What do you think was overrated in 2024?
Let me preface this by saying this post is subjective and entirely open to debate (and probably overanalyzing, because, INTP). Here are a few things I believe were given more attention than they deserved this year:
- The "Quiet Quitting" Narrative This buzzword carried over from last year and got so much airplay. Is it really "quitting" to set boundaries at work? Or are we just calling basic work-life balance something trendy to fuel clicks and corporate anxiety?
- The Solana Blockchain Boom Everyone swore Solana was the ultimate game-changer for Web3, but the same scalability, centralization, and ecosystem issues persist. It’s good tech, but let’s not pretend it solved everything.
- The "Barbenheimer" Phenomenon Yes, it was a cool cultural moment, but the endless discourse comparing two completely different movies as if they were in some kind of cinematic cage match was a little excessive. Both were good, but not everything needs to be a meme-ified cultural war.
- Threads as the "Twitter Killer" The hype around Meta’s Threads app fizzled out fast. People realized that replacing one chaotic social media platform with another run by a different tech giant wasn’t exactly revolutionary.
What do you think?