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.
#42
"Elmo when he was just a minor 'Sesame Street' character.
We used to watch 'Sesame Street' at my shared house full of college kids. Was a way to unwind. Sounds silly but it was a thing. I liked Elmo. He was pretty chill."
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13points
#44
"Saw 'Metallica' for my first concert in 1985. If I remember the other bands that night they were some local bands, W.A.S.P., and 'Armored Saint.'"
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#46
"Techno. It was frowned upon to listen to computer music. Now EDM is a billion-dollar industry."
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#48
"Snapchat. I downloaded it when it was in its early stages... and then deleted the app shortly after because none of my friends were on it.
I still have people asking me how I got my username @ohsnapyo."
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12points
#49
"Lived in Korea in the 90s and was really into DBZ comics, moved to the United States in 1995 and no one knew what it was. By the time I was in high school, it was all the rage."
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#50
"Sriracha (for white people). When I met my Asian girlfriend in 1995 she had a bottle in the fridge, and loved it, since then we always had a bottle in the fridge. Suddenly it becomes this phenomenon."
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#51
"Raves/massives. Festivals now are what massives used to be called, but masses weren't as massive as festivals now.
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#52
"I was reading Harry Potter from like, day one. I remember how this happened so clearly. My dad's birthday landed on the same day that the book was released in the US, September 1, 1998, and we got him a gift certificate to 'Barnes & Noble', among a few other things."
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11points
#54
"Fasting. Started around 2004 and never told anyone for fear they’d assume I had an eating disorder but 72 hours fasts made my body feel better."
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#55
"Pokémon. I remember watching it in the morning on some random channel and some other kids teasing me about liking it."
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#56
"I was in marching band with Markiplier. It’s weird seeing all these memes and all these famous people talking about a guy I was in high school with."
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10points
#57
"I was chugging 'Pabst Blue Ribbons' years before it became the go-to hipster brew."
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#58
"I remember when the first 'Stranger Things' trailer came out. I was so unbelievably hyped and was showing all my friends the trailers, but they were always whatever about it. One person even told me it was probably going to flop. I didn’t care."
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#59
"I remembered subscribing to 'PewDiePie' when he only had 50k subscribers."
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