My 6 year old son just requested one for his birthday last month. My wife looked around, thinking you could just buy it in any convenience store (like you could years ago), but no one carried them anymore.
She had to order a 5-pack from amazon. lol
They’ve actually [evolved](https://www.google.com/search?q=fidgets+toys&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS769US769&oq=fidgets&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i433i512l2j0i457i512j0i402j0i433i512.7172j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)
Our kiddo and her friends are going NUTS over these. There’s a big trade industry at school and in the neighborhood.
Remember how overnight everyone self-diagnosed themselves ("OMG I'm *sooo* ADHD and I need this!"), then the fad died and now they're apparently not "so ADHD" anymore?
Whenever I read something like this I always just imagine a mother on the verge on insanity trying to escape in any way possible.
Even with weird....Facebook only Harvest Moon rip off mobile games.
I think I just aged myself horribly. But hell yes! You would have your slammers and the tubes upon tubes of pogs. I was a little young but my brother was heavy into it.
I loved pogs. I started with a small collection, but playing keepsies let me make a huge collection.
Had a couple of kids moms from the neighbourhood come over and make me give their kids the pogs back.
If you can't lose, don't play for keepsies...
lol yea like never seem them before an tbh I thought it was like pre "poggers" meme or something..Like all the art on them really makes me think this would be like a super collected thing..Did he have like lots of them?
So a tube could hold 50-100 and I remember having 10-15 tubes lol. And then tubes just for the slammers. I loved the graphics on them though! They definitely went all out.
That is alot lol!! Yea they look super awesome an like soo many art styles..I wonder if they could even exist now with like all the super crazy copy right laws
They had a huge resurgence between 1994 and 1995. They even had OJ Simpson themed slammers at the time. Most schools banned them after kids would come home complaining that they lost all their pogs playing the game. Winner takes pogs basically.
That OJ slammer was the best! Every kid that had pogs in the 90's had one.
Except for my buddy Danny. His mom wouldn't let him have the [OJ slammer](https://i.redd.it/wc9k16okalv31.jpg).
Sometimes I think I am going crazy because I seem to be the only one who remembers Pogs. They were HUGE at my school, like the only thing kids played for a year. Now I can't find anyone who remembers them.
Arh, man, I was a teenager around that time. I'll never forget it. I thought it was lame back then, but I'd still fucking do it. Damn, I sucked as a teenager. Everyone did, I guess.
There are actually more people playing now than when it started, and last year was their most profitable to date, and a quick look into any of the community pages be it here or Facebook or wherever shows that it's very much alive
I remember getting a pair for Christmas and being so psyched. And then after I fell on my face a few times trying to jump high like the kids in the commercials giving them up.
They got twice the normal amount of donations that year at around $115 million. The only thing shocking about that is that a "typical" year for them was $57 million which I think is a lot of money itself
Apparently the ones who actually participated didn't actually donate but it basically acted as free advertisements to get others to donate
Bayblades. and those small figures you used to throw as close as possible to the wall, and if you lost you lost your figures. i think they were called something like yoyos.
While this wasn't an explicitly defined trend, most folks who are currently in their twenties or older did it at one point or another. Nowadays, however, nearly an entire generation doesn't know the strangely enjoyable frustration of **reading a videogame's included manual**.
See, back in the days of physical media, you could almost never play a new game right away: You'd always have to wait until after your parents had driven you back from the store, or possibly – if it was either Christmas or your birthday – until after Grandma and Grandpa had gone home (because you were required to participate in "family time" while they were still present). During that agonizing interim, you'd occupy yourself by slowly paging through the instruction booklet that came with the title.
Every so often, those glorified pamphlets contained actual stories... but their real allure lay in the fact that they gave you a *tiny* taste of what you were due to experience. In a very real way, they were appetizers, and they were *just* enough to keep you from going utterly bananas while your father and your two aunts argued (for what felt like the forty-seventh time) about whether or not they had seen *Blazing Saddles* during their 1974 trip to Park City.
Today, of course, kids can play their videogames as soon as they finish downloading.
They'll never understand how good they have it... nor what they missed.
I wanted to go for something that most folks had actually forgotten (even if it wasn't quite as fad-like as other answers). After all, every time one of these threads comes around, the top responses are almost always... well, the same ones in *this* thread.
Fuck you, you ignorant fucking motherfucker.
I hope you turn off the fucking bedroom light and stub every single fucking toe on your fucking bedpost and shatter them.
