Following a new, hot-of-the-press trend can be extremely enticing. Our need to fit in and belong is perhaps the main reason why. And let’s face it, making a fun little video to a viral song or updating your wardrobe with the latest fashion craze can give us the dash of serotonin we desperately need to get through the day.

But fads come and go, leaving us cringing at our old photos sporting frosted tips or grinning in a room decked out with Beanie Babies. Recently, millennials have been posting about the weird trends they've been a part of that don’t look as ‘dope’ today as they did back then.

Fancy a nostalgic throwback? Then all you have to do is scroll down!

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#1

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day I know the young kids have hated on millennials for their skinny jeans but mf you should have SEEN how baggy the pants were in the late 90s/early 2000s.

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#2

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Jeans so long the bottoms were just tatters. Was a weird matter of pride how destroyed your pants were.

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And god forbid it was slightly damp outside. You were soaked up to your knees.

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#3

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day I remember when bib overalls were fashionable but you were lame if you actually fastened both straps. I remember my grandma calling it hillbilly air conditioning.

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#4

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day I have a tribal tramp stamp and waxed my eyebrows so thin they've never been the same. Good times.

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#5

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Frosted boy band tips. I'm not proud.

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#6

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Two polos…with both collars popped. I’m ashamed. ??‍♂️.

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#7

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day JNCO jeans. My largest pair had a 69 inch wide leg. I won an award for having the largest pant legs ever.

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#8

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Those shiny button down shirts in bright colors like lime green that everyone wore for a while. Frosted tips. Those bowling shirts with flames on them. There was a time when I was for all intents and purposes, Guy Fieri.

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#9

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day TYpiNg lyke DiS. What was I thinking? Thank goodness there’s no records of my communications from high school.

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#10

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Lace-up low-rise pants. There is a picture of 16-year-old me wearing jeans with an orange lace-up fly that I modified myself, and it is terrible. I thought I was so cute ugh.

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#11

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Those plastic choker necklaces and chunky highlights.

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#12

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Facebook statuses being song lyrics about your mood. Basically we went from moody away messages, moody MySpace post, to moody Facebook post.

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#13

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Jeans under dresses ?.

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#14

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Posting albums with hundreds of photos on Facebook. Here's every millisecond of the past weekend everyone! Enjoy!

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#15

For me, it's *I can has cheeseburger* way of talking.

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#16

Tribal tattoo.

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#17

Weird pointless asymmetry being the only cool way to wear anything. Wearing your backpack on one shoulder only instead of both because that's for nerds (my poor back!). Wearing your belt with the buckle waaay off to the side. Side bangs. Side ponytails. Baseball cap backwards and off-center.

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#18

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Gaucho pants and those wide circle belts ?.

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#19

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day The long sleeve shirt under the short sleeve shirt look ?.

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#20

Clear, neon colored furniture. I either ordered mine from the Delia's catalog, or bought it at Spencer's, in the mall. I'd buy a chair, blow it up, it would last 2 weeks, and I'd be out there buying another one.

The "Big Blowup Chair" industry had me by the throat.

Lingerie as a shirt. TY Paris Hilton
Mini denim skirt, leggings, and ballet flats.

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#21

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Puka shell necklaces or spiky hair probably.

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#22

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Sweat bands on the wrist, the chain wallet, and safety pins everywhere.

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#23

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Getting my belly button pierced ?‍♀️ my mom was right that the hole never goes away.

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#24

Sun-in.

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My gateway drug to being blonde. But also made me think my untoned, box bleached hair later in college looked good bc i was used to the orange from sun in.

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#25

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day I planked at the summit of Mt kilimanjaro in 2011 when it was cool. Unfortunately its the only photo of me at the summit.

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#26

Skater aesthetic despite not being able to skateboard whatsoever ? I was obsessed with Blink-182 and pop punk and wore mostly brands like Hurley, Vans, Quicksilver and wanted my mom to buy my clothes from Pac Sun and Hot Topic. The “t-shirt over a long-sleeve shirt,” puka shell necklaces, and studded and seatbelt belts were frequent parts of my wardrobe. What I really wanted was a “skater” boyfriend. I lived in fear of being called a “poser.”.

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#27

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day The body glitter fad.

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#28

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day The trucker hats that Ashton Kutcher made famous.

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#29

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day All the band buttons on my corduroy vans bag. I recently found it 20 years later and it’s such an artifact.

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#30

Backwards pants for Kriss Kross.

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#31

Tamagotchi. I didn't even have the real thing. I had some happy meal knock off.
Still wasted time on that instead of my gameboy.

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#32

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day LiveJournal. I found my old one once which I thought had been lost to time and had the worst cringe I’ve ever experienced.

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#33

Those braided rope bracelets that shrunk around your wrist and that you didn't take off for a few months until it got nasty enough and then you cut it off?

Yeah, I loved those ?.

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#34

I’d roll my socks down into my shoes to create ankle socks because my lame parents wouldn’t buy me ankle socks.

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#35

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day That unspeakable moment in history where every white person was suddenly emo.

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#36

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day I wore the livestrong bracelet but I (hipster voice) wore it before most people because my family are big cycling enthusiasts and we’ve always watched the Tour. So we were already very familiar with Lance Armstrong and supporting him(remember this was before s**t came out) so I was like the first person I knew to have a livestrong bracelet and I wore it for many, many years. Lowkey I wish I still had it for nostalgia sake.

Probably the dumbest fad I engages in was taking edgy MySpace photos lmao. I would go to like, some abandoned construction site or an old building or something “grungy” looking and stand around taking pics at that sky-high MySpace angle lmaooo. The angle where you’re bent over so we see your face huge and then lil legs dangling out below… good times.

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#37

Any diet. Not worth it and definitely not worth my mental health.

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#38

“Whale Tail”: 39 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Wearing a tie with t-shirts a la avril lavigne ? also popping the collar on my polo shirts (we had to wear them for our school uniform, it was my attempt at being ~fashionable with it).

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#39

I bought a shake weight. Lol.

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