The economy.

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.

Ethereum mining.

I finally got a decent GPU in the beginning of 2022 and set up a basic rig. In September of that year Ethereum switched to the "proof of stake" model, rendering mining useless. I managed to maybe get a total of $200 worth of Eth in that time, and that was that. Taking into account the cost of electricity, my profit was around $100.

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 😈

Pogs. 😉

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.

Anyone get a cyber truck in the last few weeks?

Do things count that I got into when it was already dead?

My life.

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.

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

I got helldivers 2 a week ago.

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.

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!

Burning music to CDs. Still fun to listen to in the car.

Pump it up.

I started playing in 2016, and it's such a niche thing compared to what rhythm games used to be in the early 00s.

I enjoy it but I almost always play alone.

Anno online... Great game, got really into it, then realized it was on its way out... Sad times

vine

Laser discs and quadraphonic LPs.

Escape from tarkov :/

Sometimes on the news or social media, I'll hear about some well-known musician, author, etc, who has died. There's been occasions where I check out their material and suddenly become a fan.

Have you heard of Daniel Dennett? Check him out.

Battlerite and OmegaStrikers

Kind of like that, I got into them as they were thriving, since it was on beta/release, but they died very quickly afterwards and it is a shame because nothing captures that feel for me, I like short burst competitive games like that, but I guess people generally aren’t into stuff like that.

E: And actually one more like that, the goatest of them all tbh, just been so long that i forgot about it, but this is one that is an awesome idea for anyone looking for some fun friend group comp game:

SpeedRunners.

This last one is a damn shame, because there really is nothing like it.

Toys-to-life video games. I went on a Skylanders spending spree less than a year before it officially died. $5-$15 figurines got sold at garage sales for $0.25-$3 each.

I had tons of fun getting into it and I was young enough that I could afford to waste the money, so I regret nothing.

Amateur radio. At this point it's a race to talk to old hams before they die.

The human race

Sriracha. I'm thankful to have found some fresh bottles recently, but they're hard to find

Living

Searx, technoblade, vendetta, death battle, yuzu, other stuff i forgot about

Only after writing this list i realised that the post asked for stuff with a dead community, not an abandoned game