Alright, every generation has their fair share of embarrassing trends that are fun to look back on and laugh at. For us younger people the early 2000's were a lawless wasteland full of colored ketchup, Heelys, Silly Bands, flared jeans, MySpace, Neopets, Webkinz, Motorolla Razr and countless other things.
A trend isn't always a product thought, sometimes it's a way of thinking, a way of dressing, a television program, and just about anything else. So in a world that is constantly progressing how do we still manage to get it wrong from time to time? Below are some modern day trends that should probably stop.
1. Songs made for one specific dance move.
Now songs like this have always been around. If you're not sure what exactly I mean by this, I mean a song that literally tells you how to do a dance or a song made for one specific dance move. The Hokey Pokey, Crank That, Teach me how to Dougie, and white people's favorite song to look white to...The Cha Cha slide are ALL examples of this type of song. I will say there are some fun exceptions such as Gangnam Style, The Time Warp, and The Thriller are definitely time-less fun. How ever some of these songs have just gotten lazy. I can not, repeat can NOT stand the Nae-Nae song. So lets just put a stop to these all together now.
2. NonProtective Phone Cases.
Look I get it if you have a phone case because smartphone's durability is garbage. Or even if you have one of those phone cases that doubles as a wallet, I get it. Stuff like the one above just are stupid. They offer little to no protection and just look tacky.
3. Announcing that you are not going to vote.
One, I literally created this meme for this article so you're welcome.
Two, I know this has always been a thing people have done, but I feel like this election there will be more of it than ever.
Three, I get that you don't like the nominees. Hilary or Trump is like picking between holding wet dog poop or dog dry poop. Either way, it's sh*t! However if you announce that you're not going to vote you are literally doing this country absolutely NO service and therefore you have NO right to complain.
So do yourself and everyone else a favor by educating yourself, getting out there, and voting.
4. Dealing with Issues on FaceBook.
There is so much garbage on my FaceBook timeline any given day of the week I don't know where to start. Social Media is for being you and putting your opinion out there. However when you post the same day-in and day-out complaints about the way someone does something you need to take a step back and think, "Hey maybe I should actually do something about this". I hate the filters on profile pictures when some sort of tragedy happens or something. It just kind of seems tacky. I will say the exception was when the Supreme court voted in favor of Same-Sex marriage and Facebook did the LGBT filter. I did appreciate that. Anything else though? Nah. Finally those 1 Like = 1 Prayer pictures.... NO. A like is a like and a prayer is a prayer...period.
5. Treating superhero movies as a separate film genre.
Look, I'm as big of a superhero movie fan as the next guy (huge comic book nerd), but I do kind of get tired of hearing "well it's a superhero movie" as an excuse for lack of detail and quality in some films. Whether it be shaky camera moments, poor dialogue, or lack of a real antagonist in an effort to bridge other universes SuperHero movies get to slide by on a lot.
6. REBOOTS
Part of what make trends, trends are movies and TV shows. When you think 80's or 90's a lot of shows and movies will instantly come to mind. So with all these reboots, remakes, and way belated sequels it kind makes the 2010's feel like a melting pot of different time periods and the result isn't as awesome. Why? Because the originals were unique to the time.
7. Acting like certain celebrities are hot.
Talent and intelligence are most certainly attractive. However I find it interesting that some people will go head over heels for someone just because they are famous. They think they are the most attractive person in the world when in reality if they weren't famous they would stay away. I'm not going to name, names to avoid being rude, but you definitely have someone in your head right now.
8. Voice Control.
Whether it's Siri, Cortona, or just plain Voice Control we all know the accuracy isn't always there. I think this technology just needs more time to be developed for accuracy, it doesn't do a whole lot more than make people look stupid in the grocery store as they repeat their text for the third time.
9. Lopsided food prices.
It's pretty self explanatory.
10. Pages dedicated to one specific meme.
Dat Boi has got to be one of the greatest memes of all time. Memes are sort of a trend in themselves, but they evolve so they will never die. Where do memes go to die? Generally once a meme has peaked a page devoted to that one specific meme (i.e. Dat Boi Twitter) will run that meme into the ground. I was pretty stoked for caveman spongebob until that got pages too.
11.ZERO/DIET SODAS
They are disgusting, they are not good for you and when babies start being born with feet for hands and vice versa we'll know who to thank!
12. Hoverboards
I hate calling it a hoverboard, because it's really not. A more accurate name would be a horizontal ripstick. I hate these things. The only purpose they really have are just to be like "hey I have a hoverboard" kinda like a segway without the handle bars.
Well those are just a few of the trends that need to come to a hault asap. If you have any more suggestions leave a comment below!
