24 Products That Have Gotten Suspiciously Bad

Have you heard of the concept of enshittification? It’s a term coined by writer Cory Doctorow specifically to describe tech services that chip away at their product until they’re left with a profitable skeleton, but it seems like everything else is becoming enshittified, too.

For a lot of reasons we’re far too sexy to explain or fully understand, businesses that used to offer quality products and services simply don’t have to anymore. They know they’ll get your dollar anyway, so they toss you the flimsiest scrap they can fling so they can wring every last penny onto their bottom line. Look, even we’re serving up overwrought metaphors, and you just have to deal with it.

Fortunately, our names didn’t come up when user Boring-Cauliflower asked r/AskReddit, “What has consistently been getting shittier?”