• Asherah@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Remember those silly rubber “Armstrong” wristbands? I had a million different ones and wore about 20 on each wrist to school and everywhere else. Yeah, I was pretty goddamn cool. 😎

  • NotNotMike@programming.dev
    5·
    3 days ago

    When I was younger I fell for two - baggy jeans and llamas.

    I remember in 5th grade I tried to joke about llamas with one kid and show him the llama song (because he loved llamas) and he said I was just copying him. In hindsight fuck you Hans, you didn’t invent llamas, you were just copying others too, you tool!

    Baggy pants were regrettable too…

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
    9·
    3 days ago

    I dunno how much I’m about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I’d used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.

    Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that’s just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
    4·
    3 days ago

    I wore baggy jeans and oversized hoodies in the early 2000’s. That’s pretty much the last time I “followed a trend” that I can think of though there probably are other occasions too that just don’t come to mind now. Most of the time I get into things either before they were cool or way after the wave has already passed.

    • Mango@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 days ago

      I made a meme too! It’s “If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”

      It’s a comment I made on a Louis Rossmann video!

      I also did “capitalism doesn’t return the shopping cart”.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
    11·
    3 days ago

    Wore my mother’s bell bottoms to school and they fell apart while I was at school. Everyone got to see my undies q.q

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    3 days ago

    Bitcoin. I mined some (might’ve even been on my CPU at the time) back when it was easy to mine it. Not a ton, but enough that now I have to explain that despite thinking blockchain is just straight up a scam, I do have some Bitcoin in a wallet on my hard drive somewhere. (That I’ve never done anything with.)

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        3 days ago

        Yup. I can. I have around 1/20 of a Bitcoin, so the amount I have should be worth about $3,000 USD (unless the price has crashed since I started writing this post. 😈)

        Cashing it in would make me feel dirty. It’s basically just handing the bag to the next bagholder. (Though, I’m not really a baholder per se. I’m not really invested to speak of. The only investment I made to get this Bitcoin is to leave my computer on for like a month or less.) Feeding the ponzi monster, as it were.

        But then again, it’s $3,000.

        As much as I hate myself for admitting it, the possibility that the price will climb a little higher is probably part of why I didn’t trade it for real money back in late 2021 when the price of a Bitcoin was so high.

        But, yeah, you’re probably right I should just sell it. Maybe I’ll just make whoever I sell it to promise they’re not giving me next month’s rent or their kids’ college fund. Lol.

        Edit: Ok. You’ve inspired me to make a post asking other crypto-skeptics what I should do with it.

        • yum@lemmy.eco.br
          3·
          3 days ago

          It’s crazy how this amount could actually change my life right now. At some point I did also have 1BTC but decided to gamble it all away because I thought it would never have any actual value so it didn’t matter.

        • Today@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          I bought $270 worth that is now worth about $1,700. I have no idea what to do with it.

        • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
          13·
          3 days ago

          If it’s any consolation, I just use bitcoin to convert to Monero to buy drugs. So in a way there is an actual use for it 😊

        • Fermion@feddit.nl
          6·
          3 days ago

          You could donate it to some financial literacy nonprofit if you want to be rid of it without feeling dirty.

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!

    In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.