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Well I guess we just move on to different junk. Rather than one company (Ty, from the example) presiding over and managing the popularity of the product for yea
by vosper 9y ago
Well I guess we just move on to different junk. Rather than one company (Ty, from the example) presiding over and managing the popularity of the product for years, the fads come and go.
Which is of course what's always happened. Remember Pokemon? There's a craze that's not a craze at all - it's been going on since the 90s. It doesn't seem to be getting killed by fidget spinners. In the meantime hundreds of smaller fads have come and gone. We've have the words "fad" and "craze" to describe this sort of thing since way before the rise of rapid-response Chinese manufacturing.
- monocasa 9y agoSeriously. Furbies, tamogatchis, pogs. There was that season where suburban moms were practically dueling to the death over Tickle Me Elmos.
- emodendroket 9y agoCan't you see the difference here? Nobody is lining up outside stores to get a fidget spinner because you can't go two feet without seeing one for sale.
- monocasa 9y agoIt was the same with pogs, and knockoff tamogatchis.
- emodendroket 9y agoBut having a knockoff wasn't the same. I mean, there's no such thing as a knockoff fidget spinner because there is no official one.
- erikb 9y agoBut honestly aren't all of these more complex than Fidget Spinners? I feel like we've reached a new low with these.
- Joe-Z 9y agoYou can learn all sorts of tricks with them too. Maybe it's just you getting older and developing more of a 'get off my lawn'-mentality? :D