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I was the reason my school banned the loom bracelets. I would make really complicated ones and sell them with an upcharge if they asked for specific colors that I would have to custom make.
In 4th grade my mom bought pull apart erasier animals for the class. Me and my friends decide to make a story with acholic panda who was often divorced married divorced etc. the panda had kids and other animal friends. Storys often revolves alround being drunk and just being crazy. This story line lasted till fifth grade and we had a play day (recess all day for a day) and ended the story line. A wonderful ending for a wonderful story
I love when people share the questionable storylines they played out with their toys as kids. I personally had a stuffed frog that had like five girlfriends at once. Also, the girlfriends were human dolls and not other animals, but that was in no way the weirdest part of the storyline.
Story: I used to wear silly bandz all up my arms, my school banded them and my teacher cut them all off…she died of cancer 2 years ago so I say god did me right
my school actually elimated the problem of fomo for the less fortunate kids by introducing an economy to the playground. If you did something nice for another kid or helped out a teacher and a faculty member saw they would give you a mustang ticket. and once you collected enough tickets you could take it to the school store and buy all the erasers and silly bands you wanted. one time we all pooled our tickets together to buy an rc car that costed like 300 or something.
think my school tried something similar except there was mad favoritism so some kids would have literal dedicated bags for all the tickets they received while others would be lucky to get maybe half a dozen over the course of the school year
One of the elementary schools I went to did something like this. I remember getting some of the erasers (they had scented donut ones at one point). And when my older brother went their they had Webkinz
teachers are now using the japanese erasers as “desk pets” to reward good behavior. each child earns their desk pet in some way (they get them for the most part at the same time and everyone gets one). some tecahers offer points to exchange for friends for ur desk pet, toys for them, or “house” decor if they are kept in little containers to prevent them from becoming a distraction.
me and my friends would make "shops" on our desk for the erasers to inhabit. They were basically just little temporary lean-to's made with miscellaneous school supplies, but if you made a nice looking one you'd get to show it off until it was taken down at the end of the day. Think they got banned because they kept falling down when people bumped into the desks.
I'm 14 and from Slovakia BUT i can assure you we had like 90% of these if not more. I grew up with the fads that kids my age were familiar with and ALSO the fads that my 24 y.o. sister grew up with and i made a business out of every single one😭
I was one of those kids that was too poor for things like these but I do remember them being very popular and I remember being gifted extra silly bands and loom bracelets by other kids. I managed to get a pretty decent collection by trading my "fancier" ones for two or three of the common ones and then trading those for ones I liked. The black colored ones were like the ultimate flex to have and I managed to get one. Best moment of my elementary school life.
I've never heard of silly bandz. apparently those came out several years after I graduated. I know slap bracelets though. My sister had a ton in elementary back in the 90s and I would play around with them cus the slap effect was so fun.
@@allietricaso yeah i just graduated and silly bands were around kindergarten and rainbow loom was most popular in 3rd grade! crazy i love seeing the perspective of these from a different age
Did y'all ever go absolutely LOONY for scented erasers? Bro the chocolate one had such a GRIP on my classmates, and I was so mad my parents wouldn't buy me them😂
I remember my school would have this thing called school store and they had this thing that was like little compartments and each one had a different scented eraser it was great
i distinctly remember a girl on my bus selling one bandaloom bracelet for 1 dollar, and i gave her 20 bucks for some reason, and she told me she’d give me them later because she only had a few, and i got like 6 in total. i would say this was my first taste of the cruel world but i also remember giving away necklaces and ipods simply if they asked. no hesitation. i want to squeeze younger me in a /neg way.
Felt that, gave away a pretty purple n pink floral mp3 player and lost a golden pokemon movie token as a kid and I just wanna violently shake braincells into tiny me
I remember our schools had a sticker blackmarket where we'd exchange stickers during Singing class. Things got INTENSE. People would gnaw at ur throat for a large Disney Cinderella or a Barbie Diamond Castle. Teacher tried to ban it but it just shifted to drug deal levels of underground. Like you'd see kids doing dealings at the back of the classroom-
A bunch of fads I that I experienced - Pokémon Cards Trading - Sites like Coolmathgames and Y8 - Scented Markers, Swords made with Markers - Sticker Colleting - Silly Bands - Cool Designed Pencils - That one kid who had a phone who everyone would crowd around at recess or free time - Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - The Geronimo Stilton Series - Bayblades - Cootie Catchers - School Show and Tell where that one kid came to school and brought that expensive toy they couldn't bring otherwise just to brag and play with it at school - I was in eight grade when Fidget Spinners became popular in my school - Every Kid was playing Free Minecraft from Mineshafter - Cat Themed School Supplies (Girls) - The Paul Frank Brand - WeeWorld
I love that I went from being a kid making loom bracelets to bring a teacher commissioning my students for loom bracelets and wearing them with them! ❤️
i was given a gift of the original "silly bands" a year or two before they were popular... they came in a little clear hard plastic case and are a little thicker so they were harder to break.. never wore them as bracelets, because i liked being able to see the animal shapes instead of random bumps on a bracelet so by the time the trend got going, i thought they were old news lol i was like the ONLY kid who just did not care tbh now i wish i had been included and liked them more because i don't really have the same nostalgia for them that my friends do i have nostalgia for my little box of them (which i still have somewhere!) but not the trend
Love the video Allie. I'm the same age as you and Irish and can say that silly bandz, slap bracelets and loom bands (although as you said a touch later on) were all extremely popular here (as were beyblades, yugioh, bakugon and pokemon) however those erasers (or rubbers as we call them here) weren't a thing, but one big fad we did have was a slide on plastic pencil grip thing which came in a bunch of colours and shapes and we also had a marbles obsession. Love the nostalgia bait content, every video you make seems to awaken dormant memories for me.
I'm a housekeeper and I was at work today and I checked on a family who is staying. They answered the door and this kid runs up to me saying, "It's so cute!" about a bidoof... I broke inside a little, but at the same time I was filled with so much nostalgia that I could look past the bidoof part. I ended up giving them 2 little pokemon figurines and some coloring pages I had with me, and their response was absolutely priceless.
im 19 and i grew up in england, where these trends were a bit behind, so i had these at basically the same time as you! my input/comparison would be that silly bands and beyblades weren't as big, but the japanese erasers and loom bracelets were super popular. I remember people getting upset over loom bands because they were said to cause cancer. who knows if that was true, but me and my friends made so many and traded and sold them etc. fun times. i loved the japanese erasers so much too.
Summer of 2014 I went on a massive week long Scout camp with loads of other Scout groups and we all used loom band bracelets to fasten our neckers (instead of tying a knot or using a normal woggle). Whover decided to stock the camp tuck shop with loom bands as well as sweets and drinks was a genius - they probably made a fortune off us! Happy days...
When I was in middle school south park was new and it became a huge fad. I remember they decided to ban south park clothing because the show was offensive, even if the shirts weren't. People were just wearing shirts that had cartman eating beefcake, but they banned them anyways. moral panic shit. As for banning silly bandz because of the trading, when I was in elementary POGs were massively popular. They ended up banning them because the same thing happened. Kids would trade, or play the game and lose their favorite pogs, and they were tired of upset kids and parents and said it was like gambling, so they banned it. most of us actually didn't even play it. we just traded them.
As someone nearing 30 it's kinda scary to see that some of these middle school trends we had were hanging around almost ten years after leaving them behind...
