What are some trends/fads that you are glad the world has moved on from?
Duck face came to mind yesterday - randomly realized I hadn't seen duckface in the wild for a long time.
Or, alternatively, what are some old fads you wish would make a comeback?
The spirit of the question is social fads. Please try to keep replies to lighthearted things. I'll delete the post if the comments turn into political commentary.
Pogs should come back
Last week, I had to explain what pogs were to a pair of teammates, had to stop myself from starting with "back in my day, when things were good and people didn't spend so much time on their phones..."
Yeah, because many people didn't have cell phones back then. For me it was when I was maybe third grade; two or three kids out of the whole class had phones.
Oh wow, do you mind if I ask when pogs hit for you? I would've been in early grade school, so, maybe 94/95.
Seems like I'm a bit younger than you, it must've been early 2000s for me.
Oh I figured as much, unless you went to Bayside with Zach Morris and crew!
But I didn't know Pogs came back in the early 00s, which is super cool to hear.
Pogs are the civilized upgrade of throwing rocks together. Fuck yeah it should come back. It is ingrained in our DNA
They already did. That one's cyclical.
Vuvuzelas.
Saw (or rather heard) a few at a football game recently. They're still here, but at least it isn't a stadium full.
Instead we use cowbells like God and nature intended ;)
I got a fever
Thanks for the reminder lol
Vaguebooking. At least it died out for me, when my age group grew up past high school. Specifically, the vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass "motivation quotes" or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life, usually pointed at someone.
I still have one person who never moved on from high-school who still does crap like this, but now I just still follow them for the pure nostalgia and the joy of seeing these. Seriously, they show how immature they are, unable to actually go talk about their emotions a veil so thin of "please I want my privacy" while posting about it online.
You've just described like 90% of the AIM away messages in high school lol.
Oh god now there is a concept I long forgot about!
I didn't notice it at the time, but AIM away messages were basically like proto-Twitter long before actual Twitter became a thing. Some people would always be "away" so their inspirational crap would show since AIM still let you chat like normal while "away".
Aaahaha. Back when Facebook was still a thing I would vaguebook with Protomen lyrics. God knows what I was thinking
If you destroy the working class all you get is a broken machine?
Omfg yes. I remember when Facebook had that promt next to the posting input, prefixing all statements.
"Person".. is feeling like somebody hurt me badly.
Repost if your a strong black woman who don't need no man
Oh my, yes. That one needed to die before it started. Obviously fishing for responses, refusing to elaborate, sometimes getting defensive in the comments, sometimes moving conversations to private chat.
And the tired old "someone knows who they are!"
Followed with one of their friends saying "Yeah Tim's an asshole" and them replying either "Yes he's such an asshole" or equally likely "Please respect our privacy". Either way, super annoying.
Just publicly saying they're in the know, and closer to the poster than anyone who doesn't know. "Look at me! I'm such a close friend that I know who they're talking about!"
Omg u ok hun? PMd u xx
Thx im fine thx 4 always being thrre xxxx
You don't really hear about serial killers anymore.
Of course not - they're in politics now after all.
Nah thats serial Rapists in the politics
Yeah it's not like most women are into true crime.
I'm already feeling nostalgic for democracy
NFTs. They have not been and will not be missed.
crypto in general can go away anytime now also
I'm glad pop music stopped sounding like EDM
Next I’d be pretty happy if EDM could stop sounding like pop music too
Not sure that this alternative is better.
Compression up the ass and nasal whiny vocals can't become uncool soon enough.
It's different from what i'm thinking of. I'm hearing alot of jpop/kpop-influence in the song.
But it's also insanely compressed. Artificially loud is the description that comes to mind. Like i get a headache from the constant pressure of the song.
Most all trends or fads are not my thing. Im usually always out of fashion and its sorta funny when something I wear or do or whatever actually comes around again or whatnot.
Skinny jeans, ultra tiny phones, basically anything that was a PITA to use or traded comfort to look fashionable.
Two things I want to see come back is JNCO style jeans that are enormous, and zipoffs. Oversized jeans - that's comfort right there. I lived through that. There's nothing like being able to put your 2" thick 10 lb math textbook in your back pocket like a wallet, lol. Zipoff pants / convertable pants were the bomb. You could be warm on a cold morning and have shorts in the afternoon. I really miss those, and the lack of cargo pockets today. Where have all the cargos gone???
Coincidentally I was thinking about this yesterday, along with girls puffing their cheeks in selfies.
Duckface? Yeah that's not completely dead, unfortunately.
What’s the term for the guy equivalent? Is it like jaw-maxing r something? I’m happy that seems to be gone as well
Ooohh I heard of that one. I think it was called mewing.
'mid', 'based', and the rest of last-year's clique-signaling kid-pidgin.
The fidget spinner.
Currently waiting on people to stop using "know what I mean", "end of the day", "umm", "like", "I mean", and other filler words.
I think you'll be waiting a very long time. The specific words and phrases will shift, but I think filler words are just a natural consequence of thinking while speaking. Some people are better at that than
meothers but it's not going to disappear.Obama: "Um."
Vonnegut: "Um."
Yeah, um, it works.
I agree but also filler words are important. It spaces out the information, making it easier for people to digest in real time.
A brief pause does the same thing.
But then.....you sound like....William.....Shatner.....and I'm not...sure....if that is any....better.
Here is an example of what I mean https://youtu.be/qqfk7-3iN-U This man is pausing briefly to gather his next thought instead of grunting like someone with a double digit iq.
Fidgets have great therapeutic uses, just they tend to get tossed at teachers who aren't trained
Pokemon
Yeah brother wooooo
There's just too many to keep up with.
I couldn't imagine kids being interested in pokemon these days, so any new generation is kind of stuck with an aging audience with more responsibilities and less brain power to dedicate towards remembering all the pokemon.
Motivational posters. I want that kitten to fall to a horrific death.
Bell bottoms need to die. (And in case you didn’t catch it, that means all variations of bell bottoms) (flaired is just one iteration of bell bottoms)
I will give up my bell bottoms when you pull them off my cold, dead, child of the 60's butt.
Likewise, my boot cuts
At this point ITT, we have disavowed all forms of pants. Guess I am going commando.
Kinky, how much paying?
Low-rise jeans are equally heinous.
Nope. Love, a short waisted person.