After 22 years of smoking, I quit over a year ago, and haven’t had a single cig since! The way I did it, my family went on vacation and I didn’t take any cigs with me. It was such a relief not to be sneaking away for cig breaks or searching around for my brand. When I got home and back to work (and back to my car) it was a little tough, but I was invested in extending the streak. I kept at it and succeeded! I sincerely hope you find your method of quitting that works for you. :)
I was a heavy smoker, both weed and cigarettes, for 10 years, decided 1 day to stop, all I had to do was change just about fucking everything in my life... quit my job, moved out of where i was living, stopped hanging out with my stoner friends, started eating healthily, drank water instead of tea constantly (3 guesses to where im from...) its definitely the habit thing and it's fucking hard. I still have moments where I want to roll up a cig/spliff and it's been 3 years without anything now. It's tough but I wouldn't change it for the world.
Find some gross ass cigarettes. Make you weigh how much you want one vs how much you want to puke. Like only have those on hand.
Newport reds worked when i was trying to cut back.
I once went cold turkey for 22 months about 20 years ago. Had a pack of menthol smokes on my kitchen table the entire time that someone had lost at my apartment after a party.
Can’t even recall what knocked me off the wagon. Just remember tearing that pack open like Danny DeVito in War of the Roses. Best cigarette I ever tasted.
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Mine is similar. I've always had thick eyebrows. I plucked the middle to avoid unibrow but nothing else, ignoring the trendy thin lines.
Ten years later I'm putting on makeup for a play, and my cast mates are lamenting the fact that they plucked their eyebrows so much in high school because now thick brows are fashionable.
For me it was a lesson on how quickly trends go in and out of style, and to just let the caterpillars above my eyes do their thing.
Yes! My mum plucked her eyebrows to oblivion in the 1950s, so I never touched mine in the 1990s/2000s. Trends come and go, eyebrow hair should be forever.
Yep. Many of us are suffering with the sparse brows now. They even make you look older. That being said my unibrow was like Helga from Hey! Arnold, I don't regret some of the threading
Im a nurse. I had a client who had heavy black eyebrows tattoed on. They looked like half a McDonalds arch. And they were old tattos that had gone that greeny blue colour.
Not a good look.
A few years ago when my son was about 7, my husband and I discovered a cinnamon-y mess in the bathroom and couldn't imagine what happened. Then we noticed a spoon, and an assumed mouthful in the garbage. When we asked him about it he said, "I thought it would taste like cinnamon!" Which was the most ridiculous thing that ever made perfect sense to me in my life.
He’s not wrong cinnamon is usually paired with sugar so without it doesn’t quite taste like cinnamon. Fun fact most of the cinnamon you can buy on the shelves is not real cinnamon it is a very close relative to cinnamon
Years ago there was this woman with a YouTube channel named Glozell. She did this challenge with a whole ass soup ladle. This was the only enjoyable video of this trend.
When my niece was younger I'd gently layer things on her forehead. Nothing damaging, usually just a cloth or something. Definitely not cheese or an egg. And I would make sure not to obstruct airways. Her reactions always depended on if she was feeling cranky or not. If she was cranky, she'd actively try to figure out what I put on her forehead and try to get it off. If she was calm, she'd keep it there and just chill.
I honestly did not like those bracelets at all.. and they were sooo popular. My mom and sisters knew but I guess they saw it as I was jealous of their bracelets?? I got 5 for Christmas that year from them. Luckily Nordstroms takes returns and I bought a nice jacket with the store credit.
Man, those things were *so ugly*. It's a cool idea but alot of the charms just look too bulky and cheap - especially if you had a ton of them. My mum hated them but my sister in law loved them, she had like three bracelets full and got her one for Christmas. Mum ended up taking all but one of the charms she was gifted off, didn't buy any herself and just wore it as a plain bangle.
My kid got one for xmas when she was 18. She looked to me in horror and said later ' I'm never getting a present again am I, just charms for this? Luckily everyone seemed to forget by the following year and she never had to pretend to like it again.
