Asklemmy

Lip injections. Not once has looking like you just got hit in the mouth with a hockey puck helped someone look better.

If we go back in history, there was a point in time, after radioactivity was discovered but before nuclear weapons were developed, where there was a trend of putting radium and other radioactive substances in health and beauty products, because I guess people thought that because it possesed some form of energy that it must be good for you. In hindsight that seems far more stupid than some embarrassing dance or something.

Man, you guys need to try harder.

Tide pod challenge

Saggin pants

Moustache tattoos on your finger

Punisher branding for showing how much of a "badass" you are

Upspeak, Valley girl talk, vocal fry

Any of these idiotic "pranks" that harm/bother innocent people

Licking ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back on the shelf (for the clicks of course)

This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.

Planking was stupid, but dying while planking was epic stupid.

Harassing minimal wage workers for clout.

People died trying to get a Tickle Me Elmo.

The thumbnail of a person with their mouth wide open used in every YouTube video

Tic Toc challanges takes the cake. Nothing like eating tide pods or stealing cars

Bitcoin

Yea, I said it

Guys wearing florescent orange or yellow knee high socks with Adidas slides and shorts that was all over a few years ago.

Dudes setting flat billed hats on top of their head way too high.

Yeti stickers on trucks. Glad you like your cooler dude.

Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn't the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube. Seeing Oakley gear kills me, I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley's aren't even good glasses. You paid too much for the privilege of looking like a tool.

When people would do something then say “psych”

Tulip mania/tulip craze in 17th century Holland.

NFTs.

Cryptocurrency was already a bad idea overall, but at least it had some function and purpose compared to rent-seeking ledger slots that are associated with ugly cartoons.

Keto, it "works" only as a side effect of you ending your intake of something that's necessary for its balance. You don't need vigorous exercise to lose weight like some claim but you also shouldn't take precipitated shortcuts. I bet nobody here has ever had their own doctor tell them "keep up the keto, you're doing good".

Someone mentioned the explosion of radium...everything that took place between the discovery of radium and the discovery that radiation is bad for you. Well I've got another deadly stupid historic fad: Scheele's Green.

Scheele's Green is a pigment invented in 1775 by Carl Wilhelm Sheele. I's a vivid slightly yellowish green color, which became all the rage throughout Europe in the early 19th century. It was used in paints, candles, wallpaper, to dye cotton and linen, even to paint children's toys and as a food dye.

Scheele's Green is acidic copper arsenite. CuHASO~3~. It's very toxic. Numerous reports exist of children "wasting away" in "bright green rooms," women "swooning" wearing green dresses, and instances of acute poisoning around burning green candles. The publicity of the 1861 death of a 19 year old named Matilda Scheueur as a result of her job painting artificial plants with the dye, along with her autopsy showing her eyes and fingernails were turning green from the pigment, led to its decline.

Scheele's Green was used as an insecticide in the 1930's.

Religion

Fake eyelashes

People in England rented pineapples for clout.

NFTs and cryptocurrency

those NFT apes

People trying to cram into phone booths, cars, other small confined places in the 50s.

This thread is weak as hell. Tide pods challenge? Planking?

How about giving yourself an anal fistula because the king got one done and you wanna look fancy?

Wearing onions on your belt. Especially those big ugly yellow ones

Wearing jeans back to front.

Cross coloured jeans.

My pants had a lock and key on the front . I actually paid for that. Ikeda lock ups.

Wearing headphones around the neck just for the looks.

Though I loved mine at the time... Reebok Pumps.

So dumb.

Being a "sneaker head"

Flipping a bottle of water to impress your friends on the internet

I'm a performer over 30, and can proudly say I've snuck the floss into like 3 acts. Usually just for a second or so, but I make it a goal to sneak it in. Usually while on fire.