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10 Nostalgic Middle School Trends

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10 Nostalgic Middle School Trends
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Remember those middle school trends that you always had to be apart of? Well here are 10 middle school trends that (thankfully) don't exist anymore.

1. Silly Bandz

Silly Bandz were created in 2006 and quickly became the trend for all middle-schoolers. They came in many shapes and sizes such as animals, musical instruments, letters and even glow-in-the-dark ones! Kids would even sell them or trade them within their school. If you didn't have about 50 of these, were you really a cool middle schooler?

2. Plaid bermuda shorts

Almost every girl in my middle school had at least one pair of these shorts. Don't forget the ballet flats and Limited Too t-shirt!

3. Aeropostle T-shirts

Throughout middle school, Aeropostle was my "go-to" store. I loved all of the clothes and the styles they had to offer and most of my clothes were from there. However, (to me) nothing was more obnixous than the big "A" on the shirt.

4. MySpace

MySpace was super big when I was in middle school. Almost everyone in my middle school had a MySpace. It was a cool place to add your top friends, share photos and videos. However, MySpace was soon replaced by Facebook by 2010.

5. Songs from 2008-2011

A couple of songs that stick out in my head in particular are the songs "Fireflies" by Owl City, "Love Like Woah" by The Ready Set, "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift and "Vanilla Twilight" by Owl City. All of these songs used to be my jam in middle school and when I listen to them now, I get pretty nostalgic.

6. Blingee

The tackiest photo editing website to have ever been created. Blingee was a way to put super obnoxious, glitter moving words on your pictures. Half of these pictures didn't even make sense and the pictures that were "blingeed" were usually just girls taking selfies of themselves with a digital camera. (I have no idea what's even going on in the above photo...)

7. Picnik

Another editing site that was very popular between 2008-2011 was Picnik. Picnik was a way to add sepia tone or high contrast to your MySpace/Facebook profile picture. Kids also tended to add texts to their photos that read "Haterz make me famous" or "Love ya <3"

8. "Rawr means I love you in dinosaur"

This was a very popular saying in middle school. It was on every MySpace page and every middle-schooler said at least once a week. The picture that is associated with this saying also comes in many different styles.This saying was the epitome of every middle school girl in her "emo phase."

9. The "emo phase"

Almost every boy or girl in middle school had an emo phase. The girls had the hair that covered their forehead, neon skinny jeans, thick rubber band bracelets and only shopped at Hot Topic. I didn't have any emo phase, but I did have a few friends who went through it and most of them cringe when reminded of it.

10. Original Disney Channel Shows and Movies

Shows like Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite Life on Deck, Hannah Montana, Cory In the House and Phineas and Ferb were the best shows on Disney Channel. Unfortunately, these shows only come on at like 4 a.m. Disney Channel also had some good movies during that time. Movies like Camp Rock, The Suite Life Movie, The Cheetah Girls: One World, Wizards of Waverly Place: the movie, and even High School Music 3.


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