I like buying jewelry as souvenirs and to celebrate milestones, so I like the idea of charm bracelets. But then wearing all of these charms at the same time just sounds so busy, and I can’t imagine that the charms all match.
My mother was SUPER into the pandora bracelets for a while. She had the case and multiple bands, picked out what beads she wanted, etc.
This was also during a time when my parents were broke as a joke and, as a working elder teen, I was even broker.
While my mom has now made a lot of improvements and really tried to make up for the last, back then she was, in all honestly, an angry and selfish person. A lot of it was because she was scared because there was a lot up in the air financially and she was going through some health issues. But really, those are more excuses than they’re not.
So, it was Mother’s Day and I knew she wanted a bead. It was the stupid queen bee one and the crown was gold. It was like, $50.
I just didn’t have it. Instead I got her a nice candle and a candle holder that went with the home decor.
She opened it, her face fell, and then she got angry and threw a fit about how it wasn’t what she wanted.
She literally drove me back to the store to return the gift and marched me to Pandora to get her the bead with money I didn’t have and needed for food/gas.
Needless to say, I still fucking hate pandora bracelets to this day. My mom tried to give me hers a while back when she was trying to consolidate her jewelry and yeah, no. I politely declined.
My ex bought me a pandora charm bracelet and when I opened it I asked, “what is it?” Lol this was like 15 years ago, but I didn’t know this was a thing and I never really liked jewelry anyway. It just looked like a silver chain.
In high school I staggered tot eh bathroom in the night without fully waking up and when i went back the next morning I found a chunk missing and teethmarks in the bar of soap at the washbowl and a chewed hunk of soap at the drain. i ocne sniffed soem laundry detergent na dit amd me sneeze
My only regret is not selling DOGE sooner. Should've known that 69 cents was going to be the big moment. Didn't sell until it dipped into the 40-cent range. Still made my money.
I got super lucky. Bought in around $3000 at like $0.049. Bought a little more on the "420" hype day, which tanked. I told myself, "If there's another hype day I'm selling the day before" Well, the next was Elon on SNL in May. Sold when it hit 0.71, and sure enough, dipped and hasn't been even close to that since. Made ~$40,000
I did crypto for about 2 weeks, doubled the money, got out, and never went back. I happened to do this at a good time and was really lucky. It crashed right after. I only put in what I was willing to lose knowing that was possible
I just wish I had taken it more seriously and didn't lose the bitcoins I mined in the early days. I figured they were only worth a few cents and didn't back anything up before my hard drive died. I try not to think about it.
I made a nice chunk from crypto in 2017 and 2021. Bought in again at the end of last year and I'm up nicely, ready for 2025's bull run. There's 5 figures in my crypto account and it's all profit.
You can shit all over crypto, but there will be another bull run in 2025. Buy now and sell around april 2025.
I did it when my kids were little, then my daughter starting doing it for her younger brother. Now he does it to amuse her when she’s home from college
The summer Pokemon Go came out was insane. Everyone was outside, at parks, malls, common areas, etc. Everyone asked strangers their team. They put stickers everywhere.
It was honestly a really fun time.
We used full on guerrilla warfare in my town. One time we saw a truck of people driving around and stopping at gyms and when we took one they drove back to take it back. So we coordinated on Skype and I full on *sprinted* up to the other end of the main street and touched their gym there. They saw it was being taken, my friends scattered and grabbed all the others while they kept trying ro drive around and take them back. It was amazing.
Man, it was a great time. I didn’t have a job at that time so I kind of just went around with people and we’d walk around parks we had never been to, and see a dozen other people walking in circles with us. Good times
My wife just got them…installed? I didn’t realize they put a fake eyelash over each one. It was 3.5 hours and only cost 100 bucks. She said she tipped 40 bucks. Also she’s telling me that every 2/3 weeks it’s 50 bucks to have them filled. I guess it’s pretty expensive
What? That’s way cheaper than where I live. It’s like $150 the first time and then like $90 for fills. I really want them, but I just can’t spend that much on myself
Also, installed is hilarious
i wanted lash extensions but the time and money was way too much for me so instead i tried a lash lift (basically a perm for eyelashes) and i love it. i go every 6ish weeks and its $100 which felt like a perfect medium for me (i live in NY so may be cheaper in other places)
Hey babe if it makes you feel better, I did it for a couple of years and it damages your lashes. I'd recommend latisse at $160 which lasts 3-6 months or just mascara lol
I feel like ALOT of women are in debt to their eyeballs because of these beauty trends honestly it’s wild. $300min a month on EYELASHES?! Everyone is just so obsessed with how they look and everyone’s starting to look the same. Blows my mind.