That's because anything cool came from our generation. They stopped trying to make cool stuff after us. Nowhere revolutionary for kids anymore. They ran out of ideas
Me and my friends were just obsessed with collections- we did fooeys, pencil grippers, erasers, and even candy wrappers at one point. Each one our teacher eventually told us to keep at home when it got out of hand. Me and my besties Fooey collection was actually incredible- when we had a friendship breakup we had to separate them like children in a divorce
Fun fact: I used to call myself a Rainbow Loom expert back in elementary school (specifically around grade 3 up until I found out about crocheting in grade 7) and despite the fact I very rarely made any of the bracelets, I instead made charms and 3D stuff out of the bands It was usually Pokemon but it ended up going down the Undertale pipeline once 2016 rolled around and I still remember my friends saying I sold my soul to the devil to be able to make the charms I made. Still honestly kinda mad at my 11/12 year old self for not charging people whenever they asked me to make them stuff cuz I feel like I could've made some absolute bank off that considering how much people 'ordered' things from me I haven't touched my loom in years and instead crochet silly dolls and trinkets as a hobby, but I still have every little thing I made out of those cheap rubber bands in a tote in my basement to this day
This was so wholesome I love it. I'm older than you but I was wondering if you guys had scholastic back in middle school?? They were pretty much like book fairs but you could also get erasers, necklaces, and a bunch of other crap...
kids at my school would go FERAL over the scholastic fairs 😂 the biggest flex was if u got smencils omg the chokehold those had on us in elementary school was crazy
Born in 04, yeah those were great, but those flexible pencils sucked, like the ones you couldn't sharpen, and couldn't write with, I remember getting a 49 clues book once I read it in like a day
I'm italian and, for the sake of this speech, i'm also 18 years old. I honestly think a lot of our school culture was very similar to the American one, particularly because when I was little (in the 2010s) italians had this weird obsession in copying americans in everything they did. The fact was that it wasn't only done by kids but also the media and the general public so everyone thought it was the shit. Mannerism, looks, trends, music, (in particular Avril Lavigne) aesthetic in general. Was considered "cool" or wathever, in reality was very cringe. Always thought it was silly as hell and rn I don't see it done that often tbh, but anyway, at elementary school everyone was obsessed with silly bandz, slap and floom bracelets (i had like an entire jar filled by them) and those cute japanese stickers you could buy at any supermarket. There were also the japanese eraeser but they weren't weirdly as popular????Also there was this weird obsession with japanese brands and medias like Tokidoki, Sanrio, Pucca, Yu Gi Ho, Beyblade, Hihi Puffy Amy Yumi, Hamtaro. Yall get the line. Those things were INSANELY popular and they were weirdly not considered "cringe" by children, if you were into that things you were the absolute shit, the star of the moment. Thinking back of it the italian's 2010s were a... very weird era.
Why is it weird that kids franchises weren’t considered cringy by children, the target demographic?? Sorry I’m genuinely a bit confused about that lol. It is always cool to hear about the school life culture from countries outside of the US though ( I’ve talked to a few of my non American friends and peers and they all seem to think that we wouldn’t like it based on common media they see from the us which is a bummer) thank you for sharing!
one of my best childhood memories was my mom not being able to afford to buy me silly bandz so a girl at my school who had them up to her elbow gave me some of the ones she didn't want.
I remember when I was in elementary school this group of “popular” girls would have these shoebox dollhouses for their Japanese erasers I always wanted to play with them and did sometimes, it was so fun looking at the details of the dollhouse they made I was sooo jealous of them 😅 but now I think I should make one lol
For Context I live in Germany and as a young male teen I made many loom bracelets and had a massive set of them but I dont remember much of anyone else having them. I remember some slap bands too. Another Trend I had in my school was trading cards specifically star wars ones. You should probaly make the Sponsor link a hyperlink btw
@@allietricaso Well it was a fun little hobby when I was smaller to make loom bands and I did wear them a few times. Slap bands were cool too and more popular from all the things mentioned in the video, atleast in the schools I visited.
this was all super nostalgic but man the loom bracelets/rainbow loom part felt like it reached into the depths of my childhood to remember them. my nana and i used to make them together for people when i was younger, it was a really fond time in my life so thank you for helping me remember it :)
No mention of the mustache era?? those things had such a grip on me and my mom still thinks it’s funny to get mustache themed items for me to this day 😭
As a fellow 21 year old, I remember all of these being popular and all of them being banned. One I remember most in middle school was one of the multiple resurgences of Pokemon Cards, I used to have a stack of like 200 cards that are somewhere in storage that were my brother's and have completely disappeared sadly. I also remember being super into Bakugan for a while
idk if this was popular on a wider scale or if it was just my neighborhood, but temporary tattoos were HUGE. we'd get them from local convenience stores and collect them instead of actually putting them on. there was a collection of fairies inspired by different animals that im p sure my sister still has a collection of
Middle schools now just do not have fads 😭 I was in 7th grade this past school year and there's nothing that kids would trade around or be like "Omg I want those!" It's kind of sad bc I think it's because of the internet. We have our phones/chromebooks in school and that's enough for us, so we don't have silly things like this. I really would like to know of fads that other schools might have bc my school doesn't have any fads
Recent new subscriber, I felt outed every time Allie mentioned her age I'm the same age as her but she made everything sound so old, it hit a deep part of my soul lol
I grew up in Central America, and I remember sometimes my classmates would travel to the US during the holidays and come back with the Japanese erasers and those people were the coolest ever. They would sometimes even lend you their erasers so you could feel an ounce of coolness. I also used to sell my loom band bracelets and even took in commissions but I was never fancy enough to have the tools so I just did it with my fingers.
my middle school banned smarties. yup, the candy smarties. the reason? kids would crush them up and pretend to smoke them by inhaling and blowing out the crushed up smarties dust. not sure if this was just my school or a bigger thing but i've only ever heard about it happening in my area
My school totally banned silly bands within a week of them showing up. They considered it to be so much of an epidemic that it eventually showed up in the school handbook when talking about rules against trading shit with friends.
im in middle school and watching your videos is something i do after school! the most current "fads" we have now.... TikTok, Stanley Tumblers, Having an Iphone, Rare Beauty liquid blush... now that i think about it toys and other cool things aren't very popular now. we still make rubber band bracelets tho :)
@@allietricaso also, at 7:48 you mention some of "us" (us being me) having a hefty collection, and then saying you want more. now the real question is, are you joking because I literally have hundreds and I don't mind sending a few !!
Did anybody else recognize that at 7:21 on the silly band restriction paper they put "We appreciate you support in this difficult decision." Instead of "We appreciate YOUR support in this difficult decision" This didn't matter at all but I felt the need to point it out. Thank you for your time. Also I love your videos Allie
allie i love your content so much despite the fact that it violently tears memories i thought were long erased from the depths of my consciousness. what is your secret how do you make me love this
As a 19 turning 20 year old from Australia, I can say that Loom Bands were the most popular thing going on at my primary school for like, 3 years. I still love them.
im in south england and loom bands were massive here! there was one girl in my primary school who made a loom band scarf that she wore around i think she might be the reason they were banned tbh
I remember my parents never letting me get things that were popular at the time, so I had to get creative and ended up finding/stealing things I wanted 😅
As a little brother who had sisters who were 10 years older than them I remember these all to well especially the little monkey erasers I loved using when I was kindergarten I even had an invader zim slap bracelet
Honestly...as a daycare teacher who's kids are 2nd-6th grade...not very interesting fads tbh. The ones we had growing up are making their way back around 😂 Btw Im 23yo so we were about the same age for the fads haha 😂
I'm in the UK so I'm just gonna assume middle school is primary school. The only one of these we had was the Japanese rubbers which we called 'take apart rubbers'. But then I left primary school like 6 or 7 years ago so maybe the other things were just before my years. I still have the remains (and I really do mean REMAINS) of some of mine on top of my door frame.
