As a fellow millennial growing up, don’t tell me you didn’t have one of those plastic stretchy chokers, or that fascinatingly odd toy called a yo-yo. At some point in our childhood, these were among the must-haves but have since vanished without a trace.
Many trends, tendencies and crazes (fancy participating in a flashmob, anyone?!) that were getting all the buzz at one point seem to have had an expiry date.
“What was a huge trend everyone forgot about?” someone asked on Reddit, and the thread soon turned into a walk down memory lane merged with a healthy dose of cringe.

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If you are old enough, you can't beat mood rings.
You can't tell me that as an adult anytime you run into mood rings in a shop you don't put it on to see your mood
I had a mood ring. When it was blue, I was happy. When it was green, I was calm. And when I was pis*ed off, it left a red spot in the middle of my ex boyfriend's forehead.
I never lost my love for mood rings. ALSO, those fortune fish that lay on the palm of your hand. https://images.app.goo.gl/UMJVMDiNk7rRCy5eA
I lost my wedding rings so I temporarily replaced them with my old school mood ring. I might just keep wearing it.
I know them from the 90's, back then they looked like this.
Load More Replies...I see them everywhere, still, but they aren't as fun as they used to make them. Just boring bands.
Whazaaaaaaaaaaaap
sane-ish replied:
One of my aunts still does this. We don't talk.
Manners!
Yes, I see less manners in older generations than I do in the younger ones.
Load More Replies...I bet you do, I have experienced more rudeness and entitled, greedy behavior from older generations who think they are afforded respect just because of their age. Younger people are usually kinder, more considerate, and more thoughtful of others. They just don't couch it in false mannerisms like calling everyone "sir" or "ma'am"
Load More Replies...That and expecting the world to adapt to you and not the other way around. I read a story where a woman wanted the dragon at Diagon Alley turned off at Universal because it gave her anxiety, lol. So many people like this now.
Ohhh, absolutely this! I can remember the times when nobody would actually give a shite if women would dress in mini skirts or sunbathe topless at the beach... Nowadays there are swimmingpools that are just a danger zone die girls and women because men from certain religions think that an uncovered female body equals wh0re and that they are for grabs... while their own sisters, mother's and wives can't even go to the swimmingpools and/or beach unless covered from head to toe ... And this is only the tip of the iceberg.... And so many people claiming "anxiety", while it's actually do that they just want it their way instead of go with the for and enjoy things.
Load More Replies...Sometimes Ithink the latest generation is so self-involved and media-centric that they forget other people actually matter and are not just accessories in their made up fantastical life.🤔
What a shame. You can't teach what you don't know. If one generation doesn't teach it to their children, then these children won't teach them to their offspring. That's one way manners get left behind.
People learn the behaviors that are modeled for them. If younger people are rude, nasty, and thoughtless, consider the source.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately we are becoming more uncivilized towards others every day. It's not going to kill you to be polite!
“There is not really a golden rule to recognize whether something is a trend or a fad,” Lina Survila, the founder of Abstract Stylist magazine and creator of metaverse news newsletter The Wearables Daily, told Bored Panda.
It really depends on the context and every trend. But when talking about fashion, the industry which is largely ruled by tendencies that change every season, many unexpected things happen, Lina argues.
“I think about trends and fads in fashion the same way I think about art - the truth will shine after a long time when we will be able to realize if this thing is really something that will stay within our generation.”
Those plastic stretchy chokers that also doubled as bracelets.
On the right person with the right outfit they are quite attractive.
Macarena.
This dance works for ANY SONG once you know... You can never unknow it.
...well any song in 4/4 with 4 bar sections. But, this is true of literally any dance.
Load More Replies...The Macarena will never be forgotten, what are you on about? I take personal offence to this!
Actually, about a quarter of my choir does the macarena in time to our warm ups, so this isn't exactly accurate
people won’t go out of their way for it, but if it comes on at a party, you know everyone will go nuts for it
Just like the Electric Slide. I don't think I've ever been to a wedding that didn't play it. :)
Load More Replies...My friend was literally dancing the macarena the other day
Fun ringtones.
Yeah, all gone. Not only does everybody have their phone on vibrate, but nobody calls any more. Who wants to talk through a voice call? My parents who are in their 60s that's about it for me.
I make and receive voice calls multiple times a day, for my work and personal business - definitely still a thing! Oh, and my fun ringtone is the 'Smokey and the Bandit' theme. 😁
Load More Replies...I used to have the Mario Brothers ring tone and for text it was the block/coin sound
I have Thin Lizzy's intro to Rosalie as my ringtone! Fight me! LOL! (or Fighting!... the name of the album it comes from! LOL! And yeah, I know Bob Seger wrote it but did you ever hear HIS version? Boring! LOL! And I lover Bob Seger!)
Today, many trends are inevitably influenced by the advancement of technology. From AI to Metaverse and Web3, the way we experience the world around us is rapidly changing. And so are art and fashion. Virtual try-ons, video games, metaverse fashion shows, and NFTs paved the way for a new concept of digital fashion, and experts say there’s no telling what will come next.
For many fleeting trends, the biggest challenge is to remain relevant. The only way to do so is to hold or raise its value for years to come. But how could we know that? Lina says she takes into account a few things before making her decision about a purchase.
“First, it's the people who made it, because people always bring the biggest value. Just think about it, H&M is not a collectible brand, but once they collaborate with a famous designer, it's another story, and those items sell at a higher price than the original sale.”
Farmville.
Sea-Kitchen3779 replied:
People would get real sh**ty when you told them you didn't play and couldn't trade strawberries or some s**t.
Most toxic thing about farmville was Facebook. Prove me wrong.
I'd say you're 75% there, Facebook and Zynga led to the proliferation of toxic pay to play games that apparently you're designed to lose unless you buy tokens or points to play again. Addiction mechanism dopamine chases
Load More Replies...I played the hell out of this with my former best friend. Fun memories. She died in an accident, and I will always think of her when I see anything Farmville related.
I loved this game so much but I had a bad time management on it one time and had to wake up at 2am to harvest my crop or they would go bad. I stopped playing after that. But when I played I had a mansion, a tractor, a fruit stand, several farm animals and acres of land. It was fun while it lasted.
My mom was deep once as well, I remember her going away for the day and leaving me a list of what needed harvested and at what time lol. I
Load More Replies...Everyone sent me requests to play this game on Facebook, it was so annoying
Hay Day is superior. I took it over from my niece when she was about 11, and have played it ever since. On a 1st generation iPad.
Yes, Hay Day was my game - I played it with my nephew! I would let him harvest and sell / buy stuff on my farm but he was so sweet and would ask me everytime before he did something in the game - I would let him buy coins in the game (think it was coins) so he could build up my farm and have more fun! At the time my sister didn’t have a smart phone so I let him start his own farm on my app also
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Yo-yo's had a big resurgence when I was a kid in the 90s. They were all the rage for like half of one school year, and then they just kind of vanished. It was fun playing with them with my dad for a while, and i did learn a few tricks.
We had some yo-yo wielding man/boy come to our elementary school showing us his yo-yo tricks with all his different types and tricks and later they sold the yo-yos to students at school for a week or two?
