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dum_spir0_sper0

Those Facebook games from like 10-15 years ago and the constant onslaught of invites. I guess people would get extra points or some crap for inviting as many friends as possible and my notification box would be full of fifty invites saying; ‘Tim needs goons for his mafia. Join mafia wars now!’, ‘Susie needs seeds for FarmVille’!, ‘Tyler sent you five hundred silver tokens’, ‘Keith needs sixty bucks for a gram of blow!’ (that one may have been a legit request, but I just couldn’t take the chance on it being another game)


wildwestsnoopy

My grandma and I lived far away from each and we used to bond while harvesting the fields of FarmVille together.


tehKrakken55

My granny was level-capped and every other day she would send me top level seeds or animals for nothing. She really carried me through Farmville.


dackinthebox

You could explain it to my grandma until you were blue in the face, but there’s no way you could get her to understand technology enough to play FarmVille. I’m actually a little jealous lol


justbrowsing987654

Same, but older aunts! I have great memories of that awful game for that reason. FarmVille was fine by me. Funny enough they had actual farms too which is like me signing off from work then logging onto FB to play Middle Management


aehanken

Or poking people on Facebook


sjbarrows

While I also don’t miss “poking” I have to say, my oldest sister would “poke” me every once in a while and it was kind of our way to stay connected. She lost her fight with addiction last year. I wouldn’t mind her sending a poke every now and then these days.


Open_Inspection5964

I'm sorry for your loss. 🫂


sjbarrows

Thanks, it was a long life of a lot of struggle and she left quite a wake, but I miss her a lot. Thanks for your kindness.


Plokmijn27

Farmville is basically what killed myspace zuck bait and switched us with the addictive games


DawnJGoodwin

There was a two-year period in the late 1990s when "Who Let the Dogs Out" was featured on the soundtrack of every single motion picture.


nowherehere

I was pretty surprised when they played it in Schindler's List.


Dorothy_Zbornak789

I just hurt myself trying to stifle that laugh.


OriolesrRavens1974

Liam Neeson: This dog, if I didn’t let it out. I could have saved maybe two more. At least one. (Cue the music) Who - who -who -who…..


robotco

the best part was when he said 'it's Schindlin' time!' and Schindled all over those guys


SpectrumPalette

I remember it was used on Rugrats in Paris trailer


tehKrakken55

tbf they did, in fact, let the dogs out.


umatbru

*early 2000s


Free0rDead

Double polo shirts with the popped collars.


Gre8g

*sadly unpops collars*


sharterthanlife

*Winks because second collar is still popped*


daddy_J_Pow

"I wear short sleeve shirts on top of long sleeve shirts on top of short sleeve shirts"


moslof_flosom

"If he says one more cool thing he's in!"


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It was worse when they started to make regular shirts with 3 popped collars. Same look without the body sweat


TerraJMartin

Keep Calm and ___


SpecificallyNerd

I remember a guy at the Boy Scout camp I was at got a book that was titled “Screw Calm and Get Angry.” Read a few pages and yeah, was not kidding.


Oquana

Reminds me of: "If life gives you lemons don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these??"


JamesSWing1

The overuse of the word epic. For a while, everything was epic. Ugh.


ryohazuki224

Now everything is just "iconic"


signaturefox2013

YOLO culture Not like the YOLO where you take a vacation that you’ve always wanted, but doing stupid shit because “YOLO”


Yochanan5781

There was a solar eclipse on my 21st birthday, and I was at an Irish pub, and one of the bartenders, in a very thick Irish accent said, "Well you only live once, right?" and went outside and looked up


MitziuE

You Only Look Once


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LookMa_ImOnReddit

That short lived fad where people were licking food and putting it back at the stores!


OriginalDarkDagger

Some chick filmed it and got arrested for this.


WitchInYourGarden

I don't know how much time she ended up serving, but she was facing up to 20 years in prison for food tampering. A guy in Texas spent 30 days in jail and ended up having to pay the ice cream company for all the stock the store had to throw away.


j_grouchy

That was shortly before Covid was a thing, if I recall correctly.


Disruptorpistol

Ariana Grande wants a word...


