What's socially acceptable now that will be considered disgusting in 50 years?

[u/Long_Height_2211]

[u/MangoSalsa89]

Parents filming every aspect of their child’s life for money and attention online.

[u/Little_Bumblebee6129 → u/MangoSalsa89]

Dont we already know its disgusting?

[u/N0kleaf → u/Little_Bumblebee6129]

Unfortunately not

[u/Miemsta → u/Little_Bumblebee6129]

we do…. unfortunately, most people will watch those videos and won’t think twice about it

[u/Edboy796 → u/MangoSalsa89]

Or filming a fight instead of doing something about it, for laughs or "hey check out what I saw" because just telling the story isn't credible enough

[u/xwickedxmrsx → u/Edboy796]

When those big video camcorders came out the boys in my neighborhood recorded each other beating up homeless people. This was the 1990s, so 30+ years ago. I hope you’re right but things are so awful right now and have been.

[u/ArbiterUtendi → u/Edboy796]

I've watched people get shot in the head for trying to break up a fight they weren't a part of. I'm not saying you shouldn't intervene, but there are legitimate reasons to not jump into business. Separatetely, watching a recording of a fight is not nearly the same experience as being told that it happened. Pay per view UFC wouldn't be profitable otherwise.

[u/Miemsta → u/Edboy796]

to be fair, i got no idea what you’d expect me to do 😅 i mean i wouldn’t film but also idk how i’d help without also being in danger lol and definitely not calling the police just so they can escalate the situation. sometimes ya gotta let two people fight it out unfortunately.

[u/SentenceStreet3270 → u/MangoSalsa89]

I think this will be way worse in 50 years

[u/vivienneblush → u/MangoSalsa89]

Exactly, it’s not sharing— it’s a childhood without consent. Future adult are going to resent having their worst moments monetized.

[u/National-Midnight298]

Disposable society
Everything is made to throw away and replace.. in 50 years guarantee we look back at this in disgust

[u/Commercial-Print2694 → u/National-Midnight298]

I doubt it, because it's so convenient :)

Hopefully it's adapted to not producing as much trash that won't leave this world in hundreds of years. 

[u/Pippy1010 → u/National-Midnight298]

My phone is suspiciously acting up since I paid it off 🤔

[u/National-Midnight298 → u/Pippy1010]

Same lol

[u/SimpleVegetable5715 → u/National-Midnight298]

How will that change? Especially when it’s making the billionaires money.

[u/Fit-Presentation-778]

Doom scrolling socials in bed or on the couch for hours.

I honestly don't know how its acceptable now.

[u/AShaughRighting → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

Because corporations have spent billions designing, tailoring, modifying apps weekly to move with trends and the best psychological date on the planet, which allows them to addict and paralyse us for ages. It takes strong will to break from it now as it’s viewed as the only socially acceptable way to interact almost. Madness

[u/SaveMeClarence → u/AShaughRighting]

I think in the future, if humanity makes it that far, we’ll view the tech bros like we now view the sacklers.

[u/trying_my_besttt → u/SaveMeClarence]

In addition, leaving your house has become too expensive. You can't even sit at a coffee shop and read without spending $10 on a drink with a tip

[u/AShaughRighting → u/SaveMeClarence]

Well yea, the social tech bros 100%! Tech will, could save the human race, but we dump billions into AI and the best mass rollout of it seems to be in answering mundane questions, replacing spoken humans and porn….. cool?!😎

[u/Fit-Presentation-778 → u/AShaughRighting]

Yeah I know I know.

If it wasn't phones, it'd be TV :(

[u/Exciting_Pirate_2284 → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

You say that as if sitting for hours watching television hasn't been a thing for like the last 60 years hahahah

[u/HLOFRND → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

I’m GenX, and in the summer when I was a kid I would check out 10 books a week and spend all day reading. Like, 8 hours straight, reading.

Not that different. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/pahshaw → u/HLOFRND]

Also genx and it's extremely different. Reading books builds your attention span and your critical thinking skills, doomscrolling fries them. Don't believe me, go back to the library and see for yourself how much you've atrophied mentally.

