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Low-rise jeans, owl necklaces, eating cinnamon by the spoonful, or laying face down in all sorts of random places… These are just some of the popular trends of the past (thankfully). Though in general, trends seem to be ever present – if one foolish fad becomes a thing of the past, you can be sure there’s another one—likely even more foolish—coming.
Bearing this in mind, it’s no surprise that people have taken part in all sorts of crazes over the years. Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community have discussed such crazes, opening up after one user asked them about the dumbest fads they ever participated in. If you’re curious to see what their stories entailed, you can browse them on the list below, and see if you took part in any of the same things yourself. If not, you can head straight to the comments to share what popular fads you participated in.
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#1
Early 90s. I owned more plaid shirts than a lesbian lumberjack
T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
"I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars..." ??
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Forrest Grump 7 months ago
I still like them, but I never liked them in red. I currently have two heavyweight flannel shirts - one in dark blue/light blue and one in black/grey.
David Beaulieu 7 months ago
Didn't we all. I used to tie them around my waste, even in the summer. Too much Pearl Jam on MTV.
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#2
I had a mullet in the late 80s as a 4th grader.
I was neither a businessman nor a partier.
Upstaged75 7 months ago (edited)
LOL, I had a perm along with a feathered haircut in the 80's. I looked like a homely middle aged man when I was a 10 year old girl. :)
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
Same, did it in the early 90s before I switched into a side hawk. Then in the 00s I went full undercut. Guess my subculture.
Bookworm 7 months ago
My dad thinks mullets are still in fashion. Sigh. I say nothing because it's his hair.
Sven Horlemann 7 months ago (edited)
In German, classic "Vokuhila" - "Vorne kurz hinten lang" = short at the front, long in the back. God. Being an 80s child, I still think this is just plain wrong :-).
Huddo's sister 7 months ago
I still don't understand why this fad has come back. Mohawks are cool and I could deal with a rat's tail, but mullets, no thank you.
CG 7 months ago
I had long hair when I was younger, think early to mid 2000's. I was really into Lord of the Rings, and I wanted to try and look like Aragorn, but I had a curly mullet, not straight long hair. Only time I had comparably long hair was when COVID started, and I couldn't get a hair cut.
#3
My mother made me get a Dorothy Hamil haircut when I was in 4th grade. It was a d**n bowl cut and I’m a girl and I cried and she got mad because the hair dresser felt bad. Then she dropped me back off at school and the substitute thought I was a boy 😆😆 it was traumatic 🤣
Daune Tullina 7 months ago
Fellow sufferer of the Dorothy Hamil cut. We should form a support group
FluffButt Central 7 months ago
I had one too but from a stylist that knew how to layer it correctly. Without the layers, it was just a bowl cut. With the layers, you had a great haircut.
Babs McGurk 7 months ago
Same here. I had one as an adult, and my stylist did it absolutely right.
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Bored Trash Panda 7 months ago
I decided to cut my very, very long hair myself with the help of a neighbor kid. I did such a horrible job, as one does at 8 years old, and ended up having to get a bowl cut.
T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
I got a similar one, but it was a Purdey haircut (Joanna Lumley's character from "The New Avengers"). I was very disappointed that it didn't automatically curl under like Purdey's did.
Olivia Wilder 6 months ago
Not the same haircut. Hairdresser did a bad job - girls can have short hair and look feminine,
#4
Being a silly, screaming 12 YO Beatlemania chick. I still scream a lot...Get Off My Lawn!, but we old bats are allowed to.
iseefractals 7 months ago
My mom was one of those "silly" screamers, and both my dad and his older brother had "beatle boots" My parents (and my dad's brother) were all at the Shea stadium concert in 1965, though it took my parents another 12 years to meet as they worked for the same company, though my dad was in Detroit while my mom was still in jersey.
Zaach 7 months ago
Up-vote for Beatle boots - I don't think I threw them away until I was mid-20s
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Multa Nocte 7 months ago
I was 8 or 9 but screamed with all the girls at the movie when the babysitter took me to see "A Hard Day's Night."
MagicJacket 7 months ago
My grandfather referred to me as Beatle Boy all my life, even into my 20s when he passed away. Apparently at the age of three I used to scream out singing "She Loves You" at the top of my lungs. And my love for the Beatles has never decreased, even though the band broke up when I was a wee lad.
#5
I crimped my hair.
StrangeOne 7 months ago
I had the squared crimping iron. My mom spent a couple hours crimping my hair. I used to think there were people with naturally crimped hair. Turns out it was just a really, really popular thing to do. Looking back, it really didn't look good.
BrunoVI 7 months ago
The look, which was painfully not achieved, was that of someone whose hair had been in many small, tight braids,
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
I did it with bee's wax and tiny rubber bands. All my cool friends had dreads and I couldn't so I braided my hair into microbraids. When I unbraided it I got this effect to.
