I did one of those Hey girls, did you know that um memes (and continued to make them) back in the day. Netted me niche internet micro celebrity status. I won’t tell you which one, though.
I made a meme too! It’s “If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”
It’s a comment I made on a Louis Rossmann video!
I also did “capitalism doesn’t return the shopping cart”.
I dunno how much I’m about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I’d used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.
Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that’s just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.
Voting in the US with the current system and subsequent duopoly.
You can contribute toward making the duopoly lean one way or the other based on consistent voting. Or you can stop votiing and thereby disenfranchising yourself.
If project 2025 gets implemented, he won’t have to worry about voting again anytime soon.
John Oliver made a funny and stomach-churning video on it, which was probably one of the most horrifying videos I think I’ve seen. Reminds me of some of the diseases that cause such horrible organ damage, even if you survive the disease, your organs are permanently ruined. The MILF manor parts were also…interesting, lol.
I’m exercising my right not to vote. That’s as much of a liberty as voting. Being disenfranchised is voting in a system that doesn’t work for you.
Whoa! Watch out everybody! We got a badass over here!
Edgy McEdgerson is checking in!
Voting and not voting in this system are the same decision. Either way you’re pissing somebody off and either way you don’t get what you want. Imagine thinking not voting is rebellious rather than the default. You should want and be empowered to vote for somebody, not against.
I have to admit, I did buy a nice fidget spinner. ;)
I was so furious that my fidget spinner started to graze insanely after 3 days. I liked that trend ngl.
I did not buy any, but got one as a gift. Was embarrassed to use it in public, but genuinely enjoyed. All because since earlier than I can remember, I require keeping my hands busy with something.
I had 6, and today I have 0. Yep, I lost all my fidget spinners.
Got one after the craze had died down and they’re surprisingly fun - just a good quality desk toy
Mid-20s today? Yeah. Ok.
In your 40s today? Welp…
I’m 40+ and still love spinners :)
It still makes a great cat toy!
Ok, that I haven’t considered. Old unsold cat toys should be repackaged as cat toys!
The new packaging could say “Remember these stupid things? Well cats still LOVE them! Watch your cat lose their fucking mind! It’s hilarious seeing their little fur brains try to comprehend these simple toys!”
I’d buy a spinner toy like that. Planking however was ALWAYS stupid, and everyone who did it should feel shame.
I recently bought a nice hand machined metal one. It helps me focus when doing email
I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!
In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.
I wear parachute pants when I can, although I usually just wear a sarong, as those are even more comfortable than pants.
Remember that nirvana came from a rural area.
As a child, [bootleg] Tamagotchi?
Buying a new (or used) phone every 1-2 years?
Nowadays, they are boring.Nowadays, they are boring.
Fr, the foldy phones have been the biggest good innovation in like a decade. Unfortunately, now I’m stuck, I’ve had a taste and I can’t go back now. It’s like moving up to multiple monitors and then trying to go back to a single monitor setup after awhile
I taught middle school when those came out, would confiscate them, then feel bad and feed them during the day so I didn’t kill them before school let out and they could be returned to their owners.
This is so wholesome <3
i dunno, beanie babies?
Pump-up sneakers
Better run better run
Faster than my bullet
(Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People)
Bitcoin. I mined some (might’ve even been on my CPU at the time) back when it was easy to mine it. Not a ton, but enough that now I have to explain that despite thinking blockchain is just straight up a scam, I do have some Bitcoin in a wallet on my hard drive somewhere. (That I’ve never done anything with.)
Can you get to that wallet? A Bitcoin is worth $60k now.
Yup. I can. I have around 1/20 of a Bitcoin, so the amount I have should be worth about $3,000 USD (unless the price has crashed since I started writing this post. 😈)
Cashing it in would make me feel dirty. It’s basically just handing the bag to the next bagholder. (Though, I’m not really a baholder per se. I’m not really invested to speak of. The only investment I made to get this Bitcoin is to leave my computer on for like a month or less.) Feeding the ponzi monster, as it were.