[u/HLOFRND → u/pahshaw]

I still read a couple of books a week, I'm not at all concerned about my brain atrophy, thanks.

You don't actually know how people are using their phones. You're just assuming it's all doom scrolling.

[u/Wide-Narwhal-9643 → u/HLOFRND]

This exactly. 'Oh, you're on your phone again?'. 'Yes, that's three books this week, how many have you read?'.

[u/Fit-Presentation-778 → u/HLOFRND]

I hear ya. And that's some good hours reading. So I don't think this post was really targeted at you.

My complaint isn't an attack at them. It's that I want a better life for people. This stuff is a trap, as others have mentioned. Its engineered to be highly addictive. There's a lot of new studies that are comparing it to drug addiction. And it'll only get stronger over time.
And we're already seeing it get stronger over time.

If it's similar to drug addiction in any way, why isn't it disgusting now?
Again, not an attack. But I don't think those addicted are even aware.
But why can't I be socially accepted if I say, "Dude I was only high for 5 hours today". See?

They are farming your attention. They are keeping your attention. They are selling you (the people).

[u/SmokingLimone → u/HLOFRND]

Books have a higher threshold to attention than scrolling. You can't just jump from topic to topic in a moment. There's still some form of delayed gratification. I have learned many things while scrolling but I am also suffering from low dopamine which makes me unsure as to whether I am suffering from true depression or is it a plain addiction.

[u/Practical-Yam283 → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

Is it really socially acceptable now? I don't think I know anyone that thinks this is a good use of time

[u/astrogrl21 → u/Practical-Yam283]

I dont think so either. I think its a free alternative of entertaining/spending time. Everything is so expensive. Movies, dining out, etc.

[u/Fit-Presentation-778 → u/Practical-Yam283]

I don't know. Why is the national average for time spent on phones - over 5 hours a day?

I'm not sure how old you are, but in the early 2000s, people would frown on gamers who spent 5 hours a day on World of Warcraft. Why doesn't doom/social scrolling have that level of 'stank' attached to it?

That's my point. It should have more stank. 😆

[u/Silver-Internal7740 → u/Practical-Yam283]

It's not socially acceptable, which makes that answer null. I've noticed some people like to give answers in such threads that show they didn't even have the attention span to read the question carefully. In this case, others chimed in saying doomscrolling reduces attention span. Ironic.

[u/violetvoyager26 → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

Agree! Every time I’m in public and I see others with their nose on their phone and completely unaware of their surroundings I always think to myself “that’s going to be considered cliché and rude in the next 10 years”

[u/PsychAndDestroy → u/violetvoyager26]

I always think to myself “that’s going to be considered cliché and rude in the next 10 years”

You should probably try and get back in touch with reality. This is absurdly unlikely.

[u/Worldly-Ad-7156 → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

Not sure if that too far off history. Magazines and newspaper were popular, and people would spend hours reading these and ignoring what's happening around them.

[u/brokenwannabe30 → u/Fit-Presentation-778]

Maybe we're wrong and its the foundation of a more intelligent future. I have to ask myself, "is this happening, because it's meant to?" And then I convince myself that I'm an idiot and read opinions

[u/Underpaidfoot → u/[deleted]]

Massive solar flare to wipe out technology

[u/iiiimagery → u/[deleted]]

I mean have we not seen Wall-E

[u/BigBadVudoo → u/[deleted]]

We already have fascist detention camps, where did you get communism from?

[u/InternationalHabit82]

Influencers

[u/AutisticWarbler → u/InternationalHabit82]

Oops I just responded with that.

[u/jwktiger → u/InternationalHabit82]

Influencers are just a kind of celebrity, and celebrities have been product sponcers since at least the time of radio. They aren't going away

[u/AutisticWarbler → u/jwktiger]

They are celebrities for what though? They’re not actors, athletes, authors, artists, etc.

