Travel YouTubers go to as many places as possible and there is no places left for most of us to discovery. Can you still find novelty and excitement in traveling?
nonsenseYou could have a grand old time travelling in your own neighbourhood if you had the right mindset. It's not about "where has no one been" its about personal experiences that only any one person can ever have. It's called LIVING
>>2742780>Travel YouTubers go to as many places as possible and there is no places left for most of us to discovery.why the FUCK does this matter?
>>2742780This is like saying that sex is getting less interesting because it's easier to watch porn nowadays.
I get what you mean OP. The world definitely feels smaller. Everyone wants to be a content creator and even small places I enjoy but don’t see them having mass appeal have been combed over by these parasites. There are definitely still places to discover, but you gotta try harder these days. Also, sounds like a meme but the best “places” are with friends and people you meet. Something that can’t be replicated by these fake ass YouTubers.
>>2742780you can just choose not to watch the travel youtubers, you stupid fucking retard
>>2742798Zoomers unironically think this way>>2742780The world is a lot bigger than you think it is, anon
>>2742780Don't watch travel YouTubers. Then you'll have plenty of stuff to discover on your own.
>>2743394But it’s not only youtubers. When you buy cheap flight tickets and get onboard , or when you see so many foreign tourists anywhere in your city or country, don’t you feel smt?
I just went to Spain with my gf in September. We rented a car and drove up into the mountains in Andalusia and started exploring little towns. I didn't do much research, just marked a bunch of towns on my google map. There are endless little towns up in the mountains that you can explore. It was cool to just explore of the beaten path, But I ended up enjoying the big cities more. The food was better in the big cities, there's more to see, the attractions are more impressive, the people were better looking too. The hot girls all leave the small towns for the big cities in Spain and then breed with the hot tourists. There's honestly more adventure in the big cities too. I saw an ambulance and a moped smash into a car. I checked out some brothels. I saw the police raid an apartment and arrest some lady who attacked someone with a knife. I watched the club promotion scammers in Malaga try to lure people into overpriced clubs. I saw pickpockets at the train station try to rob a dude. I got into a screaming fight with a lady in Ronda who wouldn't share the sidewalk. It was a pretty adventurous trip.
>>2743423that's why I travel overland. It makes me feel like I actually like in the olden days and it lets me see places tourists don't congregate.
>>2742780buy a raft and row to Baffin island or something. I'm sure you'll see something new
>>2742780>Can you still find novelty and excitement in traveling?i canyou can't
>>2742780Travel youtubers could simply keep going back to Thailand over and over again and people would still watch it.
I used to be a realtraveler before I took an arrow to the knee. The world feels smaller but it's all still there and more places are forgotten about then the media could ever cover. It's easier than ever to *get* to places, but catching a plane from A-Z does not mean you've actually seen anything in-between. Vtubers often just tick the boxes, at least in their videos, because that's what viewers want. Travel guides are much the same, a lot of what I wrote was struck for not being interesting to mainstream audiences or as they would say "notable". A really fat dog isn't a tourist attraction....until it is....what I'm getting at is that there's a lot to be experienced, both covered and uncovered.And for the record, there are still thousands on thousands of miles of remote and untouched world. A major factor is because when people visit places like the sahara they have this comical tendency to clown car through the exact same part of it. The great wall of china is exactly like that too.
>>2742780I really hate middle class people. If I go somewhere of course I will avoid the middle class or people who have a little money and think they are hot shit. A lot of the world is worthless drones besides some dens of iniquity.It's kind of like how asian will swarm for food at supermarkets. Even nice markets, they will walk around very self-importantly or look like over excited animals. They will stand and block isles and food trays while the impotent little workers are busy slapping SALE stickers on expired meat/fish. They will just stand there and block everyone while staring at it.
yes. in early 2010's you had no video of many cities on the internet. even if there was a video about a city that video was 360p. nowadays just write any city 4k walking on youtube and watch on your 75 inch tv. things have changed, traveling is not that interesting, people in hostel don't really talk each other, girls hav endless options on dating apps so they don't care about you. internet ruined everything.
