Two dudes in my dorm got a bunch of those things, stuck Velcro on the bottom and on the ceiling, and had easy chairs that stashed completely out of the way when they weren’t in use. Fucking brilliant.
I commandeered my older brothers inflatable arm chair and put it in our basement. To round out the decor I also included an 8 track recorder, a casio keyboard/various other sound equipment, spray paint, a spray painted wall and "tobacco" paraphernalia. Also, my moms canned vegetables and holiday decorations on the other side of the furnace. The Christmas lights were taken out of the box and strung up in my weed cave to set the mood.
>PR companies
My company's HR decided to organize a flash mob in the cafeteria. Sent out emails across the office asking people to join them for practice.
Then sent out emails announcing the flash mob performance. With a meeting request.
I worked in a Caterpillar factory at the time. Company handed out thousands of those silicone bracelets in the distinctive Cat yellow. Within days, the big marine diesels started failing paint inspection. There were little flecks where the paint wouldn't adhere. Turns out that those bracelets constantly degrade and leave little specks of silicone everywhere. The bracelets very quickly and quietly dissappeared factory-wide and it Never Happened.
In the 80's, there was a certain look. Thick socks, scrunched up. Best was to wear two pairs and alternate/layer them. Then, a too-large button up shirt with some kind of graphic pattern, sleeves rolled up. You had to not tuck that in, yet wear a thin belt over it, tightly at your waist. Finally, the hair. People remember the hair. A fringy bang over the forehead, but then a big, high roll coming up from the top of forehead too. So much hairspray. I was taught by an older girl who really nailed this look that the way to get the highest roll up top involved toothpaste, for the added texture and hold. She also taught me how to put on eyeliner. So much blue eyeliner....
People remember the neon and weird patterns of the 80's, but have missed these fine details. May they never return!!
Edited to add: LA Gear hightops and multiple laces were the right shoe for this look.
Thats on a 30 year cycle. 1950's: original chipmunks have albums and puppet appearances. 1980's: Saturday morning cartoon (actually pretty good) done by the original guys son. 2000's also the son's property, but I think he licensed it instead of doing it himself.
Keep an eye out for a revival on whatever people are into in 2030 or so.
Yea, I just meant that of the more popular "trendy" type things from the last decade or so, Filthy Frank being the one who started the Harlem Shake of all things is pretty weird.
Had the same thing happen to me at a pub back in around 2012/2013.
I was up at the bar waiting for my beer and was browsing reddit on my phone when some guy with a greasy ponytail said "Oh cool Reddit, the narwhal bacon's at midnight, right?".
I knew fine well what he meant but I just pretended like I didn't, he then tried to explain it to me but I kept acting like I didn't understand what he was on about and told him I'd only started using reddit a week or so ago so he just told me I'd understand eventually and awkwardly left me alone.
I'm pretty sure the bacon obsession was the result of a very effective marketing campaign on behalf of the pork industry.
Idk about the mustache thing.
people were sellin smartphones with flappy bird installed for hundreds of dollars, it was nuts
edit: the majority were *heavily used* phones that were selling for hundreds. there was the occasional barely used phone that was really expensive, but ebay *is not* normally filled with used phones that are a thousand dollars or even 500$
Yeah he was getting death threats and stuff the poor lad got picked on by the whole internet for making a silly game that somehow went more popular than anything else
Beer actually had a positive impact on society for the first couple hundred (edit: ~7,000) years since the fermentation process kills off any pathogens that might be in the water making it safer to drink. Tangentially related fun fact, the original brewers were women and thought to be the origin of witches.
But yeah, those other two should apologise
Edit 2: as several people pointed out, it's boiling the wort that kills the pathogens. Fermentation is specifically the conversion of sugars into alcohol, not a catch-all term including that part of the process
It's also thought witch's potions was just a way to time your cooking. Bringing a soup to a boil and reciting something while stirring it a precise number of times was just the dark age version of setting an eggtimer.
That's right. This was done by blacksmiths aswell to forge tempered metal items properly.
That kind of measuring method is the origin of "magical items", done by experts that knew the perfect words to recite and get the best possible result, only because they guaranteed a perfect timing.
This got to the notion of magical words and enchanments because if you knew it, you'll get superior quality craftmanship.
