fornite floss dance for me.
Lip injections. Not once has looking like you just got hit in the mouth with a hockey puck helped someone look better.
Not that I think it’s a good idea, but to be fair, you’re only noticing the bad and extreme cases. There are subtle and fine cases too that just don’t draws attention to them.
The thing is, some of the really bad cases still get modeling jobs, which says that someone thinks the bad cases actually look good.
Even some of the subtler cases look off to me, giving a certain distinctive artificial look. I don’t doubt that if you see it enough it starts to look natural, but to me that just makes it worse.
It can look okay but its a very small group of people who look good with it and a small group of doctors that do it well. They do not consistently pair up.
Same with buccal fat (cheek fat basically) removal. For most they just look hollowed out, like they did meth for a while. Erin Moriarty (Annie/Starlight on The Boys) is rumored to have had it, and it shows.
If we go back in history, there was a point in time, after radioactivity was discovered but before nuclear weapons were developed, where there was a trend of putting radium and other radioactive substances in health and beauty products, because I guess people thought that because it possesed some form of energy that it must be good for you. In hindsight that seems far more stupid than some embarrassing dance or something.
Google “radium girls” if you want some gruesome hindsight.
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Same thing happened with asbestos.
The latest “wonder material” tends to get put in anything if the marketing department think will improve sales
They put it in cigarette filters FFS!
“Glow up”
My mom, born in the 50s, remembers getting her shoe size measured by an unshielded xray. That’s just so wild to me.
Fiestaware!
Man, you guys need to try harder.
Tide pod challenge
Saggin pants
Moustache tattoos on your finger
Punisher branding for showing how much of a “badass” you are
Upspeak, Valley girl talk, vocal fry
Any of these idiotic “pranks” that harm/bother innocent people
Licking ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back on the shelf (for the clicks of course)
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Fun fact: it actually is.
Good news: it is! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/us/ice-cream-licker-jail.html
And it wasn’t a trend, it was like one person doing it.
A lot of the “trends” people are mentioning only a handful of people did, but made it to the news.
do vsco girls count
YES.
tide pods wasn’t really a thing, sagging is a cultural thing broader than a fad, and you listing a bunch of lame ones while saying others need to “try harder” isn’t quite doing it for me
I agree woth most of these but when it comes to upspeak/vocal fry, not at all. People exclusively criticize women for it. I’m pretty sure these criticisms are rooted in misogyny.
I feel like upspeak and vocal fry are more prevalent in women (for whatever reason), but i think it’s equally annoying whomever is doing it.
This talking point doesn’t make sense to me because feminine and masculine voices sound different, so it would make sense that some aspects maybe annoying one a feminine voice and not a masculine voice, and vice versa. Also, I don’t think that some of the source of annoyance comes from the voice itself, but it’s cultural association. The reason why it is so annoying to me is because I associate it with vanity and celebrity worship (probably because of the Kardashians, couldn’t tell you which one as I try to avoid them at all costs).
This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.
Damn, I’m so glad I grew out of caring whether people thought I was rich or not
I’m actually glad I’ve had so much poverty because it’s allowed me to find the things that actually affect my mood in a consistent and reliable way.
I only was able to find those things because I was forced to manage my mood with almost zero money.
A situation where the poor people are trying to keep up is not a “potlatch”. That would be the rich kids trying to outdo each other to see how many shirts they can give to the poor kids.
I may have an outdated sense of what a potlatch was. I was using the term in the sense of destroying value, per this kind of definition:
“A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader’s wealth and power. “
Harassing minimal wage workers for clout.
Or service workers in general.
Or anyone
Good point.
Planking was stupid, but dying while planking was epic stupid.
Epic cool 😎
People died trying to get a Tickle Me Elmo.
Wait, really? When did this happen?
First few years later 90sc early 2k. Women were obsessed with it for their kids. Based on a true story
Best Christmas movie, hands-down.
- One of the crowning moments of performative parenting. I don’t think anyone was killed, but there were arrests and injuries reported.
The toy was released in July of that year with an initial run of 400,000 units, and sold well. Rosie O’Donnell showed the toy on her show that October, and Black Friday that year they suddenly sold out. Another production run of 600,000 units was started, but the “shopping frenzy” had begun.
Tickle Me Elmo retailed for just under $30 at the time; scalpers sold them for thousands of dollars apiece, one sold at auction for $18,000. Two women in Chicago were arrested for fighting over one. People chased delivery trucks after the toys, a retail clerk was trampled by a crowd rushing down an aisle to claim theirs, suffering, according to Wikipedia: “a pulled hamstring, injuries to his back, jaw and knee, a broken rib and a concussion”.
Similar phenomena have occurred before and since; Cabbage Patch Kids, the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Wii saw similar “shopping frenzies” but I don’t think any were quite as loud as Tickle Me Elmo. A toy which I’m sure their children got minutes of mild enjoyment from.
They’re trying to bring It back with slide elmo doing…well… the elmo slide.
