Silly Bandz, The Forgotten Fascinating Fad | Esoteric Internet

[@IanBenedict]

The playground silly bandz economy was perhaps the most volitale market ever created

[@Pseudiom]

It really was the Cryptocurrency of the day.

[@georgewilson7432]

Step aside Tulip Mania.

[@Pseudiom]

At least Tulips smell nice.

[@armitx9]

my favorite fad is the pet rock. the idea was clever and the packaging for it is really nice. I have a pet rock nest in my living room, but no one acknowledges it 😔

[@Pseudiom]

The Pet Rock is a legitimately good idea though. Its a little cheesy, but I do have respect for the guy who was able to sell it. It at least had strong presentation.

[@Clockehwork]

In the case of Among Us, it's a social game with endless replayability. It may not be as massively popular in the future, but it's the exact kind of game that is going to endure among groups of friends for as long as they have a desire to screw with each other, just like the ever-popular Jackbox Party Games. Unlike the other examples you listed that have substantially less meat to them, I can't see it being forgotten anytime soon, even if public play peters out.

[@CarlMakesVideos]

I think games like that, or Werewolf or other specific liar's games, hold a little more weight in one's memory than meme/fad/trend games/products because they're games that thrive off of playing them specifically with people you know. It seems kind of strange to me that Among Us even has a random matchmaking lobby, simply by nature of the kind of game it is (though it would probably feel like a ripoff if it didn't, for those without friends who play games).

[@Lexamus]

* Fortunate son plays in background * Silly bandz, now that's a name I haven't heard in a lonnnnnggg time.

[@Pseudiom]

I exist to stoke memories of the forgotten.

[@v_zach]

I woke up thinking about Silly Bandz for some unknown reason and checked online to see if there were any recent stories about them. Not disappointed. Subscribed.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

After my elementary school banned them, no one I ever met ever talked about them again

[@MinoTheShow]

I was in junior high when silly bandz hit; you really got the essence of it

[@Jar.]

I had a multicolor monkey band and a glow in the dark one and fell like a god lol

[@betabee1221]

I remember having the blue dolphin from that oil spill pack

[@carolinemilburn7128]

same!!

[@KingsDominionNetwork]

How far did you fall down

[@Shadowonwater]

Oh Yes! I was about 9 during the craze! I really liked them because I thought they were fun and cute. I still have mine actually :D Because I found wearing them around my wrist uncomfortable, I wore them on a necklace. There was one time a girl tricked me into trading away some Silly Bandz I liked by tricking me into thinking that an Umbrella Silly Band was actually a Phoenix. I have some of these mini Silly bandz as well, but it might be an imitator. They are very small and are like rings rather than bracelets. I guess I fit into hobbyist because I started collecting them a little bit before they became really popular and kept collecting them for a while afterward. Hearing that name come up again is like a blast from the past.

[@felicia5462]

I still have some of them. When I was nine, you saw them everywhere. They were incredibly popular here in Germany🇩🇪.

[@Captain1nsaneo]

"Dead Cat Bounce" I didn't know that term! Thanks!

[@Pseudiom]

It's a good term. Very useful. Official economic terminology.

[@georgewilson7432]

Specially when talking about Argentine economy.

[@supercomputer0448]

I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN! I paid good money for this crap in first grade.

[@NeveFae]

Crazybones was the craze back when I was in middle school... Nobody remembers those

[@RootDRThorne]

I made a fake joke pack called "boring bands" that was just normal rubber bands but said they were the shape of : a wheel, a globe, a cd, etc...

[@mazoku6793]

God, I had so many of these as a kid.

[@cheesemonger6378]

Silly bands were pretty big in my school but they were overshadowed by these cool erasers the japanese transfer kids gave us when they visited I think i still have one of the cars under my fridge

[@aztecchica]

I was 13/14 when they came out. II was kinda out of the age range, but a lot of people from my freshman class had them. I remember one guy was showing off that he had an "adult" pack.

