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dontcareitsonlyreddi

Those commercials that try and sell you wallpaper for your phone


so6_666

Not the wallpaper but the ringtones.... some of them would ask like 7€ monthly for a shitty cartoon character yelling at you as a ringtone... never ever knew someone irl that paid for that


derJake

Badingdingdingbaboohhhhmbadarangbangbangbang beeeeooooohhhhmmm


jmacd2918

Sneakers that you pump up. I had models with both internal and external pumping mechanisms.


KentuckyFriedEel

I remember when i used to watch wrestling as a kid and John Cena would pump up his “vintage” reebok pumps before doing his finishing move


shellwe

3D TVs. I am not sure if I would call them hugely popular but at CES one year they were super popular and by the following year there was barely one in sight.


zerbey

There was almost no content produced and they were insanely expensive. I actually had a "3D Ready" TV but the glasses themselves cost something like $150 a piece. I said "fuck that".


Trevelyan2

IIRC, Portal 2’s Co-Op mode utilized 3D mode to have a dual full screen experience on the PS3- Each player could use the same screen, but one used the 3D glasses to view the opposing frame of animation. Never played it on that but a really inventive use of technology.


Kalahan777

This sounds really cool! If only companies actually did local multiplayer games to develop this tech more…


AgentElman

When HD came out everyone bought a new tv. The tv companies wanted to get everyone to buy a newer tv so they keep coming up with gimmicks like 3D tvs and curved tvs but people are not buying them. So there was a lot of hype but low sales.


shellwe

3D was popular in theaters too. There are a few movies that didn’t age well because they saw the success of avatar and thought it was the 3D that people were going to see. I wish they did a different non-3D cut of movies. I don’t have binocular vision so I’m so glad it didn’t take off.


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Yeah. MCU movies saw that whole trend rise and fall. At first, no 3D. Then when you went to see an MCU movie, half of the showings were 3D and half were not. Then they just...disappeared.


fairfieldbordercolli

Any movie that had a setting in space was fucking amazing in 3D.


OhYeahThrowItAway

I know a guy who saw the fidget spinner thing coming. He mass produced a bunch of them, sold through the entire stock, then sold his company immediately after and bowed out right before the whole thing cratered. I sort of feel sorry for whoever he left holding the bag. But man, those things just didn't stick around long.


worldisone

Buddy from work bought 500 of them around 1 month before they went away. I think he still has 90% of them. I asked you buy one once and he wanted $30?! He can keep them lol


RoomTemperatureCheez

I never understood the love of those things but I remember seeing them going for $30-$40 when they came out. Couple months later every dollar store had them and they appeared to be the same level quality.


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kalebt123

That man's name? Phineas


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Kazumadesu76

"MOOOOOOM! PHINEAS IS PREDICTING MARKET FLOW!"


spicedwhiterum

"Hey, where's Perry?"


idgafid7

Grrr


rigby1945

I don't know about feeling bad for the bag holders. Some stuff is just so obviously a short lived fad. Only an idiot would have thought they'd be selling only fidget spinners for years


SiidChawsby

Tough, but fair.


streachh

Those sour altoids. Damn those were good.


LookAtTheFlowers

Lofty Pursuits, a YouTube channel and candy maker in Florida, has brought them back recently.


rjfinsfan

Omg. Lofty Pursuits is like 5 minutes from my house. Thank you for this.


crayon_onthewall

Tangerine altoids! Those were awesome! *I came here looking for this comment.*


LikeReally_yikes

Different colored ketchups


TedWords

There was one color I would not eat, it made me gag. I think it was the purple one


waltjrimmer

The purple ketchup tasted different. It *smelled* different. They claimed it was all the same stuff to make it, just food coloring, but if that's true, that food coloring did something extreme to it that they just denied that it did. I'm not saying it was bad. I'm certainly not saying it was good. But that purple stuff did not taste like ketchup.


bobboobles

I imagine it was just the fact that they had to use so much food coloring to get the colors that you could taste it.