Lila Allen 7 months ago
sadly it was a huge thing for like 2 years in the early 90s
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Planking
John Haley 7 months ago
My neighbour still does this. She's in her 80's and has been planking on her lawn for days now.
Lara Verne 7 months ago
How did this became a trend? It wasn't impressive, it didn't look cool...
Marketable 7 months ago
Yeah, that and Tide Pods really set your generation apart, where we hoped you'd remain.
#7
When acid washed denim was hot I would wear all my acid washed together...pants...shirt & denim jacket with a popped up collar along with those baggy topped cowboy boots. My sister has several pics of me in all my faded glory which sends her descending into uncontrollable giggles.
zububonsai 7 months ago
As long as someone is decent and feeling great and happy wearing it, I see not problem 😎👍🏻.
Hoi-Polloi 7 months ago
The only real danger in outfits like that is you might accidentally find yourself singing for the Bangles.
#8
I had long hair as a teenager, and sometime in my early 20's (the late 80's, early 90's), I cut it short but left a rat tail in my hair.
When my wife cut it off (she's a hairdresser) she kept it. I think it's still in a box somewhere...
Mrs Irish Mom 7 months ago
My cousin had one for years and when he got older and cut it off he asked us why no one told him it was stupid looking, eh I did every time you asked weather to curl it or leave it straight 🙈
Charles McChristy 7 months ago
I don't understand why anyone out of elementary school would want one of these.
HardBoiledBlonde 7 months ago
I had one past my shoulders, I loved it, got compliments on it and frequently dyed it with several colors to resemble a quasi feather.
krunchifrog 7 months ago
I had one. My mother’s sister threatened to cut it off. I threatened her with physical violence.
#9
Zebra highlights
Ben 7 months ago
My Ex-wife has about 8 different color highlight with multiple parts. I thought she looked beautiful.
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Hoi-Polloi 7 months ago
I like the look, but couldn't help break out laughing when I saw my wife pulling locks through a colander to isolate the hair she wanted to stripe.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
THIS WAS A THING!?! NO! Just NO!. Who thought this was a good idea?
#10
Very baggy pants jingos I think
Emilu 7 months ago
Wait long enough and everything you owned/own will be back in fashion.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 7 months ago
I still have several original pairs of JNCO's, the oldest of which is 27 or 28 years old. Yes, i continue to wear them and they are in considerably better condition than the garbage that has been produced over the past 10 years or so.
Tamra 7 months ago
I am honestly surprised that you own JNCOs. I don't know why, but that just didn't fit with my mental image of you. That's what I get for making assumptions! 😂
Load More Replies... megabeth 7 months ago
Not good in a Midwest USA winter! Id be on the bus w my pants soaked up to my knees... Was so worth it! At the time. 😏
#11
Inflatable furniture. I had so many chairs. And cats...
StrangeOne 7 months ago
i guess that means a lot of chairs but not all at once because of the cats. I wanted those clear inflatable furniture, but then I thought about how easy it is for the inflatable water floaties to get tiny holes, and how staticky they get. So much fur and hair would be stick to them.
Charles McChristy 7 months ago
I have cats, which is why I'd never purchase inflatable furniture.
R1MV4Superleggera 7 months ago
Well, at least it they lasted a little bit, today, if they had the tag "made in rubbishland" (china)..I guarantee you it wouldn't last at the end of the day
#12
Tramp stamp
Savannah greenleaf 7 months ago
I did that. I don't regret it all. If anyone says anything about it I just tell to stop trying to check out my b*m!
Maples Dad 7 months ago
Remember when Lois is having a mid-life crisis in Family Guy. She gets one of these and someone says to her (it may have been Stewie' 'now everyone walking behind you will know you had 60 dollars'
BrunoVI 7 months ago
I hope you can put politics aside and appreciate the humor, but I met a Gulf War veteran who lost his arm, right below an American-flag tattoo. He called it his "Trump stump."
El Cucuy 7 months ago (edited)
Odd that he chose that name given the Gulf War started and ended roughly 30 years before orange man even got elected.
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megabeth 7 months ago
Recently got my tramp stamp covered into a back piece. It was my Ex-husbands name... Circa 2002. (To be fair, he had my name tatted over his heart for valentine's already) Young dumb and 21...I won't say the name but its slang for a p***s in some places and wasn't named Richard.
Maples Dad 7 months ago (edited)
Wow, not able to even say the word 'p***s' any more?! It's a legitimate name for a piece of a man's anatomy!
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Kyra Heiker 7 months ago
How does this qualify as a fad? A tattoo on the lower back is perfectly normal and does not make you a tramp
Theora Fifty-five Johnson 7 months ago
I hate the name. It's a good spot for a pretty tattoo. Women can't have nice things.