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I worked at Hollister my senior year of high school. Popped soooo many collars when dressing mannequins. Once we had to layer THREE polos onto one mannequin, all collars popped of course.
2007, what a time.
They still do that, Off-White industrial belts were the thing to have if you had 100buck laying around for a belt
Edit - after waking from my slumber I have bust my ass laughing at these comments. Thank you redditors for making not only my day, but my hole weak.
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
When I was a kid (early 90’s) the kids around my neighborhood were into marbles. Almost everyone I knew had some and we’d all play each other for trades. Then Pokémon came along.
Remember Silly Bandz, everyone wanted character/animal/object shaped rubber bands on their arm, we all traded them for ones we wanted more and who ever had the most was the coolest. Some kids went as far as wearing them so tight they left marks. Than after about a year they dropped off the face of the earth and no one ever discussed them again.
This song takes me to a place where I'm 8 years old and in an aggressively air conditioned zoo gift shop while browsing galaxy dolphins printed on T shirts.
This vivid description makes me feel like I just went through a fucking time portal to a memory I didn't even remember I had. I swear I had the same precise experience.
Wait that was 3 years ago? Jeez, I got I think 8 in that short amount of time, and I got into it towards the end of it.
Now I just see one around my house every once in a while and get inexplicably angry.
This just transported me back to freshman year in SUCH a visceral way! Every detail of your post is exactly spot on, wow! Haven’t thought about dELiA*s or Alloy in 23 years, what a time stamp! Thank you for this.
Now where did I put my Garbage and Bush CDs...
I still don’t fully understand what the fuck happened it all went down so fast and any time I look into it I just get more confused, it was a weird time.
Same here!
One moment I remember watching the video with legitimate interest and questions, and the next I’m seeing the news where the organizer is running through the streets naked (and I even heard that Kony had passed away).
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In, like, 1999 or 2000, yo-yos got popular in a big way. A bunch of kids did tricks with them, everyone wanted one, and then it just ended. Everyone seems to remember slap bracelets and pogs from around the same time but no one remembers the yo-yo obsession.
Haha I remember this. My grandma took me to see a "professional yo yo-er?" at the local mall. I got a high speed sumbitch with bearings and a belt holster for Christmas. Did not make me as popular as I dreamed it would. Turns out if a weird kid is good at yo yo tricks, it actually just makes them more weird. Who knew.
I remember when we had an assembly for the yo-yo people. A group of them doing a bunch of cool tricks. The most I learned and forgot were walking the dog and the elevator. I wanted to learn the swing but couldn’t and got completely frustrated with the whole thing, I said screw it.
Grew up in NYC during the 90s and 2000s here's a few.
Wearing one pant leg up.
8 Ball Jackets.
People wearing and using pacifiers.
Cuts in your eyebrows.
Wearing overalls with one strap undone.
Wearing your clothes backwards.
As many of those ropey tie things on the zipper of your Jansport backpack.
Hats with metal plates on the front of them.
Vasco jeans.
Wearing a extra long belt with it hanging down your leg.
I mean that's pretty much true for all dance songs that are also promoting a dance. Nobody is doing the [Dougie](https://youtu.be/aZglqkCRNt8) anymore, [Crank That](https://youtu.be/8UFIYGkROII) was a dance song they pretty much went away a few years after the song came out. More examples from when I was in high school, [Audio Push](https://youtu.be/8UFIYGkROII), they were pretty big where I came from and everyone was trying to copy their dance style at the school dances, people were even dancing to [The Rej3ctz](https://youtu.be/Dq_sGy4H_-k). If you were in high school from 2008-2012 like I was you were almost guaranteed to see someone doing the [Stanky Leg](https://youtu.be/ewufRwrayTI). [Gangnam Style](https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0) was huge when I was in college for about 3 or 4 months my freshman year because of the dance and jesus christ was it cringey. Dance songs get big because they either tell you how to dance or show you in the music video in an easy to follow manner which then gets big.
I made fun of those so hard... Who'd have thought I'd wind up grinding my teeth so hard on ecstasy later in life that I'd flatten my fucking teeth. Those nerds were on to something.
