Body modification was one of the few bandwagon things. I started stretching my ears and stuff after t gained a lot of traction but I feel like with the more heavy procedures I've done and how committed I am it separates me to some degree.
I like a lot of you got into collecting before the boom. Even as a young kid (9-10) when my dad would take me out to thrift stores and antique stores I would scroung for nes games. All my life I had been into collecting things at video games was one of the things that stick with me
I was actually ahead of the curve on ear gauging/stretching. Started before it was a fad, maintained it through the fad, and continue to rock them as the fad loses steam.
The only "bandwagon" thing I can think of, is getting into Seinfeld at a later age and finally "getting it". Same with Magic The Gathering.
I liked computers and the internet before it was cool. Back in my high school days, if you really wanted to embarrass yourself in front of the ladies, just admit you go online every day. It's funny how the social stigma has changed the last 10 years.
I got Earthbound in Summer of 1995 after months of anticipation. Even convinced my stepbrother to ask for his own copy for his birthday in Sept '95. I mean, enough said, really.... (what sold me on the game? the screenshot in the ad with the man saying "I just farted...sorry")
I was in very early on the NES collecting scene as I was super late in getting an NES console in the first place, by 1997 I'd already found Mike Etler's list and _tsr, and my Father and I used to drive to multiple Funcolands every few weekends mainly for NES games. The bulk of my NES collection was built when I was age 11-15 I'd say (I'm 30 now) As a kid I didn't know anybody else in my area who was into that, though my stepbrother and several friends definitely got into the emulation craze (as did I)
I started jelling my hair spiky at the end of 1999 (everyone in my school had ripped me off within 3 months)
Dirk Nowitzki was my favorite basketball player before anybody else knew who the hell he was...
I had mp3s before Napster came out...
I liked tons of comedians "before they were cool/ruined their career" just because I'm obsessed with stand up......I remember when Dane Cook and Zach Galafinakis were underground, bro! And who knew who Amy Schumer was before she was even dating Anthony Jeselnik? Well I'm just braggin now!
I started buying vinyl records in 2009 which is pretty early on the modern boom of that trend, I bought a record player specifically because I wanted to be able to spin Beatles records in reverse. At the time I had no idea that I was getting into a format that was about to experience rebirth among my generation.
I watched and commented on Justin Bieber's Youtube videos before he was famous (2007 I'd say)
Cool: being vegan and eating raw foods. It seems to be somewhat popular, thought not huge yet, I bet in a couple years it'll be the "cool" thing to do.
bandwagon: video game collecting. Watching the irategamer totally made want a shelf full of nes games. Though I still collect, I currently own zero nes games.
I'll add on to Brock's thing about Facebook... But I was bandwagon. My friends had it and urged me to join. But it was back in 2005 when you needed a college email address to join.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
I remember in late 03/early 04 a classmate of mine found a girl in our high school who had a myspace account, back when it was strictly a adult dating site (teens and preteens didn't have accounts yet anyway). She had all kinds of pictures in lingerie and had all these old men hitting on her in the comments section of her photos, I remember we were so blown away to find an "online profile" of anyone from our real lives, let alone it was like the biggest bitch in school lol (reminded me a lot of Streisand) We ended up going to her page on like every monitor in the school library and just left it there, yeah we were jerks haha.
Then like the next school year Myspace truly took off and we were like "ohh she was cutting edge!"
Yeah, that was the early ages of it being social media. It was really fucking weird. That era of 'social media' and then how it all evolved.
Edit: I guess I've seen stuff like React's watch this and not feel old challenge or whatever... but this does make me feel old... Myspace and facebook were upcomers and I was in that... now Myspace is a joke and facebook is just another word for internet for a lot of kids. God damn crazy. I remember Facebook and it was all a really simple profile (it still is but more so back then) and people complained about customization because myspace was big on it. Damn, my early bands... we had myspace links in the inlays/booklets and shit. And now I look back on it and think about how it's crazy that's outdated now.
The only thing I was really ahead of the curve is retro gaming. I have never stopped playing my NES and SNES when there were newer games around. I even took my NES to college and had just as much fun playing that as PS2/Xbox/Gamecube. I could also say NES collecting because I never sold anything off and still have childhood games in my current collection, but it didn't really become a major focus until it had already blown up.
Trj mentioned Earthbound, and I was all about it from when it released in 1995.
I started watching Walking Dead right after Season 1 aired. That probably puts me in the "before it was cool" crowd even though I have no interest in the comics.
I've started posting game play videos on YouTube which has put me so far behind the bandwagon even. I also got into Breaking Bad around Season 4 when it was all people were talking about.
