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"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Gender reveal parties, especially the ones with fire

pamplemouss , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

319points

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Gøøse 1 year ago

Y'all hear about the gender reveal party where the father filled an umbrella stand with, like, 4 pounds of Tanneritw? It ended up exploding like a pipe-bomb, the shrapnel ended up killing someone.

60points

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) foot binding. that practice in china where they break and bind young girls' feet to make them more feminine

JasenBorne , wikimedia Report

Final score:

290points

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ArodTheHorrible 1 year ago

Horrific torture

104points

Some of the trends that you will see in this collection were associated with people's religious beliefs, while some, many decades or even centuries ago, were supposed to emphasize social status. Well, some just appeared literally out of the blue, because some celebrities acted in one way or another, and then numerous followers picked up the idea. But what exactly unites all these trends is that probably none of the people who followed them at that moment thought they were acting really stupid.

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Saggy below the butt pants. Sure, sag your pants a few inches if you think you got steez, but Jesus Christ, if your belt is below 100% of your butt crack, you’re an idiot

Ogodnotagain , Ozzy Delaney Report

Final score:

289points

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Benita Valdez 1 year ago

🎶Pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Lookin like a fool wit yo pants on the ground🎶

97points

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Overusing terms like gaslighting, bipolar, or narcissist to where they've lost meaning. Someone disagreeing with you isn't gaslighting, having a change of mood isn't bipolar, and your ex may have been a d**k but that doesn't necessarily mean they're a narcissist. As someone who's autistic I also don't like the similar trend of people self diagnosing. There's nothing wrong with looking up symptoms for mental disorders, learning difficulties, etc if you go to your doctor. But lot's of people don't, they simply decide they have all these problems.

AliceTheOmelette , Yan Krukau Report

Final score:

263points

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Amy Taylor 1 year ago

Bullying is another one… bullying is the relentless, cruel torture of someone for doing nothing other than existing. Now if you disagree with someone, or call them out on their s****y behavior, you’re called a bully.

98points

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Using animals as entertainment

dkmlink , Becky Phan Report

Final score:

252points

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Tsdey 1 year ago

unless it is a pupper playing fetch

95points

Random-Username7272 , www.bluewaikiki.com Report

"History knows many ridiculous traditions. More precisely, those that today we consider ridiculous, many years ago, were considered completely logical and appropriate," says Valery Bolgan, a historian and journalist, editor-in-chief of the Intent news agency from Ukraine, to whom Bored Panda reached out for a comment. "No, many 'challenges' and flash mobs of our time or of the last decades intend to show their own absurdity - but this is already the specificity of the postmodern nature of modern culture."

"By the way, another trend that runs through the millennia of human history is the tendency to idealize the past and believe that it used to be better in the 'good old days'. After all, one of the first records about what a decline in morals had taken place and how young people were inferior to previous generations applies, if I'm not mistaken, by the second millennium BC. So, it's okay - ten to twenty years will pass, and we will remember with nostalgia, for example, 'good old TikTok'. It is likely that this will happen," Valery states.

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Gallon Smashing 'prank' where a person would purposely drop gallons of milk in a grocery store while making it look like an accident, leaving a huge mess for some poor supermarket employee to clean up.

Final score:

228points

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Depressed Owl 1 year ago

Or basically any tiktok trend.

182points

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) there's some good ones here but the licking stuff at the grocery store and putting it back is a top contender

midwifecrisisss , Brooke Cagle Report

Final score:

210points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

That's a felony.

22points

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) People on social media posting inappropriate pictures of themselves at solemn sites to try and seem edgy. (IE: Auschwitz, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Ground Zero in NYC, Pearl Harbor site, Vietnam War Memorial, Tsitsernakaberd Memorial complex, Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, etc)

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Final score:

200points

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Linda Souza 1 year ago

Also when they pose with the casket at funerals. Just tasteless and wrong.

68points

MarieTDr 1 year ago

I'm in my Eighties now. When I was a kid it used to be common for a spouse to pose along the dead spouse's open coffin. It was a ritual of mourning. I wasn't aware that it was still practiced.

16points

Michael Largey 1 year ago

No casket selfies unless you're in it.

6points

Heather W 1 year ago

I personally want a last group photo :)

5points

BlitheSpirit 1 year ago

Yah, I am always appalled when I see that 😳

5points

Weasel Wise 1 year ago

I chewed some teenage girls out when I was in Hoa Lo, they were using the prison as a backdrop for their little photo session.

3points

ralphmacchiosthirdwife 1 year ago

I saw one at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum, where they have the metal faces because you're walking over the grave site of milions of people, and this lady that was walking with my tour group stood and took a picture with the pose attached in the image. it was horrible. I had half a mind to tell her off. download-1...3d717.jpeg

3points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

Thank you for telling her off!

