I used to wear a short-sleeve shirt over a long-sleeve shirt
gasps Stupid trend?!?
Laundry detergent economy is more efficient if your bottom-layer clothing items have lower mass. You can fit more short-sleeve shirts in the washer than long-sleeve shirts. So it’s better to have thin, short-sleeve t-shirts as the bottom layer and thick sweatshirts for the outer layer.
Is this not cool anymore??
People still do this and it was never a trend. It’s classical style.
I mean… I still do in the winter…
JNCO
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
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I’ll go one even further. Before JNCO existed we’d just go to the thrift store and buy the largest size pants we could find. Pair a 48" waist pant with a XXL tshirt when you were 28" and youth large and you were at the height of skate fashion.
I had a WWJD bracelet at one point in time. The late 90s were weird like that.
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Remember those silly rubber “Armstrong” wristbands? I had a million different ones and wore about 20 on each wrist to school and everywhere else. Yeah, I was pretty goddamn cool. 😎
I did one of those Hey girls, did you know that um memes (and continued to make them) back in the day. Netted me niche internet micro celebrity status. I won’t tell you which one, though.
I made a meme too! It’s “If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”
It’s a comment I made on a Louis Rossmann video!
I also did “capitalism doesn’t return the shopping cart”.
I dunno how much I’m about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I’d used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.
Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that’s just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.
When I was younger I fell for two - baggy jeans and llamas.
I remember in 5th grade I tried to joke about llamas with one kid and show him the llama song (because he loved llamas) and he said I was just copying him. In hindsight fuck you Hans, you didn’t invent llamas, you were just copying others too, you tool!
Baggy pants were regrettable too…
Pogs, I think.
Hot metal + arm = Smiley Face
I wore baggy jeans and oversized hoodies in the early 2000’s. That’s pretty much the last time I “followed a trend” that I can think of though there probably are other occasions too that just don’t come to mind now. Most of the time I get into things either before they were cool or way after the wave has already passed.
back in 2016(?) I was one of the people who had a yeti cup
I still use mine. The things are built to last.
I definitely do not currently have a yeti cup and definitely do not love it and use it all the time nope nuh uh
lol, I’m one step ahead of you. I’ve moved on to a water bottle with stickers on it. I suppose I’m still participating in more trends than I thought.
I have to admit, I did buy a nice fidget spinner. ;)
Got one after the craze had died down and they’re surprisingly fun - just a good quality desk toy
I recently bought a nice hand machined metal one. It helps me focus when doing email
I had 6, and today I have 0. Yep, I lost all my fidget spinners.
Mid-20s today? Yeah. Ok.
In your 40s today? Welp…
I’m 40+ and still love spinners :)
I’m 48 and just bought a fancy one from Etsy.
It still makes a great cat toy!
Ok, that I haven’t considered. Old unsold cat toys should be repackaged as cat toys!
The new packaging could say “Remember these stupid things? Well cats still LOVE them! Watch your cat lose their fucking mind! It’s hilarious seeing their little fur brains try to comprehend these simple toys!”
I’d buy a spinner toy like that. Planking however was ALWAYS stupid, and everyone who did it should feel shame.
I was so furious that my fidget spinner started to graze insanely after 3 days. I liked that trend ngl.
Bro when I was a kid I was into it all. Tamagotchi, hyper colors everything, Pogs, Beanie Babies, Slap bracelets, scooters (not the razors scooters the earlier BMX scooters), friendship bracelets, that kickball with the plastic ring you bounced on, moon shoes, Jams, Big Dog, I’m a dude that loved him some Polly Pockets, windbreakers, bomber jackets, M.U.S.C.L.E, G.I. Joe, Pound Puppies, Garbage Pale Kids, those puffy monster balls you squeezed and their eyes popped out, Shrinky Dinks, and then by the late 90s I was walking around with 30" cuffs in my Kikwear and a Kangol.
Edit: Big Dawg changed to Big Dog, changed 80s to BMX.
I showed this to my friend and he reminded me of the time we got really into Swatch Watches but our parents wouldn’t buy them for us so we stole one and passed it back and forth until we got caught.
Your parents must’ve been wealthy because those are all the fun toys I remember in my childhood that all the other kids had. I didn’t have.
We were 80s middle class both parents worked. My dad sold insurance and my mom was a nurse.
Oh man this just awakened the memory of the “Big Dawg” stores. Actual stores that were ONLY big dawg merch shirts, hats, and pants.
If you can’t run with the big dog stay on the porch.
Holy shit, most of that list covers me and I’m just now appreciating how dramatically much stuff counts as fads.
Bro, yo-yos, beyblade, robot dogs, Pokemon at school, pencil toppers, pop-its, razor scooters, and more!
“that kickball with the plastic ring you bounced on“
It was called a pogo-ball. I loved mine. I remember doing skate grabs etc with it. I also remember a trick where you spun it like a top with your feet, jumped up so your feet were disconnected from it, and then landed back on it to continue pogo balling. It was a weird but fun toy.
Remember those metal tubes with liquid plastic in them and came with a straw to blow balloons? (Super eleastic bubble plastic)
They’re back. Bought a tube of Bloonies for my daughter the other day.
Skidz, Z Cavarici, IOU
middle school fashion was so dumb
those old Harlem Shake videos from 2013… and I was in two of em
Found the HR woman from 2013 who thought she was being cool…or possibly someone employed by a minor league hockey team.
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Here’s a funny one: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zecxd
An anti-Harlem shake Harlem shake video.
Wow, Dailymotion still exists! And they redesigned their website!
Bitcoin. I mined some (might’ve even been on my CPU at the time) back when it was easy to mine it. Not a ton, but enough that now I have to explain that despite thinking blockchain is just straight up a scam, I do have some Bitcoin in a wallet on my hard drive somewhere. (That I’ve never done anything with.)
Can you get to that wallet? A Bitcoin is worth $60k now.
Yup. I can. I have around 1/20 of a Bitcoin, so the amount I have should be worth about $3,000 USD (unless the price has crashed since I started writing this post. 😈)
Cashing it in would make me feel dirty. It’s basically just handing the bag to the next bagholder. (Though, I’m not really a baholder per se. I’m not really invested to speak of. The only investment I made to get this Bitcoin is to leave my computer on for like a month or less.) Feeding the ponzi monster, as it were.
But then again, it’s $3,000.
As much as I hate myself for admitting it, the possibility that the price will climb a little higher is probably part of why I didn’t trade it for real money back in late 2021 when the price of a Bitcoin was so high.
But, yeah, you’re probably right I should just sell it. Maybe I’ll just make whoever I sell it to promise they’re not giving me next month’s rent or their kids’ college fund. Lol.
Edit: Ok. You’ve inspired me to make a post asking other crypto-skeptics what I should do with it.
It’s crazy how this amount could actually change my life right now. At some point I did also have 1BTC but decided to gamble it all away because I thought it would never have any actual value so it didn’t matter.
I bought $270 worth that is now worth about $1,700. I have no idea what to do with it.
If it’s any consolation, I just use bitcoin to convert to Monero to buy drugs. So in a way there is an actual use for it 😊
You could donate it to some financial literacy nonprofit if you want to be rid of it without feeling dirty.