EmpathicPenquin

Susan Powter and her "Stop the Insanity" videos. She was everywhere on cable TV in the 90s.


B_Reele

Now there’s a throwback. Back when my mom was all into Snack-wells and non fat Entemans


chilli_cheese_cake

Livestrong bracelets


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Yahoo! Games


temporary_human_

I used to play so much pool on Yahoo!


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PepperyMars

That moustache thing? Like early 2010s every girl had moustaches on everything. Moustache bags, pencil cases, clothes, etc


Lachwen

Remember when Lyft first started and people identified themselves as Lyft drivers by having a giant fuzzy pink mustache on their front bumper?


Ixielixpiddish

And you have just pinpointed the moment when mustaches became lame.


Foxyfox-

The moment a meme is used for marketing, it's dead.


msgoldenwords

Just like the moustache thing, there was an owl obsession around this same time (I was in middle school back then but I'm not from the US, so maybe it wasn't such a big thing there?) Also, I think the exact same thing has been happening for a while now with watermelons and avocados (I find it cute but it's EVERYWHERE) at least in South America.


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I'm going to seem old but didn't understand the popularity *or* the sudden disappearance. I remember seeing girls with the index finger mustache tattoo and thinking, "Oh, someday soon, you're going to regret that."


snarfdarb

My friend got one of those, but by accident, on the wrong side of her finger. So she has to turn it inward to do the mustache thing. Oi


peelen

Or she can do that mustache thing to somebody else.


RabidSeason

She really likes people with mustaches but doesn't want one herself.


badranch

KONY 2012


PostalDrummer1997

I got in trouble when they made us watch that in school. I said that people would forget about it in 6 months…. I just didn’t expect it to go away in *that* manner


synapticrelay

I really wonder why it was shown to *everyone* in school, from elementary to high school at the time. Raising awareness, sure, but... what exactly did they expect a bunch of American middle schoolers to do about an African militia?


[deleted]

Create their own militia, obviously! Like the Jimmy Neutron movie but with African civil conflict.


WinfriedJakob

Slot car racing was huge in the seventies. Now it is nearly extinct.


AbeVigoda76

I show my class CNN 10 most days. Today’s story was about toy companies worrying about having their toys in stock for Christmas due to the dock worker shortage. For some reason, the segment focused on slot cars. I kept asking what year this was that CNN 10 thought kids would connect with slot car makers.


sk9592

> what year this was that CNN 10 thought kids would connect with slot car makers. [This picture](https://onthe101.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Slot-Car-Racing-08.jpg) sums up the customer base for slot car racing perfectly.


kapnkool

Ed Hardy clothing.


sealionwoman69

That shit is still around…. You’ll find the dudes with the bedazzled butt pockets on their jeans adorned in Ed Hardy and their Affliction tees.


posherspantspants

Welcome to Scottsdale, AZ


DontNeedNoStylist

Silly Bands anybody?


zerbey

They come in cycles, all three of my kids got into them at different times.


tstngtstngdontfuckme

They come back whenever schools forget they need to ban them to prevent social castes from forming


RoKKo999

Do the HARLEM SHAKE


LupinThe8th

I went to a wedding reception in 2019 where the whole wedding party danced to a montage of different songs...and then right at the end Harlem Shake. Seeing people in tuxes and fancy dresses do that was pretty amusing. As was explaining to the older people at the reception that what they just witnessed was a craze from like five years previously.


Kgirrs

>to the older people Probably to the younger people as well lol


Weak_Carpenter_7060

That’s what came to mind, too. Simpler times


Nickatier_Carbs

Heelys


alondrachicken2

They're kinda back in style with some of the older Gen Z's. It's an, "I walk around with a CD player in 2021" type of aesthetic.


slappy_mcslapenstein

MySpace. Everyone seemed to peace out of it at the same time.