0points

Sedona 1 year ago

Berlin Holocaust Memorial - you're suppose to chill there, run around, play hide and seek. That is literally the reason the architect made it that way.

3points

General Anaesthesia 1 year ago

From the website: "...A place of contemplation, a place of remembrance and warning...". That doesn't sound like chill and play to me. https://www.visitberlin.de/en/memorial-murdered-jews-europe

5points

Featherking 1 year ago (edited)

I just want to give the disrespectful little cυnts a backhand and tell them to snap the fυck out of it.

2points

El Dee 1 year ago

Awful, have some respect. Some people won't even photograph these places but I can understand why some will do it. Just not a smiling selfie tho..

2points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

What are those last 2? I've never heard of them and would like to know more

1point

Arenite 1 year ago (edited)

Srebrenica Genocide Memorial is in the former Yugoslavia, a remembrance of the Balkan War in the 90’s, but I don’t know which current country it is. Bosnia maybe?

0points

Courtney 1 year ago (edited)

I was recently in NYC at ground zero and was prepared for tasteless people taking inappropriate pics. Luckily it was pretty ok. What did royally p**s me off was at the various stands with pamphlets and information there were bins of white rubber bracelets that said something like "always remember 9/11" They were free with the posted request to take only one. I can't tell you how many people walked by and took handfuls. What are you planning on doing with 15-20 rubber bracelets? So tacky and thoughtless.

1point

OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago

I watched in horror as a couple of dudes had a literal photo shoot at a WWI cemetery I worked close to pre pandemic. I'm not even going to go into explaining the inappropriately dressed visitors, cigarette butts and empty beer cans found there...

1point

robin aldrich 1 year ago

And each one trying to outdo the previous one...Desperate for the attention to become a "social media star"

1point

Gary Geracci 8 months ago

When passing through Pearl, I visited the Arizona Memorial memorial.Got thirty days confined to my ship.Wud I do. Coldcocked some a*****e for hocking a loogie and spitting it right over the ship! The Civilians there refused to leave without telling the Shore Patrol, Why I did it! Mitigating Circumstances kept me outa the brig!

0points

Gary Geracci 8 months ago

I was at the TOMB for the Unknown Soldiers in Washington. Some folks were selfie taking and laughing.The Guard Stopped, faced them and Told them to leave this was a memorial and they would show respect or leave.You gonna argue with a Marine carrying a Gun?

0points

Visitor 1 year ago

People grieve and process death in different ways. It's not for me to judge. I appreciate solemnity around death sites and death rites, but I'm not going to correct or criticize someone else in that space.

0points

Louby Of Morrowind 1 year ago

At a loved one's grave with their kids smiling on the anniversary of the loved one's death. That is messed up

0points

In any case, compared to many of the traditions that people followed centuries ago, modern trends - even dangerous ones - often look like innocent child's play. After all, for example, when medieval townspeople deliberately slayed cats, considering them accomplices of witches - and then there was no one to exterminate the rats that carried the plague - these delusions really cost the lives of millions of people. Now just compare this, maybe, with the recent TikTok trend of people stealing toilets and stuff from schools. As they say, everything is relative...

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"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) The fire challenge where these kids were pouring acetone on themselves then lighting themselves on fire. Apparently it was supposed to be a short burning sensation, but as you’d expect there were kids who got seriously injured from the burns, and a mom who recorded her son doing the challenge even got arrested after being reported to social services.

InfiniteCalendar1 , Dazzle Jam Report

Final score:

176points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

"Mom who recorded her son doing the challenge" what??!!?!

106points

#11

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Lip fillers

HeftyAd2780 , SHVETS production Report

Final score:

174points

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Woodchip 1 year ago

Nothing more attractive than what looks like a prolapsed a**s on the face.

111points

#12

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) I would say pulling pranks on random people in public.

I am secretly waiting for the video of a prankster going to sleep permanently.

Skechaj , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

160points

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Sonja 1 year ago

Good and truly harmless pranks exist, but they are very, very rare. Most pranks bank on laughing at others people's suffering. I saw real celebrities sit in wax figure museums pretending to be wax figures. That was funny. I saw a prank pretending that people had accidentally ordered a real horse instead of a pretty figurine, but in the end the people were surprised with the really pretty figurine and a day on a horse farm. That was funny too. I saw a prank were they surprised a person thinking they were testing restaurants being served with their favourite childhood dinner. That was lovely. But most pranks are just cruel. The good pranks aim to make the pranked person happy in the end. But most only make people miserable so others can laugh at them.

