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cavemonkey
Location: berthoud,Colorado Gender: Male Total Likes: 108 likes
| | | | Re: Popularity of Urban Exploration < Reply # 36 on 3/22/2023 7:26 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | There has been a lot of change in the last 20 years for sure. Once upon a time this forum was basically the only public one available and the DB was locked down unless someone well-known vouched for you. You had to either do your own footwork to find the locations or you had to know someone willing to hang out. Many of the private forums where locations were shared were made up of small groups of people who actually knew and explored with each other. It was common to hop on a plane to a new city, meet up with other explorers you knew/trusted through these forums, and just go check out what there was to see. Location info stayed private because of the close relationships made doing so and the want to not ruin it for others. The forum game is gone for the most part today and has been taken over by social media. And nothing stays private on social media... Ive noticed Tiktok is full of new explorers sharing location info and many of these places are getting tore up in record time. What used to take years now takes a few weeks. And some of them brag about giving out the details and the results of that practice! As it has in the past, the fad will pass and things will die down eventually. There may not be anywhere good anymore but itll die down...
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| Spook13
Location: Dartmouth, NS Gender: Female Total Likes: 12 likes
i'm strange! and off-putting! - shane madej
| | | Re: Popularity of Urban Exploration < Reply # 37 on 3/23/2023 3:47 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | as a young person (22) who saw the surge of urban exploration on social media in the 2010's as a teenager, i feel like i have the exact perspective most people in this thread are talking about firstly, i can relate to the bittersweetness of watching something you love become more and more popular, like urbexing. youre happy to see people enjoying it the way you did at first, but it slowly starts to lose its sparkle and quickly falls into the hands of those who you feel arent really treasuring this special thing like you know you do in highschool i ate urban exploring content on youtube up. i couldnt get enough of it and lived vicariously through these youtubers traveling halfway across the US to run and scream through empty buildings and evade security guards, creating 10 minute clickbait videos for children. i had no way of doing it myself so instead i sat in my bed and watched for hours on end, dreaming of the day i could find the time and resources for myself now as a young adult who has been to several local spots over the past few years, i try to get better after each experience. without saying much i broke some things my first time, and was absolutely not as sneaky as a should have been. but im less stupid now lol as for the social media posting dilemma, i kind of get both sides. wanting to show people what you did and prove youre cool is part of human nature. the longest standing form of graffiti has always been '___ was here', a sentiment which obviously has transitioned to social media. as for location sharing however, i completely agree with the no poe rule. it takes away from getting out there yourself and also weeds out some vandals and those just looking to exploit the place. ive blocked people online for asking me for locations and being rude about it. ive posted pictures to my instagram of some photography ive done at abandoned places but ive never shared exact locations. anyways, ive been following this thread since it started and saw multiple people bring up basically my exact experience but havent seen anyone from that perspective comment about it so i thought id add my two cents
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