What was cool when you were young but isn’t cool now?

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BrittBratt2416 · Accepted Answer

A lot of the things, being emo/goth was cool back in the day. Don't see a whole lot of people doing that style anymore. Having a whole bunch of tats use to be considered cool now it's just kinda norm in society, especially bands people most likely expect them to have tats.
Boy bands definitely use to be cool but are only cool in Korea these days. older games and tv shows like dragon ball etc..

Ordinarygurl_ · Accepted Answer

Game boys, the DS

sasukeuchiha7 · Accepted Answer

PSP Gameboy emulator Connector sketch pens

GreenGold1992 · Accepted Answer

everything 90's

WhiteSteve · Answer

I could spend 15 minutes on jeans alone haha. Baggy jeans, colored jeans (I had green, maroon, fuckin’ PURPLE😝) and my matching colored denim vests lmfao (I can’t even tell you how cool I thought I was in those outfits🤣), the cool brands were like Marithé-François Girbaud, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.

I remember guys wearing Africa pendants and Flavor Flav clock necklaces sometimes. Fuckin’ 8-BALL JACKETS, holy fuck lmao. Starter brand sports team anything (now available at Walmart lmfao), especially the pullover winter jackets, could get you beaten and robbed, literally.

The brand Cross Colours was EVERYTHING.
Also loved these pants called Skidz, they were basically pajama pants/shorts that you wore outside that cost $40 in 1990-dollars lmao, and they just had a patch on the back pocket that’s the standard “Caution: Slippery Road Ahead” street sign.

Also, I just saw Greta Van Fleet live the other night, and they are legit ROCK STARS, just outstanding. However, besides them, I’d be hard pressed to name you a current popular rock band, that genre seems to have disappeared from the mainstream. I listened mostly to rap and R&B growing up, but I’d say rock/alternative/grunge still had a bigger following. Those were the kids I’d get in fights with at school lmfao.

I could really go on all day with this, haha. I remember wearing a lot of hockey jerseys for a couple years. Reebok Pump sneakers were insanely hot in the streets. Slap bracelets were big for a year. Another year we were all wearing these colored-plastic baby pacifiers you got from gumball machines on strings around our necks lmao.

Some activities are out of style too. I don’t think hanging out at the mall is really much of a thing anymore. Same with arcades. I actually wonder what teenagers do for fun now, haha. Like we went places and did things, I feel like you just go over someone’s house now and text and watch Netflix, and swipe through Tinder, and you only go outside once in a while to “do it for the ‘gram”, haha. I don’t know, maybe I’m off base, I should ask a question about that sometime.

But yeah...”when I was a kid” was a long time ago now, so pretty much everything thing is out, except for the stuff they brought back in style. I saw a young girl in Fila sneakers on the subway the other night and it warmed my heart and soul lmao.

BeMuse · Answer

JAMS were popular when I was about 5 years old. They were really colorful shorts with weird patterns...

Anonymous · Answer

Frosted tips Parted hair, I guess it's called curtain hair cut. pogs

Lliam · Answer

Speaking of men's fashion: The Saturday Night Fever look. Double knit, three piece suits with bell-bottom pants. Long, pointed shirt collars. Gold medallions on chain necklaces. Styled hair.
I was a rocker when that shit came out, so I despised it then and still do.

InTimoreDei · Answer

I didn't follow the crowd so everything I liked back then, I still like now. Only sheep and followers say stuff like "why do you like that? It isn't cool anymore... lame".

I still like oldschool punk, I still play CDs, I still collect cassette tapes, I still dress vintage etc.

TripleAce · Answer

Baggy jeans Dress shoes with a thick sole and a thick heel lol Buckle over laces  Middle part hair 😂  Skipping class Backstreet boys 😂

Massageman · Answer

Cracker Jack that had actual toys in them.
Gum balls for 1 cent.
Ducktails on guys.
Winky Dink.
Super Circus. (see pic)
(and a little later) Polyester leisure suits that melted if you tried to iron them.

What was cool when you were young but isn’t cool now?

Jaye234 · Answer

I'm going to go with MTV which was actual MUSIC TELEVISION back in the day, no rap booty popping crap they show now.
Comedy central used to be funny and filled with... comedy
TV Land was cool back then too

ChiTown33 · Answer

I've noticed it's become a thing for people to wear clothes (like pants) that look like they're too small for them. When i was young we called them "high waters" and ask people if they were waiting for a flood. Now people do it deliberately. Smh lol

TheUniqueOne96 · Answer

Spiky hair, at least I thought it was, as I had my hair like that for years. I used to have the black shirt with flames on it, that I wore a few times and I'm pretty sure I thought that look cool.

ChurchOfIron · Answer

Bring low riders back pls.

The_Underground_Man · Answer

Selfies used to actually be considered cool and deep, like your own personal model portfolio, back during the mid 2000s when I was a preteen. Now it makes you look like a loser. Everyone wants interesting group photos.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Pogs were big when I was a kid as well as the original super marios game which was 2-D.

