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25 Strange Trends From The Last Decade That People Disliked

Trends are always changing, and during our lifetime alone, we see a lot of them. From hairstyles to fashion choices to dance moves, we have seen society adopt various popular trends. Most of these trends are harmless enough. However, once in a while, a somewhat questionable trend emerges.

When ‘PaceSubstantial1107’ began wondering what popular trends from the past 10 years people would consider strange, he turned to Reddit for the answer. Scroll below to check out which trends most folks suggested as weird or disturbing.

#1 People filming themselves giving food or money to those in need .If you are going to help someone just do it don’t broadcast your good deed.

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#2 Youtube families—- I mean it’s weird how you put your 11 year old crying over homework on youtube.

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#3 Bigotry and racism making a come back. Didn’t think we’d be going backwards.

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#4 Not believing in science. It blows my mind the people who I used to think had their s**t together who now believe all of these conspiracy theories and “do their own research”. It’s crazy.

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#5 Gen Z thinking that putting your life on social media is normal. It’s not. It’s never been normal.

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#6 Tipping for everything and anything.

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#7 People forgetting how to talk into a mobile phone. Instead of holding it so the mic is by your mouth and the speaker by your ear, now people hold it flat and shout at the bottom while wondering why they can’t hear the other person properly. I don’t care if this makes me sound old, it just makes zero sense.

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#8 Not being able to talk to humans on the f*****g phone. I have to call doctor offices for my job and I always have to press like 5 buttons, only to have to leave a message.

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#9 Producers, directors and studios blaming audiences for not wanting to go see their remake/reboot/prequel/sequel. also studios spending so much money on movies that it’s virtually impossible for them to break even.

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#10 Blaming vaccines on everything from autism to, car accidents, to atheism, to drowning, to falling on ice, etc. Those people with fake tremors on social media just look like idiots.

#11 Pathologizing every conceivable human behavior so that no one has to ever be responsible for anything they do.

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#12 Gender reveals.

#13 People making money from filming themselves ‘reacting’ to things.

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#14 People annoying/”pranking” others in public and filming ensuing reactions. Annoying customers/retail & fast food workers and filming whole thing for likes and content. Leave people alone.

#15 People filming themselves in public doing strange dances.

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#16 A complete Disregard for science and discovery.

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#17 F***ing lip fillers and whatever plastic put to the body. Poor people. They don’t have to be pressured by non-essential physical standards.

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#18 Concert Tickets starting OVER $100 each.

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#19 The politicization of science. We’ve always had biased surveys and studies, but denying the concept of science entirely and the bragging about it like a badge of honor toward idealism is bizarre.

#20 Bring proud of being ignorant and uneducated.

#21 Anti-intellectualism. Being undereducated is a matter of pride in a lot of areas.

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#22 “Alpha male” b******t.

Anonymous: My friend suggested if anyone non-ironically says ‘alpha male’ to you just say you’re a ‘turbo dude’, and tell them its one above alpha male. I mean its made up anyway

#23 Massive numbers of people believing completely made up s**t.

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#24 Houses that are grey all over.

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#25 The broccoli haircut on every teenage boy.

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Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.