I taught my baby cousin to say that! She had it perfected when she was a little over a year old. Apparently, she got some weird looks when she greeted an old lady like that in a restaurant, but my uncle thought it was hilarious.
There used to be parts of town where there would literally 1,000+ Plus people walking around playing pokemon, and like half of them didn’t even know a Pokémon besides pickachu before it. Kids. Old people. 75 year old couples, drug addicts, Hugh school kids. Everyone was out just in giant mobs playing pokemon. And honestly there was a surprisingly low amount of fights for having that many people on one area.
Atlas Obscura made a pretty cool map of all the 2016 killer clown sightings in the US. UIt was a damn crazy time, from harambe to killer clowns to Pokemon GO.
Yo-yos were all the rage for like a year in the 90s. Schools had assemblies with yo-yo performers who sold the kids yo-yos afterwards. I checked with a couple friends to confirm this wasn’t only my school.
Lmao the 90’s were something else, Yo yos were banned at my elementary school a few weeks after this. Too many kids were trying to do around the world shit and they said it was dangerous.
Prank Answers are getting big, filming the shit you tell Telemarketers and seeing how long you can keep them on the line believing you are Hugh Janus or Phil McCracken.
Back in highschool, so like in 98, we would skip school, and have prank contests. Rules were always that a stereotypical prank would be decided, and you'd receive points if you made it to the punchline. Nothing beat pretending to be a surveyor finding out about local appliance ownership, just to bust out 'and I just want to confirm the refrigerator you own is running'. People would die laughing when they realized the 10 minutes of cataloguing all their toaster ovens and hair dryers were for naught.
Relatedly: the lead up called “project ginger” and it was going to “change how cities are designed.” Every brainy person on the internet invested some brain cells to project ginger
These were so strange. Toys R Us in NYC had one once where a mass amount of people gathered around the giant T-Rex robot and just screamed in unison. Toys r us, who was struggling to stay in business, had no idea what to do or what it meant.
I was pretty naive to fidget spinners then I visited Istanbul in 2017 and all these street vendors were trying to sell them and I was just like, “wtf are those, Turkey is weird”
Pooping in urinals. That was all the rage back in the early 90s. It seemed like every public restroom you went in had a dookie Eiffel Tower staring you in the eye as you came in, like a senile Walmart greeter. Good times.
Ummmm ever since I met my husband everywhere we go everyday he gets called “boss” by EVERYONE. I’m not even exaggerating. I literally mean everywhere we go. he just gives off those boss vibes and he is a boss. I always make fun of him when we walk away I’m like not again boss it’s EVERY. single. time! 😂 so far I haven’t heard anyone call him anything else now that I think about it
Buying trendy belt buckles for your belts. You would get them at mall kiosks in the 2000’s and it would usually be something like the Jordan logo or brass knuckles
I think I still have my favorite one somewhere. Rainbow with white paint splats for studs on the belt, and then the bomb ammo guy from Mario is the buckle.
When all these "influencers" and celebs were doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. They should bring back something similar on a yearly basis, a random challenge that they all start doing and make it viral, in order to specifically raise money for good causes.
I didn't understand how the ALS ice bucket challenge worked. It was to raise money, but how ? As a spectator of a challengee, was I supposed to donate so they would do it ? Was someone required to do it if challenged, unless they made a donation ? Or did they still have to get wet even if they made a donation ?
Gel pens, mondos,side pony tales, this stretchy fabric belts over jeans that made you look like you were wearing a long singlet, pointed shoes, hipster jeans, glitter jeans…
They were called ring-back tones. I had “People Are Strange” by The Doors. My little brother would get drunk and call my phone to hear it, and get mad when I had the audacity to answer my phone.
Removing and stretching the plastic seal inside of the cap of a bottle so it would fit around your wrist. Then not-so-inconspicuously trying to pursude your crush of the opposite gender to break the plastic off your wrist.
I remember if someone could perfectly peel a label off a beer bottle at a bar, and they gave it to someone, everyone around would somehow all know to say "They gave you a label! Now you gotta go down on them!"
