What trend did you start?

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solvej · Accepted Answer

"My high school had a "senior lounge" that was an alcove in one of the hallways within view of the vice principal's office. The lounge had a few sofas and chairs that looked utterly bland. One day I lugged in an old bean bag chair that had been in my bedroom since I was eleven. Didn't clear it with anyone in administration, just quietly walked to the lounge and dropped it there. It got talked about for a day because nobody realized how it had gotten there. Then classmates started using it. They loved it. Pretty soon that lounge had half a dozen bean bag chairs, all donated anonymously by fellow members of the senior class. The lounge which had hardly been used by the class before us became a real hangout. Until about a month before graduation when some nitwit unzipped one of the chairs and tossed handfuls of the filling at someone. The vice principal clamped down and by graduation the space had returned to its old sterile blandness. "

Anne-Kristina · Answer

"At my school, we have something called "Class Color Days" where everybody in each grade dresses up in a specific color. In middle school, my color was pink, but I had nothing to wear. So I got a piece of paper, folded it in half, scribbled on it in pink crayon, and taped it to my chest. I started doing it for every color day, and soon there were copycats. "

Giorgi · Answer

"I'm the person who came up with the word "tryna" when I abbreviated "trying to". You hear it frequently in southern accents. "

emma-sofie · Answer

Not saying I started this trend as a whole, but at my high school I did. Junior year I decided to shave off one whole side of my hair and have the other side spikey, I thought I looked pretty rad. Everyone talked shit about it, but a month or two later all the other girls were shaving parts of their hair too

Bucky · Answer

I introduced some friends to metal music in high school, specifically death and black metal. A few of them caught on and became metalheads and then they influenced other friends and siblings. There's a good chunk of people on my hometown that are now die-hard metalheads that likely wouldn't be if I hadn't shown it to those first few.

Nalani · Answer

Naruto running at school

Gofran · Answer

"I got 3 sort of "trends" that I started, all in my friends group chat of WhatsApp.  When I would totally agree with someone's message, I would rey to it with a period. This caught on in the chat rather quickly. Then, I figured: "." means "E" in Morse code, so I started replying to messages I agree with by saying "E". This also caught on rather quickly. I started using the abbreviation FE/Fe/fe/F.E./F.e./f.e. for "Fair enough", which also caught on very quickly.  "

Meryl · Answer

Pegging pants

LAKITA · Answer

Incest

LILLIANA · Answer

Nothing, because nobody cares about me

Marcello · Answer

Isolated trend in a Discord server. I made a joke that I did [nsfw thing here] with a stick. The stick became a joke that evolved into people reposting the screenshot nearly every day. Then it became an emote that people would spam. About a year late, one of the members made it into a spinning stick emote. It lasted maybe a year and a half and persisted even after I left the server. Finally told the mods and admins to remove the emote because I wanted the trend to die.

Jobey · Answer

"Not me but my sister wore this jacket with the pattern in the link and after then we've seen it everywhere. Every time we see it were just like "Oh look! Sister's Name's pattern!" It was probably just a coincidence but still pretty cool pattern "

anwar · Answer

"Calling my colleagues "hey grape". In my language is very catchy :) "

Fiinu · Answer

wearing plushies on your head to school.

Leonie Pfaff · Answer

Being cute.

Delcine · Answer

Not me but a kid from middle school  A kid walked around with his binder on his head perfectly balanced. he never dropped it and often did a Rubik's cube whilst doing so. Everyone else soon followed suit

Ulrike Eichel · Answer

"Read my username After that, everyone in middle school started wearing the same backpack as me, though it all started and ended in 7th grade, I'm a freshman now I got recognized as the "Pokemon Backpack Kid" and I still have that backpack with me when I'm hanging out with my friends, but I grew to like it, so much that it became my username in most of my social media(including Reddit) "

Taira · Answer

"The word fake. I know others, perhaps, have used it before. I also invented the phrase "prime the pump." "

Maurice · Answer

I brought a Rubik's cube into class and then a couple weeks later a bunch of people were learning to solve them and a teacher started a Rubik's cube club

Carlota · Answer

I started bringing my ukulele to school and suddenly half the school had a ukulele too and everyone else starting carrying it around and they even made a ukulele club.

ayse · Answer

Kinda minor, but when I was in high school, I worked at a movie theater. The uniform for floor staff was black slacks and shoes, with a red polo the theater provided. Under the polo, we were supposed to have a plain white shirt. I don't wear white. Ever. So I chose to wear a black undershirt. I got talked to about it every day, even written-up for insubordination. Other guys on the crew agreed with me that black looked better, so they did it too. After a while we managed to convince management that black was better under the polo. Now it's part of the uniform to wear a black shirt under the red polo. ... or at least it was, 10 years ago when I last worked there.