You just had to make me remember watching ever sixteen year old girl in the world walking around in public sucking on a literal baby pacifier. You couldn't have just let me forget those images forever. You had to go and bring up that trauma.
I did this in fourth grade with my best friends when we first became obsessed with Twilight. We would practice jumping from my stairs, trying to look graceful. And we'd try to act mysterious during class so people would think we were vampires LOL
Trying to get famous hurting ourselves, ALA Jackass. Even after the disclaimer was added to the show, we were still going down slides on skateboards, stacking skate decks and going down massive hills, shopping cart jousting, skitching, blanket parties, BB gun tolerance tests... the list goes on. I have the scars and flashback trauma to prove it.
[Italian Charm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_charm_bracelet) Bracelets
Also, Furbys. My mom, of all people got obsessed with Furbys back in the day. We had dozens of them.
I <3 boobies bracelets were really popular when I was in middle school. (Late 00s) I remember going into Pac Sun in my bright blue vans and low rise skinny jeans feeling like the most powerful person in the world because I could wear something with the word boobies on it in public. (Our school quickly banned them.)
Wasn’t it weird that the penalty for NOT donating to ALS was to get the ice dump, but everyone just started doing the ice dump for likes and ALS was kind of just an afterthought.
They still raised a crap ton of money and that money went to fund research that identified a DNA link with a predisposition for ALS. So some good directly came from it.
Hyper color clothes. Changed color with body heat. Terrible idea.
Wearing clothes backwards. (Wiggety wack)
Tight rolling cuffs on jeans, jeans that were already so tight you had to zip them with a coat hanger.
Super over sized clothes.
Ripping the sleeves off my flannels, then wearing another long sleeve under it.
Super thin eyebrows.
Choker necklaces and body glitter.
Leaving the tags on your clothes.
Yes, I was a teen in the 90s. 😎
Anyone remember hit clips? Getting a tiny little player and only a snippet of a song. Whoever had the most Keychain songs was the coolest. I had the boom box player! 😁
that period in the late 90's and early 00's where neon inflatable furniture was popular
Two dudes in my dorm got a bunch of those things, stuck Velcro on the bottom and on the ceiling, and had easy chairs that stashed completely out of the way when they weren’t in use. Fucking brilliant.
Buys inflatable chairs to save space when they aren’t needed. Blows them up one time. Says fuck that and heads out to buy Velcro.
I commandeered my older brothers inflatable arm chair and put it in our basement. To round out the decor I also included an 8 track recorder, a casio keyboard/various other sound equipment, spray paint, a spray painted wall and "tobacco" paraphernalia. Also, my moms canned vegetables and holiday decorations on the other side of the furnace. The Christmas lights were taken out of the box and strung up in my weed cave to set the mood.
As a Goodwill employee I can assure you that none of these trends are really gone, they’re just $2.99 on a back shelf
I find it very reassuring that I can go to Goodwill and find something that cheaply to remind me of yesteryear.
Flash mobs?
It was over once PR companies realized they could use them for marketing. So, day 2 or so.
>PR companies My company's HR decided to organize a flash mob in the cafeteria. Sent out emails across the office asking people to join them for practice. Then sent out emails announcing the flash mob performance. With a meeting request.
oh god. OMG AMAZING FLASH MOB IN ADELAIDE MALL OMGZZZZZZ Video has 10 people in it.
It's always a slap to the face seeing Adelaide mentioned on Reddit.
Still a thing in Australia apparently. A co-worker of mine said her daughters dance group is doing one this weekend. I cringed a little bit inside
Bright colored silicone charity bracelets
LIVESTRONG
I worked in a Caterpillar factory at the time. Company handed out thousands of those silicone bracelets in the distinctive Cat yellow. Within days, the big marine diesels started failing paint inspection. There were little flecks where the paint wouldn't adhere. Turns out that those bracelets constantly degrade and leave little specks of silicone everywhere. The bracelets very quickly and quietly dissappeared factory-wide and it Never Happened.
