A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically.

List of fads

• "All your base"
• Scoobie Doos — 1980s returned in 2000's
• Beanie babies — 1990s
• Clackers — 1980s
• Cabbage Patch dolls — 1980s
• Calculator wristwatches — 1980s
• Chia Pets — 1980s
• Devil sticks
• Digimon
• Flash mobs — 2000s
• Garbage Pail Kids
• HIM (band)
• Hula hoop — 1950s
• Macarena — 1996
• Mood ring — 1970s
• Numa numa
• Pet rocks — 1970s
• Pogs
• Pokémon — 1990s-2000s
• Tamagotchi
• Tazos
• Tickle Me Elmo — 1990s
• Troll dolls
• Rubik's cube
• Yo-Yo — 1930s and 1990s
• Yu-Gi-Oh

See also

• Food faddism
• music fads
• flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)
• tulipomania
• herding
• Internet phenomenon