[@SquadalaWereOff]

This was the last thing I expected to resurface from the depths of my memories. Thanks for taking me back.

[@SATOhara3173]

High-key hated this era of my life lmao

[@VSPhotfries]

I never knew these existed, actually. This is a new one on me... That said, I actually do remember QWOP and Happy Wheels.

[@lounowell4171]

the guy who made qwop also made girp and getting over it, which are genuinely really fun/good games kinda transcends fad status aha

[@Pseudiom]

Grip and Getting Over It are definitely solid games. QWOP and Happy Wheels were just so popular among Big KZbinrs at one point then it felt like it vanished. As said, I don't thing these (or any Fad) are really bad.

[@TheMrchachalaka]

I remember those being a thing here in mexico too, still have some of them in a box somewhere

[@ethansloan]

Remember Silly Bandz? They're back. In POG FORM!

[@Pseudiom]

I like POGs (the plastic toy that is)

[@floppytokey]

Dude, youtube straight up didn't notify me of this video. You might have to start telling people to click the bell.

[@Pseudiom]

It is the old dilemma. I don't trust KZbin to do literally anything, but I also feel like telling people to subscribe and hit notify is kinda pointless. People have told me even when they hit the bell, they're still often not notified. I do have trust in my audience, but I have literally no trust in KZbin. I think its up to the person. Maybe I'll just say it every few videos or so and see if that helps.

[@silentprayers728]

I still have a ziplock bag of them sitting in my room. Including the "rare" pheonix (?) one, which was sparkly gold. Most of them are super misshapen though.

[@RedNosedLugia]

Can you do one on the "Kooky Klickers" fad/trend? They were collectable clicker pens with different faces and colors that were widely popular from 2004-2012. It got so intense that an in-depth website on them was made, as well as numerous online sites dedicated to specifically tracking down and giving collectable advice to find rare Kooky Klickers. An example for this would be the Pineapple Pete pen, which was only available in one part of the world, Hawaii. Believe me when I say that it was *_intense._* I think they made so many different ones that they literally burnt themselves out, which led to them being "discontinued."

[@denilsonthomas]

Hey... I remember sillybandz!!!

[@ARMTOAST]

were you a gifted and talented student at a souther school? you give off the vibes

[@bakomusha]

Rubber bracelets as a whole where a very 2000s thing. Before these, in me and my siblings time(early 2000s), where 'jelly bands'. I remember a very.. awful.. rumor that broadcast news spread around, that reported that what color of band band you where wearing, was a sign of what 'insane hardcore sex act' you are willing to do at the drop of a hat. My younger friends have told me the exact same BS came around at the end of the decade with these. Also I keep forgetting to throw money at your patreon! Doing that now!

[@Pseudiom]

I liked those Jelly things. They were very satisfying to touch. Cool designs too, but I guess they were just 2000's design. I want them to make a come back.

[@TheReaper0101]

I remember in grade 4 when these were big. A kid in grade 6 told me he was taking them from wal Mart and would sell me 20 for 5$. I also remember that Christmas my aunt gave me "battle bands" some weird hybrid of Bakugan and silly bands.

[@bigefoot8076]

my friends and I were just talking about this! I remember that I never actually bought any, I would wander around the city pool and yank em when other kids took them off to swim lol

[@BlissfulDiamondblaze]

I made the hot take that NFTs are just sillybandz for adults. I then had to explain to my husband what sillybandz were and my childhood addiction to them. Now I'm here after being hit by a wave of nostalgia and am currently fighting the urge to purchase these stupid rubber bands. I still remember the sillybandz economy at my school, what ones were considered valuable (the fantasy pack at my school but I remember it would change depending on what school you went to), and treating other brands as counterfeit. Personally, I didn't mind the other brands since they did unique shapes but I remember them being softer, thinner, would break easier, and wouldn't hold their shape very well over time (this is how kids could catch a counterfeit and lord help you if you tried to trade it).

