People are social beings, so whatever we say about the absolute independence of our judgments, it cannot be 100% true. After all, we are always influenced by other people, events in the outside world and, of course, various trends.
As they say, big trends are seen from a distance – and what once looked cool and stylish, after a few decades, may seem silly and ridiculous. For example, now I can’t look at some ’00s photos of myself wearing a mullet without a facepalm. But I was on trend at the time! Damn it, it turns out that there are and have been so many stupid, ridiculous and just dangerous trends in the world that netizens now recall and reasonably criticize.
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#1
Child beauty pageants
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#2
Gender reveal parties, especially the ones with fire
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#3
foot binding. that practice in china where they break and bind young girls’ feet to make them more feminine
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#4
Saggy below the butt pants. Sure, sag your pants a few inches if you think you got steez, but Jesus Christ, if your belt is below 100% of your butt crack, you’re an idiot
Image source: Ogodnotagain, Ozzy Delaney
#5
Overusing terms like gaslighting, bipolar, or narcissist to where they’ve lost meaning. Someone disagreeing with you isn’t gaslighting, having a change of mood isn’t bipolar, and your ex may have been a d**k but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a narcissist. As someone who’s autistic I also don’t like the similar trend of people self diagnosing. There’s nothing wrong with looking up symptoms for mental disorders, learning difficulties, etc if you go to your doctor. But lot’s of people don’t, they simply decide they have all these problems.
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#6
Using animals as entertainment
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#7
Gallon Smashing ‘prank’ where a person would purposely drop gallons of milk in a grocery store while making it look like an accident, leaving a huge mess for some poor supermarket employee to clean up.
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#8
there’s some good ones here but the licking stuff at the grocery store and putting it back is a top contender
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#9
People on social media posting inappropriate pictures of themselves at solemn sites to try and seem edgy. (IE: Auschwitz, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Ground Zero in NYC, Pearl Harbor site, Vietnam War Memorial, Tsitsernakaberd Memorial complex, Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, etc)
#10
The fire challenge where these kids were pouring acetone on themselves then lighting themselves on fire. Apparently it was supposed to be a short burning sensation, but as you’d expect there were kids who got seriously injured from the burns, and a mom who recorded her son doing the challenge even got arrested after being reported to social services.
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#11
Lip fillers
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#12
I would say pulling pranks on random people in public.
I am secretly waiting for the video of a prankster going to sleep permanently.
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#13
I don’t know if anyone has posted this already, but I recall a while ago there was something called the “knockout challenge” or “knockout game”. It basically involved a bunch of teenagers and even adults walking or running up to someone, usually on the streets, and hitting them as hard as they could in the face with a closed fist, hoping to knock them out.
I just looked this up and, apparently, this kind of “game” dates back to the 1990’s.
I hope this isn’t a thing anymore.
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#14
For me, I’ll never be able to process the fad in the Victorian era of *EATING EGYPTIAN MUMMIES*
Never will that s**t not send me right back to pure disbelief, horror and confusion.
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#15
[Taking women’s lives] for “witchcraft”
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#16
If you think Tiktok trends are stupid or dangerous, people of the past were even worse.
When people thought radium was good for you, there was a huge trend to put it in EVERYTHING. Face creams. Water crocks. Toothpaste. Hair products. Makeup. Chocolate. Toys. Nightlights. Watches. Spas. Impotence treatments. SUPPOSITORIES. Yes, people were sticking radioactive stuff up their a*s in the name of health.
People would even paint their TEETH with it for the glow. It blows my f*****g mind as a chemist.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks
Image source: StrawberriesRGood4U, Mauswiesel
#17
Burning people who followed a different religion than the current ruling class. I’m looking at you Catholic England and your burning of the heathen Protestants for daring to publish the Bible in English.
And by burning, I do mean alive. I can’t think of many worse things.
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#18
The one where people were trying to jump away from moving trains last second
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#19
The Tide Pod Challenge.
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#20
Probably the trend of exiling cats out of European towns during the back plague.
Image source: TheLeemurrrrr, Kostiantyn Klymovets
#21
mukbang videos.
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#22
I was going to go with ripping out thousands of people’s still-beating hearts as a sacrifice to the sun god, but it seems that people are interpreting this as worst *social media* trend ever.
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#23
X-Ray parties: People would get together X-Ray themselves and each other exposing themselves to huge amount of radiation.
The Tape Worm Diet. People would give themselves a tapeworm to lose weight, then drink kerosene to kill the tape worm.
Both around 1900.
Image source: thestenz, Anna Shvets
#24
Lick weird stuff during COVID challenge. Let’s try and get sick. Please people have you heard of hepatitis? Typhus? Salmonella?
Image source: Ginnylala, Alexander Grey
#25
Ragebait.
Not only is it garbage quality content, it’s done on purpose and people that interact and share only make it more popular.
Image source: eddie_ironside, Avi Richards
#26
Happy Slapping.
Was a trend in the UK back in 2005 where you would slap a random person, hard, and video it. It usually turned into a fight if the person that got slapped reacted. I’m pretty sure it lead to a few deaths.
Image source: Savool, Andrew Le
#27
That Tiktok trend several months ago where people stole toilets and stuff from schools.
Image source: Ill-Subject8076, Ian Ransley
#28
Bum fighting. (Really? Am I the only one who remembers this?)
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#29
Using exaggerated, unnecessary terminology in day to day life
Identity politics/social grouping
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#30
Vocal fry.
Image source: Fishtaco1234, Anderson Guerra
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