I’m in the UK too but im older than you (im 26) and we had silly bands! We had slap bands too and beyblades. We also had tamagotchis, something called “slag bands”, and a braclet similar to loop bands but a bit different that i cant remember the name of 😭
I don't really comment but damn this had a chokehold on me lol I'm Hungarian and I don't remember fads being banned in my school, but I wanted to share that loom bracelets were a huuuge thing, and although we didn't trade/buy things in a sense, we made it for free in my class for eachother! It helped me bond and relate with my classmates as the weird emo girl, and I got to make bracelets with my crush for eachother that I remember still having somewhere. Good times:)
back in 2012-2013 we had these scented pencils called "smencils" and i remember nobody was able to do any work bc everyone wanted to see and smell the pencils
Right now at my little sister's middle school, the big thing is trading Pokémon cards. From what she's told me they don't play the game and most of the kids don't really know anything about Pokémon outside of the cards.
5:00 Oh yes, I remember these silly bands. They became fashionable suddenly, and it became a game to wear the most. If you didn't wear any, or many, you was targeted. Many kids used them as a slingshot, or flicked them like rubber mads. It was pretty crazy in my school. In fact, loads of people used them like elastic bands to keep the doors shut, which meant, it left people stuck inside classrooms until somehow the bands were removed.
Honestly beyblade was most pervasive fad growing up for me from Canada America to the Philippines it followed me everywhere yes I did watch the show on n off, spectated a few matches and even own some of the metal fight vers in 7th grade (never took em to school tho)
So our high school was too big, so there were a lot of places where there werent classes and thus no teachers. There was basically a gambling ring in one of those bathrooms where kids would straight up play blackjack over silly bandz and cute erasers. The school literally had a door put in to that hallway and it ended up locked during school hours 😂 probably a fire hazard, but how else would they ensure we werent gambling in a bathroom during class time lol (im 23 btw so slightly older, but I 100% relate to all of this)
your too much swag cutaway had me falling out of my chair. I'm just a little too old to relate to all your exact fads, but your delivery is hilarious and I love it.
You know I keep hearing people talk about how there's no "tween" phase anymore and wondering why...took the title of this video for me to realize why, if they're gonna take away all the childhood things these kids are clinging to, no wonder why they're growing up way too fast instead 🤷🏻♀️
i'm from france and i'm 23 going on 24, and i definitely remember silly bandz! i didn't have many but i loved them, still do honestly they're just so cute. i also remember slap bracelets, they were actually pretty huge and lasted a pretty long time! i used mine as a ruler and that's why i wasn't cool. it's weird to me how many times you mentioned things getting banned... that doesn't really happen here? i guess that's why we had less fads overall, we were never really forced to stop.
Not so much middle school, but late elementary school for my brother. The X-Men Series 2 trading cards were popular. Unfortunately our school principal banned them, citing “violent images”. The boys went to baseball trading cards, only for the principal to an those, no explanation given. The boys jokes and said “oh, but baseball caress are also ‘violent’! That mean man is hitting the poor baseball with a bat!”
Hi, australian here born in 2010 (yes, I am 13 💀) we don’t have middle school, we just go primary to highschool, so grades prep (basically grade 0) to grade 6 is primary, grade 7-12 is highschool, I guess australia takes a while to catch up to trends so we all had these in primary school from like 2015-2018
i was a fucking F I E N D when it came to rainbow loom, if you knew how to do the starburst bracelet you were the king/queen in my school. but I also made like rainbow loom animals, furniture, i even saw tutorials of making a full on legit rubber band PLUSHIE but i didn't have enough looming boards to make them... ahhh good times :') i even had a whole container sorter just for the rubber bands
Middle school was fucking miserable for me ngl, arguably even worse than high school. Initially this guy convinced people singled me out a lot to the point where for a year I had zero friends to talk to, and I ended up failing a grade after a while. Our school also had uniforms but also was just in this fucking minecraft-house lookin' ass building in the middle of the city, to the point where the only students who'd go outside were those with class on the roof (never had those) or if you were really unlucky, there'd just be full days where you'd never really see the sun/leave the classroom you were in, for like every day. It was fucking god awful. Anyway not to dump about this shit, lol, I'm ok. All that is to say like every single interesting fad or neat item to have with you was fucking contrabanned. I think you could get away with Keshigomu to an extent but only because it was considered a supply.
my elementary school had like these vendingish machine where you could get the silly bands, stickers, and some cardboard toy things and me and my friends buy a *BUNCH* of silly bands and stickers
I honestly think kids should just finally band together and stop shit like this. Like can you imagine if every single student in school just showed up with these band items one day? Like what is the teachers gonna do, go around to the hundreds of kids in the building and give every single one of them a suspension? Like kids really need to realize they have all the power in that situation. They are literally above the law at that age, schools can not do actually do shit to punish them. the closest any school has ever got to an affective punishment was spanking and thats illegal now. Like honestly what are they gonna do if they suspend you and then you just go anyway? Walk into class, sit down, and just don't leave when they tell you to. And like if every single kid who got suspended did that then all of a sudden the suspension means nothing. "Give me that item! I'm confiscating it!" Just don't give it to them. Put it down your pants and dare them to grab it! Like they aren't above the law, the do something to you and they go to jail, but where will you go? Juvenile? Literally just keep going to that school. Don't leave class. They have 0 power over any of the kids they teach, the only power they have is the power they trick kids into thinking they have. And like theres no reason for schools to be so damn strict on kids to begin with! The kid doesn't choose to go to school, the government requires it and if they don't they'll send the parents to jail because as I said, the kids themself are above the law. They can skip as much school as they want and we will punish the parents instead of them! The child has no reason to want to go to school, they are only going because there parents forced them to out of fear of going to jail, so why the hell do we force so many rules and restrictions on people in a place they are forced to go to? How the hell do we call ourselves a free country and then say "Kids can't wear silly bands in school." Like WTF about that makes us free? We are forced to go to a place that is allowed to restrict litterally everything we do, nothing about that is freedom. "Oh well there kids! They earn it later!" Nope! Our constitution, in the governments own words, is a list of god given rights that we are born with. The fact that we decided to say "Oh well there young, so we can restrict what they say and wear and do" honestly disgusts me, like are we born with rights here or not? Don't lie about shit.