Yep. Had an assembly to watch a couple weirdos do yo yo tricks. And they sold yo yos to the students after the show.If you didn’t have a yo yo you were a dork. That lasted about a week. They must of paid the school to put on the show and sell their merch. That’s the only reason I can think of to let that happen. Then there was the anti smoking assembly that was so lame I almost immediately tried a cigarette.
Load More Replies...My 14 year old nephew was all about yo-yos last year. Ironically, everytime they go away, the just come right back.
Probably because of that Simpsons ep with the Twirl Kings. yoyo-simps...3d7db2.gif
Yo yo's aren't dead. Kids still have them, but they want the ones with lights
yes! the light up butterfly yoyo ! one of the best toys of the 80s
Load More Replies...When my dad passed away a couple of months we found one in his house and my sister was impressed that I could yo-yo. I told her that dad used to tell me that he had as a kid won a yo-yo contest and he was the one who had taught me. I don't know why I learned that from him and she and the others never had.
I feel like we, as a society, have collectively decided to just pretend like JNCO pants never existed.
It doesn’t mean anything; it was just the brand. It was the brand/style of jeans pictured at the top of the post.
Load More Replies...As someone that attending many outings to abandoned factories where drugs abounded in the 90’s, I was where JNCOs were yet have every reason to forget them
I used to promote raves in Ohio...good old days. Remember UFO pants!
Load More Replies...Another important aspect is timing. “Is this thing a copy or something I have never seen in the space? For example, even though IKEA is full of functional minimalistic style designs, Dieter Rams' designs will always sell at a higher price. They will be valuable in time because he was a pioneer in space,” Lina explained.
And the third aspect to think about when making an investment is the item’s technology availability. “Is this built on something that will change fashion or any industry forever?”
Lina gave an example of Prada's iconic nylon bags. “Those were one of the first nylon bags on the market at a time when nylon was huge news in fashion. Nobody used nylon before in that way. I understand cryptocurrencies the same.” The creator of the metaverse newsletter draws a parallel between Ethereum technology and nylon material, saying “it’s new and exciting, and available for others to build off.”
My mom lived in the 80’s as a young adult and according to her it’s 100% aerobics. Worldwide. So huge in fact that you can’t pretty much escape it as it was EVERYWHERE. TVs, electrical appliances and outfits, movies, songs, competitions, HECK a lot of corporate workplace including my mom’s even had a dedicated aerobics routine. And you’d think gym culture today is already wack enough…..
Let's get physical, physical. Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Yep and calisthenics and all sorts of excuses to wear weirdly thong like spandex uniforms! Lol
The over suit was actually to prevent camel toe. Leggings didn’t become popular until the gusseted crotch made its way onto the scene. Simple revolutionary little piece of cloth made fashion history
Load More Replies...Yup, tons of aerobics content and pushing people to exercise right alongside commercials touting a sugary bowl of cereal, buttered white toast, and a glass of orange juice as a healthy breakfast.
I had an over abundance of head bands and leg warmers. 😂 Such a little fad follower back then.
I loved aerobics in the 80s. It was fun and almost a social gathering…except for those skinny bitches that wore skin tight leotards and a smirk…🙁
Lycra!! Neon orange leg-warmers!! Enough hair spray to make a hole in the ozone layer the size of Australia!!
I thought the hairspray went everywhere in the 80s?
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Super thin eyebrows and jeans that defy the concept of a pubic line
Yeahhhhh my cousins did mine in the early 2000s and they have never grown back.. This is how you can spot a Millennial
Yes! Except I’m a millennial and I never did this. I was always afraid it would make my face look larger (weird I know) but boy oh boy I’m glad I stuck with full but shaped brows
Load More Replies...Brow styles have changed so many times over the course of my life it's ridiculous. You can just let your eyebrows exist. They're fine. Pulling, shaping, filling in, drawing on - it's all just nonsense that's going to change pretty quickly anyway.
If I let mine just exist, I would have a monobrow which even goes right into my hair. I think it takes a braver woman than I to go out with a thick straight line of dark hair right across your face. On the other hand, it might distract from the fact I could grow a nice little goaree in about 3 days. I've never had much time for brow style fashion, too much work already trying to look human.
Load More Replies...So much better than the draw them so thick and dark they don’t move phase.
Hate the eyebrows but i’m unfuriated you can’t find low-cut jeans anymore. What if you hate your waist being strangled by trousers, i like mine to sit very low on my hips
I really prefer high waisted jeans lol. I've never tried a pair of low cut jeans on but I feel like I'm too anxious for that currently. I would just constantly worry that they're about to fall off lol. I wish they sold all types of jeans everywhere so people could just be comfortable even if it's not trendy
Load More Replies...I was getting a wax for my eyebrow - to keep them symmetrical. Somebody told me I was so lucky to have natural eyebrows. Now, they aren't so symmetrical, but still natural.
Toe socks. Very uncomfortable but very fashionable in the 90’s
I still have a pair, and they're not uncomfortable (then again I wear those toe shoes too so make of that what you will)
I have trainers, house shoes, hiking shoes, water shoes, trail runners, daily casual wear, and business style (all toe shoes).
Load More Replies...They are among the ugliest garments ever created! This is why I kill all of Shyla's socks -- so they don't grow toes!
I still have my pair from the 90s 😬 never worn them in public... They were rainbow and knee length 😎👌😆 UK panda here
Load More Replies...I personally find toe socks very comfortable. Like a lil hug for each toe
They are the best with my steel toe boots for work because they hug my toes.
Load More Replies...They are great when visiting the gyno. They always make the person doing the exam chuckle and it eases the awkwardness of the whole thing.
I got a pair earlier this year. They are awesome if you have hammer toes and an inordinate amount of time you can spare to dress.
Or bunions. Had to deal with them for 8 years, still haven't had surgery for that. Occasionally, toe socks will hurt but that's only if you've been wearing them nonstop.
Load More Replies...I still have toe socks & still wear them... They are not uncomfortable, I prefer toe socks over regular socks anyday, especially in the winter...
Generally keeping toes together keeps them warmer. It is also why mittens are more effective than gloves at keeping your hands warm. Still, you like what you like!
Load More Replies...Tamagotchis.
I saw some at Barnes & Noble… my mom wouldn’t let me get one because “they died if you looked at them the wrong way”
Load More Replies...I found an original one while working at a charity shop that they were going to throw out! It sorta kinda ended up in my bag and is now safely with me
Our daughter had one and took it on a road trip with us. She kept it going for two bloody weeks, by then it was demanding attention about every three minutes and driving everybody nuts.
Still going strong here in Japan...and also still dead after a few minutes without food and excrement everywhere :)
Jelly shoes.
Wearing 2 different coloured pairs of socks at once, & rolling them down, so that the underneath sock colour showed.
My pinky toes hurt just seeing that picture... They always ripped up the skin on the outside edge.
Was it really that hard to find a photo with at least a pair of socks?
Hey, at least they showed one of the two things that the post actually mentioned (jelly shoes). That's amazingly successful for the BP stock photos staff. Usually they slap up a photo that's totally unrelated.
Load More Replies...My parents wouldn’t allow me jellies as I was male. I didn’t get their reasoning (or lack thereof) and still don’t.
