Asklemmy

Luxury items, particularly watches and shoes and shit. Conspicuously ranking your wealth like that is cringe as fuck. "Ah yes, I see you can afford the DoucheKeeper 2121. That's ok I guess, if you can't afford the DoucheKeeper 2424."

It makes far more sense to just dress well below your "status" imo. Real confidence is being above all that vanity, and real intrigue is keeping people guessing about your "status." You want to know what I do and how much money I do or don't have? Get to know me, and you'll discover none of that shit matters.

Sex

Turns out I'm asexual.

The spicy part is try being asexual yet HOPELESSLY romantic

But aside from THAT -- Brand name clothing.

Most of it doesn't even look good

There was a time the rich dressed decadently, that was conspicuous consumption, but at least it looked pretty and shiny in pictures. Nowadays rich people be buying clothes that look exactly, completely indistinguishable from the discount shop made-in-china artificial-fabric rags everyone else is wearing, but which have a logo printed on them. And that logo is what makes it expensive.

AI

Streaming like in twitch, podcasts, tiktok, and other "user generated content". I'm not even 40 yet but I really feel like "old man yells at cloud".

Actually, the mere term "content" makes me cringe. You do art? Now it's called content. You are an independent reporter? Now you do content. You like plants? How about turning that into content? Content: you are either consuming it or producing it. Fuck content as a concept. And fuck discoverability algorithms and every clown trying to game them. Fuck social media spoon-feeding brainrot to people. I feel anti-hyped for all that.

Looking through these comments I don't know what half of this stuff is and I don't think I want to.

My wife's freind came over the other day and asked me if I could fix her new glasses because they were crooked, being polite I said I liked them (they're hideous but to each their own), and she responded "thanks they're D and G, they only cost me $700". These were $700 glasses with no additions. No blue light thing, no scratch resistant stuff.

I don't care for that.

Apple

Big butts. I mean the ones featured in "Baby Got Back" were ok. But, today, some people are going crazy with it.

podcasts, owning an automobile, twitter, following celebrities, being competitive, land ownership, having a degree versus having the knowledge the degree entails, marriage, religion, recycling (beyond that of reducing and reusing), collecting things, fashion, owning the newest of anything once it is released especially for phones and i could come up with more probably but this likely covers at least one thing people who read this are into in one way or another.

Coffee in the morning.

People be losing their minds over an addition.

Driving a pickup truck as your commute vehicle. The mileage is terrible, and you have reduced visibility in front of the hood. Get a safer and more efficient vehicle. It'll be cheaper!

Superhero movies. Very repetitive and predictable.

Most things. Hype is usually just marketing, at least nowadays. I've seen a lot of hypes come and go, and it's always the same playbook.

Labubus.

Kids wanting them I get, but the craze among adults for them is baffling to me. And the blind bag mechanic is just a bullshit way to get people to buy more than they actually want in an attempt to collect a full set. It's honestly kind of sad to see so many adults fall for something meant to manipulate children into begging their parents to buy over and over again.

You know something is worth your money when they deliberately obfuscate what you're actually buying.

Watching sports

NFTs

Most celebrities. I know its usually manufactured hype, but I still don't understand people falling for it.

Collectible toys. On top of not getting it, I hate it from an environmental perspective and a wasted resources (incl labor) perspective.

Most things that people seem to get hyped over really. Not big on buying things. Books are an exception but most people aren't hyped about those