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How Stupid Fads Take On?

Fads, and how they come about, are another example of the Ravens*-the Young Soul* interaction gone wrong. Recently, I deleted all my google data, which means that my YouTube history was also wiped clean, making my default video selection an interesting thing to see for sure. I was looking at it in horror: “Oh so this is how people think”.

Among the videos, I saw a Buzzfeed video of a woman “mastering” a tin-foil ball. I kid you not. Here’s a mature aged woman who has been paid a two-day salary for making a fucking tin foil ball. I will use this tin-foil ball video as an example in this post, but it can be replaced with any fad, really.

the Ravens* start it

First, a Ravens* somewhere starts doing something odd, like crunching tin-foil into balls, simply because he or she lacks better things to do. In this case, it was a he, but I am making this situation up, just assuming. You know those moments when you, for example, sit around with your friends having a casual night, perhaps just after moving. Your friends might have helped you to move, and you decide to have take out after a long day’s work and sit around talking with beers and a heater going. The conversation keeps going, and whilst talking, you take the tin foil from the takeout food, crunch it up into a ball and eventually start hammering on it with that hammer you had laying around after the move.

After a while, you realize that while you’ve been talking to your friend, this ball turned into a shiny beautiful sphere, and you show it to your friend, “hey look, awesome.” So your friend plays with it a bit, and gives it back to you, agreeing it is, indeed, beautiful, but neither one of you thinks anything more of it.

You put the ball away but because it’s beautiful, you put it into a junk basket on the table, as we all have those. You see it there one day months later when you start making art. You realize it is the final piece to your puzzle, exactly the thing you needed, and you make it into a piece of art and post a picture of it on social media.

the Ravens* want to play, too

Now other artists want to know what the ball is, because it doesn’t seem to be a solid metal ball, as they can see the hammering on it. It gives the ball a more authentic, rustic feel, obviously without the need to become a blacksmith and they get curious. You explain it’s a tin foil ball done with a hammer and give them instructions on how you made it. No big deal, after all, it was just a thing you made, right?

Now, others, mainly the Ravens*, will get amazed. “Oh it is beautiful, I want to make one.” So they make one, just to enjoy themselves, just for the sake of making one, and post a video of it on YouTube, because, why the hell not.

The Young Soul*, the start of all evil, catch on

Now the Young Soul* are starting to catch on. They don’t know WHY people would want to spend time making something inane like that, but they are starting to see “a trend” rising, so as they always do, they follow a trend no matter how they feel about it, and start making fucking tin-foil balls for the sake of following a fad. To them, it is not about WHY anyone would do it, but it’s about fitting in, being like everyone else and following the flock. It, to them, shows respect for others, shows approval of others, and acceptance of other people and their feelings… So they start making tinfoil balls out of solidarity towards the YouTube community.

Finally, businesses take it on

Then, a frustrated Buzzfeed journalist gets the assignment to follow a fad that has no point. She’s told to make an instruction video on Buzzfeed, and trying to safe face and show to the audience she has respect for this new trend, she’ll take it all SERIOUSLY. As another the Young Soul*, she’s missing the point of why people started making them and kept making them. As a grown-up the Young Soul*, she tries to incorporate the artist’s artists pieces into it the video to validate the fad. If she didn’t, the whole fad would be a work of a lunatic, but as a form of art, somewhat “adult” in nature. (Simultaneously, accidentally, she was disrespecting the original artist and his work, and also his nation, but since there’s nothing else to explain why this new fad is important, but that’s another post right there.)

The poor housewives

Now, currently, there are tons and tons of the Young Soul* thinking frustrated housewifes watching the BuzzFeed video wondering WHY SHOULD THEY make a tin foil ball, cursing the modern ages, the stupidity of the younger generation, wondering where this world is coming to, and all the usual stuff, and YET, they just might be currently trying to make themselves a tin foil ball, simply because it is the thing you do these days. Just because, to show respect and acceptance.

In the meanwhile, the Ravens* are cursing the moronity of the Young Soul* who tried to take something that was inherently meaningless and make it sound “age appropriate” and “the thing to do” with a validated, adult reason to do it: “It’s art”.

the Young Soul* follow, the Ravens* abandon

The next step is that the Young Soul* will be making these balls because “they have to” and the Ravens* will not, even if they wanted to, because “it’s just a stupid fad”. Which means that the fads are always started by the Ravens* who don’t care about what others think about them. Their attitude is that if they like something stupid and silly, they do it because public criticism doesn’t affect them. The Young Soul* follow because they fear that if they don’t, people are going to think they are “not in the know” or are not really playing well with others… Even when they really rather wouldn’t.

Stop following fads, people. You ruin them for everyone.

Where are the Clay Thinkers in all of this, you might wonder? Looking for someone to marry regardless of tinfoil balls, of course.

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