Rick & Morty and Community fans might be familiar with the creators of those shows: Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. I was a fan of those guys from the Channel 101 days, when they were making short comedy videos (pre-youtube), and I followed them through their subsequent work: Acceptable TV, The Sarah Silverman Program. For Dan Harmon, I actually have been a fan of his since the early/mid 90s when he got his start in Milwaukee making comics books with Rob Schrab, (Scud and La Cosa Nostroid)
I'll add on to Brock's thing about Facebook... But I was bandwagon. My friends had it and urged me to join. But it was back in 2005 when you needed a college email address to join.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
i was on sixdegrees.com back in 1997, which was possibly the first social network website. I remember it didn't last long, because my group of friends ended up offending a the group of people that we were linked to through secondary connections. From there, we were on Friendster.com... and I remember when everyone jumped ship from Friendster to Myspace....(Friendster's servers were painfully slow at the time and didn't allow the customization options that Myspace had)... and then from Myspace to Facebook. (Based on how many social networks came before it, I'm surprised that the Winklevoss twins were able to claim that Mark Zuckerberg "stole" their idea)
I'll add on to Brock's thing about Facebook... But I was bandwagon. My friends had it and urged me to join. But it was back in 2005 when you needed a college email address to join.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
i was on sixdegrees.com back in 1997, which was possibly the first social network website. I remember it didn't last long, because my group of friends ended up offending a the group of people that we were linked to through secondary connections. From there, we were on Friendster.com... and I remember when everyone jumped ship from Friendster to Myspace....(Friendster's servers were painfully slow at the time and didn't allow the customization options that Myspace had)... and then from Myspace to Facebook. (Based on how many social networks came before it, I'm surprised that the Winklevoss twins were able to claim that Mark Zuckerberg "stole" their idea)
definitely Classmates.com before all of those, I remember registering an account in like 7th grade thinking "now I can bump into everyone in 20 years!" lol
I consider classmates.com to be a different category than those other sites because it functions differently and is focused exclusively on the listing people in your graduating class.
Before it was cool- Zombies Ate My Neighbors on the Super Nintendo. I remember seeing it in a clearance bin at Wal Mart when I was a kid so I know people weren't buying that shit. My mom bought it for me and to this day, it's my favorite game of all time (that won't ever change). To this day I get defensive when someone says it's their favorite game or when I see it on a hidden gems list, lol. Like hey, that my favorite game, not yours.
Bandwagon- I'd have to say Game of a thrones as well. I didn't watch it until season 3. I tried to watch it on a free HBO weekend one time but 5 minutes in two dudes were making out so that was the end of that. A guy at work talked it up all the time so I gave it another shot and ending up bing watching every episode in a week. Great show. Ruined The Walkind Dead for me though. Doesn't even compare to GoT.
Japanese Rock. Everybody thought it was weird that I was in to music I couldn't understand. I amassed a huge collection of CDs and also an encyclopedic knowledge of J-music in general including visual kei bands like X Japan, L'arc-en-Ciel, and so forth. Nowadays I understand Japanese better and translate the lyrics myself. My recent obsession is Sophia, a 90's pop-rock group that was pretty popular but generally ignored by western J-Rock fans. The kinds of artists that gain a following overseas are not always the ones that are most popular in Japan. For example, Dir en grey had a loyal western following but in Japan they certainly are not the biggest group in the music industry or even J-Rock as a whole, by any means. On the other hand, bands like Fanatic Crisis had a relatively big following there but only recently began to gain awareness by western fans years after their breakup. I am a Visual Kei expert but haven't kept up with the genre as of late. I'm mostly knowledgeable about its 'golden years' which were 1988-1998.
Well, I remember following Pokémon in the Nintendo Power Epic Center for years before it came to the USA and got a Pokémon T-Shirt right after the launch. No one knew what it was. I was also in one of only a few markets where the Pokémon TV show was getting early syndication before Kid's WB, though I really didn't like that (definitely for kids younger than I was).
I remember feeling sorry for Kentucky Fried Chicken for getting into the craze too early to see any success (they had plushes before Wal-Mart even). After that it was all Burger King who benefited massively by having Pokémon-themed kid's meals and hosting Pokémon nights for game and card players to get together long after they moved on to other kid's meal promotions. Of course, they'd run another kid's meal Pokémon promo (movie, new games, sequel movie, etc, etc, etc).