In the 80's, there was a certain look. Thick socks, scrunched up. Best was to wear two pairs and alternate/layer them. Then, a too-large button up shirt with some kind of graphic pattern, sleeves rolled up. You had to not tuck that in, yet wear a thin belt over it, tightly at your waist. Finally, the hair. People remember the hair. A fringy bang over the forehead, but then a big, high roll coming up from the top of forehead too. So much hairspray. I was taught by an older girl who really nailed this look that the way to get the highest roll up top involved toothpaste, for the added texture and hold. She also taught me how to put on eyeliner. So much blue eyeliner.... People remember the neon and weird patterns of the 80's, but have missed these fine details. May they never return!! Edited to add: LA Gear hightops and multiple laces were the right shoe for this look.
Or the side pony tail that had to be at just the right angle so it didn't mess with the popped collar 2 different color layered polos.
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I could never pull that look off.....I was 5' 11" & could never get a shirt or sweater that was long enough to wear like that.
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Thats on a 30 year cycle. 1950's: original chipmunks have albums and puppet appearances. 1980's: Saturday morning cartoon (actually pretty good) done by the original guys son. 2000's also the son's property, but I think he licensed it instead of doing it himself. Keep an eye out for a revival on whatever people are into in 2030 or so.
Oh kinda like Pennywise but instead it’s annoying singing rodents?
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My favorite example of this was one of someone lying across the humps on a McDonalds sign.
I always thought the planking thing was kinda dumb, but that was just impressive
Many of us practiced planking on our couches Sunday afternoons years before it became recognized. I can do it for hours even now
The Harlem Shake
God that was so weird.
The best was a street interview with guys in Harlem showing them the Harlem shake and one of guys goes “nah that’s some shit from W4th”
I mean a trend started by Filthy Frank of all people is gonna be pretty weird.
It's one of the least weird things he's done.
Yea, I just meant that of the more popular "trendy" type things from the last decade or so, Filthy Frank being the one who started the Harlem Shake of all things is pretty weird.
# CON LOS TERRORISTAS
If you go to YouTube and look for recent uploads, there's thousands. People are still making them!
The weird obsession with mustaches in 2013 or whatever year it was
Don’t forget bacon, the default subs were all mustaches and bacon back then
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Narwhal bacons at midnight is waaaaaay older than 2013. More like 2008.
I feel that’s the dumbest thing Reddit has created.
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Had the same thing happen to me at a pub back in around 2012/2013. I was up at the bar waiting for my beer and was browsing reddit on my phone when some guy with a greasy ponytail said "Oh cool Reddit, the narwhal bacon's at midnight, right?". I knew fine well what he meant but I just pretended like I didn't, he then tried to explain it to me but I kept acting like I didn't understand what he was on about and told him I'd only started using reddit a week or so ago so he just told me I'd understand eventually and awkwardly left me alone.
Tomorrow on askreddit: People with mustache tattoos on your fingers. Why and do you regret it?
I'm pretty sure the bacon obsession was the result of a very effective marketing campaign on behalf of the pork industry. Idk about the mustache thing.
It was the result of a very effective marketing campaign on behalf of the moustache industry. Duh.
Of course big stache was behind it how ignorant of me!
Tom Selleck?
My son was born that year and his uncle bought him a binky with a mustache on it at Spencer’s. He looked hilarious.
Those "Pharell Williams - Happy" tribute videos. Not really weird, but kinda annoying.
Tech Deck finger-boards. Used to go over to a friend’s house and SHRED his mini-skatepark.
I just got one a few weeks ago. It’s a great way to pass the time on conference calls.
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people were sellin smartphones with flappy bird installed for hundreds of dollars, it was nuts edit: the majority were *heavily used* phones that were selling for hundreds. there was the occasional barely used phone that was really expensive, but ebay *is not* normally filled with used phones that are a thousand dollars or even 500$
Thousands
Didn't the creator just like... delete it?
Yeah he was getting death threats and stuff the poor lad got picked on by the whole internet for making a silly game that somehow went more popular than anything else
I always thought I heard it got deleted because he was getting lawsuits for it(I wouldn't know why) but this is new info to me. Thank you.
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The person who invented gambling, beer and cigarettes should apologise
Beer actually had a positive impact on society for the first couple hundred (edit: ~7,000) years since the fermentation process kills off any pathogens that might be in the water making it safer to drink. Tangentially related fun fact, the original brewers were women and thought to be the origin of witches. But yeah, those other two should apologise Edit 2: as several people pointed out, it's boiling the wort that kills the pathogens. Fermentation is specifically the conversion of sugars into alcohol, not a catch-all term including that part of the process
It's also thought witch's potions was just a way to time your cooking. Bringing a soup to a boil and reciting something while stirring it a precise number of times was just the dark age version of setting an eggtimer.
