Here Today, Horrible Tomorrow: Which Fads Won’t Survive The Next 10 Years?

When a decade dies, it often takes its most representative works with it; 1999's American Beauty is a good example, in that it swept the Oscars in its day but now plays as "painfully 90s," perhaps because it was ripped off by imitators in the early part of this decade. With that in mind, let's take a look at some popular fads and folks of this decade that may be "painfully 00s" by the time 2020 rolls around (or, perhaps, by the time our "green" Times Square ball, shown here, drops in a few days).