r/whatif • u/LidiLembek • 1d ago
Other What if everything that is popular suddenly became isn't, and something that is unpopular became popular
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u/Willing_Fee9801 1d ago
When I was a kid, video games and nerd stuff was unpopular. Now they're mainstream. It happens.
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u/Sinocatk 1d ago
So I become popular? Also I could do without some of the stupid YouTubers that are currently popular, however some things are unpopular for a good reason and I think that it would be a very crazy world to live in before it imploded. I mean eating dogshit isn’t popular at the moment and that’s relatively mild compared to some things.
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u/Turbulent-Name-8349 1d ago
Eating dogshit is a good example, properly processed. Eating poisons could become popular. In small enough quantities I can eat (almost) anything. At the same time, extreme sports could suddenly become very unpopular, we're just replacing one deadly activity with another.
I would like to see several unpopular things become popular. Cleaning teeth and shaving in public. Saying grace in restaurants.
And several popular things become unpopular. Football and baseball. Popular music becomes unpopular.
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u/Sinocatk 1d ago
My point was that there are some pretty horrible things that are unpopular, rape, pedophilia etc. I certainly wouldn’t want to live in a world where that is a mainstream activity. Think how much people are disgusted and revile that behavior and change that to love and adoration.
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u/Fabulous7-Tonight19 1d ago
That's an interesting thought. It's kind of like how tastes and trends shift over time. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everyone is lining up to watch obscure foreign art films while big blockbuster movies barely fill up a theater. Or how about if everyone starts wearing fashion styles from the 1800s because they’ve become the new norm? Honestly though, trends do change and recycle, just not usually that dramatically. Just look at how vinyl records made a comeback or how flared jeans have returned as a trend. When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be a lawyer, doctor, or banker. Fast forward to today, and the coolest jobs involve making TikToks or gaming professionally. If everything popular became unpopular and vice versa, it'd definitely shake things up. Would be so fun and bizarre to watch something everybody used to shrug off becoming the new big deal, right? Like how folks now love Avocados. It's pretty wild when you think about it...
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u/ReactionAble7945 1d ago
So, you mean how they loved a certain person and car company and now hate a certain person and car company?
But let's point out a few more interesting things...
Cell phones went from how small can I go, to how big I can go in a couple years. About the same time people realized they could watch internet porn on them.
Hunting was very popular, now not so much.
Members only jackets..
Wall phones/hard wired phones.
Victory Gardens... This one is kind of interesting because it was the thing, then not a thing, and now more people want to grow a garden at home.
Dungeons and Dragons, kind of cool, not cool, really not cool, Very cool again.