Popular trends today may look bizarre or harmful in the future. A Reddit thread asking “What’s popular right now that won’t age well?” drew thousands of answers, and the most common ones included:
- Stuffing touchscreens and “smart” tech into every appliance
- Unrealistic, heavily filtered social‑media faces
- Acting badly on camera just to get views
- Touchscreen‑only car controls
- The “manosphere” and performative alpha‑male culture
- Adding AI to products that don’t need it
- Cosmetic fads like buccal fat removal
- Child influencers
- Trendy “broccoli head” haircuts
- And the idea that social media might someday be seen as harmful in the way cigarettes once were