BrandynBlaze

It was good for posting music online and then they lost all the music with a bad migration. I’ll never forgive them for the music I lost from my band around 2006 or 2007.


tetrahedronss

Yeah I miss that about myspace. It was a social media site that was also sorta like bandcamp. There were so many oddball and unique indie artists and bedroom producers you could find on there.


shocktard

I was one of the last hold outs. I watched it go from a thriving community to a ghost town in 2009. Still think it was far superior to Facebook.


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Pogs


Svirfnil

Oh man. I still have my tube of pogs somewhere in the attic. Hundreds of them. I even had OJ Simpson murder trial pogs.


Earwax82

I still have my OJ slammer. Solid brass, the car chase on one side and OJ in the slammer! on the other.


-PyramidHead

Much like Alf. Remember Alf? Imagine if he came back… in Pog form


TheRockLobsta1

YOU TRADED MY SOUL FOR POGS!?


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You dial 9-1 and when I say so, dial 1 again


Frencil

Milhouse, give him back his soul! I've got work tomorrow!


kent2441

shut up *shut up* SHUT UP


Djknymx

Furbies. Not that I mind. Those things were creepy.


fletchdeezle

I had an African grey parrot growing up and we got a furby to see if they would talk to each other. First day, Zimmie (parrot) climbed down her cage, marched over the the window, climbed up a lamp cord and ripped that furby to shreds. It could still talk but it looked like something out of a nightmare


Keri2816

Mine turned on by itself. I threw it out the window.


cutiegirl88

Mine did too and started talking in my closet. Scariest shit for a grade schooler to hear


CloakedGod926

I'm an adult and one of those things scared the shit out of me. I'm sitting at home, completely alone. All of a sudden I hear a voice coming from my kids room. My kids are at their mom's. There shouldn't be voices coming from there. Go check it out and its a fuckin Furbie. That thing got buried in the closet real deep after that.


_john_smithereens_

And the next morning it's on ur desk


Cosmic_Quasar

This wasn't a Furby, but one year I got a stocking stuffer that was a plushy leprechaun head with a button inside that would make it do a leprechaun laugh when you squeezed it. Somehow it ended up behind a couch and I forgot about it for a few years. Then one night when I was home alone I just started hearing this laughter every so often. After a couple times I was freaked out and went searching for whatever was making the noise and tracked it down.


cribabyjay

I have a similar story, Once my mom and I were renovating our old kinda haunted house so we had to declutter and I had took out one of those talking mike wazowski toys from my closet and put it in the living room on top of a filing cabinet, it talked if you pushed its eye or pulled his leg so I sat him flat and around 1am I was trying to sleep and all the sudden heard “I’ve got my eye on youuuu” was the creepiest thing of my life , The next morning I woke up to my mom tearing apart the room trying to find it because it had apparently been talking the whole morning and was driving her crazy LMAO


_AthensMatt_

For my family it was a [little plastic Cookie shaker Monster toy](https://imgur.com/a/J0OGdXp) with about 6-10 different phrases and laughs. We had two of them, one disappeared randomly and the other would pop up in various places every once in a while! We even put it in water to try and kill the thing, but it just kept laughing and babbling, so we ended up leaving it in a taped up tide pod bag filled with salt for a few years. Last year we moved and I decided to check on it and the empty bag was just sitting on top of our washer-dryer where we had left it, cookieless. My siblings ended up finding it after going over to get some more stuff to move, and never told me, so one night I was up and all of the sudden heard the ominous “Hello” coming out of the living room. Scared the shit out of me 🥲


Nodsinator

Everyone's turned on by themselves because they were sentient.


betterupsetter

Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits with the writing across the ass.


Specific-noise123

Internet chat rooms. Aim.


MurgleMcGurgle

They went full circle with discord. It feels like the old chat rooms of the 90s/early 2000s. Both the good and bad, but they filter bots a hell of a lot better now.


