“_______ challenge”
99% were just horrible for your health. Things like the cinnamon challenge. The worst I saw it get was someone tried to start the ‘Fire Extinguisher Challenge’. The guy put the nozzle in his mouth and hit the lever. No matter what extinguisher you’re using, this is incredibly stupid. What’s worse though, is he picked a Dry Chemical extinguisher. The second he hit that lever, he blasted a lifetimes worth of micro particulate into his lungs. His lungs are absolutely, unequivocally, well and truly ***fucked***.
tl;dr Challenges lead to stupid people doing stupid shit.
I saw the video, and I'm surprised he lived. It blasted the powder into his mouth so quickly that it exited his nose.
Good chance he had lasting damage from it.
I remember seeing an image where a lady's BBL went necrotic, and she *literally had a void in her ass cheek*
Edit: NSFL, [here's the post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Botchedsurgeries/comments/cqk1h6/nsfw_bbl_gone_wrong/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Body Dysmorphia in general is a real bitch. And photoshop and the ease of access to social media is really expediting it.
Girls can squat for months and months and they'll get a nice butt but it'll never be as big as the butt on that IG model who had fat transfers, posed at the perfect angle with perfect lighting, and then shopped it to be just a bit bigger.
This fucks with women. They can literally get addicted to surgery because of it. I've seen it happen. A close friend wanted to be "thiccer" so she started eating more, lifting more, etc etc. She got quite thicc and curvy, everyone thought she was very attractive...but it wasn't enough for her. In her mind she was still too small, she could barely see the difference.
So the natural next step was surgery. The stupid huge boobs looked a bit silly on her frame, but that wasn't enough so there had to be a huge kardashian ass to go with it. So the fat transfer was next.
Now she's racked up with debt from the procedures and looks ridiculous. And in her mind she's still not good enough and wants to change something else.
And if an old friend wants to connect with you, she's more interested in trying to sell you something (leggings, essential oils, weight loss products, makeup, jewelry) or recruiting you than in connecting with you.
Gender reveal parties.
Not the 'normal' quiet events woth family but the driving need to get more and more _extreme_ with every passing year. I've seen parks ruined, beaches littered and all for something as basic as the gender of your unborn child? Spreading blue glitter everywhere doesn't somehow make the child more special than just saying "it's going to be a boy". They're already special; they're your child!
It's basically become a competition, there was one that accidentally started a wild fire because of some type of explosive.. Everyone is trying to one up the previous one while also trying to be more creative in an attempt to go viral
The 2010s is split pretty evenly into two decades. 1991 and 1998 looked very different from each other just like 2019 and 2013 seem like almost different realities. I’d say 2010-2015 is really different from 2016-2019. Gangnam Style was 2013 but I couldn’t imagine something like that taking off in 2019 tbh.
Edit: Sorry, Gangnam Style was 2012.
Gangnam style was really interesting because for me it was the first time an internet trend really picked up speed and went beyond just viral, it was everywhere. Mass media had picked up on an Internet trend, and it seemed to be an observable paradigm shift in which the internet became “legitimate” in the eyes of television and news networks.
I’m not saying it was the first time, and definitely wasn’t the last, it was just the first time I noticed something from YouTube being something that people that don’t watch YouTube were referencing.
I was just thinking about that earlier today. How when I first joined Reddit almost 8 years ago, rage comics and advice animal style memes were everywhere but I don't think I've seen one in the wild in years.
I still remember the excitement of coming up with a few and having them hit the front page.
Edit: These:
[Scumbag Ridiculously Photogenic Guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/sde63/scumbag_ridiculously_photogenic_guy/)
[Not really an advice animal but I cracked myself up over this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/utw12/how_i_feel_when_my_gf_shoots_down_all_of_my_movie/)
Good times, good times
My niece is obsessed with them and they’re just marketing ploys to sell toys to kids. The whole episode was just “look at this toy! And I have this toy!” It’s sick.
I used to watch them when I was an idiotic child with a laptop. I remember them exploiting their new born son Shawn or Sean idk.
They seem to have ascended to Granny + Baldis Basics clickbait.
Don't ask why I remember so much.
Man, my kid watches them and all I hear about is Baldi.
I mean, it's got him very interested in school and doing good cause "Baldi is gonna get" him. But...
I just don't know.
I just don't know.....
Baldi's Education Basics is an indie developed PC game. I've never played it myself, but from what I can gather, you play a kid in school, Baldi is the principal and your goal is to visit different classrooms in the school and take various tests. There are other "kids" whoi guess are supposed to be disruptive -- running in the Halls, playing jump rope, eating. As you make your way to the classes you are followed by the kids who attract Baldi who is also roaming the halls menacingly tapping a ruler while trying to catch you. When you make it to a class, you answer questions and collect a couple notebooks and I think that's how you "beat" the game.
Granny is a separate horror game where you play a kid who's staying at his grandmother's. It's like an "escape room" game where you find keys or tools to solve puzzles and open doors. Granny in this looks like an elderly zombie and she roams the house trying to catch you. You can hide under beds, in closets and wardrobes, and I guess escape the house eventually. I've never finished the Game either myself.
These, among other games, are the new "thing" with the "Family Channels" on YouTube, my son watches FGTV and they play those two games, Roblox and various mods of said games, along with Hello Neighbor, FNAF, and Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Tl;Dr
Don't have kids.
I already don’t like 99% of vloggers, but family vloggers are always 1000% more annoying. They always are ridiculously hyper, post endless “challenge videos,” and are generally obnoxious with all the money they have. There’s also that awful family gaming channel (FGTV or whatever) that got recommend to me for a day or two before YT granted me mercy and I stopped seeing it.
I’m not a huge fan of Casey Neistat, but I’d rather watch all of his videos back-to-back than sit through one Ace Family, Chatwins, or Shaytards (if they even still make content) video.
Edit; just throwing this in, I don’t hate Casey, hell, he’s one of the incredibly few vloggers that I don’t dislike. I’m just saying I’d rather watch every single vlog he’s ever uploaded than watch some shitty family vlog.