Novelia · Answer

"It's not a trend but I revived a running joke on a COD YouTuber's channel (Jrrizzo) the joke was "where is the Verukkt mod?" I said that during a Livestream of his and his friend told him he found the files to it reviving the mod. The next stream had him playing it and someone in chat said "I can't believe a passing comment revived this meme" I felt so proud. "

Carmella · Answer

"Anytime someone said the name bruce someone would yell "orphan" "Batman logic" "

Dacy · Answer

John Deere hats, 2002

Gaston · Answer

"People in school started saying "Hi" to me in my native language. Even to eachother. "

Cristine · Answer

I remember when I was in elementary school my dad gave me a bag of marbles. I took them to school one day to play during recess, I swear the next day a bunch of kids were playing with marbles

Martelle · Answer

At my school when I was in first grade I got everybody to hate cailou. You know the tv show about the bald kid. I got in trouble a lot by the teacher for saying things like I hate cailou. Thing went on for about four years.

Kelley · Answer

"Eating "soba" noodles in the forest back in the army "

Helvi · Answer

Thanking the bus driver during school filed trips

saseline · Answer

"POGO I'm pretty sure I was the one who was open about it, and all the kids who had thought they'd look nerdy where like "fuck it" "

Tatjaana · Answer

Truck nicknames where I work

Emelyne · Answer

"I was the first kid in my school to read Harry Potter, and got the rest of my class into it - this was before Pottermania. They would have eventually read it anyway, but we sure did have fun playing "Hogwarts" at recess. "

TIEN · Answer

Being sexy

Malkah · Answer

"Back in college in the early 2000s, some friends and I would make fun of online chat emotes and abbreviations by literally saying "LOL" and "OMG" verbally. Some years later, some Essex twats tried to trademark "OMG" because they'd recently said it on their reality show, and it suddenly became a popular thing for everyone to say. Same with people saying LOL verbally now, too. Also, a friend's older brother would come home drunk in the late 90s singing "McDonalds, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut". Five years later, a shitty pop band had their only hit song with it. "

Merrilee · Answer

little trend if you call it that that i made by accident at school my friends joke about it everyday their was a fire extinguisher case on the wall we were talking about how it was made of metal and if their was a fire the case would be to hot to open so i demostrated how to open it i pulled my hoodie sleeve above my hand and reached to open it thinking it was locked and pulled it back opening realizing my mistake a quickly shut it back my friends laughed about and everyday since then they would keep opening and closing it saying (oops, i did a Wolvith!) its annoying and a want the beat them to death because of it

Zuleyha · Answer

Each time I survived travel through Mang Yang Pass anyone with me heard about the French soldiers who were still buried up there.

Sandra Ritter · Answer

I don't remember why exactly (other than me being one of the only humour writers), but I started a funny advice column for my university paper. Not only was it a tremendous hit but after I graduated I was asked to do a couple more columns and then someone took over (they weren't as good...). Also, 10+ years later I started listening to a podcast that also made humour from giving BS device (r/MBMBAM). Which made me think I'd tapped into a rich vein but failed to realize how rich.

Leta · Answer

"In elementary school I made up this thing called "tasing". It's where you jab two of your fingers into someone's ribcage and shake it. You'd get so many different reactions it was hilarious. Some of them screamed to the top of of their lungs I can be heard in the hallways from random classrooms. "

VICENTA · Answer

"I used to write "Hiya" as a greeting on GaiaOnline and once typo'd it as "Hiyo." I liked how it looked and started using it on purpose. After a few months of this, I started seeing others using it. "

Nensi · Answer

When I was 5 in 2010 at school I started the angry birds trend

James · Answer

"Back in my school I started a game called super war, where you have 2 teams start at each side of the school's relatively small foot ball field, the 2 teams would LITTERALLY just battle and try to drag the other team players back to your goal to capture them as "prisoners", who ever has the most prisoners by the time break ends wins.... Yeah I was a stupid kid, good thing this game died before anybody got hurt "

Fehime · Answer

Fingerboarding at my school. I'm the only one good at it so everyone asks me for help, it's really fun!