[@aarond23]

My kids were the right ages for these, pretty wholesome fad overall

[@SeraphimKnight]

It's funny to me how "enabler" was already a word commonly used in my friend circles for something somewhat similar to what this video describes. Usually it's someone who's into some niche interest and presents it to their group of friends and thus makes that thing popular among said group. It's often said in a jokingly insulting way along with phrases like "fucking enabler, stop making me spend my money!!" or "ouch my wallet, stop enabling me".

[@MySPIDERBAT]

Crocks are back?!

[@Pseudiom]

"Not only are Crocs a pragmatist’s dream, they’re also having another resurgence, some years after the functional shoe was given a high fashion spin circa spring/summer 2017. Lyst has reported that searches for the shoes are up by 32 per cent month on month, and said that “demand continues to increase”." - Vogue, The Croc Is A Surprise Late Entry For Spring’s It-Shoe So yes!

[@annabelle6090]

seeing the inside of times square toys r us again made me very happy.

[@zach123101]

the only thing i ever stole from a store were sillybands

[@Pseudiom]

Clearly a high crime.

[@zach123101]

@@Pseudiom it's the reason I'll never steal again

[@auggie8958]

I had these when I was I kid, they where everywhere, unlike pogs I don't think they will every be collectables, hell most of them are probably dryrotted by now.

[@Pseudiom]

Pogs are the far superior plastic product.

[@arempy5836]

Damn, I rember them. Never had them myself but I remember girls with a bunch on their wrists. They also had those slap bands.

[@CukistarProductions]

I'm from mexico and this where popular when I was in middle school fall 2010 until spring of 2011. I think. I never heard about the name of silly bandz here you bought them in chinese or dollar stores without an specific brand.

[@betabee1221]

I remember these, some of the richer kids in school would legit spend like $50 on these stupid things. I got all of mine from lost ones people left behind, trade deals gone wrong, and a singular $1 pack of ripoff brand ones i bought from a dollar store. Seriously, the economy for these things were nuts

[@gube2358]

lmao, yeah I remember buying a single pack, and others left on the ground, for a total of like 15. They looked cool though, but they were a little annoying to wear.

[@Pseudiom]

I probably should have discussed the Silly Bandz trade more, but it differed between schoold so there was no good way to do it. Just let it be known, some kids could get very rich of milk money (they're probably invested in Cryptocurrency now).

[@LucaW.]

The investing in beanie babies thing was always so baffling to me. As a kid, I loved them, and now still think they're cute, but I got them all the time as a kid because they're toys, and I played with them as toys! To this day I don't get why to so many people they had no actual interest in them as toys and almost seemed to forget or disregard that that's what they were, so much so that it often seems like they're more often talked about in the context of value and selling them, and that whole market, rather than talked about as the stuffed animals they are. People talk about them like something that is a completely over and done thing that sucks now because they aren't so valuable anymore usually, but if people always valued them as just the nice, cute toys they are, they wouldn't seem like some giant behemoth that shrank to nothing, just cute toys. They aren't money, just see them as they are. I think something can still be nice even if it isn't massively overvalued monetarily. It kind of takes away the innocence of something like a stuffed animal if it's treated as just a thing to cash in on.

[@wordart_guian]

"american schools" they were big in france and probably in many other places. They were mostly sold in bakeries. However they were most popular during the 2010-2011 school year

[@robertoazuaje9279]

I was given one by some girl at school in late 2010 (a dolphin, I think). The subject probably came up in conversation somehow, and the girl let me keep one she had found as she saw I didn't have any. I didn't really care, so I just stored it somewhere and never saw it again. By the time the Christmas break ended and school started again the bands were gone (didn't help that I was in a Catholic school; the nuns who ran it tended to get annoyed at the most ridiculous things).

[@tonimauge3907]

Silly Bands! I remember those. If anyone came to school wearing silly bands on their wrists, they'd be the coolest kids in class. My first pack of Silly Bands was the Glow-in-the-dark kind. I got them as a birthday gift from my best friend (We've been together for ten years now.) when I was eight or nine years old. One by one those silly bands would not last very long on my wrists due to either breaking apart or going missing. A month later, I would recieve a pack of glittery princess silly bands. They suffered the same fate as the Glow-in-the-dark ones.

