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|u/TiRoDo - 5 hours
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|They say you need to keep the poloraid in a dark place right after you
|take it. I guess, “Tuck it under your armpit like a Polaroid picture”
|doesn’t have the same ring to it
|u/Travelingman9229 - 27 minutes
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|It literally says to keep it in like a shoebox for a month before
|putting them in an album. lol it’s kinda crazy
|u/DaveOJ12 - 6 hours
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|Well I feel old now.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 6 hours
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|Fun fact, Hey Ya was the number one song on the day I was born! 😊
|u/ShinyCaper - 6 hours
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|Shut up
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|Yeah no, I'm not joking. I'm dead serious. I was born February 5
|and this was the number one song at the time! It's so odd
|thinking I'm about to be 21 soon....
|u/thewhitebuttboy - 5 hours
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|No, he just doesn’t believe you were born.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|What's that even supposed to mean?! 😂
|u/BrokenEye3 - 5 hours
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|Means you're probably a Synth
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|A... Synth? Like, the instrument?
|u/BrokenEye3 - 5 hours
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|Like a fake human robot manufactured by the Institute to
|infiltrate Commonwealth and spy on its populace in order
|to further their sinister agenda.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|Oh no! I'm not a fake human, I'm a real one! I
|promise! Although, people have said I'm like a
|robot due to being autistic, but that's another
|story....
|u/Airosokoto - 55 minutes
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|That's just what a Synth would say. Also they're making
|a reference to the game Fallout 4, and the joke went
|over your head.
|u/gastroboi - 4 hours
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|Like the instrument 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i don't know why i found that
|hilarious.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 4 hours
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|I'm sorry, I seriously didn't know what they meant, so
|I thought they were referring to the electric
|keyboard-like musical instrument, a synthesizer.
|u/ShinyCaper - 5 hours
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|I’m sorry for being rude. I’m jealous of your youngness. I am
|old and joyless. You are young and shut up. Again, sorry.
|u/lolofaf - 5 hours
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|FYI you probably shouldn't comment your birthday so publicly,
|even on an anonymous account. Bad actors can use that
|information against you in many different ways. Stay safe out in
|cyber-land, my young friend!
|u/That-Television2414 - 5 hours
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|Shut up for real.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|Why are you all telling me to shut up? Was it something I
|said? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset or anger you. I just
|thought this was an interesting fact. I'm sorry.
|u/Freshiiiiii - 5 hours
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|They’re not saying it in a serious way, they’re not actually
|offended, just mock wounded by the reminder that they’re
|aging and that young people are younger than them, born
|during times they remember.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|Ohhhh..... Yeah I'm Neurodivergent and take things
|literally, so I felt bad because I thought I
|unintentionally made them Seriously mad or upset with
|something that I said.
|u/Freshiiiiii - 5 hours
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|No worries haha you’re all good
|u/mlsaint78 - 2 hours
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|Us old heads are just depressed because we were likely
|21 or older when that song came out. At least that’s
|my take. You’re good, young blood.
|u/That-Television2414 - 5 hours
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|Ice cold
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|I actually have heard of him, I just don't listen to his
|music. When I wanna listen to the classics, I prefer the
|greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole,
|Aretha Franklin, etc.. Just because I'm young doesn't mean
|I don't know stuff. Thank you, have a good day/night.
|u/BrokenEye3 - 5 hours
|
|So you're telling me that people had been shaking their Polaroid
|pictures in the belief that that helped them develop for *56 years*
|before the company felt the need to say "hey guys, don't do that"?
|u/stenmarkv - 1 hour
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|From what I can remember I'm pretty sure the cameras manual said that.
|I remember reading the book otw home when I was a kid.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|I guess 🤷🏽♀️
|u/MukdenMan - 1 hour
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|It was always common to shake Polaroids even though you weren’t
|supposed to. Then when OutKast made a song in 2004, Polaroid decided
|to use the opportunity to put out this warning, keeping their product
|in the news for a bit longer.
|u/Gargomon251 - 2 hours
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|I don't know how true it is but I remember hearing that in the early
|days you had to apply some kind of developing stick to a Polaroid
|which you would then air dry
|u/thisisnotlien - 5 hours
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|I guess Polaroid was just trying to save us from our own bad dancing
|moves.
|u/ShakeWeightMyDick - 6 hours
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|I never understood why people shook polaroids.
|u/zerocoolforschool - 5 hours
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|Movies also showed people shaking them. OutKast didn’t just make that
|shit up.
|u/ShakeWeightMyDick - 4 hours
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|I didn't think OutKast did, I remember people shaking Polaroids well
|before OutKast existed
|u/dalgeek - 5 hours
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|Impatience and the perception that shaking it made the developing
|fluid move faster.
|u/Technical-Outside408 - 5 hours
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|Shaking makes my fluid move faster.
|u/kingsbreath - 4 hours
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|Old photography techniques used baths of chemicals. It was common to
|shake the liquid off. People just never stopped shaking the photo even
|when it wasn't necessary.
|u/ShakeWeightMyDick - 4 hours
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|Maybe, but how many Polaroid owners knew anything about photography
|development?
|u/kingsbreath - 3 hours
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|Trends of photography have passed down simply with emulation. Why
|did we say "cheese" for photos?
|u/IAmASeeker - 3 hours
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|Stand in the mirror, say "cheeeeeeeeeese", and look at your
|mouth.