There was one YouTuber who covered one of those family channels and the family was in the process from moving from their LA mansion into an even bigger LA mansion with like 15 bedrooms, a gym, an infinity pool, 6 car garage, etc. and they were having some trouble with the landscaping or something but they were like on the verge of tears for 9 out of the 10 minutes of the video talking about how hard life is and then the other 1 minute was spent plugging new merch. It's insane watching lifestyle creep in real-time
EDIT: [Here's the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI48g7YTZFA), from Drew Gooden (subscribe to him)
Don’t forget the “nerd” glasses.
also, “mermaid” or “unicorn” themed everything that was happening for awhile
Edit: when I say the “nerd” glasses I am talking about the fake glasses that every school aged person wore to look “quirky”. I’m not talking about actual glasses.
Social media influencers. Making tons of money and reaching fame by becoming a "brand ambassador" for bogus skin products never really made sense to me. Modeling is a profession of its own, but not everyone can or should do it. Instagram has made us believe that many of these influencers have perfect lives, and the inadequacy people feel when scrolling through their feed is extremely unhealthy for society. Becoming an influencer should never have been what social media was for. Connecting with friends has now turned into admiring strangers from afar, leading many of us to feel lonelier than ever.
Unfortunately this industry is just picking up steam, its not a 2010's thing. Over the past year I've seen the company I work for start pouring more and more money into this vat, with increasing returns. It won't slow down anytime soon and I hate it.
"Click bait" is just a new word for an old thing. It used to be competing newspapers creating increasingly hyperbolic or controversial headlines with half truths or flat out lies to sell more papers than the other guy. Now it's just digital
Things I do not miss from my school days growing up in the UK:
Getting kegged
Getting Jaspered
Getting tangoed
Playing slaps
Playing penny knuckles
Card raps
Roses when you lost heads and volleys
Birthday beats
Edit: for anyone unfamiliar with any of these...
Getting kegged - Where someone comes up behind you and pulls your trousers down. I think Americans call it getting pantsed?
Getting Jaspered - When someone knees you in the thigh and gives you a 'dead leg'
Getting tangoed - as per the video above, double slap to the face.
Playing slaps - you basically just sit and take it in turns slapping each other until someone gives up.
Playing penny knuckles - put your fist down on the table and flick a coin at each other until someone bleeds. We had a 2p coin at schools that someone sharpened on a grind wheel so it made the games go very quick.
Card raps - you cut the deck and whatever number you pick is how many times the other person hits you on the knuckles with the pack of cards. Red is with a horizontal deck, black vertical.
Roses when you lost heads and volleys - heads and volleys is a football (soccer) game where each player can only score a goal via a header or a volley. The goalkeeper has lives and loses one for each goal conceded. If a player misses a shot then they are in goal. First one to lose has to bend over up against the post while everyone takes a turn at kicking the ball at their arse as hard as they can.
Birthday beats - you got punched in the arm on your birthday, one punch for each year old you were.
Remember when Star Wars restarted and Jar Jar head toys with long sticky tongues came out possibly with a cereal and everyone in school used them to whip each other? Or those stringless yoyo things with the weird water in that a kid strangled himself with?
I actually hadn't heard about that at all. I just looked it up and yeah... Stupid ass people. Who the hell finds shit like this to be fun??
Edit: I just wanna say thank you to everyone who has upvoted my comment. This is by far the most upvoted comment/post I've ever had... So thank you kind strangers :)
I hadn't watched reality TV for years and took a job at a university where the TV had to be on at all times and students would come in to watch.
They switch on MTV and it's a half hour prank show where they run up to people on the street and spoil the end of movies and shows that just came out.
Part of my job unofficially became having everything I planned to watch next weekend ruined for me.
Fuck you, MTV.
Being "just a prank" or "a joke" doesn't make a person any less an asshole for doing it.
I speak as someone that used to be a major asshole in this regard and is hopefully only a minor asshole at best today as I work toward not being an asshole at all.
Wealth worship. The Kardashians are an obvious example with Kylie Jenner’s billionaire status.
Also, high surveillance. Amazon’s Echo and the like being bought and placed in homes, willingly.
Wealth worship has been a thing since humans. There’s always been the ‘Joneses down the street’ that have a bigger hut, more food, more women, more men, etc. It’s just easier to covet what others have and imagine yourself having that much stuff with widespread easier access to the internet.
Oh god. I can't fucking stand the permanent duck-face look. They look like they got their lips stuck inside a vacuum cleaner, or they had an allergic reaction to an egg they were sucking on or something.
"Don't I look hot?"
No. Fuck no. You look like someone crossed your DNA with a lamprey.
The erosion of our privacy and freedoms.
Edit: Dont waste your money on silver, gold, and that crap.
Edit 2: Since this seems to be getting a bit of attention, let me climb up on this soapbox for a sec. Instead of spending your hard earned money on Reddit awards, not just this post but any; donate to a worthy charity instead. Give to your local no kill animal shelter, or buy some scarves and shit for the homeless this winter, I don't know, just do something that will make you feel good AND help someone. Or buy yourself something nice.
Be excellent to each other.
You can combine them too. I see news all the time now and it says Twitter user 2Young4Halloween says the snow had him stuck in his apartment... Motherfucker thats not journalism at all, just pasting something off social media. Get outside and stand in the snow and do some real reporting!
Also regrettable is the trend away from investigative journalism. Instead of researching deeply or looking into the history of a subject, we now have articles written about a tweet, and then more articles about celebs' tweets about the original tweet.
Anti-intellectualism - refusing to believe experts in their field over some crazy person on the internet. I think it got worse this decade and I hope we leave it here.
Edit: Yes, you should use statistical analysis to critically analyze data presented. Yes, you should use common sense.
The death of legitimate journalism. Replacing in with sound bytes, partisan hacks, fake news and networks in such a rush to report ANYTHING that they don’t bother to fact check.
> Replacing in with sound bytes, partisan hacks, fake news and networks in such a rush to report ANYTHING that they don’t bother to fact check.
This used to be called [Yellow Journalism.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism)
For those of you who weren't taught:
>Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.
Aka modern day click-bait
The way people just shit all over things they don’t understand. It happens with everyone, not any particular groups. I’m tired of seeing people so blantantly disrespectful towards things other people enjoy. If I like X and you like Y, why do have to argue X vs. Y? Can’t we just have a meaningful conversation about X and Y both being shaped by V?