The one and only time I ever wore the jelly shoes that I begged for was when we spent Christmas in San Antonio. Those shoes were a huge mistake for walking around the city (especially the Riverwalk area). Ended the day with tears and covered in band aids because of the blisters.
I never wore jellies with socks, but should have to avoid those god- awful blisters.
Load More Replies...Leg warmers. SpunkyCrunky replied: I’m the proud owner of several pairs of leg warmers and I wouldn’t give them up even after death. Those mfs are getting buried with me
I have chicken legs. Leg warmers were a great way to even out the width of my legs in minis
I thought I was the only person who did this! Also super thick scrunchy socks work well.
Load More Replies...what the ef is wrong with leg warmers?? they keep your legs warm!? i use mine when im on my bike to work in the winter.
Yes. I love legwarmers, and as someone who lives in climates where the weather is subject to changes throughout the day, I find them very useful
Load More Replies...They are coming back again in the Gen Z fashion like softie or japanese school
I wear my leg warmers every week in winter when I'm waiting for the kids to do sports clubs
Gangnam Style
That's the best part of not being anglophone. Some songs are great, but lyrics are insanely stupid. Not knowing what they sung about was great.
Load More Replies...When we went to South Korea we had no idea which area to stay so we picked Gangham because at least we knew the name.
Damn this was on repeat on my street day after day when we had lockdowns. A few houses came out and did the dance the day we were allowed to speak at a distance.
Smelly Stickers, my fav was Buttered Popcorn..
If you're referring to those scratch n sniff stickers, strawberry takes me back
My grandma gave me and my brother two packs when we were REALLY little, he got buttered popcorn, and I got strawberry. Flash forward maybe 8 or 9 years and I got a pair of rainboots that (for whatever reason) had the exact same scent as those stickers. It was like I traveled back in time when I smelled them. Crazy how memory works!
Load More Replies...How do you down a blonde? Put a scratch and sniff sticker on the bottom of the pool.... It was a joke when I was little. I'm blonde.
I miss these. The Teacher's Store used to always have all sorts of sensory stickers to collect. Had a ton in my sticker book. Back when sticker book pages allowed you to actually reuse the stickers. I super miss vinyl stickers. I had a Mickey Mouse house one.
I spent SO much time on my sticker album. Trading stickers was also a huge deal back then. I can still recall the smell of that buttered popcorn one. My favorites were puffy stickers and textured/velvety ones. :)
Pokémon go. I know some people still play. But it was huge when it first came out.
corobo replied:
Closest we ever got to world peace.
I could be wrong but wasn't there one of two people who were shot and killed trespassing while playing?
Load More Replies...I still play. There was event yesterday and quite a lot of us gathered outside. It’s fun and gets my lazy a*s moving.
I still play it. I only installed it on my phone for my then young teen son... Damn it got addicted. I missed the event yesterday tho, what event was it?
Load More Replies...My husband and I got real into it and played against each other, and we would be late coming home because we were each separately stopping places. I wish that would come back. Never saw so many kids/adults outside getting exercise. Unless you just drove around like me. I still have my app maybe I will start that up again.
Haha and then I remember people were all mad that these nerdy kids were everywhere after bitching that "kids these days" we're not going outside anymore.
When it first came out I wondered why teenagers were standing there with their phones at the front of the store where I work. Then my co-worker talked about finding Pokemon in the building, and I knew they were playing it. Also amusing seeing people play it at the local park.
Wearing overalls with one strap unbuttoned like Fresh Prince
The fresh Prince was an entire vibe a way of being and a whole era of existence
Overalls are back! I have about five pairs now. Every time I wear them to get coffee I get compliments.
Load More Replies...I still wear overalls/dungarees. They’re super comfortable and have all the pockets 😁. Also some of the time they’re half undone… Partly due to laziness but mainly because the clasp thingy is a bit lose!
Flash mobs.
SomeDinosaurs replied:
This is a shame. I always thought they were fun!
Apprehensive-Cow6194 replied
Good they’re so cringe.
They were fun! Who cares if it's "cringe" if you're having fun?
I loved them, especially the Beethoven one in Spain
Load More Replies...Fun for the participants, not necessarily for those in whose way they get...
Yes, I was late a few times trying to get to my train or a meeting across the city. still, did feel like there was more joy in the world, however cumbersome and a little awkwardly sappy
Load More Replies...As a person who likes to get in and out of places without feeling crowded in, I'm glad this one died down. Imagine needing desperately to pee but the mob is blocking your way to the bathroom!
I think the picture is from a flash mob that they did to a remixed My Favourite Things at Antwerp train station https://youtu.be/7EYAUazLI9k
Pet rocks. Dude made bank
I have a herd of free-range pebbles in my driveway…
Load More Replies...In a few years scientists will dig it up and find a fossilised stone.
Load More Replies...I only played with my Pet Rocks when I was stoned. and then they would speak to me in a gravelly voice.😂😂😂
Classic case of the packaging is worth more than what's inside. As a result of commercialization of culture, the packaging is often worth more than the product. Example: Bottled water. Dasani is an expensive bottle filled with water that is so cheap it may as well be free.
Shoulder pads.
The picture doesn’t do this horrible trend justice. Late 80’s was a bad time for women’s fashion.
Remember shoulder pad buildup? Your top had shoulder pads. Your sweater had shoulder pads. Your coat had shoulder pads. Wear all three together, and the shoulder pads would get almost as high as your big hair. It got so bad I started cutting them out of the shoulders of my clothes.
Load More Replies...i swear these are making a comeback. I hated them then. I hate them now. When they fall out it's about as uncomfortably awkward as when the stuffing in your bra falls out, and they just make a nice business suit or a pretty dress make you look like your ready to toss some pigskin on the gridiron.
Depends on the shoulder pads. Light padding for shape is still a key element of a power suit.
Yes, because a woman is only "powerful" if she looks like she could tackle you.
Load More Replies...Shoulder pads in jackets are great and they go back to the Second World War. I have several jackets that have shoulder pads and I love them.
They were awful in the 80s because it made everyone look square & boxy.
Load More Replies...Shoulder pads? I immediately think of Linda Evans during the "Dynasty" years. 39ad101e45...fccf3d.jpg
Anyone else remember Koosh balls?
Same! They’re so fun, although my in cave red in cat hair
Load More Replies...Yeahhhhh I don't know how they haven't made a come back Considering how 'fidgets' seem to be the rage now
I still have some! When the loop broke, you'd have to tie together two of the "strings" to make a new one XD
I think my koosh ball is still on top of the strip mall on rt 9 in hyde park NY {where jamesway used to be, it's now a stop n shop). I shot it up there with a koosh launcher and never got it back
They’re still readily available, my kids have a few stashed around somewhere 🤷🏻♀️
Koosh balls make me think of the Rosie O'Donnell show. Anyone else remember that?
I feel like the trend of neon clothing and accessories was a huge one that everyone seems to have forgotten about. Remember when everyone was rocking those neon green snapback hats and neon pink crop tops? Good times. I still have some neon pieces in my closet, I might have to bring them back.
Global Hypercolour! My ample friend was wearing one when we were watching a warehouse fire, and her tits went bright orange from the heat!
