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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 Something that was popular a year ago is now considered an outdated reference, a popular meme can outstay its welcome in a month, and minor trends go in and out of fashion daily.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

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Probably not going to happen, but I really wish influencers won't be "cool" anymore.

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Iggy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is already happening, I think. I've noticed a growing backlash in recent months.

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40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Having the covid vaccine. Eventually it'll be as commonplace as a flu vaccine.

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#3

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Hopefully those fake pointy acrylic nails

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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.

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40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community 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

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Ila Chakravarthy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Gigantic drawn on eyebrows.

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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

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Overly-processed Instagram photos. Especially in the context of makeup and skincare.

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#8

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community 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

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.)

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#9

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community 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.

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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.

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#11

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Hopefully the stupid “hacks” that people are coming up with. That’s not a hack

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#12

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community People posting pictures of a PS5 they just bought and expecting the rest of us to care.

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#13

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Youtube prank videos

Well some youtube videos in general.

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Bacony Cakes
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NUKING JAPAN prank video Among Us! (NOT CLICKBAIT) (GONE WRONG) (ALMOST DIED)

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#14

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Vaping, I hope.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vaping helped many people stop smoking. And I´ll take strawberry milkshake over tobacco smell any time.

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40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Zoom calls. I don’t wanna go back to the office, but I can’t take five more years of these..

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#17

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community 5 day work week

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Brandi VanSteenwyk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#18

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Everything Supreme. The s***** print text hoodies, the overpriced hats and $100 Tshirts, all of it

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#19

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Corporations trying to be weird and relatable on Twitter. Wish it would die out now

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#20

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community 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

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#21

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Probably most popular youtubers as of now

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think influence's and you tuber's individual popularity may ebb and flow over time, much like that of TV personalities and movie stars. Though I do think the industry is here to stay, until the medium is replaced by something else.

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#22

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Instagram is going to be an online shopping mall, far removed from the cool micro-blogging site it used to be.

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#23

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community The latest iPhone.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The latest iPhone will goes out of style every 5 months. They make new versions all the time.

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#24

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Subscribing to multiple streaming platforms.

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#25

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community The bowl cut. For some reason it came back in south Houston. Looks ridiculous.

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#27

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community 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.

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#28

Funko Pops. They're the Beanie Babies of the '20s.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I say this as a collector, but I could see that but since they've been on the rise for ten years, I'll be generous & give them another 10 and then they're passé as 'popular'. After all, even beanie babies are still around, sure not a fad anymore but around is around.

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#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

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#31

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Hopefully Pokemon Cards, so I can finally afford to buy them again ...

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QueerTheory
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

McDonald’s in Germany is currently giving 3 pokemon cards with every happy meal lol. Gotta collect them all!

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#32

Facebook. Kids don’t use that s***, because it sucks. millennials are leaving in droves.

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CatWoman312
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#33

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community GTA V

Hopefully by that point we'll actually have GTA 6

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#34

Filling wooden furniture with translucent green or blue-colored resin.

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Giaan Beeltje
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This person must have seen some very bad resin furniture because I've seen some beautiful furniture come out of it.

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danielw
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

for every not-ugly piece, there's hundreds of ugly ones, dozens of which are absolute trash.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, well made river tables are really quite nice. They have just been copied/reacted to/stolen from real artists who work with resin so much that, now, a ton of people hate it.

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Grumble O'Pug
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's just a tiktok trend copied from artists. I think the actual furniture might mainstream later than sooner.

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Helena
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. It's ridiculous to add plastic to perfectly good wood pieces.

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Joyce Blodgett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, man, when it's made to look like a river with a waterfall---GORGEOUS! I just saw a dining table today with a wide black resin band between the beautiful walnut slabs. Truly spectacular table, very well designed and made!

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shado
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... am I possibly smelling a little furniture envy there?

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They aren't as bad as this person said. They are honestly quite beautiful, but they have been constantly copied/reacted to/stolen from real artists who work with resin thanks to tiktok. Look it up, river tables.

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#35

Fake vents in cars, if they were ever cool in the first place.

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#36

I would say Minecraft but trying to kill that is like trying to invade Russia in winter

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, it's currently my fav game and it's been very popular for years. I don't think it'll ever die out-

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#37

The obsession of having RGB LED everywhere and on everything.

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Johnny
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better than the trend of putting bright blue LED's on everything that started when blue LED's were new and for some reason it's still going. I'd much rather have adjustable RGB than be stuck with the bright blue flashing LED on my charger lighting up my bedroom ceiling.

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#39

40 Trends Doomed To Lose Popularity In 5 Years, According To People In This Online Community Teenage boys getting the perm/undercut combo.

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coloured bangs

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