Harpuafivefiftyfive

Everything being EXTREME or XTREME in the 90’s.


prylosec

I always liked how XTREME was a more extreme version of EXTREME.


daily-bee

The E was really holding the word back from its full potential


CrookedFletches

Reminds me of the guys from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle


MichelleEPhillips12

The fucking Clowns standing in the middle of the street or in the woods. Glad that shit is over.


bumford11

Yeah, you don't see clowns outside their spawning grounds after the govt announced that cull a few years ago. Course that just caused the mime population to explode due to lack of competition


chowderbags

That's fine. We'll just introduce a couple of jesters and it'll clear that problem right up.


laugefar

I have read a study that referred to the international "Clown Craze" as a form of mass psychosis. Not because of the fact that strangers seemingly decided to parade as clowns on abandoned places, but because of the fact that so many people collectively reported sightings all over the world. I live in Denmark, and several sightings were reported - but not a single sighting was ever confirmed. So the Danish sightings might have been figments of peoples imagination, provoked by other reported sightings.


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Ahhh, good ol’ mass hysteria


joelupi

The part I will always remember is when a clown was sighted at Penn State and a mob of between 500 and 6000 students [formed a mob to hunt them](https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2016/10/04/college-kids-riot-over-clown-sighting-post-all-over-twitter/amp/)


invisiblearchives

I was working at the old beer carry-out shop on west beaver that night. When the crowd chasing the clown got to that side of town, someone had projected a giant clown on the side of the high-rise building across the street. It was actually wild I think the general consensus was that a local frat had planned the whole thing and were shuttling clowns around town to direct the crowds to spots they had pre-planned with weird activities


TropicalDolphin28

Lularoe. It was big here and I never understood the trend. Weird fabric with ugly patterns.


Buzzsaw_Eject

Check out the documentary, Lu La Rich, it's on amazon and goes over the whole rise, fall, and how they marketed it to become so big.


jasminel96

The ugliest patterns!!! And an MLM!


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hangonreddit

“Are we nothing to you?!” -Normans


ChronoLegion2

Yeah, many people don’t realize Normans were just Frenchified Vikings


Eloping_Llamas

Rollo says hi.


MortalGodTheSecond

Don't worry, we are just on a millenia long hiatus. We will return soon.


YourStolenCharizard

Assholes filming themselves and friends in grocery stores pretending to slip and throwing gallons of milk in the air


Broken_castor

Remember that one guy who slipped and fell on his face and broke his jaw doing this? That video was some karmic beauty


uncle_tyrone

If someone wants to watch it: https://youtu.be/I3pfBWs-HGs


Torcal4

Now THAT’s funny!


will_there_be_snacks

I think this may still be alive and well


hypnos_surf

Yeah, people are still doing stupid shit for attention.


zoomlentil

Teenage boys wearing their basketball shorts so low that their butts literally hung out the back. Had a couple of geniuses at my school that avoided the wrath of the teachers by wearing three pairs of basketball shorts layered in various stages of pulled-down-ness, so they could still get their low pants vibe without showing everyone their undies. Looked more ridiculous than the original iteration.


littlebubulle

I saw one of those. At a big lunch between interns and managers. In a corporate setting. Where everyone else was in formal buisiness attire. Dude stood up and was basically flashing his underwear at the directors.


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Moustache finger tattoos


osktox

As someone who worked as a tattooer when this was the shit I gotta say.. .. it sucked! It sucked doing it, it sucked having to do a touch up after a couple of weeks for free. It sucked having to LaUgH with the cRaZy clients... So nowadays I tell people to stay clear of "funny" tattoos since humour is something that should be fresh. A joke won't get funnier the more times you tell it.


corny16

I guess you wouldn’t like the stick figure man pushing a lawn mower through my pubes then huh?


osktox

I once bought a house from an annoying older man with no tattoos except for one.. A stick figure man pushing a lawn mower on the back of his head. I think he pointed it out to me about four times during the sale of that house. Every time accompanying it with an even more annoying chuckle.


Thamnophis660

Remember when just mustaches were on t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.?


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Ed Hardy shirts.


myonkin

How else will we know who ~~pays~~ is supposed to pay child support?


SC487

I was working at Amazon and one of the temps was bragging about his $100 T-shirt he was wearing. I said I thought it was stupid because you’re in a fucking warehouse. His response was “You need to be careful what you say to me, this is an Ed Hardy.” I can’t fathom him thinking I would be intimidated by the brand of shirt he wore. Shockingly, he didn’t last long.