I was in HighSchool in 2009. Silly Bands… HighSchool kids were wearing them too. All my friends had them. My school didn’t ban them. My friends gave me some. Teachers didn’t really care. Slap Bracelets were a little before my time. They are actually a 90’s thing. They were practically dead when I got into elementary school. I had them occasionally after finding a lost one on the floor or my friend gave me one.
ngl when i was in middle school i literally just did my work and talked to friends so hearing all this shit makes me feel like everyone other than me was / is insane. silly bandz? weird fashion trends, dumbass toys, "cool kids table"s, i just... i can't believe people cared about it even though i watched it happen around me. god damn i am autistic as fuck
i was a year 6 kid in primary school when fidget spinners became popular and literally like the day my brother and i finally got our own and brought them with us (they were the nice shiny metal ones) they were literally banned at our school and i still haven't gotten over it >:(
oh yeah they still make new ones of those japanese erasers!! my sister and i still collect the ones from the "Iwako" brand. the company even does remake designs of some of the older designs they have (like the same type of dog done more than once with different details, for example) every once and a while we will see a new pack that we dont have, and add them to our collection haha
Ok I have a ton of FAD’s. Wheelies,cabbage patch kids,whatever Shopkins are, LOL dolls, the classic Pokemon, Bratz, Jellie shoes,the crazy hair accessories and best of all Silly puddy. I could name so much more but that’s all for now.
Elder millennial here: I did go to a small country school but wow stuff had changed. The only thing they were really concerned about was short skirts and clothing with alcohol logo feces smeared all over it. That being said. A lot of boys had small pocket knives. No one ever got stabbed and we were allowed to have them. FURTHERMORE!!!! If you parents brough a shotgun/rifle to school and gave it to the woodshop teacher. YOU WERE LITERALLY HANDED A GUN AT SCHOOL by the shop teacher so you could customize the stock.... Do you know how many school shootings we had? 0
I'm 10 years older than you... And yeah nothing changes that's obviously correct 😮😅 I mean Iv never seen most of this stuff, but we had an equivalent version of all of it back in 1999 - 2003 😂 Edit: OMG SLAP BRACKETS
Would love hear you talk about some of your personal games or experiences you’d have with your friends at a sleepover or at recess. Freeze Tag, Hide & Seek, Bulldog. I don’t know how different the t was for you, but I’d be interested to hear it!
Early 2010s it was the second grade for me and my school kids found out about LPS and I had a few not understanding their popularity I had a few from a dollar tree/thrift store and one I loved was a fuzzy chewawa or some other small dog and would bring him to go on adventures with some girls that tolerate me. I forgot to put them back in my backpack so they were in my pocket and I eventually pulled him out in my desk to fidget with him and some kid told the teacher who already hated me because I was an undiagnosed add child who was still trying to process from going from living with their great grandparents to their parents who they where dead. But anyway so she told the LPS away and told me she i was able to get him back at the end of the year....BITCH MOVED TO FUCKING MEXICO IN DECEMBER i never got the LPS back and it still fucking pisses me off
I'm a millennial and hearing about Z fads brings me joy. The fads are slightly different, but it's so similar, you can see the parallels. Jelly bracelets > silly bands, eraser pets > tamagotchi, beyblades > POGS, pokemon cards > wait pokemon cards are still a thing? I love it.
I used to BREATHE loom bracelets. I recently found my old collection and it couldn't fit in my entire giant ass drawer. Now I'm making pride flag ones 👉👈
As a 27 year old the TRUE WAR for me in 8th grade was your MySpace top 10 friends, booooooy did that start some serious shit EVERY SINGLE TIME LOL😹💀 also I wore bracelets up to my elbows every single day no matter what and oh my god so time consuming
I (Trans Male, 23) was an absolute Justice obsessed fan. I was bullied relentlesly for shopping there and I still have no idea what that whole period of my life was about. The sparkles have just HAPPENED. Now that I think about it I would probably still buy a T-shirt or a sweater from them even now if they were still open in my country. All of their clothes looked ridiculous and I'm here for it. *I wanna be a walking glitter bomb*
Omg, silly bandz! Never in my life have I felt such pride as when I, a fuzzy haired, brace wearing, neon nailed tween put on my 100th silly band, a white and pink unicorn in late 2007!
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I don't get it...
All these accessories....
I just wear:
shoes
pants
shirt
That's it.... XD
I was the reason my school banned the loom bracelets. I would make really complicated ones and sell them with an upcharge if they asked for specific colors that I would have to custom make.
OMG HAHA
Girlbossed too close to the sun. 😔
bro had a business
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@PyreOManiac my dad even used his accounting degree to help me figure out price points and everything lmao
In 4th grade my mom bought pull apart erasier animals for the class. Me and my friends decide to make a story with acholic panda who was often divorced married divorced etc. the panda had kids and other animal friends. Storys often revolves alround being drunk and just being crazy. This story line lasted till fifth grade and we had a play day (recess all day for a day) and ended the story line. A wonderful ending for a wonderful story
I love when people share the questionable storylines they played out with their toys as kids. I personally had a stuffed frog that had like five girlfriends at once. Also, the girlfriends were human dolls and not other animals, but that was in no way the weirdest part of the storyline.
Story: I used to wear silly bandz all up my arms, my school banded them and my teacher cut them all off…she died of cancer 2 years ago so I say god did me right
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@@allietricaso i ratio’s your own pinned comment 😎😎😎
my school actually elimated the problem of fomo for the less fortunate kids by introducing an economy to the playground. If you did something nice for another kid or helped out a teacher and a faculty member saw they would give you a mustang ticket. and once you collected enough tickets you could take it to the school store and buy all the erasers and silly bands you wanted. one time we all pooled our tickets together to buy an rc car that costed like 300 or something.
think my school tried something similar except there was mad favoritism so some kids would have literal dedicated bags for all the tickets they received while others would be lucky to get maybe half a dozen over the course of the school year
One of the elementary schools I went to did something like this. I remember getting some of the erasers (they had scented donut ones at one point). And when my older brother went their they had Webkinz
teachers are now using the japanese erasers as “desk pets” to reward good behavior. each child earns their desk pet in some way (they get them for the most part at the same time and everyone gets one). some tecahers offer points to exchange for friends for ur desk pet, toys for them, or “house” decor if they are kept in little containers to prevent them from becoming a distraction.
Aw omg I love this😭
my mother is a 2nd grade teacher and she has a lil treasure chest full of em as rewards
me and my friends would make "shops" on our desk for the erasers to inhabit. They were basically just little temporary lean-to's made with miscellaneous school supplies, but if you made a nice looking one you'd get to show it off until it was taken down at the end of the day. Think they got banned because they kept falling down when people bumped into the desks.
IN 4TH GRADE I HAD A LION DESK PET IDK WERE IT IS THOOO
I'm 14 and from Slovakia BUT i can assure you we had like 90% of these if not more. I grew up with the fads that kids my age were familiar with and ALSO the fads that my 24 y.o. sister grew up with and i made a business out of every single one😭
I was one of those kids that was too poor for things like these but I do remember them being very popular and I remember being gifted extra silly bands and loom bracelets by other kids. I managed to get a pretty decent collection by trading my "fancier" ones for two or three of the common ones and then trading those for ones I liked. The black colored ones were like the ultimate flex to have and I managed to get one. Best moment of my elementary school life.
It's so funny hearing you talk about how these were popular in middle school and high school because for me these were Elementary School.
loom bracelets were 100% middle school for me but the others were kind of on the cusp of elementary/ middle school so i get you hahha
Same, especially silly bands.
I've never heard of silly bandz. apparently those came out several years after I graduated. I know slap bracelets though. My sister had a ton in elementary back in the 90s and I would play around with them cus the slap effect was so fun.