How about the technical support staff that was also right alongside them in the ICU, building nice platforms so the physicians and nurses could speak face to face to the patients without compromising their own health?
In a meeting at my old job with six figure salary co workers someone mentioned the applause, and I said if you want to really support folks you should donate time or money. Got real quiet in the meeting, then.
maybe not in popular culture, but I remember the 1979 book Godel, Escher, Bach being a huge sensation among a certain set of people, but it seems like almost none of them remember that now
Waaaaaazzzzzzzuuuuuuuppppppppppppppppppppp!!!!!!
I have a couple friends who I still answer the phone that way for
I taught my baby cousin to say that! She had it perfected when she was a little over a year old. Apparently, she got some weird looks when she greeted an old lady like that in a restaurant, but my uncle thought it was hilarious.
I will always remember this as Martin’s radio show catchphrase.
Needs to come back, I still say it sometimes.
Chillin, killin.
Great, now I have to forget about it again.
What game are YOU watching?
bottle flipping. And flossing, but I think it was forgotten intentionally
Pretty sure kids still floss because Fortnite
Bottle flip going strong
Mannequin challenge, it used to be huge.
That’s actually going round on TikTok again 😂
Also, planking.
Silly band bracelets
they got banned at my school LOL
Came here to mention this one.
People rushing around public places chasing Pokemon on their phones or something
There used to be parts of town where there would literally 1,000+ Plus people walking around playing pokemon, and like half of them didn’t even know a Pokémon besides pickachu before it. Kids. Old people. 75 year old couples, drug addicts, Hugh school kids. Everyone was out just in giant mobs playing pokemon. And honestly there was a surprisingly low amount of fights for having that many people on one area.
Hair feathers came in hot for a minute
"What did the fox say?"-
Planking. That was so oddly mainstream, and somehow became dangerous
True. The act itself shouldn't have been dangerous, but humans always find a way.
That's the era where I first became too embarrassed for an alien invasion.
Then Owling.
Creepy clowns in the woods...like 2016? What the fuck was that?
Atlas Obscura made a pretty cool map of all the 2016 killer clown sightings in the US. UIt was a damn crazy time, from harambe to killer clowns to Pokemon GO.
I was bored. Cut me some slack.
I think it was just a marketing ploy for the new movie "IT". It just got a little out of hand 🤔
Why are there so few clowns in media that are actually funny and jolly?
Viral marketing for IT
I miss Clown Hunting season, it really should be year round as they are an invasive species that should be eliminated.
Honestly I'm not convinced 2016 wasn't a trend itself
I forgot about that.
2016 was a weird year…
Supposedly this is the reason McDonald's dropped Ronald.
It was because of the upcoming release of "IT Chapter 1" at the time but most people stopped after people started getting shot
We seriously do not discuss how wild 2016 truly was.
Yo-yos were all the rage for like a year in the 90s. Schools had assemblies with yo-yo performers who sold the kids yo-yos afterwards. I checked with a couple friends to confirm this wasn’t only my school.
Lmao the 90’s were something else, Yo yos were banned at my elementary school a few weeks after this. Too many kids were trying to do around the world shit and they said it was dangerous.
SIMPSONS DID IT!!!
Remember getting a Yo-Mega X-Brain? Still one of the coolest things.
They were a rage for a year in the 60's too.
Remember when Reddit was gonna free Hong Kong?
And then do it again by boycotting blizzard.
Covid beat that things face into a bloody pulp.
I guess the Chinese owners had other plans.
Pineapple apple pen 🖊🍍🍎
Pen pineapple apple pen... now I have to watch the video I hate you lol
WHY DID YOU FEEL THE NEED TO REMIND US?!! NOW IT IS STUCK IN MY HEAD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA
Tamagotchi
Came here to say this. And Nano Pets. ‘97-‘98ish.
Tech Decks
Still crazy big in the 12 year old boy set
Harlem Shake!
I worked at a call center when that was popular.
Feb. 2013 was wild
That lil bow wow dance from the 90s?
