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I barely remember 2010, but I remember Scott Pilgrim being to hipsters like Fight Club and American Psycho are to incels; They totally missed the point of the movie, thought it was aspirational, and the results in dive bars and shitty venues across America (maybe just the midwest?) were disastrous.

Was this real? Did I mandela effect it from the negative zone or something? Am I just getting old?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I remember an insufferable vegan guy being a huge fan of the movie, but I didn't notice any dive bar activity in the UK.

Back then Wetherspoons were dingy old depressing pubs full of old men and moulding furniture.

Now they've all gone upmarket and you'd have to fight to find a nice comfortably depressing place to get drunk for under a tenner.

I don't blame the film for that though, just the rising cost of living forcing stay-at-home-barkeepers to reconsider whether it's worth keeping the pub open, or selling to some startup cunt.