What is Planking? Planking is an activity where the person lies facing downward on the ground or across an object, arms straight at their side with palms flat and facing inward, toes pointed, and body as stiff as a wooden board. It is typically done in a funny or unusual place and a picture is…
Category: 2000’s Fads and Trends
Asking a date to the prom via elaborate “promposals”. The over-the-top promposals fade of the 2010’s
Smoking shisha flavored tobacco from a hookah waterpipe (2010’s)
The Silly Bandz craze of the 2000’s
Bernie Sanders mittens meme fad (2020)
In January 2021, Bernie Sanders, the popular US senator and far-left activist, was photographed seated during the inauguration of Joe Biden. Wearing distinctive chunky mittens (hand knitted by Vermont elementary school teacher Jen Ellis.) and bundled in a thick coat and wearing a surgical mask (it was during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic), the…