Nalan · Answer

I proudly said i was a disappointment at school and then everyone else proudly said they were disappointments

ramla · Answer

Wearing a mouthguard all the time

Bridgette · Answer

Does any remember when starched jeans were a thing kinda in the mid ish 90s... I'm pretty sure I introduced the fad to Brownsville TX

Mora · Answer

During our middle school, everybody got a free notebook from gov. I downloaded cheat engine. Everybody who saw me was amazed of its function and asked to copy it from me. Apparently at that time, nobody know how to download anything from the internet. During my final years there, even people outside of my age started using it.

Brinkley · Answer

Burrito eating contest at my school

Hendrick · Answer

I made my dad say stonks. S T O N K S

dorete · Answer

My friend and I started a game at our local pool. When we were like 9/10 we made up this game where we would stand a few feet away from the edge of the deep end of the pool and play Rock Paper Scissors. If you lost, you took a step forward. Repeat until one person is in the pool. We taught it to our other friends and they taught it to their friends and eventually, it seemed like the whole town knew our little game. Still to this day (like 10 years later) we go back and see little kids playing the game we started.

Syzane · Answer

Using steering wheel covers at work. I drive paratransit and after about 150,000 miles, the vinyl steering wheel on a Chevy Express will lose the majority to all of its top surface texture, exposing the raw rubber underneath. This rubber has a very unpleasant feel and as I'm a very tactile person, I could not stand touching it for 9 hours a day and I hate wearing gloves. So one day after being assigned a bus with a particularly atrophied steering wheel, I stopped by AutoZone and nabbed a nice leather steering wheel cover. Everybody thought I was crazy at first but now I'd say probably a third of our drivers have a steering wheel cover in one form or another. Maintenance will replace the steering wheels but only after the metal core is exposed. Let's just say I've helped a few of them along...

Vanessa Brauer · Answer

The cheese touch

Cresa · Answer

Doing presentations when i was in 3rd grade. I did a presentation of my 2 cats when i was in third grade, and basically everyone wanted to make presentations.

Bogdanka · Answer

When I was in high school (early 00's) I started wearing black pleated miniskirts over jeans. Couple of weeks later it was all over the school.  I wore it with jeans and t-shirts because I thought it looked fun. I really liked pleated skirts but also my jeans, so why not both? Then a few girls starting trying to police the trend like there was a right way to do it and pretty much killed it for everyone lol.

asmaa · Answer

"On my YouTube channel, I did a cover of Sliver (Nirvana) and all the kids at my old school (I switched to a new one) would not stop repeating "Grandma Take Me Home" "

Vanessa Faerber · Answer

"Well we were walking at night next to a road on summer camp and with every bike that past (a lot, I live in the Netherlands) I would yell "nyooom" and follow the bike with my head as it past. The rest of the week you could hear 30 15/16 year old yell "nyooom" at every bike. Even the camp counselors joined in. "

Olive · Answer

Taking naps.

Jennifer Bieber · Answer

I introduced my school to classical Dance, theatre festivals. It was a f*ckng high School musical before hsm. Bullies, big kids, small ones, nerds, shy awkward kids, talented, theatre fanatics, comics everyone joined on every ocassion. Years later, one of my classmates/ aka estranged best friend is pursuing a career in acting.

Wadad · Answer

LIL' VROOM VROOM on scooters. Basically it's when you lower the height of your scooter bar to the lowest setting and ride it crouched. The worst things is that you can't drift so that's shit.

KASIE · Answer

Back in elementary school, me and my friend made the first accounts on Facebook, YouTube and on DarkOrbit. Everyone started copying us afterwards in the school, and it started spreading beyond it. In under a month, everyone in our school had a facebook account, including the teachers. As for DarkOrbit, about a week after we started playing, we started doing LAN parties of sorts in the computer lab (during classes in there we spent all the time raiding solo players in PVP maps).

Xever · Answer

"I don't really know if I started it, but there's this one F1 world champion Nico Rosberg, who now vlogs and uses over the top thumbnails and whenever something happens the titles of his videos go along the lines of "Is x's career now over?!" So this one streamer I love, Jimmy Broadbent, does a stream where he puts together a thumbnail for a iRacing live stream. I suggested he puts Rosberg on it. He then asked the viewers of a picture of Rosberg to pit on it. He was send this masterpiece and since then, it was used by more and more people. Just go over to r/formuladank and you'll find it pretty quickly. Another thing that I could really say I started was to reply "ok benson" to the articles of Andrew Benson. If you don't know this guy, he is a pretty biased writer on the topic of Formula 1. Whatever happens, he will hate on Ferrari and their drivers for whatever happens. "

Rab · Answer

Pillaging.

