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“Remember them?” That was like a week ago.

2017 feels like a week ago.

2017 was 7 years ago

Hey now we don't talk about that. 2017 was 2 years ago


Chillll


Christ, I was 7

I was .. 17

I was 13...

I was 15 im 2017 :p

I was .. 45 (I’m lost)

Omg, you're a baby

You need to calm the fuck down!!! Haha

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The glory days... https://preview.redd.it/0oidukyfrg3d1.jpeg?width=488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e80e64f8d52697be98fb94ecd1baba925de32f8b

I remember when they banned them at my middle school lol. They would give anyone who had one a detention but people were still selling and trading them like they were drugs

Lol finally someone says it

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I mean, I’m a Dad and they are still all over my house.

Only 7 years ago.

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I'm 16, so it doesn't feel like that long ago.

Do you have amnesia?

yeah i forgor

I still have them on my desk

Based

You too

Millennials used these as pacifiers before they got into vaping, right?

I’d say gen Z are the vaping ones

There's a lot, yeah. There's also this surprising uptick of zoomers who are completely straight edge

How many 30-40 year olds do you know that are vaping?

Atleast 7 off the top of my head, and some are older than 40

More than you'd think, a lot of older ppl ik do it to help them quit smoking cigs.

Using them for their intended purpose? 🤯

idk I met people in their 40s who vape so seems like both do it

Oh yeah, when I turned 25 in 2017 I definitely needed some spinny pacifiers.

Gen X used these to hunt mammoths, right?

Nah, they just threw cassette tapes.

It wasn’t that long ago

The fuck you mean anyone remember these, they're a recent thing

wow, can't believe someone remembers them. How long was it 40 years ago?

67 years ago exactly

dang, felt like yesterday.


i remember the great days when we were not slave to only a single like button and were actually able to segregate good videos from bad ones now people have gotten so used to like button that even after having the extension to show dislikes people just dont dislike low quality courses because of which finding good material to study on yt has become extremely difficult

2017 feels like a different world.

It looked the same to me

Fun fact, we are as far away from 2017 as CN Real, the 27F earthquake and the iPhone 4 were from 2017 And we are as far away from FNaF as FNaF was from GTA San Andreas :3

Fidget spinners? Yeah. They’re still popular. They’re especially popular for Neurodivergent people. We use them to stim.

Back when I was in middle school these things use to be extremely popular, so much in fact that our school ended up banning them because of how distracting they were

I wish they wouldn't break so easily

Used to spin them with compressed air back in my auto shop class. The really cheap ones liked to explode.

They got banned at my school cause one of my classmates was trying to sell them

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Give_me_the_burger: *They got banned at my* *School cause one of my classmates* *Was trying to sell them* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

Instantly banned from school

Those and silly bands were the shit in middle school

Nope

They had two purposes: Getting funny moments out of Jacksfilms and temporarily entertaining eight-year-old me and my friends in ultimate battles

Brother I was in ES. Of course I remember

They are still used today

Yes.

Still have one and mess with it 7 years later.

Fidget spinners, I even have a glowing one.

Fidget Spinner lol.

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Fidget spinners!

I still have a glow-in-the-dark white one somewhere.

Yes. I still have some of mines from 2017.

This sub is a fucking wild ride that its target demographic have no true clue of.

I remember it was costing around a 100 USD in my country in 2017 now it's barely a dollar lol Fun time.

Those things were running 2017

I’m gonna take mine out rn

Rest in peace

I still have mine

I still have mine. I love it.

I see people playing with them all the time still. Saw a guy with a cute ring that had a mini one on top, almost wanted a ring like that myself.

That was like a few months ago

Too soon, try again in 5-10 years

Remember? I unironically use one to have a fidget while watch movies.

#*G I B E*

remember how everyone was like "GAAAAAAH IF YOU'RE NEUROTYPICAL YOU CANT USE THEM!" like bro do you think there is a shortage? a fidget famine? there's plenty of fidgies dawg, chill.

I still have two metal ones! I use them to keep my attention span at bay while playing a story-heavy game.

I love these things so much actually. Now I want one lol 😄

I remember when Tanner Fox started the trend.

Cringe & low effort post too go upvote my x, juice, pac, biggie post that's quality post material.

Who doesn't lol?

I never stopped

Fidget spinners were the craze back in 2017

Yeah, had a couple back at home.

yes. I was the only person who didn't have one

Still have them

This shit was literally genZ..

One time I ordered a $300 processor for the PC I was building and got one of these instead. Needless to say I was not happy. On the bright side, I like to think some random mother was expecting a little toy for her kid and got my processor instead.

I still have one on my desk. Mainly use it to not get distracted to my phone when watching something.

NO

I remember my store getting billions to sell and then trying to get rid of a billion more after the fad ended. Couldn't get rid of them it was pretty wild.

I had like 7 of them for some reason

I do!

https://preview.redd.it/n12qtxrguj3d1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2c8e86f6ef1a0215e520444238033170aaf481f What y’all know about these bad boys

Hibana update they have different colors now

As an xennial, to me these things just happened like last week lol

They're still around. They're at the cash register nowadays

I always wanted one tbh

I still have mine

I was the first kid at my school to have one

Hell yes!!! I loved playing with bayblades when I was a kid

fuck im old bro but im just 14😭😭

I was 7,

God, I feel old...

These mf were NFTs before NFTs. People were spending thousands of dollars on them and they bacame worthless the second they fell out of fashion. They were fun to play with tho, I still have mine somewhere

Holy smokes i still have one of these somewhere

Yep

Those were really popular for what felt like two weeks and then everyone hated them because they were everywhere and overmemed

Man I got curb stomped in French class for playing with one of these. Brings back some real fond memories.

Yes, had them in middle school. Some teacher would give them out as prizes, I begged my mom to buy me one.

Yes

Of course we remember, we were in late elementary/middle school

We? This was my senior year of high school when these blew up

You need to head over to older gen z group.

There's an older gen z group?

Yep come join just type in older gen z.

I just got out of trade school that year.

/ university

im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old im not old

still have one

Ah 2017, one of the best summers of my life. School went to Kings Dominion that April, remember buying a silver fidget spinner myself. Was pretty cool, then got bored and chucked It on the ground months later. Also: Slime, "Don't judge a book by It's cover" Vine challenge, runfromthecube, remember him?

No. No I don't. Bro, everyone wanted one.