We’re social beings, so it only makes sense that many of us want to be respected, accepted, and adored. We crave being part of the group, so we copy certain behaviors to fit in and appear hip and cool. However, blindly following trends can do a lot of harm, especially when they change so quickly these days.
Inspired by u/Tater-Tot-Casserole, the r/AskReddit online community opened up about what they personally think are the most damaging new trends that we see these days. They hoped to raise some awareness among other internet users and urge them to be more careful. Scroll down to read their opinions, and remember to upvote the ones you agree with, Pandas.
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#1
Extremely elderly politicians.
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#2
Posting children and all their personal, emotional and vulnerable moments. People are LITERALLY pimping children for karma and followers. Crying children. Dying children. Naughty children. Confused children. Humiliated children. .
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#3
Pranking unsuspecting people for clout.
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#4
IPads for toddlers. Let’s destroy our kid’s dopamine receptors before they can even talk properly. Sounds great.
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#5
Subscription models for every service. gone are the days of curated collections, now you own nothing.
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#6
Normalizing plastic surgery, fillers and botox for teens.
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#7
Instagram tourism. We’re trashing beautiful places because we gotta have THAT photo!
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#8
The “Alpha male” and red pill ideology popular in groups of men and teenagers.
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#9
House rentals (corporations, AirBnB) taken too far — when a community ends up with scant actual residents….
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#10
Plastic lawns: bio diversity loss, micro plastic fibres, turning reality into Minecraft.
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#11
One trend that’s gaining momentum and potentially causing harm is “doomscrolling.” This is to the habit of endlessly scrolling through negative news or social media feeds, often leading to feelings of anxiety, depression, and helplessness.
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#12
Water in plastic bottles.
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#13
Posting everything on social media.
I used to post a lot on stories on Instagram, Whatsapp, at some point I started to think that no one actually cares what I post and it’s pointless for me, so I stopped. I was checking who saw those posts, got annoyed when someone I didn’t like watched my stories. Now I don’t post on social media anymore and I’m happier.
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#14
Kids rarely spending significant time outdoors. On a minor note they’re more likely to become nearsighted. On a significant note, they’re less likely to be emotionally stable for times of adversity as an adult.
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#15
Short videos ruining attention spans .
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#16
Parasocial relationships with celebrities.
Swifties, Beyhive, Barbz etc.
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#17
“Hauls” of just about anything. It’s incredibly wasteful and I imagine most influencers who do so can’t use all of that product before they’re pressured to make more content. Plus it encourages normal people to do the same, leading to lots of plastic waste and demand for cheap, unethical labor.
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#18
Celebrity tequila. More specifically the process of hydrolysis that use young agave plants instead of mature agave plants, creating a neutral alcohol that is then flavored with additives. This brings the price of agave up and customers are given an artificial tequila rather than traditionally made tequila that uses agave plants matured for 7 years.
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#19
Sephora kids using skincare with acids and retinol.
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#20
Airpods in constantly. I have a feeling in 20 years we’re going to see a lot of hearing damage in people too young to have it.
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#21
Buccal fat removal.
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#22
Steroid use is becoming increasingly popular among teenage boys and young men. Social media is feeding them metric tons of fitfluencers that lie about their steroid use, feeding into the “why can’t I be like them” pipeline that ends up with them hopping on. Hell, a few months into weightlifting myself and I was literally getting ads for steroids right on Reddit. Some years from now, I guarantee we’ll start seeing these boys grow with serious health issues from using steroids at a very vulnerable age.
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#23
Trading most of our privacy in exchange for convenience.
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#24
ChatGPT, I feel like I’m unable to produce a long coherent piece of text anymore and I spot this chatgpt kinda language on linkedin, resumes, product descriptions, everywhere.
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#25
The rise of sports gambling. A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money and in A few years it won’t be pretty when we know someone who has had their life destroyed by another addiction in their pocket.
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#26
Veneers from unlicensed veneer techs.
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