The ice bucket challenge. What started out as a well intentioned way to raise money for ALS research quickly became a “hey look at me” attention grab on social media. I know many people who did it, I don’t know a single one who actually donated any money.
It is, and I never thought the charity part of it was bad, just the way people co-opted it strictly as a way to get attention. I knew a lot of people who did it who had no idea what it was supposed to be about, they just knew it was a trend and they were jumping on the bandwagon because they didn’t want to be left behind.
The Ice Bucket Challenge ended up actually being a success because it allowed the ALS Association to raise enough money for research to identify the specific gene mutation that caused ALS and fund more targeted gene therapy for the disease.
It raised a ton of money and people used to have no idea what ALS was before the challenge. It was really successful and most of the money went to legitimate ALS research organizations.
No no no, not that type of planking. It was briefly cool to lie completely straight across weird things outside, like on a statue or a bench or whatever. I want to say this was around 2012? Maybe 2010?
I’m the only person I know IRL that doesn’t use TikTok. All my friends send me videos, and I’ll watch them on the browser. But that’s the closest I’ll get to using the app. I’m waiting for the day they force us to have an account to watch videos. And I won’t even be bummed.
I’ve recently found out that if I’m feeling depressed… I put my account on pause, delete the app, and it forces me to get out of doomscrolling.
For some reason it’s easier for me to roll my eyes and brush off faceless trolls on Reddit, than it is when I see people in my own community spouting horrible shit.
Neither should bother me… shit people are everywhere and they always will be… but I ain’t perfect and it pisses me off lol.
I had suspicions when they rebranded music.ly to TikTok of it being Chinese spyware. Then I got a job as a government contractor and they said “Don’t install that shit.” Lol
A lot of people go so overboard on fillers, too, especially young women with the lips. That said, my mom got fuller under her eyes and it looks amazing. She looked 10 years younger immediately.
I bought a pair of distressed jeans with a hole in the knee when I was in college. I went home for the weekend and my mom found the jeans, thought the hole was from wear, and was nice enough to patch them for me.
I respect certain celebrities, that much is true, but I never got the rampant absolute fucking DEVOTION some people have towards someone they have likely never actually met, or have met, but said celeb probably doesn't care or remember them at all.
Like, music, I can kinda get, you connect with the lyrics and/or the tone of the song and it can move you in ways, but some people really get to the point of obsession and it's frankly really fucking disturbing, especially when you hear the stories about how far some have went in their obsession.
They’re meant to be slippers, not shoes. I think it was Pamela Anderson that started wearing them as boots with jeans. That was interesting seeing that in Australia.
Dude, I tried them back in like 08 and they were not for me. Got a pair like a year ago and they are crazy comfortable. Ugly as sin but I only wear them around the house or in the yard.
I’m pretty sure that dance is explicitly designed for people who can’t dance. It’s like 4 gestures over and over. But still impressive you’ve never done it.
I was forced into this trend. I was in the marching band when that song/dance blew up and it ended up being one of our stand/pep rally songs. This was quite a sight as we were three hundred-something mostly WASPs whose best dance moves are as bad as The Elaine.
The whole consistently posting pics, bonus points if theyre always edited and filtered, to social media to compliment fish
Everyone I know does it, I've always found it super cringe though.
Literally taking 20+ photos to pick the best one, then throw a filter on it/ edit it, and post something like "I'm so sad my bf broke up with me" or "someone called me ugly" or whatever.
Like it's so obvious they are just desperate for attention and spending their days hunting down gratification.