@@allietricaso yeah i just graduated and silly bands were around kindergarten and rainbow loom was most popular in 3rd grade! crazy i love seeing the perspective of these from a different age
Considering I went I to school in Philippines
Did y'all ever go absolutely LOONY for scented erasers? Bro the chocolate one had such a GRIP on my classmates, and I was so mad my parents wouldn't buy me them😂
Those and the smell penciles! We would beg everyone we knew for the rootbear float one and the chocolate bar eraser😂
I remember my school would have this thing called school store and they had this thing that was like little compartments and each one had a different scented eraser it was great
@@i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r OMG YES, thats what mine had to!
YES😭😭For me, we were obsessed with the scented pencils
i distinctly remember a girl on my bus selling one bandaloom bracelet for 1 dollar, and i gave her 20 bucks for some reason, and she told me she’d give me them later because she only had a few, and i got like 6 in total.
i would say this was my first taste of the cruel world but i also remember giving away necklaces and ipods simply if they asked. no hesitation. i want to squeeze younger me in a /neg way.
NOOO LOL NOT THE $20
My man really got the bag back then
Does anyone remember the kid who would sell gloves during the dissection units in science class
Felt that, gave away a pretty purple n pink floral mp3 player and lost a golden pokemon movie token as a kid and I just wanna violently shake braincells into tiny me
You gave away iPods?!?!!?!!
I remember our schools had a sticker blackmarket where we'd exchange stickers during Singing class. Things got INTENSE. People would gnaw at ur throat for a large Disney Cinderella or a Barbie Diamond Castle. Teacher tried to ban it but it just shifted to drug deal levels of underground. Like you'd see kids doing dealings at the back of the classroom-
We’re there any prominent sticker lords in your school?
A bunch of fads I that I experienced
- Pokémon Cards Trading
- Sites like Coolmathgames and Y8
- Scented Markers, Swords made with Markers
- Sticker Colleting
- Silly Bands
- Cool Designed Pencils
- That one kid who had a phone who everyone would crowd around at recess or free time
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
- The Geronimo Stilton Series
- Bayblades
- Cootie Catchers
- School Show and Tell where that one kid came to school and brought that expensive toy they couldn't bring otherwise just to brag and play with it at school
- I was in eight grade when Fidget Spinners became popular in my school
- Every Kid was playing Free Minecraft from Mineshafter
- Cat Themed School Supplies (Girls)
- The Paul Frank Brand
- WeeWorld
HOW COME NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT SLIME??!
@@ddsquadproves5057 It wasn't a thing when I was in middle school
@@Ezekiel.T WHAAAATTT???
I hope playing classic doom on an online emulator becomes a fad.
@@EgoistTheMoon or any game in that way
I love that I went from being a kid making loom bracelets to bring a teacher commissioning my students for loom bracelets and wearing them with them! ❤️
You are a good person
Thank you 😎
This is so fucjing cute
actually, as a bisexual, I always avoided looking at the Victoria’s Secret at all times 😌😌
Omg same tho-why did that feel so illegal 💀💀💀
Trans guy here who thought he was a lesbian as a child (still like women but in a straight way now lol), I did the same
I would stare way too long and my mom gif mad at me Lmao
Trans gal lesbian here, it went from ew gross, to oh? To envy, to shame, to envy, to hey babe you’d look good in that
As an asexual I was just confused about the half naked ladies. And what WAS Victoria’s Secret? What is she hiding?!?!?!
i was given a gift of the original "silly bands" a year or two before they were popular... they came in a little clear hard plastic case and are a little thicker so they were harder to break.. never wore them as bracelets, because i liked being able to see the animal shapes instead of random bumps on a bracelet
so by the time the trend got going, i thought they were old news lol i was like the ONLY kid who just
did not care
tbh now i wish i had been included and liked them more because i don't really have the same nostalgia for them that my friends do
i have nostalgia for my little box of them (which i still have somewhere!) but not the trend
Love the video Allie. I'm the same age as you and Irish and can say that silly bandz, slap bracelets and loom bands (although as you said a touch later on) were all extremely popular here (as were beyblades, yugioh, bakugon and pokemon) however those erasers (or rubbers as we call them here) weren't a thing, but one big fad we did have was a slide on plastic pencil grip thing which came in a bunch of colours and shapes and we also had a marbles obsession. Love the nostalgia bait content, every video you make seems to awaken dormant memories for me.
Omg I’m glad we were able to experience this together then😂💜 BUT OMG YES PLASTIC GRIPS IM WRITING THAT ONE DOWN
I cackled when you said the pencil grip things 🤣 same age too!! Unlocked a hidden memory
@@allietricaso i always used to chew on the rubber grips they were so satisfying
I'm Irish too and we had the Japanese erasers! this was in 2014-2016, we bought them in mr price 😭
I'm just glad I saw the word beyblade in there lol
I miss middle school. I was cringe and I loved it. Last moment on my life that anxiety wasn’t a factor in my social life
honestly you make a point...
@@allietricaso I'm still fucking there
sadly middle school was when i GOT anxiety
that's when the anxiousness in my social life started, and then went away in my last year of High School
Stop being relatable D:
I'm a housekeeper and I was at work today and I checked on a family who is staying. They answered the door and this kid runs up to me saying, "It's so cute!" about a bidoof... I broke inside a little, but at the same time I was filled with so much nostalgia that I could look past the bidoof part. I ended up giving them 2 little pokemon figurines and some coloring pages I had with me, and their response was absolutely priceless.
I love the responses I get for being a 31 year old woman who still collects pokemon cards and plays the games.
im 19 and i grew up in england, where these trends were a bit behind, so i had these at basically the same time as you! my input/comparison would be that silly bands and beyblades weren't as big, but the japanese erasers and loom bracelets were super popular. I remember people getting upset over loom bands because they were said to cause cancer. who knows if that was true, but me and my friends made so many and traded and sold them etc. fun times. i loved the japanese erasers so much too.
CANCER???
@@allietricaso LMAOO they definitely dont, but a lot of ppl’s parents stopped letting their kids wear them lol
Omg where did that rumour come from ?? my mum made me throw out my loom band box because of it 😭
@@smilesxo06 NO CLUE LMAO
@@riverjourney704loom bands don’t but the knock off brand “charms” contained carcinogenic chemicals in it so it was real just a different company
The chokehold that loom bands had on us in the UK was absolutely insane
Summer of 2014 I went on a massive week long Scout camp with loads of other Scout groups and we all used loom band bracelets to fasten our neckers (instead of tying a knot or using a normal woggle). Whover decided to stock the camp tuck shop with loom bands as well as sweets and drinks was a genius - they probably made a fortune off us! Happy days...
It was the same in Ireland and I remember that a rumour was started that they caused cancer and the trend immediately died 💀
This video brings back the nostalgia of my childhood on how my middle school would ban any fad🤣.
hahah I'm glad you're able to relate, was feeling super nostalgic this weeek
Remember pen pineapple apple pen
Or light up shoes i could make a list
When I was in middle school south park was new and it became a huge fad. I remember they decided to ban south park clothing because the show was offensive, even if the shirts weren't. People were just wearing shirts that had cartman eating beefcake, but they banned them anyways. moral panic shit.
As for banning silly bandz because of the trading, when I was in elementary POGs were massively popular. They ended up banning them because the same thing happened. Kids would trade, or play the game and lose their favorite pogs, and they were tired of upset kids and parents and said it was like gambling, so they banned it. most of us actually didn't even play it. we just traded them.