86points

In any case, there are trends without which the history of humanity would be much better, and hardly anyone will argue with this. And now we're definitely looking forward to you adding some comments with modern or ancient habits and traditions you also considering to be absolutely weird or ridiculous. After all, we might have missed something in this selection, so let's help each other to refresh our memory in the comments...

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"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) I don't know if anyone has posted this already, but I recall a while ago there was something called the "knockout challenge" or "knockout game". It basically involved a bunch of teenagers and even adults walking or running up to someone, usually on the streets, and hitting them as hard as they could in the face with a closed fist, hoping to knock them out.

I just looked this up and, apparently, this kind of "game" dates back to the 1990's.

I hope this isn't a thing anymore.

toyou123 , samer daboul Report

Final score:

153points

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Robert T 1 year ago

Still played by some on the streets round here, usually when they are drunk. One guy died recently. ****ing idiots.

72points

#14

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) For me, I’ll never be able to process the fad in the Victorian era of *EATING EGYPTIAN MUMMIES*

Never will that s**t not send me right back to pure disbelief, horror and confusion.

oby100 , Shvets Anna Report

Final score:

141points

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Jo Davies 1 year ago

A bit like some cultures believing that consuming rhino horn with improve life in the bedroom. It is hair very much like that on your own head.

12points

back-to-the-back , Dmitry Vechorko Report

#15

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) [Taking women's lives] for “witchcraft”

Final score:

139points

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robin aldrich 1 year ago

I'd like to add: putting them in institutions for what was diagnosed as emotional problems, women, especially ones who enjoyed sex, they were given hysterectomies because it was thought they had a wandering uterus. That's right, their uterus would wander. And it caused them problems, so it had to be removed. And they were put in insane asylums.

16points

#16

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) If you think Tiktok trends are stupid or dangerous, people of the past were even worse.

When people thought radium was good for you, there was a huge trend to put it in EVERYTHING. Face creams. Water crocks. Toothpaste. Hair products. Makeup. Chocolate. Toys. Nightlights. Watches. Spas. Impotence treatments. SUPPOSITORIES. Yes, people were sticking radioactive stuff up their a*s in the name of health.

People would even paint their TEETH with it for the glow. It blows my f*****g mind as a chemist.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks

StrawberriesRGood4U , Mauswiesel Report

Final score:

133points

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Robert T 1 year ago

Yeah, that's an unhealthy glow!

42points

#17

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Burning people who followed a different religion than the current ruling class. I'm looking at you Catholic England and your burning of the heathen Protestants for daring to publish the Bible in English.

And by burning, I do mean alive. I can't think of many worse things.

2_Sheds_Jackson , Miriam Espacio Report

Final score:

125points

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Esme Weatherwax 1 year ago

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition

61points

#18

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) The one where people were trying to jump away from moving trains last second

Shadow948 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

118points

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PunnyPanda 1 year ago

When I was in 5th grade, the local transit authority came in to teach us about the dangers of trains. They showed us a short film called "Chicken on the Tracks" about these kids who would dare each other to stay on the tracks in front of a train til the last sec. It was pretty well made, and got you emotionally involved in the characters. The last scene, a kid barely escapes, but out of nowhere, gets hit by a train coming the other way. However, the worst part is the very end when the cops are interviewing the surviving kids. Another cop walks between them and the camera carrying a CLEAR PLASTIC BAG OF A KIDS LIQUIFIED GUTS. WE WERE 10 YEARS OLD.

18points

#19

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) The Tide Pod Challenge.

NoBenefit9431 , wallpaperflare Report

Final score:

117points

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Cara 1 year ago

Google suggests that this involves putting the laundry capsule in your mouth and/or biting into it whilst filming. Darwin Award candidates obviously.

69points

TheLeemurrrrr , Kostiantyn Klymovets Report

#20

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Probably the trend of exiling cats out of European towns during the back plague.

Final score:

111points

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Display_Name 1 year ago

Wouldn't the cats help prevent or at least tone down the black plague? I thought it was caused by rats.

58points

creamywhip , GONGSAM TABLE 이공삼 Report

#21

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) mukbang videos.

Final score:

110points

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Dazzler 1 year ago

Mukbang was originally about people sitting down and eating on camera, which is great for those who don't have anybody in real life to have a meal with. But then it blew up and caught the attention of mainstream YouTubers—now here we are.