>>2742780>YouTubers go>us to discoverySo you live your life vicariously rather than for yourself? You've not discovered anything by watching someone else do it. You are a cuck of the strangest order. JFC
I travel mostly in an area that's been on the do not travel list for decades and there's zero tourism there. It's risky but the rewards are immense if you know what I mean
too many idiot sexpat/ passport bro faggotsi am in medellin now and a lot of people have terrible impression / sterotype of foreign male solo tourists. and i do not even blame them because go on a spirit air flight from fort lauderdale or miami to medellin and you will see these degenerates openly in public talking about prostitutes and their plan when they land going to parque lleras. i am not even against seeing prostitutes, just keep it private.
>>2746499>you will see these degenerates openly in public talking about prostitutesSounds like typical /trv/ users
>>2746045Are you referring to Chinese? Thais and Laos have high spatial awareness and show consideration for others in public spaces. However, if you're fat you'd still feel blocked in as they don't expect a human to be a yard in diameter, kek
>>2746532Dumb indos and the upper class is indeed mixed chino
>>2742782>You could have a grand old time travelling in your own neighbourhood iAvicii (PBUH) spent 19 years in his neighbourhood only going to school, his house and within 400 metres of his house and he made the most important EDM pop banger of the millenium.
>>2746756Real Bateman vibes from that commentNot supposed to be a compliment btw.
>>2743444So you saw a bunch of shit that you can see in any city. Glad ya enjoyed it country bumpkin
>>2746042This basically. Most destinations these days are literally just places to take Instagram pictures. Lately there is a literal bookstore in Seoul that has an elevator next to a huge bookshelf and people are going there to take a picture. We know damn well these thots aren’t reading any books. There’s tons of run down attractions that no one ever goes to. If people started flocking they would fix them up, fresh coat of paint, and there ya go. My personal pet peeve is most of the markets I’ve been to lately that used to sell authentic goods are now all literally selling fridge magnets and shot glasses.
>>2746790You see mopeds crashing into ambulances and knife fights in your city? What third world shithole do you live in?
>>2746792Tourism is becoming more concentrated and less diverse. But the upside is that more of the world is actually untouched. You can walk 500m down the great wall of China and there's one other person there, and it's another real traveller.Just give up on the places that tourism ruined, because they can't be in two places at once. If they all want to take that one photo with the tower of piza fucking good, they can't be shitting up somewhere else.
When I was 17, going anywhere felt like a big adventure. Now at 31, nothing surprises me or excites me anymore. I guess it's just part of growing up. I'm beginning to understand why my parents haven't bothered to travel overseas (in my lifetime). They know what's there, why bother going to see what you've already seen in a picture?
>>2742780I'll bite and give you a genuine response in the hope that it helps you. I've gotten stuck in your thought process before and gotten past it. First of all, don't watch travel youtubers. 99% of them either suck, are a vanity project, or operate on a clickbait basis. But most importantly, watching this shit puts you into a follower mindset. Break free from looking at and listening to what either people do. Forge your own reality. Which leads me to my next point..Yes, tourism has grown and at this point even spread to some previously isolated countries. Yes, it was easier years ago to just show up and let the exoticism and adventure of a new place sweep you along and entertain you. Yes, many cities, natural features, and establishments are hollowed-out theme parks. This is the price of globalism and technology and it is not going to reverse. The entire world save for few countries are experiencing an economic migration. The answer? You need to do your own research and form your own meaning. Don't go to a place and follow the motions. You can still have the experience you are craving, it just requires a shit-ton more effort and discomfort. Get good at having a read for what types of businesses operate (their branding and their quality) in an area. It can give you an idea of how touristic a place is. This is your pulse. Consider combining travel with another hobby to give you a mission instead of general sight-seeing. Most people do not choose to do this and instead they magnetize to places that have built-in tourism infrastructure. Can you blame them? People are either too tired from their careers or not bold enough to go somewhere outside the lines. Travel influencers give off-beat locations the illusion that they are "discovered" just by going and waving a camera around. My point is, there are still locations out there. You just need to adjust your expectations on what is available and try harder. Avoid ran-through attention slop places.