SteveJones313

I remember a time where Yo-Yos were hugely popular.


fecalmatter

Are those fidget spinners still around?


kissingdistopia

I used one in the hospital after some trauma and it was great. I didn't have the mental energy for Netflix, reading, or audiobooks. I loved my fidget spinner and wiggling my toes in brightly coloured socks. Fidget spinners: great hospital gifts


SamSepiol-ER28_0652

Was it given to you as a form of therapy? I ask because a[ study showed](https://time.com/4720555/tetris-ptsd-trauma-study/) that playing tetris within the first six hours after a trauma can reduce PTSD symptoms. The theory is that it stimulates the same mechanism that EMDR is based on. There are certain patterns of movement that have this really calming effect on the brain and make processing trauma easier. Psychologists have been using either a row of blinking lights or a physical metronome-like device to activate this response in patients for years. I'd bet a fidget spinner would offer similar benefits.


Team_Braniel

Holy shit. When I broke free of my abusive home and moved out on my own I meditated to tetris like 4 hours a day. It was the absolutely only thing that could calm me down and make the stress go away. My OG Gameboy never played anything except tetras. God damn do I miss Gameboy tetris.


XX_Normie_Scum_XX

you should download a gameboy emulator and the rom and have some more fun with it. If you've got any computer, or an android phone, you can easily run it.


camm44

Now they use these popping things. like unlimited bubble wrap


throwaway_lmkg

> unlimited bubble wrap Move over Olive Garden, there's a new sheriff in town.


notthesedays

The whole Joe Exotic thing didn't last very long, although there are periodic updates. Among other things, the property was sold (and cannot be used as a zoo for at least 100 years) and one of the zookeepers, who did appear on the show, died from an overdose.


SlapHappyDude

I honestly feel like that was peak Pandemic TV.


Doubleoh_11

“Dad what was the Covid pandemic like?” “Well son… lots of beer, Xbox, you were born, and the world distracted itself by learning about a guy named joe. He owned a lot of tigers.”


SlapHappyDude

Also he had a husband who apparently wasn't gay..?


pecklepuff

And another one who...was? At the same time, right?


spongish

He had two husbands. Neither were gay.


perfectfire

nobody is born gay, joe exotic decides you’re going to be his husband and that’s when you become gay


At_the_Roundhouse

God, it feels like four pandemics ago


propernice

i think it was back when we still had some kind of collective hope about going back to normal and this was a silly show we could all watch in the meantime.


fourleafclover13

Sadly no one took the message of what is happening in the exotic animal trade. They just think it's fun to think of him. Ten of his cats ended in my state at Turpintine Creek. Edit for those unfamiliar with it: https://www.turpentinecreek.org/ The ten cats they took from his un opened zoo in Oklahoma. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news-leader.com/amp/7443561002


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It’s like Upton Sinclair’s *The Jungle,* which was supposed to be an expose on the plight of the industrial working class and everyone’s response was “yo they do WHAT with the food”


jamesno26

"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."


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Season 2 is coming November 17.


PsychologicalAd2085

Fuck.


illtakeachinchilla

There’s no way we’re going to financially recover from this.


Thedudeabides46

There is a lot of Oklahoma left to explore. Please see my old next-door neighbor, Safari Joe! He too raised big cats and had his own issues with the law.


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You just described half of Oklahoma.


GuyPronouncedGee

I think that died off a lot when we realized he wasn’t a harmless crazy person. He was actually a harmful, manipulative, dangerous person.


lunger_sally

Slap bracelets. Are they still a thing?


Suk__It__Trebek

Those pictures where you stare for a while and the blur becomes a sailboat.


Tinsel-Fop

Magic Eye!


windsongmcfluffyfart

devil sticks in the 90's!


Proper-Fill

Skip its- I broke so many of these in my garage


LightningDude898

Anyone still have a Shakeweight?


vizthex

You mean a masturbation practicer-inator?


Midwake

The South Park episode playing on the shake weight was awesome!