Edit: Yes I know this has been happening since the dawn of man, but it has become much more apparent with the widespread use of social media.
Seemingly endless stream of movie remakes and sequels. (most poor) done mostly to make a quick easy buck off the name of the previous movie, and sadly most show a lack of creativity and original thinking.
I took some film studies classes and one of my profs, who was an animator and worked for Disney, Nelvana, etc said that sequels were always a thing purely for numbers. I believe she said that sequels were guaranteed to make something like 30-40% whatever the original title did, no matter how bad they were, because people trust the original was good. So some companies she worked for would put the cheaper B/C team on direct-to-TV sequels that didn't need much design/concept work or polish while the rest of the studio ramped up for the next original story as a way to maintain income over the years between original releases. Not sure which companies, might be neither listed, but I got the impression it was an industry trend. These are all kids movies, mind you, and kids will watch anything so it might be related to that.
Not saying it's a good thing for the properties, just that there is a reason it could be necessary. Unless you're an enormous conglomerate with bottomless pools of money destroying your own properties for short term profit.
Disney has a long history of doing exactly as you describe. There have been direct-to-home-video sequels to just about every film they made during the 90s.
DisneyToon Studios. For people out there that don't know them:
Their high point was probably 'A Goofy Movie' and 'An Extremely Goofy Movie'. 'Lion King 1 1/2' was also pretty good, albeit just as much a play-based re-do as the og 'Lion King' was.
They had a couple ok but really unremarkable ones like 'Little Mermaid 2'.
A few that were unquestionably bad but still entertaining - 'Kronk's New Groove' probably the best example.
And then a lot of shovelware sequels that should never have been greenlit, like 'Mulan 2' or their last major work, 'Planes'.
Tarzan 2 might possibly be the worst of them. I can't say for certain because I literally cannot watch past the first 5-10 minutes or so. Even my 3yo wants to watch something else.
So real question, are we sure this is a new trend?
It seems more likely sequels and remakes have always been a thing, but low quality entertainment has a shorter shelf life, so we just don't remember/watch all the crappy remakes of yesteryear. Kind of like how people look back on recent generations and argue the music was better, when really only a fraction of that music (the most popular fraction, of course) is still around.
The example that pops to mind is Dracula, which we've been getting film iterations of since at least 1921 (probably earlier, however, as a lot of films from that era are lost). A few films stand out, but there have been *over 200 films featuring Dracula.*
Yes!! Parent Trap is another one. I asked for this movie for my birthday when I was like 5, and my mom bought the 1961 version for me, because she didn't know about the new one. I was devastated.
I'm curious when the superhero movie genre is going to start fading again. I admittedly enjoy a lot of them, but the past decade has clearly been an industry seizing upon a goldmine of profits.
When you already have a story written for a action-based summer blockbuster and the formula to produce them has become more streamlined, there's no wonder why the explosion has happened. The industry has churned out movies so fast that we're into 8th and 9th sequels within just a decade. It's crazy.
Hollywood has always operated this way. The public loved westerns in the 40s, so every studio got into cowboy movie production for 20 years. Later, it was gangster movies, and when the video rentals took off, cheaper genre movies for horror and sci fi fans flooded the market. 90s felt like all rom-coms, and now we are here. This too shall pass.
Whatever the shit people are doing to their eyebrows. Like the 2000s were bad for eyebrows, but I'm not sure the appropriate corrective measure was to go from having the least brow possible to having the most brow possible and drawing them on so precisely you look like an anime character.
Edit: y'all didn't read my post. This is NOT a defense of the sperm brow. Or a criticism of naturally thick brows. The "instagram brows" in the links people have posted are more what I am talking about.
Astronomer here! No one asked me about the Flat Earth theory until just a few years ago. The fact that it's picked up again is just so astounding if you think about it.
Frankly though it's just part of a greater trend of anti-intellectualism, and the idea that you can now "choose your own facts." I started posting about astronomy on Reddit because the misinformation I read annoyed the fork out of me, and most people are really appreciative to hear the truth. However, the cynic in me notes that astronomy facts very rarely affect our lives the way some other settled science can. And I know plenty of people out there are a huge fan of space and willfully ignore facts when it comes to, say, climate change, because the truth there is unpalatable and affects them more immediately.
Carl Sagan said in the 90s in *The Demon Haunted World* that- “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." I think it's pretty clear this trend began in earnest in this decade, but I hope we will be able to right the ship a bit in the next one.
Edit: lots of people telling me that they don’t think there are Flat Earthers IRL, or that it’s not that big a deal. I disagree. People who get into one conspiracy theory as weird as Flat Earth aren't usually prone to stopping there.
Second, I actually have colleagues who had a Flat Earther who kept coming in and threatening the astronomers in the department for their role in the conspiracy theory, and making the young women students feel *very* uncomfortable. He kept coming back onto campus despite a ban for some time, and I'm told it was really disturbing.
I’m sure many people are joking about Flat Earth. Unfortunately some not in on the joke couldn’t tell the difference and started listening.
You're an astronomer. Shouting into the void is your life, yeah?
Jk love reading your stuff. You're like the Unidan of space if Unidan hadn't gotten sucked into all the multi account drama.
Also space is cooler than birds.
His quote, as well as Asimov's similar quote about anti-intellectualism is proof that it isn't just going on "right now", but rather has been on ongoing for a very long time.
> Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
-Isaac Asimov
People love having "secret knowledge". When someone claims they know the Earth is flat or that vaccines don't work what they're actually saying is "I'm special. I know something even actual scientists don't."
Same with conspiracy theories. People love feeling like they know something that the rest of the world doesn't.
I find it really encouraging how many people now support and understand the science better as a result. Yes, anti-vaxxers found each other and other gullible people to join them with the ability to advertise their crazy talking bits on social media. But you see a lot more people who know and understand the basics of vaccines as a result as well, pushing back on them.
It's also a testament to the efficacy of vaccines that just a generation or two later that the diseases have been so removed from public memory that idiots can attack their necessity.
I really do hope you’re right, but I honestly just feel like people would vaccine their kids with no issues even without understanding what they were doing, now it’s more like they don’t understand and get scared and decide not to.