As someone nearing 30 it's kinda scary to see that some of these middle school trends we had were hanging around almost ten years after leaving them behind...
That's because anything cool came from our generation. They stopped trying to make cool stuff after us. Nowhere revolutionary for kids anymore. They ran out of ideas
I reconcented with my frinds group. We found the love again.
Im 30 myself, also found out last year I have ASD and so do all ym friends,...
Me and my friends were just obsessed with collections- we did fooeys, pencil grippers, erasers, and even candy wrappers at one point. Each one our teacher eventually told us to keep at home when it got out of hand. Me and my besties Fooey collection was actually incredible- when we had a friendship breakup we had to separate them like children in a divorce
Fun fact: I used to call myself a Rainbow Loom expert back in elementary school (specifically around grade 3 up until I found out about crocheting in grade 7) and despite the fact I very rarely made any of the bracelets, I instead made charms and 3D stuff out of the bands
It was usually Pokemon but it ended up going down the Undertale pipeline once 2016 rolled around and I still remember my friends saying I sold my soul to the devil to be able to make the charms I made. Still honestly kinda mad at my 11/12 year old self for not charging people whenever they asked me to make them stuff cuz I feel like I could've made some absolute bank off that considering how much people 'ordered' things from me
I haven't touched my loom in years and instead crochet silly dolls and trinkets as a hobby, but I still have every little thing I made out of those cheap rubber bands in a tote in my basement to this day
This was so wholesome I love it. I'm older than you but I was wondering if you guys had scholastic back in middle school?? They were pretty much like book fairs but you could also get erasers, necklaces, and a bunch of other crap...
Yes yes! I briefly mentioned it actually!!! I feel like it deserves a whole video honestly😂
@@allietricaso you should that would be really interesting
kids at my school would go FERAL over the scholastic fairs 😂 the biggest flex was if u got smencils omg the chokehold those had on us in elementary school was crazy
Born in 04, yeah those were great, but those flexible pencils sucked, like the ones you couldn't sharpen, and couldn't write with, I remember getting a 49 clues book once I read it in like a day
Scoltastic was so fun but I saved up for months for a winky wonky donkey book and a cd if the song I was living life
I'm italian and, for the sake of this speech, i'm also 18 years old. I honestly think a lot of our school culture was very similar to the American one, particularly because when I was little (in the 2010s) italians had this weird obsession in copying americans in everything they did. The fact was that it wasn't only done by kids but also the media and the general public so everyone thought it was the shit. Mannerism, looks, trends, music, (in particular Avril Lavigne) aesthetic in general. Was considered "cool" or wathever, in reality was very cringe. Always thought it was silly as hell and rn I don't see it done that often tbh, but anyway, at elementary school everyone was obsessed with silly bandz, slap and floom bracelets (i had like an entire jar filled by them) and those cute japanese stickers you could buy at any supermarket. There were also the japanese eraeser but they weren't weirdly as popular????Also there was this weird obsession with japanese brands and medias like Tokidoki, Sanrio, Pucca, Yu Gi Ho, Beyblade, Hihi Puffy Amy Yumi, Hamtaro. Yall get the line. Those things were INSANELY popular and they were weirdly not considered "cringe" by children, if you were into that things you were the absolute shit, the star of the moment.
Thinking back of it the italian's 2010s were a... very weird era.
Why is it weird that kids franchises weren’t considered cringy by children, the target demographic?? Sorry I’m genuinely a bit confused about that lol. It is always cool to hear about the school life culture from countries outside of the US though ( I’ve talked to a few of my non American friends and peers and they all seem to think that we wouldn’t like it based on common media they see from the us which is a bummer) thank you for sharing!
one of my best childhood memories was my mom not being able to afford to buy me silly bandz so a girl at my school who had them up to her elbow gave me some of the ones she didn't want.
I remember when I was in elementary school this group of “popular” girls would have these shoebox dollhouses for their Japanese erasers I always wanted to play with them and did sometimes, it was so fun looking at the details of the dollhouse they made I was sooo jealous of them 😅 but now I think I should make one lol
For Context I live in Germany and as a young male teen I made many loom bracelets and had a massive set of them but I dont remember much of anyone else having them. I remember some slap bands too. Another Trend I had in my school was trading cards specifically star wars ones.
You should probaly make the Sponsor link a hyperlink btw
ooo so looms were pretty international then!!! also i just use the link they give me ahahah
@@allietricaso Well it was a fun little hobby when I was smaller to make loom bands and I did wear them a few times. Slap bands were cool too and more popular from all the things mentioned in the video, atleast in the schools I visited.
this was all super nostalgic but man the loom bracelets/rainbow loom part felt like it reached into the depths of my childhood to remember them. my nana and i used to make them together for people when i was younger, it was a really fond time in my life so thank you for helping me remember it :)
No mention of the mustache era?? those things had such a grip on me and my mom still thinks it’s funny to get mustache themed items for me to this day 😭
As a fellow 21 year old, I remember all of these being popular and all of them being banned. One I remember most in middle school was one of the multiple resurgences of Pokemon Cards, I used to have a stack of like 200 cards that are somewhere in storage that were my brother's and have completely disappeared sadly. I also remember being super into Bakugan for a while
idk if this was popular on a wider scale or if it was just my neighborhood, but temporary tattoos were HUGE. we'd get them from local convenience stores and collect them instead of actually putting them on. there was a collection of fairies inspired by different animals that im p sure my sister still has a collection of
I love when people actually get them tattooed
Middle schools now just do not have fads 😭 I was in 7th grade this past school year and there's nothing that kids would trade around or be like "Omg I want those!" It's kind of sad bc I think it's because of the internet. We have our phones/chromebooks in school and that's enough for us, so we don't have silly things like this. I really would like to know of fads that other schools might have bc my school doesn't have any fads
Recent new subscriber, I felt outed every time Allie mentioned her age I'm the same age as her but she made everything sound so old, it hit a deep part of my soul lol
Listen if I have to come to terms with the fact I’m getting old I’m making y’all suffer too HHAHAH😂
i'm a year younger than her (20 almost 21) and she makes even me feel old sometimes 😂
I grew up in Central America, and I remember sometimes my classmates would travel to the US during the holidays and come back with the Japanese erasers and those people were the coolest ever. They would sometimes even lend you their erasers so you could feel an ounce of coolness. I also used to sell my loom band bracelets and even took in commissions but I was never fancy enough to have the tools so I just did it with my fingers.
my middle school banned smarties. yup, the candy smarties. the reason? kids would crush them up and pretend to smoke them by inhaling and blowing out the crushed up smarties dust. not sure if this was just my school or a bigger thing but i've only ever heard about it happening in my area
A year late but this happened at my school too. Same w pixie sticks
My school totally banned silly bands within a week of them showing up. They considered it to be so much of an epidemic that it eventually showed up in the school handbook when talking about rules against trading shit with friends.
this is so nostalgic. reminds me of when times were easy. now i’m a university student whose friends all moved away 🥲
im in middle school and watching your videos is something i do after school! the most current "fads" we have now.... TikTok, Stanley Tumblers, Having an Iphone, Rare Beauty liquid blush... now that i think about it toys and other cool things aren't very popular now. we still make rubber band bracelets tho :)
how do you always hit the topics that effected me the most as a person, it's scary. but fr love your content and keep it up!!
im in your brain >:)
@@allietricaso i wouldn't be surprised
@@allietricaso also, at 7:48 you mention some of "us" (us being me) having a hefty collection, and then saying you want more. now the real question is, are you joking because I literally have hundreds and I don't mind sending a few !!
