What were you ahead on the curve of in hating?

Facebook, Twitter, "influencers", most social media in general.
Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.

Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn't aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans

MrBeast.
- My reaction, the first time I saw him: I don't like you, jerk-off

reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
and twitter, and BlueSky

X/Twitter/BlueSky I like long conversations with lots of information and while I use them now, it’s only because that’s where people post.

One I hate that I am unsure of a term for but I call it "Family time" is when a show or movie makes everyajor twist revolve around the main characters family...
Star Wars is a great example that no one notices it in
Darth Vader is Lukes father Leia his sister
Both rolls could have worked without those twists
But it is far worse in other shows and series or even ruins them for me
Fringe was ruined by it imo
Slow horses is falling into this trap with season 4
It's a cheap ploy to try and make the moment or stakes more dramatic by involving the characters in ediate family as ploys or villains. At the same time it just feels out of place most of the time that the entire world these characters are in revolve around 1 family.
So many shows use this trope but I don't even see a proper term calling it out and at the same time it has ruined so many shows and just shows a lazy writing or plot narrative.
The author does not know how to write for the dramatic response they want the audience to have for the villain or ploy so they make some dramatic reveal that their family member was secretly involved making it more difficult for the main characters to make decisions or take action.

Twitter. Just never saw the point.

Tesla/Musk.
Back in 2014 Tesla and Ecotricity had an agreement to upgrade Ecotricity's charging network to be compatible with Tesla's superchargers. Tesla whined that it wasn't being rolled out fast enough. Ecotricity wasn't a very big company and was basically working for free, so asked Tesla to actually support the roll out if they needed it faster. Musk went mental has been trying to destroy the company ever since. The 2014 Tesla patent release was never about collaboration or saving the planet, he just hoped somebody, somewhere would use it to undermine Ecotricity.
- I liked the OG Tesla Model S (I know there was a roadster before it). But the other models just didn't do it for me. The X, 3, and Y are all oddly proportioned. And the interiors on the 3 and Y are just not good. I know Tesla fans will excuse the lack of instrument cluster and other missing features that are standard on other vehicles, but no thanks.
  And the Cybertruck is just straight-up bizarre.

Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with "just use google, it's free".
Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.
- I think the best you can do for phones is get one with good hardware and put a degoogled ROM on it
  
  Yea, I've checked LineageOS and a few others out, but my phone isn't supported.
  That's what I get for also hating selfie camera notches/cutouts. Most of the phones I get aren't popular models. If you know of one for the Nubia Z60 Ultra, point it out.

Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.
- Why did you think it was a terrible idea?
  
  It encourages hot takes over nuance, or awkward workarounds like replying to your own post a bunch of times if you actually have something to say.
  I still think it's a terrible idea for something like that to be popular and have an important role in society, though its addition of images and video mitigate the problems a bit. I don't know whether it significantly impacted the platform's success and eventual sale price. $44B is a lot of money, so I can't say it was a terrible decision from the perspective of its creators.
  
  Promotes lazy thinking that can be expressed in 240 characters and makes expressing the better mind much more difficult

I hated Donald Trump long before he became president.
- I didn't had idea of who Donald Trump was till he was president. Can I say "If I knew who Donald Trump was I'm pretty sure I'd hated him."?

Russell brand, back when he was just a homeopathic, somewhat progressive pseudo-intellectual moron. I remember specifically avoiding Get Him to the Greek bc I thought he was a creep, didn't think he'd actually be charged with SA though. His pivot to manosphere right wing bullshit doesn't get enough attention, bc of worse people like Rogan.
- Same, I disliked him even before the Andrew Sachs business. His stand up was gross. He hid his behaviour behind the veneer of progressiveness.

Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like "I knew that guy had to be a total asshole". Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.
I think I was ahead of the curve hating on "generative AI".
Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he's putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.
Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn't really as well known at the time, I don't think.
I'm realizing a lot of these are technology-related.

I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it's widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.
Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was
- I disliked him back when he was that dick from PayPal cosplaying as an automotive engineer and pretending he knew more than actual experts.
  I started to loathe him after the pedo guy stunt where he slandered a caving expert for pointing out Musk’s submarine was a death trap publicity stunt.

Joe Rogan. I described him many years ago as "the reality TV equivalent for podcast dudebros" and my (largely well educated, liberal) friend group jumped down my throat for it. Apparently I was being judgemental and shouldn't judge people for their entertainment choices.
Called my shot.

Drake

I've hated Harry Potter since the first book came out - someone lent it to me and I gave up after 100 pages cos it was shite and really badly written.

Always thought BBC Sherlock was boring and obnoxious
- ... do people hate that now?
  
  Haven't seen many people defend it since that hbomberguy video essay

Trans women competing as men
- Trans men competing as women.

No use or missuse of turn signals on roads. Furious.
- You hated that before automobiles existed, or what?
  
  my guess is a little bit before and for a minute or so after turning the curve.

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