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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. Prediction by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fidget Spinners will see a massive, nostalgia-fueled comeback in the late 2030s.

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  2. Re:So, help a father out... by RyoShin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just adopt every possible trend yourself. She will never get into them if she knows her parent(s) are into it.

  3. 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?.

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