17 Trends From A Decade Ago You Totally Forgot About And Never Really Missed
Recently, Reddit user u/nordical2 asked this question: "What was a huge trend 10 years ago that feels totally forgotten now?" Here are some of the top-voted responses of trends from 10+ years ago that really fizzled out:
1."The great 'Dress' debate"
2."The cup song, aka stacking cups to Anna Kendrick's "When I'm Gone" remix from Pitch Perfect."
"My middle school assembly had so many girls try out with that song that they just lumped them all together. It ended up being like nine girls sitting on the stage doing their rendition of the fucking cup song."
3."The Harlem Shake (the meme, not the dance)."
4."Everyone talking about bacon 24/7."
"Everyone put sickly sweet maple bacon flavoring in everything, and it really got old very quickly."
5."Those 'Keep calm and...' photos."
"There was so much tchotchke crap and tin signs made with that slogan. I’m sure it all sits in landfills."
6."Put a bird on it"
7."Frozen yogurt shops."
"'There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.' —Michael, The Good Place."
8."Flash mobs."
"I walked out of a Starbucks with the worst hangover I had in my life one morning, and everyone on the street was standing frozen. I remember one guy balanced on a bike. I had never heard of a flashmob and thought I had died."
9."Sillybandz."
"Silly bands, those rubber bands kids wore as bracelets but were shaped like rocket ships and animals and things like that. Pretty cute, actually."
10."The Ice Bucket Challenge."
"Astonishingly, the Ice Bucket Challenge actually made a difference. It raised over 117 million dollars for ALS research, funding some trials that show promise in eradicating the disease. (My aunt has ALS, so I followed this pretty closely.)"
11."Gangnam Style."
"I'm a broken record about this, but I think it's hilarious that the day 'Gangnam Style' broke one million views was December 21, 2012: the day the Mayan calendar ended, and there were conspiracy theories about the world ending that day. In some ways, maybe it did."
12.Planking
"Planking is one of those things where... hey, you either get it or you don’t. And I don’t. But I am so excited to be a part of it!"
13."Pineapples on literally everything."
"Your decor. Your jewellery. Your clothes."
14."Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to know.'
"That video still bangs though."
15."Checking in on FourSquare."
"A customer once barked at me, 'I’m the mayor of this store on FourSquare,' and I told her I had no idea what that meant."
16."YouTube videos without sponsored segments"
17.And finally, "Buying a house."
Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