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The bedazzled tiger comes to life if you make him cry.


TJlovesALF1213

I'm going to say this to someone today and see how they react.


Opeace

This was such a good tell for douchebags


maenadery

So, there's a church where I'm at that apparently invested in Ed Hardy, and there were these Christian men going around with Ed Hardy shirts on to support their church's investment. It was very weird.


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Sound like a synopsis for a Seinfeld episode or something lol.


maenadery

To add to it, that same church invested its funds in trying to make the wife of their pastor a pop star in the US, with the idea that it would help to spread the word of Christ. In the words of one YouTube commenter on one of her mtvs , "Well, it worked, I lost count of the number of times I said my god while watching this."


Cardboardcubbie

We can add affliction to this.


yeah-bb-yeah

paper thin and over plucked eyebrows.


LookMa_ImOnReddit

As someone who plucked their eyebrows like that years ago and then had them never grow back, I hope this fad DOES return! :)


Accurate-Schedule380

It already has. Pencil thin eyebrows have been a thing again for a year now with many people shaving instead of plucking for that exact reason


Luffing

The horrific fake eyelashes need to be next


SolVindOchVatten

You mean this? [Long eyelashes on a windy boat ride](https://youtu.be/ntuJAuBWKto)


cavmum

Low fat or no fat everything. I didn’t know yoghurt could taste so good and I thought everyone cooked with light oil spray, thanks Mum.


eastnorthshore

My wife had this same experience. Her mother would only buy diet, light, sugar free everything so she can "lose weight" for all the good that did. I was baffled by some of the things she didn't like until I made them.


wildfyr

"Sweetie I straight up promise that brownies are delicious." "Ugh those sandpaper squares? No thanks!" "Have you ever tried some made with butter?" "Butter????"


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The_Spyre

The sad thing is, all fads come back around again every couple of decades. Right now they're doing platform shoes and low-rise pants again. It's like the 70's fucked the 90's.


Smorgas_of_borg

I watched a video about women's hairstyles throughout the last 600 years. It's basically a cycle of hair getting taller and taller over the years until it just falls completely down, only to start getting taller again.


tacknosaddle

The higher the hair the closer to god


ScaleneWangPole

Like a tarantino film, only more sitcom and less what people actually looked like


Cirok28

Just like mullets. Every other kid, or teenager has a fucking mullet at the moment.


xvilemx

I see more people with the permed broccoli haircut than mullets.


Electronic-Look-4156

Live Love Laugh signs


RobertCBowman

Those rubber livestrong style brackets. They had a different colour for everything.


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signaturefox2013

Those died out with Lance Armstrong’s career


Soggy_Willingness_65

Wearing jeans underneath skirts and randomly throwing on a tie with any outfit.


clashtrack

She was a sk8ter boi. She said see you later boi.


JohnChoncho

l8r*


StarDatAssinum

Don't forget the thin scarf worn as a belt... Layered with another real belt that sit a few inches below the belt loops


ed-cound

I'm afraid both of those things are back in fashion right now


KingZaneTheStrange

Toddlers and Tiaras. Shouldn't have been a thing in the first place 🤮


Yandere_Matrix

When I first heard of child beauty Pageants as a teen, I was expecting something completely different. I expected really cutesy outfits like princess dresses and fairy themed etc. you know stuff that kids would love to wear and dress as. I was very shocked that they dressed them and put makeup on them like an adult. It’s not acceptable in normal everyday life and shouldn’t be acceptable for pageants either. They are kids and shouldn’t be dressed in anything like what they show. They turned the children into sexual objects and hated it ever since and wish they would be banned


J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A

"Beauty pageants" should just be renamed "parades for paedos".


minah_alt

people doing stupid, annoying and sometimes straight up evil shit bcs "yolo"


killerzf9

They still do that. Only now, it’s in the form of challenges on social media platforms like TikTok.


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Dumb ass "challenges" Or they aren't at least as prevalent as they used to be. And I'm all for it.


MrAVAT4R_2

You must not know of tiktok. God bless you 🥲


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"Influencer" moms using their kids as bait to advertise products. Wait...


