Why is this on shitpost? I think it’s a perfectly valid hobby and it should be celebrated
The internet connects people
Submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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egeres@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That depends entirely on how he is acquiring the alarms.
RHSJack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah. I dont get it. It’s not my thing but I don’t judge if it doesn’t hurt anyone.
bouldering_barista@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I haven’t seen the video but my first impression (and likely other’s) is it’s similar to a tik-tok trend where people steal soap dispensers, break sinks, etc.
Having said that, it could just be a little click-baity and maybe he collects old or “retired” fire alarms, which would obviously be fine.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 4 days ago
No, but his neighbours do.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 4 days ago
These people are documenting the history of an important part of our infrastructure. One video from a channel in this community documented a 1970s home security system as he was contracted to remove it. It’s super fascinating learning how these things function and watching them be tested. Such content can also help a person get over fear of alarms!
The video: youtu.be/mwAFN1aSFjY
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I fear alarms because they hurt. It’s not like Spiders where learning more helps. I’ve been hurt by alarms hundreds of times in my life. Learning more isn’t going to help me fear them less.
daltotron@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How are you hurt by alarms? Noise, high voltage, the fear of the things they indicate, or something else? legitimately curious, never heard of this phobia before
Sneptaur@pawb.social 3 days ago
Ok
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Dude looks like he was animated by Pixar.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Like Syndrome without the suit
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He shopped out his lips.
SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 3 days ago
Absolute Chad.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The net brings us together but it also brings the waters and drama. I knew I knew this dude from something.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah that video essay is such a wild ride. I’m on the spectrum and I absolutely understand the emotional ties one can have to such esoteric hobbies, and how those emotions can twist relationships due to perceived slights and phantom insults.
Nobody hates Nerds like other Nerds.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m a Star Wars fan. Tell me about it.
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I did not expect to watch that whole thing but I’m really glad I did. Even teared up there at the end. Thanks for sharing.
menemen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Interesting how that channel found a new recipe for something popular. That channel might get big.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But then everything changed when the fire alarm community attacked.
Only the avatar can master all the alarm types, but when the wold needed him the most, he vanished. Years later he returned, and I believe he can finally save the world.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Leak, earthquake, fire, air quality.
Long ago, the four alarms lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire alarm went off.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I completely misread what kind of leak we were talking about.
LowlandSavage@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
What a FAG…
Fire Alarm Guy
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
why does the fire alarm look like an among us?
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He looks like the teen antagonist to a 2000s animated series
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 days ago
And that’s one of the best things that the internet actually did?
figjam@midwest.social 2 days ago
Yes and no. I don’t feel as alone in liking my little hobbies. On the other hand paranoid schizophrenics can collaborate on flat earth or what ever they are doing these days.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 days ago
It connected all the conspiracy weirdos too, fwiw.
BachenBenno@feddit.de 4 days ago
AMOGUS
sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Finally, someone sane.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It connects people alright, just not in the most benign ways
jettrscga@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Train spotting used to be the niche hobby.
We’ve come a long way. I don’t know which way, but here we are.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Actually, it was the train that has come the long way.
It just looks like you’re moving when you focus on the train, but you are in fact standing still while train spotting.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Anyone else think this was the “taking a selfie with a silly object” meme at first?
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How is it not?
downpunxx@fedia.io 4 days ago
I mean, did he rip those off from places where they were active? Cause that would be dangerous.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not as bad as my stop sign collection
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Doubt it. Alarms are usually acquired second-hand off eBay or given when they’re retired from service. Stealing an active alarm is both dangerous and extremely stupid.
Norgoroth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t know but literally what a dumb thing to collect
lauha@lemmy.one 3 days ago
Not dumber than any other collectible.
Norgoroth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I guess if you want to be the most annoying person in the neighborhood
aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t understand how anyone thinks any social media platform resembles a community.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’re currently posting in one…
aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah but that doesn’t mean I think it’s a “community” that I am “joining”.
Certainly by some definition of the word you can call these things communities just because that’s how language works. Using “community” in this way is so pervasive I laughingly recall a tech bro watch company calling the people that buy their watches a “community”.
But from the meaning of the word before the rise of social media, social media platforms and the loosely structured groups underneath that you “form” by “joining” (AKA sometimes just looking at a video or web page or something) them definitely don’t resemble nor replace a community.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Agree. Not every hobby and common trait is automatically a “community” nor should it be.
The tiny house community The pickleball community The eating ass community
etc.
Donkter@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Cancer says maybe
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Imagine how different the world was for people with super niche interests before the internet. Back then, this would have been seen as the weird (or at best eccentric) guy in your town who collects fire alarms and won’t stop talking about them. Now he’s presumably got a fulfilling social life via his unusual hobby, and an outlet to share his thoughts to a willing audience.
For all its many faults over the last decades, this is the pure internet at its best.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What’s crazy is that a lot of niche hobby/lifestyle people found eachother anyway pre-internet. Shopping cart drag races, downhill shovel events, a lot of counter culture movements, early body modification, all manner of shit. People get into some seriously wierd/niche/one-off stuff and given a little time, they’ll find someone else that’s into the same thing. It’s like electrons in a post big-bang universe, they sort of attract each other. The internet has made it way easier for people to find their tribes, but they used to find them anyway.
variants@possumpat.io 4 days ago
Now we can find communities and just passively partake
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Very good point! I imagine meeting someone in person and finding out they have the same unusual hobby would have been quite the thrill. I’m old enough to distinctly remember a world before the ubiquitous internet, but never had a super niche hobby to have given me that sort of experience.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sure, but the internet increased this interconnectivity by orders of magnitude.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is what “specialty interest” magazines and newsletters used to address. Whatever the hobby or interest, there is likely a dozen magazines specifically targeted to that audience.
Then the internet happened. Also, media conglomeration.
menemen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fanzines were huge in Germany for that reason.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 days ago
Maybe people didn’t frequently have weird hobbies before.
The way I see it internet widened enormously the diversity of knowledge we get to check. And that’s these weird rabbit holes online that create the similarly weird new hobbyist.
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
That’s a fair point but I suspect this has always been the case. I bet if we could go back to the prehistoric period we’d find someone saying, “Cronk found himself another dick-shaped leaf to add to his collection.” I’d almost think with less available to amuse them, people would be finding joy in all sorts of weird hobbies or collections.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Possibly. He hates the screenshot and wants everyone to stop posting it, though.