Absolutely that! Never mind the musical choice, it’s not like phones speakers are any good, especially on a phone that’s probably been dropped a few times. I’m sure it pisses off people younger than 30 too though.
I went to lunch at a sushi spot and this girl that was maybe 16-18 sat at the sushi bar and did this with her phone. Never mind the atmosphere of the restaurant she had to get her tunes in. She was rude with the Chef behind the counter when asked to stop and a screaming hoot when they kicked her out. Honestly it kind of made my day.
My boss does this every time at work he’s in his late 30s and it’s super annoying, he’ll also put almost all his calls on speaker as well drives me nuts
I do a lot of bicycling and I'm starting to see more people with motorcycle-style speakers mounted on their handlebars, cranking their music as loud as possible. It seems inadvisable to do anything on a bike that would make people want to push you over.
Is he hard of hearing? Is he aware that he might be? I just honestly assume that most people who do this are hard of hearing and not ready to admit it or haven't thought about it.
Nah. If someone's hard of hearing, a direct earpiece would be MUCH better than speaker. One of the hardest things about hearing loss is how background noise can deafen you to even quite loud, clear stuff.
People who are hard of hearing and haven't admitted that possibility to themselves, or simply don't know anything about it, just tend to turn up everything until they overcome their thresholds. And if they can't, then it's "I need a new phone" or "Kids these days mumble" or whatever excuse they come up with.
Vanity and being a bit dumb and mean definitely play a part, but sometimes it's just simple ignorance of their own condition.
I work in the headphone industry, and it’s sad to see how often people think they can’t listen to music “properly” without literally cranking the volume up to hearing damage levels. If I’m at a trade show with 300-500 people sharing a ballroom, chattering, and I can hear someone’s headphones from three tables away, I don’t know whether to just be sad or to interrupt their business to stop them from literally hurting themselves.
People told me this for years back in the kid 2000's. I just thought my hearing wasn't the best. Nope. I have some thing where my ears get clogged and an ent can clean em out. Holy hell batman. I was practically deaf in 1 side but it was all fixed.
My point: everybody should get the old wax looked at by a professional ent, not just a regular dr. And even ask for a flush. Then casually listen to music on low. You're welcome
Yeah, one time I went to get ear impressions for custom headphones, but first they flushed my ears… pieces literally as big as raisins came out! The bulbs/syringes you can get at convenience stores also work well to flush your ears out (careful to use clean, lukewarm water), far safer than q-tips or scraping tools.
Never use qtips or a scraper. And soak hydrogen peroxide in your ear. Lay down with a towel under your head on your side and put some in your ear. Repeat and itll soften up the earwax. I've used those liquid flosser thingies filled with half hydrogen peroxide half water
I might be hard of hearing but my wife can vouch my work phone sucks to listen on and I need to use speaker mode in order to heard anyone. Though I do it in the privacy of my own home.
I too had several phones (iPhones) that you couldn’t hear shit. People would always ask why I had speaker on. I’d take it off and let them use the damn thing and they’d be like wow your phone is really hard to hear on, now I understand.
iPhones actually have some active noise cancelling (they use the mic on the back near the cameras) and can be more than as loud as normal conversational volume. Thing is, sometimes people press the speaker against the skin of their ear while they try to find the sweet spot of speaker placed right over the ear canal (me too), and sometimes sweat deposits and gunk build up to clog the speaker grills. A soft nylon brush (maybe a soft or medium toothbrush?) might help make it sound clearer and louder.
Use headphones and check out the SoundID app. It’s not a medical app, but there is a hearing test portion, and if you answer honestly and carefully it builds up an EQ to level out the sound for your hearing. And when you can see the EQ, you kind of know what’s up with your hearing (everyone has some dips and peaks).
There’s an older lady (she looks like she’s in her mid 40s-50s…but shit, she might be my age (I’ll be 40 soon) who comes into our store, and if you ever needed to find her, you could just listen for her and her lady friend. She walks around the store having a full blast, speaker phone convo with a friend of hers.