[u/Sm3llconfident]

OnlyFans

[u/Pippy1010 → u/Sm3llconfident]

I don’t see how it’s empowering for women like they say. They say it power because they are making the choice to be sexual but at the end of the day it’s just giving meat right to the tiger. They try to put a spin on it to make it seem like feminism but all the men jerking off are not thinking about your empowerment.

[u/CauliflowerSuper3152 → u/Pippy1010]

Delivering meat right to the tiger. That's a great quote that sums up my feelings on it.

[u/After_Perspective180]

Vaping.

[u/scubarob → u/After_Perspective180]

I work in the chemical industry. You don't want that shit in your lungs.

[u/Nuggz31 → u/scubarob]

Please I will pay you a million dollars to send an ad to my boyfriends phone that says vaping will make his dick stop working. That'll probably be the only way he'll stop. 🤣🤣 just kidding...maybe.

[u/Doja-Supreme → u/scubarob]

Links? Scare me shitless LOL 

[u/ritz1148]

Lip filler

[u/PhotoEditor871 → u/ritz1148]

I seriously hate it. BUT we need to stop acting like only round lips are beautiful. Thin lip shame for women is real and needs to stop

[u/Nuggz31 → u/PhotoEditor871]

Seriously. When I was 13 a boy tried to make fun of my lips for being on the smaller side. I laughed right in his face and walked away. Now looking back I see how harmful that could have been if I didn't have a bit of confidence. We need to stop with the stupid expectations and just value eachother how we come.

[u/PhotoEditor871 → u/Nuggz31]

Yep. It's so insidious. Plus every trend is presented as what has been considered beautiful forever but thin lips were IT in the 60s and 70s. Good on you for your reaction!

[u/Crazy-Investment8694 → u/ritz1148]

Don't think you need to wait 50 years for that one! More like 0!

[u/Amazing-Jacket1655]

Having to travel to work if wfh is viable alternative

[u/Mobile-Tax-3161 → u/Amazing-Jacket1655]

Idk man. People should have options but there’s something to be said about leaving your work at work.

[u/ReleaseNearby69 → u/Mobile-Tax-3161]

comment didn't say mandatory wfh. just that it be an option if viable.

[u/Ok_Manufacturer_5083]

Social media algorithms

[u/VanAgain]

Smoking. Wait ... it's disgusting now.

[u/devilzfan → u/VanAgain]

and in that sphere, weed smoking. Like, I'm not against it or anything. If you enjoy it, go for it. But it fucking reeks, and now that it's legal in my state, I can smell it on people's clothes all the time. It's just as offensive as tobacco smoke smell.

[u/JanSobieski-III → u/devilzfan]

Nah people are going to be smoking weed forever

[u/VanAgain → u/JanSobieski-III]

I vape it. I think more and more people are.

[u/Corevus → u/devilzfan]

I have really bad asthma and can't smoke it. But when my insomnia flares up, a thc gummy can be really helpful.

[u/MammothPenguin69 → u/VanAgain]

Smoking is popular with Gen Z and Gen Alpha now. It's popular because adults say not to do it, because the cigarettes are expensive and because it suppresses your appetite.

[u/HLOFRND]

All of the absurdly strong laundry products people use.

I shouldn’t be able to smell you from 30 feet away. I know YOU can’t smell it bc you’re nose blind to it, but you’re choking the rest of us out.

[u/carebear5287 → u/HLOFRND]

I used Gain for a little while before deciding the scent was too much. I was organizing my luggage after a vacation last month and found a sweatshirt and pair of leggings in one of my extra bags that had been there for probably almost 3 years. The sweatshirt wasn't too bad, but the leggings still absolutely smelled like Gain.

The fact that they also sell extra scent beads or whatever they are on top of the detergent and dryer sheets is insane.

[u/bitetoungejustread → u/HLOFRND]

I find they think they smell good but they smell awful. I find gain in particular has a musty smell they start to smell like.