[@--..__]

bro did you ALREADY forget about fidget spinners?

[@KBzDvSt]

Not the last physical fad, seven years later fidget spinners would take a similar course

[@alam4359]

Yeah, I was like ??? come on, fidget spinners' crazy popularity wasn't that long ago

[@bug6141]

They got banned in my school because the third graders called them “sexy bands”

[@energydragon1147]

I remember back in Middle school many years ago, a lot of kids were wearing these and I never really understood it, I wasnt really into it as they were when I was young lel

[@AnAverageGoblin]

you should talk about those slap bracelets

[@Pseudiom]

Maybe... I'll have to see how much there is to talk about. I think Croak was involved in those too so I don't want it to be a rerun of this.

[@BasedPureblood]

If I hated someone then, I would take their silly hands and tear them.

[@--..__]

i entered my first year of high school in 2010 in a different city and had never heard of silly bands. I remember a handful of kids wearing them in school that year and somehow I got the sense they were a big deal and it was so bizarre to me, why do they care about these stupid rubber bands you buy at like walgreens? I guess that must have been the tail end of the fad, the dead cat bounce era. Not sure how I missed it, I feel like it might have been that this town was in a much more suburban place than previously.

[@nayibquintanilla7704]

I might be the only one who never remembered this.

[@carolinemilburn7128]

Um it lasted like 3 years at my school lol

[@edmundironside9435]

I never really understood what the initial appeal to silly bandz was, they looked tacky as fuck and had you couldn't play with them. On another note, they quickly died out in my school after rumour spread that they caused cancer.

[@XxLegenderywhitewolfxX]

my school banned them because it was "lucrative market" (weren't allowed to sell things on school grounds lol.. We were in 3-4 th grade

[@jdtv50]

“Lasted a year maybe” I know people still getting silly bands lmao didn’t realize it “died” out

[@edmundironside9435]

I don't believe you

[@jdtv50]

Edmund Ironside that’s okay lol not using beliefs as a crutch for truth dawg 🤙🏻do you still have your bandz?

[@edmundironside9435]

@@jdtv50 I don't think I had any tbh, but I can't be sure

[@mumustelids8657]

Wearing mine right now

[@Sinc3r3ly]

I had some of these but didn’t exactly know them by name, I think they were dinosaurs

[@Sinc3r3ly]

Also thanks for reminding me about the Fushigi ball I forgot about that

[@nightrose6116]

yooooo im wearing silly band rings rn B)

[@havokmusicinc]

I don't remember those. They must have not really been a thing in California. Livestrong bracelets and their copycats, though... I remember those. I had quite a lot of those. The "I ♥ boobies" bracelets were really big at my high school too, especially among the theater types and metalcore types

[@kylehazachode]

Anyone play the silly bandz DS game?

[@internet_creature]

Livestrong Band gang

[@eyemotif]

i remember stealing some from kids cause i was too poor to afford them like everyone else 🥴

[@ethanbradshaw2858]

Holy shit I remember these, they were so cool

[@jtcameron8345]

In ten years time, you saying among us with either not faze the viewer at all or cause a schizophrenic meltdown. No in-between.

[@user-pf9mt7tz5u]

Current year fad, push pop toys.

[@ToyInsanity]

I got those bandz to make you dance. hmu

[@volkova6209]

i don't really get it

[@Nocturn3]

Good lord Croak has terrible hair!

[@Pseudiom]

He definitely has dedication to it...

[@everybodysNocturnal]

why do you sound so much like byakuya hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@Pseudiom]

I've been told I sound like a lot of people. I guess my voice is in the ears of the listener.

[@Jake-ur2wf]

This pathetic company is still trying to make money off this? Their Twitter is full of cringe lol.

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

The rubber band guy is really cringy.