AntiDuckface. Fancy. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal#comic. What Movie Should I Watch Tonight? Top 10 Lists - Listverse. The 9 Dumbest Fads Ever to Make Money. Consumer fads have evolved significantly over the years, from low-tech doodads of plastic and stone to the latest in digital technology. They share one constant, however: their utter boneheadedness. Fads. These markers of popular culture all seemed like good ideas at the time. Heck, some of us even fell prey to the tawdry charms of acid wash jeans. Over the decades, the world’s consumer crazes have ranged from the forgivable to the fanatical, along the way becoming icons of their generation. Dan Rodick, a director with the company that brought us the hula hoop, said, "No other product gives me as much fear and respect for the power of mass culture as the hula hoop.
" What he meant was, it made money. These nine blips on our cultural radar may seem ludicrous now, but the only ones really laughing are their creators – all the way to the bank. Image: 1.bp.blogspot.com 9. SAY WHAT? DID IT MAKE MONEY? HOW DUMB WAS IT? Image: ortso.com 8. SAY WHAT? DID IT MAKE MONEY? HOW DUMB WAS IT? 7. SAY WHAT?