What were you ahead on the curve of in hating?

Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000's, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010's and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.
Remeber when facebook was about "connecting with old friends" and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was "broadcast yourself" and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.
Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because "more future customers pay for the present ones"

Apparently, the large gaps in stall doors. 22ish years later, a number of places around my region are finally installing stalls and floor to ceiling walls without gaps. Making eye contact while taking a shit was always awkward AF.

Plastic, the patriot act, the Iraq war, AI, the internet, social media, I managed to avoid all platforms except Facebook which my spouse talked me into after months of trying to get me to join and finally deleted it recently, I kind of just hate tech in general, the never ending cycle of “upgrades” that actually make your life significantly shittier, competition, gender roles, giant SUVs, porn, extremely exotic pets, Tesla (test drove a high end model when it first came out and said it was like eating cafeteria food off a really nice tray and didn’t buy it) I’m sure plenty more… as an elder millennial the rise of the 21st century has just been so incredibly disappointing and shallow.
- Many of these things and one aspect in common, they rely on either appearances or "trust me bro" level of empty promises. I was always told I was too skeptical and untrustful, but maybe it's people that trust too much what a salesman is selling you. I'm of the idea that the good things are the one you discover snd enjoy, not the ones that announce to the whole world how awesome they are.

Car ownership, I guess.

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

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.
- I already had a strong reaction when the term 'Influencer' popped up. At first it sounded like a marketing term that felt more like an insult to label someone as.
  Then people started proudly proclaiming themselves Influencers and it's only gotten worse since...

Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.
- I always liked the idea of twitter but then humans human'd all over it. If everyone agreed to only use it for sensible things I'd love it so much. Useful announcements and updates and so on.
  If I follow a singer for instance, I want to hear about concert announcements, album release dates and the like. I don't want my feed filled with their opinions on global economics or hot dog condiments.
  
  It sounds like you want an RSS feed of the singer's events page on their own website.
  In 2025, they might not have one because social media has replaced that (poorly), but in 2010 they probably would.
- 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 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.

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. Just never saw the point.

Entitled middle aged women (Karens). I started ranting about them in 2007, I guess.

I hated Donald Trump long before he became president.
- I know it sounds trite but his hostility towards Rosie O'donell back in '06-'07 cemented my disdain for him.
- 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."?

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 moved to the bay area in 2012, absolutely hated Musk back then and thought all of his success was hanging onto other's coattails and good timing (which fair enough, is a skill + huge privilege in and of itself, but isn't the same as inventing/engineering) but he was really popular here. He continued to reveal himself to be more and more of a shitheel over the years and I got to slowly see everybody I knew and worked with eventually come around to the same opinion I had held for more than a decade.
- 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.

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.

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.

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
- Im not very familiar with bluesky and whats going on there (I know the basis of what it is but thats all). Why the hate with bluesky?
  
  Yep, like @JayGray91@piefed.social said. BlueSky is beholden to the same problems that ruined Twitter. It exists as a business, not a community, and at some point it will try to cash in. It's repeating history
  The word 'enshittification' is thrown around a lot, but its original meaning is talking about a process that affects venture capital funded tech, and BlueSky is pressured to follow that process, unlike Mastodon, Pleroma and other alternatives.
  
  On the hate of Bluesky here from what I understand: it's just another twitter masquerading being open with almost impossible to run federation backenf if you're not some big rich organization that will enshittify and it's not mastodon

Drake
- Fuck Drake

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.

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.
- Is it finally safe to admit I was always more of a Twilight fan?
  
  This is your safe place 😊

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

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.

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

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.

Hate hatred, I'm avant-garde in the West. 👀

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.

Trans women competing as men
- At least for trans people we all hate this. We want to compete as our actual gender
- Trans men competing as women.