in crap so spend the money.
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    Font - Old Man_Robot 2 days ago . I remember, a couple of years ago, finding what I thought would have been a first edition print of the King in Yellow at a thrift store. It was in a bucket of books all labelled 50p each. When I brought it to the checkout, the guy at the desk googled it in front of me, then declined to sell it to me, as he could get a few hundred on eBay for it. I stopped going any thrift store after that.
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    Font - 00 TylerTalk 3 days ago Disneyland. I remember going during the week when I was a kid and it was empty. Now, the "slow" days are still extremely busy. Reply Share 4.1k Objective-Light-9019 3 days ago And they nickel and dime you for everything!
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    Font - Wild Samich 3 days ago Home flippers. They pay cash for every mediocre or slightly out of date house on the market. Many times their work is hot garbage and they try to hide any defect the house has but try their best not to fix it. Then they up the price so first time home buyers can't afford them. (S)
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    Font - galacticdude7. 3 days ago Male I recently was going through the house hunting process and you can always tell when a house is a flipped house, the kitchens and the bathrooms will all look nice in photos, but when you look closer you can tell it just was not done well, and there are always some structural issues in the basement that the flippers either tried to brush over or just outright ignored.
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    Font - 25 RallyX26 3 days ago Male I used to do theater work. Sl that had to be done as cheap as possible, as fast as possible, and look good from 40 feet away for no more than a month. When I started looking at houses, it was amazing how much of the work done by flippers was even worse than that. To the point where if I walked into a house and smelled fresh drywall mud, new grout and sawdust, I'd walk right back out.
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    Font - AKLmfreak 3 days ago. edited 3 days ago Buying houses as "investment properties". I moved to a new city to take a great new job. I bought a used travel trailer to live in while we got settled into my job and looked for a house. That was TWO years ago. I just want a home but every time I attend a showing or make an offer I'm outnumbered by "investors" who are basically the real-estate version of the seagulls from "Finding Nemo." 4.4k Reply Share ddh85 3 days ago Male Mine! Mine! Mine!
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    Font - _goose 3 days ago Investment properties need to be taxed into oblivion. Scare some wannabes off. as
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    Font - Wet_turtle_ 3 days ago content creators. I say this because now anyone with a working phone thinks they will become famous with their remade posts of others original posts. F stop, you've ruined so many songs, comic skits, movies and so on
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    There's a life hack for everything these days.

    Font - Mysterious-Skin69420 3 days ago The amount of people who will take an audio from tiktok, then post it elsewhere and try and pretend it was their original content is innumerable. Most notably the sound where someone will post a random video, mostly panning over some basic car, and at the end a woman in the background says hurts from last "my a night". Or also all the foreign " life hack" videos.
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    Font - Elegabalus 3 days ago I've heard Machu Picchu has become like Disney Land with a new group heading up every 15 minutes. I can't confirm but it was very disappointing to hear.
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    Human body - Alone Highway 2 days ago They don't know I follow Erica!
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    Anyone else immediately swipe away from this format?

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    Rectangle - 3 days ago Posting videos on this show with "Oh no" song. the f 1.6k Reply Share Jupiter642 2 days ago . oh no, oh no, oh *close video* oh no, oh *close video* ... if im fast enough
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    Human body - HavenIess 3 days ago As of tomorrow and for the next couple weeks, going to the gym
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    Even the popularity of certain foods can make them way more costly.

    Font - . 3 days ago Eating flank steak. That s be cheap. 471 Reply Share Re-lar-Kvothe 3 days ago And Oxtail... used to ...
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    Font - EponymousTitular. 3 days ago The Internet as a medium for communication and education. These days, every 14 year old with an iPhone is trying to become an influencer. Instead of thinkers, good communicators and authentic weirdos, the Internet is now full of people vying for attention from lonely nobodies. /GetOffMyLawn
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    Font - The HarryMan123 3 days ago I think the worst part is that nobody can do anything without somebody videotaping it somehow somewhere. Everywhere has a camera, everyone could identify you afterwards. Nothing is secret or private. There's gonna be another against the grain youth rebellion like the 80's/90's because you're not allowed to do anything at all anymore without being under a watchful eye
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    Font - Kevita24 3 days ago Hiking...pre Instagram I would go hiking in some pretty awesome spots and be virtually alone except for a few other hardcore hikers like myself, now there are hundreds of "influencers" and idiots playing backpack speaker music while taking pictures with selfie sticks...ugh
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    Goggles - sand-man11 3 days ago WTF is with back pack speakers 1). The best part of hiking is using all your senses. Smelling the leaves, seeing bugs and animals and hearing the sounds of water and birds 2). No one wants to hear your s music.
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    Font - Super_Swordfish_6948 Male The internet.
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    Font - MBananan 3 days ago Vanlife 311 Reply Share : gizmoglitch 3 days ago I doubt this would have taken off as a trend if we weren't in a housing crisis.
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    Font - Grand-Expression-493 3 days ago Vlogs. Before they were informative. Now it's about doing Costco runs, sharing tiny things about your private life and lame things like that.
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    Font - Fratervsoe 3 days ago . Social media
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    Mammal - VasquezNovh. 3 days ago Shoe collecting. All collecting hobbies really. Became the new hustle for everyone who doesn't actually care about these things.
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    Font - Northern_boah. 3 days ago Climbing Mt Everest. It was once an incredible feat which demonstrated the endurance, strength, and the determination of humanity to overcome impossible odds. Now it's become a expensive trap for people with way too much time on their hands and a lot of misplaced energy to spend months training to hike this one mountain in s conditions only to spend a few minutes at the top and then hike back down. Now I like hiking, i like mountaineering, and I think it's a grea
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    Font - experience. But Everest has gone from a unique achievement in humanity accomplishing the impossible even when it would be crazy to try, to a way for your friends cousin to go "yeah I did that thing that amazing too! Even tho I could have spent all that money and energy doing something else that would give me fulfilment and not, Y'know, polluting this sacred mountain with my trash and s while suffering thru miserable conditions."
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    Font - WatchingThe End. 3 days ago Any food that received the "foodie" treatment....burgers, cupcakes, donuts, etc.
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    Font - Man_Bear_Beaver 3 days ago . Male 40's I left one town because it grew too big, now the rural town I moved to random subdivisions are starting to pop up. Wanting to live a nice quiet life in the woods is being ruined by society.
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    Font - redundantPOINT. 3 days ago Photography. It used to be a specific skill that took talent and knowledge. It still is except now I can download and an app and make things that impress others.
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