>>2747488not OP but this made me think of how when i go to a hotel or hostel and im carrying my bags and looking like a traveller and talking to the owner or whoevers working there, and all i can think about is all the people who have been there before me, and how they probably see me as a nuisance, someone they have to clean up after, someone who causes them problems, someone they have to pretend to smile for, and ahh... i dunno, i just cant enjoy anything anymore. im starting to understand why people commit suicide. there are so many reasons why i cant enjoy anything.
>>2747499You need 10mg/day of paxil.
>>2747427Why do anything for yourself at that point? Why even get married when you can just watch videos of chad rizzing up lasses on tiktok?
>>2742780everywhere is becoming the same place, everyone will speak englisheveryone will eat mcdonaldsevery country will become a province of the new global order
>>2747593What do you get from seeing a famous landmark? At least from marriage you get reciprocated love and happiness and comfort and support. That lasts forever. You can only spend so long at a landmark before you go, "meh, I've seen it now. Time to move on." For some people that's a day, others an hour, for me, about 5 seconds.
>>2747745You get memories. Those last longer than most marriages. It sucks that people feel the need to document every nook and cranny on social media and in doing so spoils a lot of the travel experience for others. Just stop following them and go experience those places on your own. I keep most of my travel photos to myself and just post a handful. It's a balance.
>>2742780Bro watching a edited YouTube video isn’t nowhere near the same as being there yourself
>>2746494>fucking afghan womenPlaying a dangerous game
>>2747795>he doesnt know about bacha bazi tourism
>>2747762>posting photosnobody wants to see your photos and nobody cares, people just click like because they want to keep the friendship alive
>>2742798zoomers unironically believe watching someone else do something is the same as doing it themselves, that's why they all watch streamers and "react" bullshit.
>>2747488to add onto this anon, yes it's true that english and globalism is everywhere so if you truly want a different connection then it seems like the tide has turned to the point where you need to learn a different language.
I started to feel this way about international travel and then I realized it was because I was just sort of doing the tourist thing and sticking to the cities. Every city is pretty much the same. Life there is pretty much the same. They’re fun to taste for a bit but get boring quickly. Now I prefer to either travel for specific interests, like some historical site or festival or to see some rural area I found online that looked impressive and take note of the flora and fauna and landscapes, or else I just travel closer to home. I actually have the most fun at home now. I’ve seen parts of my state most of my fellow citizens have never seen. I know more about its history than they do. That’s been enjoyable.
>>2747488going to come back to this post and samefag but i forgot to add the power of reading between the lines on social media. how frequently you see posts about a location, and how they describe the location, and what the target audience appears to be, can be extremely telling for what types of tourism you can expect.
>>2747795It's nowhere near there. Take a look at your government do not travel advisories and you'll be surprised at some of the destinations
>>2748118This. The vast majority of travel youtubers stick to cities. At most, they go off the tourist path and into the slums with absolutely nothing to do.Basically the only good travel youtubers are the ones that specialize in their home country and dig deep into the countryside and show places that English alone won't get you to. There are some Chinese ones who go deep into the mountains and show off some cool historical and natural sites that you can't access with public transportation, and certainly not without having some degree of Chinese fluency. Makes you realize that the world still has layers and layers of beautiful areas to explore and 99% of normies will never know about it. Most people only want to maximize their social media likes, and that's only done by visiting places some people have heard of or some other famous "influencer" has recently shown off.
>>2742780Don't travel just to travel, find something you want to do, something you want to see, or a person you want to reconnect with and make the travel plans around that. It's better when it's relevant to you. I like to do research for film/photography and study other cultures visuals and design for my company.
>>2742798Well yes. since who could deny that internet pornography demystifies sex for most people in childhood years before they ever engage in physical intimacies themselves?
>>2747599Mmm thanks ima order some mcdonalds nowThanks for reminding meYesterday I walked into a chinese man's food stand and he was boiling gutter oil. Have you ever precisely walked into and inhaled a cloud of boiling gutter oil steam? No? You should travel more!
I've embraced the low-stimulation life in order to go places that are too boring for normie travelers. People are always hankering for something to do, unable to escape the wagecage habit of constant busyness. Simply being in a place is enough for me these days, whether it's the forests of Michigan or a dusty Lao village. When there's no more vibes to absorb, I move on.