21points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#22

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) I was going to go with ripping out thousands of people's still-beating hearts as a sacrifice to the sun god, but it seems that people are interpreting this as worst *social media* trend ever.

rinkydinkmink , CHRISTO JAMES V Report

Final score:

110points

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ArodTheHorrible 1 year ago

I think your point is still well made

45points

#23

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) X-Ray parties: People would get together X-Ray themselves and each other exposing themselves to huge amount of radiation.
The Tape Worm Diet. People would give themselves a tapeworm to lose weight, then drink kerosene to kill the tape worm.
Both around 1900.

thestenz , Anna Shvets Report

Final score:

100points

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TwirlyGirly 1 year ago

And then there's the former leader of the U.S. asking his top immunologists to investigate whether people infected with COVID-19 could potentially be cured by washing out their insides with bleach or disinfectant. This was in 2020.

84points

#24

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Lick weird stuff during COVID challenge. Let’s try and get sick. Please people have you heard of hepatitis? Typhus? Salmonella?

Ginnylala , Alexander Grey Report

Final score:

98points

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Emo Nemo 1 year ago (edited)

they got more then Covid 😬

36points

#25

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Ragebait.

Not only is it garbage quality content, it's done on purpose and people that interact and share only make it more popular.

eddie_ironside , Avi Richards Report

Final score:

88points

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TwirlyGirly 1 year ago

According to slang.net: "Rage bait is similar to clickbait but focuses on eliciting user anger to increase clicks, traffic, revenue, etc. (part of rage farming)."

6points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#26

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Happy Slapping.

Was a trend in the UK back in 2005 where you would slap a random person, hard, and video it. It usually turned into a fight if the person that got slapped reacted. I’m pretty sure it lead to a few deaths.

Savool , Andrew Le Report

Final score:

82points

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Cara 1 year ago

Wasn’t that linked to the Tango advert?

17points

#27

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) That Tiktok trend several months ago where people stole toilets and stuff from schools.

Ill-Subject8076 , Ian Ransley Report

Final score:

76points

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WonderWoman 1 year ago

Stealing a toilet from the bathroom of a school where it only gets a cursory cleaning every so often has got to be the nastiest of all nasty things to steal.

52points

Saracartwheels123 , MART PRODUCTION Report

#28

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Bum fighting. (Really? Am I the only one who remembers this?)

Final score:

71points

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LynnSynn 1 year ago

Used to sell the DVDs in the adult store I worked at. Found them more disgusting than some of the extreme adult movies we would get.

24points

#29

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Using exaggerated, unnecessary terminology in day to day life

Identity politics/social grouping

DavosLostFingers , fauxels Report

Final score:

68points

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Robert T 1 year ago (edited)

What's that you fatuous sanctimonious and utterly vacuous cretin?

71points

#30

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Vocal fry.

Fishtaco1234 , Anderson Guerra Report

Final score:

65points

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juice 1 year ago

vocal fry is a way of speaking where you drop your voice to its lowest natural register, causing your vocal folds to shorten and creating creaky sounds when you talk. if you've heard any of the Kardashians speak, or Britney Spears' singing "baby voice", that's a pretty good example. it's usually observed/found more annoying in women, but lots of people do it and it isn't necessarily bad for your voice. here's a helpful video if you want to learn more (skip to 3:45): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTslqcXsFd4&feature=youtu.be

65points

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"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Redneck Chic'

Where men and women (usually from up North or high end areas) drive big (nice) trucks, wear Carhartt, blast country, have a wad of dip in and believe they're like the people those hick-hop songs are about.

readcommentbackwards , Brock Wegner Report

Final score:

28points

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David H 1 year ago

Excuse me with the "usually from up North" have you been to the Northern part of the USA? You know it is more than NYC and Boston? Go to upstate NY, its god, guns, and pickups, where Republicans roam, etc. The North, South, and Midwest are all very similar, its a rural/urban divide. I understand saying the "high end" areas with the fakery, but not us in the North. Go to upstate NY, the reason the guy has the ford F350 turbo charge with the extra raised tires is because they can get 20 inches of snow in a winter, and rural plowing isnt the same as city plowing.

25points

Byakubeeni , New Line Cinema[a] Dark Horse Entertainment Report

#32

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Pencil thin eyebrows. Dafuq was that?

Final score:

24points

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Linda Souza 1 year ago

2021 eyebrows are even worse. They look like a scared cat with the hair standing straight up.

22points

#33

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) Planking

barnorth , MFer Photography Report

Final score:

19points

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eed_thelast_haw 1 year ago

At least it was kinda harmless?

44points

#34

Larry the cable guy

Andre1001235 Report

Final score:

13points

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PlatinumTheCat 1 year ago

What’s wrong with him? I think he’s pretty funny

2points

#35

"What Was The Worst Trend That Has Ever Existed?" (30 Replies) **Oh Long Johnson**

MacyTmcterry , Waggle TV Report

Final score:

-18points

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James016 1 year ago

This didn't cause any harm. How was this a trend?

12points