34 Trends That Disappeared In Mere Weeks Or Even Days After Taking The Internet By Storm

Nah, Gangnam Style was the bomb and at least a very innocent trend

Is it weird that I still like that song?

Macarena, Ketchup Song, Cups song... There's quite a few.

It was ridiculous and pointless.

I went to a bowling alley with my cousin during the hype. She had them play the song and got the entire bowling alley dancing to it.

When they first came out I thought there's either something fundamental about them that I just didn't understand but in hindsight I don't understand how anyone thought the idea could work.

There are a couple of people on YouTube that explain it better than I, but it turned out that it was even sillier than buying a variant of a picture of a bored ape…what you were actually buying was the receipt of the purchase…not the image. And far too many people did not know this, or deluded themselves that this was not actually the case…or simply flat-out conned.

Money Laundering Scheme

And the artist that drew the original bored ape (seen in the picture) pretty much got nothing, I don't remember the story exactly but the people behind the ape nft's commissioned her to draw the ape, then had their own team of "artists" add all the different clothes and stuff so they wouldn't have to pay her anything besides the original commission fee. Not wrong legally, but still a s****y thing to do.

It had already been tried and failed in the movie world on more than one occasion. Somehow the public was, briefly, persuaded that the combination of CGI and 3D would overcome all the drawbacks of having to use special glasses and expensive equipment, but failed to see that the real problem is that it doesn't actually make a bad film any better.

I remember I used my savings to buy a 3D TV and BluRay player..then found out the Active 3D glasses needed were $200 each. fail.

3D movies can be cool. But not every damn movie had to be in 3D. That said.. 4D is a fun experience. The "Honey I shrunk the audience" show at disneyland paris still sticks with me because of the feeling of the" rats running over your feet" xD

Yes, I went to few 3D movies. These movies weren't really 3D movies to me. They gave depth to the movies but didn't jump off the screen like a true 3D movie should have. Many years ago I went to a museum a few times. They truly had 3D films where images at times would jump off the screen and you feel like you could reach out and grab or touch objects out 9f the air. No, I never got headaches from them. This sounds like during the last great recsession so people either didn't have the money or didn't want to spend the money on 3D movies. They were like at least 2 dollars more than the regular feature films.

Studios have tried to make 3D a thing a least three times now. It comes around again, every couple of decades. It’s like how the Super High Frame rate of the first Hobbit movie was never adopted for other movies…difficult to sell tickets when half your audience is going to be sick, or see your movie as stop motion.

I got pokemon go this summer! It’s a great motivation to walk the dogs, since there’s a ton of stuff in my neighborhood.

I played ingress for some years, which is basically the predecessor. It's even from the same developer (Niantic), with similar base mechanics. Indeed, it was great to wander around, visit places and meet people. But it also had downsides such as exaggerated rivalry, entering private property and quite some smombies crossing streets while looking on the display all the time.

you call it wonderful i called it a nightmare.

I had a colleague who was still an avid Pokémon go'er. He still plays and is 66

Nope. People got into accidents by walking into traffic just to catch some pokemons. Kids skipping school for that too

Yes and those idiots dying from doing it on stupid places.

Someone could probably make an amusing timeline of fads in the USA as they relate to physical exercise. 50s/60s - dance craze after dance craze. Americans, "Whew! That's kind of tiring." 70s - Streaking Americans, "It's great that I only have to run for a short time but the getting arrested part kind of sucks." Planking - "That was kind of fun but now my abs are sore." Pokemon Go - "I thought just walking around wouldn't be so bad but trying to catch them all turns out to be a LOT of walking" Creepy Clowns - "It's cool that we could just stand there instead of walking around but the makeup is a hassle and people treat me like a pariah." /J

NO

I remember Faith Hilling

It started as a publicity stunt for a low budget horror short film. It became viral for a while and quickly became a security issue when people dressed as clowns started pulling debatable "pranks", including assault and robbery. Finally, a couple of well publicized "pranks" that ended with the "clowns" having their asses rightfully handed to them with a well earned beating, and even a couple of idiots facing the wrong end of a shotgun, finally put an end to the trend.

I'm surprised nobody got shot doing that in Texas.

Yeah, they couldn't really do that in texas for the obvious reasons.

Bring this one back

They're still awesome, if you like em. Gregorian is amazing.

I'm old enough to remember pan flutes in the '80s, too.

It was just that one song with them

I've listened to Gregorian chants for most of my life. Used to sing them in school choir. Thomas Tallis and Hildegard of Bingham my favourite composers.

Still play them along with another fad genre from the 90's, aetherial gothic/New Age (Dead Can Dance, Etc.) when I'm drawing or otherwise just want to relax.

Never understood why this cráp was popular.

I still see heaps of poop related board games and I do not understand this fascination with s**t, or why we are encouraging kids to play with it 🤔

You can still get poo pillows, but it's not as big as it used to be.

still a thing here, unfortunately. Including poop candy. Because of course its' a fantastic idea to give kids the idea to eat their s**t.

I felt the same way about Boris Johnson.

Why were they banned?