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I Can’t Stop Thinking About How Weird These 5 Millennial Trends Were

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05.04.2025

The original Harlem Shake meme video.

Now that most of us are over 30, a lot of us millennials have found that we are a little... uncool. In fact, you might even say that we are – and were – cringe.

Personally, I am a huge proponent of being cringe-but-free. I don’t mind that I am mortifying to my younger Gen Z sisters and I know that I will always have a little bit of twee embedded in my DNA.

However, there are some trends I look back on from the 2010′s that were just a bit... weird? Most of which were before things got really weird, so I’m not sure what our excuse is to be honest.

From planking to fake moustaches... WTF was going on in the 2010′s?!

Planking

There was a period of time that we just... started planking on random parts of our hometowns and cities, then uploading the photos to social media.

According to the BBC. while the fad took off in 2011, the earliest practitioners were........

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