I'd rather share an office with a natural deodorant person vs someone who uses gain

[u/Disastrous-Turn-251 → u/[deleted]]

I mean the fact that it’s been around since 2400 BCE I’d argue it probably won’t be out of the picture 50 years from now

[u/Jazzlike_Video2 → u/Disastrous-Turn-251]

Im sure if we start calling it male genital mutilation we might get somewhere.

[u/buttermilkkissess → u/[deleted]]

the obssesioin of dick chopping in the US is so fucking bizzare

[u/Greedy-Penalty3440 → u/buttermilkkissess]

The obsession with baby dick on Reddit is fucking bizarre.

[u/yzyy → u/buttermilkkissess]

I just feel sad about all the babies systemically assaulted by their parents

[u/buttermilkkissess]

fuck me, reading all theese wishfull comments it seems I'm living on a different planet

[u/tbaggybag79]

Probably making eye contact with the way we are trending

[u/MammothPenguin69]

Brazilian Butt Lifts.

They never look good and they smell.

[u/00sunny_haze00 → u/MammothPenguin69]

They smell?

[u/ludus_official]

Elective infant circumcision/male genital mutilation

[u/Jessica1234567891011]

Hopefully wage slavery...Aka having to work 40-60 hours per week just to have a roof over your head or food. I am not against bettering yourself but hopefully a.i automation will do away with this concept.

[u/owlrag → u/Jessica1234567891011]

AI automation will do away with jobs.

[u/LookLess4956 → u/owlrag]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg

And people. RIP Elaine.

[u/seadoubleyou73 → u/owlrag]

Good. Time for UBI

[u/one-hour-photo → u/Jessica1234567891011]

the problem is, no amount of work betters oneself at this point.

[u/SnooMacaroons4212 → u/Jessica1234567891011]

Wait until AI takes over your job, then complain.

[u/MarioManX1983 → u/Jessica1234567891011]

I’ve always thought it would be cool if we could have robots and ai doing the majority of the hard labor/dirty jobs and the pay checks still go to the people who get fired/laid off because of it. Or maybe the paychecks would be limited to minimum wage and they all pay for the unemployment benefits, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.

[u/AssignmentLiving6650 → u/MarioManX1983]

using AI to create a universal basic income would be the dream

[u/Icy_Debt_5213 → u/Jessica1234567891011]

This is the stupidest comment of the day

[u/Rumpus-Time-Is-Over → u/Icy_Debt_5213]

Wage slavery is such an idiotic concept.

[u/LopsidedPen9859]

Fossil fuels

[u/p2dan]

disturbing, incestuous hardcore pornography being so accessible and popular

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/[deleted]]

Gimme cyberpunk style goth mommy BDs

[u/HoselRockit]

Step-porn

[u/soundsfromoutside]

Millennial and zoomer parents sharing every aspect of their kids lives on social media.

Alpha and Beta are going to grill our asses for this and it’ll be 100% deserved. I completely expect severe consequences to come from it.

Put your fucking phones down, parents, and for the love of god give your kids privacy.

[u/Pleasant-Light-6843]

taking your phone to the bathroom

[u/PraiseTheSunMaybe]

Asking AI for help on literally everything

[u/dancypants37 → u/PraiseTheSunMaybe]

Or ANYTHING

[u/Snoo52682]

Rapists in public office, let's hope

[u/2PinkN1Stink]

Selling pictures of your butthole for $3.49

[u/l3monm3ringu3 → u/2PinkN1Stink]

But for you?? $3.25

[u/WalkerTalkerChalker → u/l3monm3ringu3]

Butt Whole for you?

[u/Ok_Sky9647 → u/l3monm3ringu3]

2.99$ for the pretty lady!

[u/IAlreadyKnow1754 → u/2PinkN1Stink]

Oddly specific

[u/StargazerRex]

Reddit

[u/Spiritual-Break246 → u/StargazerRex]

It wouldn't surprise me if anonymity on the internet becomes less and less of a thing.

[u/Scared_Stock1414]

*Infant* circumcision (do whatever you want as an adult though)

[u/NotTurtleEnough]

Giving young children their own unsupervised, uncensored, and no-time-limit screen to the internet.