Eating tide pods
Eating laundry detergent tended to be rather "self-correcting"
Yeah.. Kinda miss that one, helped a lot to filter out complete idiots from society
“Keep calm and ______”
Nope, this never went away, but god I wish it would
Keep calm and suck my titties!
People calling each other "Bitches." Like from 2011-2013 it was considered so funny for someone to just say "Whadup Bitchezzz"
A simpler time
and biotch
Prank calls. No more lands lines
Prank Answers are getting big, filming the shit you tell Telemarketers and seeing how long you can keep them on the line believing you are Hugh Janus or Phil McCracken.
I miss prank calls being big in the 2000’s, fun times
I still get those at work, but kids these days don’t know how to do it right. There’s never a punchline, just weird open-ended questions.
Those just got replaced by scam calls
Back in highschool, so like in 98, we would skip school, and have prank contests. Rules were always that a stereotypical prank would be decided, and you'd receive points if you made it to the punchline. Nothing beat pretending to be a surveyor finding out about local appliance ownership, just to bust out 'and I just want to confirm the refrigerator you own is running'. People would die laughing when they realized the 10 minutes of cataloguing all their toaster ovens and hair dryers were for naught.
Beanie Babies
... and here's the obligatory
Segway. The CEO of the company drove one off a cliff.
The best part is when Segway sued a Chinese company for making Segway copies...the Chinese company just bought Segway and dropped the lawsuit
Relatedly: the lead up called “project ginger” and it was going to “change how cities are designed.” Every brainy person on the internet invested some brain cells to project ginger
Tebowing
Throw in a Smirnoff Ice for good measure.
Flash mobs
These days you will have the police show up thinking it's a riot or illegal protest.
These were so strange. Toys R Us in NYC had one once where a mass amount of people gathered around the giant T-Rex robot and just screamed in unison. Toys r us, who was struggling to stay in business, had no idea what to do or what it meant.
I like how they had one in the TV show "The Affair". I've never seen one in real life and wish I had.
Kony 2012
My brother and I talked about this recently. He's several years younger so his peers were super into it, while my friends were more suspicious.
Going to blockbusters on Friday night to get movies for the weekend
We were quite poor so occasionally as a special treat we would go to the local video store and rent a vcr for the weekend and a few videos.
Blockbuster: Putting mom-and-pop video rental stores out of business since before Netflix.
Spelling out 58008 on your calculator and turning it upside down. I know, I'm old.
That's never been forgotten!
55378008
Discman antiskip protection kept getting longer and longer.
Still useless if the disc was scratched (the disk was always scratched)
Yellow livestrong bracelets
Fidget Spinners
Who knew something marketed towards people with shirt attention spans would fade so quickly?
I was pretty naive to fidget spinners then I visited Istanbul in 2017 and all these street vendors were trying to sell them and I was just like, “wtf are those, Turkey is weird”
All the rage in 2017, and then vanished.
Anyone with ADHD has found fidget spinners helpful?
Pooping in urinals. That was all the rage back in the early 90s. It seemed like every public restroom you went in had a dookie Eiffel Tower staring you in the eye as you came in, like a senile Walmart greeter. Good times.
I’m glad I’m a girl.
Bacon flavored everything and people talking about how great bacon is.
I <3 boobies
Apparently those bracelets are making a come back?
Macarena
Dabbing.
I still dab my last wing!
Cinnamon challenge
Hanging witches
Burning witches
Pokémon Go.
Slime and flossing
Crackle nail polish. Why did we do that.
Calling people "boss"
Still very much a thing in the uk.
You haven’t been to the UK I see
Still alive and well in the midwest.
And then calling that person "employee"
Ummmm ever since I met my husband everywhere we go everyday he gets called “boss” by EVERYONE. I’m not even exaggerating. I literally mean everywhere we go. he just gives off those boss vibes and he is a boss. I always make fun of him when we walk away I’m like not again boss it’s EVERY. single. time! 😂 so far I haven’t heard anyone call him anything else now that I think about it
I hear it in the PNW
Every male convenience store worker in the Midwest calls me boss.
