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40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community
Trends and popular things are, by their design, things that change and shift with time. Something that was popular a year ago is now considered an outdated reference, a popular meme can outstay its welcome in a month, and minor trends go in and out of fashion daily. Basically, just because something is widely accepted today doesn't mean it will have the same significance after some time passes. Perhaps to commemorate these trends, or just catalogue them for future reference, there are community threads online that talk about the trendy things that likely won't be cool in 5 years' time. One such discussion is hosted on Reddit, where people readily expressed their opinions about what they think won't withstand the test of time.
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#1
Probably not going to happen, but I really wish influencers won't be "cool" anymore.
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#2
Having the covid vaccine. Eventually it'll be as commonplace as a flu vaccine.
#3
Hopefully those fake pointy acrylic nails
Some of the things listed by the community are leaning more towards actual items, such as so-called MLM teas. Other picks feature plastic surgery trends. And then there are those who think that the websites we use now will lose their influence and be forgotten or abandoned. Basically, the things that send people raving today, in 5 years, could be irrelevant.
#4
A lot of the stuff I see people doing on TikTok seems like the kinda thing you'd be embarrassed about in a few years
Ila Chakravarthy 4 years ago
man, i hope. a lot of small buisnesses have a pretty main platform there though, so i'm not really sure where i stand on it.
#5
Gigantic drawn on eyebrows.
Trends are tricky because of their very foundation. Something becomes popular because it's new and exciting, it presents something that captures people's attention, but if it doesn't provide long-term value, it tends to go away. Just look back at the trends that ruled the '90s, for example. Those are now considered to be an archaic concept in the current climate.
#7
Overly-processed Instagram photos. Especially in the context of makeup and skincare.
#8
Hopefully Facebook. I never thought it would kill myspace and MySpace reminds me of better times when I think of how sh*tty Facebook handled the last 4 years
Dogfan4life 4 years ago
Actually, a study was conducted to find out what children used what social media platforms today. The study asked 1,500 middle and high school students. 62 percent of teens said they use Instagram while 58 percent use Snapchat. (Texting was most popular, used by 98 percent of the teens surveyed.) Facebook was, surprisingly, only 7 percent. (This is not copy-and-pasted or plagiarized. I wrote this by myself.)
#9
Current plastic surgery trends to meet the current IG standards. I fear for a lot of people who have had BBLs and facial surgery that the look will become outdated and permanently associated with late 2010’s and early 2020’s, kind of how like there are plastic surgery trends associated with the 90s/2000s.
Then there's a rule of 'what goes around comes around.' There are cases of trends and cool things that were popular before, got old and abandoned, and then resurfaced when we least expected it. Of course, the most obvious cases are centered in the fashion industry, but there are other things too, coming in a variety of categories, such as names or even those same internet trends.
#11
Hopefully the stupid “hacks” that people are coming up with. That’s not a hack
#12
People posting pictures of a PS5 they just bought and expecting the rest of us to care.
#13
Youtube prank videos
Well some youtube videos in general.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
NUKING JAPAN prank video Among Us! (NOT CLICKBAIT) (GONE WRONG) (ALMOST DIED)
#14
Vaping, I hope.
#15
Daenerys and Khaleesi as girls names.
Troux 4 years ago
It's from Game of Thrones. Khal/Khaleesi basically mean 'king/queen' in the language of the Dothraki tribes, which are more or less just a fantasized version of the Mongols. For comparison, the Mongols used Khan/Khatun.
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staysdontstray 4 years ago
I think Khaleesi is a pretty name, it's unfortunate it was in Game of Thrones haha
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Any name from Game of Thrones, in 45 years, will be the ones people say, "Yeah, I know, cringey, right?"
Kookamunga 4 years ago
Just remember: an unusual name does not make your child special/smarter/more memorable. Don't let me know right off the bat that you are a idiotic parent by just telling me your kid's name.
Mary Haynes 4 years ago
I've seen teachers tell parents not to be upset when they can't pronounce their child's name, between this kind of names and trying to be "different" with the spelling.
Michele Lein 3 years ago
OMG! Ten years ago I asked my daughter if she would consider naming her first daughter Khaleesi because i thought it was unique. Now, I just think of it as a name that will get your daughter the nickname "leesa", Ug. Or khali; not so bad, but too much like "cally" which is the name of quite a number of Calico cats. But daenerys? Not in a million years. It sounds clunky and like the name of a viking woman
Wim Cossement 4 years ago
Names were already horrible in the US. Most countries have some laws about the name you pick being an actual name and not an object, mood, city or whatever...