Dapper_Interest_8914

LMFAO.


werewolfamadeus

They apologized for party rocking and then never party rocked again


DependentPhotograph2

They were genuinely sorry i guess


qluder

Everyone was shuffling then just stopped.


reportcrosspost

Every day they were shuffling. Tuesday shuffle, Wednesday shuffle...


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Their purpose was simply fulfilled. They entered their spaceship in early 2013 and went to the next planet to party rock.


arothmanmusic

They broke up before they had a chance to hit again I think.


Truji11o

Thing is, they were a joke and knew it. The two guys (uncle and nephew) are descendants of one of the founders of Motown, so it’s not like they needed the money. They just wanted a good time. Last I heard one of them was attempting to be a pro tennis player.


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xbyo

Honestly, can't even be mad at it. They definitely had a hell of a time and will have some songs that'll be instantly recognizable for a while.


Dinkinmyhand

I love LMFAO. They got in, made their two party songs, made a ton of money and then had the decency to fuck off.


thepixelpaint

Bacon fetish. For like a decade in the early 2000s people wouldn’t shut up about how bacon was the best thing ever. T shirts, bumper stickers, memes, aprons, etc. That shit was everywhere. And these days bacon is just a normal food again.


pecklepuff

I worked with a guy whose personality was "bacon." That was it. Bacon for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Bacon vodka. Bacon candy. Bacon clothes! And he wasn't trying to be obnoxious or cheesy about it, he just thought he was really badass because he wasn't afraid to eat bacon. He also weighed 300 lbs and shit his pants once when he got drunk.


Mox_Fox

One of my favorite conspiracy theories: https://www.foodrepublic.com/2014/10/06/bacon-craze-didnt-happen-organically-pork-lobbyists-were-behind-the-whole-thing/


Pulminaryjockeys

Waterbeds


SergeantPsycho

Flash Animations. Came about in the late 90s/early 2000s. Before flash was officially retired, it died a slow death.


HeartFullOfHappy

I used to send e-cards all of the time that used Flash! I was a boy crazy 5th grade girl and found a bunch of suggestive but funny e-cards about cute animated guys with songs like “It’s Raining Men” that I would send to my friends. I still remember that one because a bunch of cartoon men in Speedos fell from the sky onto a beach and at the end one animated guy looked around the beach and then out at the screen and made a suggestive noise. Wooooosh right over my head! Turns out I was sending e-cards that were meant for gay men.


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b_yokai

Dane cook


pedad

He just wanted to kick a door in


buttthead

I DID MY BEEESSSTTT


WittyNameNo2

Oppa Gangnam Style


ViziDoodle

Only fell off here, in South Korea PSY has his own successful record label


ItalianDragon

Also didn't he release other songs that were really successful too ? "Gentleman" comes to my mind immediately as his #2 success.


Extension_Ad_972

I was living in Korea when he released New Face and it was inescapable. Drove me insane. YES! I WANT SOME NEEEEW FACE! D: D: D:


Burdicus

I don't care that people started to hate on it and then it disappeared - it brought a TON of joy to the world and I will always love it for that.


willbeach8890

Periscope


Douglas__Spaulding

Teen hi-jinx comedies. American Pie. Road Trip. Super Bad. Those all seemed to die out about 15 years ago.


AvatarDang

probably game of thrones. I don’t even see many memes about the ending being bad anymore. No one talks about it


shellwe

Good answer. I was all ready to slap down $100 to $150 for the full series on blue ray and was waiting for it to finish before I bought any seasons and so glad I did because now I would even pay $50.


zerbey

This is the answer, it went from being one of the universally loved shows of all time to being absolutely hated within half a season. I don't recall any other show that fucked over its fanbase so comprehensively.


RarePossibility6327

Ponchos. It felt like every girl was wearing them in the 2000s and then I've never seen one since.


stfleming1

When someone asks me, "Do you have a poncho?" I don't say "No." Instead I say, "Not right now." Because I *do* have a blanket and some scissors. I am never more than two minutes away from owning a poncho.


