Late to the party - Anything that makes you roll your eyes when someone tells you or talks about something beyond outdated.

[She Beetle]

Nothing wrong with them at all, it's when people start cracking them 15 years later like it's a brand new thing.

I've very surprised I haven't heard somebody making that skyrim reference by this point, it's old enough now to make an appearance

Tbf I never listen to radio because the chart music is unbearable, only have it on at work for 80s tunes.

This website has a multiquote feature so you can quote posts as you're scrolling, and avoid double posting.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

The best example of this that comes to mind is this Wendy's ad. This retarded shit came out in 2015, 6 years after the heyday of the "like a boss" meme on 4chan, and 3-4 years after it was spammed daily on sites like 9gag.

wendys_meme_commercial.mp4

Makes one think, what kind of creators do they hire. I mean, particularly good or at least good kind of bad and catchy slogans and ads are remembered decades later even when the product doesn't exist anymore and nobody knows what was the ad even for. Imagine being such a shit-tier marketer, that you have to steal, kill and monetize already existing memes.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

Resident Evil. Just because my autism found it "late" doesn't mean it's not cool anymore.

Also. Later gen 2-D pokemon games.

 

[Grub]

Tbf I never listen to radio because the chart music is unbearable, only have it on at work for 80s tunes.

That's why I say you must be young. Being in the car back in the day was pretty much either tapes or radio. Such things as Bluetooth and aux cables didn't exist and when CDs were common, it was CDs and radio. It was around the late 2000's early 2010's when I noticed most people had kind of stopped putting the radio on all the time in the car.

 

[Toolbox]

That's why I say you must be young. Being in the car back in the day was pretty much either tapes or radio. Such things as Bluetooth and aux cables didn't exist and when CDs were common, it was CDs and radio. It was around the late 2000's early 2010's when I noticed most people had kind of stopped putting the radio on all the time in the car.

Radio slowly died due to the option of using your own media, but it's not really all that. How many stations that could be owned under one entity got deregulated in the 90s in the U.S., which was promoted of course as somehow enhancing competition, but it just lead to one company gobbling up many stations, and the advent of digital satellite radio meant that they could just end up killing off local stations anyways to stream the same few dozen stations nationwide under a subscription. Radio has objectively less variety now because of this.

 

[Grub]

Radio slowly died due to the option of using your own media, but it's not really all that. How many stations that could be owned under one entity got deregulated in the 90s in the U.S., which was promoted of course as somehow enhancing competition, but it just lead to one company gobbling up many stations, and the advent of digital satellite radio meant that they could just end up killing off local stations anyways to stream the same few dozen stations nationwide under a subscription. Radio has objectively less variety now because of this.

Everything you say in your post is true. Radio stations used to be unique. Every single station was different. They had different announcers, different playlists and as you travelled along and picked up new stations all of those would be different too and usually it was all live. Now everything's prerecorded and 100 radio stations across north America will all be playing the exact same thing at the exact same time.

The local radio station where I live closed down not too long ago. It wasn't the greatest station and played mostly softer oldies stuff but when the station closed down we didn't lose the radio station. It's just now plays the same content as the radio stations for a bunch of small towns around the province. It doesn't even have local news any more.

 

[KuntyFukLugs]

That's why I say you must be young. Being in the car back in the day was pretty much either tapes or radio. Such things as Bluetooth and aux cables didn't exist and when CDs were common, it was CDs and radio. It was around the late 2000's early 2010's when I noticed most people had kind of stopped putting the radio on all the time in the car.

Depends how young you're thinking. I was born mid 90's so back then it was either radio or CD's, tapes were deffo gone. Like I said the current music is some of the worst I've heard. This is why I listen to 80's at work, how I wish I grew up through that decade. I have missed out massively there. Other than that I listen to an online Canadian radio show every now and then because the presenter is a cool guy and plays a wide variety of different songs, specially upcoming young Canadian bands.

 

[Grundlejungle]

Depends how young you're thinking. I was born mid 90's so back then it was either radio or CD's, tapes were deffo gone. Like I said the current music is some of the worst I've heard. This is why I listen to 80's at work, how I wish I grew up through that decade. I have missed out massively there. Other than that I listen to an online Canadian radio show every now and then because the presenter is a cool guy and plays a wide variety of different songs, specially upcoming young Canadian bands.

Radio used to be kinda magical. Weird shows that come on in the late hours, strange local DJs making injokes about the town that you didn't understand because you weren't from there, and all kinds of kooks calling in. I remember finding coast to coast AM for the first time, it would only come though clearly if my portable radios antenna was positioned just right.

 

[Grub]

Like I said the current music is some of the worst I've heard

I haven't listened to any new mainstream music since like 2019. I have no idea what new music is even like these days. Back in 2019 it was pretty shit though so I can imagine it's probably worse now.

Other than that I listen to an online Canadian radio show every now and then because the presenter is a cool guy and plays a wide variety of different songs, specially upcoming young Canadian bands.

Man I'm still listening to early 90's Tragically Hip. Are there any decent modern Canadian bands out there these days?

 

[Cats]

I knew about everything before anyone else did and am the coolest kid on the playground for that reason as well as many others (nintendo uncle, dad w/ jetpack, etc.)

 

[KuntyFukLugs]

Radio used to be kinda magical. Weird shows that come on in the late hours, strange local DJs making injokes about the town that you didn't understand because you weren't from there, and all kinds of kooks calling in. I remember finding coast to coast AM for the first time, it would only come though clearly if my portable radios antenna was positioned just right.

This Canadian radio DJ is also an ''underground'' hiphop/experimental musician as well, he wrote a book and in the book he talked about the mountain town he grew up in and he had to climb to the top of a tree in the woods with his radio to get a signal. Something like that is the kind of thing you'd look back on when you're older and it'd be such a cool memory. Going through that much effort to listen to the radio.