As a childhood collector since the NES was current I've identified a lot of hot collectibles to grab while the getting was good. I still remember getting laughed at on Anandtech when I shared that my Wal-Mart broke the street date on Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 and that it came with exclusive e-Reader cards that weren't advertised anywhere. It wasn't long before I saw the box sell for $300. *coolshades*
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
Yep. I think they were expecting something like the Beanie Baby craze at McDonald's but Pokémon just fizzled for them... right before it boomed for Burger King. KFC was ahead of the game but still somehow missed the boat on that!
Some others I was a fan of since the '90s:
Daft Punk
Chemical Brothers
The Big Lebowski
Online gaming (X-Band and Doom/Quake)
AOL-bashing as a direct result of the number of online games you couldn't play (stupid Winsock implementation for other applications was pretty much web-only)
Console/Handheld emulation (SNES '96, Virtual Game Boy, NESticle and GeneCYST as new version's were released, etc).
LAN parties (for PC; well before the Halo-bros took over and redefined the term as "XBOX/console LAN party")
Playing downloaded ROMs on original hardware (Bung Professor/Game Doctor SF, Doctor V64, GB Xchanger, V64jr 512, etc)
Tommy Tallarico (hooked in 1994 before his TV/VG Live stuff)
Unashamed to admit that I jumped on the bandwagon for Breaking Bad in 2013. It's simply the most well-written TV show I can expect to see in my lifetime and Better Call Saul (the spin off) that is also managing to impress. Breaking Bad starts slow but that is necessary because the show is all about pacing that never stops ratcheting up the intensity. If you can tolerate it into the second season, then you are in for a ride! Yes, I am aware of Game of Thrones and have seen every episode but once the show's writers ran out of material to adapt (well, even a little before that) it seriously dropped off in quality.
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
I wanted them so bad when i was a kid, but never got them. 26 year old me had to have them so to ebay i went They did choose the most random 4 to use though lol
But hey Dratini is one of them, and he is my favorite, so.........
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
I wanted them so bad when i was a kid, but never got them. 26 year old me had to have them so to ebay i went They did choose the most random 4 to use though lol
But hey Dratini is one of them, and he is my favorite, so.........
I'm going to guess that if-successful they would have released another set every few months to keep people coming back. They were probably pleased as punch that Nintendo had 150 marketable characters ready to go with a super-successful Japanese launch but it took a little bit to get going in the USA even if you ignore the late launch. The cartoon and card game were key to it becoming a bigger success. The cartoon required a national network deal (Kid's WB) which didn't happen until they could demonstrate the grassroots popularity.
If Pokémon was as big a hit for them as Beanie Babies was for McDonald's I strongly suspect that we would have seen all 150 from KFC before the next generation!
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
I wanted them so bad when i was a kid, but never got them. 26 year old me had to have them so to ebay i went They did choose the most random 4 to use though lol
But hey Dratini is one of them, and he is my favorite, so.........
Dratini is one of them? Ok.. off to eBay.
What are the others? Do you have pics? And are they expensive?
Dratini is one of them? Ok.. off to eBay. What are the others? Do you have pics? And are they expensive?
I got mine sealed for like $25 for all 4. Seel, zubat, dratini, and vulpix. They are small, but they actually look nice. And for me it was all abut nostalgia. I can't even tell you how many times i went to KFC and looked at the posters and display and drooled. I was probably like 7, but i never really asked for things as a kid so i didn't get them.
Snes collecting. I started when n64 came out haha. Back then nobody wanted snes games. People thought I was crazy back then. But I'm laughing now with my $10 cib mega man x3 lol, thanks Rogers video
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I like a lot of you got into collecting before the boom. Even as a young kid (9-10) when my dad would take me out to thrift stores and antique stores I would scroung for nes games. All my life I had been into collecting things at video games was one of the things that stick with me
The only "bandwagon" thing I can think of, is getting into Seinfeld at a later age and finally "getting it". Same with Magic The Gathering.
I got Earthbound in Summer of 1995 after months of anticipation. Even convinced my stepbrother to ask for his own copy for his birthday in Sept '95. I mean, enough said, really.... (what sold me on the game? the screenshot in the ad with the man saying "I just farted...sorry")
I was in very early on the NES collecting scene as I was super late in getting an NES console in the first place, by 1997 I'd already found Mike Etler's list and _tsr, and my Father and I used to drive to multiple Funcolands every few weekends mainly for NES games. The bulk of my NES collection was built when I was age 11-15 I'd say (I'm 30 now) As a kid I didn't know anybody else in my area who was into that, though my stepbrother and several friends definitely got into the emulation craze (as did I)
I started jelling my hair spiky at the end of 1999 (everyone in my school had ripped me off within 3 months)
Dirk Nowitzki was my favorite basketball player before anybody else knew who the hell he was...