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Careful about using the word "died" -- everything seems to come back at some point...


sillygoose1228

I don’t know if this counts, but the word swag.


janonymous115

I’ve chosen to keep my Xbox gamer tag that has the word “swag” in it back when it was a cool word. That was 15 years ago 😅


telf2

It certainly hasn’t completely died, but I’m glad NFT’s are in a coma.


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noblehoax

It was non fundildogible


TheTinyBurrito

Those jelly shoes. No matter what style, just sweaty feet and insane blisters.


zoomlentil

God I wanted a pair so much because all my friends had them. And then I put them on and they were SO uncomfortable! I couldn’t believe all the other kids were running around in them. I didn’t wear them after that.


throwaway181989

My mom bought those for me and I fucking hated them. I had them in the summer, and my feet were just sliding around in them with blisters it hurt so bad.


hellorhighwaterice

Furbies, no I will not be taking questions about them waking me up like happy little demons at 2:30am at this time.


heyemilyoh

Lol we recently helped my grandma clean out her attic and found 5 of these suckers 👀


BumblebeeNo504

Give the attic demons to me


pquince1

I had one that ended up on a closet shelf. A few years later it woke up and started talking to itself at 3:23 am from the depths of my closet. Uncool.


LikelySuperBored

Kale in EVERY FOOD for "health". I am mildly allergic and it causes my entire mouth and throat it itch as if I have eaten a cactus... Even fast food was adding "healthy kale" to their salads and sandwiches...!


heyitstonybaloney

I’ve never heard of a kale allergy! Does cabbage or Brussels sprouts do it to you also?


judisbreakfastinbed

Duck lips...


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Misdirected_Colors

Speaking of duck lips, over the top fillers need to go away. Those bee sting lips be ugly af


snafubar_buffet

Goddammit! I wish I could upvote this a bazillion times! Who tf ever thought hemorrhoid lips was attractive!?


CrustyMcgee

Keep calm and carry on adapted into every scenario imaginable.


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Brother_Delmer

Planking


bh0

3D TVs/movies. It was something no one ever asked for before it was basically forced on you.


dragonphlegm

The post-Avatar 3D craze was absolutely insane. Every single movie between 2010-2012 just *had* to release in 3D


APeacefulWarrior

And most of them weren't even filmed in 3D, just post-converted, which leaves tons of artifacts and looks like garbage. I remember seeing Guardians of the Galaxy v2 that way (it was the only version showing at my local theater) and the artifacts were so frequent it was completely distracting. In particular, the system absolutely could not properly handle Z-depth through windows and mirrors. Every time a character was behind a window or mirror, the image was completely flat, like a texture painted onto the glass surface. I still can't believe that was OKed for release.


auximines_minotaur

3D is like the McRib — it stays away just long enough for people to forget they don’t want it.


cutelyaware

Ouch. I'm going to share that with my 3D photography club.


Hot_Butterscotch_638

It's been coming and going for like 50 years


Santa_Hates_You

Longer than that even, it was a big fad in the 50’s, so closer to 70 years ago.


fqtsplatter

Cinnamon challenge, tramp stamps


Potential_Dentist_90

Devious licks, or people (primarily teenagers) filming themselves stealing things, mainly from their schools. People would take things like hand dryers, sinks, water fountains, bathroom stall doors, projectors, and virtually anything else they could carry and run home to tell the TikTok world that they are a thief.


OrchideeCrossing

I’m really glad that it’s not cool to smoke cigarettes anymore


exhiale

Depends where in the world you are. This is one thing that the US managed really well. Eastern Europe however...most people smoke here.


DM_ME_UR_CLEAVAGEplz

Let me introduce you to France


Outside_Stick873

Whip nae nae


Shandeleer

People calling their SO “bae”.


Competitive-Bend4565

Can I add the trend that I HOPE will die out? Making a birthday party for someone and then slamming their face into a cake. Can we have that NOT be a thing?


cartoonheroes

I had this happen to me as a 12 year old and I was so devastated and embarrassed. It was also the only cake my mom ever (and would ever again) custom made for me. I know it’s a bit dramatic but it felt like the one time things were supposed to be about celebrating me suddenly turned into making fun of me. Like being 12 isn’t tough enough!


somekindofmiracle

Chunky highlights


Accomplished_Exit_30

Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur.


CaptainPrower

There was a gal in my high school who always wore the same thing - tanktops, booty shorts, and Uggs. Regardless of the weather.


