What did you like before it was cool?

[GGG 176]

itt: ironic or radical hipsterism.

[kanashimi purinsesu 244]

Myself. Ok kidding aside, it'd definately have to be watching commentaded games on youtube before lets plays came along. Was cool then, still cool now, with even more to view nowadays to boot.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

lol Rarity

 

I remember when it was unheard of to be a Rarity fan Now it's commonplace.

[long gone 8,929]

Pokemon generation III. Always liked it, now that remakes are coming out they're wicked popular and shit.

[Christmasy Britty 2,553]

the rainbow loom which has billions of tutorial videos out for it, when I originally got it there were like 20 designs you could make with it now the possibilities are endless

[Omega Centauri 316]

I'm that guy that always gets pissed off when I hear my favorite songs featured in a popular movie or video game. I think "Shit, now everyone will think I like that song because of that movie/game!"

[An Unknown Pony. 370]

Legos,still liking them now.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

Jerome was cool before it was cool to be cool.

[MidnightBloom 84]

Fun. and The 1975. Then they blew up. We Are Young was featured on Glee and after like 10 years The 1975 finally became mainstream enough for my friends to know about the band. Like, i'm glad they're receiving recognition now but I miss the time where their songs weren't overplayed <_<

[CC_Maud_Pie 6,431]

Back in 2012, I had an idea of taking pictures of my face in different places was interesting and I did it. Until recently, I found out that this became a trend called "selfies". Therefore, I took selfies before the trend started going crazy.

[Blackened 512]

I liked Darude - Sandstorm before it was cool. No, really. At least before everyone started using it as a copypasta.

 

I guess Super Mario RPG counts for me, because it wasn't released in the UK 'til 2008. Back when I was younger, I played it on an emulator; wonder how many other people in the UK knew of the game before it was released on the VC?

Edited November 2, 2014 by Blackened

[CuriousPony 157]

When I was younger, I liked the Jonas Brothers. I thought their music was fun. Then they got insanely popular, and all their songs became love songs, and I decided I didn't really like them anymore. 

[Horse 63]

I had many powers of 2 memorized before the game 2048 existed.  It used to be special.

[Celtore 2,770]

My tea! And it was painful... /overused joke

 

Anyway, I don't really know... I suppose "computers" would be an adequate answer, especially considering I loved those things before YouTube, social networking sites, modern wed design and broadband.

 

I bet there are a few games here too that could fit the category (Mario Sunshine/Windwaker), but I'm not entirely sure.

 

Big edit: Minecraft. I don't really like it anymore though; the audience has shifted too much, the Microsoft deal happened, very little has changed and I've started tinkering with minetest. (Where you can write actual code for "Redstone")

[Wyzecat 350]

Matt and Kim. As in the band. I love their music.

You can hear their music in quite a few commercials and video games.

 

Take that, corporate America, I beat you to the punch.

 

Still can't belive they're not that well known, considering how used some of their songs are. Think Darude-Sandstorm, in the way that nobody knows who made those songs. :okiedokielokie:

[Hypn0ticD 1,213]

This is gonna make me sound like a grandma, but I liked both the Inuyasha and Naruto mangas before many people jumped on the bandwagon...

 

I still like Inuyasha, but now I can't stand Naruto! Too many dickheads in the cast!

[Neutral 1,185]

I guess I use to love sunglasses before they came too cool in the uk. So yeah.

[gaysnowfurry 26]

well adventure quest, fallout, halo, skyrim and thats all.

[Shou 100]

I liked Touhou before it was cool... wait is it even cool yet? One day...

[VitalSpark 1,830]

Accessing the Internet via a mobile phone. In 1999 I was pulling 9.6 kbps. Yes, that's a "k", not an "M".

 

Hell, that's before some of you were even born.

 

Now everyone does it. It's become so ubiquitous that most people probably no longer think of it as cool. (But they'd still decry a phone with no Internet access as being uncool, which I offer as proof that accessing the Internet via your mobile phone is indeed cool.) Thankfully we now achieve higher data speeds.

Edited January 6, 2015 by Vital Spark

[Away 2,077]

I liked liking things before they were cool before it was cool  B^)

[Eternal Night 61]

I liked persona games back when you would ask for them at GameStop and the employees would look at you oddly. I remember asking for persona 3 when I was in middle school and the guy took 10 minutes to figure out what I was talking about.

[DragonFlyer 328]

Wolves. I loved wolves way before everyone and their cousin had a wolf OC and the world was obsessed with them as best animal. I also loved Pokemon before it really took off, man I feel old...

[Mutemutt 773]

I bought Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare pretty soon after it came out. Bought it on a whim, didn't know it would blow up like that. Does that count? 

 

I love the Disgaea series, still waiting for it to become cool though... It'll get there, give it time  . 

I was also in love with fighting games before their relatively recent resurgence. Not sure if that really counts, but hey, it's something.

[PSP (Dizzy) 201]

A lot of videogames come to mind. Not because they've become cool yet, but because I deeply hope they will. Sometime.