The Latest TREND.

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Speaking of YOLO, I had no idea what that meant for a long time until I looked it up on Urban Dictionary. Considering I'm in the demographic who says that, I guess I don't keep up with the trends generally. :D :p I have never seen "real talk" ever used anywhere, not even any of my peers.

Another thing, I'm so out of touch, I don't own a mobile phone and I only got Facebook just over a year ago.
 
What about fml... and the hashtag stuff....

Yeah... I try to stay away from most of it..
 
Really I do everything I can to stand out as an individual and stay away from fads. For the most part my banana head friends and I make fun of the fads these days like YOLO and having "swag", the people who do follow the fads get pissed at us all the time but eh. We don't care.
 
Nope not too much because I'm not in the crowd to even worry about it.

I though YOLO was about the dumbest thing I heard after I found out what it ment. I really thought it was some dance or something at first.
 
See, I wouldn't mind if YOLO was used, say, in a type of sentence similar to this one:

"Sitting on the beach, not a cloud in the sky. It's just so quiet and peaceful, YOLO".

But since the general youth decides to use it in ways mentioned in the OP, it becomes an idiotic hashtag.
 
Real Talk has been being used for years. It was just more of a ghetto thing. I guess now since rap is one of the most popular genres, at least in US, everyone is using it. I haven't heard a lot of people use it though.
 
Seems with trends there are four kinds of people: 1. The people that create the trends. 2. The people that originally start following the trend and are the biggest supporters of the trend's creator. They are who decides the fate of the trend in question. 3. The blind followers, these people see the people who initially support the trend and follow it because they do. And last but not least, 4. The people that don't give a **** about the trend. Generally these people already know who they are, what they do, and feel they don't have to follow a trend to fit in, because they don't care about that. Where would I fit in these categories? probably the fourth one. Mainly because I think the whole YOLO, Swag, whatever is the next one is dumb and makes no sense. Then there are trends in other areas besides language, there's fashion trends, food trends etc. I don't care about those, I'll wear my t-shirt and bluejeans, and be the meatatarian because it's simply who I am, not because I want to fit in. Does this mean I don't want to fit in? Of course not, I'd love to have attention, but only for who I am, not for what I am faking to be.
 
Great post, Alex - and yes, I'm sure many feel the way you do.

A lot of good posts in here - I'm learning something new everyday! :lol:

Trend-pushers (remember 'dumpstatus') can be annoying. When a trend evolves naturally, and may be even beneficial, that is a good thing, whatever the motives are. Yoga, for instance, became quite trendy some years ago, and no doubt even those who took it up only to be trendy must have benefited from it. Mismatched socks is a trend that seems to come and go. Tweeting seems to be one of the hottest trends now. NOT being on FB is not so untrendy now.
And the trend that has so insidiously crept into society? Social Networking.
But, I guess, that's when a 'trend' becomes the 'norm'.
 
Where I'm from at least, chino's have become a 'fad' for popular people to wear, you know the types that also wear Lacoste polo's and cardigans.
Among my friends they're known by the affectionate name of 'Chino w***ers'. They're also the sort of people that like 'Jay-Z' and 'Drake' and think it's 'gay' to like anything else, especially metal for some reason :confused:
 
What was once a trend is now mainstream.
Which one am I talking about?
Taking live-action video and photographs of whatever disaster is happening around the person - doesn't matter if the Cessna you are flying in is about to buy the farm, or people getting shot six feet away from you, or a tsunami is about lift you 200 feet into the air - the iPhone has to keep rolling. ( Or Samsung - is that the same thing?)
This started out with Rodney King - an amateur video going viral - with stunning consequences. Along the way - as the public grew braver, and the media got more hungry - and there was fame and money involved in 'iReporting' - everybody picked up on it to the point that most of the graphic images and close-up video of what happened at Times Square in front of the Empire State Building was from the hundreds of iReporters on the scene.
iReporters.
iReporting which was once a trend (before it became iReporting) is now the norm. The trendiness about it of course is that it's now called iReporting.

So if you want to be mainstream - iReport! And hopefully your iReport goes viral. Then you'll be trendy.
 
Despite how much I hate Yolo....

🤬 Yolo...

I said it right before I had the first kiss I had with my current girlfriend :lol:

Now annoying trends.... Snapbacks, fitted caps and all assosiated on people that reaalllyyy should not be wearing them. (Pasty white teenage boys)

 
I see a Facebook trend happening at the moment, I don't know if it's just me seeing it or not. People are liking pages that have memes about (sometimes, very) specific topics
 
There's kids in my school that wear Ken Block hoodies and hats and they don't even know who he is or what he does. The wear them because they have the Monster logo.
 
R1600Turbo
Ugh, hashtags. Hate 'em. :yuck:
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#don'tgeddit

I'll put my hand up and admit that I've used #hashtags alot.:lol:

All that other stuff just gets on my nerves. (YOLO, REEM, Swag, etc.), and thats from someone who you would stereotypically expect to use them. I.e im not a Nerd or a grumpy elder.