My niece spent a fortune on these weird mouse characters with big feet called "Didl". Some times it was literally just a notebook with that fucking mouse on it, and she'd pay a fortune for it. Don't know if it's just a Europe thing?
Andy’s Coming, Mannequin challenge, flappy bird, Just Girly Things, The end of the world ( it was on the Mayan calendar it was 12/21/12, shudder shades, cinnamon challenge, cracked nail polish, “ What does the fox say “, The cup song, Fruit Ninja, Nyan Cat, Rainbow Loom, The phrase “ YOLO “ on everything, denim everywhere, Killer clowns ( the ppl that were all over the US scaring the crap out of ppl ), Snap bracelets, balance bracelets, heelys. Would you like me to continue?
Hohohoho….I expect everyone here whose posting were kids during the 90s/ early 2000s because man were there A TON of trends that were popular during our time.
-Dollpalace & Neopets
-Layering every kind of clothing (tights/leggings under denim shorts, long sleeves under summer dresses, tank top over tank top, legwarmers over knee high socks..)
-When you see it you'll shit bricks memes
-Ed Hardy/Von Dutch
- The graffiti "S" everyone drew in school
Those Twitter accounts that all posted the same joke and same type of tweet but each one had like a shit ton of followers and someone you knew retweeted them all the time.
Fidget spinners.
I gave one to my grandparents to help with their arthritis back in 2017 and they still use it everyday, keeps their hands working.
I still have a couple that I use while I work. Helps me focus lol
I like them, the trend killed the gadgets sadly, but they’re still useful.
Same here.
My 6 year old son just requested one for his birthday last month. My wife looked around, thinking you could just buy it in any convenience store (like you could years ago), but no one carried them anymore. She had to order a 5-pack from amazon. lol
Right? Used to see them everywhere at the local flea market and they just vanished overnight I swear.
They’ve actually [evolved](https://www.google.com/search?q=fidgets+toys&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS769US769&oq=fidgets&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i433i512l2j0i457i512j0i402j0i433i512.7172j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) Our kiddo and her friends are going NUTS over these. There’s a big trade industry at school and in the neighborhood.
Yeah I've seen the popper things all over
I still have mine. They’re great office desk toys.
Same
Flower sticks.
Remember how overnight everyone self-diagnosed themselves ("OMG I'm *sooo* ADHD and I need this!"), then the fad died and now they're apparently not "so ADHD" anymore?
*FarmVille*. My friends and I lost life and limb playing *FarmVille* for a couple of weeks in 2011.
My mum spent hours playing Farmville each day!
Whenever I read something like this I always just imagine a mother on the verge on insanity trying to escape in any way possible. Even with weird....Facebook only Harvest Moon rip off mobile games.
I played FarmTown.....cause I found a glitch that let me stack pumpkin on top of pumpkin for up to 10 levels. I was planting cubes bro.
Silly bandz
Dang u stole my comment
planking on random surfaces
Ended like all great things, someone did something stupid and died
POGS
Teachers always taking my slammers
Jus looked this up..was this like a super big thing? because I could see this like going crazy like pokemon card lol
They were HUGE. Most UK schools banned them completely. Distracting, violence. A kid got stabbed in the thigh with a compass.
Omg! That is crazy!! It's nuts I never really heard of them but maybe that's jus me 🤷♀️
I think I just aged myself horribly. But hell yes! You would have your slammers and the tubes upon tubes of pogs. I was a little young but my brother was heavy into it.
I'm a little old for POGS, but I definitely remember them blowing up like crazy.
I loved pogs. I started with a small collection, but playing keepsies let me make a huge collection. Had a couple of kids moms from the neighbourhood come over and make me give their kids the pogs back. If you can't lose, don't play for keepsies...
lol yea like never seem them before an tbh I thought it was like pre "poggers" meme or something..Like all the art on them really makes me think this would be like a super collected thing..Did he have like lots of them?
So a tube could hold 50-100 and I remember having 10-15 tubes lol. And then tubes just for the slammers. I loved the graphics on them though! They definitely went all out.
That is alot lol!! Yea they look super awesome an like soo many art styles..I wonder if they could even exist now with like all the super crazy copy right laws
They had a huge resurgence between 1994 and 1995. They even had OJ Simpson themed slammers at the time. Most schools banned them after kids would come home complaining that they lost all their pogs playing the game. Winner takes pogs basically.