Did anybody else recognize that at 7:21 on the silly band restriction paper they put "We appreciate you support in this difficult decision." Instead of "We appreciate YOUR support in this difficult decision" This didn't matter at all but I felt the need to point it out. Thank you for your time. Also I love your videos Allie
allie i love your content so much despite the fact that it violently tears memories i thought were long erased from the depths of my consciousness. what is your secret how do you make me love this
😏😏😏
As a 19 turning 20 year old from Australia, I can say that Loom Bands were the most popular thing going on at my primary school for like, 3 years. I still love them.
im in south england and loom bands were massive here! there was one girl in my primary school who made a loom band scarf that she wore around i think she might be the reason they were banned tbh
SCARF??? Fndbdn
I remember my sibling having just this, this HUMONGOUS rainbow loom bracelet ring, with upwards of 50 bracelets. Wow.
Somehow, you made me remember a lot of things from my childhood. Also, I love vids. You definitely have a passion for making them, and it shows.
I remember my parents never letting me get things that were popular at the time, so I had to get creative and ended up finding/stealing things I wanted 😅
As a little brother who had sisters who were 10 years older than them I remember these all to well especially the little monkey erasers I loved using when I was kindergarten I even had an invader zim slap bracelet
omg yes i am so glad someone else knows the monkey erasers, I was worried no one would know LOL
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Honestly...as a daycare teacher who's kids are 2nd-6th grade...not very interesting fads tbh. The ones we had growing up are making their way back around 😂
Btw Im 23yo so we were about the same age for the fads haha 😂
I'm in the UK so I'm just gonna assume middle school is primary school. The only one of these we had was the Japanese rubbers which we called 'take apart rubbers'. But then I left primary school like 6 or 7 years ago so maybe the other things were just before my years. I still have the remains (and I really do mean REMAINS) of some of mine on top of my door frame.
Middle school is like the first portion of secondary. So year 7, 8, 9.
I’m in the UK too but im older than you (im 26) and we had silly bands! We had slap bands too and beyblades. We also had tamagotchis, something called “slag bands”, and a braclet similar to loop bands but a bit different that i cant remember the name of 😭
Guys, don’t propose to girls with rings. Girls don’t want rings. Buy a pack of Silly Bands and let her pick out her favorite.
I don't really comment but damn this had a chokehold on me lol
I'm Hungarian and I don't remember fads being banned in my school, but I wanted to share that loom bracelets were a huuuge thing, and although we didn't trade/buy things in a sense, we made it for free in my class for eachother! It helped me bond and relate with my classmates as the weird emo girl, and I got to make bracelets with my crush for eachother that I remember still having somewhere. Good times:)
back in 2012-2013 we had these scented pencils called "smencils" and i remember nobody was able to do any work bc everyone wanted to see and smell the pencils
I hated middle school, but that was because of grades. Had to get used to studying for the first time.
Right now at my little sister's middle school, the big thing is trading Pokémon cards. From what she's told me they don't play the game and most of the kids don't really know anything about Pokémon outside of the cards.
5:00 Oh yes, I remember these silly bands. They became fashionable suddenly, and it became a game to wear the most. If you didn't wear any, or many, you was targeted. Many kids used them as a slingshot, or flicked them like rubber mads. It was pretty crazy in my school. In fact, loads of people used them like elastic bands to keep the doors shut, which meant, it left people stuck inside classrooms until somehow the bands were removed.
Honestly beyblade was most pervasive fad growing up for me from Canada America to the Philippines it followed me everywhere yes I did watch the show on n off, spectated a few matches and even own some of the metal fight vers in 7th grade (never took em to school tho)
So our high school was too big, so there were a lot of places where there werent classes and thus no teachers. There was basically a gambling ring in one of those bathrooms where kids would straight up play blackjack over silly bandz and cute erasers. The school literally had a door put in to that hallway and it ended up locked during school hours 😂 probably a fire hazard, but how else would they ensure we werent gambling in a bathroom during class time lol (im 23 btw so slightly older, but I 100% relate to all of this)
I am currently in middle school and now its just cool highlighters bc everyone grows up too fast ;)
All the girls and queer kids who'd give me their silly bands, erasers, mechanical pencils, and littlest pet shops had my back fr
As a person named Justice... I take the "I dont like you" Comment personally...
your too much swag cutaway had me falling out of my chair. I'm just a little too old to relate to all your exact fads, but your delivery is hilarious and I love it.
You know I keep hearing people talk about how there's no "tween" phase anymore and wondering why...took the title of this video for me to realize why, if they're gonna take away all the childhood things these kids are clinging to, no wonder why they're growing up way too fast instead 🤷🏻♀️
Wow Allie, you're so cool lol
Trying to reply to everyone (or at least like their replies)
i got fun things like hackey sacks and drugs banned from school. lol
i'm from france and i'm 23 going on 24, and i definitely remember silly bandz! i didn't have many but i loved them, still do honestly they're just so cute. i also remember slap bracelets, they were actually pretty huge and lasted a pretty long time! i used mine as a ruler and that's why i wasn't cool.
it's weird to me how many times you mentioned things getting banned... that doesn't really happen here? i guess that's why we had less fads overall, we were never really forced to stop.
Not so much middle school, but late elementary school for my brother. The X-Men Series 2 trading cards were popular. Unfortunately our school principal banned them, citing “violent images”. The boys went to baseball trading cards, only for the principal to an those, no explanation given. The boys jokes and said “oh, but baseball caress are also ‘violent’! That mean man is hitting the poor baseball with a bat!”
Hi, australian here born in 2010 (yes, I am 13 💀) we don’t have middle school, we just go primary to highschool, so grades prep (basically grade 0) to grade 6 is primary, grade 7-12 is highschool, I guess australia takes a while to catch up to trends so we all had these in primary school from like 2015-2018
The fact I had all of these at my school but I’m 16- this rlly do be a universal thing
Woah what:O silly bandz too??
i was a fucking F I E N D when it came to rainbow loom, if you knew how to do the starburst bracelet you were the king/queen in my school. but I also made like rainbow loom animals, furniture, i even saw tutorials of making a full on legit rubber band PLUSHIE but i didn't have enough looming boards to make them... ahhh good times :') i even had a whole container sorter just for the rubber bands
You forgot the I love Boobies bracelets 🤦♂️🤦♂️ and YMCMB/TAYLOR GANG/SWAG era 😂😂
Middle school was fucking miserable for me ngl, arguably even worse than high school. Initially this guy convinced people singled me out a lot to the point where for a year I had zero friends to talk to, and I ended up failing a grade after a while. Our school also had uniforms but also was just in this fucking minecraft-house lookin' ass building in the middle of the city, to the point where the only students who'd go outside were those with class on the roof (never had those) or if you were really unlucky, there'd just be full days where you'd never really see the sun/leave the classroom you were in, for like every day. It was fucking god awful.