#sometrendsijusthate

:D
 
Latest Trend: The Great Canadian Gun Shuffle.
Should go viral and spread to other countries according to those doing it.

As for the 'Ryan Effect' I spoke about a few weeks ago when people were going 'Who's Ryan?' - it turned into a bigger storm than ISAAC. Guess most everybody knows who he is now.

iReporting is more than a trend now; everybody wants live reports. Standard.
 
Ellis
Despite how much I hate Yolo....

🤬 Yolo...

I said it right before I had the first kiss I had with my current girlfriend :lol:

Now annoying trends.... Snapbacks, fitted caps and all assosiated on people that reaalllyyy should not be wearing them. (Pasty white teenage boys)

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Or the people that leave the stickers on their hats. As if people give a 🤬 about who made your hat, what size it is etc.? @Photonrider: Are you referring to Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan? Romney and Ryan are more stale than the crackers in my cupboard. :lol: I've noticed a trend that a lot more Canadians care about US Politics than I was aware of before, when the US probably never thinks about our politics.
 
vandenal
Or the people that leave the stickers on their hats. As if people give a 🤬 about who made your hat, what size it is etc.?
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I believe it comes from people wanting others to know their hat is fresh and new, and kind of turned into fashion from there. Not so much advertising the size of your head :p

I see a lot of people just hating on trends they don't understand in here, while generally following trends they think make more sense. So many are so quick to judge :p
 
God forbid you get caught out with an old hat on :lol:.
 
This is what it's like:

Example Sentence (actual English) - I'm going to go to the store and ask my friend what he would like too.
Example Sentence (Txtspeek) - Im goin 2 go 2 da stor n ask ma fraaand wht he wold lyk 2.

Can you even read that???!!!
 
ZohsixGT5
God forbid you get caught out with an old hat on :lol:.
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It is a presentation thing, much like having clean white shoes that look new.

While it might seem trivial if someone has a hat that looks new, in less well of communities, having a "fresh" hat is a sign of having some money. So that could be a reason for that trend. One could also consider that pulling a sticker from a hat might reveal a slightly different fabric color from shelf life, or perhaps residue from adhesive that attracts dust. Could be other reasons.

I'm sure a lot of members would judge me for changing out shoe laces on a regular basis, or the fact I have over 2 dozen pairs of shoes. I have a pair of white shoes I wear maybe a few times a month that I clean when I get home, and replace the laces when ever they get dirty at all, along with changing the lace style. People often ask me if they are brand new shoes despite being a couple of years old now because of this. I like that :p

Basically, people are far too quick to judge someone from their perspective, rather than considering the other person's.
 
Azuremen
It is a presentation thing, much like having clean white shoes that look new.

While it might seem trivial if someone has a hat that looks new, in less well of communities, having a "fresh" hat is a sign of having some money. So that could be a reason for that trend. One could also consider that pulling a sticker from a hat might reveal a slightly different fabric color from shelf life, or perhaps residue from adhesive that attracts dust. Could be other reasons.

I'm sure a lot of members would judge me for changing out shoe laces on a regular basis, or the fact I have over 2 dozen pairs of shoes. I have a pair of white shoes I wear maybe a few times a month that I clean when I get home, and replace the laces when ever they get dirty at all, along with changing the lace style. People often ask me if they are brand new shoes despite being a couple of years old now because of this. I like that :p

Basically, people are far too quick to judge someone from their perspective, rather than considering the other person's.
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Your point isn't so much about trends because your probably going to do this or have for awhile. Just like someone said about bright shoes these days, and I've worn bright shoes since I was probably 5. It's very rare I don't own a pair that's red/green/blue and stand out.

Anothe trend I really don't like is flatbill and only place you ever saw that was either old guy who didn't care or baseball players. I'm not sure how it ever got the the crowd it did but whatever.

As another thing about Ken Block/Monster shirts, if he was actually a rally guy first, hardly anyone outside that sport would even have those shirts. It just happens he came from the background he did, but it does bug me people have no clue. The good thing is it probably does bring some new eyes to the sport. I wont get into right and wrong of those new fans at times though. There are few Monster sponsored drivers that you can't hardly get hands on their shirts, or you don't see often.

I just know I rarely live in the trends because they don't fit me, but sometimes one does cross my path.
 
Wilbur
Your point isn't so much about trends because your probably going to do this or have for awhile. Just like someone said about bright shoes these days, and I've worn bright shoes since I was probably 5. It's very rare I don't own a pair that's red/green/blue and stand out.
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I think you completely missed my point, entirely.

Actually, yeah, I'm certain you did.
 
Yolo.... (Dumbest Slang/Saying) What the hell.

Toms (shoe brand)

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Vans... (been along for a while, generic shoe)

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Northface jacket (Clothing)

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Jansport (backpacks)

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*All this information I got is from Facebook*
 

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