Duck face came to mind yesterday - randomly realized I hadn’t seen duckface in the wild for a long time.
Or, alternatively, what are some old fads you wish would make a comeback?
The spirit of the question is social fads. Please try to keep replies to lighthearted things. I’ll delete the post if the comments turn into political commentary.
Pogs should come back
Last week, I had to explain what pogs were to a pair of teammates, had to stop myself from starting with “back in my day, when things were good and people didn’t spend so much time on their phones…”
Yeah, because many people didn’t have cell phones back then. For me it was when I was maybe third grade; two or three kids out of the whole class had phones.
Oh wow, do you mind if I ask when pogs hit for you? I would’ve been in early grade school, so, maybe 94/95.
Seems like I’m a bit younger than you, it must’ve been early 2000s for me.
Pogs are the civilized upgrade of throwing rocks together. Fuck yeah it should come back. It is ingrained in our DNA
They already did. That one’s cyclical.
Vaguebooking. At least it died out for me, when my age group grew up past high school. Specifically, the vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass “motivation quotes” or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life, usually pointed at someone.
I still have one person who never moved on from high-school who still does crap like this, but now I just still follow them for the pure nostalgia and the joy of seeing these. Seriously, they show how immature they are, unable to actually go talk about their emotions a veil so thin of “please I want my privacy” while posting about it online.
vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass “motivation quotes” or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life
You’ve just described like 90% of the AIM away messages in high school lol.
Oh god now there is a concept I long forgot about!
I didn’t notice it at the time, but AIM away messages were basically like proto-Twitter long before actual Twitter became a thing. Some people would always be “away” so their inspirational crap would show since AIM still let you chat like normal while “away”.
Aaahaha. Back when Facebook was still a thing I would vaguebook with Protomen lyrics. God knows what I was thinking
If you destroy the working class all you get is a broken machine?
Omfg yes. I remember when Facebook had that promt next to the posting input, prefixing all statements.
“Person”… is feeling like somebody hurt me badly.
Oh my, yes. That one needed to die before it started. Obviously fishing for responses, refusing to elaborate, sometimes getting defensive in the comments, sometimes moving conversations to private chat.
And the tired old “someone knows who they are!”
Followed with one of their friends saying “Yeah Tim’s an asshole” and them replying either “Yes he’s such an asshole” or equally likely “Please respect our privacy”. Either way, super annoying.
Just publicly saying they’re in the know, and closer to the poster than anyone who doesn’t know. “Look at me! I’m such a close friend that I know who they’re talking about!”
You don’t really hear about serial killers anymore.
Of course not - they’re in politics now after all.
Yeah it’s not like most women are into true crime.
Vuvuzelas.
Saw (or rather heard) a few at a football game recently. They’re still here, but at least it isn’t a stadium full.
Instead we use cowbells like God and nature intended ;)
I got a fever
Thanks for the reminder lol
I’m glad pop music stopped sounding like EDM
Next I’d be pretty happy if EDM could stop sounding like pop music too
Not sure that this alternative is better.
Compression up the ass and nasal whiny vocals can’t become uncool soon enough.
You have any opinion on Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter? Just curious lol
It’s different from what i’m thinking of. I’m hearing alot of jpop/kpop-influence in the song.
But it’s also insanely compressed. Artificially loud is the description that comes to mind. Like i get a headache from the constant pressure of the song.
I’m already feeling nostalgic for democracy
Most all trends or fads are not my thing. Im usually always out of fashion and its sorta funny when something I wear or do or whatever actually comes around again or whatnot.
NFTs. They have not been and will not be missed.
Coincidentally I was thinking about this yesterday, along with girls puffing their cheeks in selfies.
Duckface? Yeah that’s not completely dead, unfortunately.
What’s the term for the guy equivalent? Is it like jaw-maxing r something? I’m happy that seems to be gone as well
The fidget spinner.
Currently waiting on people to stop using “know what I mean”, “end of the day”, “umm”, “like”, “I mean”, and other filler words.
I think you’ll be waiting a very long time. The specific words and phrases will shift, but I think filler words are just a natural consequence of thinking while speaking. Some people are better at that than
meothers but it’s not going to disappear.Obama: “Um.”
Vonnegut: “Um.”
Yeah, um, it works.
I agree but also filler words are important. It spaces out the information, making it easier for people to digest in real time.
A brief pause does the same thing.
But then…you sound like…William…Shatner…and I’m not…sure…if that is any…better.
Pokemon
Yeah brother wooooo
‘mid’, ‘based’, and the rest of last-year’s clique-signaling kid-pidgin.
Motivational posters. I want that kitten to fall to a horrific death.
Bell bottoms need to die. (And in case you didn’t catch it, that means all variations of bell bottoms) (flaired is just one iteration of bell bottoms)
I will give up my bell bottoms when you pull them off my cold, dead, child of the 60’s butt.
Kinky, how much paying?
Low-rise jeans are equally heinous.