#13
Hammer pants. Inside out sweaters, sagging my pants way low, overalls with one strap done, super long belts, wallets with super long chains, ...
karen snyder 7 months ago
...wearing loony tunes characters like they were our spirit animals, pajama pants in public, multitudes of scrunchies, pale light blue denim pants big enough for two....
#14
In the early 90s there was a trend going around my area called "eraser burns"
As you can guess, it was rubbing an eraser on your skin, almost always on the back of your hand, until it broke skin. Idk kids do stupid things lmao. I'm thankful everyday that social media wasn't around when I was growing up
StrangeOne 7 months ago
Unfortunately, this is a method some self-harmers do. It can leave some pretty bad sores and scaring.
Maples Dad 7 months ago
We did this but instead we would vigorously rub the eraser on the desk and then put it on the back of yer hand to feel the heat.
Lost Panda 7 months ago
Yeah... we did this to prove who was stronger... We were stupid as all get out...
Settled for Infamy 7 months ago
It really troubles me that YouTube has tutorials on how to self harm. There are even tutorials on how to remove blades from pencil sharpeners for said use. It has become trendy at my daughter's school. This is so heartbreaking to know.
Charl Marx 7 months ago
I remember a game called "knuckles" where one person put their first on the table and another person flicked a coin at their knuckles as hard as possible, the first one to bleed lost the game. 50 pence pieces were lethal with all their edges. Makes my buttcheeks clench just remembering it lol.
Zaach 7 months ago
In the '50s, there was a thing about people putting their arm against someone else's and dropping a lit cigarette between them - the first person to flinch away lost (every once in a while I see an older person with a particular looking scar - I don't say anything but just sigh gently)
Huddo's sister 7 months ago
I never saw this, but there was a guy in my class who would put an asthma puffer against the skin on his hand (or other people's) and then push it. He did it like 10 times in a row one day and the mark was there for days.
PandaPops 7 months ago
I have a scar on my left forearm from doing that. We would do it and see how many pumps you could take. I got a freeze burn then dropped my bag strap over it by mistake, sliced the top off and bled for ages! 24yrs later its still quite visible
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#15
I worked at a toy store when beanie babies were a thing. I used my employee discount and early access to buy dozens truly believing I would get rich. Still waiting…
StrangeOne 7 months ago
The toys we thought would be worth the investment are worthless now. The toys we didn't give much thought over are now the valuable ones, but no care was given to preserve them. RIP Flash n Sizzle Jem. I still have the tape.
Hoi-Polloi 7 months ago
I remember a comment someone made, that the reason baseball cards were so valuable is that everybody's mom threw them away when they went to college.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 7 months ago
My wife had a huge collection. When the craze was over and she had recovered her senses, she wondered what to do with them. She ended up giving them to the local police department to give to children to hold on to when separated from their parents due to some legal matter. I think she got her money's worth.
Glen Ellyn 7 months ago
My brother made a small fortune during the Beanie Babies craze. He owned a toys & games store during that time.
jasper 7 months ago
OMG, I remember in the 80s when the Cabbage Patch Kids were a craze. I lived in a very small, very conservative, mostly white town and was working in a hardware store that had a small toy section. Christmas rolled around and everyone wanted CPKs but there were none to be had. Finally, about 3 days before Christmas, we got a shipment in. 24 dolls. There was a line outside the door an hour before we opened. The manager and I went to open the crate, and Every. Single. One of them was black. 🤣🤣🤣 It was hilarious. We sold 2.
Firstname Lastname 7 months ago
I tried to get rid of mine (I'd moved on to cuddle sized stuffed animals) and my mother flat out refused because they were a "collectors item." I bet they're still accumulating dust in her attic.
#16
As a teenager and young adult I used to be an edgy far right bigot.
It's funny looking back on that period of my life now that I'm a trans woman.
Tiggy Darling 7 months ago
You start off being what your parents told you to be, then decide things for yourself.
XenoMurph 7 months ago
If you move away and are self aware, yes. So many people become replicas of their parents.
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Peter Bear 7 months ago
Good for you for growing and changing. I mean that sincerely; it's hard to do.
#17
In the 70s my mum made our entire family dress in velour track suits. Unwilling participant here.
Nicola Roberts 7 months ago
My daughter loves her Juicy Couture and it certainly cost me an arm and a leg at Christmas.
#18
Facebook. Deactivated profile nearly two years ago. Don't miss it at all.
Emilu 7 months ago
I only use it because most of my friends use messenger which means I need a Facebook account. Do I use said Facebook account? Occasionally for bird pics, otherwise nope. 🤣
Rika 7 months ago
Same. I can't remember the last time I actually looked at my account, it was many years ago. But I don't have a phone, so I need Messenger to make calls.