I was like noooooo
The thumbnail of a person with their mouth wide open used in every YouTube video
😮
Tic Toc challanges takes the cake. Nothing like eating tide pods or stealing cars
I haven’t heard about stealing cars before but tidepods was before tiktok got real big
KIA boyz challenge
My brother’s car got vandalized because it was one of the models this stupid video claimed was easy to steal.
stealing cars
I don’t remember this one either, but wasn’t there a while back when it was a trend to wreck bathrooms/toilets? Not sure if it was a challenge, but it was something that started on TikTok.
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Tic Toc challanges
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Guys wearing florescent orange or yellow knee high socks with Adidas slides and shorts that was all over a few years ago.
Dudes setting flat billed hats on top of their head way too high.
Yeti stickers on trucks. Glad you like your cooler dude.
Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn’t the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube. Seeing Oakley gear kills me, I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley’s aren’t even good glasses. You paid too much for the privilege of looking like a tool.
I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley’s aren’t even good glasses.
Please elaborate, because so do I and not only disagree with you, I have data to prove that Oakley are better. And I don’t even own any, nor care to buy them.
Oakley got killed by luxottica. They killed their market share, bought them out and diluted the quality.
I’m a licensed advanced optician that owns three practices, I’ve designed and manufactured my own line of frames, I’ve helped design progressive lens forms, I have taught classes at eight out of the last 12 vision expo’s. My capture rate of every premium product sale is miles above the national averages.
The only brand I call in more warranties in on than Oakley is Nike. They’re zyl frames use plastic rivets that regularly snap and can’t be tightened. The temples stretch out over time, which is normal and wouldn’t be an issue except the metals use either single bar spring hinges that will keep loosening or monel flat rivets that can’t be replaced.
They are not the worst brand by any means, but if you think you’re paying for anything other than the name, you’ve been sold.
I work in acquisition, and without doxxing myself or violating NDAs, I can see they test their materials to a better standard than Nike or others; their cheap products of course suck by comparison, however their expensive premium lenses are very good compared to other brands. I’m not an Oakley dick rider and own other frames and lenses, just trying to say that there is a lot of hail-corporate/brand loyalty shills here spreading bad info.
I like my Oakleys, but they’re regular prescription glasses. Pretty durable and in the (bland) style I prefer.
I wonder what set off the wearing caps too high. It made kids at my school look like they had enormous heads
tshirts that say
Many of those are promotional giveaways. I hope most, for the reasons you say.
No. People are buying them. You think, millions of shirts are produced just as advertisement for - buying shirts of that brand?
Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn’t the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube
I don’t wear shirts, t-shirts or other clothes with clearly visible logos or brand names, unless I got the piece for free or even am getting paid to wear it.
Exceptions are music/band gear, if I like the band, and sports gear, because it is so fucking hard to find decent sports gear without visible logos and brand names.
Yeah. Norm core for basics, but I’m generally dressing in layers anyway. I don’t think I’ve worn only a t shirt outside the house in years.
Hey, I wear normal Oakley prescription glasses and they’re great. They were the most comfortable frames at the optometrist. Didn’t even know they were Oakley until after I bought them. That being said, I’m not saying you’re wrong.
When trying on frame initially, Oakley’s actually will be more comfortable due to their temple style, although after your lenses are made any frame will be adjusted and balanced to be exactly as, if not more comfortable with less squeezing. (Unless the place selling the glasses doesn’t care about fitting, which is more common than you’d think)
Interesting, that’s good input. I had that issue the time before my last visit when I bought new frames. They did not do anything with fitting and just gave me the frames off the shelf. I did not know that wasn’t a common practice until last time. They took time to do a fitting. Still ended up with Oakley though, maybe not next time.
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Someone mentioned the explosion of radium…everything that took place between the discovery of radium and the discovery that radiation is bad for you. Well I’ve got another deadly stupid historic fad: Scheele’s Green.
Scheele’s Green is a pigment invented in 1775 by Carl Wilhelm Sheele. I’s a vivid slightly yellowish green color, which became all the rage throughout Europe in the early 19th century. It was used in paints, candles, wallpaper, to dye cotton and linen, even to paint children’s toys and as a food dye.
Scheele’s Green is acidic copper arsenite. CuHASO3. It’s very toxic. Numerous reports exist of children “wasting away” in “bright green rooms,” women “swooning” wearing green dresses, and instances of acute poisoning around burning green candles. The publicity of the 1861 death of a 19 year old named Matilda Scheueur as a result of her job painting artificial plants with the dye, along with her autopsy showing her eyes and fingernails were turning green from the pigment, led to its decline.
Scheele’s Green was used as an insecticide in the 1930’s.
Bitcoin
Yea, I said it
NFTs.
Why, if you care to elaborate?
no
“No” isnt an answer to “why”.
Ah, the reddit culture on display. It’s just a question, folks.
When people would do something then say “psych”
Or say something, then say “not!”
Good one!
Not!
If it was good enough for Wayne’s World, it’s good enough for me!
I’ll stop quoting Wayne’s World. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
Change is bad. We fear change.
Ah, Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.
😂
Aaahs veenkta sezwat
Look, it was the 80s, we had to make our own fun.
I was there, it was definitely spelled “Syke.”
Haha true!
said the liar!
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Tulip mania/tulip craze in 17th century Holland.
I remember that like it was yesterday
I am a keyboard player & collector, and I simply adore tulips on my favourite organ.
People in England rented pineapples for clout.