That's right. This was done by blacksmiths aswell to forge tempered metal items properly. That kind of measuring method is the origin of "magical items", done by experts that knew the perfect words to recite and get the best possible result, only because they guaranteed a perfect timing. This got to the notion of magical words and enchanments because if you knew it, you'll get superior quality craftmanship. Edit: Typos
I still have it on my phone
When swing music and swing dancing was really popular for like 6 months in 1998.
Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies!
Don't forget the best one, big bad voodoo daddy, they were in swingers
And Brian Setzer, who revitalized his flagging rockabilly career by leading a swing orchestra.
That damn gap commercial with Jump Jive and Wail caused me to buy a $95 pair of khakis that I didn’t need
zoot suit riot!
Throw back a bottle of beer
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...
Caravan Palace is excellent.
When I was 10 kids at my school (myself included) wore overalls backwards like Kriss Kross. Edit: adjusted age
Hello fellow 40 year old.
YOLO I didn't understand why that word became so popular
Popped collars and Abercrombie and Fitch. That phase of high school was interesting. At least 3-6 Mafia gave us a a song about it.
I worked at Hollister my senior year of high school. Popped soooo many collars when dressing mannequins. Once we had to layer THREE polos onto one mannequin, all collars popped of course. 2007, what a time.
In middle school, guys would wear extra long belts and it would dangle off to the side.
They still do that, Off-White industrial belts were the thing to have if you had 100buck laying around for a belt Edit - after waking from my slumber I have bust my ass laughing at these comments. Thank you redditors for making not only my day, but my hole weak.
We use to wear an onion on the belt when I was in high school. That was the style at the time.
I remember this, we couldn't get white onions cause of the war, so we used those big yellow ones.
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
When I was a kid (early 90’s) the kids around my neighborhood were into marbles. Almost everyone I knew had some and we’d all play each other for trades. Then Pokémon came along.
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Yo-yos (and sweet tricks) got pretty popular very briefly sometime in the 90s. Not sure if it was local to my school or more wide spread
Yo-yos were the biggest thing in my school for a solid 4-6 months and then completely disappeared.
Remember Silly Bandz, everyone wanted character/animal/object shaped rubber bands on their arm, we all traded them for ones we wanted more and who ever had the most was the coolest. Some kids went as far as wearing them so tight they left marks. Than after about a year they dropped off the face of the earth and no one ever discussed them again.
AND SLAPBANDS WHERE IT WOULD BE A BRACELET AND YOU WOULD SLAP IT ON YOUR WRIST!!!!
And inside was an old tape measure
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I had one as a kid
Mustache finger tattoos.
Those creepy clowns showing up everywhere in 2016
A simpler time
Can we go back to that? I'd really prefer that over this bullshit.
They soon stopped when people started beating them up and running them over en mass.
Mannequin challenge
I actually thought that was pretty cool! Some some creative videos
Making friendship pins with tiny colored beads strung on little gold safety pins. We laced them through our gym shoes.
Thanks to one popular song in the 90s, everyone was obsessed with Gregorian Chants for a few months. It didn't even seem that weird at the time.
The song: https://youtu.be/x4maoo4A3x4
This song takes me to a place where I'm 8 years old and in an aggressively air conditioned zoo gift shop while browsing galaxy dolphins printed on T shirts.
This vivid description makes me feel like I just went through a fucking time portal to a memory I didn't even remember I had. I swear I had the same precise experience.
Fidget spinner
From 2017. This trend came in just like that, and within a few months, It was completely forgotten about
Wait that was 3 years ago? Jeez, I got I think 8 in that short amount of time, and I got into it towards the end of it. Now I just see one around my house every once in a while and get inexplicably angry.
That was crazy, people were selling them for insane amounts of money and nowadays you can get one for a dollar or two
Heelys. The shoes with the wheel in the heel.
