View Full Version : What fads from your youth did NOT like?
Storm Eagle
12-18-2010, 10:53 AM
So, when you're a kid, and you're a part of certain fad experiences, your parents would probably get on your case about it, and tell you that the thing you're into is inane. However, there were probably things that were popular in your youth that even you managed to dislike. So what were they? Here, I'll start by sharing mine:
Garbage Pail Kids: They were just too gross for me. I still can't stand to look at them to this day. I probably sound like a hypocrite though, since I can watch most horror movies, played and own the Mortal Kombat games, and am still a huge Beavis and Butt-head fan to this day. I'll admit though, at first they didn't seem so bad to me, and I was even going to start buying them myself. The store I went to was out of them. Then new waves started coming out and were starting to get a bit gross for me. That's when I decided that they actually do suck.
Pacifiers: I saw a lot of kids wearing them when I was in the eighth grade, and I thought they looked damn ridiculous. It totally made my day when the principal announced on the loudspeaker that kids are banned from wearing them in the school.
Okay so this is all I can think of for now. If there were any others, maybe they'll come back to me and I'll mention them.
Original He-Man. Too sexist.
Samhain
12-18-2010, 04:48 PM
Yu-Gi-Oh- I wasnt really ''little'', I think I was like 12 or 13. But back in the day, it was all about Pokemon. Then, all of a sudden, everyone liked Yugioh. That is, except for me. I was the only one that stayed into Pokemon (Still am to this day). All my other friends talked about that crap nonstop and teased me for still liking it.
Other than that I cant reaally think of anything else...
RAM BAM
12-18-2010, 09:05 PM
That ball with a ring around it Maybe someone can refresh my memory as to what it was called. You bounced on the hard plastic part and there was a rubber ball in the center.
pet rock pointless.
Power Rangers i could not stand them.
Powder
12-18-2010, 10:22 PM
Yu-Gi-Oh- I wasnt really ''little'', I think I was like 12 or 13. But back in the day, it was all about Pokemon. Then, all of a sudden, everyone liked Yugioh. That is, except for me. I was the only one that stayed into Pokemon (Still am to this day). All my other friends talked about that crap nonstop and teased me for still liking it.
Other than that I cant reaally think of anything else...
Power Rangers i could not stand them.
I've been spoken for. Peace.
Storm Eagle
12-18-2010, 11:36 PM
Power Rangers. I could not stand them.
Eh, you're no fun.
As for the pacifiers I talked about, this is what they looked like.
http://leannpeterson.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/pacifier-necklaces.jpg
Though here's another thing that I never bothered with even as a teenager, and it still goes on and I still think is ridiculous. Sagging pants.
Tomoshibi Amatsu
12-19-2010, 06:36 AM
It might sound weird but I never got into Looney Tunes or the Hannah Barbera shorts. I just always found them boring. Even now I still don't really like them. I prefer stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs more.
It might sound weird but I never got into Looney Tunes or the Hannah Barbera shorts. I just always found them boring. Even now I still don't really like them. I prefer stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs more.
Those aren't fads.
Tomoshibi Amatsu
12-19-2010, 12:41 PM
Those aren't fads.
I don't know. I'd consider it a fad since it was shown so much when I was a kid, and most people my age liked that when they were kids too. But then again I could just be going by what popular cartoons I just wasn't a fan of when I was a kid. I don't know it feels like the same thing to me.
Pokemon was really the only thing I ever saw as a fad. But I guess I never really got into transformers or GIJOE. If I have to go by fads like those I mean. I wasn't trying to come off as stupid or anything in this thread. I just never considered any of that stuff fads. I just saw them as popular shows. Even TMNT I only saw it as a popular cartoon not a fad.
But hey I was just a kid then.
GK Punk
12-19-2010, 07:29 PM
Original He-Man. Too sexist.
Wha...!? But He-Man was the coolest!
Furbies.
I just didn't friggin' get it.
Candy Kappa
12-19-2010, 10:06 PM
Furbies.
I just didn't friggin' get it.
What?!
Furbies where awesome, waking you up late night with their evil dead eyes, screaming profanity to you. Nagging for food until you strangle it with a cord...
