“Now Kinda Embarrassing”: 35 Trends That Blew Up As Quickly As They Died

There was a trend years ago where people would collect trash from river and post it.

Of course a good trend like this did not last long.

Being nice to each other at the start of the Pandemic (spring 2020).

The whole 3D craze back in like 2010. Everybody thought it was the future after Avatar came out in theaters. EVERY movie tried to be 3D after that, there were 3D TVs, 3D phones, the Nintendo 3DS. And I think the craze disappeared in like year because it gave people headaches 😂.

Those that got a mustache tattoo on the side of your finger…….y’all ok?

Downtown_Bread_:
I was like 12 when this trend was going on, and thank god they don't let 12-year-olds get tattoos because that would have been me.

Remember in the early 2010s when there was a frozen yogurt place on every block? 2-3 years later and they all seemed to vanish and nobody wants froyo no mo.

Flash mobs.

Segways were going to revolutionize transport.

ackmondual:
It was predicted that whole cities would be redesigned to accommodate them!

Planking.

AlessandroTheGr8:
So simple, silly, and harmless. I liked it.

Glasses without the lens… cringe.

S’well bottles. 
Replaced with Stanley cups. 
I wonder what overpriced portable liquid holder comes next?

Pokémon Go.

I know some folks still play, but once upon a time I remember taking a walk in the park and people were just on their phones pointing them this way and that and walking in circles and then there’d be a group huddled together cause they were taking down a gym or something.

Google Glass. It was supposed to be the future, but it disappeared faster than you could say "augmented reality".

goathill:
I do think this will get big decades from now when tech has caught up. It was simply released too early and under-delivered.

Pogs? Anyone? Am I too old?

I had a kicka*s beavis and butthead slammer.

Smuff23:

I killed pogs at my school as a kid. I had a shredded 8-ball slammer that would turn whole stacks over like 95% of the time and 95 might be a low guess. Too many kids started complaining and I ended up with too many pogs.
Granted it probably should have died as soon as they realized we were gambling the pogs.

Who remembers tamagotchi?

Selfie sticks were EVERYWHERE, now kinda embarrassing.

The fidget spinner craze was wild! One minute, everyone was spinning them like they were the coolest toy on the planet, and the next, they were collecting dust in drawers. It’s like they went from “Look at me, I’m stress-relieving!” to “Why do I have 12 of these?” faster than you can say “what was I thinking?”.

Gangnam style.

Being a crypto-currency investor, for about three months everyone thought they were wolf of Wall Street, now they are all back to be stray dogs of skid row.

Feather earrings in 2011.

SRB112:
I didn't notice that in 2011, but I remember when they were popular in the '70s.

Arguments over whether the dress was blue and black or white and gold.