I feel like I do this a lot with podcasts. I started watching the Gus and Eddy podcast and finished it about a month before the last episode was released for example.

It could be anything though. An online game, an OS, a console, TV show, a forum, or anything else. I’m just curious what people have to say.

It also doesn’t need to be “dead”. It could just be a significant change where a chunk of the community left.

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    So many things…

    Game of Thrones, right before the last season came out. Glad I didn’t have to wait for the disappointment.

    Video games. I will wait 10 years to play a game I want so that the price goes down enough.

    AFI’s Sing the Sorrow album, until I gave it a fair chance years later.

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      I got into ASOIAF maybe a year ago. I’m glad I was able to go into the fandom knowing what a train wreck the show was and also that it’s entirely possible the books will just never be finished, lol. I’m enjoying the shit out of youtube theory videos though!

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      AFI are timeless poets. You could take their songs 100 years back in time and they’d still work.

      I, I came here by day
      But I left here in darkness
      And found you, found you on the way…

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      That can be double edged. I just got into the trails series, and discovered that the early games are all collectable.

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    Game of Thrones. I binged the whole 7 seasons right before 8 came out. I think I saved myself a lot of pain and wasted suspense. That ending was fucking embarrassing.

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    Tumblr! I only joined shortly before all the wildly terrible business decisions killed it lol. Great memes from there would get cross-posted to my various platforms often enough for me to want to go, but I procrastinated until it was almosssttt too late…

    Now we got a fediverse version though 😈

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      Oh me too, It’s so much fun. I’ve got a big binder of them in my car. I know nobody else who does, so I sadly can’t share my CDs.

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    Got into Breaking Bad a bit after it had its series finale, but before Better Call Saul was a thing. I don’t know that the show has ever been “on its way out” though, it just wasn’t being talked about as much at that point.

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    I got really into Star vs The Forces of Evil, Dexter, Sons of Anarchy, and Adventure Time well after they each had ended.

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      Star really grated at the beginning. Rich girl having rich girl problems with rich boy. There was no tension, nothing.

      Then they started introducing dark elements in there - monsters, her family’s dark past, the unspoken guilt of those they usurped. It got really good then

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    Minidisc. My then-boyfriend bought me a recorder for Xmas 2002 and I was absolutely in love with it. I still use minidisc but I think for most people it was a flash in the pan - it didn’t have the staying power that I thought it would.

    Also ephedra - right before it was banned, all the women in my office went through the Atkins -> Xenadrine -> Pilates fads. Holy crap did that suck. Atkins made me stink (ketosis) and xenadrine make me shaky, dizzy, and irate. I was too poor for pilates haha. The entire office was miserable!

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    I’ve forgotten the name but there was an “adult” MMO made for android devices that I played a while back. After I completed the tutorial, I was shown the announcements and it stated that the the game’s service was to end in about week.

    I feel like I should have more but I can’t remember anything else.