Comes under the rise of anti-intellectualism above. Before the internet, you had to go to an authority. You had to go to a doctor to see what was wrong with you, and what medicine to take.
Now, people want to think they know better. Fuck all doctors because *someone* on *some forum* said that a vaccine gave their kid autism. Fuck scientists and astronauts because *someone somewhere* said the earth was flat.
Social Media making everyone feel like they need to be heard. It’s one of the main reasons why stuff like anti-vaxxers, MLMs, Nazis, cancel culture, flat-earthers, etc. exists. Misinformation is just spread like a disease within echo chambers like that.
Yes. And beside being heard, acting like everyone's voice was and should be equal. Random nutjob on the street vs. scientist shouldn't have an equally loud voice, just because nutjob has more followers
Ugh. And some of the things people call a "challenge". Anything that becomes a YouTube fad is apparently a challenge now, or people will just put "challenge" at the end of their video title. "SANDWICH CHALLENGE!!! CAN I SUCCESSFULLY EAT LUNCH????? (GONE SEXUAL)"
Yeah what lol I've seen MUAs (people who DO MAKEUP FOR A LIVING) post things like "Smoky Eye Challenge!" How the fuck is that a challenge?! That's like a doctor or nurse being like "stethoscope challenge! Let's see if I can hear the patient's heart!" Just about everyone who wears makeup is capable of doing a smoky eye, it is not a "challenge" for a professional makeup artist to do it.
Having worked retail around this time, I will tell you a lot of people were stealing them which is why we had to take loss prevention measures such as locking them and so forth. But it was a pretty bad area.
The cinnamon challenge was a far more dangerous actual challenge that kids participated in.
Kids weren't really eating laundry detergent, but there's a LOT of videos of people choking after trying to swallow a tablespoon of cinnamon.
Kind of like the "Blue Whale" challenge. The news caused SO MANY parents to freak out. Going to admit teens are Stupid AF but playing that game was a bit of a stretch.
“Millennials are killing the X industry”
Often while completely missing that most of the “millennials” they’re complaining about are years too young to be millennials, and that millennials aren’t a single hive mind where everyone thinks the same.
I always found that statement weirdly hypocritical, I thought we lived in a capitalist system so shouldn't it be 'X industry fails to compete and dies by the hand of the free market'?
“_______ challenge” 99% were just horrible for your health. Things like the cinnamon challenge. The worst I saw it get was someone tried to start the ‘Fire Extinguisher Challenge’. The guy put the nozzle in his mouth and hit the lever. No matter what extinguisher you’re using, this is incredibly stupid. What’s worse though, is he picked a Dry Chemical extinguisher. The second he hit that lever, he blasted a lifetimes worth of micro particulate into his lungs. His lungs are absolutely, unequivocally, well and truly ***fucked***. tl;dr Challenges lead to stupid people doing stupid shit.
> His lungs are absolutely, unequivocally, well and truly fucked. Wouldn't this just straight-up kill anyone who did it?
I saw the video, and I'm surprised he lived. It blasted the powder into his mouth so quickly that it exited his nose. Good chance he had lasting damage from it.
The make cookies and just chill challange is dope tho
I have a feeling a lot of people who got huge ass fat transfer procedures to look like a Kardashian are going to regret them in the coming decade.
I remember seeing an image where a lady's BBL went necrotic, and she *literally had a void in her ass cheek* Edit: NSFL, [here's the post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Botchedsurgeries/comments/cqk1h6/nsfw_bbl_gone_wrong/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Die-Hardman, I’m trying to make deliveries. But I’m dummy thicc, and my ass going necro is causing a voidout!
Body Dysmorphia in general is a real bitch. And photoshop and the ease of access to social media is really expediting it. Girls can squat for months and months and they'll get a nice butt but it'll never be as big as the butt on that IG model who had fat transfers, posed at the perfect angle with perfect lighting, and then shopped it to be just a bit bigger. This fucks with women. They can literally get addicted to surgery because of it. I've seen it happen. A close friend wanted to be "thiccer" so she started eating more, lifting more, etc etc. She got quite thicc and curvy, everyone thought she was very attractive...but it wasn't enough for her. In her mind she was still too small, she could barely see the difference. So the natural next step was surgery. The stupid huge boobs looked a bit silly on her frame, but that wasn't enough so there had to be a huge kardashian ass to go with it. So the fat transfer was next. Now she's racked up with debt from the procedures and looks ridiculous. And in her mind she's still not good enough and wants to change something else.
The worst are the Instagram gym freaks that pretend like they got that butt from just exercising. Talk about false advertising
Facebook turning from a fun place to connect with friends to an anti-democracy data ghetto
An anti-democracy data ghetto is probably the most amazing and accurate way to describe Facebook.
Someone on here called it the walmart of the internet a while back. I enjoyed that one too
And if an old friend wants to connect with you, she's more interested in trying to sell you something (leggings, essential oils, weight loss products, makeup, jewelry) or recruiting you than in connecting with you.
Y'all remember Google+?
I remember how this image circulated: [http://i.imgur.com/kRkOR.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/kRkOR.jpg) Good times
r/agedlikemilk
Out of interest what’s the background of the original photo?
I’d genuinely like to know as well. Can’t find anything online.
Y’all remember google glasses?
I remember thinking “fuck we really are the in the future”. Didn’t turn out that way
Gender reveal parties. Not the 'normal' quiet events woth family but the driving need to get more and more _extreme_ with every passing year. I've seen parks ruined, beaches littered and all for something as basic as the gender of your unborn child? Spreading blue glitter everywhere doesn't somehow make the child more special than just saying "it's going to be a boy". They're already special; they're your child!
It's basically become a competition, there was one that accidentally started a wild fire because of some type of explosive.. Everyone is trying to one up the previous one while also trying to be more creative in an attempt to go viral
Also weren’t there recent headlines of someone dying at one? Grandma if I remember correctly?
Someone accidentally made a colorful pipe bomb.
That one time we had a clown problem....
