What are some of the stupidest trends/fads that have existed? - eviltoast

fornite floss dance for me.

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      10 months ago

      I think that’s a bit reductive. I know nothing about the gender identities of Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus. What I do know is that I’m an Old and their ‘music’ sounds like overproduced pop crap to me. I don’t dislike them because it’s trendy or because of homophobia, I just dislike them because I find them obnoxious.

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          10 months ago

          Obviously I don’t know them personally; obviously I’m talking about their public personas. I remember they each pulled a bunch of attention-seeking antics, and coupled with the shitty music it all just seemed very manufactured to gain fans, which yes, I found obnoxious. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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      10 months ago

      I think I can explain Nickelback: They have a very distinctive sound, and they made like eight extremely similar sounding songs, all of which got significant radio play, that it was pretty easy to get sick of Nickelback.

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      10 months ago

      “Hating furries” was basically a default personality substitute for the first few decades of common internet use, too.

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      10 months ago

      Bieber is genuinely terrible. Cyrus is genuinely cringe. Does it count if I already generally hate all celebrity worship?

      Nickleback is genuinely awful. So is mpst music aired right before and after it. There’s a lot of shitty corporate bands. Hating it definitely became a fad, but a great fad.

      Tribals tattoos… whatever, yeah, it just a design to me

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      10 months ago

      Imagine Dragons is great, honestly. I found those haters are trend chasing idiots. Their music partly saved my life.

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          10 months ago

          It is a noteworthy trend that college or post-university students are the main listeners of Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Skillet, deadmau5 and so on.