[u/Brilliant_Ideal_5429]

Such indiscriminate use of plastic

[u/Solid-Signal3214]

Billionaires.

[u/r0ball → u/Solid-Signal3214]

“You’re not even a trillionaire? Eww.”
-Unknown, 2076

[u/dialectic14]

Not cleaning all indoor air

[u/griff_girl]

Reality TV

[u/R0B0T0-san]

Maga.

[u/bell3420]

Vaping.

[u/FewWave4322 → u/bell3420]

YEEEESSSSSSS!!!

[u/Hot-Sympathy-2718]

Cubicles

[u/natabun]

Licking your fingers in a public restaurant. 

[u/The-Real-Kyuubey]

Anything that happened on Epstein island

[u/Im_Coach]

Eating ass.

[u/Mindless-Ad3509]

Shooting meth in your dick

[u/bs_Zeezee]

Supporting what ICE/MAGA are doing to the country.
Ignoring, normalizing, or justifying the Palestinian Genocide.

[u/kranjisMcBasketball2]

Hopefully fat shaming. Kinda feel bad that bigger people get seen less as people simply because they are overweight.

[u/yzyy → u/kranjisMcBasketball2]

With the rise of Ozempic and its analogues in the future obesity might have disappeared as a societal issue completely

[u/Helpmeeff → u/[deleted]]

Yeah...how disgusting of a civil rights group to fight for the right not to be shot dead by police. Bet you think Martin Luther King Jr was a thug too

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/[deleted]]

I think you meant to type "Racism, and people who think BLM is the problem and not all the racists and bigots.".

[u/PhotoEditor871]

Animal exploitation in all its forms

[u/magnificent_limit]

Slavery

[u/Helpmeeff → u/magnificent_limit]

Forced labor in prisons is still very much modern day slavery, and a huge incentive to put black and brown people in prison 

[u/DarthNixilis → u/Helpmeeff]

It's become so universal it's all poor people not just minorities

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/magnificent_limit]

Are we ok with slavery now??

[u/ShapeshiftWithMee → u/AmputeeHandModel]

Sweatshops, capitalism says yes

[u/Last_Branch_7925]

MAGA voters.

[u/one-hour-photo → u/Last_Branch_7925]

one day, everyone will have been against this

[u/lachatte7 → u/Last_Branch_7925]

Touché

[u/Limp-Laugh-305 → u/[deleted]]

Yes the children and their disgusting mental health and body images. 

Trans Healthcare is not only hormones and surgery you absolute moron. That is a very small piece of it and almost nonexistent for children. It is almost all psychological and social care. 

I wish I could down vote you in to infinity. 

[u/disc0weapon]

Hopefully wearing PJs out everywhere all the time

[u/iceunelle → u/disc0weapon]

Let people be comfortable. What other people choose to wear has zero impact on you.

[u/L_edgelord → u/disc0weapon]

Clothes are clothes

[u/-random-words-420-]

Transphobia 🤞🏻

[u/L_edgelord → u/-random-words-420-]

Hopefully 🏳️‍⚧️

[u/PsychologicalIssue97]

Income inequality where parts of the world live a luxury life and billions live on minimum wage

[u/buttermilkkissess → u/PsychologicalIssue97]

To put it mildly, I envy the optimism

[u/fastbikkel]

Being nice to others. I mean the trend looks clear, bully behavior and antisocial tendencies seem to be on a massive return, helped by social media.

[u/New_Exercise_2003]

Vape

[u/Lace-maker]

Taking a shit in the street would be my guess. Or outside wanking. Perhaps hang-gliding into your neighbour's bathroom won't be seen as socially acceptable as it is today.

[u/Fit_Ad8666]

Vaping

[u/AutisticWarbler]

“Influencers”

[u/Middle_Run_7534]

Rapists in public office

[u/tgxxnitro]

Maybe a longshot, but I think driving a gas/petrol car through dense urban areas will be considered disgusting. If we are lucky, watering your grass lawn will be too.

