What did you like, before it was cool?

I liked fish tacos and food trucks because they were affordable. Now they’re all trendy and expensive, so I just buy stacks of frozen pizza and eat them in solitude while I listen to my awesome music.

Doctor Who, best TV show ever.

The food truck on the West Campus of college was so so fucking amazing.
If anyone knows Food Truck Bob they’ll know.

Environmental, poverty and health issues.

I liked the Doors about 3 months before they released Light My Fire.

I liked Cream about a year before they released any singles.

I’ve never been ahead of everybody about anything. Mostly because I really don’t care much about what is ‘popular.’ I’m primarily an individualist.

I think I was watching quite a few British comedies before they really caught on here in the US.

Role playing games. (on video gaming consoles) I started playing them at an early age, and despite shit translation for games like Final Fantasy IV, they helped me a lot with my English, and also my basic math. I played all of them like mad, that which I could find and my dad could afford to get me afford.

Ultima, Breath of Fire, Soulblazer, Lufia, I played all without discrimination because I so loved the genre. It took me away and marveled me. However, my choice of video games was very often laughed at; girls laughed at me for playing games, and boys laughed at me for playing shitty nerd games. (although today, anyone plays all sorts of games)

Eventually though, a little game called Final Fantasy VII came out. It was so awesome, epic and revolutionary at the time that it singlehandedly brought RPG’s from out of the closet. The only people who didn’t like it were those who didn’t know how to read, and bought the game based on the commercials, thinking everything was actually a movie.

This game made RPG’s first acceptable, and then loved, and then praised, for a number of years to come. Developers made them by the boatload after that game. Soon you didn’t know where to shake a sword at anymore. Every gamer was a fan, or at least recognized it as legit.
It’s changed now. Unless you live in Japan, nobody gives a shit about this genre anymore, if it isn’t Skyrim.

And Final Fantasy VII really isn’t that great, although it was back then I guess…I mean it didn’t really do anything that prior RPG’s didn’t do, it was just way bigger and flashier.
But many people were like me; they loved the genre before it became more popular than racing games. However, until Sephiroth started growing his hair and capturing his own mom all over the place, I was in quite the minority.

Monty Python, penguins, Batman, punk rock, samurai swords…

I am not sure if I really liked it (long story) but I got a tattoo before it was cool. Especially for girls.

Nothing. Pretty much all my stuff has been used so all that was lost on me.

Sorry, but my great find is NSFW. But if you’re one who tends to use your head, you can figure it out.

Steampunk, listening to vinyl in a world of MP3, other stuff…

Sequins on my clothes.

Oh yeah… And zombies.

I liked things before they were cool before it was cool to like things before they were cool.

Ice – but back then we called it “water”.

Vintage fashion. I don’t know if this really counts, obviously it was “cool” long before my time.. but growing up my friends always thought that it was weird that I loved what they dubbed as “grandma” clothes, but now it is very popular among young people.
This includes a long time appreciation for suspenders/braces, definitely long before Mad Men.

Skateboarding. Pulling 360’s & shit as the casual shoppers would point & glare.

Ive been a zombie Fanatic my entire life. I remember watching Thriller for the first time on MTV
now all the people talk about zombies like its new.

I was sick of Gotye “somebody that I used to know” way before it ever hit radio stations/tv.

Email in 1988.