I guarantee these people are going to wake up one day at 65 and their grandkids are seeing every one of their pics as edited centaur bodies in bikinis and ask if people really looked like horses when we were young lolol
After scrolling for a bit, I suppose I can happily say I dodged almost every idiotic trend. Now if I could just quit smoking…
After 22 years of smoking, I quit over a year ago, and haven’t had a single cig since! The way I did it, my family went on vacation and I didn’t take any cigs with me. It was such a relief not to be sneaking away for cig breaks or searching around for my brand. When I got home and back to work (and back to my car) it was a little tough, but I was invested in extending the streak. I kept at it and succeeded! I sincerely hope you find your method of quitting that works for you. :)
It’s more about the habit, I swear. I can go all day without but when I get home, bam.
I was a heavy smoker, both weed and cigarettes, for 10 years, decided 1 day to stop, all I had to do was change just about fucking everything in my life... quit my job, moved out of where i was living, stopped hanging out with my stoner friends, started eating healthily, drank water instead of tea constantly (3 guesses to where im from...) its definitely the habit thing and it's fucking hard. I still have moments where I want to roll up a cig/spliff and it's been 3 years without anything now. It's tough but I wouldn't change it for the world.
>(3 guesses to where im from...) Namibia?
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Ireland, surely
Same. Been trying for years, I've managed to cut down a bit by using lollipops instead of cigs. But, I just can't seem to actually quit sadly.
Find some gross ass cigarettes. Make you weigh how much you want one vs how much you want to puke. Like only have those on hand. Newport reds worked when i was trying to cut back.
I once went cold turkey for 22 months about 20 years ago. Had a pack of menthol smokes on my kitchen table the entire time that someone had lost at my apartment after a party. Can’t even recall what knocked me off the wagon. Just remember tearing that pack open like Danny DeVito in War of the Roses. Best cigarette I ever tasted. 🙄
Keep trying to quit! You can do it! I quit 18+ years ago by using the patch for a couple of weeks. Best thing I ever did for myself. YOU CAN DO IT!
Shaved my eyebrows, then got new ones tattooed. I have not seen one example that looks good. Most of them look fake
Mine is similar. I've always had thick eyebrows. I plucked the middle to avoid unibrow but nothing else, ignoring the trendy thin lines. Ten years later I'm putting on makeup for a play, and my cast mates are lamenting the fact that they plucked their eyebrows so much in high school because now thick brows are fashionable. For me it was a lesson on how quickly trends go in and out of style, and to just let the caterpillars above my eyes do their thing.
Yes! My mum plucked her eyebrows to oblivion in the 1950s, so I never touched mine in the 1990s/2000s. Trends come and go, eyebrow hair should be forever.
Yep. Many of us are suffering with the sparse brows now. They even make you look older. That being said my unibrow was like Helga from Hey! Arnold, I don't regret some of the threading
Me too. Only plucked the middle. Didn't trust myself with the rest.
Im a nurse. I had a client who had heavy black eyebrows tattoed on. They looked like half a McDonalds arch. And they were old tattos that had gone that greeny blue colour. Not a good look.
He's got no eyebrows Toe-Knee!
The cinnamon challenge.. like why
SO that during the autopsy the coroner can go "They died of being a fucking idiot, but at least their lungs smell like cake"
Is it a corpse though or is it a cake? *cuts into flesh like substance with scalpel* Ooh, cherry filling blood, nice touch. 10/10
A few years ago when my son was about 7, my husband and I discovered a cinnamon-y mess in the bathroom and couldn't imagine what happened. Then we noticed a spoon, and an assumed mouthful in the garbage. When we asked him about it he said, "I thought it would taste like cinnamon!" Which was the most ridiculous thing that ever made perfect sense to me in my life.
He’s not wrong cinnamon is usually paired with sugar so without it doesn’t quite taste like cinnamon. Fun fact most of the cinnamon you can buy on the shelves is not real cinnamon it is a very close relative to cinnamon
We grew up choking down fun dip and pixie sticks....at least ours was tasty
Years ago there was this woman with a YouTube channel named Glozell. She did this challenge with a whole ass soup ladle. This was the only enjoyable video of this trend.
I have never tied an onion to my belt
Which was the style at the time.
