People Answer Which Trends They'd Rather Never See Again

Twenty five trends that are perfectly acceptable to never have in our lives again. Ever.

Shasta

• Published in Funny
• December 24, 2020

What's wrong with the world today? Or the decade?

Trends. That's what.

I am literally the opposite of all things trendy. In fact I run like hell in the opposite direction of trends.

I don't wear labels, I never have. It just isn't my style.

I listen to music that I genuinely love.

All of my interests are legitimate, and honestly I don't watch the news for this specific reason.

Fortunately for me, I am not alone in my dislike for trends, and these people hope this list of 25 trends from the last decade don't follow us into the next.

1. Let's just rip off this bandaid.

The increased division in party politics. Our politicians (and many other citizens) seem to take the far right or far left view on a political issue and refuse to consider the middle ground.—DeathSpiral32

2. If you make plans, just stick to them. Keep your word.

Cancel culture.—Rambler43

3. I mean...

Astronomer here! No one asked me about the Flat Earth theory until just a few years ago. The fact that it’s picked up again is just so astounding if you think about it. Frankly though it’s just part of a greater trend of anti-intellectualism, and the idea that you can now “choose your own facts.”

I started posting about astronomy on Reddit because the misinformation I read annoyed the fork out of me, and most people are really appreciative to hear the truth. However, the cynic in me notes that astronomy facts very rarely affect our lives the way some other settled science can. And I know plenty of people out there are a huge fan of space and willfully ignore facts when it comes to, say, climate change, because the truth there is unpalatable and affects them more immediately.

Carl Sagan said in the 90s in The Demon Haunted World that- “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…” I think it’s pretty clear this trend began in earnest in this decade, but I hope we will be able to right the ship a bit in the next one.—Andromeda321

4. Leave them alone guys! PLEASE! Just go get them waxed!

Whatever the sh*t people are doing to their eyebrows is probably the worst trend of the decade. Like the 2000s were bad for eyebrows, but I’m not sure the appropriate corrective measure was to go from having the least brow possible to having the most brow possible and drawing them on so precisely you look like an anime character.—smuffleupagus

5. How about toning down the rage on video games all together?

Crappy video games that is only there so you can pay to play—baby_bomb_squad

6. Clowns man...NO!

The trend of people dressing up like clowns with knives and axes and scaring people. It’s a miracle nobody died that was the possibly the dumbest trend ever. —MasterChiefSenpai

7. Let's just put this one down and leave it there..

Fascists making a come back globally is a pretty regrettable trend of the 2010s. —Orthas

8. You're not wrong.

Those shirts that have the shoulders cut out —bee8819

9. Yeah, it's time for the Rise of the Villain. <3

Super hero movies. There. I said it. —xerosere

10. Can we make mental health a priority yet?

Turning depression into a meme. Making humor out of an unfortunate situation is one thing but tweeting about it all the time is annoying, let alone an unhealthy way to tackle it —1BoldMotherFricker

11. SPEAK!

The online troll culture. It’s easy to be negative and critical. It takes maturity to have a dialogue. —oeg572

12. Yeah if we could stop being scared of guns and start taking control while simultaneously arming ourselves, that would be great.

The mass-shooting trend wasn’t particularly well-thought-out —Earth_of_Worms

13. .....What words am I supposed to have?

Logan and Jake Paul —Austiniuliano

14. But I mean...I love memes. They make life less heavy.

Worst trend of the 2010s? How meme culture turned into a contest to produce the “coolest” and “funniest” memes. Memes are also chewed up and spat out at ludicrous speeds rather than left to naturally die. —cmpgamer

15. It's literally Boomers vs GenZ

“Millennials are killing the X industry”

Often while completely missing that most of the “millennials” they’re complaining about are years too young to be millennials, and that millennials aren’t a single hive mind where everyone thinks the same. —axw3555

16. Can't we just enjoy youtube for a change?

Anything that becomes a YouTube fad is apparently a challenge now, or people will just put “challenge” at the end of their video title. “SANDWICH CHALLENGE!!! CAN I SUCCESSFULLY EAT LUNCH????? (GONE SEXUAL)” —TheWholeSandwich

17. Does original content no longer exist?

Seemingly endless stream of movie remakes and sequels. (most poor) done mostly to make a quick easy buck off the name of the previous movie, and sadly most show a lack of creativity and original thinking. —AnnInnocentMan

18. Use makeup to accentuate features....Not overwhelm them.

Highly overdrawn lips and eyebrows- like, I can see where your real lip ended a half inch back! —M14535955

19. Form your own opinions, BUT do the research too!

Social Media making everyone feel like they need to be heard. It’s one of the main reasons why stuff like anti-vaxxers, MLMs, Nazis, cancel culture, flat-earthers, etc. exists. Misinformation is just spread like a disease within echo chambers like that. —oooriole09

20. Me too tbh.

Anti-intellectualism – refusing to believe experts in their field over some crazy person on the internet. I think it got worse this decade and I hope we leave it here. —My_Name_Is_Not_Kathy

21. For real.

Social media “influencers”—DeathSpiral321

22. Why...just why...

This isn’t a prank, it’s a “social experiment” wherein we’re going to see if people get mad when we walk up to them and punch them as hard as we can! —unnaturalorder

23. I find this so incredibly odd.

Just all the family YouTube channels in general —Yeetmeisterz

24. MustAskkkkkk Muuuustashhhhhhh.

That weird moustache trend that was popular around 2013, you know when teenagers would have moustaches on the phone cases, as jewellery and what not. —linnnnnnnny

25. Definitely left the most thought provoking for last. LOOK IT UP!

Kony 2012 —salldie

Shasta