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.
The thing is some group of people must like it or people wouldn’t do it.
Chances are this is a “you aren’t the target audience” type deal.
I feel like most of them havent seen it in real life though, only on social media. Its just another level of strange seeing it for real
They’ve existed much longer than social media hehe
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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“Glow up”
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!
My mom, born in the 50s, remembers getting her shoe size measured by an unshielded xray. That’s just so wild to me.
Fiestaware!
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.
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)
Licking ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back on the shelf (for the clicks of course)
That one should legit be an actual crime.
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.
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.
do vsco girls count
Planking was stupid, but dying while planking was epic stupid.
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
Keto, it “works” only as a side effect of you ending your intake of something that’s necessary for its balance. You don’t need vigorous exercise to lose weight like some claim but you also shouldn’t take precipitated shortcuts. I bet nobody here has ever had their own doctor tell them “keep up the keto, you’re doing good”.
my doctor told me to keep up the keto, i was overweight and pre diabetic and I was able to lose a ton of weight on it and am no longer pre-diabetic. I eat pretty clean keto (a lot of avocadoes) and am able to stick to it very easily because I don’t have a sweet tooth. You still get carbohydrates which your brain needs to function properly just not very many of them. Definitely not for everyone but not sure why you think it’s a ridiculous diet.
It’s a ridiculous diet for someone with no preexisting conditions. There may be medical reasons to go on it. It is not necessary, and can be dangerous, for just anyone to attempt it to lose weight. And don’t get me started on all the keto friendly supplements that are hawked to people.
It’s certainly not a silver bullet against fat, but it’s also not dangerous. Your body is perfectly capable of producing glucose on its own, as long as there’s enough energy floating around.
In the majority of cases it is not dangerous. In rare circumstances it can be dangerous. This is something that should be discussed with a medical professional prior to beginning.
Any time you are going to have a restrictive diet change it should be discussed with your doctor.
it depends what kind of keto you’re doing - I think there’s like a vegan keto? but for most people, keto seems to mean increasing the amount of animal products you eat which is undeniably awful for your health. a lot of them start eating tons of meat, putting butter in their drinks, eating tons of eggs and end up with obscene cholesterol levels.
Any of the ‘fad’ diets. No, carbs aren’t evil. Protien isn’t evil. You didn’t magically lose weight by “not eating carbs”. You lost weight because you cut out an entire food group from your diet - you were eating less. Otherwise just known as dieting. Make it easier on yourself and just limit your calorie intake. That’s pretty much it.
You can eat pizza and still be dieting. You may be eating 1 slice for an entire meal because it’s just a calorie dump, but you can do it.
I always love it when fad diets make it into non-food related products, and you get Atkins socks or whatever.
Or better yet when a fad diet happens and foods that never had whatever evil ingredient in the first place add “Now Oxygen Free” or whatever branding. My favorite was the explosion of “suddenly” gluten-free cider.
The issue I have with keto is that unless you have an absolute will of steel, all that weight instantly comes back once your carb intake ups. If you want to maintain that keto body, you’ll have to be on keto for life.
Most if us can’t do it for life.
I dropped 60 and only gained back like 20 when I stopped. Taking a handful of pills daily and injecting literal poison weekly now, so I stopped before starting treatment.
It all depends. I don’t have a will of steel, that’s for sure. I started it to lose weight but have continued after my chronic heartburn stopped immediately, my eczema went away, my blood sugar came down and my triglycerides dropped to a normal range. I take 0 prescription meds now.
I feel so much better, no longer have heartburn wake me up in the middle of the night, and no longer have my fingers crack and bleed from eczema. 7 years in and it’s really no trouble staying on the diet. The 45 lbs I lost turned out to be a minor benefit of the diet, not the major benefit.
Lol
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
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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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. Their 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 wonder what set off the wearing caps too high. It made kids at my school look like they had enormous heads
I like my Oakleys, but they’re regular prescription glasses. Pretty durable and in the (bland) style I prefer.
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.
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?
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.
😂
Look, it was the 80s, we had to make our own fun.
I was there, it was definitely spelled “Syke.”
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Religion
The thumbnail of a person with their mouth wide open used in every YouTube video
Tulip mania/tulip craze in 17th century Holland.
I remember what like it was yesterday
I am a keyboard player & collector, and I simply adore tulips on my favourite organ.
Fake eyelashes
The eyelashes one kills me. So many women have them, now, with no idea the amount if damage they do to actual eyelashes. Lots of these women will never be able to not wear falsies, because all of their natural ones will eventually fall out.
and Fake. Eyebrows.
Yeah, what is up with the trend of dark boxy eyebrows making the woman look like Uncle Leo from Seinfeld?
NFTs.
Cryptocurrency was already a bad idea overall, but at least it had some function and purpose compared to rent-seeking ledger slots that are associated with ugly cartoons.