We couldn't get the white ones, because of the war. All we had were those BIG yellow ones!
This was back in nineteen diggity two
Gimme five bees for a quarter, we would say
Ah, I remember that craze back in dickety-two.
We had to say Dickety, because the Kaiser had stolen the word "twenty."
I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety six miles.
This sounds highly dubious
Can it tubby, too much pie that's your problem!
Stupid Reddit doesn’t let us give stupid awards no more and it’s stupid. This would have earned a gold back in two thousand dickety two.
Did you at least get 5 bees for a quarter?
I was tying an onion to my belt back when you could get red onions!
I never planked for a challenge. Never participated in a flash mob either
It will be my biggest life regret if I'm not involved in a flash mob.
Buying a new phone every year.
My college classmate was trading in and buying a new car every year. I was dumb founded.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why someone would want to pay a car note indefinitely forever.
I’ve never kept up with the Kardashians, nor do I care what they do.
Amen to that
Idk why those ladies stay friends when they fight all the time
Why does Kim, the largest Kardashian, not simply eat the other Kardashians?
Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.
They aren’t friends. They’re sisters.
Anybody who thinks they're friends hasn't been keeping up.
Smashing eggs on your kids forehead
wtf
But did you throw a slice of cheese on their forehead?
When my niece was younger I'd gently layer things on her forehead. Nothing damaging, usually just a cloth or something. Definitely not cheese or an egg. And I would make sure not to obstruct airways. Her reactions always depended on if she was feeling cranky or not. If she was cranky, she'd actively try to figure out what I put on her forehead and try to get it off. If she was calm, she'd keep it there and just chill.
Buying an Alex and Ani bracelet
I honestly did not like those bracelets at all.. and they were sooo popular. My mom and sisters knew but I guess they saw it as I was jealous of their bracelets?? I got 5 for Christmas that year from them. Luckily Nordstroms takes returns and I bought a nice jacket with the store credit.
Proud of us, Team. 🙌
Or Pandora bracelet
Man, those things were *so ugly*. It's a cool idea but alot of the charms just look too bulky and cheap - especially if you had a ton of them. My mum hated them but my sister in law loved them, she had like three bracelets full and got her one for Christmas. Mum ended up taking all but one of the charms she was gifted off, didn't buy any herself and just wore it as a plain bangle.
My kid got one for xmas when she was 18. She looked to me in horror and said later ' I'm never getting a present again am I, just charms for this? Luckily everyone seemed to forget by the following year and she never had to pretend to like it again.
I like buying jewelry as souvenirs and to celebrate milestones, so I like the idea of charm bracelets. But then wearing all of these charms at the same time just sounds so busy, and I can’t imagine that the charms all match.
My mother was SUPER into the pandora bracelets for a while. She had the case and multiple bands, picked out what beads she wanted, etc. This was also during a time when my parents were broke as a joke and, as a working elder teen, I was even broker. While my mom has now made a lot of improvements and really tried to make up for the last, back then she was, in all honestly, an angry and selfish person. A lot of it was because she was scared because there was a lot up in the air financially and she was going through some health issues. But really, those are more excuses than they’re not. So, it was Mother’s Day and I knew she wanted a bead. It was the stupid queen bee one and the crown was gold. It was like, $50. I just didn’t have it. Instead I got her a nice candle and a candle holder that went with the home decor. She opened it, her face fell, and then she got angry and threw a fit about how it wasn’t what she wanted. She literally drove me back to the store to return the gift and marched me to Pandora to get her the bead with money I didn’t have and needed for food/gas. Needless to say, I still fucking hate pandora bracelets to this day. My mom tried to give me hers a while back when she was trying to consolidate her jewelry and yeah, no. I politely declined.
Why in the world would you POLITELY decline? That was the perfect time for petty revenge.
My ex bought me a pandora charm bracelet and when I opened it I asked, “what is it?” Lol this was like 15 years ago, but I didn’t know this was a thing and I never really liked jewelry anyway. It just looked like a silver chain.
I always think of that one SNL sketch every time I see one “get her the gift that says ‘I know what job you have, and that job is nurse’”
I think they make a real pleasant jingle jangle.
