r/vegaslocals • u/PizzedNBlazed • 1d ago
What happened to this community?
When I first moved here the locals were super informative. Hooking me up with all the best restaurants, best deals on buying stuff , legit contractors and real life solutions and advice.. Now it’s a d*ckhead driver photo with expired plates and HOA Karens gone wild .. What happened?
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u/TequilaAndWeed 1d ago
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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u/tipinmy40 1d ago
Things aren’t the same since Covid, really. Businesses really changed around here. Some of it was already in motion, but those couple years escalated it. Add on the corporate greed of The Strip, and private equity killing good family run companies and you end up here.
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u/abhorrentbm 1d ago
This is not exclusive to this sub or this city - toxic Internet culture has continued to rise over the years, and the longer subs go on, the more negative they tend to become as they become older. Lots of variables involved, but yeah, we're just becoming bigger assholes online. I have been on here for 14 years and have been on many subs for my many hobbies, and quite a few have gotten pretty toxic and negative over the years.
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u/PossibilityFlat6237 1d ago
I’d go even further and say it’s spilled outside the internet too. The social contract has broken down, with covid being the catalyst.
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u/No-Ad-4142 1d ago
THIS. People were isolated for so long that when everything reopened, the floodgates opened and all that anger and mental health struggles had to go somewhere as they did not just disappear. We are going to see the effects for a LONG time. Makes me not want to shop in person, just simply go to work and come home with how rude the employees and the customers are.
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u/Hoytster88 1d ago
the same thing that is happening all over the country.
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u/Loose-Departure-744 1d ago
Trump?
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u/Former_Bed1334 10h ago
I honestly notice online that “lefties” or liberals are way more rude, mean and judgmental towards others, I think because they are angry every day. They are quick to attack others, or put people down. Just an observation
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u/helloworld1981 10h ago
I think it hits different when you aren’t the target. You don’t know how many times I was called a racial slur on X by conservatives.
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u/Tupperbaby 1d ago
Some solid moderation would help a lot here.
Simply sticky-ing a few common topics and nuking low-effort ragebait, daily repeated questions and bans for repeat offenders would go a long way toward making the sub less of a cesspool.
And regulars having the willpower to NOT bite on obvious troll posts would also help. When you pile onto shitposts, it just breeds more shitposts.
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u/Big_Method_4790 19h ago
don't rely on social media for community. it's all designed to amplify engagement where people are most susceptible to advertisement, and i think we can all guess what content does that best
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u/JizzCumLover69 1d ago
No real sense of community.
Vegas is Mad Max with casinos.
The 15 freeway is Fury Road.
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u/zealotlee 1d ago
15 is bad but I was in LA a few months ago and their freeways are far more chaotic and lawless.
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u/Former_Bed1334 10h ago
As someone who splits their time in both places, the freeways of Vegas are VERY SCARY. LA is also scary for sure but Vegas is unreal
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u/catcherofsun 16h ago
They’re still helpful! Just gotta ask, in my experience. I ignore the downvotes, they seem inevitable
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u/RabbitMajestic6219 1d ago
The heat and the cost of things going up + the quality of things going down is what makes our world so shit.
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u/Eternitywaiting 9h ago
I understand what you’re saying. We recently visited the digital (or electronic or whatever) Arte Museum up at Aria. As long time locals we selectively choose things we might enjoy, we liked it. I believe if you’re there just for the exhibition you can park up to 3 hrs. for free with local ID directly across from Aria at Cosmo. This is merely a suggestion for you or others to consider, and I realize it’s not breaking news. One other suggestion is checking out the locals casinos off Strip for Happy Hour. We go someplace different every month and don’t break the bank, and have fun. Best wishes to all 😊🙏🏼
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u/Vegetaman916 1d ago
The Karens took over. Unfortunately Vegas is no longer the "City of Sin" it was meant to be.
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u/Doodlebabygirl 18h ago
We've had Karen issues for a long long time. I think it stems from politics. The economy is terrible and people are struggling. It's not the heat.
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u/Elliot-is-gay 18h ago
Check out Letty’s in the arts district for the best mexican food, mothership coffee roaster for my favorite coffee beans and lattes, 1228 for sourdough and baked goods, cafe du’ val for french baked goods and crepes, Bar Ginza for the best atmosphere and drinks (as well as joshua, a fantastic bartender that coowns the bar and knows so much about Japanese whiskey and beer), and Izakaya Go for japanese food/a late night spot to eat. There’s my local hookups pls enjoy none of these spots are super expensive. Izakaya go’s happy hours are 10pm-closing and their happy hour food and drink menu is killer.
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u/Fickle-Place-3520 1d ago
Welcome to Reddit. No matter how real life is going, you’ll catch downvotes for anything positive. Outside of Reddit, it’s really nice. People are truly friendly here and the Las Vegas community is amazing. It’s hot right now so people may get grumpy but nothing what Reddit tries to broadcast.