Load More Replies...You can do neon. I have a pair of neon green pants and neon green combat boots I wear to school. The kids love them! But keep in mind, I am an art teacher
Tell that to my school. Bright colours (both neon and pastel) are pretty big with the more fashionable friend groups
Swatch watches, even wearing two at a time.
Swatch watches have recently made a strong comeback because of their Omega collaboration.
And you HAD to have the face guard too, or you were not one of the cool kids. :) Mine was pink and my watch was purple. I loved that thing.
Oooooo! Does anyone remember this gem??? I love it. It takes me back to jr. High... https://youtu.be/SCGUyh1Pjw0
That was the only brand of watched that wasn't boring and still is to this day 😊
This might be a bit of a regional thing: Puka shell necklaces.
I remember these in the early 2000’s and so cool. You were nobody unless you had one!
I graduated high school in SoCal in 1978 (SGV to be exact). Puka shells were all over the place then. Real big with surfers.
Load More Replies...I cringe at my blonde tips now but liked them back then. Guess it's better than the current grey tips:)
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Lower back tattoos.
Lower back is a great place to get a tattoo because it’s an area of the body that changes very little with age and weight variance.
I've never had a problem with these and wondered why they were given a sexist slur (when women got them). At least they are pretty easily covered with clothing if tats are inappropriate in the workplace.
Slap bracelets
My son has a ton. Mostly Mario characters and big as little birthday party gifts
Load More Replies...Still very popular with school kids and often used to advertise businesses
Seen a few of those at my local Meijer, a lot of which had rulers on the back
In my school they were banned for a time, teachers told us that some kids had gotten hurt on the metal that was in them. But I think that was just an excuse because the kids were driving the teachers crazy with them!
Furbies, tickle me elmo.
Everything they said Furbies could do they didn’t. They can talk to each other, they remember, they can file your taxes. All rubbish.
@the Other did the tax man not accept your excuse?
Load More Replies...I was once gifted a furbie and spent an exorbitant amount of time as my grandmothers house growing up as we were very best friends, she HATED the thing it terrified her! We could never successfully turn him all the way off and she would hide him behind her reclining chair in her living room at night
I had a couple of Furbies for a while but it got to the point where they would not shut off properly. Imagine waking up from a deep sleep to giggling coming from the closet.
My favorite aunt tried to teach a Furby to curse. It was unsuccessful.
I remember mine just waking up randomly in the night and shaking whilst laughing and making that wierd noise they used to make whilst glaring at me with huge glowing eyes..... I always loved them, but felt watched and my mam would always get freaked out by them too lmao
My daughter's furby was haunted. It would groan and shout at random times, scare the sh*t out of us. We all hated it. Finally my son and I took a high powered pellet rifle and killed it. Took a bunch of shots as it moaned and blarped and shattered. True story. Tiny furry M3gan, the little b@stard.
A conspiracy friend of my Mum believed that “tickle me Elmo” was designed to desensitise children to the concept of the Electric Chair as a form of punishment. We don’t talk to him now…
Furbies could interact with each other. Just never in any complicated way.
Cabbage Patch Dolls
Best dolls!! ----- but, do kids play with dolls and utilize their imagination anymore....when I see kiddos it seems like they are often with a device in hand...
A few years ago, I was working in a cafe when a boy (maybe 7 or 8) yanked open the door, pointed at me, and shouted, "You there! What YEAR is it!?" I can't recall what year I told him, but he called out to his friend outside, "Dear God! We've gone too far back!" And then ran off down the street. I just stood there thinking, "Were those kids just playing with their IMAGINATIONS? Have I gone back in time?" Made my day.
Load More Replies...I knew a full-grown man who kept his Cabbage Patch Doll on his pillow. I took that as a red flag.
My husband has his Raggedy Andy sitting next to our bed as we speak
Load More Replies...I had to get someone at a Toys R Us to get one for my daughter - who turned out to collect them for a while in the early 2000s
My son wanted one for Christmas 1983. Supply was low and women were actually punching each other at Toys R Us to get one.
Ah yes, the CPD wars. I remember the back of Venture and the mass of bodies huddling at the storeroom door.
I never had one as a kid, so I got one and I used to take it to work. My Best Friend's Mom told me that playing with dolls will get me pregnant.. Yeah, I was safe. For a month!!!!! I didn't play with dolls after that!
Kriss Kross and backwards pants, circa 1990.
Dee_Buttersnaps replied:
They performed on In Living Color and the next day half the boys in my fifth grade class came to school with their clothes on backwards.
Again, this was my time period but we were blissfully unaffected by this trend
Backwards pants looked like idiots. Same goes for wearing your jeans pulled down around your hips so your underwear is showing. My friend was waiting at a stoplight and guy walking had his pants fall down around his ankles right in the middle of the crosswalk. It kind of ruined his "I'm so cool" routine as he got embarrassed and had to pull up his pants so he could walk out of the crosswalk.
My husband, God bless him, did this unintentionally once and didn't realize it until I pointed it out.
I am so glad that was not in when I was in school (I was born in the 90's, first grade was 2001)
Kriss Cross will make ya jump! An old Studio 4 thing with my guys Phil & Joe... Butcher Brothers!
The hair poof in the front girls used to rock.
I think that hair style and the brain damage all that hair spray caused explains a lot of my generation's dysfunction.
Load More Replies...Just sky high big hair in general. Back in the eighties, highly teased, hair sprayed to the point where it wouldn’t move, even in a hurricane. If it wasn’t a Mohawk, it was big hair. And big shoulder pads. Like a football player.
And not a one bothered to see their ridiculous side profile prior to leaving the house.
Fifth grade, 1996. No one pried the curling iron away from me, and that saddens me tremendously
Boy bands.
K pop is not really considered 'boy band' ..... k pop is its own phenomenon, with its own cult following. 90s boy bands were something different, even though they certainly share some similarities...
Load More Replies...Bro, come on. Boy bands will never go away. They just hibernate and come back every decade or so. If the Beatles is the OG boy band, then this has been going on for over half a century and it will return again.
I don't think the Beatles classify as a true "boy band". Yes, they were boys, and they were in a band, but "boy bands" didn't generally write their own music or play their own instruments. Basically they just perform the easily marketable pop songs written by a team with money rather than creativity in mind.
Load More Replies...BTS (a boy band) is one of the most popular groups in the world, currently.
Nearly every era of music has had some variation of the "boy band". I think the earliest group that could claim that title was probably the Ink Spots in the 1930s. Through the 40s and 50s you had too many "doo wop" groups to list. Into the 60s the "boy band" archetype really started to take shape with groups like the Beach Boys and the Beatles. the 70s... The Jackson 5, nuff said. The 80s had NKOTB, New Edition, Menudo... some of those made it into the 90s alongside Boyz II Men, Color Me Badd and others. The 2000s: NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and everyone else that tried to be them. The 2010s had the Jonas Bros, One Direction and the start of the international rise of K-pop, which is where we are today. Point is, there always has been and there will always be an audience for young, handsome, talented men singing together.
can't believe someone else knows the Ink Spots. love music from that era. had some old 78s from them
Load More Replies...The easiest way to tell if they are a boy band or just a band is ask if they're all the same, or if there is one for every demographic (Blond one, cute one, safely rebellious one etc).