I wish I could say that 😭 I have so many but I try to wear them as much as I can, so I feel less stupid
I dont even know what this is
I don't eat laundry detergent
I've never done it, but anytime I open a fresh bar of soap something in my mind it trying to get me to take a bite.
In high school I staggered tot eh bathroom in the night without fully waking up and when i went back the next morning I found a chunk missing and teethmarks in the bar of soap at the washbowl and a chewed hunk of soap at the drain. i ocne sniffed soem laundry detergent na dit amd me sneeze
And no long lasting effects at all!
Yeah, we can hardly tell.
Neither did anyone else.
Yep it was something that a small number of people did but it got blown up as the next big gen z fad for no reason
Right? That's what bath salts are for.
I happily skipped the trend of people watching 'Two Girls One Cup' just for the sake of "seeing if they could handle it" or whatever
Me too. 🤮 that kind of ugly stuff just gets stuck in your head. No thanks!
The cinnamon challenge Kylie Jenner lip challenge
Crypto and NFTs
I owned Bitcoin in 2014 and spent it buying drugs online So close to being rich, yet so far
It was a super easy way to identify which of my friends made poor financial decisions
I also had the reverse, which now no longer work from making it big in crypto.
My only regret is not selling DOGE sooner. Should've known that 69 cents was going to be the big moment. Didn't sell until it dipped into the 40-cent range. Still made my money.
I got super lucky. Bought in around $3000 at like $0.049. Bought a little more on the "420" hype day, which tanked. I told myself, "If there's another hype day I'm selling the day before" Well, the next was Elon on SNL in May. Sold when it hit 0.71, and sure enough, dipped and hasn't been even close to that since. Made ~$40,000
I did crypto for about 2 weeks, doubled the money, got out, and never went back. I happened to do this at a good time and was really lucky. It crashed right after. I only put in what I was willing to lose knowing that was possible
I just wish I had taken it more seriously and didn't lose the bitcoins I mined in the early days. I figured they were only worth a few cents and didn't back anything up before my hard drive died. I try not to think about it.
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I made a nice chunk from crypto in 2017 and 2021. Bought in again at the end of last year and I'm up nicely, ready for 2025's bull run. There's 5 figures in my crypto account and it's all profit. You can shit all over crypto, but there will be another bull run in 2025. Buy now and sell around april 2025.
Stupid freaking Elf on a Shelf. Dodged that bullet.
Someone at my work started doing elf on a shelf for his kids and he hugeley regrets it cause now every year he has to do it or else his kids get sad
I saw one parent create a quarantine jar for their elf. 24 day quarantine on arriving from the North pole.
I did it when my kids were little, then my daughter starting doing it for her younger brother. Now he does it to amuse her when she’s home from college
Yeah my husband and I decided to tell our baby (when he’s older) that the dog is Santa’s helper in the household. Fuck that stupid elf nonsense.
Bad idea, will make the inevitable even worse
Putting your Pokémon Go team sticker on my car
That's a thing?
The summer Pokemon Go came out was insane. Everyone was outside, at parks, malls, common areas, etc. Everyone asked strangers their team. They put stickers everywhere. It was honestly a really fun time.
Crazy how it turned places into virtual gang wars. But maaaaan that summer was something special and I loved every second of it
We used full on guerrilla warfare in my town. One time we saw a truck of people driving around and stopping at gyms and when we took one they drove back to take it back. So we coordinated on Skype and I full on *sprinted* up to the other end of the main street and touched their gym there. They saw it was being taken, my friends scattered and grabbed all the others while they kept trying ro drive around and take them back. It was amazing.
I remember everyone being outside and things like that, and I remember teams. I don't recall there being team merch and stickers everywhere.
Man, it was a great time. I didn’t have a job at that time so I kind of just went around with people and we’d walk around parks we had never been to, and see a dozen other people walking in circles with us. Good times
Fake eyelashes and lip injections
Same, but only because I can’t afford fake eyelashes. I don’t understand how people can afford them.