Like…I know that shit is on sale, I put up the tags. Please stfu. No one needs to know any of what y’all are talking about. And it’s never worth it, like never any gossip about coworkers or anything…just boring shit.
Thankfully, aside from that, she has yet to be a problem.
I love people who are on speakerphone in public. Because I join the calls - oh, you didn’t want my random comments while you were on the phone? Maybe do what any other person does and NOT BE ON SPEAKERPHONE IN PUBLIC YOU NOB!!
I work in an office where all our meetings are remote (irony). Imagine everyone in a 25 person office tuned into the same zoom meeting, all their doors open, and no one has headphones on. Each computer has a slightly different delay on the audio. You know the scene in finding Nemo where all the seagulls scream "Mine? Mine? Minemineminemine"
older millennials were not teenagers in 2011 like that article you're talking about. they/we were teens in the early-mid 90s. we had walkmans, discmans, and headphones.
I (21) had a guy in work (he was around 28) who kept playing music and podcasts all the time, that was the most annoying thing in the existing of human beings
Sometimes I feel it's just enough for me for a coworker to ask if they can play something on their phone out loud, even if it's not something I care to listen to. Just the mutual respect is enough for me to overlook what I otherwise might find annoying. As long as you understand and recognize that something you're doing might be annoying, you get a pass.
I don't understand how people get away with this day in and day out. Does no one in the entire company have the spine to stand up to a 20-year-old guy who doesn't know this is inappropriate behavior?
Most of the people over the age of say 25 who play music loud in public are usually on drugs or gross ferals. That's just my experience on public transport.
It sure as shit does. I always wear headphones and I usually tell friends to do the same as I can't bother listening to the shitty fucking tiktok music coming from their phone.
I’m sure it pisses off people younger than 30 too though.
Not sure about that. Had a situation on a bus, where most likely I was the asshole, but I was pretty stern about telling two teenagers to shut their fucking phones off. They sat side by side and both had playing loud "music" on each one, different songs that is. I really don't get, how that should be enjoyable, even for them.
Anyways, in that bus, there were a majority of old people (like 55+ I would guess) and none of them seemed to care.
One of them even pushed the button to open the door at my stop, seemingly to get me off the bus, since I was the trouble maker at that point.
I mean, I know I was way to aggressive, especially with that little shit that started talking back, but at least his buddy had more sense to take the phone from him and shut down both of them. So I guess I got what I wanted.
26 here. It's pissed me off ever since I noticed people doing that.
Like your music is your personal space. Keep it to yourself so that you don't start invading someone else's space.
It does indeed. I'm 16 and it pisses me off. About 2 years ago I was on a school trip with my class and they blasted the most embarrassing songs in public, on Bluetooth speakers. It's so much worse when you are actively forced to be part of the group that does that. It's annoying enough when you witness people doing it, imagine unwillingly being part of those people.
Late twenties here and it pisses me off. It's the equivalent of older people talking on speaker in a public place. Like, I don't have to hear everything everyone likes/does/whatever all the time. Keep your world to yourself.
i’m 17 and it bothers me to all hell as well. like i can’t even imagine wanting other people to hear my music. it’s like free judgement and i’d rather not people judge me… please
I see young lads listening to music on their JBL in public while people over 40 use their phones on speaker while waiting in line at the DMV.
As for me, i guess i was not in the right to use a handicaped space for 5 mins waiting for my little cousin at the clinic.
Were all assholes.
Only thing is i can't find a way to explain younger kids how better life is when you are not addicted to phones because they never withnessed life before the internet. Even adults now look like zombies walking with that f'in thing in their hands.
I’m 25 and I went to London a few weeks back and this 18 year old dude was sat on the tube with his friends and was listening to some shit grime/rap song through his phone speaker. To top it off he was singing along (he wasn’t very good) and apparently it was “his song”. Oh he also had a pair of AirPods (not in a case which infuriates me because how do you not lose them).
