It's wild that we're already more than halfway through the 2020s, and my oh my, have things changed!
There's a Reddit thread discussing early 2020s trends that died out, so since we've put together similar lists before, we've created a MASTER list combining them all.
1. Birthday drive-bys, like when people would celebrate birthdays... driving by... in a car:
2. Making sourdough starters so you could (obviously) make sourdough bread:
3. Attending Zoom Happy Hours:
KILL ME.
4. Making whipped coffee aka dalgona coffee:
5. Singing 20-second songs so that you knew you washed your hands for the proper amount of time:
Doing elbow handshakes:
Awk!
6. The "Pillow Challenge":
7. Random people doing Instagram Lives:
8. Arrows on the ground at stores telling you which way to go. Also markers on the ground showing you where to stand in line.
9. Snow days... because now it's just usually virtual school:
10. The "nature is healing" meme:
11. Obsessing over Tiger King:
12. And also Carole "Hey all you cool cats and kittens" Baskin:
13. People calling (and screaming) it "corona virus":
14. Also people calling it "the rona":
15. Getting a pet during lockdown... and then returning it:
16. NFTs:
17. Quibi:
18. BeReal:
19. Stanley Cups:
20. McDonald’s all-day breakfast:
21. Putting butter in coffee:
22. Decluttering your house and also the Marie Kondo method:
23. Doing lots and lots of puzzles:
24. Changing your Zoom background to something "quirky":
25. Reading the signs outside stores to see what was out of stock:
26. Hoarding toilet paper:
27. Hoarding meat:
28. Basically, hoarding almost everything except Corona beer:
29. Stores being sold out of all bottled water except Dasani:
30. Not being able to find hand sanitizer/wipes anywhere:
31. Becoming a plant parent, buying lots of planets, and making it your entire identity:
32. Sea shanties:
33. VSCO girls:
34. Liking New York governor Andrew Cuomo:
35. Watching awkward TV specials and interviews where celebs filmed themselves at home:
36. Celebrities doing random online events:
37. TikTok dances like the "Blinding Lights" and "Savage" ones.
38. March 1 vs. April 1 memes:
39. Animal Crossing:
40. Peloton/home workouts:
41. Clapping for essential workers:
42. Vaccination cards:
43. Hyper realistic cake videos:
44. The everything is cake memes:
45. Downloading a bunch of social apps like Clubhouse:
46. Never knowing the day of the week:
47. The "hope this email finds you well" meme:
48. The viral feta pasta recipe:
49. Cottagecore:
50. Making banana bread:
51. Cutting your own bangs:
52. Gay guys buzzing their hair off:
53. Tie-dying clothes because there was nothing else to do:
54. Learning how to make candles:
55. Making jokes about the last time you wore pants:
56. And lastly, celebrities making "inspirational" videos from their mansions to songs like "Imagine:"
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