Remember When Chat Roulette Was Popular?

Chatroulette can be regarded as the most lame fad/concept that failed to take off. I remember sitting in my living room one day with 5 friends and a laptop. What was considered a good idea roughly one year ago, is no longer a good idea. It was probably a typical Sunday afternoon and we were bored watching television. Since Chatroulette was the new, fun thing to do, we went on the site. We sat there for a good 30 minutes clicking the next button. No one seemed interesting and were ugly to boot. Plus, if I wanted to watch a guy play with his penis, I'd look down. Dumb.

So on that day, we wasted roughly 30-60 minutes of our lives that we will never get back. As if we would have done something more entertaining. Literally all it was was non-Americans and guys jerking off. It's no small wonder that it was popular for 13 seconds. However, this got me picking my brain on other fads that were popular for a short time. So I present to you, things that were popular that shouldn't have been because I think they are stupid.

Crocs - Once a friend of mine wore these at his beach house. I'm pretty sure after 3 hours worth of mocking, he decided to never wear them again. I personally have never tried a pair on despite the fact that I hear they're comfortable as hell. But that's not the point. Anytime you have a picture, like the one above, you should NOT be wearing them. It doesn't matter if you are a boy, a girl, white, black, brown, yellow, red, or blue. They are fucking stupid and ugly and serve no purpose, except to make you look like an asshole. I have no respect for you if you partake in wearing these eyesores.

Pokemon - I'd be a liar if I told you I never bought a pack or 100 of the cards. Or if I played the games. Or watched the show. But that's irrelevant to what I'm saying. Pokemon is still around? Who knew that a fuzzy little yellow mouse thing would become such a phenomenon? I guess considering that it has been a part of our culture since 1998, it isn't really a fad. But it was for me. And a poor one. What Ash Ketchum is doing is throwing his balls at these animal-things and pretty much enslaving them. Is this a message we should be sending little children? That it's okay to entrap animals and make them your own? No. Absolutely not. Plus, the movie fucking sucked. Whatever.

Pee-Wee Herman - Pee-Wee had a delightful television program on Saturday mornings. It featured his playhouse with talking furniture and robots and other weird shit. If this guy didn't do drugs, then I don't know who did. He had a "Secret Word" that after you said it, sirens and clapping and crazy stuff would go off. And yeah, sure, maybe it was entertaining and educational, but Jesus Christ relax a little. And Mr. Herman (Paul Reuben) went to jail after he was caught jerking himself off in a public domain. At least he was watching adult porn and wasn't sitting at a kid's park or something. Either way, I can't believe people liked this or that parents let their children rot their brains with this garbage.

Pet Rocks - I'll be the first to admit some days it's harder to get out of bed than others, being unemployed and all. But the day that I begin to call a rock a friend or even worse, a pet, is the day I should no longer be allowed to live on the planet. It must have taken a marketing genius or the best quarterback to ever play in high school, to make pet rocks "cool". This shit is almost as bad as a Tamagochi, but at least with that you fed it or didn't feed it and watched it die. There was an interaction. What do you do with a pet rock? Shove it up your ass? Gimme a break. The whole concept of this is ridiculous. (Note: RIDICULOUS not RE-diculous. It isn't getting diculous again, idiots.) Dumb fad.

Slinky - Before I die, I need to know why Slinky's were popular. Have people never seen plastic or cheap metal before? Things go down stairs? What is it? I need to know. "A slinky, a slinky. Everyone loves a slinky." False advertising because it isn't true. I don't love a slinky. I don't even love the name. Holy shit, how pathetic were humans during the 50s or 60s or whenever this piece of shit came out? The only remarkable thing this "toy" ever did was make it onto a feature film. If I can recall correctly, it was Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls when he started it at the top of the monk monastery and ran down only to watch it make it to the last step. The piece of shit toy doesn't even work properly. Absolutely disgusting. I'm appalled.

Fads. We seem to love them in America because every year, it's something new. Just last year people liked rubber bands that had shapes. SillyBandz. Kids traded them and beat the shit out of each other to get them. They sold for $3 for 5 of them. Rubber bands. It seems to be a splendid idea getting into the toy fad industry. However, none of my ideas would sell because all of them would consider me noting how "I am better than you."