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Massively self-obsessed people (e.g people who constantly big themselves up) and Tumblr comedy.
Unfortunately, the venn diagram of self-obsessed theatre adults and people who talk like Tumblr posts is a circle, and it includes the two loudest people in my office.
Or those who make appeals to the self-obsessed. There's a youtube channel (that keep appearing in my home despite me telling youtube repeatedly that I'm not interested), that starts off every short with "Heey Smart People".
It's just the idea of "us" (the smart) vs "them" (the implied dumb) that grinds me because in my experience the difference between these two groups isn't very big, but people (mostly young adults) really lean into it for reasons of exclusion, fashion, and just general hatred of a strawman.
Diva covers of songs that don't fit the emotional tone of the song
because they're too busy showing off their vocal cords.
And people who love these songs.
I can't currently think of any particular women responsible for this,
or particular songs, but I'm quite sure it must have been Christmas song covers,
turning "Jingle Bells" into Aretha Franklin's "Dr. Feelgood".
The only particular song I can come up with,
is Michael Bublรฉ's "cry me a river"
and whoever plays the instruments during his version,
so this is not just a mostly female phenomena.
[edit] I'm pretty sure it's Ariane Grande now.
Great singer but not very adaptable.
And probably missing the point of Mariah Carey's christmas song popularity,
the original one as I've just seen newer Hallmark music video
where the video theme no longer matches the song.
Pants that hang so low that all of your ass is above the waistline. Nobody can ever convince me it can be even remotely cool
society
The worst is Quentin Tarantino shoehorning his characters saying that in all of his movies.
People talking about their suicidal feelings on the internet. Not sure why you'd want the whole world to know you're feeling vulnerable, or what you think it can do to help. And people are so casual about saying it.
I think I know what you're talking about. I do believe there's a time and place for anything, but just trauma dumping your life's woes somewhere like on a YouTube comment section, is probably not one of those places.
If you feel like there's nobody to talk to about it - write a blog or a journal entry. Dump your feelings and experiences there, then share them whenever someone asks you what's wrong. There are places and sites that are open for one to talk about these sensitive subjects to.
But there's just no reason to randomly do it on like YouTube comment sections for example. I see it nearly all of the time.