Imagine Dragons are a rock band. BUT... they're all guys and they have the cute and depressed one, the hair care is my life one, the goofy one, and the one with cool sunglasses.
Load More Replies...Garbage pail kids.
I loved garbage pail kids. Had a ton of them. Wish I knew what happened to them.
Man I loved those things. This whole thread is making me nostalgic for the 80's. Except for the awful clothes and hairstyle I sported. Never gonna miss that! :)
The “challenges” like cinammon challenge, the ice bucket challenge, condom challenge, etc.
catchmeifyoucannon added:
Mannequin Challenge.
The ice bucket challenge raised an unbelievable amount of money that funded significant advances in ALS studies toward treatment. Please don't lump that one in.
Lump it in with what? Forgotten trends, which is what this article is about? Because I don't know anyone still talking about it
Load More Replies...there were two different condom challenges, actually. the first is gross and dangerous, it involved snorting a condom through your nose and pulling it out through your mouth...only a few people actually did that one. the second was just filling a condom with water and dropping it on someone's head
Load More Replies...Hopefully it's put it over your head until you suffocate
Load More Replies...People have died doing the marshmallow challenge too.
Load More Replies...But I used to love the planking and batmanning videos.
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Heelys.
wheresthecheat replied:
Ugh that was the best 3 weeks before my school banned them. We would have our friends pull us into jousting fights between classes… okay i guess i understand why they were banned but they were still fun as sh**t
If I had any courage I would wear heelies to school and glide around like a king but no I will not
all my friends shared heelies when we were in elementary school but my feet were too big :(
Load More Replies...hehehe i had these when i was younger (around age 8/9). went on a trip to the u.s, realised they make them in adult sizes over there!! (im from australia). bought some :) and brought them back to australia w me. im gonna be heelying around my university HAHA
I was tempted to buy the Heelys in my size at the Goodwill where I work, but decided that at 50, I would probably kill myself with them.
Yeah, I could see myself falling and breaking my hip trying these things.
Load More Replies...Just saw a kid about 10 or 11 probably with these at Walmart a couple days ago.
I was hoping Wal-Mart would ban them.I don't know how many times I got crashed into by inconsiderate kids and teens wearing those Damned things!
You have no idea how tempting it was to just stick out an arm and clothesline Heely wearers as they glided smulgy past.
Planking.
I never understood this one at all. Just stood my old person in self imposed timeout until the fad passed. I just felt lost at this concept. Was it strength? Was it silly? Was it putting oneself into a place or setting in a new and novel way? Never could quite "get"it. Feel free to throw the items you keep in reserve for such as I.
California Raisins
Pogs.
POGS!!! Now whomever invented the pogs containers is making BANK in the mary-j-wanna industry. All pot shops use various sized pogs containers! Lol
Srsly, the first time someone handed me one of those to pack the next bowl, I was so confused. Well, yes, stoned, but also genuinely confused.
Load More Replies...In 1998 pogs were banned from my elementary because it encouraged gambling. So we had an underground pogs ring going on in the 5th grade
I carry a pog slammer in my wallet as a good luck charm since I was a kid.
Omg I miss pogs lol I had a slammer with Ariel on it and my brother had a glow in the dark 8 ball one. Good times, good times....
Fidget spinners and the dab.
Spank-Those-Hams replied:
30 year old substitute teacher here. I dab sometimes when the kids say something dab worthy, which is either met with cringes or laughter. Either one gives me strength.
Fidget spinners, and fidgets of all kinds, are still very popular and are really good to help kids who need a bit of 'time out'.
They’re also great for neurodivergent adults! For some people, they are excellent at helping maintain focus
Load More Replies...Face. Anyone remember saying "Face" when someone got humbled?
Load More Replies...Wasn’t the dab recent? Or am I just aging at the speed of light?
No way dude (I was scared for a second there too) it got popular mid 2014. Nvm that's almost 10 years...WTF!
Load More Replies...A Greek friend of mine gifted me a kombolói (worry beads), which has a similar effect of a Fidget Spinner. Gives the anxious something to do with their hands.
Useful when giving up smoking too. can't flick a kombolói with a giggie between your fingers.
Load More Replies...I remember when fidget spinners were still a big thing, I was so certain that they would never go away and remain the coolest thing forever… my parents still bring it up
The run on Beenie Babies. They were buying them literally as an investment worth thousands of dollars... I literally saw them the other day being sold at Speedway
OMG. My mom had hundreds of them. We wound up donating them to the fire department when she passed. There is no beanie baby riches pipeline but, at least, scared kids get a stuffed friend now in my neighborhood.
While I was working, if we had to put a pet to sleep I would try and match the pet to the appropriate beanie baby and put a hair clipping in the tag. Felt it was a lot better than sending flowers.
I just watched a really good show on this. The company totally played everyone.
When my grandmother died, I pulled the tags off every single beenie baby in her collection. She wasn’t a nice woman
They're still widely popular with kids having "beanie boos". Yes that's what they're called now.
I don't know why you got downvoted, as a parent of a 9yo I can totally confirm this. We have about 15 of them 🙈 but tags get cut off.😅
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That odd period when everything was themed around a mustache.
mx3goose replied:
Girls who got the mustache tattoo on your pointer finger...how's life going?
I remember someone posting a photo of a girl with a moustache tattoo in a "remember this?" way, and got the response of "oh that's my old picture, I transitioned and have a real one now!"
My oldest was obsessed with moustaches during that fad and came out as nonbinary later
Load More Replies...I bet the girls that got it on their middle finger are still using it.
I know a dude who has one! It doesn't look good. Lol. It's a good tattoo, mind you, it's just in not good condition. As you would expect from a hand tattoo.
they may have faded, if they're lucky. Hand tattoo's fade much, much faster than other parts of your body.
Pacifier necklaces. Not sure if this was a international trend though. Early-mid 1990s, small colourful plastic pacifiers that we would trade and exchange. I wouldnt mind a comeback, they were rather cute.
If I remember correctly a certain Rave Drug caused teeth grinding.A pacifier was gnashed on instead.
In NZ we used chupa chup lollipops instead of pacifiers.
Load More Replies..."Binkies", never did ecstasy, I was the goth raver who helped you to the chillout room when you had enough.
I had one and we would use them like a pacifier. I think the ravers used actual soothers to keep them from either swallowing their tongue or keep the saliva going in their mouths while on E.
Hacky sack tricks.
I was a walking stereotype in 2005. Smoked a ton of weed and played Hacky sack for hours everyday with my other stoner friends in college. I actually got really good and, looking back, it was a great workout
Best memory is the summer of 2001, a bunch of high schoolers were extras for a movie shot at my high school. We had a big circle going with a bunch of hacky sacks! We didn’t have cell phones so we had to occupy ourselves.
I remember all the guys spending every spare minute in school doing complicated hackey sack routines with each other.
I spent a great deal of time in my teen years playing hacky sack. I'm talking hours a day, everyday! Me or one of my friends always had a hacky sack in their pocket. I loved it. It's too bad it's not popular anymore, it's a great way to exercise and socialize at the same time.
At an airport a few weeks ago I watched teenagers hacking the sack. I didn’t have the heart to tell them they were 30 years late to the “sport”.