OldSchool_Metalhead · Answer

Mp3 players and CDs, and hannah montana. As a kid i had a hannah montana obsession but now i hate that bitch 😂

Thrifty · Answer

I took care of these little shits like they were my own.

SexyAshh · Answer

Playstation Gameboys Furbies (they scare the shit out of me still) -ipods -coach purses -abercrombie and fitch (all i wore) -razr cell phones/blackberries/ and sidekick cell phones

Salmon4056 · Answer

Hannah Montana and all other disney tv movies, heelies, thin eye brows, colored contacts, backstreet boys, kesha, nerf

Florancerose404 · Answer

Pogo sticks Spice girls Westlife Boot legged Jean's  Pigtails  Lipgloss  Space hoppers Platforms  Karaoke machines Dance mats

silvermoon84 · Answer

As a teenager it was Hanson, tamagotchi and jnco jeans. When I was really young (like 7-ish) it was slap bracelets and New Kids on the Block

Noodle_fan · Answer

this hairsyle

Arielbubble · Answer

Nightclubs were cool to me when I was young. Until I discovered a lot of drugs took place n date-rape as a unfortunate result. Night clubs n stuff are OK but not when they are abused like that. Nowadays I prefer the alternative scene

chunlilovesvega · Answer

I became a Backstreet Boys fan in 1998 I still love them though MTV is shit now.

hellacray · Answer

Well in my school there was a period of time where all the kids were collecting crazy bones. Which is like miniature figures. It was a fad that disappeared kinda quickly when Pokemon cards showed up.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Tamagotchis. I never had one but those things were fascinating to me as well as those magnetic cubes with screens on them with stick figures that are able to interact with the cubes connected.

just_a_potato · Answer

We used to trade silly bands at the back of the school, now it seems to be juul pods 💀

Midnight_Kiss · Answer

Tamagotchi's, Pokémon cards, light up yo-yos, spaghetti strings etc...

nojokecarmichael · Answer

Jeans under a skirt like Hannah Montana from disney

almondcake · Answer

Gas lights instead of electric having to go out and collect water from the tap outside. These were at holiday camps but it was fun for a kid to do

purplepoppy · Answer

I asked my grandparents this question and they said lynching black folk

EleganceOfBanana · Answer

the emo belt with silver squars ( dunno the englisch word for it )

IlyaTheImpaler · Answer

String Theory :( sadly we live in an era where experimental physics lags behind theory about 4 generations

Levin · Answer

MSN messenger. Yeah, I suppose, fuck me, grandad? :(

NicolaD · Answer

Hot pants. Space Invaders. Platform shoes. Prawn Cocktails. Babycham.

Dchrls78104 · Answer

1. Walkmans/Discmans and CDs 2. Kid N Play  3. Loud music in certain public transport vehicles  4. Video arcades  5. Cinema (now there are Multiplexes, DVDs, and YouTube in my country).

Mikey_Ramone · Answer

Pokemon, Doraemon, Detective Conan as manga, rock and roll music like Queen, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Skynyrd, Ramones etc. or TV series like The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Hannah Montana, Cory in the House, etc.

Now it's just a bunch of crap.

MK2808 · Answer

talking to the opposite sex was cool earlier. now it feels burden

Anonymous · Answer

y'all don't even know  I have a huge penis lol

DakotaNorth · Answer

Playing hockey / riding a bicycle without a helmet.

codycccccccccc · Answer

Of course I was a amansipated minor with riverside property and a booze connection

Bulls-fan23 · Answer

CD Players/MP3 players (no use since everything is in our phones), Britney Spears (she seems like a bitchy diva now), WWF now WWE wrestling (kid friendly)

MarkRet · Answer

Mood rings, and guys having shoes with buckles instead of strings.

Samhanks · Answer

Stay young, think you, live young and dont consider you are older now !

pervertedjester · Answer

Disney, Star Wars and Marvel.

coachTanthony · Answer

Dress shoes with no socks!

Razal · Answer

Every age has its own excitements, charms and fun parts.

Secret6620 · Answer

Baby phat and rocawear 🤣😂

kelsey_disney · Answer

Low rise jeans hahahaha

ManOnFire · Answer

Wearing backwards tam hats.

kazna_bozija · Answer

Hm hannah montana and everything in the series

sockandshoes · Answer

MySpace lol. good times.

ColoradoKid · Answer

Parachute pants.. lol

Anonymous · Answer

The concept of dating.

genericname85 · Answer

gender roles xD

Jackblue · Answer

pokemon, skateboarding

HereIbe · Answer

Everything, every FUCKING thing!

Gedaria · Answer

People were not so up tight...

jae_jae · Answer

Pogs, Sunny D, and YTV.

2shredded · Answer

Kendamas, I was good too 😤

Piteka5 · Answer

Playing with sticks as a kid

TohhhruAi · Answer

Liking Japanese girls is always cool

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