Thread 11525217

Why did fidget spinners die out so quickly? Sometimes I feel like 2016 belonged to a different timeline in the multiverse or something like that... I miss those times. Not only that: "Hoverboards", for example. I mean, they went out of style so quickly but still were cool, innovative products that marked the times.

Even if this video was from 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA), Tony Hawk got the chance to try out a real hoverboard but this thing was memory-holed. But 2015-ish, if I remember correctly, was around the time when drones were also becoming known by the public in a cool way. Now their main use is for war.

After 2020, the world got weirder and more messed up. Even the Playstation Network's Terms of Service got revised to include woke clauses and a Hate Speech policy.

I apologize for my off-topic, little rant. Pic related is still related.

>>11525217 (OP)
Weren't fidget spinners 2017?

>>11525225
I don't know, maybe, but the point is that they suddenly became popular and cool around that part of the decade (not even throughout a decade), then they got mostly forgotten by the world quickly. It's not even like they gradually evolved into something else along the years. I find that... strange. Maybe it was all a big, covert marketing experiment that mostly appealed to aspies.

>>11525217 (OP)
They definitely lasted longer than the yo-yo revival in 2000 did.

>>11525231
>I don't know, maybe, but the point is that they suddenly became popular and cool around that part of the decade (not even throughout a decade), then they got mostly forgotten by the world quickly. It's not even like they gradually evolved into something else along the years. I find that... strange. Maybe it was all a big, covert marketing experiment that mostly appealed to aspies.
Kind of like pogs. They were around and hot for like 3-4 years in the 90s and then gone.
>>11525299
They almost got me with that one.

>>11525217 (OP)
Fidget spinners dont seem to require skill. once you find a good one that can spin forever, that's it. But I still think they were the last best fad

>>11525217 (OP)
Everything about fidget spinners screamed “fad,” the fact it lasted longer than a year was a miracle.

>>11525217 (OP)
Here's a fad that still lives for some reason

>>11525310
So what would be the difference between a fad toy and a classic toy like the Rubik's cube? The amount of time it survives in the market as a popular item and how many people like it?

They don't require skill because fidget spinners are evidently supposed to be an object that just looks cool, is fun to grab and takes your mind off of anxiety-inducing stuff for some moments, even. Hence my "it mostly appealed to aspies" comment from before, but that's just how I see it.

I would say they're more like pocket kinetic sculptures, that are simple enough to be mass produced in different designs. I don't think kinetic sculptures, such as the desk kind, are a fad. Fidget spinners got quickly forgotten and are therefore categorized as such.

Waiting for Labubus to die out. I hate the look of those things.

>>11525370
Exactly, spinners are just a different kind of office toy. It isnt important that they're popular, it's the fact that they exist at all

>>11525217 (OP)
>But 2015-ish, if I remember correctly, was around the time when drones were also becoming known by the public in a cool way. Now their main use is for war.
Are you just like, really young? Drones were military tech for decades, and have been in the newscycle prominently since the war on terror started and they started using them significantly more than before.
To make it more /toy/ related, there was a plot point about using drone aircraft in Macross Plus.
Commercial drones being popular was more a case of tech being cheaper to manufacture/miniaturized and cameras likewise getting cheaper and smaller. For most normies the novelty wore off sicne they lack the skills to make the most of it, but for things like photography and film-making drones are still very active and important. That said, there's a world of difference between military drone aircraft used for war and commercial ones used for photography.

Don't worry bros fidget spinners will be popular again in 2050

>>11525217 (OP)
I'm surprised by its popularity. I dont know if its just me or not but I already kind of do it years before it became popular but with my phone.

>NTPCs find out about autism thing
>glom onto it because autism is quirk chungus
>realize if you dont have autism there is nothing interesting about stim toys
>normies abandon autism thing having done the damage
>repeat until HDoTU

>>11525217 (OP)
Because all zoomer shit sucks.

>>11525217 (OP)
are fidget spinners even toys?

>>11525217 (OP)
>Why did fidget spinners die out so quickly?

People realized they're extremely boring? They do literally one thing, spin. The fad never made sense to begin with.

>>11535239
You play with them

>>11535429
>The fad never made sense to begin with.
They spun very smoothly even at the highest speed. These were fascinating scientifically at least, like what some guy's office desk had