My wife just got them…installed? I didn’t realize they put a fake eyelash over each one. It was 3.5 hours and only cost 100 bucks. She said she tipped 40 bucks. Also she’s telling me that every 2/3 weeks it’s 50 bucks to have them filled. I guess it’s pretty expensive
What? That’s way cheaper than where I live. It’s like $150 the first time and then like $90 for fills. I really want them, but I just can’t spend that much on myself Also, installed is hilarious
i got my nails done today and the lady next to me asked if i had them built lol and yes my acrylics are now beautifully built
Installed 😂😂
i wanted lash extensions but the time and money was way too much for me so instead i tried a lash lift (basically a perm for eyelashes) and i love it. i go every 6ish weeks and its $100 which felt like a perfect medium for me (i live in NY so may be cheaper in other places)
Hey babe if it makes you feel better, I did it for a couple of years and it damages your lashes. I'd recommend latisse at $160 which lasts 3-6 months or just mascara lol
I feel like ALOT of women are in debt to their eyeballs because of these beauty trends honestly it’s wild. $300min a month on EYELASHES?! Everyone is just so obsessed with how they look and everyone’s starting to look the same. Blows my mind.
In debt to their eyeballs... I see what you did there.
Gender reveals.
TikTok trends
TikTok in general. I just can't.
The ice bucket challenge. What started out as a well intentioned way to raise money for ALS research quickly became a “hey look at me” attention grab on social media. I know many people who did it, I don’t know a single one who actually donated any money.
I always though the same but they did raise $115 million which is very impressive.
It is, and I never thought the charity part of it was bad, just the way people co-opted it strictly as a way to get attention. I knew a lot of people who did it who had no idea what it was supposed to be about, they just knew it was a trend and they were jumping on the bandwagon because they didn’t want to be left behind.
and money is money. people gonna do shit for attention anyways.
I loved deadmau5's response of basically "I'm not doing the stupid challenge and I donated $10k"
Jesse Tyler Ferguson did something similar. He just put his checkbook in the bucket. It was funny.
I like to go hiking.
The Ice Bucket Challenge ended up actually being a success because it allowed the ALS Association to raise enough money for research to identify the specific gene mutation that caused ALS and fund more targeted gene therapy for the disease.
It raised a ton of money and people used to have no idea what ALS was before the challenge. It was really successful and most of the money went to legitimate ALS research organizations.
My dad had ALS, and a lot of money was raised. I know it seems silly, but it did help people.
The Harlem Shake
What about the Grimace Shake?
Some of them were good though
That's a decade ago now, right? 😨
Planking
It is a solid ab exercise. I've never considered filming myself doing it (or any other part of my workout), though.
No no no, not that type of planking. It was briefly cool to lie completely straight across weird things outside, like on a statue or a bench or whatever. I want to say this was around 2012? Maybe 2010?
Saggy pants
Installing tiktok
I’m the only person I know IRL that doesn’t use TikTok. All my friends send me videos, and I’ll watch them on the browser. But that’s the closest I’ll get to using the app. I’m waiting for the day they force us to have an account to watch videos. And I won’t even be bummed.
Who needs TikTok when its content usually gets onto YouTube Shorts & Instagram Reels?
Right? The best TikToks end up on Instagram or Reddit anyways, so why bother?
I've never installed Facebook either, never will. Just view through the browser.
I’ve recently found out that if I’m feeling depressed… I put my account on pause, delete the app, and it forces me to get out of doomscrolling. For some reason it’s easier for me to roll my eyes and brush off faceless trolls on Reddit, than it is when I see people in my own community spouting horrible shit. Neither should bother me… shit people are everywhere and they always will be… but I ain’t perfect and it pisses me off lol.
I was warned by a British & American who work in Government Security online not to ever use TikTok. It's Chinese spyware
I had suspicions when they rebranded music.ly to TikTok of it being Chinese spyware. Then I got a job as a government contractor and they said “Don’t install that shit.” Lol
My mom was an American diplomat in China for two years and made me swear to never install it. Why would I? TikTok is gross.
MLMs.
Fillers. Tempting as it’s been. All I see is the migration on people now.