I had mp3s before Napster came out...
I liked tons of comedians "before they were cool/ruined their career" just because I'm obsessed with stand up......I remember when Dane Cook and Zach Galafinakis were underground, bro! And who knew who Amy Schumer was before she was even dating Anthony Jeselnik? Well I'm just braggin now!
I started buying vinyl records in 2009 which is pretty early on the modern boom of that trend, I bought a record player specifically because I wanted to be able to spin Beatles records in reverse. At the time I had no idea that I was getting into a format that was about to experience rebirth among my generation.
I watched and commented on Justin Bieber's Youtube videos before he was famous (2007 I'd say)
bandwagon: video game collecting. Watching the irategamer totally made want a shelf full of nes games. Though I still collect, I currently own zero nes games.
Also, when I started collecting Intellivision game I could buy them for a quarter.
I also got in on the ground floor of the humble bundles, and MAN humble indie bundle #1 was BAD haha
Bandwagon would be software development. I loved it since I was a kid in the 80s but it was already hyped to hell
also bandwagon are Netflix and nintendoage
Edit: I take it back, humble indie bundle 1 had gish and world of goo, which were both decently fun.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
Originally posted by: Loxx O)))
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
I remember in late 03/early 04 a classmate of mine found a girl in our high school who had a myspace account, back when it was strictly a adult dating site (teens and preteens didn't have accounts yet anyway). She had all kinds of pictures in lingerie and had all these old men hitting on her in the comments section of her photos, I remember we were so blown away to find an "online profile" of anyone from our real lives, let alone it was like the biggest bitch in school lol (reminded me a lot of Streisand) We ended up going to her page on like every monitor in the school library and just left it there, yeah we were jerks haha.
Then like the next school year Myspace truly took off and we were like "ohh she was cutting edge!"
Edit: I guess I've seen stuff like React's watch this and not feel old challenge or whatever... but this does make me feel old... Myspace and facebook were upcomers and I was in that... now Myspace is a joke and facebook is just another word for internet for a lot of kids. God damn crazy. I remember Facebook and it was all a really simple profile (it still is but more so back then) and people complained about customization because myspace was big on it. Damn, my early bands... we had myspace links in the inlays/booklets and shit. And now I look back on it and think about how it's crazy that's outdated now.
Trj mentioned Earthbound, and I was all about it from when it released in 1995.
I started watching Walking Dead right after Season 1 aired. That probably puts me in the "before it was cool" crowd even though I have no interest in the comics.
I've started posting game play videos on YouTube which has put me so far behind the bandwagon even. I also got into Breaking Bad around Season 4 when it was all people were talking about.
I'll add on to Brock's thing about Facebook... But I was bandwagon. My friends had it and urged me to join. But it was back in 2005 when you needed a college email address to join.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
i was on sixdegrees.com back in 1997, which was possibly the first social network website. I remember it didn't last long, because my group of friends ended up offending a the group of people that we were linked to through secondary connections. From there, we were on Friendster.com... and I remember when everyone jumped ship from Friendster to Myspace....(Friendster's servers were painfully slow at the time and didn't allow the customization options that Myspace had)... and then from Myspace to Facebook. (Based on how many social networks came before it, I'm surprised that the Winklevoss twins were able to claim that Mark Zuckerberg "stole" their idea)
Originally posted by: G-Type
Originally posted by: Loxx O)))
I'll add on to Brock's thing about Facebook... But I was bandwagon. My friends had it and urged me to join. But it was back in 2005 when you needed a college email address to join.
I guess I could say I did MySpace before it was cool. Back when friends were organized by join up date I was always first page for people. I joined 2004 or so... and not many people I knew had an account. I remember it being a music thing.
i was on sixdegrees.com back in 1997, which was possibly the first social network website. I remember it didn't last long, because my group of friends ended up offending a the group of people that we were linked to through secondary connections. From there, we were on Friendster.com... and I remember when everyone jumped ship from Friendster to Myspace....(Friendster's servers were painfully slow at the time and didn't allow the customization options that Myspace had)... and then from Myspace to Facebook. (Based on how many social networks came before it, I'm surprised that the Winklevoss twins were able to claim that Mark Zuckerberg "stole" their idea)
definitely Classmates.com before all of those, I remember registering an account in like 7th grade thinking "now I can bump into everyone in 20 years!" lol
Originally posted by: coffeewithmrsaturn
I liked jumping on bandwagons before it was cool
I think that says it all.