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Just Another Karen 7 months ago
i only have an account for specific things. don't use it at all
Panda McPandaface 7 months ago
I still use Facebook all the time. No, I'm not the least bit ashamed.
Janet C 6 months ago
Necessity for me. I manage a couple of groups for the expats in my region of Spain. It's how I keep in touch with friends back in the US. The local city council posts updates, events, notices, etc. on their own FB page, which I translate and share to my group. I wish there was an alternative but there isn't.
#19
I wore s**y plaid miniskirts over a pair of jeans (this is when flares were in style, to complete the picture). Black babydoll T-shirt, messy bun pigtails, and thick eyeliner, and OMG that goopy glitter gel - glittery hair, glittery eyes, cheeks, just ... Why so much glitter, 2004?
StrangeOne 7 months ago
Minus the skirt over the jeans, this was basically my look all of 1997-2001. It's actually a fun look if you can pull it off.
Austzn 7 months ago
I've never understood the whole skirts over jeans thing. It sounds bulky and uncomfortable and ruins any comfort the skirt could have on its own.
Isabelle Manzini 7 months ago
Still love glitter, if it was for me I would use it everyday in every occasion
#20
Pogs. I was *sure* they would be worth something one day
StrangeOne 7 months ago
This came and went so quickly. I remember it being a really loud game with the metal slammer for a wood floor apartment. I was glad we lived above the storage rooms.
PeepPeep the duck 7 months ago
I miss grabbing a bag of chips and getting one - even though I don’t eat chips as an adult 😂
Load More Replies... Featherytoad 7 months ago
The retail store I worked at in my 20s had a mess of these. I would buy them and make magnets out of them for the fridge.
Julia Mckinney 7 months ago
I remember pogs and Magic the Gathering hit about the same time. I'd look at pogs and go "meh". Magic the Gathering was a lot more interesting (but then, my husband and I bought stock in Wizards of the Coast in fall of '93, hubby knew Peter Adkison from gaming).
ॐBoyGanesh 7 months ago
This is a thing invented where I live in the late 1920s and it’s still a thing today with local kids on all our islands.
#21
In middle school I was caught up in two: "I'm not like other girls" and thinking I was "cool" because older teens/young 20 year old (and sometimes older than 25 but I thought *that* was creepy) men would hit on me. Girl...no...
Huddo's sister 7 months ago
It doesn't help media still presents teenagers dating 20+ year olds as 'ideal'
#22
Collecting and wearing silly bands
#23
The zig zag part 🤦🏻♀️
NM1159:
Yes! I could never do it right but that didn't stop me from trying!
Uncle Panda 7 months ago
You ever wonder how a vampire gets his part straight without being able to use a mirror?
Marketable 7 months ago (edited)
But why? In the 1970s, lots of guys (not this straight haired dude) perm'ed their hair. We got no room to mock anyone.
#24
Long chain wallet 8th-10th grade, 1994-1996ish
Uncle Panda 7 months ago (edited)
"'Sir! I'm going to need to take your chain wallet before you enter the club!" "Because it could be used as a weapon?" "No, because you're in your 40s." ~ Greg Behrend
Jan Rosier 7 months ago
Errr, me -58 yo fart-, and son -25 yy fart-, both still have them... mostly when we go to festivals. because no inside pockets at those times...
Charles McChristy 7 months ago
LOL, this wasn't exclusive to "94-'96. You need to turn the dial back 40 years at least, and they are still very popular in certain subsets of society.
#25
I'm a guy and when Dawson's Creek came out I got my tips frosted like Pacey
#26
Smoking Cigarettes
OWL ON A MISSION 7 months ago
My high school had an actual smoking area outside for the students. All you needed was a signed permission slip from your parents. This was in the late 80s early 90s.
#27
Mood ring
Mike F 7 months ago
Hated those d@mned things, my ex was constantly yanking my hand over to check out that stupid ring. After the second time she pulled my hand off the steering wheel of the car, I pulled it off and threw it out the window.
StrangeOne 7 months ago
Would have been better to toss her out... when you were stopped, of course, and tell her to get out, I mean.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 7 months ago
First time I wore one (about 9yrs old) I put my hand under a hand dryer and saw the colour change, I lost interest because the illusion was gone.
Royal Stray 7 months ago
They always used to turn my finger blue. But yeah unless you were running or ridiculously cold they'd always stay the same temperature and so the same colour
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I had my hair permed into an Afro in the 70s. I’m a white female. I looked ridiculous. Of course, at the time, I thought I was cool with my rake in my hip pocket.
