#fads

[todayontumblr]

it's not hyper specific, but it's the best we got

#today on tumblr #fads #fidget spinners #flossing #hyper specific polls #polls #hyper specific #niche #trends #heelys #gangnam style #avocado toast

[lackadaisycats]

What did Rocky think of the cornflakes?

It's not a Kellogg reference - not directly anyway. Kellogg is remembered because it was one of the few lasting things that emerged from an otherwise sprawling wellness fad. There were mineral spring, hot spring, and medicinal spring resorts, spas, retreats, and hotels all over the US in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some were small and are all but forgotten to time. Some ended up with whole towns built up around them. Ultimately, the trend dried up as trends do, making way for the next thing. Its end may have been hastened somewhat by the government cracking down more forcefully on snake oil medicine starting in the 1900s, though. No doubt some people gained some easily explained benefit from vacationing away from city air thick with coal dust to relax in a naturally occurring pool, but some facilities were also doing things like bottling and selling such waters without proper sanitization, and claiming it had vague yet miraculous curative properties. Here are the ruins at Welch Spring - one such example in the Ozarks. It's an off-the-beaten-path place I went to check out while the pandemic was at its peak.

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #history #wellness #fads #1920s

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A slave to fashion: this young lady has all of them--all at once, ca. 1926. They are: a pair of bell earrings, a dog collar worn as a necklace, a large beauty spot on her cheek, an ivory cigarette holder, a design to cover the vaccination mark on her arm, heavy slave bracelets, a slave anklet, a photo of a boyfriend on her stocking, an anklet watch, fancy garters worn below the knee and a mirror fastened to her wrist.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #flapper #1920s fashion #Jazz Age #vintage fashion #slave to fashion #fashion slave #fads

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Carol Courtney and Freddie Diaz, marathon dancers, 1932, Albany.

#dancing #1930s #fads #fashion #historical

[arconinternet]

The Milkcap Stack: The Internet Archive's Milkcap/Pog Collection (Images, various companies, ~1993-~1998)

Hundreds and hundreds of the collectible little cardboard discs - most famously Pogs - from the mid-90's fad. You can view the collection here.

#internet archive #pogs #milk caps #fad #fads #1993 #1994 #1995 #1996 #1997 #1998 #1990s #90s #cw christianity #tw christianity

[feyti-odinsdottir]

I am unique, and yet I am not. I am just like all the other girls, and yet, I am nothing like them. My life is cottage core, dark academic, kidcore, and grunge. My mind is an emo, a clean girl, a mob wife, and a van lifer. My clothes are the 80s, my shoes are the 90s, my hair is 2015, and my jewelry is 1910. My piercings look like 2010, and my mind looks like a victorian housewife. My hair grows long, and then it's a bob. Yesterday I was grunge, today I am everything. My life does not fit within the boundaries of society, the boxes of the internet. My life is massive and all encompassing, it does not fit in the barriers of aesthetics and fads. Life is not a box to fill with pretty things, the colors and choices that everyone likes. Life is a kaleidoscope, don't waste it doing what everyone else does in the little screen. Life is more than the aesthetic it seems.

#aesthetic #just little bits of poetry #aesthetics #cottagecore #dark acamedia #kidcore #grunge #fads #tiktok fads #tiktok algorithm #tiktok aesthetics #pinterest aesthetic #against the current #pick me girl

[the-psudo]

Susan and I were talking, and we realized that we interpret the word 'cool' differently.

Where I grew up, the cool kids were the ones who had tried everything first. Every movie, they'd seen it. Every video game, they'd played it. etc. They'd done it all.

Where she grew up, kids were 'too cool' to jump on trends. People who jumped on every trend were sheep following the herd, and the cool kids had too much taste for that.

After discussing it a while, we decided that the cool kids at my school must have been the rich kids whose families could afford everything, and the cool kids at her school must have been the poor kids making excuses for why they didn't even want to do the things they couldn't afford.

Apparently class matters, even to elementary school kids.

#class #trends #fads #too cool for school #trendy #class consciousness #economics

[courtingwonder]

Food Fads 2011 - 2021

#infographics #infographic #food #culinary #art #creativity #fads #history #fun #interesting

[stevensavage]

Technical Fads And Those Who Benefits

Guess which tech fad I’m talking about?  Doesn’t matter.  I’ve been in IT nearly 30 years as of this writing and not much has changed, it just goes faster while the ephemera of it all becomes more obvious.

Every industry, community, etc. has its fads. Thats normal, humans love new stuff, humans are social, and humans innovate.  A seemingly trite fad today could be the foundation of great future potential.  It could also vanish, but that’s just life.

In tech fads - hell, most fads - one of the issues is money.  Fads can make you money especially if you jump on them, create them, support them, or exploit them and tech lets you do it fast.  Tech has been wildly successful the last few decades and has lots of money, attracts money, and attracts people who want to make money.