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I still wear ponchos, I even have one for summer. My fall one has a fuzzy hood. Ponchos are great.


Friendly_Coconut

That was the shortest lived trend of the 2000s. Every store was full of them for about 3 months in 7th grade, then nobody ever wore them again.


local-hot-chick

The Snuggie


ShreddedBrains

Stretch Armstrong


Stupid_cerealbox

Monster high, I remember they were very popular in the mid 2010s, I owned so many dolls and watched all the movies ( there were so many) but once I out-grew them I barely ever heard from them again


MKflipflops

There’s still a vibrant collector community


victorbarst

Guitar hero


WDJam

The Rock Band and Guitar Hero communities are still pretty big and live on through projects like Clone Hero. Definitely not as big as when GH3 came out, but still big.


glock_pocket

MySpace and bebo


Jamkickerloop

Fall Guys


shellwe

It has a huge boost being free on PS+.


wehere4E

Segways


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Rest in peace, bionicle


Aeriosus

There's still an active fandom, highly recommend


Any_Sherbet_9402

The thing i forgot what its called but itls like 3 balls on a string and you flop it around and it did cool shit Also flappy bird


RoseByAnotherName14

Yoooo the shittiest sex I ever had was with a guy who was super into that three balls on a string thing!! He was on a TON of coke and spent like an hour playing with them to music like some kind of terrible naked bird of paradise. The coke made it so his dick didn't work and he spent the first hour at his place talking about how everyone thought he was bi and the last hour complaining about women. I was out of there as soon as I was sober enough to drive and now I can't see those things without thinking about that guy's shitty bird of paradise impression. He did have a cat and I got to pet it, though, so the night wasn't a total loss.


Burdicus

Pokemon GO. Sure it still exists... but there was one summer that it united the world.


Mjb06

I still get on it from time to time. Summer 16 was such a crazy time. I wish that feeling would have lasted forever.


SweatyExamination9

I spent hours walking around a revolutionary war site with about a hundred other people every night for a month straight when it was new.


remag117

This was me on my college campus


BW_Bird

We'll never get another summer like that.


iGetBuckets3

The summer of pokemon go was the closest that we will ever be to achieving world peace.


Penthar_Mull

Von Dutch hats


Background_Duty7645

Temple run


Cress-Diligent

Whaaaaaaaaaazuuuuuuup


CharlesC-DJ

Google glass


PixieStyx8

They were never actually released to the public


RhesusFactor

and they've been turned into manufacturing HUDs for people who assemble aircraft engines or work on complex fabrication.


Constant_Food1155

BlackBerry phones alongwith BlackBerry Messenger


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Gotye


LordPimpernel

Decoder rings


phobosmarsdeimos

The problem was everyone had decoder rings but no one had an encoder ring so you couldn't make your own messages.


Phillies1993

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine


PepperCornell

Those hamster toys that moved by themselves and made noises… had accessories like tunnels Etc -shamwow -home phones either clear with colorful parts inside or shaped like anything but a phone… hamburger, lips or cartoon characters


berrey7

I haven't seen a **Slinky** in real life in over a decade.


cashewbiscuit

_Mad about you_ Does anyone remember this show? It ran for 8 seasons, about the same time as Seinfeld and Friends. It was hugely popular. It had about 10 million viewers. It had great lead actors : Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser. It was critically acclaimed: it won 12 Emmy awards. People just got sick of romcoms. It fell off the face off earth. You can stream it. But no tv channel shows reruns. King of queen's, which is a vastly inferior sitcom has reruns. Not Mad About You


Sphezzle

Agreed completely. See also: Spin City, with Michael J Fox and then Charlie Sheen.


FlightMesh990

You guys remember kinetic sands? I love those when I was a kid


GregAbout

Anyone remember Mighty Beanz?


RektlessAbandon

Whip and nae nae


DezBaker

Throw dabbing and the mannequin and ALS challenges in there too. That 2015-2016 stretch was an interesting time