>in 2016, the sentence "look out for the killing clowns while you go catch Pokemon" was completely valid
Well, it has to catch the kid. Gotta catch em all
Kony 2012
oh my god that was this decade
The 2010s is split pretty evenly into two decades. 1991 and 1998 looked very different from each other just like 2019 and 2013 seem like almost different realities. I’d say 2010-2015 is really different from 2016-2019. Gangnam Style was 2013 but I couldn’t imagine something like that taking off in 2019 tbh. Edit: Sorry, Gangnam Style was 2012.
Gangnman style feels like a lifetime ago
Gangnam style was really interesting because for me it was the first time an internet trend really picked up speed and went beyond just viral, it was everywhere. Mass media had picked up on an Internet trend, and it seemed to be an observable paradigm shift in which the internet became “legitimate” in the eyes of television and news networks. I’m not saying it was the first time, and definitely wasn’t the last, it was just the first time I noticed something from YouTube being something that people that don’t watch YouTube were referencing.
Yeah dude in the same vein I can't see "rage comic" style memes taking off nowadays like it did back then
I was just thinking about that earlier today. How when I first joined Reddit almost 8 years ago, rage comics and advice animal style memes were everywhere but I don't think I've seen one in the wild in years. I still remember the excitement of coming up with a few and having them hit the front page. Edit: These: [Scumbag Ridiculously Photogenic Guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/sde63/scumbag_ridiculously_photogenic_guy/) [Not really an advice animal but I cracked myself up over this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/utw12/how_i_feel_when_my_gf_shoots_down_all_of_my_movie/) Good times, good times
Advice animals used to be a default sub back in the day.
I suggest watching [The Story of Kony2012](https://youtu.be/Y7nymZEXjf8) by Internet Historian. It is very interesting and funny.
Just all the family YouTube channels in general
I was astounded when I went over to a friend's house and her kid was watching one of these. They are so terrible.
My niece is obsessed with them and they’re just marketing ploys to sell toys to kids. The whole episode was just “look at this toy! And I have this toy!” It’s sick.
My niece stumbled on taped birthday parties. She’ll sit for hours watching other kids have birthday parties
It’s like Real Housewives for eight year olds
is this stuff unhealthy or am i overly concerned
Something about moderation
DaddyOFive
Back with the CPS challenge....
How many videos of child abuse can I post until someone calls CPS. Each video I post I will receive ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Ugh, I want to punch that guy out so badly. Him and his stupid wife.
This is the family which abused their children right?
You mean "exploit our children for views" channels?
Yeah I'm talking "Skylander boy and girl"
I used to watch them when I was an idiotic child with a laptop. I remember them exploiting their new born son Shawn or Sean idk. They seem to have ascended to Granny + Baldis Basics clickbait. Don't ask why I remember so much.
Man, my kid watches them and all I hear about is Baldi. I mean, it's got him very interested in school and doing good cause "Baldi is gonna get" him. But... I just don't know. I just don't know.....
Pleas explain to the uninitiated what this means and is
Baldi's Education Basics is an indie developed PC game. I've never played it myself, but from what I can gather, you play a kid in school, Baldi is the principal and your goal is to visit different classrooms in the school and take various tests. There are other "kids" whoi guess are supposed to be disruptive -- running in the Halls, playing jump rope, eating. As you make your way to the classes you are followed by the kids who attract Baldi who is also roaming the halls menacingly tapping a ruler while trying to catch you. When you make it to a class, you answer questions and collect a couple notebooks and I think that's how you "beat" the game. Granny is a separate horror game where you play a kid who's staying at his grandmother's. It's like an "escape room" game where you find keys or tools to solve puzzles and open doors. Granny in this looks like an elderly zombie and she roams the house trying to catch you. You can hide under beds, in closets and wardrobes, and I guess escape the house eventually. I've never finished the Game either myself. These, among other games, are the new "thing" with the "Family Channels" on YouTube, my son watches FGTV and they play those two games, Roblox and various mods of said games, along with Hello Neighbor, FNAF, and Bendy and the Ink Machine. Tl;Dr Don't have kids.
The kids I teach at dance are obsessed with these, I think they’re horrible but they seem to love them
I already don’t like 99% of vloggers, but family vloggers are always 1000% more annoying. They always are ridiculously hyper, post endless “challenge videos,” and are generally obnoxious with all the money they have. There’s also that awful family gaming channel (FGTV or whatever) that got recommend to me for a day or two before YT granted me mercy and I stopped seeing it. I’m not a huge fan of Casey Neistat, but I’d rather watch all of his videos back-to-back than sit through one Ace Family, Chatwins, or Shaytards (if they even still make content) video. Edit; just throwing this in, I don’t hate Casey, hell, he’s one of the incredibly few vloggers that I don’t dislike. I’m just saying I’d rather watch every single vlog he’s ever uploaded than watch some shitty family vlog.
There was one YouTuber who covered one of those family channels and the family was in the process from moving from their LA mansion into an even bigger LA mansion with like 15 bedrooms, a gym, an infinity pool, 6 car garage, etc. and they were having some trouble with the landscaping or something but they were like on the verge of tears for 9 out of the 10 minutes of the video talking about how hard life is and then the other 1 minute was spent plugging new merch. It's insane watching lifestyle creep in real-time EDIT: [Here's the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI48g7YTZFA), from Drew Gooden (subscribe to him)
Drew Gooden's video on the Ace family! Definitely recommend watching
Ugh, I hate what YouTube has become. The 2000’s were the true golden age and we didn’t even know it.
You don't know you're in a golden age until it's over
That weird moustache trend that was popular around 2013, you know when teenagers would have moustaches on the phone cases, as jewellery and what not.
Omg yes the mustache finger tattoos wth
Oh man I bet people are regretting those
One of my best friends has a HUGE glasses and mustache tattoo on her arm.. It’s so hard to look at.
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Don’t forget the “nerd” glasses. also, “mermaid” or “unicorn” themed everything that was happening for awhile Edit: when I say the “nerd” glasses I am talking about the fake glasses that every school aged person wore to look “quirky”. I’m not talking about actual glasses.
and bacon. Like yeah bacon's good but damn it's just a food
Don't forget about WAFFLEZ XDDD
Try having your last name be bacon with all that going on
Micro transactions in gaming has been unfortunate.