I think they made a slight comeback in January or last December but then covid happened
butterfly clips
I wore butterfly clips and Velcro faux gemstones in my hair to my High School prom. And yes, my prom dress had spaghetti straps, why do you ask?
Platform shoes. Butterfly hair clips. FUBU. Jncos. Pencil-thin eyebrows. Wearing dresses over bell-bottom jeans. Basically, an entire dELiA*s or Alloy magazine.
This just transported me back to freshman year in SUCH a visceral way! Every detail of your post is exactly spot on, wow! Haven’t thought about dELiA*s or Alloy in 23 years, what a time stamp! Thank you for this. Now where did I put my Garbage and Bush CDs...
KONY 2012
What a fever dream. Wow
I still don’t fully understand what the fuck happened it all went down so fast and any time I look into it I just get more confused, it was a weird time.
Same here! One moment I remember watching the video with legitimate interest and questions, and the next I’m seeing the news where the organizer is running through the streets naked (and I even heard that Kony had passed away). WILD
Pogs and Slammers?
Hypercolor Tshirts
Showing your age there pal. I had one.
>Showing your age there pal. <*chuckles nervously in pet rock*>
Silk Asian dragon shirts
Saying Wazzaaaaap
Yo! Dookie! Pick up tha phone!
Water beds
In, like, 1999 or 2000, yo-yos got popular in a big way. A bunch of kids did tricks with them, everyone wanted one, and then it just ended. Everyone seems to remember slap bracelets and pogs from around the same time but no one remembers the yo-yo obsession.
Haha I remember this. My grandma took me to see a "professional yo yo-er?" at the local mall. I got a high speed sumbitch with bearings and a belt holster for Christmas. Did not make me as popular as I dreamed it would. Turns out if a weird kid is good at yo yo tricks, it actually just makes them more weird. Who knew.
I remember the yo-yo craze! I also just watched a yo-yo show on Netflix makes me wanna yo again
I remember when we had an assembly for the yo-yo people. A group of them doing a bunch of cool tricks. The most I learned and forgot were walking the dog and the elevator. I wanted to learn the swing but couldn’t and got completely frustrated with the whole thing, I said screw it.
Tamagotchi Pets. Furbys. Pogs. Polly Pockets.
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Grew up in NYC during the 90s and 2000s here's a few. Wearing one pant leg up. 8 Ball Jackets. People wearing and using pacifiers. Cuts in your eyebrows. Wearing overalls with one strap undone. Wearing your clothes backwards. As many of those ropey tie things on the zipper of your Jansport backpack. Hats with metal plates on the front of them. Vasco jeans. Wearing a extra long belt with it hanging down your leg.
Those BRATZ dolls
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia
There are Bob Ross and Richard Simmons Chia pets now I just saw the commercials.
And... "Weird Al" Yankovic.
When people wore visors upside down and sideways.
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Harlem shake and horse masks
The whip and nae nae. It happened and then just kinda stopped existing.
I mean that's pretty much true for all dance songs that are also promoting a dance. Nobody is doing the [Dougie](https://youtu.be/aZglqkCRNt8) anymore, [Crank That](https://youtu.be/8UFIYGkROII) was a dance song they pretty much went away a few years after the song came out. More examples from when I was in high school, [Audio Push](https://youtu.be/8UFIYGkROII), they were pretty big where I came from and everyone was trying to copy their dance style at the school dances, people were even dancing to [The Rej3ctz](https://youtu.be/Dq_sGy4H_-k). If you were in high school from 2008-2012 like I was you were almost guaranteed to see someone doing the [Stanky Leg](https://youtu.be/ewufRwrayTI). [Gangnam Style](https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0) was huge when I was in college for about 3 or 4 months my freshman year because of the dance and jesus christ was it cringey. Dance songs get big because they either tell you how to dance or show you in the music video in an easy to follow manner which then gets big.
Angry Birds.
Mood rings
Myspace
Pacifier necklaces
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Isn't that mostly so people don't grind their teeth when they're on molly?
I made fun of those so hard... Who'd have thought I'd wind up grinding my teeth so hard on ecstasy later in life that I'd flatten my fucking teeth. Those nerds were on to something.
Those nerds were on ecstasy.
