I have to admit, I did buy a nice fidget spinner. ;)
Mid-20s today? Yeah. Ok.
In your 40s today? Welp…
It still makes a great cat toy!
Ok, that I haven’t considered. Old unsold cat toys should be repackaged as cat toys!
The new packaging could say “Remember these stupid things? Well cats still LOVE them! Watch your cat lose their fucking mind! It’s hilarious seeing their little fur brains try to comprehend these simple toys!”
I’d buy a spinner toy like that. Planking however was ALWAYS stupid, and everyone who did it should feel shame.
I’m 40+ and still love spinners :)
I’m 48 and just bought a fancy one from Etsy.
Got one after the craze had died down and they’re surprisingly fun - just a good quality desk toy
I did not buy any, but got one as a gift. Was embarrassed to use it in public, but genuinely enjoyed. All because since earlier than I can remember, I require keeping my hands busy with something.
I recently bought a nice hand machined metal one. It helps me focus when doing email
I had 6, and today I have 0. Yep, I lost all my fidget spinners.
Bro when I was a kid I was into it all. Tamagotchi, hyper colors everything, Pogs, Beanie Babies, Slap bracelets, scooters (not the razors scooters the earlier BMX scooters), friendship bracelets, that kickball with the plastic ring you bounced on, moon shoes, Jams, Big Dog, I’m a dude that loved him some Polly Pockets, windbreakers, bomber jackets, M.U.S.C.L.E, G.I. Joe, Pound Puppies, Garbage Pale Kids, those puffy monster balls you squeezed and their eyes popped out, Shrinky Dinks, and then by the late 90s I was walking around with 30" cuffs in my Kikwear and a Kangol.
Edit: Big Dawg changed to Big Dog, changed 80s to BMX.
I showed this to my friend and he reminded me of the time we got really into Swatch Watches but our parents wouldn’t buy them for us so we stole one and passed it back and forth until we got caught.
Your parents must’ve been wealthy because those are all the fun toys I remember in my childhood that all the other kids had. I didn’t have.
We were 80s middle class both parents worked. My dad sold insurance and my mom was a nurse.
Oh man this just awakened the memory of the “Big Dawg” stores. Actual stores that were ONLY big dawg merch shirts, hats, and pants.
If you can’t run with the big dog stay on the porch.
Holy shit, most of that list covers me and I’m just now appreciating how dramatically much stuff counts as fads.
Bro, yo-yos, beyblade, robot dogs, Pokemon at school, pencil toppers, pop-its, razor scooters, and more!
“that kickball with the plastic ring you bounced on“
It was called a pogo-ball. I loved mine. I remember doing skate grabs etc with it. I also remember a trick where you spun it like a top with your feet, jumped up so your feet were disconnected from it, and then landed back on it to continue pogo balling. It was a weird but fun toy.
Remember those metal tubes with liquid plastic in them and came with a straw to blow balloons? (Super eleastic bubble plastic)
They’re back. Bought a tube of Bloonies for my daughter the other day.
Skidz, Z Cavarici, IOU
middle school fashion was so dumb
those old Harlem Shake videos from 2013… and I was in two of em
Found the HR woman from 2013 who thought she was being cool…or possibly someone employed by a minor league hockey team.
CON LOS TERRORISTAS
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Here’s a funny one: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zecxd
An anti-Harlem shake Harlem shake video.
Wow, Dailymotion still exists! And they redesigned their website!
Bitcoin. I mined some (might’ve even been on my CPU at the time) back when it was easy to mine it. Not a ton, but enough that now I have to explain that despite thinking blockchain is just straight up a scam, I do have some Bitcoin in a wallet on my hard drive somewhere. (That I’ve never done anything with.)
Can you get to that wallet? A Bitcoin is worth $60k now.
Yup. I can. I have around 1/20 of a Bitcoin, so the amount I have should be worth about $3,000 USD (unless the price has crashed since I started writing this post. 😈)
Cashing it in would make me feel dirty. It’s basically just handing the bag to the next bagholder. (Though, I’m not really a baholder per se. I’m not really invested to speak of. The only investment I made to get this Bitcoin is to leave my computer on for like a month or less.) Feeding the ponzi monster, as it were.
But then again, it’s $3,000.
As much as I hate myself for admitting it, the possibility that the price will climb a little higher is probably part of why I didn’t trade it for real money back in late 2021 when the price of a Bitcoin was so high.
But, yeah, you’re probably right I should just sell it. Maybe I’ll just make whoever I sell it to promise they’re not giving me next month’s rent or their kids’ college fund. Lol.
Edit: Ok. You’ve inspired me to make a post asking other crypto-skeptics what I should do with it.
If it’s any consolation, I just use bitcoin to convert to Monero to buy drugs. So in a way there is an actual use for it 😊
Why drugs? VPSes, domains and gift cards are the legal things I can think of. Monero has been massively helpful to me with those while I cannot use my card)
You could donate it to some financial literacy nonprofit if you want to be rid of it without feeling dirty.