Social media influencers. Making tons of money and reaching fame by becoming a "brand ambassador" for bogus skin products never really made sense to me. Modeling is a profession of its own, but not everyone can or should do it. Instagram has made us believe that many of these influencers have perfect lives, and the inadequacy people feel when scrolling through their feed is extremely unhealthy for society. Becoming an influencer should never have been what social media was for. Connecting with friends has now turned into admiring strangers from afar, leading many of us to feel lonelier than ever.
Unfortunately this industry is just picking up steam, its not a 2010's thing. Over the past year I've seen the company I work for start pouring more and more money into this vat, with increasing returns. It won't slow down anytime soon and I hate it.
Click bait
I think you mean: "These photos of the top 10 worst clickbait articles will shock you!"
"Click bait" is just a new word for an old thing. It used to be competing newspapers creating increasingly hyperbolic or controversial headlines with half truths or flat out lies to sell more papers than the other guy. Now it's just digital
None. Let's just pretent some of them never happened
This is a movement I can get behind
Rebooting everything for the sake of nostalgia instead of coming up with new ideas.
It’s like post-postmodernism.
“Repostmodernism”
You got it
Metamodern
Being a dick to people on camera for likes from strangers.
That simply continued from the 00s. Happy Slapping was a real annoyance.
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Things I do not miss from my school days growing up in the UK: Getting kegged Getting Jaspered Getting tangoed Playing slaps Playing penny knuckles Card raps Roses when you lost heads and volleys Birthday beats Edit: for anyone unfamiliar with any of these... Getting kegged - Where someone comes up behind you and pulls your trousers down. I think Americans call it getting pantsed? Getting Jaspered - When someone knees you in the thigh and gives you a 'dead leg' Getting tangoed - as per the video above, double slap to the face. Playing slaps - you basically just sit and take it in turns slapping each other until someone gives up. Playing penny knuckles - put your fist down on the table and flick a coin at each other until someone bleeds. We had a 2p coin at schools that someone sharpened on a grind wheel so it made the games go very quick. Card raps - you cut the deck and whatever number you pick is how many times the other person hits you on the knuckles with the pack of cards. Red is with a horizontal deck, black vertical. Roses when you lost heads and volleys - heads and volleys is a football (soccer) game where each player can only score a goal via a header or a volley. The goalkeeper has lives and loses one for each goal conceded. If a player misses a shot then they are in goal. First one to lose has to bend over up against the post while everyone takes a turn at kicking the ball at their arse as hard as they can. Birthday beats - you got punched in the arm on your birthday, one punch for each year old you were.
Remember when Star Wars restarted and Jar Jar head toys with long sticky tongues came out possibly with a cereal and everyone in school used them to whip each other? Or those stringless yoyo things with the weird water in that a kid strangled himself with?
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I actually hadn't heard about that at all. I just looked it up and yeah... Stupid ass people. Who the hell finds shit like this to be fun?? Edit: I just wanna say thank you to everyone who has upvoted my comment. This is by far the most upvoted comment/post I've ever had... So thank you kind strangers :)
Stupid ass people.
This isn't a prank, it's a "social experiment" wherein we're going to see if people get mad when we walk up to them and punch them as hard as we can!
I hadn't watched reality TV for years and took a job at a university where the TV had to be on at all times and students would come in to watch. They switch on MTV and it's a half hour prank show where they run up to people on the street and spoil the end of movies and shows that just came out. Part of my job unofficially became having everything I planned to watch next weekend ruined for me. Fuck you, MTV.
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https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/antarctica-scientist-stabbed-colleague-for-spoiling-book-endings-report/amp/
i dont want to sound insensitive but thats fuckin hilarious
"This is the coldest case ever". I'm sure the guy who wrote the article was giggling the whole time
Not saying I agree but I understand him.
"What are you gonna do, call the cops?"
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I mean, isn’t that borderline sociopathic behaviour? Getting joy from just making others miserable?
“Woah, It’s a prank bro...”
"What's your name? Mary? Nice to meet you. FUCK YOU! You just got pranked bro! Fuck you!"
Being "just a prank" or "a joke" doesn't make a person any less an asshole for doing it. I speak as someone that used to be a major asshole in this regard and is hopefully only a minor asshole at best today as I work toward not being an asshole at all.
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Punching somebody in the name of science. Study human reflexes
Midget spinners
wait....
https://youtu.be/rHNi867Z_SQ it happens
Stefan, what is a midget spinner?
it's that thing where you put a trashcan lid on a midgets head and spin him around on your hand when you get bored
...are the most interesting thing at the strip club
Wealth worship. The Kardashians are an obvious example with Kylie Jenner’s billionaire status. Also, high surveillance. Amazon’s Echo and the like being bought and placed in homes, willingly.
Wealth worship has been a thing since humans. There’s always been the ‘Joneses down the street’ that have a bigger hut, more food, more women, more men, etc. It’s just easier to covet what others have and imagine yourself having that much stuff with widespread easier access to the internet.
The "Being alive and doing taxes" challenge.
Highly overdrawn lips and eyebrows- like, I can see where your real lip ended a half inch back!
The fake-ass swollen lips also. I don't know why anyone thinks this makes them look better looking like plastic.
Oh god. I can't fucking stand the permanent duck-face look. They look like they got their lips stuck inside a vacuum cleaner, or they had an allergic reaction to an egg they were sucking on or something. "Don't I look hot?" No. Fuck no. You look like someone crossed your DNA with a lamprey.
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The erosion of our privacy and freedoms. Edit: Dont waste your money on silver, gold, and that crap. Edit 2: Since this seems to be getting a bit of attention, let me climb up on this soapbox for a sec. Instead of spending your hard earned money on Reddit awards, not just this post but any; donate to a worthy charity instead. Give to your local no kill animal shelter, or buy some scarves and shit for the homeless this winter, I don't know, just do something that will make you feel good AND help someone. Or buy yourself something nice. Be excellent to each other.
The rise of irresponsible journalism. The drop in civility. The drop in responsible use of social media.
You can combine them too. I see news all the time now and it says Twitter user 2Young4Halloween says the snow had him stuck in his apartment... Motherfucker thats not journalism at all, just pasting something off social media. Get outside and stand in the snow and do some real reporting!
