Maverick Redditors Share All the Popular Things They Refuse to Get Into

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
May 9, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

All my life, I've been pretty indifferent to mainstream trends. I'm aware this doesn't make me more special or interesting, nor am I deserving of any awards for being a perfect little nonconformist. At best, being like this isolates you from bonding experiences with others, and at worst, you become an insufferable bore whose haterism is their main personality trait (guilty as charged). 

Still, there are plenty of things that are hugely popular when they don't deserve to be. I mean, things like smoking indoors and minstrel shows used to be not only accepted, but seen as the height of a good time. Sometimes people have great reasons for staying out of what's in fashion, as has been proved in a recent AskReddit thread. Querying the popular things that Redditors refuse to partake in, the answers ranged across a number of areas. Following the crowd isn't always a terrible idea, but sometimes it's good to be different. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit u/wishihadmoxie • 1d Join What's something popular that you refuse to get into?
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    Facial expression - Any_Scholar2441 15h I'm a new mom and there's soooo many stupid mom trends right now. But one of them is the like "natural" looking toys with really bland colors that are more aesthetic. They're toys.
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    Human body - Professional Music679 19h Sports betting that's it I've seen friends lose a lot and go into debt behind it
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    Font - Altruistic_Lead6799 19h 2 Awards Lip injections : Reply 48.7k _i_am_inevitable_ 15h Jesus the number of insta models that look like they got stung on both lips is too damn high
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    Rectangle - garlicroastedpotato 22h 1 Award Everyone my age is playing pickleball. So much so that they cancelled my basketball league to make more space for the pickleball league. ⠀ Reply 25.5k
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    Font - shmatty29 20h Annoying/pranking people for viral videos Reply : 6.5k cultured_banana_slug 14h A good prank has the pranked person laughing first. Too many people don't know how to prank properly.
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    Human body - grasshopper716 21h S 1 Award Elf on a shelf. I refuse to have to come up with creative shit for 25 straight days until my kids no longer believe in Santa.
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    Font - MartianBeerPig 17h Celebrity worship. : Reply ↑ 990 990 UnknownIsland 7h And the way people get mad for critisizing them. Like how can you even get mad at me saying stuff about a person who doesn't even know you exist, crazy.
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    Rectangle - thebishtable 23h 1 Award Credit Card debt
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    Font - devolverf91 19h Collecting Funko Pops.
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    Font - JimmyMcapplenut 1d 1 Award League of Legends
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    Font - sweatsinA 21h 1 Award Chatting with ai characters : Reply 43.3k pheret87 17h Maybe the worst form of parasocial engagement. It's bad enough people think they're friends with streamers and content creators. Now they're just talking to themselves.
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    Rectangle - nesqu1k0d 23h Smoking (anything) : ittakesacrane 21h 2 Awards Not even brisket? Reply 47.0k ↓ 45.9k
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    Font - Genius_woods 21h Smart watches, particularly apple. I have a number of watches but the last thing I want is to get emails, calls and texts on my watch. Granted people use them for fitness but I do not. : Reply 2.3k Fantastic_Jason 16h I can appreciate this. I have an Apple Watch, and it's great for quickly and discretely seeing messages when I'm working or in a meeting. But the notifications seem to produce a whole new level of anxiety.
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    Rectangle - Prestigious_Vast8778 22h 1 Award Alcohol. I get addicted to stuff quickly, also losing your senses for hours on end doesn't appeal to me. If you like drinking, that's fine, but I just won't. : Reply 44.7k ↓
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    Font - NotSparkling Water 23h BeReal ⠀: Reply 43.1k ↓ heyitsvonage 22h I found out this existed just now, and it's hilarious how obvious it is that an idea like this would immediately get contorted by its audience into the exact thing it's supposed to work against
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    Font - offshoremercury 21h Fast fashion
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    Font - sunbearimon 1d 1 Award Twitter
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    Font - Away_Description_687 22h Extra iCloud storage : Reply 43.6k ↓ _noho 21h Oof, Apple got me on 2.99 a month. It hurts knowing how dumb it is but I've lost years of* photos before
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    Human body - Minimum_Most8038 21h Haven't looked at other comments, gonna bet $$$ that 1/3 of the people said TikTok
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    Font - Chiggen_wimgs 20h 1 Award I'm 20 and I hate parties. I like little get togethers with my friends, but large gatherings just aren't my thing. I'm at the age where it feels like everyone is doing it, but I just don't really like it. Doesn't help that I also don't like drinking or vaping.
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