People are social beings, so whatever we say about the absolute independence of our judgments, it cannot be 100% true. After all, we are always influenced by other people, events in the outside world and, of course, various trends.
As they say, big trends are seen from a distance - and what once looked cool and stylish, after a few decades, may seem silly and ridiculous. For example, now I can't look at some '00s photos of myself wearing a mullet without a facepalm. But I was on trend at the time! Damn it, it turns out that there are and have been so many stupid, ridiculous and just dangerous trends in the world that netizens now recall and reasonably criticize.
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foot binding. that practice in china where they break and bind young girls' feet to make them more feminine
Some of the trends that you will see in this collection were associated with people's religious beliefs, while some, many decades or even centuries ago, were supposed to emphasize social status. Well, some just appeared literally out of the blue, because some celebrities acted in one way or another, and then numerous followers picked up the idea. But what exactly unites all these trends is that probably none of the people who followed them at that moment thought they were acting really stupid.
Saggy below the butt pants. Sure, sag your pants a few inches if you think you got steez, but Jesus Christ, if your belt is below 100% of your butt crack, you’re an idiot
🎶Pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Lookin like a fool wit yo pants on the ground🎶
Overusing terms like gaslighting, bipolar, or narcissist to where they've lost meaning. Someone disagreeing with you isn't gaslighting, having a change of mood isn't bipolar, and your ex may have been a d**k but that doesn't necessarily mean they're a narcissist. As someone who's autistic I also don't like the similar trend of people self diagnosing. There's nothing wrong with looking up symptoms for mental disorders, learning difficulties, etc if you go to your doctor. But lot's of people don't, they simply decide they have all these problems.
Bullying is another one… bullying is the relentless, cruel torture of someone for doing nothing other than existing. Now if you disagree with someone, or call them out on their s****y behavior, you’re called a bully.
"History knows many ridiculous traditions. More precisely, those that today we consider ridiculous, many years ago, were considered completely logical and appropriate," says Valery Bolgan, a historian and journalist, editor-in-chief of the Intent news agency from Ukraine, to whom Bored Panda reached out for a comment. "No, many 'challenges' and flash mobs of our time or of the last decades intend to show their own absurdity - but this is already the specificity of the postmodern nature of modern culture."
"By the way, another trend that runs through the millennia of human history is the tendency to idealize the past and believe that it used to be better in the 'good old days'. After all, one of the first records about what a decline in morals had taken place and how young people were inferior to previous generations applies, if I'm not mistaken, by the second millennium BC. So, it's okay - ten to twenty years will pass, and we will remember with nostalgia, for example, 'good old TikTok'. It is likely that this will happen," Valery states.
Gallon Smashing 'prank' where a person would purposely drop gallons of milk in a grocery store while making it look like an accident, leaving a huge mess for some poor supermarket employee to clean up.
there's some good ones here but the licking stuff at the grocery store and putting it back is a top contender
People on social media posting inappropriate pictures of themselves at solemn sites to try and seem edgy. (IE: Auschwitz, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Ground Zero in NYC, Pearl Harbor site, Vietnam War Memorial, Tsitsernakaberd Memorial complex, Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, etc)
Also when they pose with the casket at funerals. Just tasteless and wrong.
I'm in my Eighties now. When I was a kid it used to be common for a spouse to pose along the dead spouse's open coffin. It was a ritual of mourning. I wasn't aware that it was still practiced.
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I chewed some teenage girls out when I was in Hoa Lo, they were using the prison as a backdrop for their little photo session.
I saw one at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum, where they have the metal faces because you're walking over the grave site of milions of people, and this lady that was walking with my tour group stood and took a picture with the pose attached in the image. it was horrible. I had half a mind to tell her off. download-1...3d717.jpeg 
Berlin Holocaust Memorial - you're suppose to chill there, run around, play hide and seek. That is literally the reason the architect made it that way.
From the website: "...A place of contemplation, a place of remembrance and warning...". That doesn't sound like chill and play to me. https://www.visitberlin.de/en/memorial-murdered-jews-europe
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I just want to give the disrespectful little cυnts a backhand and tell them to snap the fυck out of it.
What are those last 2? I've never heard of them and would like to know more
Srebrenica Genocide Memorial is in the former Yugoslavia, a remembrance of the Balkan War in the 90’s, but I don’t know which current country it is. Bosnia maybe?
Load More Replies... I was recently in NYC at ground zero and was prepared for tasteless people taking inappropriate pics. Luckily it was pretty ok. What did royally p**s me off was at the various stands with pamphlets and information there were bins of white rubber bracelets that said something like "always remember 9/11" They were free with the posted request to take only one. I can't tell you how many people walked by and took handfuls. What are you planning on doing with 15-20 rubber bracelets? So tacky and thoughtless.
