Comment on Anon on hobby communities

Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you’re mistaken about the tiktok thing, but okay. I’ve seen it play out in real time. The whole platform thrives on making/discovering a niche and plumbing it for as much content as you can. Pinterest also plays into that. I also think blaming it on a generation thing isn’t accurate, its just ‘old man yells at cloud’ instead of bringing substantial analysis to a discussion.

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