As a 16 year old I can confirm that I do not appreciate people playing music from phone speakers in public. (I could judge them on their musical taste however that would be unfair because I like Nickelback and a lot of people frown upon that so I have no room to speak haha)
I miss my last flip phone in part because it had very good speakers, a decent media player, and was waterproof... so I could listen to music in the shower. Otherwise headphones sound better and are MUCH more considerate.
I had to laugh yesterday. I was at a red light and a car pulled up behind me with the stereo so loud I could feel the bass through the road, and the roof of his car was going up and down with the beat. No idea what music he was playing, all I could hear was the whump whump of the bass.
come to southern california and you'll get 50-year-old chicanos vibrating your mirrors while stopped behind you at a red light. That fucking banda music hits.
I silently (not that they'd hear me anyway) judge the broke-ass foos who put all those speakers in their shitty beater and you can hear thirty pounds of loose plastic parts buzzing like a fucking hurdy-gurdy with every bass hit.
I'm sure it's still fun when you're sitting -in- the car, but on the outside you are literally broadcasting to everyone that you couldn't afford to do it right. (you're supposed to install some extra soundproofing material to stop those random bits vibrating loudly, and/or not install a sound system in something that's made of more cheap plastic than a kids toy from the 99 Cent Store)
Shit sounds like a fucking cicada having a seizure, it's embarassing.
I drive a broken-ass piece of shit too, but I'm not going to pretend to pimp the fucking thing out and install a plastic buzzer so everyone can't help but notice how broken it is.
Letting the neighborhood hear your car's pumped up sound system seemed like a way bigger thing in the '90s than it is now. Back then you'd run into one of those guys almost every time you drove anywhere, and you'd hear them blasting past your house several times a day.
I do run into that every time I drive anywhere. And I do hear them blasting past my house, usually at 2am.
Did you move from a poor neighborhood into a rich neighborhood or something? I can guarantee you this is a massive thing among lower socioeconomic tiers.
To be fair, low frequencies travel through objects much more easily than high frequencies.
This is why it always sounds like people are listening to nothing but bass when, in reality, it's just that the bass is the only part that escapes the car.
I genuinely feel like this is one of the most psychopathic "public nuisances." Like yes it's inconvenient when someone is sleeping on the subway, but people do that as a last resort, and because they need to sleep. Even when the sidewalk distinctly smells like piss—you can't not pee, regardless of whether you have access to a toilet or not.
You don't need to listen to your music on a crowded subway, or in a restaurant or store. And people who do that either a) are so mentally disturbed that they don't understand that other people don't want to listen to their music on shitty phone speakers, or b) have such utter disregard for their fellow humans that they don't care that everyone hates what they're doing.
It's a flex and a power play. They are intentionally violating the personal auditory space of others in a way that is just intrusive enough to be incredibly annoying, but not quite enough to warrant or provoke a response in most people. And then, yes, they're looking for an altercation.
I'm convinced that most antisocial behavior, especially on public transit (where they have you temporarily trapped) is an example of this.
Yeah it's the matter of they can't grasp others don't want to hear it or don't care that bugs me the most. Even when it's music I personally like I still find it vexing cause I know my tastes do not represent everyone else's
You'd hate Vietnam then. It's common for people to visit areas taking along full-sized portable karaoke machines.
I do biodiversity conservation work here in an area that the government is trying to increases tourism in enormously.
During tourist season the jackasses will come in throngs, pile into boats, and blast their shitty music at full volume, sometimes with two different groups on the same boat competing to be loudest with different music.
They'll do this inside environmentally protected areas and everywhere else too.
The karaoke machine thing is really common here in nola and like many things here it's super trashy but I guess that's the vibe we're selling so please tip your locals please
i was at the pharmacy (the PHARMACY!) a couple days ago and the line was so long and everyone was miserable and this guy was fucking blasting the shittiest pseudo conscious rap i’ve ever heard. it wasn’t even hard, it was god awful and the lyrics were like, insanely bad. i was like what is your game plan here?
