" People pretending to be ' short ' or ' figure out class ' without any of the actual drawback , like that hipster wedding in the 2000s that get a lot of ack-ack gun for having a ' natural depression - earned run average bum idea . ' "
1.“The ‘gallon smashing prank’ where a person would purposely drop gallons of milk in a grocery store while making it look like an accident, leaving a huge mess for some poor supermarket employee to clean up.”
— u / Random - Username7272
2.“Licking stuff at the grocery store and putting it back.”
— u / midwifecrisisss
3.“For me, I’ll never be able to process the fad from the Victorian era of EATING EGYPTIAN MUMMIES. Never will that shit not send me right back to pure disbelief, horror, and confusion.”
4.“I would say pulling pranks on random people in public.”
— uranium / Skechaj
5.“Gender reveal parties, especially the ones with fire.”
— uranium / pamplemouss
6.“At-home X-Rays in the late 19th century. People would get together toX-Ray each other for fun, exposing themselves to huge amounts of radiation.”
— u / thestenz
7.“As far as fashion — the tiny little mustache trend that everyone wore. It was printed on everything for a solid year or two and was just cringe in general.”
8.“The devious lick.”
— uracil / tabm8hype
" There was this trend of shaver ripping anything they could off from the wall of their schools and stealing it . They would steal anything from sink to toilets and terminate up causing a spate of dimension damage ! "
— u / hapimaskshop
9.“I never really understood the whole pet rock thing, tbh.”
— u / nytocarolina
10.“The tapeworm diet. People would supposedly eat a tapeworm to lose weight.”
11.“People pretending to be ‘poor’ or ‘working class’ without any of the actual drawbacks, like that hipster wedding in the 2000s that got a lot of flack for having a ‘Depression-era hobo theme.’ Whenever I see stuff like that, I think of theZoolanderfashion show based around homelessness called ‘Derelicte.'”
— u/1_art_please
12.“COVID-19 spreader event parties.”
— u / GuruCaChoo
13.“The girl boss trend. It’s mentally exhausting.”
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14.“Recording yourself doing good actions, like giving food to people experiencing homelessness with a camera in your hand. It’s not charity if you expect something in return or if you’re taking advantage of others. That kind of cringe kills me.”
— uracil / Artistic_Performer_4
15.“Pole sitting (testing how long you could sit on a pole) and dance marathons (testing how long you could dance) in the early 20th century.”
— u / vmax1608
16.“Literally any TikTok dance trend. I used to work in a school and the kids would be trend dancing down the halls, running into walls and other people because ‘it was the thing to do.’ Maybe I’m just old, but all of those dances are just goofy as crap.”
— u / UglyBirdsAreCool
17.“The clown trend that happened a few years back.” (In 2016, people all over the world started reportingevil clown sightings).
— u / BradDaChad_96
18.And finally, “That one where men would dip their testicles in soy sauce because they believed theirballs had tastebuds.”
— uracil / YeaImGuilty
Note : Some responses have been edit out for length and/or limpidity .