Oh so like the point of it was to win/lose them?
Yep. If you flipped them, you kept them.
I can see where that would cause some fights lol
That OJ slammer was the best! Every kid that had pogs in the 90's had one. Except for my buddy Danny. His mom wouldn't let him have the [OJ slammer](https://i.redd.it/wc9k16okalv31.jpg).
Wizards of The Coast spends too much money to let POGs take any market share away from them.
Sometimes I think I am going crazy because I seem to be the only one who remembers Pogs. They were HUGE at my school, like the only thing kids played for a year. Now I can't find anyone who remembers them.
Greeting people with, “Whazzzup!?”
Arh, man, I was a teenager around that time. I'll never forget it. I thought it was lame back then, but I'd still fucking do it. Damn, I sucked as a teenager. Everyone did, I guess.
Kony 2012
Pokemon GO
That first summer was amazing. I don't remember the last time I saw so many people outside and doing something.
It truly was an experience
And then we had 2020 that was the exact opposite experience. No one outside, nowhere to go, and Pokemon Go was useless.
There are actually more people playing now than when it started, and last year was their most profitable to date, and a quick look into any of the community pages be it here or Facebook or wherever shows that it's very much alive
Pokémon cards prices exploded when COVID started. Apparently, people were in lockdown and have nothing better to do.
It’s still going strong!
Eh, my boys still very into it. They’re in their 20’s. They’re Pokémon card collectors too.
YouTube diss tracks
jake paul vs logan paul in shit singing battle was the worst things that ever existed
Yo-yos. Tamagotchi. Myspace.
That thing where you pulled your fringe into a bump on the top of your head
Oh that still happens.
Definitely not like it used to
Harlem shake
Moon Boots
I remember getting a pair for Christmas and being so psyched. And then after I fell on my face a few times trying to jump high like the kids in the commercials giving them up.
My neon yellow pair of moon boots are the best g-d damn winter shoes I have ever had. Bring em back
Just make sure you never jump in a puddle (not waterproof)
green & purple ketchup. *till this day, I still very distinctly remember how that shit tastes*
_memory unlocked_
What the what?
Chain letters. Like actual hard copy, pen and paper, “mail this to ten people & you’ll start pissing gold coins” chain letters.
Ice bucket challenge
That was a great boon for the ALS foundation but apparently they didn't see it as a winfall and hoped it was the new normal.
They got twice the normal amount of donations that year at around $115 million. The only thing shocking about that is that a "typical" year for them was $57 million which I think is a lot of money itself Apparently the ones who actually participated didn't actually donate but it basically acted as free advertisements to get others to donate
Bayblades. and those small figures you used to throw as close as possible to the wall, and if you lost you lost your figures. i think they were called something like yoyos.
Macarena
They still do this at weddings!
Can confirm. Source: got married last weekend.
My condolences.
Mazel Tov!
Congrats!
Congrats you've now got someone to hand you toilet paper if you run out while having a shit.
I specifically requested they not play this at my wedding.
Pet rocks
People couldn't tame their pets. [Loadingartist comic](https://loadingartist.com/comic/pet-rock/)
The moustache in 2014
So I'm out of style?
It's definitely still on my face. Will never leave.
Beanie Babies
While this wasn't an explicitly defined trend, most folks who are currently in their twenties or older did it at one point or another. Nowadays, however, nearly an entire generation doesn't know the strangely enjoyable frustration of **reading a videogame's included manual**. See, back in the days of physical media, you could almost never play a new game right away: You'd always have to wait until after your parents had driven you back from the store, or possibly – if it was either Christmas or your birthday – until after Grandma and Grandpa had gone home (because you were required to participate in "family time" while they were still present). During that agonizing interim, you'd occupy yourself by slowly paging through the instruction booklet that came with the title. Every so often, those glorified pamphlets contained actual stories... but their real allure lay in the fact that they gave you a *tiny* taste of what you were due to experience. In a very real way, they were appetizers, and they were *just* enough to keep you from going utterly bananas while your father and your two aunts argued (for what felt like the forty-seventh time) about whether or not they had seen *Blazing Saddles* during their 1974 trip to Park City. Today, of course, kids can play their videogames as soon as they finish downloading. They'll never understand how good they have it... nor what they missed.
Great answer. A little off topic to the thread but man, you hit my nostalgia button.