Yeah... Furbies was fun until you actually got one
What?!
Furbies where awesome, waking you up late night with their evil dead eyes, screaming profanity to you. Nagging for food until you strangle it with a cord...
Sounds like where I used to live. :P
Machias Banshee
12-19-2010, 10:43 PM
Furbies, Beanie Babies, Pogs and Pokemon. Guh... I never understood why people had 30,000 pogs. Furbies could be taught to be evil, Beanie babies are useless, and pokemon was the ONLY thing I sold while working at Sears in high school...
Storm Eagle
12-19-2010, 11:24 PM
Since I had mentioned Garbage Pail Kids earlier, I remember when I went to orientation for the high school I was about to attend, I saw some stuck on the inside of someone's locker and I prayed to God I never got that locker. Thankfully I never did. They came out in the 80s, but I went to high school from 1993 to 1997. They were brought back in 2003 though. I used to like going into Hot Topic, but I stopped going once they started selling Garbage Pail Kids cards and other merchandise such as t-shirts.
Eh, you're no fun.
Lol just never really liked them. Plus couldn't really understand why there had to be an explosion after every fight they had.
Jester
12-20-2010, 03:03 AM
That ball with a ring around it Maybe someone can refresh my memory as to what it was called. You bounced on the hard plastic part and there was a rubber ball in the center.
Oh...the Pogo-Ball. My grandma had one for us kids when I was younger. Never could do it very well.
http://www.qfonic.com/images/products/rockhopper/image01.jpg
I was always late to the fad game. I came late to Power Rangers and then abrubtly left and gave all my PR role playing stuff (Morpher, Blade Blaster, Saba the talking sword) to some neighborhood kids. Never liked Pokemon, though I'm sure I'd like the game, the craze surrounding it was nuts. Never got into G.I. Joe, Thundercats, or He-Man, mainly because I think they were a tad before my time is all.
BubblyShell22
12-20-2010, 10:23 AM
Power Rangers, Pokemon, and Furbies. I loved Beanie Babies and have a big collection of them.
Wha...!? But He-Man was the coolest!
In 2002? Absolutely!! ^_^
Tomoshibi Amatsu
12-20-2010, 02:19 PM
Furbies, Beanie Babies, Pogs and Pokemon. Guh... I never understood why people had 30,000 pogs. Furbies could be taught to be evil, Beanie babies are useless, and pokemon was the ONLY thing I sold while working at Sears in high school...
I totally remember having pogs.... Though I was never sure what I was supposed to do with them.
Hackysacking too I never got into. I just couldn't do it. XD
and well I never got why people crapped their pants so much over tickle me elmo.
Yeah. Crapping your pants was the retardest trend ever. :sick:
Tomoshibi Amatsu
12-20-2010, 07:37 PM
Yeah you just weren't cool unless you crapped your pants. XD
What was with that? :P
MrPliggins
12-21-2010, 12:36 AM
Hated Power Rangers (a little past my time anyway). 90210. new kids on the block. simon. british knights. ninja turtles (ok, i started to like them eventually...).
Another fad? The California Raisins. Why?
Because they were f*cking raisins.
Storm Eagle
12-21-2010, 01:01 AM
Hated Power Rangers (a little past my time anyway). 90210. new kids on the block. simon. british knights. ninja turtles (ok, i started to like them eventually...).
I wasn't into New Kids on the Block either, but I couldn't help but be happy to hear a song in the background of a scene from a movie from late 1989 which I watched recently. It just took me back to a time much simpler.
Tomoshibi Amatsu
12-21-2010, 01:52 PM
Does Criss Cross count? I think they were probably worse than Vanilla Ice.
denying one's personal opinion for the sake of 'fitting in'
the exaggerated importance of sports
social irresponsibility
idolizing hooligans
manipulativeness
pride in idiocy
extremism
And, Treasure Trolls. I mean, seriously, WTF? >_<
Tomoshibi Amatsu
12-21-2010, 04:13 PM
I don't know. i had a few treasure trolls in my day, and thought they were pretty cool. I even had a TMNT Mikey troll doll. They were pretty cool to me. Never really thought of them as a fad though.
ah beanie babies. I never really got into that. I mean what was the point of collecting them anyways? I hardly doubt that many got the kind of money they expected from them.