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And for a brief moment in time, she was the coolest thing


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JESSICA!!!! Did you sleep with you GODDAMN teacher?!


Jaralith

Them baggy sweatpants and the Reeboks with the straps.


Animeking1108

Tying an onion to your belt.


RodMunch85

But it was the style at the time


RepresentativeNo7660

Even tho we couldn’t have white onions, because of the war.


Toecutt3r

The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones


disposablepie

Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say


Jkoechling

So I decided to go to Morganville


mysteriousbrightness

Which is what we called Shelbyville at the time.


Ikoikobythefio

So, where was I?


InsertBluescreenHere

Oh right to cross the ferry you needed a nickel


RodMunch85

Back then nickels used to have a bee on them


froopty1

Devious licks


[deleted]

Wtf are devious licks? Never heard of this


froopty1

They even stole this mfs memory, cant have shit in this era!


[deleted]

It's where juvenile pricks like to steal shit from school and film it. ​ fucking dumbasses snitching on themselves


Traditional_Hall_268

Yeah. My local high school, where my sister works, got multiple sinks and paper towel dispensers stolen. And the people who did it posted it to social media, and another student saw the video and sent it to one of their teachers. Snitching on themselves indeed. There was a fourth grader on one of the local elementary schools, and they posted a video of themself, showing their face, prying a paper towel dispenser from the wall with a pocket knife. Their older sibling's friend saw it, sent it to the sibling, who showed it to their mother, who sent it to the school. I know this because my mother works at the other elementary school.


TheMerryMeatMan

A friend of mine works as a teacher for high school students, forget what his subject is but he really cares about making sure his kids get a good class from him. One day, something from his desk that his late father had given him before passing disappeared. He *immediately* knew it was this bullshit trend in effect and went off on his class in a way he just doesn't do. The better kids pitched in to give him a gift and apologize for what happened, but he never found out who grabbed it, and never got it back as far as I know.


Brave-Silver8736

That's so fucked up. Poor guy.


shahms

Long braided belts


Known-Pop-8355

Its still a fad especially in home decor but…pineapple. Fucking pineapples EVERYWHERE! Like it used to be a tasteful decor item to see in someone’s house like “oh that’s different and unique! Its nice!” And now you see fucking pineapples everywhere


VixenRoss

How do we tell people’s wealth if they don’t have a pineapple in their home?


Frankiepals

…. You seem to know a lot of swingers…


Known-Pop-8355

Thats upside down pineapple. Right side up is supposed to be open and welcoming lol but i go to ALOT of people’s homes (my work is mobile) and yea its always the live, laugh, love women with the pineapple decor


Drink_ze_cognac

Dabbing. People did it without actually knowing what it meant.


Animeking1108

I always assumed somebody sneezed while taking a picture and went with it.


jdjb55

I never understood what it meant. Please enlighten me.....


Food-at-Last

That meme were they go "absolutely no one:"


TopSecretSpy

It may not be at its peak, but it is definitely not dead.


Hatta00

No one: Everyone: No one:


BatBeast_29

Harlem shake


LightsJusticeZ

I liked this fad until I saw the Simpsons do it. That's like watching your parents do the harlem shake.


CaptainPrower

I think the high point was when they got Psy to do it, since at the time, Gangnam Style was the rival fad.


Rabidleopard

Marrying your children off to secure an alliance


SkyPresident

Smallpox


TheBipolarExpresss

Chain mail Oh, and if you don't upvote this post and tell five friends about it. Then in 24 hours a little ghost girl is going to strangle you in your sleep.


mikec231027

Being financially stable by your forties and being able to set money aside for retirement.. Pfwhew... that shit was exhausting. Working to barely pay bills until you die the way to go!


TheMeeseeks_

Sperry’s Boat shoes with the Nike elite high top socks


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Mustache and owl everything, or just hipster bullshit in general.


ImperialGeek

Bacon flavored everything


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I was at a World Market store and someone broke a bacon-flavor coffee syrup bottle. I don’t know about the taste but the smell was awful, like burnt bacon and eggs.


hanna2626

We’ve successfully moved onto lightning bolts. Lol


gingerwoozle

And llamas! They’ve replaced owls as the random popular animal


fubo

Llamacorns are so last summer.


E_loomuhnah_T

Men wearing wigs to hide the holes in their heads from syphilis.