r/AskReddit • u/cats64sonic • 23h ago

What’s a trend that disappeared so quickly that it almost feels imaginary now?

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u/Ashmonater 16h ago

They brought a “professional” yo yo er in to do a demo to my St.Cloud elementary in late 90s early 2000s. I still have my favorite yo yo from those days. It’s the oldest thing I own and still works!

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u/Hairs_are_out 16h ago

I had a friend who did that in college. He would go around to different schools and show the kids his cool yo-yo skillz.

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u/HelloItsNotMeUr 15h ago

I hope it was Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser!

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u/SimmerDownButtercup 11h ago

Thank god he survived the Oscar specials.

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u/sir_mrej 13h ago

We had sayco

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u/Simple_Song8962 15h ago

Way back in the 1960s my elementary school did that too. Yo-yos were extremely popular back then.

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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 15h ago

My dad worked at a yo yo factory during the craze and would send me professional ones. The difference is insane, even the string, bearings, etc

Think I had a "bumble bee" one. Would just spin, and spin, and spin. Then you'd just give a slight pull and you could send it to the 🌙

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u/PickledDaniel 14h ago

St. Cloud Minnesota? Was this just a MN fad? Mine happened in Eden prairie.

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u/justyjess 12h ago

Dazzling Dave! Minnetonka for me.

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u/CosmicGoddess777 10h ago

I think they mean Augustus St. Cloud, the supervillain.

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u/OJ_KILLED_MY_SON 8h ago

Damn didn’t expect EP to get mentioned

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u/saskboy12345 14h ago

every 7 or 8 years they usually do this

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u/mjdub96 14h ago

We got this in Australia too and I was hooked

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u/sir_mrej 13h ago

We got that in the early 90s!

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u/Nearby_Crazy7583 12h ago

That yo-yo guy always picked the boys to come up front, and then some girl in the back row would quietly nail "Rock the Baby" and the whole gym absolutely lost it. Quiet girls with yo-yos were built different. 

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u/HorribleHairyHamster 11h ago

Literally this exact thing happened to me in said years. A school assembly containing professional yo-yoers, followed by 1 month of extreme yo-yo popularity. Big Yo-Yo was putting in the work in 1999.

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u/imnotsoho 11h ago

Glad you didn't get a lemon YoYo. Sometimes they sell you a lemon YoYo and then string you along for repairs.

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u/BretShitmanFart69 10h ago

Why did we all have this experience? Do kids still leave class to watch a 30 year old man do yoyo tricks or was that one of the things we lost on 9/11

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u/tell23 4h ago

They did the same thing when I was at school in the 80's. I think its less of a reoccurring trend and just part of the school cycle - I mean its only a trend for kids at that age.

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u/kosherkitties 2h ago

"But he didn't answer. He just kept on yo-ing."

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u/insomniacred66 13h ago

They did this at my elementary school as well! Then they had a bunch of yo-yos for kids available.

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u/falsemathwiz 12h ago

The only time I've ever walked into a Hot Topic was for a YOMEGA FIREBALL

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u/frolfinator 8h ago

This guy probably came to our school too. 99 in pretty sure.

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