re: When Yo-Yos made a comeback in the late 90's

Did the fidget spinner faze end?
I’m out of the loop

Y'all gotta zoom out. It's a cyclical trend.

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Yo-yos are regularly banned and frowned upon in school, especially elementary school. It goes in phases. Every few years a kid shows up with a yo-yo. If the kid is of low status then it’s the end, nothing to worry about. What if this kid is well liked though, someone who people want to be around? If a well-liked kid brings in a yo-yo to school then the next week you can expect 2-3 more kids to bring in a yo-yo. The week after that there will be 6 more kids with a yo-yo. Every week more kids will be bringing in yoyos until it gets out of hand that it needs to be banned. The secret to the yoyo becoming popular again is that the right kid needs to bring in a yo-yo the first day.

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- Seth Godin https://thementalclutch.org/2018/11/14/the-yo-yo-phenomenon/

BR natives will know what I’m talking about when I say I go back to when Buckskin Bill had the Duncan sales rep on his show about once a month back in the 70s. He would demonstrate all the tricks.

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Yoyos, Pogs, Nerf Vortex, Dunkaroos, and Warheads...

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The ingredients of my childhood. There was a local paintball explosion around that time too. No telling how much money my parents spent on a bunch of stuff that were passing fads.

I remember, had several.

Billy Ledbetter my boy!

It seemed like fads were on rotation in the 70’s. My favorite was when tops would get their turn. The goal was to try to destroy someone’s wooden top by throwing yours on top of it. The tops came with a lame sort of rounded metal tip which didn’t do much damage. We’d swipe metal chisels or just scrap metal from industrial arts class (“shop” for younger folks) and replace the lame tip with a sharpened piece of steel that could slice a top in two.