Emilu 7 months ago
I love afros. Wish I could pull one off, but I’m Asian and would look ridiculous.
krunchifrog 7 months ago (edited)
My mom (Caucasian) had her hair done like that in 1977. She also had the long navy blue leather coat with the fluffy sheepskin at the collar and bottom, and the platform clogs. I had the Dorothy Hamill hair cut and the blue and white satin baseball jacket. And polyester pants with the seam stitched down the centre front of each leg.
jasper 7 months ago
OMG, my mother did that to me in the 7th grade because she was tired of my long stick-straight hair getting in my face/mouth. I cried. My dad cried. I remember threatening to not go to school and begged for a curling iron so I could at least make the curls look as non-poodle-like as I could. I ended up looking like a mushroom.
#29
Ok let’s go back to the 80s parachute pants. Enough said
Upstaged75 7 months ago
I wore stirrup pants with leg warmers in the 80's. And matching sweater vests. Oy!
Deeelite 7 months ago
I forgot about stirrups! Loved them in 8th, 9th grade
Load More Replies... Lost Panda 7 months ago
Not the 80s, but I was wearing the Tripp pants for most of the aughts (00s)
Kat Alison 7 months ago
Miniskirt with bright colored tights, legwarmers over that, and little black pointy ankle boots.
#30
I carried around a yo yo, wore pooka shells, and bleached my hair in middle school
Papa 7 months ago
I had a yo-yo for a while, and we played with them in school, but I did not bleach my hair, and I have no idea what pooka shells are.
nottheactualphoto 7 months ago
They are awful. A pooka dies when you take its shell.
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Oh gods my high school emo years. Turns out I was a confused goth.
Bored Trash Panda 7 months ago
I love the shirt! So cute! I was like that, I am not goth, but do prefer all clothes back. I do have a few things that aren't black like some dressing I made for certain holidays though.
Just Another Karen 7 months ago
i'm 32, and i've been emo since i was 11. but my clothes aren't like this anymore hahaha they're still black, plaid, with all star, chains, but... adapted for an adult 😂
Rika 7 months ago
The only reason why I'm not full emo anymore is I can no longer afford it. Make-up, hair, accessories cost too much for me. But I still have the haircut and lots of cool clothes from thrift stores. Being an adult doesn't mean giving up a style that you enjoy wearing.
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#32
There I was in junior high, my best friend and I loved The Cure (I like them, always been more of a Depeche Mode fan) and we thought it was so cool to wear skinny jeans with the legs rolled, some kind of patterned socks, black Mary Janes type shoes.
We teased our hair to make it look like Robert what’s his face, powdered our faces and painted our lips and eyes with black eyeliner. We thought we were so cool!
#33
Tanning beds
Savannah greenleaf 7 months ago
No young girls just don't do it! I look 10 or 15 years younger than my friends that did that! Wear sunscreen! People think my SO is my father!
Maples Dad 7 months ago (edited)
Not just 'no young girls just don't do it.' It applies to men equally, cancer rates are rising throughout the world.
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Rachel Reynolds 7 months ago
If you Google "sun effect trucker" They had sun consistently on one side of their face, but not the other. It gives a great side-by-side of exactly how much excessive UV exposure ages you.
#34
Sagging my pants. There's just nothing redeeming about it. Ugly and super impractical. We'd run around with one hand holding up our pants so they didn't fall off. But the dumbest part was how cool it was and how much of an outsider you were if you didn't participate.
Upstaged75 7 months ago
My brother did this. He was constantly breaking belts because they aren't designed to hold that kind of weight.
Panda McPandaface 7 months ago
I still see a few young lads 'sagging' (UK), I just think to myself 'really, it's sooo long ago and you're still thinking it makes you a gangster?'
Lara Verne 7 months ago
Oh god, that was dumb. All guys did this! Everywhere you went, you could see someone's washed up underwear, that definitely seen better days and it's owner should throw it away century ago. Ewww.
jasper 7 months ago
It's called "jailing" where I am. They also take the laces out of their shoes. I had a friend of mine ask what it was and why it was called that, so I told him (criminals in jail can't have belts or shoe laces) and he made his boys stop doing it. I had a police officer friend tell me they like it because the criminals can't run fast with their pants hanging down to their knees. 🤣
#35
6th grade 1990. Z Cavaricci pants then Skidz overalls where you left one suspender unbuckled and hanging.
#36
Mini helicopter things called fidget spinners
Rika 7 months ago
It always annoyed me how they became a trend and got marketed as funny, stupid toys when they were actually designed to help people with ADHD and/or autism.
Peter Bear 7 months ago
Perhaps this is a sign of undiagnosed people self-treating?
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#37
Thin eyebrows 🤦🏻♀️
Mrs Irish Mom 7 months ago
Over plucked mine 20 something years ago and they never grew back at all
Dixie Girl 7 months ago
In a few years folks will be writing on here they did the whole caterpillar overly combed eyebrow thing.