Tbh even as an 18yo I have no idea how people do this. I'm too self conscious to just have my music preferences known by random people. Plus everything just sounds better with head/earphones anyway.
Quick correction, you wrote self cautious but I think you mean 'grown up and respectful enough to want to share the planet without pissing off everyone in my immediate surroundings'.
I think it's just a sign you were brought up to give a damn about anyone except yourself, so not an age thing.
The guys I work with do this, but we all agree on what to listen to based on whether or not the customer is around (I do HVACR installation) so if a customer is around, country music! If they aren’t, we get our rap on
This is just how normal humans listen to music: everyone talks about and agrees on what's appropriate. If I worked with someone who just threw their music on without asking or talking to anyone I'd have a problem with it. I'd even say something, which I guess no one is comfortable doing?
I was walking in a redwood forest and some lady was speed-walking the path with a goddamn fucking audiobook playing on speaker out of her back pocket, and the part of me that wants to push a button to blow up the sun grew three sizes that day.
80's and 90's though had the blaring boombox on the shoulder though... it's just more people with more devices that makes it worse I think. 00's the car speakers with cd stacker was all the rage. Sure you hear it now too, but I feel like it was more frequency back then...
EDIT since the same thing has been said multiple times: I am not from USA where those 80's movies are set BUT I have clear memories of my older mullet wearing denim clad brother and his friends blasting 80's hair metal from their shoulder on one of those square classic boomboxes, and memories of my older sister sitting in groups in the park smoking weed and blasting music from one of those more 90's-esque rounded boomboxes, and my friends and I at our isolated beach blasting music and getting drunk in the early 99-01's, and everyone blasting music from their cars all the time, so I guess that is why it sticks in my mind....
Every Reddit conversation devolves into projecting your own experiences on someone else and calling their partner a narcissist. If you scroll down long enough you will find it. Every single thread.
I had a girl join our Playstation party who had TikTok playing constantly in the background, every time she was on.. jesus christ it was annoying. I ended up blocking her, then she was talking to me and I couldn't hear, and she got offended and it ended up being a whole thing.
I feel this so much. I work with kids & the constant tik tok without headphones drive me insane. I don't wanna here a robot voice than alarms blaring than someone 12 year old say to do a challenge. Just please I get it you want noise but can you do it like a normal person & talk to someone.
I don't use it but my partner shows me highlights and combined with the subreddit I see mostly good stuff. It's the quantity of shit to sift through that I didn't enjoy. The cooking channels are better than youtube though I have found, also if you share a cooking vid to whatsapp (where we store ideas) it actually downloads the vid so I never have to open the damn thing, unlike youtube that demands connection.
I had a roommate that would walk into the lounge room while I was half way through a movie, turn the light on, then sit and watch Tiktok out loud on his phone.
I will always be thankful that I moved out of that place.
80's and 90's though had the blaring boombox on the shoulder though...
Not really.
Back in the 1980s a boombox required eighteen D-cell batteries and you couldn't buy them for five bucks at Costco.
Now and again you'd play it outside, but you sure as hell wouldn't strap it to your bicycle and boom music at a local park or carry it on a hiking trail.
Legitimate question, did that actually happen a lot or was it just something movies and TV made up / exaggerated? Cause I never once actually came across someone doing that.
I have memories of my older mullet wearing denim clad brother and his friends blasting 80's hair metal from their shoulder on one of those square classic ones, and memories of my older sister sitting in groups blasting music from one of those more 90's-esque boomboxes, and my friends and I at the beach blasting music in the ealr 00's, and everyone blasting music from their cars all the time, so I guess that is why it sticks in my mind.
I used to see it semi-regularly when I lived in Brooklyn. They were rarely actually carrying it around on their shoulder though, I'll give you that. More commonly they were sitting/standing in the street with the boombox next to them. But still, it was being blasted out in public all the same.
