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Imagine how different the world was for people with super niche interests before the internet. Back then, this would have been seen as the weird (or at best eccentric) guy in your town who collects fire alarms and won't stop talking about them. Now he's presumably got a fulfilling social life via his unusual hobby, and an outlet to share his thoughts to a willing audience.
For all its many faults over the last decades, this is the pure internet at its best.
What's crazy is that a lot of niche hobby/lifestyle people found eachother anyway pre-internet. Shopping cart drag races, downhill shovel events, a lot of counter culture movements, early body modification, all manner of shit. People get into some seriously wierd/niche/one-off stuff and given a little time, they'll find someone else that's into the same thing. It's like electrons in a post big-bang universe, they sort of attract each other. The internet has made it way easier for people to find their tribes, but they used to find them anyway.
Very good point! I imagine meeting someone in person and finding out they have the same unusual hobby would have been quite the thrill. I'm old enough to distinctly remember a world before the ubiquitous internet, but never had a super niche hobby to have given me that sort of experience.
Yeah. It's funny, my cousin is a few years younger than me but has no memory of the world pre-net. I told him the story of how we used to have to do things and it blew his mind.
Ex. Cowboy Bebop. Me and a buddy heard a thing on Terry Gross about the soundtrack one day driving home from work. They played a few seconds of Tank! Man, we were hooked instantly. So we changed directions and went to, where? Where do you go? Blockbuster? FYE? Game store? Comicbook store! They'll have it! So we went to every comic shop in the area (we knew them all because we would get MtG cards every payday). A couple had a DVD or two. How many episodes were there? How many seasons? How long would our search take? It was a treasure hunt. Calling game stores, calling small video stores. Finding one DVD at a time but not in order. It was like that for everything. And honestly, I think it gave things a greater value.
I love being able to answer almost any question instantly. When I'm listening to an audiobook, if there's a word I'm not sure of, I can pause, get a definition, and go back to my book without even looking at my screen or touching my phone. But there's deff a sense of flippancy to everything now that wasn't there before. Bad or good, I don't know, it is what it is. But I do miss the hunt for new stuff.
Sure, but the internet increased this interconnectivity by orders of magnitude.
The LGBTQ community is one which massively grew in outreach and connections due to the internet. Without it, I have no doubt that LGBTQ rights and visibility worldwide would be nowhere nearly as advanced as they are now. Of course, it also gives the opposition the same megaphone and organizing capability.
This is what “specialty interest” magazines and newsletters used to address. Whatever the hobby or interest, there were likely a dozen magazines specifically targeted to that audience.
Then the internet happened. Also, media conglomeration.
Fanzines were huge in Germany for that reason.
Maybe people didn't frequently have weird hobbies before.
The way I see it internet widened enormously the diversity of knowledge we get to check. And that's these weird rabbit holes online that create the similarly weird new hobbyist.
That's a fair point but I suspect this has always been the case. I bet if we could go back to the prehistoric period we'd find someone saying, "Cronk found himself another dick-shaped leaf to add to his collection." I'd almost think with less available to amuse them, people would be finding joy in all sorts of weird hobbies or collections.
This is the case. Check out the old Re:Search zines/books. Each is about some wired niche thing and has a bunch of contributions from different people. Folx have always been into strange things, and folx have always found kindred spirits, the internet makes it easier to find, abd troll, them.
Possibly. He hates the screenshot and wants everyone to stop posting it, though.
No, but his neighbours do.
These people are documenting the history of an important part of our infrastructure. One video from a channel in this community documented a 1970s home security system as he was contracted to remove it. It’s super fascinating learning how these things function and watching them be tested. Such content can also help a person get over fear of alarms!
The video: https://youtu.be/mwAFN1aSFjY
I fear alarms because they hurt. It's not like Spiders where learning more helps. I've been hurt by alarms hundreds of times in my life. Learning more isn't going to help me fear them less.
How are you hurt by alarms? Noise, high voltage, the fear of the things they indicate, or something else? legitimately curious, never heard of this phobia before
Autism. Too loud. Hurts. I'm very slow to evacuate because I always need to take the time to put in my nose cancelling earbuds so I can evacuate safely. If the alarm were quieter, it wouldn't hurt as much
Why is this on shitpost? I think it's a perfectly valid hobby and it should be celebrated
That depends entirely on how he is acquiring the alarms.
Yeah. I dont get it. It's not my thing but I don't judge if it doesn't hurt anyone.
I haven't seen the video but my first impression (and likely other's) is it's similar to a tik-tok trend where people steal soap dispensers, break sinks, etc.
Having said that, it could just be a little click-baity and maybe he collects old or "retired" fire alarms, which would obviously be fine.
I know several fire alarm enthusiasts. Fire alarms are acquired after being retired, nobody would damage or steal from an active fire alarm system as that's a risk to everyone's safety. People who steal from active systems would be shunned. Most fire alarms enthusiasts get are bought off eBay or similar sites.
The net brings us together but it also brings the haters and drama. I knew I knew this dude from something.
Yeah that video essay is such a wild ride. I'm on the spectrum and I absolutely understand the emotional ties one can have to such esoteric hobbies, and how those emotions can twist relationships due to perceived slights and phantom insults.
Nobody hates Nerds like other Nerds.
I'm a Star Wars fan. Tell me about it.
I would but you'd probably say "it's not canon" or something like that /j (I'm equally start trek and star wars, I can hate and agree with everyone!)
You've made an enemy for life!
I did not expect to watch that whole thing but I'm really glad I did. Even teared up there at the end. Thanks for sharing.
Dude looks like he was animated by Pixar.
Like Syndrome without the suit
But then everything changed when the fire alarm community attacked.
Only the avatar can master all the alarm types, but when the wold needed him the most, he vanished. Years later he returned, and I believe he can finally save the world.
Leak, earthquake, fire, air quality.
Long ago, the four alarms lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire alarm went off.
I completely misread what kind of leak we were talking about.
Absolute Chad.
What a FAG...
Fire Alarm Guy
why does the fire alarm look like an among us?
Train spotting used to be the niche hobby.
We've come a long way. I don't know which way, but here we are.
Actually, it was the train that has come the long way.
It might look like you're moving when you focus completely on the train, but you are in fact standing still while train spotting.
It connects people alright, just not in the most benign ways
He looks like the teen antagonist to a 2000s animated series
Or the guy from the incredibles
And that's one of the best things that the internet actually did?
Yes and no. I don't feel as alone in liking my little hobbies. On the other hand paranoid schizophrenics can collaborate on flat earth or what ever they are doing these days.
Anyone else think this was the “taking a selfie using a silly object” meme at first?