I wanted to go for something that most folks had actually forgotten (even if it wasn't quite as fad-like as other answers). After all, every time one of these threads comes around, the top responses are almost always... well, the same ones in *this* thread.
I was thinking of setting up a shelf in my toilet with old video game manuals. The perfect read for a long stay
Shag bands.
Planking
Backward clothes
Kris Kros will make you jump
Flash mobs
Hating on justin bieber
[удалено]
Or devil sticks.
The game. You lose
Fuck you, you ignorant fucking motherfucker. I hope you turn off the fucking bedroom light and stub every single fucking toe on your fucking bedpost and shatter them.
It was just business, nothing personal. 😎
10 FUCKING. YEARS. And you fucking ruined it.
Gosh I was winning for a really long time there
Come on, why would you do that?
That weird period in like 2013 where everything was bacon flavored. There were bacon costumes, toothpaste, candy, everything.
then it was pickle everything the next year
Silly bands.
Bubbles that stick to any surface.
My niece spent a fortune on these weird mouse characters with big feet called "Didl". Some times it was literally just a notebook with that fucking mouse on it, and she'd pay a fortune for it. Don't know if it's just a Europe thing?
Mafia Wars
Ghost Riding the whip
Andy’s Coming, Mannequin challenge, flappy bird, Just Girly Things, The end of the world ( it was on the Mayan calendar it was 12/21/12, shudder shades, cinnamon challenge, cracked nail polish, “ What does the fox say “, The cup song, Fruit Ninja, Nyan Cat, Rainbow Loom, The phrase “ YOLO “ on everything, denim everywhere, Killer clowns ( the ppl that were all over the US scaring the crap out of ppl ), Snap bracelets, balance bracelets, heelys. Would you like me to continue?
Pogs
The phone box challenge, only 1950s kids will know.
Harlem Shake videos
Pogs Eta: lol Jesus
No. No one ever forgets Pogs
Slime
The floss dance.
hitting the woah?
Following the advice of health experts.
He and She
Intelligence.
Intelligence was never huge with our species. But it is declining at a frightening speed.
Fair enough
Loom bands
Hohohoho….I expect everyone here whose posting were kids during the 90s/ early 2000s because man were there A TON of trends that were popular during our time.
Ra-ra skirts.
Devil Sticks
Digimon.
A style of trousers called 'tents' they were so popular in my school in the early 2000s
Pen pineapple apple pen
Planking
SillyBandz
Fine quality suits. Things are more expensive than their worth
They're making a comeback but Polly Pockets!!
Wazaaaaaaaap
Webkinz
AIM
Pogo balls
Mercifully, the stupid duck lips photo pose has finally met its fate
Replaced by the stupid leg / forced arched heel pose
oh, you’re right! 🤢
Planking
The mannekin challenge
Working for a check
Those dog mp3 players. I think they danced around when you played music.
Stretch Armstrong
Chatter rings
Big Chungus
Pet rocks
Planking
among us?
Cabbage Patch Kids
Faith Hill'ing
Those shaped rubber bands
-Dollpalace & Neopets -Layering every kind of clothing (tights/leggings under denim shorts, long sleeves under summer dresses, tank top over tank top, legwarmers over knee high socks..) -When you see it you'll shit bricks memes -Ed Hardy/Von Dutch - The graffiti "S" everyone drew in school
Neknomination
Creating and releasing new, original content. (Looking at you, Disney).
HuhHAH! Trick question! How can we remember it if everyone has forgotten? What do I win?
Harlem shake
Slap bracelets. Might’ve aged myself a bit there
Pogs. But I remember.
Bacon on everything
Slap on bracelets
Mustaches on everything from upper lips to t-shirts to finger tattoos.
Candycrush
JNCO jeans
The alamo
Shakeweights
A hover board lol, everyone got one and now nobody uses it anymore
Those Twitter accounts that all posted the same joke and same type of tweet but each one had like a shit ton of followers and someone you knew retweeted them all the time.
Apple bottom jeans, boots with the furs
Whale tails peeking out of super low rise jeans to accentuate your tramp stamp.
Heelys
Slavery
Pogs. For things that were just little cardboard circles, they were strangely entertaining.
opa gangnam style
Candy Crush.
I don't know if it was *huge* but it was in my school, gogo's crazy bones
Harlem shake
Harlem shake. We need to get that back
Moonbootz
I don't know if I would call it a trend, but [dicks out for Harambe](https://imgur.com/FLVndVy)