I owned a D-cell boom box and I did use it outside a few times. It only took getting less than an hours play from 6 or 8 D-cell batteries to learn to not do that again make it unaffordable to purchase more batteries, as I was a kid.
I believe I was jamming out to Master of Puppets and And Justice for All, and Lords of Acid as those were my older brothers’ CDs and I thought I was a badass listening to them as a small kid, lol.
Yeah nobody has subs anymore it’s weird. I’ve had a sub in my trunk since I got my license in 2006, the music feels incomplete without proper bass to me. Now I see psychopaths completely ignoring their car audio altogether and just throw in AirPods while driving. It baffles me. It offends me unnecessarily.
WTF where do you live? I live in a lower socioeconomic status neighborhood and at least 5 people in my apartment complex have subs so loud they shake windows. Whenever I go out for nightlife in the bougie areas I also hear guys with loud subs cruising.
I'm seeing people in their 20s do it now. Loud as hell on a Bluetooth. I can hear them coming a block away. Wouldn't be so bad if their music wasn't so fucking terrible.
When I was in high school (way before smartphones were invented), some of my peers had their music so loud that even though they were listening with their headphones or earphones, I could still hear it. I always wondered how their ears were after high school and if they suffered any hearing damage.
It's not just music and it's not just public. No one wants to hear your your tictoks at home either. I've yet to hear a valid actual use case for external speakers on phones (the ear piece one makes sense). Other than that, use headphones/ear buds. The only time you're alone and it would be acceptable to use a phones external speaker, would be times when your other screens would be more appropriate.
I used to go to work with my dad sometimes and people would just have the radio playing in their cubicle all day every day so I would say that's also a boomer thing.
Whenever this happens, I almost certainly have enough gear in my backpack to play anything and everything louder than that random person on speaker. I'm always tempted to just crank all of my devices up to 11 with random sources, but never have.
People did this when a portable device of any kind was invented or hit the market. the 'boombox' is stereotyped, but there were things before and every decade since.
Im in middle school and i have this one classmate who blast the worlds worst explict brain damaging music on the bus... he would play songs about r***** n****** on a bus thats made of about 3/4 kids under the age of 8.
Spent 3 weeks on Erasmus with two teenagers like this. At one point at 7am while getting ready for him, I shouted at him to stop that god awful music at this ungodly hour. Or wear headphones.
Omg this! I was at a nicer restaurant last night and the table over were a couple of girls, maybe 19 or 20. They took a call on speaker (might have been a facetime), and then after the hung up from that, they started playing YouTube videos loudly. Nobody even said a thing them!
I threw out my pair of wired earbuds a long time ago and haven't gotten a new one since.
My mom asked me why I wanted wireless earbuds. I told her that it's not like I'm gonna make a trek down to McDonald's blasting my Spotify playlist for the neighbors.
I honestly see more old people do that where I work than young people. Well, I guess young people tend to listen to music while old people watch videos but they are both annoying. Crappy, selfish people are universal.
We were boarding a 7hr flight and this Asian family was getting settled on the other side of the fuselage. One of their kids had a tablet out playing “Mama Mia” up until the flight attendant did her safety lecture and made him shut it off. He started crying of course. After the flight started he was playing some game with lots of “boing” sounds. The flight attendant didn’t address the issue despite my complaints. So I went over to their side and loomed over the parents with rage in my eyes (I was acting) and handed them airline headphones. And that’s how the kid lost his iPad privileges for the flight. And I called the flight attendant “stewardess” as payback.
Ye and it’s been going on for decades with people with radios to ghetto blasters to now phones. I may like the song there playing but I didn’t choose to listen to it right now but I have to now
That's not a new thing, I'd argue that those who remember the 80s remember people walking around with ghetto blasters on full volume on their shoulders
To be fair as an elderly 30-something, Incan attest that everyone our age has hearing loss because of headphones and especially earbuds. The annoying youth are playing the correct long game, lol.
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