Malwin Wellham 4 years ago
Game of thrones was sabotaged with the most unsatisfying ending ever. Hope the writer takes heed and rescues his own life work from ruin.
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Particularly as she first came into any kind of power at all by being better at sex with her husband. Not a great message for girls or boys.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Pretty sure the last season of GOT killed this trend. No help for the babies already named that way of course.
Colleen Garland 4 years ago
Thank you God. It'd hard enough just being a kid.
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Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Yeah no, don't name your kid after a character in a fantasy TV show. It might sound awesome now, but it won't when they grow up and trends have changed.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago (edited)
I did NOT name my children these, but I did name my bird Khaleesi. And she is the queen of the house, and is also related to dinos which are basically dragons, sooooo (oh and my handle lmao just cuz she was my fave character)
CatWoman312 4 years ago
Most people have names that mean something. I’ve never seen anyone name their kid Daenerys and there’s nothing wrong with Khalessi
#16
Zoom calls. I don’t wanna go back to the office, but I can’t take five more years of these..
#17
5 day work week
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
If the 5-day work work does fade, I hope it is replaced by options that can be tailored to the needs of the employee and their family or current situation. That might be longer but fewer days, shorter but more days etc. Equalizing the needs of the business with the needs of the employee would be most ideal.
#18
Everything Supreme. The s***** print text hoodies, the overpriced hats and $100 Tshirts, all of it
#19
Corporations trying to be weird and relatable on Twitter. Wish it would die out now
#20
Brazilian Butt Lifts .. I feel like it will not age well. A lot of plastic surgeries collapse over time or have complications as it degrades
#22
Instagram is going to be an online shopping mall, far removed from the cool micro-blogging site it used to be.
#23
The latest iPhone.
Monolicle Potato 4 years ago
The latest iPhone will goes out of style every 5 months. They make new versions all the time.
#24
Subscribing to multiple streaming platforms.
Fred and George Weasley 4 years ago
whats so 'cool' about subscribing to stuff i dont get this one?
#25
The bowl cut. For some reason it came back in south Houston. Looks ridiculous.
#27
That stupid yee yee a** haircut that all the teenage boys are rocking. The one with the short sides and mop top rat's nest on top.
#28
Funko Pops. They're the Beanie Babies of the '20s.
#29
Galaxy print is probably going to go the way of the bowling alley carpet patterns we used to wear on our clothes in the 90s. It'll come back ironically in 10 years
#31
Hopefully Pokemon Cards, so I can finally afford to buy them again ...
QueerTheory 4 years ago
McDonald’s in Germany is currently giving 3 pokemon cards with every happy meal lol. Gotta collect them all!
#32
Facebook. Kids don’t use that s***, because it sucks. millennials are leaving in droves.
CatWoman312 4 years ago
Facebook died when boomers were able to join. They keep the negativity and fake news going. It’s so sad how many of my friends parents or grandparents rely on a meme as a news source. The recent election was enough for me. I don’t use it anymore except for messenger
#33
GTA V
Hopefully by that point we'll actually have GTA 6
AntiAntiVaxx 4 years ago
Its like Fallout New Vegas no amount of mods will make the game prettier or have the quality of content that Rockstar produces. Its like putting lipstick on a pig.
#34
Filling wooden furniture with translucent green or blue-colored resin.
Giaan Beeltje 4 years ago
This person must have seen some very bad resin furniture because I've seen some beautiful furniture come out of it.
#36
I would say Minecraft but trying to kill that is like trying to invade Russia in winter
TheLazyPoki 4 years ago
Yeah, it's currently my fav game and it's been very popular for years. I don't think it'll ever die out-
#37
The obsession of having RGB LED everywhere and on everything.
#41
Glaciers. It is estimated that Earth is losing roughly 1.2 trillion tons of ice per year. Throughout the 1990s, ice loss was about 760 billions tons per year.
#42
Netflix, given that the content keeps merely developing and other providers creating their own platforms. Already feel often bored zapping through the program.
#43
Clothes of any kind REJECT HUMANITY RETURN TO MONKE
#45
Noodle head haircuts.
What do you think ?
Kookamunga 4 years ago
I just looked at the title of this post, all I can think of is "please let it be the Kardashians". Then my second thought was, "Wait, that means there might be five more years of the Kardashians".
Mama Panda 4 years ago
I would like to see labeling people gone. No more labels or putting people into cubby holes to fit your agenda. People are people period. No more race labels, no more gender labels, no more sexual partner labels, no more religious labels, no more income bracket labels, no more age labels, no more intelligence labels, just no more! We love each other just for what we are and who we are. No judgements only love!