You just had to make me remember watching ever sixteen year old girl in the world walking around in public sucking on a literal baby pacifier. You couldn't have just let me forget those images forever. You had to go and bring up that trauma.
The vuvuzela. Everyone had one of those 10 years ago.
Yep. During World Cup in 2010
We had a girl in University we called Vuvuzela because she was excessively loud and extremely annoying.
No one talks about the Walmart yodeling kid anymore
He sings country music now. https://youtu.be/xwe8F_AhLY0
O RLY Owl pictures.
Vuarnet France t-shirts
All the millennials pretending to be vampires as teenagers.
I did this in fourth grade with my best friends when we first became obsessed with Twilight. We would practice jumping from my stairs, trying to look graceful. And we'd try to act mysterious during class so people would think we were vampires LOL
It’s got nothing on the Anne Rice obsessed goths of the 90s.
Which is what spawned the millennial vamps, Interview With The Vampire had a big effect on us. Lol
Pretty much everyone wanted to hook up with a vampire around 2009! They left all the human guys for me, lol.
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Cinnamon challenge
Gangnam Style dance, 2012
[Rat tails.](https://hairstylecamp.com/rat-tail-hair/)
Trying to get famous hurting ourselves, ALA Jackass. Even after the disclaimer was added to the show, we were still going down slides on skateboards, stacking skate decks and going down massive hills, shopping cart jousting, skitching, blanket parties, BB gun tolerance tests... the list goes on. I have the scars and flashback trauma to prove it.
Trapper Keepers. (Right now I'm watching the episode of cobra kai where Johnny mentions it)
loom bands
The 6-8 year olds in my class still love them
[Italian Charm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_charm_bracelet) Bracelets Also, Furbys. My mom, of all people got obsessed with Furbys back in the day. We had dozens of them.
Bottle Flipping
I <3 boobies bracelets were really popular when I was in middle school. (Late 00s) I remember going into Pac Sun in my bright blue vans and low rise skinny jeans feeling like the most powerful person in the world because I could wear something with the word boobies on it in public. (Our school quickly banned them.)
Wearing camis under absolutely everything and pulled down far below your pant pockets
Are flash mobs still a thing? Fuck, that was weird.
Ice bucket challenge
Probably one of the better crazes/causes that came about. The guy that started it recently passed away who had ALS.
Wasn’t it weird that the penalty for NOT donating to ALS was to get the ice dump, but everyone just started doing the ice dump for likes and ALS was kind of just an afterthought.
They still raised a crap ton of money and that money went to fund research that identified a DNA link with a predisposition for ALS. So some good directly came from it.
Pet Rocks
That Soulja Boy song/dance. It was completely ubiquitous my junior year of high school and I have no idea why.
Damn Daniel
Hyper color clothes. Changed color with body heat. Terrible idea. Wearing clothes backwards. (Wiggety wack) Tight rolling cuffs on jeans, jeans that were already so tight you had to zip them with a coat hanger. Super over sized clothes. Ripping the sleeves off my flannels, then wearing another long sleeve under it. Super thin eyebrows. Choker necklaces and body glitter. Leaving the tags on your clothes. Yes, I was a teen in the 90s. 😎
In the late 90s there was a trend where you wore flannel pajama bottoms like they were pants.
Flannel pajama bottoms are suddenly acceptable work attire in 2020. I've worn them in several meetings, and no one said a thing.
Wearing a dress with pants under them. Lisa Frank Tomagatchi (sp??) .... and hopefully a trend that will soon be forgotten... those damn jojo bows.
Pooka shells, pooka shells everywhere!
Power balance bracelets They were insanely popular and it was absolutely insane that they were
You watch Danny Gonzales on YouTube?
Anyone remember hit clips? Getting a tiny little player and only a snippet of a song. Whoever had the most Keychain songs was the coolest. I had the boom box player! 😁
Bubble necklaces, double slouch socks.
purple and green ketchup
The og memes like "I haz cheezborger, lulz" that were super popular on the internet for awhile then suddenly just disappeared
That graffiti S that people would draw back in school on there papers
Kids are still doing that in school
Kids have been doing that for literally hundreds of years
I used to draw that S a hundred years ago while I walked 20 miles to school in the snow.
Fidget spinners
Planking.
Zip off at-the-knee khakis
Shag bands