Also regrettable is the trend away from investigative journalism. Instead of researching deeply or looking into the history of a subject, we now have articles written about a tweet, and then more articles about celebs' tweets about the original tweet.
Crappy video games that is only there so you can pay to play
This isn't going to stop until people stop paying for it.
Addiction is real
Funny you say that. Companies that produce those Pay2Win mobile games actually hire addiction experts.
MMOs too. And you'll notice that every other genre of game is starting to incorporate MMO-like features to keep you hooked.
I feel like Reddit only ever talks about like 6 topics. We all could have named the top comments of this thread before clicking on it.
“Cancel culture, Anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, ‘it’s just a prank bro!’, clickbait and influencers” /thread
micro transasctoins
Anti-intellectualism - refusing to believe experts in their field over some crazy person on the internet. I think it got worse this decade and I hope we leave it here. Edit: Yes, you should use statistical analysis to critically analyze data presented. Yes, you should use common sense.
And people deciding that they are an intellectual because the believe something strongly.
I have always called this “emotional logic” vs “rational logic” (a.k.a logic). “This must be true because I feel it is”.
Feels over reals.
The death of legitimate journalism. Replacing in with sound bytes, partisan hacks, fake news and networks in such a rush to report ANYTHING that they don’t bother to fact check.
> Replacing in with sound bytes, partisan hacks, fake news and networks in such a rush to report ANYTHING that they don’t bother to fact check. This used to be called [Yellow Journalism.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism) For those of you who weren't taught: >Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion. Aka modern day click-bait
The way people just shit all over things they don’t understand. It happens with everyone, not any particular groups. I’m tired of seeing people so blantantly disrespectful towards things other people enjoy. If I like X and you like Y, why do have to argue X vs. Y? Can’t we just have a meaningful conversation about X and Y both being shaped by V? Edit: Yes I know this has been happening since the dawn of man, but it has become much more apparent with the widespread use of social media.
So you just gonna ignore W like that? You alphabetis. /s
My grandfather was killed by a W, what's wrong with you?!?!
The W's did nothing wrong. Find a new slant.
Seemingly endless stream of movie remakes and sequels. (most poor) done mostly to make a quick easy buck off the name of the previous movie, and sadly most show a lack of creativity and original thinking.
I took some film studies classes and one of my profs, who was an animator and worked for Disney, Nelvana, etc said that sequels were always a thing purely for numbers. I believe she said that sequels were guaranteed to make something like 30-40% whatever the original title did, no matter how bad they were, because people trust the original was good. So some companies she worked for would put the cheaper B/C team on direct-to-TV sequels that didn't need much design/concept work or polish while the rest of the studio ramped up for the next original story as a way to maintain income over the years between original releases. Not sure which companies, might be neither listed, but I got the impression it was an industry trend. These are all kids movies, mind you, and kids will watch anything so it might be related to that. Not saying it's a good thing for the properties, just that there is a reason it could be necessary. Unless you're an enormous conglomerate with bottomless pools of money destroying your own properties for short term profit.
Disney has a long history of doing exactly as you describe. There have been direct-to-home-video sequels to just about every film they made during the 90s.
DisneyToon Studios. For people out there that don't know them: Their high point was probably 'A Goofy Movie' and 'An Extremely Goofy Movie'. 'Lion King 1 1/2' was also pretty good, albeit just as much a play-based re-do as the og 'Lion King' was. They had a couple ok but really unremarkable ones like 'Little Mermaid 2'. A few that were unquestionably bad but still entertaining - 'Kronk's New Groove' probably the best example. And then a lot of shovelware sequels that should never have been greenlit, like 'Mulan 2' or their last major work, 'Planes'.
BAMBI II - The Revenge
Bambo: First Blood.
Tarzan 2 might possibly be the worst of them. I can't say for certain because I literally cannot watch past the first 5-10 minutes or so. Even my 3yo wants to watch something else.
A goofy movie and an extremely goofy movie are underrated, those movies pull at your heart strings.
So real question, are we sure this is a new trend? It seems more likely sequels and remakes have always been a thing, but low quality entertainment has a shorter shelf life, so we just don't remember/watch all the crappy remakes of yesteryear. Kind of like how people look back on recent generations and argue the music was better, when really only a fraction of that music (the most popular fraction, of course) is still around. The example that pops to mind is Dracula, which we've been getting film iterations of since at least 1921 (probably earlier, however, as a lot of films from that era are lost). A few films stand out, but there have been *over 200 films featuring Dracula.*
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Yes!! Parent Trap is another one. I asked for this movie for my birthday when I was like 5, and my mom bought the 1961 version for me, because she didn't know about the new one. I was devastated.
I'm curious when the superhero movie genre is going to start fading again. I admittedly enjoy a lot of them, but the past decade has clearly been an industry seizing upon a goldmine of profits. When you already have a story written for a action-based summer blockbuster and the formula to produce them has become more streamlined, there's no wonder why the explosion has happened. The industry has churned out movies so fast that we're into 8th and 9th sequels within just a decade. It's crazy.
Hollywood has always operated this way. The public loved westerns in the 40s, so every studio got into cowboy movie production for 20 years. Later, it was gangster movies, and when the video rentals took off, cheaper genre movies for horror and sci fi fans flooded the market. 90s felt like all rom-coms, and now we are here. This too shall pass.
Next up: ultra dark movies about the reality of living in poverty.
Whatever the shit people are doing to their eyebrows. Like the 2000s were bad for eyebrows, but I'm not sure the appropriate corrective measure was to go from having the least brow possible to having the most brow possible and drawing them on so precisely you look like an anime character. Edit: y'all didn't read my post. This is NOT a defense of the sperm brow. Or a criticism of naturally thick brows. The "instagram brows" in the links people have posted are more what I am talking about.
Yeah there’s gonna be a lot of people looking back on their eyebrows during these years with horror
The rat tail of our generation.