Storm Eagle
12-21-2010, 04:44 PM
Does Criss Cross count? I think they were probably worse than Vanilla Ice.
Ah, Kris Kross. That's not really a fad, but they're a rap duo that was popular in the day. If there's anything "fad" about them, it's the whole wearing your clothes backwards thing. Something I never had a problem with, yet never practiced myself.
I had their first two albums. I got their second for Christmas in 1993, and I swear I only listened to that one ONCE. When I decided to sell them, I was surprised someone on Amazon actually bought the first one, Totally Krossed Out. Mind you, these were both on CASSETTE. I got the other one sold too, but I sold it along with my other cassettes on eBay when I decided to get rid of all of them.
For the record, I actually didn't switch to CDs until 1996. Eventually I replaced most of my cassettes with their CD counterparts, but not the two Kris Kross albums.
Ninja Turtles 25 Years
03-31-2011, 12:55 AM
Beakman's World
Pogs
Power Rangers
The Smurfs
Tickle Me Elmo
Benie Babies
GI Joe
Pogo Sticks
deadpoolRKO
03-31-2011, 07:13 AM
Kriss Kross. i forgot about them , dang it now i'm gonna have "I missed the bus.. I missed the bus. and that's somethin i will never eva eva do againn. " in my head all day.
but for the thread subject , I can't think of any i didn't like.
Pokemon , Power Rangers , Ninja Turtles , Dragonball Z , WCW , WWf, yu-gi-oh , digimon, ect.
I dove in headfirst, got involved in, and loved all of them.
RAM BAM
04-01-2011, 09:34 PM
Oh...the Pogo-Ball. My grandma had one for us kids when I was younger. Never could do it very well.
http://www.qfonic.com/images/products/rockhopper/image01.jpg
I was always late to the fad game. I came late to Power Rangers and then abrubtly left and gave all my PR role playing stuff (Morpher, Blade Blaster, Saba the talking sword) to some neighborhood kids. Never liked Pokemon, though I'm sure I'd like the game, the craze surrounding it was nuts. Never got into G.I. Joe, Thundercats, or He-Man, mainly because I think they were a tad before my time is all.
Thanks Jester! I was trying to think what those things were called. I remember seeing a lot of those by the curbside ready for collection.
ssjup81
04-22-2011, 07:15 AM
I used to have a Pogo-ball, and I also liked those pacifier necklaces (didn't have one, though).
A "fad" that comes to mind that looks stupid to me now are those high-top fades that boys wore. That hair style looks so stupid to me now. The higher it was, the cooler. Y-yeah....:trolleye:
As for the Kriss Kross discussion, I loved them as a kid. I liked their rap because I could understand the lyrics! :tlol: I thought the backwards look was cool, but looking back now, it just looks stupid. >< lol
Sword Slicin' Leo
04-23-2011, 01:51 PM
Does Criss Cross count? I think they were probably worse than Vanilla Ice.
No,because at least they did'nt lie about being from the hood in Miami somewhere
magicalgirlj
04-23-2011, 01:58 PM
I never likes the Back Street Boys. But now they are better then Justin Beiber
Immaturity for the sake of self-promotion rather than entertaining others aka hoodlumry.
shuriken
04-25-2011, 02:35 AM
Furbies, Beanie Babies, Pogs and Pokemon. Guh... I never understood why people had 30,000 pogs. Furbies could be taught to be evil, Beanie babies are useless, and pokemon was the ONLY thing I sold while working at Sears in high school...
^this. Along with Yu Gi oh. I was trying to watch an episode with a buddy of mine a few weeks ago and we have come to the conclusion that shows like that are making kids dumber. We also came to the conclusion that the only way we could enjoy it is if we were intoxicated:lol:.
Funny thing about Pokemon was that I disliked it growing up, but became ok with them once I played the game and became addicted for a while. Naming my Golumn Scrotum never got old...
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