Why would you, i’d commend them for playing together an actual physical game than being glued to a screen like every single child and adult these days
Load More Replies...The little finger skateboards and trick bicycles toys.
People at my school keep bringing finger skateboards and trying to flip them. I'm weirdly good at it for someone who really doesn't do it much
I hated those things when I was in school. I thought they were the dumbest toy. The boys who played with them just looked ridiculous. Lol.
Harlem Shake.
DeltaForce_Valentine replied:
I loved the Harlem Shake, it was wholesome. Also i feel like my life was happier during that era when it came out.
Omg!!! 🤣 How did I forget about this lmao it was hilerious and brought everyone together lmao
That's kids flailing. 😒Jermaine Dupree and Bow-wow already had a dance called The Harlem Shake in the early 2000's. Erasing creators of color isn't cool.
Exactly. The real Harlem Shake is not that. See "Let's Get It" vid circa 2001
Load More Replies...OK I had to leave this thread and go over YouTube to watch the Harlem shake again.
Hypercolor shirts
Ugh, these remind me of the pervy neighbor that would wear these and try to get girls to touch him to make the color change
Gross! Why do people always have to ruin fun things?
Load More Replies...Ahh these look fun! But in the UK we didn't have them, in the 90s it was more tie dye
Yes we did, I had a green/yellow Global Hypercolor T shirt. :D
Load More Replies...Mine stopped working after a while. Wish they would bring these back, though!
These were the best. I had a purple sweatshirt that randomly turned either pink or blue. So not ask why, I never did figure it out.
Literally couldn't handle the heat. One hot water wash and a round through the drier ruined them.
Yeah, the underarm thing tended to let everyone know when you were talking to someone who made you tense whether it be principal,crush,or omgoodness, we still had lots of these baddies, bullies. I can vouch!
Bedazzling everything!
“Grandpa’s having a heart attack!, quick fetch the rhinestones!”
Load More Replies...I still love this. It's good for people who like to wear shiny things but don't like to wear jewelry.
Spinning rims on cars. Those were BAD.
I went on a date with some guy who actually told me that I should put spinning rims on my car. I drove a 1969 fastback Mustang. That car was in mint condition and looked like it had just rolled off of the factory floor. The fact that he made that suggestion told me that he was not the right guy for me. That was our first and last date. 😄 I absolutely hated the spinning rims trend.
Holy sh*t that's my dream car, envy you so much rn...
Load More Replies...Silly me. I poured money into maintaining the engine and body instead of rims.
Lol. Especially the cheap plastic numbers from Walmart that snapped on your wheels. I never had these but lived where there were a lot of dirt roads. So you would see cars with all of them stuck but like one. If they were sporting these babies they were more than likely cranksters.
I think it's cool but I love a good ridiculously funky old school car
I thought they looked stupid on cars ,Loved the looks on pick-up trucks and suburbans
Vine, old short-video social media.
Tarzans last thought before hitting the ground
Load More Replies...I thought people did some really funny things with this. What we have now just isn't the same.
in a way it does exist, when Twitter bought them out, they integrated the video tech into twitter, so all videos on twitter owe themselves to Vine. Oh and Musk has talked about bringing back the Vine IP to create a rival to TikTok, so it might be back in some form or another
Hula hoops,banana seats on stingray bicycles and playing cards clipped to your spokes.
True, but it's somehow not the same. Not sure how to explain it though 😅
Load More Replies...Beaded animals. Any other school have a craze where people made animals from beads and string? I remember having someone make me a lizard and hanging it from my backpack
My friend is learning to do that! They're making me a trans-coloured ring and it's really sweet. They're also thinking of making animals, but they aren't great at 3d yet
I'm not sure which transphobic Panda downvoted you, my friend, but take my upvote to cancel out hateful negativity :D That's so awesome that your friend is making you a ring! I bet they can find some tutorials online to help with making animals!
Load More Replies...Oh some people call that peyote beading. I had a friend who was really into it. My hands and fingers are too big for it :(.
Giant wallet chains
No, it doesn't. Any halfway competent pickpocket knows what to do with about a chain.
Load More Replies...They do serve a purpose. Keeps your wallet from falling out of you pocket while riding a motorcycle.
That's the real reason. People think it stops pickpockets. It doesn't really.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately those are still around in some sub cultures.
Tight-rolling your jeans.
Wait, people don’t do this still (looks down at pants nervously).
I'm tallish (over 6ft) but with short legs and an abnormally tall torso. So Jean rolling it is
Load More Replies...Me! I'm super short so jean rolling never goes out of style for me.
Load More Replies...We called it pegging your jeans or pants. You fold over the bottom so they are tight then you roll them up a little.
Load More Replies...I did this and got teased for it. "Watch out ThE fLoOd Is CoMiNg." Kids sucked in my area.
Rainbow loom, people even made clothes with it.
That's definitely still around. I have friends who have bracelets from that I think
I have bracelets from it! They are just super fun!
Load More Replies...Can anyone remember 90s 'Scoobies' UK? They were like long plastic multi coloured laces that we got obsessed with for a short while, could make long rectangular key chains our of them...
I have recently been learning to crochet and the skills I learned loom banding have really come in handy! 😂
My 7 year old just bought a set with a gift card he got. Still going strong in elementary schools!
My daughter got into a bit and then it became the go-to gift idea from her family. We still have too many elastic bands she hasn't used in years. She got good at it and we still have a bunch of her creations. But the elastics snapped within a matter of a month or so. Not sure the reason but they just eroded or got worn.
Braiding your barrettes with ribbon and letting the ribbon hang down ala 1981.
Never been entirely sure what a barrette is. Is it just a hair clip? We don't use the word in Australia
It's those bar clips specifically. From the French Barre-ette literally small bar.
Load More Replies...Never heard of this. I did have shoe lace hair clips I wore in my pigtails to look like Chun-Li in the mid 90s.
Can you kick like her though? She was my favorite street fighter character to fight with back in the day
Load More Replies...I rocked these in kindergarten like a BOSS!!! I had forgotten. Thank you!
I don't at all remember this but why not do this? Sounds better than a big bow on top.
When corporations were trying to make the best virtual assistants. Like clippy and bonzi buddy.
Clippy was fun for about 5 minutes. Then I loathed him.
"I see you're making an illegal action" got me a bit nervous I was about to get swatted, ngl.
Now that AI is gaining significant traction, expect these to come back big time (but maybe not with the animations) e.g. "It appears you are writing a PhD thesis. Would you like me to do that for you?"
W.W.J.D.? (What would Jesus do?) Waste_Coat_4506 replied: My religious middle school friend would take of her wwjd bracelet off if she had something sinful to do, like cursing or lying to her parents. I'm not sure that's how it works but idk, I never read the Bible
At work I have a WWXD? sticker on my office door. (What would Xena Do?)
My brother gave me a t-shirt reading “W.W.J.J.D.” with a drawing of Joan Jett below it.
What Would Jesus Drive? Some biblical scholars say it's a Plymouth, because God drove Adam and Eve from the garden in a Fury. Others think it's a Dodge, because they had to wait for the Ram's horn to sound. Most agree, though, on a Honda, because Jesus and his disciples were all in one Accord.
3D tvs and curved computer display monitors. They kept saying, "3D TV is the future!" They've been dead for a few years now.