Tanja Schwarz · Answer

"Hating boomers.  I've been railing against them since 2008 and explaining how they're destroying the future for millennials. No jobs, no money, no housing, no future - everyone just said I wasn't working hard enough or didn't "understand how the world worked". I knew there would be intergenerational conflict and it would explode into a major issue. I even wrote a shitty novel based on the premise. Back then though, people brushed me off as jaded and cynical. Now they've finally come around. "

Trude · Answer

"Now, apparently drawing during class is cool? i literally have been made fun of for this, or called out by teachers and gotten detentions. Now all my friends do it too? like what, they never showed an interest in art when i talk about it, or share my art, but now it's "Trendy" they do it. ha ha i don't care though, because now i have art buddies. "

Valma · Answer

Suicide and Homicidal Aspiration

STEPHANE · Answer

i introduced my school to minecraft haha

Ilgin · Answer

I said woo and heck yeah and now everyone I spend a lot of time with says it

Silke Bieber · Answer

"I didn't start any trend, but people are calling me "Pineapple Man" coz they think I'm obsessed with pineapples. thats not true, I comment about other things too. People started to follow me to get my pineapples which is kinda mean and creepy. I just want to be left alone with my pineapples. "

SHAQUANA · Answer

That trend where you take a picture of you standing in your dorm room door, blow it up and put it on your door, life sized.

Libbi · Answer

Public restroom reviews on YouTube

Ingegard · Answer

I showed lots of people in my school to play Fnaf ( because I was a big fan of the game) and then, in one week many of my classmates were downloading and playing the game. And then that was just what I did.

Shafa · Answer

Not me, but my little brother predicted v-necks for men like 6 months before they were the hipster rage. He bought a bunch of them and I legit made fun of him because they looked like girl shirts.

Lynde · Answer

People at my university started climbing trees once I started doing it between classes. I often see people along the way to research just chilling, sitting on a branch.

Astou · Answer

I introduced double rope jumping in elementary school after I had seen the Disney movie Jump with that one dude from High School Musical.

Caprice · Answer

Wearing different socks, always bright colors. First year of high school everyone thought I was weird and made fun of me, then for the next 3 years everybody in school was doing it.

mariama · Answer

Upvoting every question that's not negative.. let's see if it works

Nannette · Answer

"When I was in high school I introduced the computer game "Elasto Mania" to my friend (I'd been playing it for years), and then a short time later suddenly everyone at school was playing it. I can't prove it, and I never told anyone, but I really suspect I accidentally started the whole thing. "

Amma · Answer

"I was an early subscriber to yahoo in 96-97. My yahoo name was "gogonut". I signed onto yahoo chat as that and by the next couple of days there were dozens of gogonut chat rooms on yahoo. This is now spread throughout the world. As far as I know I was the first. I was the only one on yahoo when I created it and I just thought it up one night. Mainly cause I was on the go all the time, working, two kids, single mom. I had it as a license plate for about 10 years in NC. Scouts honor it happened. "

Klaudia Koertig · Answer

Rubix Cubes at my school. There's some dispute about this, but all I know is that I brought a rubix cube to school one day.  Then another kid did, and another until the only sound while waiting before school in the morning was the grinding of Rubix Cube gears.  Still carries on to this day. My sister who's in first grade has one and so do a bunch of the kids at the school

Marjanna · Answer

i said yonk instead of yoink in a group once and everyone else started using it unironically

NGAN · Answer

Diplo. I'm Diplo's dad.

Atlante · Answer

"Khakis. My dad was given a pair of them from one of his co-workers. I started wearing them because I was never a fan of the way jeans felt. "What are those?" Within 6 months lots of kids were wearing them. "

Jackqueline · Answer

I was in a car accident on my way to school in 7th grade. The guy that hit us was driving a Ford Explorer. When he hit us, the entire front half of the car literally folded in half. From then on, I called them ford exploders. Now it is the only thing our school's students refer to Ford Explorers as.

Adelice · Answer

"Shouted "Ah shit, here we go again" during a game, 2 weeks later it became an internet meme "

HUI · Answer

I found a way to make a gray, play dough like substance in elementary school by intentionally putting Elmer's glue on my hands and rubbing them together. We called it sticky tack, like the blue stuff teachers used to hang posters. It pretty much instantly became a huge trend in my class and needless to say, my teacher was furious about all the sticky hands and desks that generated from this trend.