Past a certain point, the money starts to matter so much the reason for the fad - sometimes good reasons - doesn’t matter.  At that point I find you end up with really two populations jumping on fads.

People with money:  You got money, you can make money - and when others are making money, you want to run up the score or have more power than them.  You can invest in many fads and hope one pays off.  Of course this distorts the actual value of whatever new ideas are out there as you can take over a market (leading to enshittification) or just keep it going long enough to cash out.

People looking for a quick score:  Jumping on fads in tech - and elsewhere - can be profitable or can seem to be.  Everyone’s ready to try and make a quick buck and fads promise a lot of opportunity.

So everyone jumps on a fad, someone gets rich, and the fad either fades, breaks, or actually becomes something solid.  Then the next fad starts and here we go again.

Thing is, two results tend to come out of this when there’s lots of money to be made.  First, some people make a lot of money, and some people get hosed and lose out.  That distorts the next fad when it’s involves a lot of money (like we see in tech, film, etc.)

First, the people who made a lot of money can jump on, take advantage of, or start the next fad easier.  They have money, they can now multiply it again!

Second, the people who didn’t make a quick score or didn’t get in on it get more desperate for the next fad.  Why miss out?  Why not try to make back what you lost?  Why can’t you be like the people who won last time?

So the next fad is more funded - and more desperate.

Where does this go?  Honestly I think this happens in many areas, not just tech, but it’s all so intertwined maybe that doesn’t matter much.  But one thing it’s not to judge by environmental pressures and economic issues is sustainable.  Winners win more, losers get more desperate, and more and more fads don’t make anything.

I suspect at some point you either see the fractures above rapidly shatter systems, and probably causing that or around that time, there’s one big fad everyone bets on.  For that one, few to no one wins and a lot of people lose.

Just staying that with our environmental problems, that could be geohacking (which I support to an extent).  Chew that one over.

Steven Savage

www.StevenSavage.com

www.InformoTron.com

#trends #fads #economics #technology #technology fads

[waggingtongue]

smoke and mirrors

x's and o's

too many ways

to make avocado toast

.

jesters and stinkers

exes and ho(e)s

alphas with beards

thinking nobody knows

#poem #fads #alt lit #opinions from my mother’s grave

[severecatcloud]

Out:

Dead salmon hats

In:

Sinking sailboats

#Orcas #Fads #animals

[todayontumblr]

Monday April 24

Hyper Specific Polls: they are polls, and they are pretty specific

Forget fidget spinners, Flossing, The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Heelys, The Mannequin Challenge, Gangnam Style, and Avocado Toast. This is the latest fad. It's so on-trend, everyone is doing it. You wouldn't want to be the one not doing it, would you? It would be social suicide. More important still you must let everyone know that you are doing it, at least post about it, for goodness sake, lest you be in on the trend but unaware to the similarly on-trend masses. If a fidget spins in the forest, but no one is there to know, has it really spun? After all, if everyone is in on it, who are we to argue? When it comes down to everyone vs. not everyone, there can only ever be one winner. So you're either with us or against us, and the choice is yours. Because when everyone is casting their minds back to the Halcyon days of Late-April 2023, they will reminisce on one thing, and one thing only: #hyper specific polls. 

So if you're looking to get down with the kids or, like Principal Skinner, fretting that you may be falling out of touch, we have the answer. And it's very simple: you've just got to load up a post, select polls, and get hyper specific with it. Voila! Taco eating? Middle names beginning with E? Severe allergies to stone fruits? Taxidermy? Beating old schoolmates with purses? Going to Colorado? No subject is off limits. And now you too are a hallowed member of the masses of Everyone.

#today on tumblr #hyper specific polls #polls #hyper specific #trends #fads #human nature #flossing #gangnam style #democracy in action #ice bucket challenge #avocado toast #yum

[priestessofthepoeticprophesy]

#Boomers #Millenials #Gen X #cheugy #Gen Z #Zoomers #social commentary #fads #side part #skinny jeans #baby boomers #american culture #inequity #late stage capitalism #dystopian #history

[newyorkthegoldenage]

November 10, 1924: A new style has been started among the fashionable set at Deauville. It is that of the nose ring. Miss Beth Oemby (sp?), who had just returned to New York from the famous French resort, is shown wearing the ring, which clamps on the tissue of the nose, not penetrating it.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #nose ring #Jazz Age #Roaring 20s #Roaring Twenties #fads #Beth Oemby #Deauville #fashion #vintage fashion #annees fous #November 10 #Nov. 10

[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

GIRLS' NEW FADS, June 26, 1939 cover of LIFE.

(source: LIFE archives)

#1930s fashion #fads #life magazine

[regularsizedsally]

#its always sunny in philly #it’s always sunny in philly #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #the internet #fads