Viral Challenges
This kitchen spice challenge left people coughing, crying, and questioning their life choices on YouTube.
The Cinnamon Challenge
This Facebook feature that let you virtually assault your friends until they blocked you or did it back in revenge.
A "poke"
This alcohol-based product was bought in bulk and made everyone's hands so dry they looked like they'd been living in the desert for months.
Hand sanitizer
This zone is where planes and ships allegedly vanish, also where compasses spin wildly; although some statisticians say it's just bad marketing for a normal patch of water.
The Bermuda Triangle
Used to take pictures without knowing if they were good until you paid money to find out a week later.
Disposable Cameras
This challenge raised money for ALS research while also making everyone scream like they were being attacked.
Ice Bucket Challenge
This status update that caused more drama than actual breakups and made everyone's business public.
Facebook's Relationship Status
This household essential became more valuable than gold, causing grown adults to fight in store aisles.
Toilet Paper
This secret society supposedly controls world events from the shadows.
The Illuminati
Used to have to flip through this plus hundreds of pages in alphabetical order just to find out what one word meant.
A dictionary
This dance move took over every wedding, bar mitzvah, and corporate retreat from 2012-2016.
The Harlem Shake
This abandoned social network where your music taste defined your personality and choosing your "Top 8" ended friendships.
MySpace
This exercise machine costs more than most people's cars and got used less than their gym memberships.
Peloton
This scientific theory explains how everything started with a really big explosion.
The Big Bang Theory
Used to have to rewind these before returning them to the store.
VHS Tapes
This colorful laundry product looked so much like candy that the internet had to be told not to eat it.
Tide Pods
The six-second video app that died so TikTok could live.
Vine
These metal items became the holy grail of home fitness until people remembered they hate lifting heavy things.
Dumbbells
This legendary creature roams the Pacific Northwest, avoiding cameras better than any celebrity and leaving behind only blurry photos and foot impressions.
Sasquatch (or Big Foot)
Libraries used to have these wooden boxes full of index cards to find books, not computers.
Card Catalog
This trend had people lying face-down in increasingly stupid and sometimes dangerous places for internet points.
Planking
This dating app that made you swipe through humans like you were shopping for groceries.
Tinder
This hobby turned everyone into a flour-covered scientist obsessed with feeding their "starter" like it was a needy pet.
Breadmaking
This ancient wonder was supposedly built by aliens and couldn't be built today, even though we have cranes and the internet.
The Pyramids
Used this when having to print out turn-by-turn directions and pray you didn't miss an exit because there was no "recalculating."
MapQuest