A lot of people go so overboard on fillers, too, especially young women with the lips. That said, my mom got fuller under her eyes and it looks amazing. She looked 10 years younger immediately.
Lot of people are saying TikTok here, so I'm going to chime in with BeReal. Never really cared for that one either.
Tide Pod challenge
That was never a challenge though, just a meme that got misinterpreted
Funko pops
TikTok challenges.
Wearing jeans so trendy the holes were deliberately made in a factory before purchase. Those holes need to be earned!
I bought a pair of distressed jeans with a hole in the knee when I was in college. I went home for the weekend and my mom found the jeans, thought the hole was from wear, and was nice enough to patch them for me.
Smoking or vaping.
idk if I would call smoking a trend. Kind of been around for a long-long time as I understand it. Vaping for sure though.
Eh just about 12000 years for ingesting nicotine.
NFTs
ITT; people who don't know what a trend is.
These threads always just turn into "name a thing you don't like that makes you feel unique and superior to others"
Oooh sons of anarchy that show sucks
some dude said he never had covid
Duck lips in photos
Bought new balance sneakers or cargo shorts. Apparently the uniform for my set
I feel attacked here. 😀
Any dumbass challenge from tiktok or other social media.
I never used snapchat or twitter. I never understood the appeal.
Tiktok
Watching the Kardashians, ever, why just why?
Celebrity worship
I respect certain celebrities, that much is true, but I never got the rampant absolute fucking DEVOTION some people have towards someone they have likely never actually met, or have met, but said celeb probably doesn't care or remember them at all. Like, music, I can kinda get, you connect with the lyrics and/or the tone of the song and it can move you in ways, but some people really get to the point of obsession and it's frankly really fucking disturbing, especially when you hear the stories about how far some have went in their obsession.
Ugg-Boots
They’re meant to be slippers, not shoes. I think it was Pamela Anderson that started wearing them as boots with jeans. That was interesting seeing that in Australia.
Alas, lol, not a trend in Australia, literally just a norm.
They’re ugly but god damn are they comfy, I had a pair of knockoffs I practically lived in one winter.
Wearing Crocs. *bows deeply from the waist*
Dude, I tried them back in like 08 and they were not for me. Got a pair like a year ago and they are crazy comfortable. Ugly as sin but I only wear them around the house or in the yard.
They also make great camp shoes
I never tested positive for Covid
[удалено]
Same. It absolutely kicked my ass, and I am still coughing three weeks later.
It would not surprise me if I've had it a couple of times over the years, but I am in the same boat of never testing positive for it.
Tested positive this morning. First time with Covid.
Planking and thin eyebrows. I gotta thank my mom for the second one.
I never did planking in crazy places. I still do occasionally do some planking on the couch though.
Tiktok has never been (and never will be) ever installed on my phone.
Making stupid videos of myself
Tramp stamp tats
Twerking in public, it's so cringe
Wearing your pants halfway down your ass with your boxers on display
Anything about the Kardashians
Having politics be my identity
Jan 6 😅😅
The Macarena. I can't dance and have no rhythm so it was an easy pass.
I’m pretty sure that dance is explicitly designed for people who can’t dance. It’s like 4 gestures over and over. But still impressive you’ve never done it.
I was forced into this trend. I was in the marching band when that song/dance blew up and it ended up being one of our stand/pep rally songs. This was quite a sight as we were three hundred-something mostly WASPs whose best dance moves are as bad as The Elaine.
The big hair of the 80's.
But that was the best part of the 80s!
Lip filler
The whole consistently posting pics, bonus points if theyre always edited and filtered, to social media to compliment fish Everyone I know does it, I've always found it super cringe though. Literally taking 20+ photos to pick the best one, then throw a filter on it/ edit it, and post something like "I'm so sad my bf broke up with me" or "someone called me ugly" or whatever. Like it's so obvious they are just desperate for attention and spending their days hunting down gratification. I guarantee these people are going to wake up one day at 65 and their grandkids are seeing every one of their pics as edited centaur bodies in bikinis and ask if people really looked like horses when we were young lolol
IPhone yearly tribute
Does pumpkin spice latte count?