"Gangnam Style"
It’s currently being used a lot as part of a Tiktok trend where people tell really tragic facts about themselves lol
Buying trendy belt buckles for your belts. You would get them at mall kiosks in the 2000’s and it would usually be something like the Jordan logo or brass knuckles
I think I still have my favorite one somewhere. Rainbow with white paint splats for studs on the belt, and then the bomb ammo guy from Mario is the buckle.
Keep calm and ____ shirts
Those fucking t shirts with different coloured pockets
When all these "influencers" and celebs were doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. They should bring back something similar on a yearly basis, a random challenge that they all start doing and make it viral, in order to specifically raise money for good causes.
I didn't understand how the ALS ice bucket challenge worked. It was to raise money, but how ? As a spectator of a challengee, was I supposed to donate so they would do it ? Was someone required to do it if challenged, unless they made a donation ? Or did they still have to get wet even if they made a donation ?
Spinning rims
Don't forget to turn on your glow kit.
Companies thinking of their employees as valuable assets instead of dangerous liabilities.
keep calm and '...' which was just terrible
Technically no one remembers the true answer to this question.
That one weird summer of 2016 where clowns randomly appeared out of nowhere and creeped us all out.
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Lately it seems major tv shows take over the public consciousness then quickly lose all relevance. Tiger King. Squid Game.
Remember about a year ago when everyone was talking about Birdgerton? Season two just came out and I’ve hardly seen anything about it.
The people's didn't forget the Game of Thrones. They chose to ignore it and then it disappeared.
That’s really specifically whatever is trending and people are binge watching on Netflix.
Mr. Hankey 💩
hammer pants
Pogs
not to be confused with PAWGs
They're back, in ALF form!
Spiked bangs.
LiveStrong bracelets
Goatse
Y2K compliant
Water beds. Watching media from the ‘80s and you’d think they were in every home.
Mustaches on everything
Pet rocks.
Dressing up as a killer clown to scare people
Ape Nfts
Ice bucket challenge
Gangnam style.
Wearing your hat backwards and cocked to the side.
Rhythm Sticks
Gel pens, mondos,side pony tales, this stretchy fabric belts over jeans that made you look like you were wearing a long singlet, pointed shoes, hipster jeans, glitter jeans…
Mannequin challenge - that was very weird to be fair
Dubstep
Vine
Does anyone remember laughter ?
It makes me wonder...
Harlem shake
The various social media/TikTok "challenges."
Kendama
Caller tunes for when someone else called you and had to listen to a song of your choice while you ignored them.
They were called ring-back tones. I had “People Are Strange” by The Doors. My little brother would get drunk and call my phone to hear it, and get mad when I had the audacity to answer my phone.
The plan to invade Area 51
Pogs
“Do the jerk” jerking
Jean jackets. Also, those big, colorful plastic combs with the handle that stuck out of your back pocket in the 70s.
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"The Game"
Removing and stretching the plastic seal inside of the cap of a bottle so it would fit around your wrist. Then not-so-inconspicuously trying to pursude your crush of the opposite gender to break the plastic off your wrist.
I remember if someone could perfectly peel a label off a beer bottle at a bar, and they gave it to someone, everyone around would somehow all know to say "They gave you a label! Now you gotta go down on them!"
Remember in like 2008 when Scene Kids were everywhere?
I miss the applauding for the doctors and nurses (aka real life heroes) that we had at the beginning of the pandemic.
How about the technical support staff that was also right alongside them in the ICU, building nice platforms so the physicians and nurses could speak face to face to the patients without compromising their own health?
In a meeting at my old job with six figure salary co workers someone mentioned the applause, and I said if you want to really support folks you should donate time or money. Got real quiet in the meeting, then.
They certainly took those “heroes work here” signs down in short order huh?
Squid Game
maybe not in popular culture, but I remember the 1979 book Godel, Escher, Bach being a huge sensation among a certain set of people, but it seems like almost none of them remember that now
Fidget spinners
Fanny packs
Planking
Harlem shake
Ed-Hardy Shirts
4square check-in badges
The Annoying Orange.
I'm hoping
Social distancing
Tax free overtime. If i should be able to live on a 40 hour paycheck, so should the government.