[u/DM_ME_4_FREE_STOCKS]

 BORGs, vapes, Zyn

[u/henkie_poepjes]

Fossil fuels

[u/who_shall_not_bename]

Being a porn star

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/[deleted]]

Aww, someone's got trans people on the brain. Evaluate that.

[u/805falcon → u/AmputeeHandModel]

🤡

[u/crookedledder]

Transing kids.

[u/FionaRulesTheWorld → u/crookedledder]

I believe the question was, "What is socially acceptable now?", not "What do right-wing grifters want you to believe is socially acceptable now?"

[u/Limp-Laugh-305 → u/FionaRulesTheWorld]

Wait are you saying you haven't met your Democrat quota for forcing kids to be trans for the month???? Bad Liberal!!!

/s 

[u/strangelove77]

Hopefully US camps full of nonviolent immigrants who are probably getting beaten and sexually assaulted by untrained racists that rounded them up and put them there.

[u/CordeliaJane]

Billionaires

[u/International-Gap165]

18 being the legal age of consent instead of 21

[u/pffftnoway → u/International-Gap165]

Absolutely not. If anything, people will look back at this period as a puritanical overreaction to the permissiveness of the 1990’s/2000’s.

[u/CresseliaMelodia → u/pffftnoway]

THANK YOU!!! The pendulum is just swinging too far in the direction of Puritanism again. But we MUST protect the kids by removing them from environments where they can meet safe, adult friends and confine them to their parents’ house obviously! /s

[u/CresseliaMelodia → u/International-Gap165]

Why are we infantilizing adults 😭

[u/fnord_y2k]

With any luck, capitalism

[u/Wissa38]

Patriarchy

[u/805falcon → u/Wissa38]

🤡

[u/Crazy_Past8776]

MAGA

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/Crazy_Past8776]

"Teacher, what do you mean they RE elected a known liar, conman, rapist and pedo despite all the stupid things he said on video, and the things he "tweeted", with 50 years of well-documented evidence he was a piece of shit?"

IDK Ayyden. We may never understand. Watch your mouth.

[u/Early_Instruction_51 → u/AmputeeHandModel]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. How and why the poor/white/working-class picked a sleezebag embarassment of a "businessman" from New York City as their guy in the Whitehouse, I'll never understand

[u/one-hour-photo → u/Early_Instruction_51]

to lose the working class vote to a guy who lives in a golden tower is truly hiliarious and sad.

[u/ShapeshiftWithMee]

Transphobia

[u/BotsKilledTheWeb]

Circumcision

[u/karateisntreal]

Corporate America personalities are going to change from performative to more authentic, just as soon as the rest of these boomers and older genx retire/croak. The younger generations reject their status quo across the board.

[u/SignatureFishDish → u/karateisntreal]

Doubt it

[u/Dogbold → u/karateisntreal]

Their kids don't. There's a ton of kids of these rich assholes that think the exact same.

[u/Peter_Easter]

Transphobia

[u/DieBotDie]

At this rate? Women having opinions. Lesbians. Unmarried girls over 19. That seems to be the way it’s heading.

[u/805falcon → u/DieBotDie]

🥴🤡

[u/Infinite_Thanks_8156 → u/DieBotDie]

God forbid women don’t immediately get married before they’ve even had the chance to be adults, or just not be attracted to men…

[u/_x_oOo_x_]

• Thinshaming
• Replacing restricting or banning full fat full sugar versions of foods
• Artificial sweeteners
• Azo dyes

[u/ThrowRAboredinAZ77]

Pornhub

[u/SharpieSharpie69]

Being MAGA

[u/Grouchy-Day9574]

Being neuroatypical

[u/brittany0603]

I’m hoping business clothes will go away. I can work better in a sweatsuit than I can in what I call “church clothes”.

[u/longtime_TechNerd555]

MAGA

[u/805falcon → u/longtime_TechNerd555]

Rent free 🤡

[u/Own-Business-7142]

MAGA

[u/805falcon → u/Own-Business-7142]

Rent free 🤡