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
The bigot doesn't get to define what bigotry is.
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CanidaeVulpes 4 years ago
This is just a list of things some people don’t like. A lot of it can be resolved by not using said product or tuning into said content
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Hopefully $100 games with microtransactions up the wazoo will die out.
AntiAntiVaxx 4 years ago
Spending money on In Game Coesmetics not DLC or new content buying a f*****g fortnite skin is stupid
elia 84631 4 years ago
I will add some trends. Gender pronnouncements on Social Media, the unoriginal blockchain AI startup buzzword junk with the corporate memphis illustrations, synth sounds in modern songs because they pretend to sound retro and in reality they are uneccesary, personal branding, apologise videos, mumble rap, 6ix9ine, 80's nostalgia cash cows. The late 10's culture in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb7BOI_QFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T9yMSNG1iQ
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
Tattoos as a trend because everyone has tattoos and many are the same
Hezekiah Rochester 4 years ago
why are these trends? I hope that some of them don't end in five years (especially glaciers).
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Joe Biden isn’t cool. He will never be cool.
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Devilish_Damian 4 years ago (edited)
Sometimes I think that the complete internet has to go. When I was young we had no internet.I mean yes, the internet helped a lot and made a lot of things a lot easier but it also destroyed much like the intelligence of every upcoming generation. By now I think if we would lose the internet for only one day the kids wouldn't know what to do because they've lost their complete fantasy. Anyway what's missing on the list above is these "over 9000"-different genders... sorry but I think that's just too much..
Le Box of Shame 4 years ago
Sometimes I think that the complete printing press has to go. When I was young we had no printing press and had to write everything by hand.I mean yes, the printing press helped a lot and made a lot of things a lot easier but it also destroyed much like the intelligence of every upcoming generation. By now I think if we would lose the printing press for only one day the merchants wouldn't know what to do because they've lost their complete fantasy. Anyway what's missing on the list above is the idea the "God is not the government..." sorry but I think that's just too much..
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Kookamunga 4 years ago
I just looked at the title of this post, all I can think of is "please let it be the Kardashians". Then my second thought was, "Wait, that means there might be five more years of the Kardashians".
Mama Panda 4 years ago
I would like to see labeling people gone. No more labels or putting people into cubby holes to fit your agenda. People are people period. No more race labels, no more gender labels, no more sexual partner labels, no more religious labels, no more income bracket labels, no more age labels, no more intelligence labels, just no more! We love each other just for what we are and who we are. No judgements only love!
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
The bigot doesn't get to define what bigotry is.
Load More Replies... CanidaeVulpes 4 years ago
This is just a list of things some people don’t like. A lot of it can be resolved by not using said product or tuning into said content
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Hopefully $100 games with microtransactions up the wazoo will die out.
AntiAntiVaxx 4 years ago
Spending money on In Game Coesmetics not DLC or new content buying a f*****g fortnite skin is stupid
elia 84631 4 years ago
I will add some trends. Gender pronnouncements on Social Media, the unoriginal blockchain AI startup buzzword junk with the corporate memphis illustrations, synth sounds in modern songs because they pretend to sound retro and in reality they are uneccesary, personal branding, apologise videos, mumble rap, 6ix9ine, 80's nostalgia cash cows. The late 10's culture in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb7BOI_QFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T9yMSNG1iQ
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
Tattoos as a trend because everyone has tattoos and many are the same
Hezekiah Rochester 4 years ago
why are these trends? I hope that some of them don't end in five years (especially glaciers).
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Joe Biden isn’t cool. He will never be cool.
Load More Replies... Devilish_Damian 4 years ago (edited)
Sometimes I think that the complete internet has to go. When I was young we had no internet.I mean yes, the internet helped a lot and made a lot of things a lot easier but it also destroyed much like the intelligence of every upcoming generation. By now I think if we would lose the internet for only one day the kids wouldn't know what to do because they've lost their complete fantasy. Anyway what's missing on the list above is these "over 9000"-different genders... sorry but I think that's just too much..
Le Box of Shame 4 years ago
Sometimes I think that the complete printing press has to go. When I was young we had no printing press and had to write everything by hand.I mean yes, the printing press helped a lot and made a lot of things a lot easier but it also destroyed much like the intelligence of every upcoming generation. By now I think if we would lose the printing press for only one day the merchants wouldn't know what to do because they've lost their complete fantasy. Anyway what's missing on the list above is the idea the "God is not the government..." sorry but I think that's just too much..
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