Duck face came to mind yesterday - randomly realized I hadn’t seen duckface in the wild for a long time.

Or, alternatively, what are some old fads you wish would make a comeback?

The spirit of the question is social fads. Please try to keep replies to lighthearted things. I’ll delete the post if the comments turn into political commentary.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 day ago

    Vaguebooking. At least it died out for me, when my age group grew up past high school. Specifically, the vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass “motivation quotes” or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life, usually pointed at someone.

    I still have one person who never moved on from high-school who still does crap like this, but now I just still follow them for the pure nostalgia and the joy of seeing these. Seriously, they show how immature they are, unable to actually go talk about their emotions a veil so thin of “please I want my privacy” while posting about it online.

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      19 hours ago

      Omfg yes. I remember when Facebook had that promt next to the posting input, prefixing all statements.

      “Person”… is feeling like somebody hurt me badly.

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      Oh my, yes. That one needed to die before it started. Obviously fishing for responses, refusing to elaborate, sometimes getting defensive in the comments, sometimes moving conversations to private chat.

      And the tired old “someone knows who they are!”

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        17 hours ago

        Followed with one of their friends saying “Yeah Tim’s an asshole” and them replying either “Yes he’s such an asshole” or equally likely “Please respect our privacy”. Either way, super annoying.

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          Just publicly saying they’re in the know, and closer to the poster than anyone who doesn’t know. “Look at me! I’m such a close friend that I know who they’re talking about!”

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      vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass “motivation quotes” or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life

      You’ve just described like 90% of the AIM away messages in high school lol.