The 21 Fordes the most ridiculous years of the years 2010

From the Cronut Mannequin Challenge, they were the biggest pop cultures of the decade.


TheThe 2010s were a historic decade, be certain. We elected the first black president of our country, the same sex marriage has become legal and we all lost a lot of time to playPokémon GO. Of course, the latter is not as important as the two achievements mentioned above, but itis one of these monumental pop crops Crazes who, with many othersFADS OF THE YEARS 2010-Veud finally define the decade, although in a totally different cultural context.

Every decade has its trends. In the 1950s, it was poodle skirts and driving cinema theaters. The children of the 80s were all on the cabbage patch of the children and cubes of Rubik. And in the years 2010 there was no shortage of strange things we are locked, of liberality slime, and the cinnamon challenge in Tefouling. Here are 21 of the greatest wading sheaths that no one could have enough in the years 2010.

1
THE CHALLENGE OF ALS ON ICE

ian mckellan does als ice bucket challenge
Sir Ian McKellen via YouTube

In the summer of 2014, the ICE SLA challenge has inspired millions of people around the world, includingMore than some celebrities, throw buckets with icy water on the head. Why?Charity, sure. The philanthropic challenge endedRaising $ 115 million For amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SLA), research, which has helped to discoverA new ALS gene. If the years 2010 did not learn anything else, they have learned at least that some stupidCrazes internet are for the greatest good.

2
Cronut

chocolate almond cronut
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New York CityDominque Ansel Bakery We gave us the cronut in 2013 and the world was forever modified. The donut-growing hybrid was so tasty that anew Yorkmagazine The author suggested that "it can change your life". It's a lot to pose a pastry, but people have certainly felt that it was worth cut. The lines to buy a cronut of $ 5 were hours long in 2013 and now six years later, New Yorkers and visitors.Always wait for a taste of dessert, who has sincebeen duplicated in all the countries.

3
Pokémon GO

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Adults and children seemed hypnotized by this very popular game, which involved chasing fictionPokemon creatures in the real world. Granted, there wereseriously unhappy events related to the game, which launched in 2016, but it also brought a lot of people together in a positive way, asStrong Noted. In addition, the quest for searching these little characters to believe in wild inspired players to get out, move and use their brain a bit. We can not say that for all video games, that's for sure!

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Filtration

the backpack kid about to floss during katy perry's performance of swish swish on snl
NBC via YouTube

This trend of dance has nothing to do with dental hygiene, but it is nonetheless viral. After a dancer named "the backpack"Moved the move toSaturday Night LiveduringKaty Perry'sPerformance of "Swish Swish" in 2017, viewers tried their hands (and their weapons) tooth silk the next day. He even ended up becoming the most popular victory dance on video gameFifteen days-And soon enough, people of all ages were dental silk ... just like in the hope of their dentists.

5
Words with friends

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This multiplayer word game was quite difficult to resist in the years 2010 - so hard, in fact thatAlec Baldwin was launched by plane in 2011 forwould have refused to put hisWords with friends Play waiting for takeoff. By 2017, there were on17 million users Who could not get enough competition that the game created with friends. It's really the scrabble of the 21st century.

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Heelys

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If you have already seen a child, start suddenly zooming on a sidewalk, as if by magic, you saw Heelys in action. These shoes can look like a normal pair of sneakers, but wait ... there is a hidden wheel in the heel! For most of the years 2010, it seemed like every child, and some adults,had a pair of these roller shoes-You know, because the moments to walk will not cut it and that your roll blades are still framed in the basement because it is not in 1993.

7
"Harlem Shake" Videos

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This infectious YouTube craze had a person in a group of people wearing a mask and dance by themselves, before a couple on the whole group dance ridiculously at the 2012Baauer hit "Harlem Shake. "There were really inspired moments, university swimming teams in biagiaIn their speedos to the soldiers who movein the snow. In early 2013, about 4,000 "Harlem Shake" videos were being uploaded every day or 21.6 seconds, depending onThe BBC.

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THE MANNEQUIN CHALLENGE

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Of course, the "Harlem Shake" and the Ice Ice Defi Als were hardly the only oneViral video trends of the years 2010. There was also the model mannequin, who saw people remain perfectly motionless, like mannequins, as long as possible that the camera was moving around them. We witnessed many apparently unnecessary online challenges over the years, but it - who hit his stride in November 2016, inspired a little reallyremarkable creativity. And even more incredible, all images have been used by scientists forNeural Networks train Understand 3D scenes. See? All the blands are not for nothing.

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Arc-in-sky loose bracelets

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These colorful accessories are a perfect example of a simple concept - a device that creates jewelry from tiny rubber bands - that flourish in a global phenomenon. Immigrant born MalaysianChoon Choong NGExplained in a YouTube interview He had invented only the toy to impress his daughters, but he dropped all more than his own offspring. In 2014, the jewelry of the rubber band could be seen on everyone from theDuke and Cambridge Duchess ToPope.

