19 Wildly Popular Things Everyone Just Forgot About

PocketEpiphany Published 11/06/2021 in ftw

Popular things tend to stick around in our culture. For example, franchises like the Ghostbusters absolutely refuse to die after becoming a major hit.

However, some things have been insanely popular for a hot minute and then practically disappeared. Here is our roundup of wildly popular things everyone just forgot about!

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Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits with the writing across the ass.
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The whole Joe Exotic thing didn't last very long, although there are periodic updates. Among other things, the property was sold (and cannot be used as a zoo for at least 100 years) and one of the zookeepers, who did appear on the show, died from an overdose.
4.
Bacon fetish. For like a decade in the early 2000s people wouldn’t shut up about how bacon was the best thing ever. T-shirts, bumper stickers, memes, aprons, etc. That sh*t was everywhere. And these days bacon is just a normal food again.
5.
I know a guy who saw the fidget spinner thing coming. He mass-produced a bunch of them, sold through the entire stock, then sold his company immediately after and bowed out right before the whole thing cratered.I sort of feel sorry for whoever he left holding the bag. But man, those things just didn't stick around long.
6.
Those commercials that try and sell you wallpaper for your phone
7.
That mustache thing? Like in the early 2010s, every girl had mustaches on everything. Mustache bags, pencil cases, clothes, etc
8.
Oppa Gangnam Style
9.
AOL Instant Messenger
10.
Sneakers that you pump up. I had models with both internal and external pumping mechanisms.
11.
3D TVs. I am not sure if I would call them hugely popular but at CES one year they were super popular and by the following year, there was barely one in sight.
12.
Those sour Altoids. Damn those were good.
13.
Susan Powter and her "Stop the Insanity" videos. She was everywhere on cable TV in the 90s.
14.
Different colored ketchups
15.
Livestrong bracelets
16.
Yahoo! Games
17.
KONY 2012
18.
Slot car racing was huge in the seventies. Now it is nearly extinct.
19.
Ed Hardy clothing.
20.
Silly Bands, anybody?
21.
Heelys
22.
Do the HARLEM SHAKE
23.
MySpace. Everyone seemed to peace out of it at the same time.
24.
Probably Game of Thrones. I don’t even see many memes about the ending being bad anymore. No one talks about it
25.
Furbies. Not that I mind. Those things were creepy.
26.
Those pictures where you stare for a while and the blur becomes a sailboat.
27.
Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits with the writing across the ass.

1.
Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits with the writing across the ass.
2.
3.
The whole Joe Exotic thing didn't last very long, although there are periodic updates. Among other things, the property was sold (and cannot be used as a zoo for at least 100 years) and one of the zookeepers, who did appear on the show, died from an overdose.
4.
Bacon fetish. For like a decade in the early 2000s people wouldn’t shut up about how bacon was the best thing ever. T-shirts, bumper stickers, memes, aprons, etc. That sh*t was everywhere. And these days bacon is just a normal food again.
5.
I know a guy who saw the fidget spinner thing coming. He mass-produced a bunch of them, sold through the entire stock, then sold his company immediately after and bowed out right before the whole thing cratered.I sort of feel sorry for whoever he left holding the bag. But man, those things just didn't stick around long.
6.
Those commercials that try and sell you wallpaper for your phone
7.
That mustache thing? Like in the early 2010s, every girl had mustaches on everything. Mustache bags, pencil cases, clothes, etc
8.
Oppa Gangnam Style
9.
AOL Instant Messenger
10.
Sneakers that you pump up. I had models with both internal and external pumping mechanisms.
11.
3D TVs. I am not sure if I would call them hugely popular but at CES one year they were super popular and by the following year, there was barely one in sight.
12.
Those sour Altoids. Damn those were good.
13.
Susan Powter and her "Stop the Insanity" videos. She was everywhere on cable TV in the 90s.
14.
Different colored ketchups
15.
Livestrong bracelets
16.
Yahoo! Games
17.
KONY 2012
18.
Slot car racing was huge in the seventies. Now it is nearly extinct.
19.
Ed Hardy clothing.
20.
Silly Bands, anybody?
21.
Heelys
22.
Do the HARLEM SHAKE
23.
MySpace. Everyone seemed to peace out of it at the same time.
24.
Probably Game of Thrones. I don’t even see many memes about the ending being bad anymore. No one talks about it
25.
Furbies. Not that I mind. Those things were creepy.
26.
Those pictures where you stare for a while and the blur becomes a sailboat.
27.
Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits with the writing across the ass.