Low-rise jeans, owl necklaces, eating cinnamon by the spoonful, or laying face down in all sorts of random places… These are just some of the popular trends of the past (thankfully). Though in general, trends seem to be ever present – if one foolish fad becomes a thing of the past, you can be sure there’s another one—likely even more foolish—coming.
Bearing this in mind, it’s no surprise that people have taken part in all sorts of crazes over the years. Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community have discussed such crazes, opening up after one user asked them about the dumbest fads they ever participated in. If you’re curious to see what their stories entailed, you can browse them on the list below, and see if you took part in any of the same things yourself. If not, you can head straight to the comments to share what popular fads you participated in.
In the early 90s there was a trend going around my area called “eraser burns”
As you can guess, it was rubbing an eraser on your skin, almost always on the back of your hand, until it broke skin. Idk kids do stupid things lmao. I’m thankful everyday that social media wasn’t around when I was growing up
I had long hair as a teenager, and sometime in my early 20’s (the late 80’s, early 90’s), I cut it short but left a rat tail in my hair.
When my wife cut it off (she’s a hairdresser) she kept it. I think it’s still in a box somewhere…
I wore s**y plaid miniskirts over a pair of jeans (this is when flares were in style, to complete the picture). Black babydoll T-shirt, messy bun pigtails, and thick eyeliner, and OMG that goopy glitter gel – glittery hair, glittery eyes, cheeks, just … Why so much glitter, 2004?
In middle school I was caught up in two: “I’m not like other girls” and thinking I was “cool” because older teens/young 20 year old (and sometimes older than 25 but I thought *that* was creepy) men would hit on me. Girl…no…
I worked at a toy store when beanie babies were a thing. I used my employee discount and early access to buy dozens truly believing I would get rich. Still waiting…
When acid washed denim was hot I would wear all my acid washed together…pants…shirt & denim jacket with a popped up collar along with those baggy topped cowboy boots. My sister has several pics of me in all my faded glory which sends her descending into uncontrollable giggles.
As a teenager and young adult I used to be an edgy far right bigot.
It’s funny looking back on that period of my life now that I’m a trans woman.
Hammer pants. Inside out sweaters, sagging my pants way low, overalls with one strap done, super long belts, wallets with super long chains, …
My mother made me get a Dorothy Hamil haircut when I was in 4th grade. It was a d**n bowl cut and I’m a girl and I cried and she got mad because the hair dresser felt bad. Then she dropped me back off at school and the substitute thought I was a boy 😆😆 it was traumatic 🤣
Crypto.
Tried GPU mining for a little while, generated a tiny amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum, dropped out soon after. I still have my crypto wallet and keys but haven’t bothered to decrypt my vast fortune of several few dollars worth of digital currency.
Skinny jeans so tight they gave me body image issues for years to come
Being a silly, screaming 12 YO Beatlemania chick. I still scream a lot…Get Off My Lawn!, but we old bats are allowed to.
Holding your friends neck in the bathroom in highschool until they passed out. This was in the 90s, I don’t even know why… it was just a thing you heard about so did it.
A few years ago I saw it on the news again about how kids are making each other pass out as pranks… i was like pshhh, we did that back when I was your age lol
Sagging my pants. There’s just nothing redeeming about it. Ugly and super impractical. We’d run around with one hand holding up our pants so they didn’t fall off. But the dumbest part was how cool it was and how much of an outsider you were if you didn’t participate.
I had my hair permed into an Afro in the 70s. I’m a white female. I looked ridiculous. Of course, at the time, I thought I was cool with my rake in my hip pocket.
I unironically owned an ICP album in the late 90s.
In middle school it was cool to have longer hair if you were a guy. I’m not talking like fabio length or anything, but where your bangs almost covered your eyes. I couldn’t pull it off because my hair grows really slow. Plus I had some crazy cowlicks that made it look funny.
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