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Lateral

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Essence Magazine once called 2010 "the year of the" Side-Shave "hairstyle". They almost nailed it. In reality, it turned out to bethe decade lateral shaving, with everyone fromSkrillex ToRihanna help make it one of the most unlikelyHairdressing Fads From the mullet. Everyone had their reasons to wear the 'do evenKelly Clarkson(above), who got the lateral shave in 2015 after the birth of his son. "I went to my hair girl and I was like:" I need something different, I need something to make me feel less like a mother, "said the singerCulvert. And the lateral shaving it was!

11
Fidget spinners

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OfStrong Call them "Indispensable office toy for 2017" toThe New York Times declaring that Fidget's spinners were "Hula hoop for generation z, "It was a good decade for the toy designed to help at concentration. And if you have $ 17,000 lying down, you could get the mostSpinner Cher Fidget In the world, which has an outdoor coated with 100 grams.

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The challenge of cinnamon

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Of all theInternet challengesIt was one of the most horrible. And yes, we remember theTIDE POD CHALLENGE. At least with tide pods, people were reasonably aware that they ingest a poison; thisis Laundry detergent, after all. But how harmful it could swallow a spoonful of cinnamon on the ground in 60 seconds without water? Unfortunately, the answer is "extremely harmful. "After some tragic results and dozens of visits from ER,a doctoratewarned, "Do not even think to do it."

13
Twirling

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NFL neighborhoodTim Tebow describes its signature move Like when you "get off on a knee and start praying, even if everyone around you do something completely different." And it is taken important, with thousands of sharing photos and videos online with their own spontaneous knees. It's so huge that Tebow decided toTrademark The word (and movement), "Tebowing."

14
Vase

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There are currently 13 million messages under theSlime hashtagOn Instagram. Homemade slime has become such a hot topic in the 2010s thatKarina Garciaalso known as "Slime Queen", wasProfile byThe New York Times In 2017. In the article, she explained her secrets to $ 200,000each month with his recipe videos of Slime. Obviously, the rest of us is in the wrong industry.

15
The "Gangnam Style" dance

gangnam style
Braun Schoolchildren Archives Via YouTube

South Korean ArtistPsychicreleased the super-eye-catching song "Gangnam Style" in 2012 and became the first YouTube video to reach a billion views (he currently hasJust shy of $ 3.5 billion billions) He inspired innumerable wedding tastes to illuminate the dance of the dance horse that the song was known for, no matter how ridiculous.

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Toast avocado

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It's quite possible thatGwyneth Paltrow is behind the inexplicable popularity of the toast of lawyer. In his 2013 recipe book,It's perfectShe described the article of fashionable food as "the Holy Trinity of Vegenaise, lawyer and salt who makes it a pair of favorite jeans - so reliable and easy and always what you want." Since then, it has become a clip of the guests who imagine goodies. In an article in 2017,enjoy your food magazine Noted that the toast lawyer "means all that is good, bad, elitist, humble, boring and yes, delicious to eat in America right now" In an article entitled "Why are we always talking about lawyer toast?" (And now, we will let you think about this question very question.)

17
Gray hair dyed

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L'Oréal Paris picked money (otherwise known as "gray gray") as theirHair color of the yearIn 2019 - and they were not the only ones to coat the desirable hue. Points of sale ofSeduce ToTheThe Wall Street newspaper declared that Gray was in the years 2010, and evenCnn Giddily reported that "gray hair is increasingly generating the faces of people just away from university". We still do not know why today's young people rush into the process, but we will take it.

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The "What color is this dress?" Debate

the dress debate of the 2010s, black and blue or white and gold
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It all started in early 2015, when someone postedA photo of a dress in Tumblr and contested people to determine if it was blue and blackWhere White and gold. It was so obviously blue and black (at least in the eyes of this author), butEveryone has seen something different. Years later, the world speaks again and againto try to understand What heck was going on!

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Twerking

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Our problem is not with Twerking in general. It is that people have seenMiley Cyrus Twerk The 2013MTV Video Music Awards And then thought: "Hmm, it sounds like fun. Maybe I should do that during the wedding reception of my sister." No, just ... please no.

20
Hipster

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HistorianRuined RecountThe temperature In 2016, that "the hipster beard, or the log log, will be the determining facial hair of this generation". And he had a point. I mean, there was another decade in which the beard oil was more ubiquitous in the bathrooms at the national level? There were attempts to stop the Fade of Faux Face, like a2015 Report About the barbs being full of fecal bacteria, but it did not seem to have a big difference. Some months later,A Survey of New York Men From the grooming brand, Braun discovered that 77% of respondents without Beards said they could grow one if they could.

21
Farmville

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In 2009,Farmville had more active users than Twitter, according toAdweek, which can be difficult to believe for a game that simply had users pretending to enlarge. But his ubiquity continued only in the 2010s. There are chances that you know at least one parent who spent the last decade to invite you to play the game on Facebook and again. After all, it was "Farmville [That] introduced those who were not teenagers at a social media site they could get behind: "Social media week underline.


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