Windows 8 is so bad, like, how did it make it to the public? Its not even an OS, its a shell of an OS. It looks good on the outside but the second you want more functionality out of it, it shits it’s pants. The Windows store doesn’t work, apps are constantly crashing, the screen changes it’s brightness settings whenever it wants to and there’s no way to turn it off at all (and it’s not adaptive brightness, thats off and anyway I’m sitting in one spot and the brightness keeps varying wildly). The start page is obtuse, hard to navigate, and unnecessary, the start up time is shit, it’s half made. It makes it nearly impossible to downgrade to Windows 7 and just ugh, the whole thing is garbage. I can’t update apps, I can’t update to Win8.1, and when Microsoft gets confronted with the fact that they put a piece of shit on the market, their response is almost always “it must be operator error! There’s no way on earth anything can be wrong with Windows 8!”. The only good thing about it, is that it’s aesthetically pleasing. 

Every time Windows updates they try to push their shitty browser like “Microsoft Edge is… the browser of the future… perfect in every way… it doesn’t constantly crash anymore we promise….” Microsoft Edge could jerk me off every time I booted my computer and I still wouldn’t use it

I think by far the worst fandom I was ever in was my first fandom that I actually participated in - which was the Beatles (and by extension classic rock). So this was in 2010-2011, and then it branched out to classic rock in 2012 before I left (Technically Star Trek 2009 was the first but I wasn’t active). What a flaming trash fire that was. It was just. So embarrassing? The average age of people in the fandom at that time were 13-16 years old. So there were a lot of young girls and then a smattering of older people - men, usually, who grew up with the Beatles/Classic Rock.

So of course there were scandals. Older men preying on these little girls. I remember one in particular, it was actually a woman in her 20’s - and she was BIG in the fandom. 10k followers at least. And she had been soliciting nudes out of these little girls for YEARS until it all came to a head and she was ran off the site.

And the racism. Yoko Ono. The “witch who ruined the Beatles.” Fan girls couldn’t be bothered to come up with actual reasons to hate this woman so of course it always turned to racism. It always ended with slurs.

And there was a huge problem - moreso in the classic rock fandom as a whole - with underaged groupies. Led Zeppelin in particular had a lot of dealings with underaged groupies, some as young as 14. And these fan girls not only condoned it but they encouraged it. They had wished it was them a lot of the time.

There was also a big issue with people harassing the band members’ families on social media. This happened a lot with The Who in particular. These girls would harass the band members’ children and wives for pictures and it was just so bizarre and appalling, honestly.

Looking back now I can’t believe how toxic just… everything about it was.

You have no idea how much I love places like garage sales and thrift stores and antique shops I love them so much it’s like a treasure hunt and you find the most peculiar and eccentric things with even more eccentric histories like I feel the most connected to people and the past though strange little 70 year old knick-knacks