Anyway not to dump about this shit, lol, I'm ok. All that is to say like every single interesting fad or neat item to have with you was fucking contrabanned. I think you could get away with Keshigomu to an extent but only because it was considered a supply.
my elementary school had like these vendingish machine where you could get the silly bands, stickers, and some cardboard toy things and me and my friends buy a *BUNCH* of silly bands and stickers
I honestly think kids should just finally band together and stop shit like this. Like can you imagine if every single student in school just showed up with these band items one day? Like what is the teachers gonna do, go around to the hundreds of kids in the building and give every single one of them a suspension? Like kids really need to realize they have all the power in that situation. They are literally above the law at that age, schools can not do actually do shit to punish them. the closest any school has ever got to an affective punishment was spanking and thats illegal now. Like honestly what are they gonna do if they suspend you and then you just go anyway? Walk into class, sit down, and just don't leave when they tell you to. And like if every single kid who got suspended did that then all of a sudden the suspension means nothing. "Give me that item! I'm confiscating it!" Just don't give it to them. Put it down your pants and dare them to grab it! Like they aren't above the law, the do something to you and they go to jail, but where will you go? Juvenile? Literally just keep going to that school. Don't leave class. They have 0 power over any of the kids they teach, the only power they have is the power they trick kids into thinking they have.
And like theres no reason for schools to be so damn strict on kids to begin with! The kid doesn't choose to go to school, the government requires it and if they don't they'll send the parents to jail because as I said, the kids themself are above the law. They can skip as much school as they want and we will punish the parents instead of them! The child has no reason to want to go to school, they are only going because there parents forced them to out of fear of going to jail, so why the hell do we force so many rules and restrictions on people in a place they are forced to go to? How the hell do we call ourselves a free country and then say "Kids can't wear silly bands in school." Like WTF about that makes us free? We are forced to go to a place that is allowed to restrict litterally everything we do, nothing about that is freedom. "Oh well there kids! They earn it later!" Nope! Our constitution, in the governments own words, is a list of god given rights that we are born with. The fact that we decided to say "Oh well there young, so we can restrict what they say and wear and do" honestly disgusts me, like are we born with rights here or not? Don't lie about shit.
I was in HighSchool in 2009.
Silly Bands… HighSchool kids were wearing them too.
All my friends had them.
My school didn’t ban them.
My friends gave me some.
Teachers didn’t really care.
Slap Bracelets were a little before my time. They are actually a 90’s thing. They were practically dead when I got into elementary school. I had them occasionally after finding a lost one on the floor or my friend gave me one.
ngl when i was in middle school i literally just did my work and talked to friends so hearing all this shit makes me feel like everyone other than me was / is insane. silly bandz? weird fashion trends, dumbass toys, "cool kids table"s, i just... i can't believe people cared about it even though i watched it happen around me. god damn i am autistic as fuck
Honestly, I’m happy that Covid happened when I was in middle school (for me 7 & 8th grade)
For the most part of online school I was on my phone 😅
Loom bracelets were god awful to make. Could never successfully make one. I remember someone gifted me one though and I still have it till this day!!
all my schools banned pokemon cards and pokemon movies,which is weird cause I got my first pokemon card AT school XD our gym teacher gave it to me
today's school fads are probably just vapes lmao
Pogs and YoYos was the main fads when I was in school.
i was a year 6 kid in primary school when fidget spinners became popular and literally like the day my brother and i finally got our own and brought them with us (they were the nice shiny metal ones) they were literally banned at our school and i still haven't gotten over it >:(
oh yeah they still make new ones of those japanese erasers!! my sister and i still collect the ones from the "Iwako" brand. the company even does remake designs of some of the older designs they have (like the same type of dog done more than once with different details, for example)
every once and a while we will see a new pack that we dont have, and add them to our collection haha
Yes yes iwako is the og brand I think!
@@allietricaso ik there were some knock offs but tbh they're all cute so it doesn't matter haha
Ok I have a ton of FAD’s.
Wheelies,cabbage patch kids,whatever Shopkins are, LOL dolls, the classic Pokemon, Bratz, Jellie shoes,the crazy hair accessories and best of all Silly puddy. I could name so much more but that’s all for now.
Elder millennial here: I did go to a small country school but wow stuff had changed. The only thing they were really concerned about was short skirts and clothing with alcohol logo feces smeared all over it. That being said. A lot of boys had small pocket knives. No one ever got stabbed and we were allowed to have them. FURTHERMORE!!!! If you parents brough a shotgun/rifle to school and gave it to the woodshop teacher. YOU WERE LITERALLY HANDED A GUN AT SCHOOL by the shop teacher so you could customize the stock.... Do you know how many school shootings we had? 0
I'm 10 years older than you... And yeah nothing changes that's obviously correct 😮😅 I mean Iv never seen most of this stuff, but we had an equivalent version of all of it back in 1999 - 2003 😂
Edit: OMG SLAP BRACKETS
Lol why am i here. I had slap bracelets.... the first time in the 90s. We had pogs, tamogotchis, and beanie babies. I'm 37.
oh no not the silly bands my god 🫢
Ikr!!! Lmao also just checked at your channel and I’m IN LOVE!!! I’ll hit you up on insta (@allietricaso) I need someone to go thrifting with💅
Would love hear you talk about some of your personal games or experiences you’d have with your friends at a sleepover or at recess. Freeze Tag, Hide & Seek, Bulldog. I don’t know how different the t was for you, but I’d be interested to hear it!
Early 2010s it was the second grade for me and my school kids found out about LPS and I had a few not understanding their popularity I had a few from a dollar tree/thrift store and one I loved was a fuzzy chewawa or some other small dog and would bring him to go on adventures with some girls that tolerate me. I forgot to put them back in my backpack so they were in my pocket and I eventually pulled him out in my desk to fidget with him and some kid told the teacher who already hated me because I was an undiagnosed add child who was still trying to process from going from living with their great grandparents to their parents who they where dead. But anyway so she told the LPS away and told me she i was able to get him back at the end of the year....BITCH MOVED TO FUCKING MEXICO IN DECEMBER i never got the LPS back and it still fucking pisses me off
I'm a millennial and hearing about Z fads brings me joy. The fads are slightly different, but it's so similar, you can see the parallels. Jelly bracelets > silly bands, eraser pets > tamagotchi, beyblades > POGS, pokemon cards > wait pokemon cards are still a thing? I love it.
Beyblades are, and always have been, the coolest.
I had a whole collection and would frequently hold tournaments with them.
...By myself.
I'm proud to say I made $48 selling slime in 5th grade. I would do custom colors and put them in the little sauce cups restaurants have
My teacher used to give me them in elementary school to "help my ADHD"...it did help tho. 10/10 fidget.
I used to BREATHE loom bracelets. I recently found my old collection and it couldn't fit in my entire giant ass drawer. Now I'm making pride flag ones 👉👈
As a 27 year old the TRUE WAR for me in 8th grade was your MySpace top 10 friends, booooooy did that start some serious shit EVERY SINGLE TIME LOL😹💀 also I wore bracelets up to my elbows every single day no matter what and oh my god so time consuming
I (Trans Male, 23) was an absolute Justice obsessed fan. I was bullied relentlesly for shopping there and I still have no idea what that whole period of my life was about. The sparkles have just HAPPENED. Now that I think about it I would probably still buy a T-shirt or a sweater from them even now if they were still open in my country. All of their clothes looked ridiculous and I'm here for it. *I wanna be a walking glitter bomb*
Omg, silly bandz! Never in my life have I felt such pride as when I, a fuzzy haired, brace wearing, neon nailed tween put on my 100th silly band, a white and pink unicorn in late 2007!