transcription: women be like “where can i find a goth gf?” my sister in christ we killed the american shopping mall and the goth girls lost their natural habitat
transcription: women be like “where can i find a goth gf?” my sister in christ we killed the american shopping mall and the goth girls lost their natural habitat
They’ve been dying for a while. COVID was a bit of a deathblow, but the rot was setting in way before that. A combination of online marketplaces becoming the norm, and the progression away from people ever leaving their houses really ate away at American malls over the past two decades.
I don’t live in America, but I spent a decent amount of time on r/deadmalls back in the day and found the factors behind these monoliths crumpling fascinating.
…big boxes killed malls in the 2000s, the retail apocalypse killed big boxes in the teens, and covid put the nails in big retail’s coffin…
Honestly my interpretation is that many of the malls that were either built in places they shouldn’t have been or built too large are finally dying off but I’ve still been some absolutely popping malls as recently as last week
Basically any mall that continues to rely entirely on a big box store or 4 to sustain themselves is crumbling but those which have refocused on smaller stores are in much better shape