When something is awesome, it is only natural to be interested in it. It is even more amazing to do something before it was cool and then be able to brag about it. You get that sense of accomplishment since you were the first to do it. A lot of unique hobbies people partake in have the potential to become popular and cool. Indoors or outdoors, there are a lot of factors that indicate if something is going to be cool or not.
Something dull on the surface could be more fun than it seems. Everything depends on the ease of getting into it. Plenty of outdoor activities that we think are cool now might have been boring before. Snowboarding might be popular and easily accessible now, but before its golden days, it was a niche sport that only a few people could afford. Indoor activities, on the other hand, are at risk of being labeled monotonous. Listening to Radiohead and playing chess — things that had the "uncool" all over them, but something that everybody does at this point.
There are a lot of cool activities to choose from and do. LarleneLumpkin asked on Askreddit — “What is your ‘I was into X before it was cool’ thing?” Since there were a lot of answers to choose from, we have compiled some of the best ones below. If any of the popular activities seem cool to you, upvote them. Otherwise, if you already partook in them and maybe got some reactions from people, share it with a comment below.
#21
"I was reading 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series (better known as Game of Thrones) before the show was made. Sadly, I'm pretty sure we'll never get the last two books."
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25points
#22
"I used to record myself playing video games when I was like 5 or 6 when my parents gave me the VCR they replaced in the living room. Because of this early hobby, me and a friend did videogame playthroughs on YouTube in 2007. We were certainly not the first but we were damn early.
We also used a cap card straight out of the gate rather than doing the old recording the screen crap that looked terrible."
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25points
#24
"Snowboarding, you couldn't even bring them to resorts. 1983."
hazimrahim__ replied: "This is before it was too hot."
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22points
#25
"Mine was Twitter when flip phones were king and you had to text Twitter to update your status."
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22points
#26
"Spotify. I remember I had to use a VPN to use it in my country."
jazzyjenna20 replied: "Omg, I forgot about this one! I distinctly remember telling people about it when I was in sixth grade (2011) and my teacher telling me something like, 'there’s no way that’s legal/legit.'"
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21points
#27
"Adult coloring. I never liked drawing but loved coloring, so as I grew up I would seek out all kinds of coloring books. I loved how calming it was, and I would often color with my grandparents so I created a lot of fond memories there. I got made fun of a lot for my hobby until it suddenly became cool in the last few years."
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21points
#28
"Veganism. Went vegan in 1992, and back then you didn't tell anybody outside of your close friend group, no one knew what it was. You would get comments like, 'Why don't you go back to your home planet Vega.'"
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20points
#29
"This is gonna be super stupid, but I guess I am still salty at myself for letting other people influence me that much back then.
I was making YouTube videos back in 2011 and had a decent amount of following for someone like that back in the day, videos were reaching about 1,000 views. Stopped because people started making fun of me and now I wonder what could've been."
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20points
#30
"Flannel shirts were popular in the 90s. I never stopped wearing them. It’s kinda 'my thing' among my friends. I’m always wearing flannel. I wore them so long they came back in style."
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20points
#31
"Listening to Nirvana's 'Blew' song on student radio (NZ) in 1989 and thinking, 'these guys are good.'"
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19points
#32
"I am a big 'The Lord of the Rings' fan and people told me I was absolutely mad to say that they’ll be better than 'Harry Potter' movies when they’re released."
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18points
#33
"I worked for a movie theater chain in 1996, and my boss got a VHS copy of 'Jesus vs Santa Claus' at some industry event. We watched that video a dozen times and laughed. About 6 months later 'South Park' debuted on 'Comedy Central' and we were very excited to see it had been picked up."
gixer24 replied: "Oh man, just made me realize I’m getting old."
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17points
#34
"I was watching YouTube in 2005 back when 'Naruto' episodes were allowed and split into 3 parts."
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17points
#35
"Fun colored hair. I got absolutely ridiculed when I had hot pink streaks in 2008."
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17points
#36
"'Death Note' before it was released in English. I used to download translated chapters and burn the series onto CDs for people who didn't have reliable internet or enough computer time to download it themselves."
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16points
#37
"Crocs, all of a sudden. Post Malone wears them and bam, now they have jewelry with fancy colors and followers."
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16points
#39
"Unicorns. I was obsessed with them after seeing the movie legend in the 1980s. Now every second toy or anything for that matter is plastered in it."
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14points
#40
"I remember going around to stores trying to find all 6 issues of 'Infinity Gauntlet.' I had read one while waiting on my mom to finish grocery shopping and I was hooked. That made me a dork in the early 90s... but now it's a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon."
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13points


