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I used to think that USAtoday, Snopes, and most other independent “fact checkers” were invested in telling the truth. Now, no more.

I don’t drink, and never have, but I’m gonna whine about wine.

I used to think that wine was a fancy drink for fancy people. That every bottle spent ten years fermenting inside an oak barrel in the cellar of an old manor at the top of a hill. That wine meant luxury, exclusivity, and opulence.

Then I got a job shelving wine at a grocery store. I saw all the hipster brands for yuppies. I saw plastic bags inside cardboard boxes. I saw Snoop Dogg on a wine bottle.

Now I just see wine as a consumer commodity. As glorified grape juice. It’s Bud Lite for women.

@Adan Druego
@Havoc

When I was growing up it seemed like most people treated the internet as a supplement to traditional media rather than as a replacement. Advertisements in phone books often had links to websites, but it wasn’t expected that everybody would just bypass the phonebook and go straight to the website. Youtube was for 5 minute cat videos and music piracy, not 3 hour history lectures and political debates. Smartphones and social media changed all that, but gradually over the course of a decade. My parents still subscribed to the newspaper up until the late 2010’s because traditional media often maintained a veneer of ‘respectability’ which helped keep them alive.

There have also been false starts before. Virtual reality gaming has not taken off as much as some people have hoped, and after the North American Video Game Crash of 1983 the idea that video games were a passing fad seemed very much justified.

@Adan Druego
There were a few people like that. They thought it was going to be a fad and fade away. Sometimes it feels like it should have.

I used to believe that websites and texting weren’t going to be a serious thing.

I thought they were just novelties and a childish waste of time. In my defense, many people didn’t use those services, as well as being very primitive and expensive.

@Absol95
Kinda…

I used to believe that a Nuclear Winter occurring would somehow cancel out the effects of Global Warming.

Yes, I very much agree on that point. I respect Kkat for trying to adapt stuff instead of making a blatant photocopy, even to the point of writing a somewhat plausible backstory for how the two settings merged. Most crossover stories lazily drop characters from setting A into setting B, which I’ve come to regard as somewhat lazy (probably because FoE showed me that it could be done differently). I do also admire Kkat for taking a premise that most people would regard as a joke and just playing it straight.

Some of my issues with FoE also come from the fanbase which has built up around it.

I thought the complete opposite. My interest in FoE largely came from me seeing it as less depressing than the real world.

@Twiface
I’ve almost completely lost interest in Fallout Equestria as well.

It certainly does suffer from same problems as most fanfiction. However, I wouldn’t say it is totally without merits. There is some decent sense of mystery, and borrowed from Fallout elements are usually adapted to partly fit the MLP setting in at least some way.

Honestly, the show canon (and reality) became so depressing, that a darker reinterpretation of the setting became obsolete for me.

Nine and a half years ago, I first read Fallout Equestria and thought it was a masterpiece which set a new standard for fanfiction.

Over time, I realized that it suffered from the same problems that most fanfiction does: virtually everything is either blatantly copied from the source material or is blatant fanservice. Now I wonder if it has any redeeming values at all.

I used to believe that our internal tissues healed as quickly as our skin.

I used to believe that Megaman Legends 3 would be revived in the form of a fan game via a cabal of passionate fans coming together and doing the Megaman equivalent of Half-Life fans doing a project Borealis for Half Life 3. Ditto for Megaman Starforce 4.
Also, I once believed that Betty Friedan wasn’t a vile, twisted piece of Kosher trash.

When I was young, I believed in my fellow man.

I used to think Casino Night Zone was supposed to be Las Vegas, but it was clearly based on Macau.

@Twiface  
When I was a kid it wasn’t just a head but I had a similar issue seeing what it was
 

 
I kind of figured it was a bird but I thought the wing was the head and the head was the tail.

@Twiface  
Dramatic reenactment

When I was young, I thought the ‘D’ in the Disney logo was a backwards ‘G’  
I also thought the USPS logo was a backwards ‘E’ instead of an eagle’s head
 
It took me years to realize that I was wrong, but I still kind of see them that way.

When I was young I used to believe in atheism. I also used to believe in capitalism for longer.

I used to think that Gordon Freeman and Morgan Freeman are the same guy.

I used to think that stuff like cybernetic implants and virtual realities and the like would be cool. Now I just see how dystopic the implementation is going to be.

@Absol95  
As if.

@Absol95  
That’s a laugh!

When Stephen Hillenberg died, I thought Nickelodeon would after at most a few years, put Spongebob to rest.

I used to believe that a moving car would automatically stop if you pulled the key out of the ignition.

When I was a kid, I thought there was just a certain level of fame that existed once a band had made it. I just thought everyone became U2-tier big once they had their breakthrough.