I'm actually reading BP on a 32" curved monitor. I love it.
Load More Replies...A friend gave me a huge TV a couple of years ago and mentioned that it was 3-D that I would just need to get the headset. I looked it up and was like, yeah, no, I'll pass on that.
Like VR, I knew at the time it wouldn't be (I'm in the industry). ANYTHING that can only be used by 90% of your target audience will never survive. 3DTV was one, motion sick VR is another. Resolution is the future, and always will be (until holograms I guess)
3D TV was an interesting idea, but I never actually saw one in the real world. Should Apple ever release one though, you can bet it'll make a comeback
Angry birds and cut the rope on a way too small phone screen.
My daughter plays cut the rope all the time. She had like 6 versions of it actually, lol.
Load More Replies...Angry birds is a thing now but they are going to discontinue their paid app cause the microtransaction one is so much more profitable
That week everyone was obsessed with sea shantys for some reason
Certainly felt like longer than a week, but I'm not sure how long it was!
I still have several renditions of The Wellerman in my favorites playlist.
I have played in a shanty band for about 8 years ... we just never got as big as the Longest John's... but it's cool we never planned on making it big
Or when for a few months there was "medieval" renditions of every song , ngl though, was fun.
It's been a long time since I've seen Chuck Norris memes.
Neopets Rapturence replied: I accrued about 2 million Neopoints over a few years during its prime. Sunk so many hours into those 3-per-day games (especially the pterodactyl and bullseye games!). And I loved reading the stories/fanfics written by users, several of them became multi-entry sagas that spanned months. Came back a year ago to find my account hacked 😭
My sister began playing it again not that long ago, but only a few of the games were available, something to do with flash player.
omg the neopets comics that people would publish, i can't remember the name but there was one that was called something like "the evil eye" and i was obsessed xD
I mentioned that I missed this in another post here. I really did like this one, I just wasn't very good at it.
Hoverboards. Every mall kiosk was selling them. Everyone was getting them for Christmas. People were selling them out the trunk. I’ve still never set foot on one. They were everywhere.
I sold a bunch of these. Had a supplier in China. ABS color injected plastic, solid rubber wheels, upgraded LG batteries. People were paying $1400, I sold mine for half that and made a killing. When the batteries started catching fire, not one of mine had an issue because I went quality over profit.
Tae Bo
Did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshiper? He sold his soul to Santa 🎅! Thank you, thank you. You’ve been a wonderful audience.
Load More Replies...I've started doing a workout game on my switch and it reminds me of Tae Bo. It's called knockout home fitness. Sigh, I do miss Tae bo
Load More Replies...I just finished watching a show set in 2001 that had a group of women doing Tae Bo. I had forgotten about it until then.
Palm pilots and other PDAs. Former Handspring Visor user here.
I got my first Palm Pilot in June 1996 and I never turned back! I loved being able to take notes and keep a calendar which I could easily print out every week. It helped keep me sooo organized. Today I used Google Calendar on my phone and computer....same same.
I actually miss mine. I still have the folding keyboard for it.
Load More Replies...I read that as Prison Series. I was like "They let inmates have PDAs? Does the Prison Series just have fewer features?"
Load More Replies...I was so sad when handspring shut down shop, palm pilot was bigger, but I loved my visor..
I have one and I'm only 21! It's more for having something vintage and cool, but it's still fun! So many cool games you could play on it. Edit: it's the Palm T|X
I don't think I could tell you the last time I saw UGG boots in person.
I still have uggs and I love them and they’re warm and comfy and I’m not ashamed to admit it!
I was at Kohl’s (Major US clothing retailer) yesterday. They still sell them.
I'd never part with my UGGS.....they are the most comfortable boots I've ever owned. Heaven !
Y’all remember silly bandz? Those little animal shaped rubber bands? Those things took over my middle school. Ended up being treated like a controlled substance which only made them even more valuable. Then one day they just vanished.
I recall a Teen Mom episode where one of Janelle's bfs randomly got her silly bandz and she was all like "aww, yay" and that left me with the impression these are some worthless, cringe junk.
WHAT imma Google this edit: nevermind was disappointed i knew what they are I'm just dumb
I had these for my children. The trend didn’t last long enough for us to have them for my younger son, they were already gone in the 2 years between my kids.
Yeah they got completely banned from our elementary and then later middle school bc they got popular againXD felt like a little hustler traded 'em all secrety:)
Vuvuzela’s. Man they were annoying!
I live in South Africa. They literally existed decades before the craze, they exit today, they will exist when Armageddon comes. Imagine hating something and you literally hear them every week, when people protest, when they have sport events, when they get married . . .
Maybe they ARE the sound of Armageddon? As in the Nordic mythology, where Heimdall, Watchman of the Gods, will sound the horn as Ragnarok approaches…?
Load More Replies...I believe there are still cricket and soccer fans who still use them
Yeah, the 2010 World Cup, every match the commentators sounded like they were in a wasps nest.
Clowns randomly showing up in places and freaking people out. I feel like it was just a few years ago.
It was in the summer/fall of 2016, the last sighting being on January 20th on the west front of the US Capitol.
The creepy clown trend disheartened me because it made kids scared of clowns. I grew up loving clowns and only seeing them as funny, bright colourful comedians.
I think you are in the minority of people with your opinion on clowns. The 2016 trend didn't start the cultural fear of clowns. In modern society it is believed to have started in the 70s with serial killer John Wayne Gacey and his clown persona Pogo the Clown. It was then cemented into late Gen-X and early Millenials when we were collectively traumatized by the original IT miniseries and Tim Curry's outstandingly creepy portrayl of Pennywise. By the early 90s the fear of clowns was so common psychology gave it a name, coulrophobia. Since then this fear has been collectively passed down to the younger generations and the 2016 trend just helped reinforce it.
Load More Replies...This only happened for a couple of weeks. Was it a trend or one bad email thread
Miami vice pastel jackets and brutini shoes. Don't forget about Michael Jackson jackets 2000% markup on those.
or how about gaudy fluorescent jackets? I had a bright pink one with random lines of other fluorescent colors..../cowers in corner of shame
Don't worry dear, you were young and impressionable, no shame attaches
Load More Replies...Oh this just made me remember silk jackets. I wanted one so bad. And my uncle bought me one for Christmas. I thought I was so cool.
Wearing an arm full of (chunky or thin) rubber bracelets from different fandoms. So many girls did it as conversation starters,, I still cringe.
Apparently my teachers were concerned and told my mom that I was wearing far too many bracelets when I was in 2nd grade or so. Because Cyndi
Load More Replies...I wore mine from age 16 till the last one broke just b4 my 40th birthday. They ended up hardening and became impossible to take off unless you just strait up cut them
I have a friend who wears a ton of these. She's in high school now so I don't see her much, but I remember that she was always wearing at least one. I think they were mostly from summer camps
My sister still has a number of these, but I don't think she wears them much
The cup song.
I googled it, skipped to 3.27 and got about 4 seconds in before being slightly annoyed by it
Load More Replies...my childhood. my sister loved it and me, her and my brother would go up to the neigmbors above us and do this
You can actually sing the old hymn "I've got a River of Life" to the cup song. It works out perfectly.