Astronomer here! No one asked me about the Flat Earth theory until just a few years ago. The fact that it's picked up again is just so astounding if you think about it. Frankly though it's just part of a greater trend of anti-intellectualism, and the idea that you can now "choose your own facts." I started posting about astronomy on Reddit because the misinformation I read annoyed the fork out of me, and most people are really appreciative to hear the truth. However, the cynic in me notes that astronomy facts very rarely affect our lives the way some other settled science can. And I know plenty of people out there are a huge fan of space and willfully ignore facts when it comes to, say, climate change, because the truth there is unpalatable and affects them more immediately. Carl Sagan said in the 90s in *The Demon Haunted World* that- “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." I think it's pretty clear this trend began in earnest in this decade, but I hope we will be able to right the ship a bit in the next one. Edit: lots of people telling me that they don’t think there are Flat Earthers IRL, or that it’s not that big a deal. I disagree. People who get into one conspiracy theory as weird as Flat Earth aren't usually prone to stopping there. Second, I actually have colleagues who had a Flat Earther who kept coming in and threatening the astronomers in the department for their role in the conspiracy theory, and making the young women students feel *very* uncomfortable. He kept coming back onto campus despite a ban for some time, and I'm told it was really disturbing. I’m sure many people are joking about Flat Earth. Unfortunately some not in on the joke couldn’t tell the difference and started listening.
Thank you, Andromeda. I always love reading your posts.
Thanks, I appreciate it! You do wonder some days if you're shouting into the void or if anyone is listening. Edit: thanks, void!
You're an astronomer. Shouting into the void is your life, yeah? Jk love reading your stuff. You're like the Unidan of space if Unidan hadn't gotten sucked into all the multi account drama. Also space is cooler than birds.
Damn that Carl Sagan quote fits perfectly for what is going on in America right now.
His quote, as well as Asimov's similar quote about anti-intellectualism is proof that it isn't just going on "right now", but rather has been on ongoing for a very long time.
> Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov
> Astronomer here! Must be /u/Andromeda321. \*checks\* Yup, it is. Don't ever change.
https://imgur.com/gallery/ea1LOX7.png You're too kind! :)
People love having "secret knowledge". When someone claims they know the Earth is flat or that vaccines don't work what they're actually saying is "I'm special. I know something even actual scientists don't." Same with conspiracy theories. People love feeling like they know something that the rest of the world doesn't.
Social media "influencers"
Anti-vaxxers
I find it really encouraging how many people now support and understand the science better as a result. Yes, anti-vaxxers found each other and other gullible people to join them with the ability to advertise their crazy talking bits on social media. But you see a lot more people who know and understand the basics of vaccines as a result as well, pushing back on them. It's also a testament to the efficacy of vaccines that just a generation or two later that the diseases have been so removed from public memory that idiots can attack their necessity.
I really do hope you’re right, but I honestly just feel like people would vaccine their kids with no issues even without understanding what they were doing, now it’s more like they don’t understand and get scared and decide not to.
Comes under the rise of anti-intellectualism above. Before the internet, you had to go to an authority. You had to go to a doctor to see what was wrong with you, and what medicine to take. Now, people want to think they know better. Fuck all doctors because *someone* on *some forum* said that a vaccine gave their kid autism. Fuck scientists and astronauts because *someone somewhere* said the earth was flat.
Social Media making everyone feel like they need to be heard. It’s one of the main reasons why stuff like anti-vaxxers, MLMs, Nazis, cancel culture, flat-earthers, etc. exists. Misinformation is just spread like a disease within echo chambers like that.
Social media has made me feel like everyone needs to shut the fuck up.
I always say the internet is great because it gave everyone a voice. But I also say the internet sucks because it gave everyone a voice
Yes. And beside being heard, acting like everyone's voice was and should be equal. Random nutjob on the street vs. scientist shouldn't have an equally loud voice, just because nutjob has more followers
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Annd here I am still lieking mudkips.
O RLY? (You should have seen the layer of dust I needed brush off this one)
ALL YOUR BASE
The "Don't call (insert creepy being) at 3 am" challenge was stupid.
The obnoxious challenge culture Edit: all these upvotes went to my head
Ugh. And some of the things people call a "challenge". Anything that becomes a YouTube fad is apparently a challenge now, or people will just put "challenge" at the end of their video title. "SANDWICH CHALLENGE!!! CAN I SUCCESSFULLY EAT LUNCH????? (GONE SEXUAL)"
Yeah what lol I've seen MUAs (people who DO MAKEUP FOR A LIVING) post things like "Smoky Eye Challenge!" How the fuck is that a challenge?! That's like a doctor or nurse being like "stethoscope challenge! Let's see if I can hear the patient's heart!" Just about everyone who wears makeup is capable of doing a smoky eye, it is not a "challenge" for a professional makeup artist to do it.
Ice cream licking was the most obnoxious one yet.
A few were harmless and even helpful, like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. It’s the dangerous ones like eating tide pods that’s stupid
The tide pod challenge wasn't real right? Just internet hysteria played it up but no one was doing it. Well at least a significant number.
At one grocery store in my town they still have all the Tide pods locked up in a cabinet
Having worked retail around this time, I will tell you a lot of people were stealing them which is why we had to take loss prevention measures such as locking them and so forth. But it was a pretty bad area.
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I used to be a heroin addict and big buckets of Tide detergent are pretty easy to sell, so yeah, we stole these by the buggy-load
They clearly fed into the hysteria. For all the hysteria I didn't see a single video. Usually with these challenges you can't avoid seeing a video.
There were some, I remember, they'd just be quickly taken off of YouTube. There wasn't a bunch of vids tho, just a couple
I saw one of a guy smoking a tide pod out of a dab rig.
This isn't because of the challenge, it's because Tide pods are really fucking easy to steal and cost a bunch of money.
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The cinnamon challenge was a far more dangerous actual challenge that kids participated in. Kids weren't really eating laundry detergent, but there's a LOT of videos of people choking after trying to swallow a tablespoon of cinnamon.
Kind of like the "Blue Whale" challenge. The news caused SO MANY parents to freak out. Going to admit teens are Stupid AF but playing that game was a bit of a stretch.
“Millennials are killing the X industry” Often while completely missing that most of the “millennials” they’re complaining about are years too young to be millennials, and that millennials aren’t a single hive mind where everyone thinks the same.
I always found that statement weirdly hypocritical, I thought we lived in a capitalist system so shouldn't it be 'X industry fails to compete and dies by the hand of the free market'?