Lyoness 7 months ago
Mine still haven't grown back in completely. I blame Gwen Stefani and Drew Barrymore.
megabeth 7 months ago
You are not alone! Still have friends that have permanent thin frowns where eyebrows should be.
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Tonyah Mcanelly 7 months ago
or those eyebrows that make you look like you have two Nike symbols on your face . I never lioked it i never did it but it made people look angry
StrangeOne 7 months ago (edited)
I just thought that it was all about keeping them tidy and attractive. Didn't know it was part of a trend. My eyebrow hairs grow all the way down into my crease, sparsely but I notice it. Very painful place to tweeze.
#38
“I’m not like other girls!1!1!”
Essentially just hated other women, loved male attention, would always try to redirect the convo to focus on me instead of other girls, would be “cutesy” for attention, did stupid inappropriate stuff like let guys throw s**t down the space between my b***s as a game (I have DDs), etc. Also made me say some borderline racist/sexist/homophobic stuff because that’s what guys liked.
Now I look back and… *yikes*. I’m sorry to anyone who had to be around me and I’m no longer the bigot I was. Bit me in the a*s though because girls hated me at my high school and I stopped being obsessed with guys so they stopped talking to me too.
#39
The Naruto running thing
I’ve never even watched an episode in my life
Bored Trash Panda 7 months ago
Luckily my son was one of the smart ones and knew it was from Naruto first.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 7 months ago (edited)
Handy shock absorbers out of harm's way? Check! Face presented forward to take impact? Check! Head presented at kicking height? Check! Ready to run at full speed? Um...
OWL ON A MISSION 7 months ago
My 16 year old son did this when he was a child but it was the sonic the hedgehog run not Naruto.
Just Another Karen 7 months ago
i still do it! my wife says she fell in love with me when she saw i'm crossing the street like this HAHAHAHAH
#40
In middle school it was cool to have longer hair if you were a guy. I'm not talking like fabio length or anything, but where your bangs almost covered your eyes. I couldn't pull it off because my hair grows really slow. Plus I had some crazy cowlicks that made it look funny.
Lost Panda 7 months ago
I went through a hair metal phase in Jr High. Grew my hair out to about Axel Rose length. When "guys with long hair" came in, I began shaving my head and went more punk/metal XD
Uncle Panda 7 months ago
Try giving her some salt. They sell it in blocks.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 7 months ago
My hair was somewhere between Joey Ramone and Michael something from INXS.
Uncle Panda 7 months ago (edited)
It took 3-4 years to grow the 70s Farrah Fawcett 'wings' out of my hair.
#41
Holding your friends neck in the bathroom in highschool until they passed out. This was in the 90s, I don't even know why... it was just a thing you heard about so did it.
A few years ago I saw it on the news again about how kids are making each other pass out as pranks... i was like pshhh, we did that back when I was your age lol
Upstaged75 7 months ago
Yeah, cuz brain damage is always cool. That's what can happen if you go too far with that "game".
StrangeOne 7 months ago
Kids have died from doing that. Never heard of it in the 90s. We did, however, have contests to see how long we could hold our breath.
Maples Dad 7 months ago
They weren't filming it for their 'followers' back then and now content earns you serious money if done right, it's only natural some would go that far.
Load More Replies... Jan Rosier 7 months ago
As I understood it a few years ago, it was not for pranks but for kicks. Seems you get some kind of high doing this.
#42
Jelly shoes
megabeth 7 months ago
I had them as a kid in the 80s and definitely snapped up a pair of clear ones in the late 90's! Anyone else remember picking pebbles out of the bottoms when you were bored at school? No way was just me.
Maples Dad 7 months ago
I remember my mother doing that to my sisters shoes! Jelly shoes are back in fashion unfortunately.
Load More Replies... Rika 7 months ago
I had several pairs of those and loved them because they were cute and practical at beaches: you didn't have to worry about cutting the sole of your feet on a shell and you could also walk to the car or a nearby shop without being bothered by hot asphalt or pebbles. Same with outdoor pools with a tiled or grassy area. I remember being surprised when I found out some people were wearing them like regular shoes: Everyone I knew saw them as "beach shoes" that only felt so much better to wear than flipflops.
#43
Religion.
Peter Bear 7 months ago
What you believe in is irrelevant. What you *do* with those beliefs is what matters.