JI · Answer

Only at work, but I showed up in a sweater from #ivegotyourback911. Then another girl loved it and got one. Then another. Now almost everyone at work has a sweater from there. On one side, I no longer like wearing mine because everyone wears theirs all the time and on the other side, the proceeds go to mental health in first responders so I'm glad they are getting so much support.

Sanna-Maija · Answer

Wearing my jacket like pants and zipping it up all the up behind me and the hood around the waist.

Carlyn · Answer

"Ok so at my school I made up a vibe check thing. So you walk up behind someone and say "vibe check" then neck them. "

Solja · Answer

"I started the saying "Go die in a hole." I was like 14 when I said it when I got frustrated playing cod and it spread like wildfire "

Rae · Answer

In elementary I remember bringing Lego guys to skool and then everyone did

Miisa · Answer

Hating everyone.

Ejan · Answer

In elementary school I started the thing where you open the straws by smacking the bottom of it until it opened. I still see kids who do that from my elementary school to this day

Lezlie · Answer

At my school, Calvin and Hobbes. I was born after C&H had already ended so it wasn't a thing I ever knew about. When I was about 5, I found my Dad's copy of the original compilation book and just kept on reading it. When I was 8, I eventually worked up the courage to take it into school and tell my friends about it. Pretty soon, reading time turned into a bunch of kids huddled around one book until everyone pretty much had their own. Today at 23, I have almost every smaller compilation book and the 3 book complete collection and reading it is still as amazing as the first time I ever saw it.

Yvonne Bader · Answer

In my favorite place, I started a few trends

Acelya · Answer

I don't know if I started it, because I'm the outcast, but wore pigtails in 3rd grade cause I got lice and my mom forced me to cut my hair short, then after a few months EVERYONE was wearing pigtails

Jessika Schweizer · Answer

Bloons td5 in our Afternoon school program.

Kristell · Answer

Always feel like I was one of the first people to start wearing the large lens, thing frame and clear/white glasses. When I first got them I got told I looked like I was from the 70s but sooner or later almost everyone with glasses had moved away from thick frames to thinner ones often not black but instead clear or white.

ELIDIA · Answer

When I was in 8th grade I went to Mardi Gras and brought back a lot of beads so I decided to give some to my friends.The next few days I brought more,now I see a whole lot of people asking me for beads.

Susanne Wagner · Answer

Eating ass. I been on that since the 1900s y`all

Brigitte Baader · Answer

"Calling my grandparents " g_ma and g_pa" happened back in the early 2000s, they'd pick me up from school sometimes and I'd call them that cuz' I thought it was cool. It caught on pretty quick. "

Munevver · Answer

Chuck Taylor's at my school in 2004.

Rkia · Answer

in jr high, I got my hair cut with straight bangs across (in hindsight, a horrible idea) and then a bunch of other girls did the same

VERENA · Answer

In 1988 I landed a job in a large corporation where men wore white shirts and ties. I was in a marketing group and marketing guys are known to push the boundaries. I got the guys in our group to start wearing pink shirts on Friday.

Trey · Answer

I think I started the eye-scratching trend for my primary school

Madonna · Answer

I've given a few people nicknames that stuck- Percy- because the dude reminded me of the dog from pocahontas. Chuckles- because the guy never stopped chuckling.  And my favorite-speedbump- because my friend ran over his ankle.  TIL- I might be a bully.

Anna-Laura · Answer

Im from central Texas and when I was a senior in high school playing football I came up with the idea to run out of our large blow up mascot/cheerleader made sign with the Come and Take it flag. People from Texas know the famous story behind the flag from the battle of Gonzales. The Come and Take it flag quickly became popular at our school. T shirts made, bumper stickers, everyone bought a flag. The trend carried on to other schools in the area. 7 years later and my old team and other teams still run out with that flag. My brother is currently in that same high school football program and all of his team mates dont believe him when he tells the origin story of the flag. Oh well, some things are better left a mystery.

Manuela Neudorf · Answer

"At my school, i told people to "Stop breathing" or "stop existing." What do you know, everyone in my band class did it "

LAWANDA · Answer

"Well I didn't really start this trend but when I was in third grade I kind of started the "Charlie Charlie" thing and it somehow spread to the point the school administrators had to ban it because a girl starred crying when it said she has no friends, tough times. "

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