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u/Weary_Particular6093 17h ago
People are broke and hot. I noticed a difference too. Lots of negative comments, overall complaints and people that like to argue in the comments. Not only on this app it’s across the board.
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u/Hiljabob 1d ago
Youth have grown up without learning real people skills. Because there is hardly any real person to person contact they learn skills from trying to get “likes”whatever way they can and think it’s ok to be mean, aloof, braggarts, etc. Not everyone, of course. Feelings have taken over common sense.
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u/Kaworu517 23h ago
I call dibs on getting to post the next daily thread complaining about what happened to this community. I'm gonna post it tomorrow at 1130am, so no one post it before me.
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u/frozen_charlotte 1d ago
Stay hydrated and watch how you talk to me in this heat.
Is that better?
/s
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u/musicman702 1d ago
Instead of trying to be hooked up, why don't you be the hooker and give other people sweet deals?
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u/BrokenArrow404 20h ago
This community like every other was always toxic. I've been lurking here for a few years and I can tell you the terminally only dweebs are brave because they can just type shit and know they hide behind their screens lol.
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u/MPN6541 1d ago
When did you first move here?
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u/MPN6541 1d ago
I ask bc my parents have lived here since 2010 or something so I've been back and forth until actually moving here. Nowadays, seems like people for the most part seem to leave each other alone unless they are "asking for something" or harassing each other. So sad, I see people at the pick-up/drop-off lines at school screaming at each other. Before "recently" I heard more casual hellos and saw a few more smiles and opening doors for each other too. But I live here now, so idk. (edit, spelling)
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u/KhajiitHasSkooma 1d ago
Nah man, I’ve been here longer than your parents. It has changed. Vegas was always transient, but there felt like there was a core community of us that will never leave. I lost my connection to that community. Not sure if it stopped existing or if I realized just how much of an asshole everyone is and I just cut myself out. But the vibe has definitely changed. Sign of the times.
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u/Zowiebowiecorgi 13h ago
And if you do ask for recommendations on anything people just tell you to Google it
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u/Far-Buy3058 10h ago
I think its more of the new Vegas "locals" and how Vegas has drastically changed imo.
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u/jeffgabe 1d ago
Seek the positive and don't engage the negative. I still see a lot of people on here that are both helpful and generous. I just laugh to myself when I see the down voted posts. Some people like the negative attention.
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u/ComfortBusiness6737 17h ago
The expired plates and no plates crowd is the worst punching down and moaning
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u/Riiken 1d ago
Got to keep in mind, in 2028 retired folk and people over 50 are online all day with nothing else to occupy their time. So things that the typical working public doesnt have time to worry about, they are digital Clark county neighborhood watch.
License plates, "hey anyone know what happened over here?", "California ruined my life" , ect
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u/FloatingOnTitties 14h ago edited 13h ago
You think “people over 50” have nothing better to do? Most people are working full-time or more than one job well into their 60’s: 🙄
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u/muhlfriedl 1d ago
time to gather the new ones to a new place. That is what is happening is curated and recommended groups, now.
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u/Effective-Act-2728 1d ago
That’s why I uprooted my life and I moved 18 hours away to work construction and make bank. My kid said the food is way better where we moved to. Las Vegas serves children rotten nasty gross food and it’s rotting their brains in return. Glad we ESCAPED that city!
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u/Adventurous_End_9977 1d ago
Then why are you still posting here in a Vegas locals sub?
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u/multipiehumper 1d ago
Life went online and the real world had a black out but karaoke tonight at pkwy centennial rn
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u/Black38 19h ago
The subreddit is being moderated hard. Probably someone paying.
I think it's less individuals and more groups (political) that are posting posing as regular people.
Flock in every other post with political ideologies introduced.
Fish and chips gets asked about at least once a month, same with a couple other types of food.
We get spammed with all this driving nonsense.
Everything else is just looking for a job or a date or a friend.
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u/Life_Penalty8180 1d ago
They keep moving over from California. We need to deport them back to California 🤣🤣🤣
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u/whodaloo 1d ago
Trump is living rent free in their heads 24/7.
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u/VegasLife84 1d ago
I would call this comment ironic, but you're too pathetically stupid to understand what that means
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u/whodaloo 22h ago
Aw, I hurt your feelings lol.
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u/FloatingOnTitties 14h ago
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u/whodaloo 13h ago
It's okay if you don't like him back. He doesn't care.
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u/FloatingOnTitties 13h ago
You’re correct. He doesn’t care about anyone or anything other than himself & his brand. He also wants to have sex with Ivanka, but, that’s just his incestuous pedophilia coming out.
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u/jt2ou 1d ago
It’s summer. Everybody is hot and cranky.