DC 7 months ago (edited)
On one hand, totally agree. Religion as a private issue, as one's choice of spiritainment - no problem. But, in a free society that doesn't prefer one religion over the others, regardless of this opinion being somewhat dispopular, there is no other place for it anyway. Freedom of religion requires that no favouritism is applied at all, which - I'll cut this short, because character limit and TLDR and stuff - effectively requires the society in which this freedom persists to be a secularist one. Not a secular one, a secularist one, that bases all its principles in a reality that is open to doubt and research, as that wouldn't single out any group to be prefered or harassed. There is no meaningful universal freedom outside of secularist societies. The beliefs, ... well, there's enough to know, and whatever we can't know, we might just accept to not know. Everything we decide affects the same reality that all our knowledge is derived from. Why pretend to know any further? Why decide on pretended knowledge, even in cases that truly affect peoples' lifes, when we're not even applying proven knowledge yet? Religion should be a private issue. Either it's spiritainment, or it exceeds the grounds it can be safe on, if these even exist.
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Cinnamon challenge with some friends
#45
Crypto.
Tried GPU mining for a little while, generated a tiny amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum, dropped out soon after. I still have my crypto wallet and keys but haven't bothered to decrypt my vast fortune of several few dollars worth of digital currency.
#46
Skinny jeans so tight they gave me body image issues for years to come
#47
Clipping a g*****n feather into my hair…
MaryHadaLittleLamb 7 months ago
The roach clips that had feathers attached. I had one in 6th grade, and clipped it to my hair also. 1984 was a stupid time for fashion. 🤣
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#48
I pretty much spoke in 2016-19 memes for that length of time. *shivers*
Upstaged75 7 months ago (edited)
In the late 90's my college friends and I spoke in movie quotes. Most often from So I Married An Ax Mvrderer. We thought we were hilarious. :)
#49
When Yo-Yos blew up in the late 90s
#50
Garbage pail kids card collecting.
Upstaged75 7 months ago
Those cards were awesome! If you don't know what they are you should look them up. Basically warped versions of Cabbage Patch Kids. Very clever.
Nathan Lewis 7 months ago
nothing wrong with card collecting. we had this awesome australian version called oddbodz
#51
Wanting a Furby. Ended up in my closet after 10 minutes.
Edit: as a young child, not recently lol
Lost Panda 7 months ago
That was a Christmas gift that I had made on my list. Within a few months it was hidden under a bunch of other toys because it scared the living hell out of me
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
There's videos of how terrifying these things are (Don't have one, thankfully) such as being able to run without batteries or they would turn themselves on (not in *that* way)
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
Picture a zombie. Even those toys with the "squeeze me" voice box can jumpscare sometimes.
Load More Replies... Emilu 7 months ago (edited)
I still have my Furby! It’s one of the originals so… almost 20 years old now 😳. My mum jokes/‘jokes’ about giving it a permanent ‘batteryectomy’ because when it’s on, it never shuts the eff up. 🤣
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
You should also check that the batteries are intact. One story I heard (of many) was that someone's furby had the battery acid leak into the machine a long time prior, and so it was just screaming like a banshee, and said battery acid formed a crust.
Load More Replies... #52
Your stereotypical “flannel wearing outcast” right here
#53
I unironically owned an ICP album in the late 90s.
Detroit Citizen 7 months ago
Im from Metro Detroit, I was a teen in the 90s. Every one had at least one cassette of ICP in my high school. I had them all lol. I think we had to own at least one, it was like the law of the land or something lol
Peter Bear 7 months ago
I'm not a fan of them or their following, but they have some unironically good music.
#54
I had ugg boots.
Emilu 7 months ago
I still do. The Aussie ones, before the US brand “Ugg” ate them even though Ugg boots are about as Aussie as pavlovas and shrimps on the barbie (and Tony Abbott being a freak and eating raw, skin-on onions).
#56
Kony 2012
Bigfoot87 7 months ago (edited)
I very distinctly remember hearing this, but I do not know why. BRB - headed to Google. Ok - so: Wikipedia says: Kony 2012 is a 2012 American short documentary film produced by Invisible Children, Inc. The film's purpose was to make Ugandan cult leader, war criminal, and ICC fugitive Joseph Kony globally known so as to have him arrested by the end of 2012. AI summary tells me the outcome was: The "Kony 2012" campaign, while initially raising significant awareness and funding, ultimately failed to achieve its primary goal of capturing Joseph Kony and ending the LRA's violence. The campaign led to a temporary surge in donations and a brief period of intense global attention. However, it also faced criticism for its simplified portrayal of the conflict and its focus on military action rather than comprehensive solutions.
#57
Keto.
Doesn’t work. Just eat healthy and exercise - it’s really that simple.
Charles McChristy 7 months ago
You still have to count calories, as with any diet, so it's pointless. Just learn portion control.
Load More Replies... Shane S 7 months ago
My triglycerides are always high… except when I’m on keto
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#59
Bloody knuckles and quarters
#61
I love the ones I have, but I acquiesce that funko pops are dumb asf.