Bandwagon- I'd have to say Game of a thrones as well. I didn't watch it until season 3. I tried to watch it on a free HBO weekend one time but 5 minutes in two dudes were making out so that was the end of that. A guy at work talked it up all the time so I gave it another shot and ending up bing watching every episode in a week. Great show. Ruined The Walkind Dead for me though. Doesn't even compare to GoT.
Originally posted by: Brock Landers
I think my friends and I rented Earthbound three times, yet we never made it out of the first town. Grinding wasn't a concept in our heads
I didn't get into grinding until about age 14
I remember feeling sorry for Kentucky Fried Chicken for getting into the craze too early to see any success (they had plushes before Wal-Mart even). After that it was all Burger King who benefited massively by having Pokémon-themed kid's meals and hosting Pokémon nights for game and card players to get together long after they moved on to other kid's meal promotions. Of course, they'd run another kid's meal Pokémon promo (movie, new games, sequel movie, etc, etc, etc).
As a childhood collector since the NES was current I've identified a lot of hot collectibles to grab while the getting was good. I still remember getting laughed at on Anandtech when I shared that my Wal-Mart broke the street date on Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 and that it came with exclusive e-Reader cards that weren't advertised anywhere. It wasn't long before I saw the box sell for $300. *coolshades*
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
Yep. I think they were expecting something like the Beanie Baby craze at McDonald's but Pokémon just fizzled for them... right before it boomed for Burger King. KFC was ahead of the game but still somehow missed the boat on that!
Some others I was a fan of since the '90s:
Daft Punk
Chemical Brothers
The Big Lebowski
Online gaming (X-Band and Doom/Quake)
AOL-bashing as a direct result of the number of online games you couldn't play (stupid Winsock implementation for other applications was pretty much web-only)
Console/Handheld emulation (SNES '96, Virtual Game Boy, NESticle and GeneCYST as new version's were released, etc).
LAN parties (for PC; well before the Halo-bros took over and redefined the term as "XBOX/console LAN party")
Playing downloaded ROMs on original hardware (Bung Professor/Game Doctor SF, Doctor V64, GB Xchanger, V64jr 512, etc)
Tommy Tallarico (hooked in 1994 before his TV/VG Live stuff)
Unashamed to admit that I jumped on the bandwagon for Breaking Bad in 2013. It's simply the most well-written TV show I can expect to see in my lifetime and Better Call Saul (the spin off) that is also managing to impress. Breaking Bad starts slow but that is necessary because the show is all about pacing that never stops ratcheting up the intensity. If you can tolerate it into the second season, then you are in for a ride! Yes, I am aware of Game of Thrones and have seen every episode but once the show's writers ran out of material to adapt (well, even a little before that) it seriously dropped off in quality.
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
I wanted them so bad when i was a kid, but never got them. 26 year old me had to have them so to ebay i went They did choose the most random 4 to use though lol
But hey Dratini is one of them, and he is my favorite, so.........
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
I wanted them so bad when i was a kid, but never got them. 26 year old me had to have them so to ebay i went They did choose the most random 4 to use though lol
But hey Dratini is one of them, and he is my favorite, so.........
I'm going to guess that if-successful they would have released another set every few months to keep people coming back. They were probably pleased as punch that Nintendo had 150 marketable characters ready to go with a super-successful Japanese launch but it took a little bit to get going in the USA even if you ignore the late launch. The cartoon and card game were key to it becoming a bigger success. The cartoon required a national network deal (Kid's WB) which didn't happen until they could demonstrate the grassroots popularity.
If Pokémon was as big a hit for them as Beanie Babies was for McDonald's I strongly suspect that we would have seen all 150 from KFC before the next generation!
Kentucky Fried Chicken had Pokémon Plushes? Thats awesome!
I wanted them so bad when i was a kid, but never got them. 26 year old me had to have them so to ebay i went They did choose the most random 4 to use though lol
But hey Dratini is one of them, and he is my favorite, so.........
Dratini is one of them? Ok.. off to eBay.
What are the others? Do you have pics? And are they expensive?
Dratini is one of them? Ok.. off to eBay. What are the others? Do you have pics? And are they expensive?
I got mine sealed for like $25 for all 4. Seel, zubat, dratini, and vulpix. They are small, but they actually look nice. And for me it was all abut nostalgia. I can't even tell you how many times i went to KFC and looked at the posters and display and drooled. I was probably like 7, but i never really asked for things as a kid so i didn't get them.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=nintendo+sign&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR5.TRC0.A0.H0.Xkfc+pokemon.TRS0&_nkw=kfc+pokemon&_sacat=0
Bandwagon: Destiny and kickstarter