But then again, it’s $3,000.
As much as I hate myself for admitting it, the possibility that the price will climb a little higher is probably part of why I didn’t trade it for real money back in late 2021 when the price of a Bitcoin was so high.
But, yeah, you’re probably right I should just sell it. Maybe I’ll just make whoever I sell it to promise they’re not giving me next month’s rent or their kids’ college fund. Lol.
You could donate it to some financial literacy nonprofit if you want to be rid of it without feeling dirty.
I bought $270 worth that is now worth about $1,700. I have no idea what to do with it.
If it’s any consolation, I just use bitcoin to convert to Monero to buy drugs. So in a way there is an actual use for it 😊
It’s crazy how this amount could actually change my life right now. At some point I did also have 1BTC but decided to gamble it all away because I thought it would never have any actual value so it didn’t matter.
POGs. I don’t think anything is ever going to out stupid POGs
You shut your pretty whore mouth!!!
POG’s were, and always be, awesome!
At least they were cheap enough that every kid could feel like a pogillianaire.
I had so many from just eating chips as a kid in Mexico. They still make em, my ex brought me a couple dragon ball super ones from when she went on vacation to Mexico to cheat on me.
Got rid of a bad relationship and got some pogs. Sounds pretty adequate to me.
It was a fair trade in hindsight lul. Got me a lovely fiancee now and I’m much happier.
My face reading this 😐😀😰
NFTs are digital POGs with no slammer to gamble them with. That’s way, way more stupid.
I still don’t even know where they came from or why they existed but I did have a big tube of them and a nice brass slammer. Clearly I needed to fit in with my older brothers and that’s basically all I know about them.
They came from Hawaii, milk bottles or containers of some kind had the cardboard circle under the cap, and kid’s made up this game with them at the breakfast table
Hot metal + arm = Smiley Face
those old Harlem Shake videos from 2013… and I was in two of em
Here’s a funny one: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zecxd
An anti-Harlem shake Harlem shake video.
Wow, Dailymotion still exists! And they redesigned their website!
Found the HR woman from 2013 who thought she was being cool…or possibly someone employed by a minor league hockey team.
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Tight-rolled jeans with rolled-down socks.
Also, aforementioned backwards clothes - even trained my Grandma to reply “jump, jump?” 😁Oh I remember that one! All over middle and high school for me.
Tight rolled jeans were a fad? (Looks down at his tight rolled pants)
Remember those silly rubber “Armstrong” wristbands? I had a million different ones and wore about 20 on each wrist to school and everywhere else. Yeah, I was pretty goddamn cool. 😎
Wearing super preppy clothes to school/college. I was mistaken for a teacher in 11th grade. In college, I once wore a pencil skirt, black tights, white sweater, and high heels… to a regular Tuesday afternoon class, just because I wanted to.
That college outfit doesn’t sound weird to me at all, but I went to college in Portland, so maybe I’m used to weird.
Doing something because you wanted to makes you way more grown up than the clothes.
Aw, thank you. I appreciate it but let’s be real: I know it was stupid. Like, I thought that dressing smart means I’m smart. I did enjoy the feeling of being put together, but wearing my heavy backpack with heels was atrociously stupid.
You looked nice and took pride in yourself. You should remember this time fondly.
I love this and wish people would still get more dressed up to do random stuff.
If I had time and money I would invent dressy clothes that are practical, long-lasting and comfortable!
The problem was that I adopted the trend without thinking about my poor college student lifestyle (LOTS of bus-metro-walk and carrying heavy books). By the end of that day, the tights had runs, the heels were dirty and scuffed, and my feet were killing me. I looked and felt like crap.
Haha- it’s always the shoes, isn’t it? I walk a lot and it’s really driven my footwear choices over the years. There is little crossover between the truly comfortable (hello, plantar fasciitis) and fancy stylish.
Though back in the day I would wear heels and tights for my retail jobs. Definitely helped me sell more!