DC 7 months ago
Yes, they are. They suck big time. They all look the same, a generic, featureless face, but, at least, it's written on the box which person the identical garbage pieces try to be sold as. Seriously, ... just the toxic plastic waste of decades to come. I wonder how they even sell a single one of those disgraces, and would I be famous, I'd sue the hell into them and out again if they attempted to label one of the identical, generic, featureless cräps as me. Good thing is, I'm not famous.
Maples Dad 7 months ago
I just got myself the Amy Winehouse Back To Black mv version, so cute and tiny.
#62
I've paid cash money for both pogs and slap braceletts.
#64
Lost all my money in the stock market when wallstreetbets was pumping GME…
Learned a $20k lesson
Savannah greenleaf 7 months ago
Money is just money, possessions are just things, and you lived to tell the tale.
Maples Dad 7 months ago
Maybe money is 'just money' to those that have a lot of it?
Load More Replies... #66
The dumbest fad I participated in was probably the one where everyone was trying to see how long they could hold their breath.
#68
Ice Bucket Challenge
Upstaged75 7 months ago (edited)
At least this trend brought attention and funding to a terrible disease. My uncle died from it. (ALS not the challenge)
#69
I was *very* into the knife song and game in highschool. The more I drank, the more accurate I got. I only have one scar.
#70
Going to college
what a waste of time
Peter Bear 7 months ago
Same here. I learned valuable skills, but I don't have a degree. I don't have debt either. Now, my wife has a higher paying job than me, and after 10 years of marriage we've finally paid off her student loans. College is a scam; all it really is is paying a ludicrous amount of money for a piece of paper that has nothing to do with what you actually *know*.
nottheactualphoto 7 months ago
In many cases, having that paper - any paper - gets you a higher salary than not having it. In many cases, having the paper is more important than knowing things. Have an upvote, because you didn't deserve the downvote.
Load More Replies... Charles McChristy 7 months ago
Well, I guess if you can't hack it and finish the commitment...
megabeth 7 months ago
Don't know why down voted. Plenty of people I know feel the same. Fixed it.
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Papa 7 months ago
It might have been a local thing, but when I was about 14 (so around 1975) the style was to wear jeans that were so long they'd drag the ground in back so you walked on them, and the bottom inch or two would get eaten out.
JJ 7 months ago
I'm a 90s kid and this was fashion when I was in primary school. I still remember what it felt like to wear jeans like that when it rained - soaked to the knees. Ewww!
Load More Replies... Forrest Grump 7 months ago
I used to have a pet rock. My parents wouldn't buy one for me, so I rescued a stray I found on the side of the road.
A girl 7 months ago
Not that I miss it but mooning seems to have run it's course
Load More Replies... MagicJacket 7 months ago
Hypercolor shirts, neon color clothing, cutting straight lines into the side of my hair like Vanilla Ice or something (which is weird as I am NOT a fan.)
William Teach 7 months ago
Unsurprisingly, most of these things are not that old. But, anyhow, anyone remember the preppy look, with the pastel Izod shirts? Ick
DennyS (denzoren) 7 months ago
I had the spikey hair, I had to Ronaldo haircut (brazil not portugal), I had to baggy pants, the all black clothes, the beaded chains and bracelets....oh the 90s/00s....how good it used to be lol all the angst lol
T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
Oversized T-shirts with skinny satin-sheen pants and thin belts... The late '70s. I kept my oversized T-shirt for years because it continued to fit me!
Papa 7 months ago
It might have been a local thing, but when I was about 14 (so around 1975) the style was to wear jeans that were so long they'd drag the ground in back so you walked on them, and the bottom inch or two would get eaten out.
JJ 7 months ago
I'm a 90s kid and this was fashion when I was in primary school. I still remember what it felt like to wear jeans like that when it rained - soaked to the knees. Ewww!
Load More Replies... Forrest Grump 7 months ago
I used to have a pet rock. My parents wouldn't buy one for me, so I rescued a stray I found on the side of the road.
A girl 7 months ago
Not that I miss it but mooning seems to have run it's course
Load More Replies... MagicJacket 7 months ago
Hypercolor shirts, neon color clothing, cutting straight lines into the side of my hair like Vanilla Ice or something (which is weird as I am NOT a fan.)
William Teach 7 months ago
Unsurprisingly, most of these things are not that old. But, anyhow, anyone remember the preppy look, with the pastel Izod shirts? Ick
DennyS (denzoren) 7 months ago
I had the spikey hair, I had to Ronaldo haircut (brazil not portugal), I had to baggy pants, the all black clothes, the beaded chains and bracelets....oh the 90s/00s....how good it used to be lol all the angst lol
T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
Oversized T-shirts with skinny satin-sheen pants and thin belts... The late '70s. I kept my oversized T-shirt for years because it continued to fit me!
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