I watched in horror as a couple of dudes had a literal photo shoot at a WWI cemetery I worked close to pre pandemic. I'm not even going to go into explaining the inappropriately dressed visitors, cigarette butts and empty beer cans found there...
And each one trying to outdo the previous one...Desperate for the attention to become a "social media star"
When passing through Pearl, I visited the Arizona Memorial memorial.Got thirty days confined to my ship.Wud I do. Coldcocked some a*****e for hocking a loogie and spitting it right over the ship! The Civilians there refused to leave without telling the Shore Patrol, Why I did it! Mitigating Circumstances kept me outa the brig!
I was at the TOMB for the Unknown Soldiers in Washington. Some folks were selfie taking and laughing.The Guard Stopped, faced them and Told them to leave this was a memorial and they would show respect or leave.You gonna argue with a Marine carrying a Gun?
At a loved one's grave with their kids smiling on the anniversary of the loved one's death. That is messed up
In any case, compared to many of the traditions that people followed centuries ago, modern trends - even dangerous ones - often look like innocent child's play. After all, for example, when medieval townspeople deliberately slayed cats, considering them accomplices of witches - and then there was no one to exterminate the rats that carried the plague - these delusions really cost the lives of millions of people. Now just compare this, maybe, with the recent TikTok trend of people stealing toilets and stuff from schools. As they say, everything is relative...
The fire challenge where these kids were pouring acetone on themselves then lighting themselves on fire. Apparently it was supposed to be a short burning sensation, but as you’d expect there were kids who got seriously injured from the burns, and a mom who recorded her son doing the challenge even got arrested after being reported to social services.
I would say pulling pranks on random people in public.
I am secretly waiting for the video of a prankster going to sleep permanently.
Good and truly harmless pranks exist, but they are very, very rare. Most pranks bank on laughing at others people's suffering. I saw real celebrities sit in wax figure museums pretending to be wax figures. That was funny. I saw a prank pretending that people had accidentally ordered a real horse instead of a pretty figurine, but in the end the people were surprised with the really pretty figurine and a day on a horse farm. That was funny too. I saw a prank were they surprised a person thinking they were testing restaurants being served with their favourite childhood dinner. That was lovely. But most pranks are just cruel. The good pranks aim to make the pranked person happy in the end. But most only make people miserable so others can laugh at them.
In any case, there are trends without which the history of humanity would be much better, and hardly anyone will argue with this. And now we're definitely looking forward to you adding some comments with modern or ancient habits and traditions you also considering to be absolutely weird or ridiculous. After all, we might have missed something in this selection, so let's help each other to refresh our memory in the comments...
I don't know if anyone has posted this already, but I recall a while ago there was something called the "knockout challenge" or "knockout game". It basically involved a bunch of teenagers and even adults walking or running up to someone, usually on the streets, and hitting them as hard as they could in the face with a closed fist, hoping to knock them out.
I just looked this up and, apparently, this kind of "game" dates back to the 1990's.
I hope this isn't a thing anymore.
For me, I’ll never be able to process the fad in the Victorian era of *EATING EGYPTIAN MUMMIES*
Never will that s**t not send me right back to pure disbelief, horror and confusion.
[Taking women's lives] for “witchcraft”
I'd like to add: putting them in institutions for what was diagnosed as emotional problems, women, especially ones who enjoyed sex, they were given hysterectomies because it was thought they had a wandering uterus. That's right, their uterus would wander. And it caused them problems, so it had to be removed. And they were put in insane asylums.
If you think Tiktok trends are stupid or dangerous, people of the past were even worse.
When people thought radium was good for you, there was a huge trend to put it in EVERYTHING. Face creams. Water crocks. Toothpaste. Hair products. Makeup. Chocolate. Toys. Nightlights. Watches. Spas. Impotence treatments. SUPPOSITORIES. Yes, people were sticking radioactive stuff up their a*s in the name of health.
People would even paint their TEETH with it for the glow. It blows my f*****g mind as a chemist.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks
Burning people who followed a different religion than the current ruling class. I'm looking at you Catholic England and your burning of the heathen Protestants for daring to publish the Bible in English.
And by burning, I do mean alive. I can't think of many worse things.
The one where people were trying to jump away from moving trains last second
I think I saw a clip, a few years ago now, where some guy was taking a selfie of himself and an approaching train. It did not end well.
Probably the trend of exiling cats out of European towns during the back plague.
Wouldn't the cats help prevent or at least tone down the black plague? I thought it was caused by rats.
mukbang videos.
(especially in South Korea) a video, especially one that is live-streamed, that features a person eating a large quantity of food and addressing the audience: I had never heard of it, so googled. For your delight and edification....
