“They just don’t make things like they used to!” Sentences like this often elicit rolled eyes from kids and teens, especially if they heard their parents say it. But once you’re an adult, you realize that they’re totally right. Despite the fact that technology is supposedly advancing, it seems like everything around us is getting worse…
If you’re tired of your phone battery draining immediately, the quality of clothing being way worse than it was when you were a kid, and every company cutting corners to save money, you’ve come to the right place, pandas. Here’s a list of relatable (albeit depressing) photos from an online community that calls out products and services that companies have actively made worse over the years.
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#1 They're Editing Digital Books To Contain Ads Now
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#2 Anyone Still Watching The News?
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#3 Enshittification And Corporate Greed Are Coming For Every Industry
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#4 Self Checkout
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#5 This Is Painful
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#6 The Enshittification Of Our Brains On Chatgpt
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#7 Can't Even Do My Laundry Without Dealing With This Nonsense
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#8 EU Huge Step On Protection Of Consumers
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#9 I Can’t Delay Start My Dishwasher Without An App, And The App Sends Me Advertisements
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#10 We've Reached A New Low, Ads On The Sinks In The Gym Bathroom
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#12 Purchased Movies Will No Longer Be Accessible, Thanks Sony!
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#13 When Digital Menus Randomly Change To A 30s Advert, Making The Menu As A TV Pointless
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#14 Hp Forces You To Replace Your Ink Cartridges After Canceling Your Subscription
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#15 What A Time To Be Alive
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#16 Reddit Now Shows Ads That Look Like Comments
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#17 They Knew What They Were Doing
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#18 It Gets Worse. They Posted This And It Turns Out The Guy Gave The Money To The Person Who Lost It
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#19 He's 76 Years Old Man
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#20 When Did Hotels Get So Much Worse?
Pictured above- hotel removed refrigerator. I travel a bunch for work, although I’m currently an unpaid intern. I’ve noticed how much worse hotels have gotten in the last few years. Some of the stuff I’ve seen in the last few months include-
$25 charge every time you want to use a luggage cart
$16 a day for Wi-Fi, $20 a day for decent wi-fi
$20 a day for parking in a non-urban area
Removal of ice machines
No ability to do your own laundry on site
I need all of the above- and all of this seems pretty standard for a mid-priced hotel. Apparently not anymore. Now I’m just sad that my leftover Italian food I had for late night work is going to go bad.
$25 charge every time you want to use a luggage cart
$16 a day for Wi-Fi, $20 a day for decent wi-fi
$20 a day for parking in a non-urban area
Removal of ice machines
No ability to do your own laundry on site
I need all of the above- and all of this seems pretty standard for a mid-priced hotel. Apparently not anymore. Now I’m just sad that my leftover Italian food I had for late night work is going to go bad.
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#21 This Thinly Veiled Gambling Bull Directed At Kids
I know the "collect em all" tactic has been around since baseball cards but these godforsaken balls taking over toy aisle are especially egregious IMO. And expensive.
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#22 The Visible Difference Between Old And New Pyrex
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#23 Every Platform Speedrunning Its Own Downfall
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#24 No It Doesn't
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#25 Cottonelle What Are You Doing Babygirl
Left is old TP from another brand, right is new Cottonelle. I wonder if I'd have even noticed unless I saw them side by side like this inadvertently. Good luck to you if you have large hands, some of your fingers may be participating as well.
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#26 Imagine If Everything Else Kept Up
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#27 I Guess They Could Just Stare At The Wall?
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#28 Electronic Shelf Labels May Use Your Data Profile To Make You Pay Different Prices
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#29 Can We Go Back To The Old Internet?
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#30 Youtube Is Now Blocking Vpns
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#31 Mounds Don’t Even Use Real Chocolate Anymore
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#32 My Premium Spotify Runs Out Of Audiobook Listening Hours…
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#33 Wait…we Are Now Only Allowed To See 8 Cherry-Picked Reviews, And Can No Longer Sort By “Most Recent” Or Filter By Star-Rating? [why?] Is Happening?
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#34 Google Search: The Word "Crumble" Is Now Being Treated As A Misspelling Of "Crumbl" As In The Cookie Chain
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#35 TSA Gets In On The Grift
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#36 Has Anyone Else Noticed That Non-Scratch Sponges Start Disintegrating Immediately Now?
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#37 $9 For This…
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#38 Bandaids Look Like They Are Deteriorating After Just A Couple Of Hours
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#39 From "My Computer" To "This PC"
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#40 Tyson Chicken Tenders From Costco = More Than Half Breading Bits
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#41 Take A Feature Away And Sell It Back To Me In The Same Email, Really Tivo?
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#42 24 Hour Fitness Had The Biggest Fall Off.... I Miss Swimming, Sauna, Basketball At 1am
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#44 Even Reportoftheweek Is Feeling It
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#45 Amazon Enshittification
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#46 The Ice Cream Keeps Getting Smaller Without Updating The Picture
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#47 Youtube Is Spiraling
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#48 Sorry I'll Be Late To Work I Had To Update My Doorbell
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#49 Psa: Rosetta Stone Is "Bricking" Permanent Licenses To Force Users Into Subscriptions
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#50 Dickies Has Lost The Plot
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#52 Wendy's Interior - They Just Remodeled In The Last Year Or So
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#54 Everything Is A Scam Now
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#55 Removed "No Preservatives" And Changed Real Fruit To Whole Fruit Whatever That Means
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#56 Mcdonald’s Ending Self-Serve Soda Machines Nationwide
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#57 Sweethearts Are Barely Legible
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#58 My Local Panera Removed Almost All The Outlets And Replaced Them With Blanking Plates So You Can't Charge Your Phone Or Laptop
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#59 Youtube Has Entirely Removed Dislikes On Shorts And Replaced The Like Button With A Heart Button
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#60 Breyers’ Cookies & Cream Is Not Ice Cream
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#61 F! Jimmy John’s!!
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#62 Dawn Dish Soap Is Now A Runny Cloaca Instead Of A Tight Controlled Dispensing Hole
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#63 I Will Never Forgive Sony And Crunchyroll For This
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#64 Ritz Crackers Now Made With Peanut Butter Flavored Filling Instead Of, Idk, Just Peanut Butter?
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#65 McDonald's App Won't Let You Stay Logged In Now If You've Disabled Ad Tracking
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#66 No Way To Pause TV For Details Anymore
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#67 Bic Lighters
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