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Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com)

Posted by msmash on from the good-riddance dept.

Walt Hickey, writing for Five Thirty Eight: The toy craze that has swept the nation -- cheaply manufactured fidget spinners of dubious metallic constitution -- is probably on the way out, with the high-water mark of fidget obsession appearing to be about a month behind us and the interest in the glorified ball bearings plateauing or declining. [...] Even if there's a long tail on this trend, it's very likely that peak fidget spinner is behind us. The kind of content now doing well on YouTube is either fidget-adjacent stunt videos or videos that have taken a particularly weird turn. This doesn't mean the ball-bearing business is doomed, just maybe don't go long on the spinner industrial complex or quit your job to live off a fidget-related Kickstarter idea at this point.

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  1. So, help a father out... by thermopile · · Score: 4, Funny

    So ... what's the next ridiculous craze that I should work to prevent my daughter from getting into? Thanks for letting me breathe a small sigh of relief from having dodged this bullet...

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    1. Re:So, help a father out... by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 5, Funny

      So ... what's the next ridiculous craze that I should work to prevent my daughter from getting into?.

      Java

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    2. Re:So, help a father out... by lgw · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well,played, sir. Well played.

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      Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
    3. Re:So, help a father out... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      No you don't want a safety pin through the clackers, trust me on this.

  2. Re:Strange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your five friends are not cool, is what this means.

  3. Re:Prediction by Smidge204 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They said I was crazy to dump my life savings into POGs in the late 90's, but that fad will come steamrolling back any day now and I'll be king of the playground again!

    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
    =Smidge=