>>6678996I guess using the example of the fidget spinner, the question he was probably asking more was "did anything crash faster" than the fidget spinner, than crash harder.
And to answer that question, I would genuinely say something along the lines of the Pet Rock, or POGs. Fidget spinner had a gradual rise, and then a gradual fall, but the whole spread lasted about 6 or 7 months, it seems. If you legit look at how the whole Pet Rock thing went, you see that, for as much as people remember the whole thing and laugh at the retarded idea of people buying a rock, the whole thing from the rise and fall took place over maybe a month or two.
I feel almost like Beanie Babies, on the other hand, were almost emblematic of the whole collector craze of the 1990s. After the 90s, it seemed like the bottom fell out of almost all collectibles; Baseball cards, action figures, comics, stamps, coins, etc. etc. I think there was a huge dash because everyone was looking for that next big thing that was going to be worth a lot of money.
Since like, antique coins and stamps were becoming (more) valuable, old comics and baseball cards from the 40s, 50s, and 60s were becoming way more valuable, and action figures and toys from the same era, and the 70s and 80s were also becoming valuable.
But that just sort of happened, whereas in the 1990s, people were just trying to force collectibles to become valuable, and Beanie Babies were one facet of this. But they fell the hardest, because there will always be things like comic collectors, or coin collectors, but Beanie Babies were created for the sole purpose of being exclusive and/or valuable, or whatever.