It’s crazy how this amount could actually change my life right now. At some point I did also have 1BTC but decided to gamble it all away because I thought it would never have any actual value so it didn’t matter.
I bought $270 worth that is now worth about $1,700. I have no idea what to do with it.
Pump-up sneakers
Better run better run
Faster than my bullet
(Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People)
The internet.
In all seriousness though, the World Wide Web.
Ok for reals, there was a time where cool kids wore their pants backwards.
Kriss-Kross will make ya JUMP! JUMP!
Mac Daddy will make ya—
JUMP JUMP!
The Daddy Mac’ll make ya…
I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!
In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.
I wear parachute pants when I can, although I usually just wear a sarong, as those are even more comfortable than pants.
Remember that nirvana came from a rural area.
JNCO
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
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I’ll go one even further. Before JNCO existed we’d just go to the thrift store and buy the largest size pants we could find. Pair a 48" waist pant with a XXL tshirt when you were 28" and youth large and you were at the height of skate fashion.
Wearing super preppy clothes to school/college. I was mistaken for a teacher in 11th grade. In college, I once wore a pencil skirt, black tights, white sweater, and high heels… to a regular Tuesday afternoon class, just because I wanted to.
I love this and wish people would still get more dressed up to do random stuff.
If I had time and money I would invent dressy clothes that are practical, long-lasting and comfortable!
The problem was that I adopted the trend without thinking about my poor college student lifestyle (LOTS of bus-metro-walk and carrying heavy books). By the end of that day, the tights had runs, the heels were dirty and scuffed, and my feet were killing me. I looked and felt like crap.
Haha- it’s always the shoes, isn’t it? I walk a lot and it’s really driven my footwear choices over the years. There is little crossover between the truly comfortable (hello, plantar fasciitis) and fancy stylish.
Though back in the day I would wear heels and tights for my retail jobs. Definitely helped me sell more!
Doing something because you wanted to makes you way more grown up than the clothes.
Aw, thank you. I appreciate it but let’s be real: I know it was stupid. Like, I thought that dressing smart means I’m smart. I did enjoy the feeling of being put together, but wearing my heavy backpack with heels was atrociously stupid.
That college outfit doesn’t sound weird to me at all, but I went to college in Portland, so maybe I’m used to weird.
You looked nice and took pride in yourself. You should remember this time fondly.
I used to wear a short-sleeve shirt over a long-sleeve shirt
gasps Stupid trend?!?
Laundry detergent economy is more efficient if your bottom-layer clothing items have lower mass. You can fit more short-sleeve shirts in the washer than long-sleeve shirts. So it’s better to have thin, short-sleeve t-shirts as the bottom layer and thick sweatshirts for the outer layer.
Is this not cool anymore??
I mean… I still do in the winter…
People still do this and it was never a trend. It’s classical style.
POGs. I don’t think anything is ever going to out stupid POGs
You shut your pretty whore mouth!!!
POG’s were, and always be, awesome!
At least they were cheap enough that every kid could feel like a pogillianaire.
NFTs are digital POGs with no slammer to gamble them with. That’s way, way more stupid.
Well… I’m old so I didn’t get into it.
Pog NFTs exist! Issued by the actual company. Glorious.
Don’t kids still play them?
I still don’t even know where they came from or why they existed but I did have a big tube of them and a nice brass slammer. Clearly I needed to fit in with my older brothers and that’s basically all I know about them.
They came from Hawaii, milk bottles or containers of some kind had the cardboard circle under the cap, and kid’s made up this game with them at the breakfast table
Interesting. I was speaking more to my personal collection than anything else—Guess it’s time to go down the rabbit hole of Pog history haha. Surprised they haven’t resurfaced as an app (unless they have, I haven’t checked).
I had a WWJD bracelet at one point in time. The late 90s were weird like that.
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Lolcats. I even dabbled in lolcode for no good reason.
I can has cheezburger
I don’t usually go along with trends, so my worst one is the starbucks planner thing where you collect stickers for every coffee you buy and you get a planner notebook for the coming year. Most expensive notebook I ever bought, and a waste of money. Also feels disgusting giving all that money to starbucks. This was like15 years ago though.
Atkins. The 00s low carb diet. How did people do it?
When I finally broke, I put steamed rice and French fries on a cheese pizza and rolled it up and ate it.
There’s a “modern” version of the Atkins diet, the keto diet. Same rules as far as I can tell, just rebranded. I went nuts. I couldn’t stop thinking about bread. Sound of it, smell of it, taste of it… It haunted me day and night. I’d often find myself looking up bread maker reviews, comparing different bread makers on Amazon… Don’t remember what I had when I finally gave up, wasn’t nearly as awesome what you did. But I can tell you I did not buy a bread maker afterwards.