Bacon-ify EVERYTHING.
or deep frying it....Do ppl still fry turkeys whole? or has that gone over yet? I dont know any other country that would boil 10 liters or so of oil and stick an entire large bird in it. Dont even get me started on fried snickers bars...
Yes people still deep fry turkeys. I'm guessing you're not from the southern US. It's not a trend down here it's a culture and culinary staple.
Load More Replies...Extreme Ironing.
Back in the days people were obsessed looking neat. Ironing is and always was a great way to prevent and destroy any parasites, like lice, flies, bed bugs, worm eggs. Well ironed clothes was a symbol of cleanliness and neatness. Ironing takes a lotof time but it sure does make one look better
But regular ironing will do. Extreme ironing is when you iron your clothes on Mt Everest or while surfing.
Load More Replies...I just finished reading a book about the dust bowl. Extreme ironing would have fit right in with the housewives having to iron the dugout house walls to kill bugs crawling around under the wallpaper.
I remember seeing a story about it in one of the Sunday papers here in the UK. Someone was extreme ironing on the M6 (one of the busiest motorways over here). There was no traffic at all due to it being closed at the time between junctions, but they still got criticised by the Police and paper. They never caught the person mind.
That dress where you never knew the color
I somehow managed to be completely sick of that meme before it even arrived on the scene.
Wearing colorful knee high socks over you pants… middle school was a dark time.
I remember yes in middle school, I remember raiding my older brother’s sock drawer for his knee high crew socks
Can we start bottle flipping again? You never miss something until it's gone...
Bro go to my school. Every class has at least one kid bottle flipping and multiple people per table in do it in the cafeteria
My kids are into it. I threw out a water bottle and my son was in tears because it was his "flipping bottle".
No one remembers Yikes! pencils and pens? Those things were absolute status symbols when I was in elementary school.
I totally forgot about Yikes! pencils and pens! They absolutely were a status symbol in my school, along with No Fear binders. Those things were so expensive.
Yes! I LOVED Yikes stationery. I'd totally forgotten all about them.
POW bracelets in the 1960s or 70s. I was a kid, I wore one. Don't know if he ever made it home.
POW bracelets were NOT a trend, they were a mission. They were to make people aware of the issue of how the Vietnamese were mistreating prisoners of war with torture and cruelty, against the Geneva Convention. They were to remind Americans that Vietnam had to be held accountable for what they were doing, and their government needed to fully reveal what happened to our prisoners of war and missing in action. The mission has not changed. The families are still waiting. Yes, I still wear a bracelet; I've been wearing one for over forty years.
Same here. After thirty years, I finally had to stop wearing mine. It in my jewelry box.
I had a penpal in the '90s who still wore hers because they hadn't found her POW yet.
Does anyone remember popcorn shirts? Those were a huge thing when I was in like 4th and 5th grade
Are those the ones that are tiny, but magically expand to where the biggest linebacker in the NFL could wear it? Such a bizarre fabric!
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I never saw them around here (upper Midwest, US).
I do. I never had any cause they didn't look right on me but my best friend's MOM did. She always tried to be younger than she is
Tiger Electronic games, nobody remembered them until the AVGN episode about it.
Baby on Board signs in car windows.
Still see them. It annoys me people have a problem with them and only see them as an obnoxious thing. They're meant to alert emergency personnel that there could be a baby in a car when there's been an accident, and the parents are unable to speak.
And tell me what happens if you're in a car crash and the baby's at home with dad? Those poor first responders will spend hours searching: in the trunk, no, did you check the glove box, not there, how about under the seat? I can find the baby! How big is your freaking car?
Load More Replies...They're better than those stick figure families. Man, those things annoy me, and I don't know why.
Those are for first responders if you're in a wreck. It's not to advertise to the world lol. Idk why so many people don't get that.
Here's a handy tip for all those first responders. If you see a child's car seat (required, I'm sure, in every country where these stickers exist) check for a child.
Load More Replies...they kind of became a cry wolf thing. I've seen so many cars with those where I could see they obviously did not have a baby on board. Either thought it would make folks be safer around them or they just left them in all the time even when not hauling a baby. they were supposed to war first responders like in a wreck or something so what good are they if every other car has one?
IIRC they were popular around the same time as those Garfield dolls with suction cup feet that people put in their car windows.
Dubstep. Nollie_flip replied: I feel personally attacked haha. Been a huge fan for 15 years and it's definitely here to stay at this point, it's just not in the mainstream as much anymore, which I actually prefer, because it's more like it was when I first became a fan.
Those sockem boppers. They are more fun then a pillow fight! But really as kids it would turn into an all out brawl and our parents would take them away. Because one kid would be bruised and crying.
Anyone remember domo? The brown rectangle monster.
My folks love the Domo 30-second shorts when they play on the NHK channel
Load More Replies...I have a fairly large Domo (about 2 ft. tall) that lives atop a bookcase in my dining room. I got him at a thrift store for a dollar.
The playlist feature on MySpace pages.
I miss My Space. At least I could personalize it…I learned HTML for it!!!
Spacehey is a resurrected og myspace that came out a year or 2 ago or so
Load More Replies...Omg yessss that was GOLD you felt you could tell everything deep about a person just by their 5 choices lmao
Webkinz… if you know, you know.
Kony 2012 For all the hype, he's still never been caught.
Those purses made out of old Kool-aid packets. Also the purses with the sequins all over them.
Filters on Instagram. It feels like all photos were sent through ‘Valencia’ in 2014
the really cool computer mouse you could get that had water or other things in it. Tried getting one and I can't seem to find it anywhere! Honestly there was a lot of cool technology like that back then.
I had this travel mouse that was the shape and size of a lipstick. I wish I knew what happened to mine, or where I can get a new one.
Those little gooey alien things you could buy. Remember the rumour that if you put their heads together, they would breed......my father just used to throw em at the ceiling
Vsco girls
I have VSCO Girl Trauma. My friends and I were attacked by a group of them during a girl scout camping trip. Like, literally attacked.
I was so glad when they went out of style, they kept clogging up my big yellow Dyson😂
Load More Replies...Lots of people still use lanyards. Anyone who has to have their work ID on them all day for instance.
Load More Replies...My Scene and Bratz dolls. Back in the 80s people were raving about Strawberry Shortcake. I personally preferred and loved Cherry Merry Muffin.
Oml my mom went to a Zumba class once a week at the rec center while my brother and I got to hang out at the climbing walls.
Load More Replies...does anyone remember those temporary tongue tattoos? i think they really messed up my tongue lol https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1472/8118/products/Tung-Toos-Boy_grande.png?v=1589870547
I was so glad when they went out of style, they kept clogging up my big yellow Dyson😂
Load More Replies...Lots of people still use lanyards. Anyone who has to have their work ID on them all day for instance.
Load More Replies...My Scene and Bratz dolls. Back in the 80s people were raving about Strawberry Shortcake. I personally preferred and loved Cherry Merry Muffin.
Oml my mom went to a Zumba class once a week at the rec center while my brother and I got to hang out at the climbing walls.
Load More Replies...does anyone remember those temporary tongue tattoos? i think they really messed up my tongue lol https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1472/8118/products/Tung-Toos-Boy_grande.png?v=1589870547