I was going to go with ripping out thousands of people's still-beating hearts as a sacrifice to the sun god, but it seems that people are interpreting this as worst *social media* trend ever.
X-Ray parties: People would get together X-Ray themselves and each other exposing themselves to huge amount of radiation.
The Tape Worm Diet. People would give themselves a tapeworm to lose weight, then drink kerosene to kill the tape worm.
Both around 1900.
And then there's the former leader of the U.S. asking his top immunologists to investigate whether people infected with COVID-19 could potentially be cured by washing out their insides with bleach or disinfectant. This was in 2020.
Lick weird stuff during COVID challenge. Let’s try and get sick. Please people have you heard of hepatitis? Typhus? Salmonella?
Ragebait.
Not only is it garbage quality content, it's done on purpose and people that interact and share only make it more popular.
According to slang.net: "Rage bait is similar to clickbait but focuses on eliciting user anger to increase clicks, traffic, revenue, etc. (part of rage farming)."
Happy Slapping.
Was a trend in the UK back in 2005 where you would slap a random person, hard, and video it. It usually turned into a fight if the person that got slapped reacted. I’m pretty sure it lead to a few deaths.
That Tiktok trend several months ago where people stole toilets and stuff from schools.
Stealing a toilet from the bathroom of a school where it only gets a cursory cleaning every so often has got to be the nastiest of all nasty things to steal.
Bum fighting. (Really? Am I the only one who remembers this?)
Using exaggerated, unnecessary terminology in day to day life
Identity politics/social grouping
Vocal fry.
vocal fry is a way of speaking where you drop your voice to its lowest natural register, causing your vocal folds to shorten and creating creaky sounds when you talk. if you've heard any of the Kardashians speak, or Britney Spears' singing "baby voice", that's a pretty good example. it's usually observed/found more annoying in women, but lots of people do it and it isn't necessarily bad for your voice. here's a helpful video if you want to learn more (skip to 3:45): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTslqcXsFd4&feature=youtu.be
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Taint tanning. Also, a tucker carlson favorite, testicle tanning. For MANLINESS.
I think we should just let those a$$holes continue with that.
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How is it the editors allow posts highlighting religious persecution, but won't let me say bum, tit or bugger?
Am I the only one that thinks it's funny when stupid people die doing stupid things?
I think the exact same thing. It's called natural selection and sometimes you just have to laugh at the unmatched level of stupidity.
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I feel so lucky that at least I don’t know any of these ones that were popular on tiktok. F**k tiktok
On of my most hated trends is the complete misrepresentation of the European middle ages in popular culture, political debates and schools. It reached a point where dealing with the false information is nigh impossible, because every time you tell someone about it, they bombard you with their other misconceptions, believing they are right and it is necessary to basically write a book in every comment, because of the amount of self supporting misconceptions. I am not even talking about people with a lack of education, but I am talking about academics, intellectuals and people who really earned their PhD.
Whilst the TikTok trends rumble on and cause harm to the terminally stupid it’s useful to remember that the Darwin Awards are always looking for winners. Sometimes we have to let nature take its course and rid our species of the swimmers in the shallow DNA puddle. It’ll make us stronger ok?
I'd like to add the trend of going to war to commit genocide against people who worship the same God as you. Protestants killing Catholics killing Jews killing Shiites killing Sunnis killing etc.
so glad I do not live in a part of the world where these things are done.
Taint tanning. Also, a tucker carlson favorite, testicle tanning. For MANLINESS.
I think we should just let those a$$holes continue with that.
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Am I the only one that thinks it's funny when stupid people die doing stupid things?
I think the exact same thing. It's called natural selection and sometimes you just have to laugh at the unmatched level of stupidity.
Load More Replies... I feel so lucky that at least I don’t know any of these ones that were popular on tiktok. F**k tiktok
On of my most hated trends is the complete misrepresentation of the European middle ages in popular culture, political debates and schools. It reached a point where dealing with the false information is nigh impossible, because every time you tell someone about it, they bombard you with their other misconceptions, believing they are right and it is necessary to basically write a book in every comment, because of the amount of self supporting misconceptions. I am not even talking about people with a lack of education, but I am talking about academics, intellectuals and people who really earned their PhD.
Whilst the TikTok trends rumble on and cause harm to the terminally stupid it’s useful to remember that the Darwin Awards are always looking for winners. Sometimes we have to let nature take its course and rid our species of the swimmers in the shallow DNA puddle. It’ll make us stronger ok?
I'd like to add the trend of going to war to commit genocide against people who worship the same God as you. Protestants killing Catholics killing Jews killing Shiites killing Sunnis killing etc.
so glad I do not live in a part of the world where these things are done.
