When I was younger yo-yos. At one time that shit was ridiculous, all I saw was people tricking them out.
Another was the internet itself, now I can’t live without it. Almost every household requires internet now.
Dubstep for sure.
I forgot something: when youtube hit, I kind of knew it would blow up (though not to the extent it has). However, when all these porno tube sites started popping up, I thought (for some reason) they would stall out. At the time, there were only amateurs, and I didn’t think any site would be dumb enough to put up scenes from actual porn movies/sites and risk being sued. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. I remember the days where I could only get clips of porn. Now getting full scenes is nothing.
Tamagochis and Yo-yo’s. What the fuck, society?
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That shit was incredible.
batman…more specifically heath ledger’s joker. i knew it would gain popularity, but the media took it to a whole 'nother level.
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If it were some of you grimey-ass SRK dudes blowing up my phone, I’d want to keep you away too. I don’t blame them.
imo.
uggs…read a magazine a year before they came over to america. I said those things are ugly and never gonna take off…lol wtf do i know?
I didn’t think Mad Men would last one season, nevermind four and counting. I didn’t think a show about middle-aged ad executives could be or would be interesting. I’m glad I was wrong, because it’s one of the best shows on TV.
lil wayne. i was shocked into chicks who didn’t know shit about but had weezy mixtapes. that’s when i was like “wtf?!”
Bluray, I thought DVD was just gonna catch up to it.
Now I’m pre-ordering the bluray for Enter the Void even though I’ve seen it like 4 times already(BTW, It’s a great film that sparks discussion and begs to be analyzed).
I’m always surprised when ANYTHING I like becomes popular, because almost always I get into it years before anyone else even cares:
–Pokemon is probably the biggest. I mean, wow, who back in 1996 would have EVER thought a BLACK&WHITE GAMEBOY TURN-BASED JAPANESE RPG would become a multi-billion dollar cashcow?
I read up about the game in Nintendo Power months before it came out and was hype just because it sounded like a really cool RPG. Never ever ever ever though it would be 1/10th as popular as it was…with actual GIRLS and kids who never played video games in their life playing.
I mean, I was 14 when it was finally released in the US and I thought teens wouldn’t be caught dead playing this “kiddie” shit and kids were way too dumb and impatient to sit there and read text and play turn-based battles on a tiny ass 4-color screen.
–I was really surprised when Pro Wrestling become really mainstream back in the late 90’s during the Attitude Era. I mean, when I grew up watching wrestling, it was something you didn’t tell anybody in your family or school that you liked because you’d get teased the fuck out.
Then one year in high school tons of people are wearing Austin 3:16 and nWo shirts EVERYWHERE, wtf?
–Japanese RPGs becoming really popular in America, although now it seems like it was just a fairly short passing fad led mostly by FF7, and nothing else but FF is really selling anywhere, but still…I never thought games like Breath of Fire 3 or Lunar would ever be half as popular as they were…back then every RPG was riding on FF7’s unstoppable train.
Same. When I first saw the commericals a year prior to watching, I was like, “Another ‘drama’ about rich white people who have banal 2 dimensional problems”. Boy was I wrong about just how gripping and intricate the show is.
That marathon changed my life.
ed hardy shirts
they look like shit
Sheeeit, pro-wrestling was one of the main topics back in elementary school, but it could just be my generation. I remember we’d even discuss the events of Saturday Night Main Event the next morning in church. Then of course we got older, but wrestling continued to be what was basically a cartoonish soap opera aimed at little boys. When it moved into this “Attitude” era with ECW, Stone Cold, DX, etc…that was the real surprise. I didn’t think wrestling would ever get popular again after the early 90s, but that new era that was aimed at an older audience brought it back strong. There was stuff going on regularly that would never have been “ok” with the G-rated context of the old era. Haha, it was great…until the big stars left, the toned down the TnA to a pitiful degree, and things got stale again. Fast forward to now, and I haven’t watched a show in years.
Here’s one—Everybody Loves Raymond. I’ve never known of anyone that watches this shit, yet it was on the air and successful for quite some time. Maybe people just liked the fact that the main guy sounds like a Muppet?
The Bachelor— why is this bullshit STILL popular?! Women are seriously STILL watching this shit! Unbelievable. I was sure the target audience for this would’ve lost interest after seeing 1 season of it.
2nding.
Adding
-Silly Bands
-Earrings on dudes
-Heath’s Joker
-Snuggies
-CoD Montages
i did the same back in elementary school. i dreaded the morning, but always looked forward to recess, which was around 10 am, to discuss what i watched monday night with one of the Playground Supervisors and a kid that was a year older than me, since they were big into wrestling. We talked about WCW/WWF and a little bit of ECW. we also talked theory matches like “Andre the Giant vs. Giant Gonzales or “paul wight” Giant from WCW.” i still remember we would always look at the new Pro Wrestling Illustrated whenever one of us got it. Sometimes the Playground Supervisor would bring old PWI magazines and scan covers for us. Those days i actually enjoyed going to school Monday mornings after a PPV. i should stop before i get too nostalgic (WWF In Your House, WCW’s Halloween Havoc, Vince McMahon as commentator, the Four Horsemen…)
been noticing a lot of girls wearing shoes like this lately:
to me they look like if they have hooves
Lol man I felt the same way during that era.
Men wearing a pink color clothing - I never expect a day when a lot of dudes will wear a feminine color in public around 2003 I think. After that, years later the trend died off.
yeah well i’m sure in the premise for friends it didn’t say, use all of sienfelds jokes.
also… i don’t think anyone said it yet…but crocs. man at my job in high school we used to sell shit like that in the gardening department. now they have their own designer stores.