What would you ban if you could?

Any form of elitism, classism or moral jerking. Also, any belief that one work of art is somehow intrinsically better than another.

vine compilations

TikTok compilations. If you put one down, you gotta put the other down.

Edited by casioonaplasticbeach on Feb 19th 2019 at 6:55:41 AM

Selfishness. Especially my own.

Media that portrays DID as this dangerous, edgy thing.

...I, uh, have my reasons.

Edited by MvflG on Feb 28th 2019 at 7:56:07 PM

I would ban the tired old joke that says such-and-such bad movie/TV show is going to cause the end of civilization/the world. Hello, we survived the bubonic plague. Although that was a Pyrrhic Victory.

I would ban uncivility but that would go horribly wrong and also take away people's ability to make choices.

Ban people from playing loud music loudly on their speakers.

My roomate's the worst.

I want to ban the word "stan". It's so STUPID! A mix of stalker and fan? Really? Whenever I hear "we stan so and so." I just wanna knock some sense into em. Stan is a NAME, not a word.

And one of the people who had the name was a very cool guy too.

Phones like my current one not having a proper headphone jack.

Double post but here's something: ahegao shirts/hoodies. I think this is a good summation.

I would ban the unwritten rule of using scammers and murderers and other criminals to represent what people in general are like, rather than everybody else who's just going about their daily lives and happily minding their own business.

I would ban Fortnite.

Coffee, two thirds of all fiction genres chosen at random, ice cream, and the letter "K".

Not forever though, just long enough to let the message sink in.

I would ban the buses that take you to the Disney Theme Parks from playing inappropriate music. It's three and a half years later and that still confuses the heck out of me. Why is a bus that's taking you to the Happiest Place on the Earth playing an angry breakup song? I'm getting mixed signals here! x_x

The use of headlines that make you think otherwise of the content.

I know I sound like some generic whiny nerd fanboy thing but I would ban Twilight. That's one less terrible book in the world.

Oh, and fifty shades of gray while I'm at it.

Clickbait.

I've already posted here, but a list of more stuff I would love to Thanos-snap out of existence includes:

• Anti-vaxxers. Hate them.
• Nightcore. It's plagarism and I see it as being disrespectful to the original artist as it's just taking a song and changing the pitch. Lazy. Not a real music genre in my books.
• Gacha Life music videos. They. Need. To. DIE. NOW. Just a few of the reasons I hate them is because they take no effort to make, they look tacky and they sometimes undermine/disrespect the original meaning of a song, like a song that's a tribute to someone who died could be undermined and turned into a tacky cliche love story.
• Ace erasure. glares at Riverdale and House
• Hipster foods or Instagrammable foods. I'm talking "Deconstructed keto paleo plant-based Instagrammable unicorn cronut served in a shoe" sort of foods. Tacky. Also, we need to bring back food that tastes good. I don't care if it's "Instagrammable" or whatever I just want it to taste good! Food is for eating, not for taking 10,000 pictures of! Just give me a regular donut, and please, GIVE ME A PLATE!
• Shipping adult characters with children/teens, incest shipping, etc.
• "It looks like you're using adblock!" "Log in to see more!" etc popups (good thing i have extensions to counter both)
• Whoever is behind the radio station where I live. Where I live the same four songs are ALWAYS playing, and they aren't even songs off the top of the billboard charts. The four songs constantly on repeat where I live are "High Hopes" (Actually a pretty good song but extremely overplayed), "Gives You Hell", that song I don't know the name of but sounds very dark green-ish to me (I hear colours in music) and that "Your Body Talks" song that I think is extremely annoying. Edit: Almost forgot a fifth song: That "You made all those promises" song where the guy sings about how she's "all dressed in white" at the start. That song is overplayed too, but not as much as the other 4

Edited by Lunala on Aug 3rd 2019 at 10:52:40 AM

-catching up on the thread-

That was a fad that died horribly. I haven't seen any of those in many months, perhaps a year.

Anyhoo stuff I'd ban sorted by category.

Video games:

• Lootboxes and any feature determined by random chance. Especially if it involves real money.
• In-game currencies and there's no story reason why.
• Microtransactions in general.
• Buggy broken games, no matter the reason why. An exemption can be made for bugs that qualify as Good Bad Bugs that increase the enjoyability of a game despite it being a glitch.
• Any and all online DRM, or maybe just DRM of any kind in general.

News media:

• A minimum of 72 hours must elapse between an event such as terrorism, shooting, etc. before a channel can identify a perpetrator and plaster his/her image all over.
• As an addendum to the above, a minimum of 7 days must elapse between such an event and the writing of opinion pages of any kind about said event.
• Hollywood celebrities are permanently banned from giving an opinion on news media. Media outlets are permanently banned from even seeking those types out. Most celebrities barely qualify as literate, let alone informed about issues.
• If you lie or get something wrong, you must apologize and make amends. News media would be banned from slathering somebody in labels and hiding behind their press badges when found to be erroneous.

Politics:

• I'd ban politicians from using the word "racism" against someone without proof. Proof must be demonstrable in a court of law kind of proof.
• Career politicians need to die.
• I'd ban demanding somebody's tax returns as a condition of being in office. They're useless to most folks and just one more source of harassment of people.
• I'd ban censorship of anyone for any reason on social media or in business or even at all. Censorship is abhorrent to me.

Other:

• No more monetized memes. Memes are for everybody, you should never make money off them.

Time trials deserve to be killed with fire. Doubly so if you're locking a fucking character behind them.

Two words: Fetch. Quests.

While we're at it:

Game Companies are no longer allowed to release games until there is confirmation that the game is both enjoyable and bug free. If a game must be pushed back because of this, so be it.

Fans are no longer allowed to get mad at game developers until there is concrete proof that they are doing something wrong/being lazy.

Live-action remakes/reboots that add nothing new, are creatively bankrupt, and are thus completely, entirely and utterly pointless.

[grumble] Freaking Lion King.