|u/kingsbreath - 2 hours
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|I know why it's said. I'm saying it's something we do because
|we saw it being done.
|u/IAmASeeker - 2 hours
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|I disagree with that assessment. I believe that it's
|something we do because it's a proven strategy that parents
|can use to get children to show their teeth to the camera.
|As an adult, I don't say "cheese" to emulate others, I say
|it to communicate to my niece that everyone is waiting for
|her to look at the lense. I shake Polaroids because I
|thought you had to because I saw everyone else doing it... I
|just kinda do that because that's the thing that we do but I
|say "cheese" for a very specific reason. I suspect that
|there was a specific reason that the first person to shake a
|Polaroid thought it was useful.
|u/salizarn - 1 hour
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|Polaroid stated in 2004 that it was *no longer* necessary to shake
|them, implying the tech changed. They’d also gone into bankruptcy in
|2001 and went in again in 2008.
|u/brettbeatty - 5 hours
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|Same reason I would circle-mash the D-pad while waiting to see if a
|Pokémon was gonna stay caught—someone got it in their heads it helped,
|and it spread to a bunch of people who had no evidence it didn’t help.
|u/ShakeWeightMyDick - 4 hours
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|Yeah, I guess it's basically the same thing as people pressing the
|crosswalk button more than once.
|u/Gargomon251 - 2 hours
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|I've heard all sorts of fake tricks to supposedly make pokeballs
|work more often and never understood why anybody would even think
|that in the first place
|u/ShermyTheCat - 1 hour
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|I mean arguably there should be some sort of mechanic there so
|you're not just staring at it
|u/Gargomon251 - 1 hour
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|I mean most RPGs are just staring at menus while the characters
|attack each other
|u/mr_jurgen - 5 hours
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|Shaking your dick, on the other hand....?
|u/SanrioAndMe - 6 hours
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|Honestly, yeah, same, neither did I.
|u/SFDessert - 5 hours
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|Maybe they thought they were "drying" them?
|u/Best_Possible1798 - 1 hour
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|Just like Q-tips, we all ignored that
|u/fuzzdup - 32 minutes
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|The earliest Polaroid camera invented by Edwin Land (the “Polaroid Land
|Camera”), used a process which would develop faster if you shook the
|picture. Those photos also had a protective cover which must be peeled
|off before the image could be viewed. Taking the cover off too early
|ruined (overexposed) the picture. Hence people shook the picture to mix
|the chemicals physically so that they could peel the cover asap and see
|their picture. The later Polaroid pictures from the 1970s onwards used
|a different process which did not require a protective cover, nor did
|shaking help development. You could for the first time watch your
|instant picture develop in real time as there was no cover blocking your
|view. Shaking the picture wasn’t a thing for these photos.
|u/tvieno - 5 hours
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|["Hey Ya!" by Outkast](https://youtu.be/PWgvGjAhvIw) : the video
|u/Unusualus - 5 hours
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|Oh! You got me on that one... Here is the real video everyone: [https:
|//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=ygUJcmljayByb2xs](https://www
|.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=ygUJcmljayByb2xs)
|u/gastroboi - 4 hours
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|As soon as i see dQw4 i fucking know exactly what it is lol.
|u/ARoundForEveryone - 2 hours
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|Quick, someone upload a new copy of the video so we can keep this
|old dead meme's legacy close to our hearts
|u/gastroboi - 2 hours
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|God fucking dammit.
|u/Gargomon251 - 2 hours
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|What is it, a rick roll?
|u/Protean_Protein - 1 hour
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|No it’s a Polaroid.
|u/yIdontunderstand - 3 hours
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|Gently waft it like a Polaroid picture isn't as catchy...
|u/Gargomon251 - 2 hours
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|Set it down like a Polaroid picture
|u/BadNameThinkerOfer - 2 hours
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|"It's giving me a double polaroid"
|u/Gargomon251 - 2 hours
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|It's baffling that people still to this day think you have to shake
|them. And it doesn't help that they keep doing it in TV and movies
|u/geekolojust - 2 hours
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|The smells were amazing then.
|u/NightOwl_82 - 2 hours
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|I used to think it said shake it like a polar bear bea ninja 🤣
|u/this-guy- - 1 hour
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|You don't know what to dooo-ooo, You don't know what to dooo-o-oo,
|You don't know what to dooo-ooo-oo, Etc.
|u/hopeless_case46 - 1 hour
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|I knew it!
|u/PikesPique - 5 hours
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|TIL people were still taking Polaroid pictures in the early 00s despite
|the existence of digital cameras.
|u/dalgeek - 5 hours
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|Polaroids are still around today.
|u/llliilliliillliillil - 1 hour
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|They’re also a lot more fun to take than a pic with your phone
|u/goteamnick - 5 hours
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|Digital cameras were pretty new in 2003.
|u/Actual-Money7868 - 5 hours
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|And pretty shit
|u/Protean_Protein - 1 hour
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|You can pry my 1.3 MP camera from my cold, dead… uh… obsolete
|electronics box in my garage!
|u/ParticleTek - 5 hours
|
|I mean... Yes technically, but no, not really. Polaroid financially
|peaked in 1991 (arguably the real peak was in the 70s when it was most
|culturally relevant) and then began a downhill slope in value until
|declaring bankruptcy in 2001, completely selling off its brand and
|assets. That didn't happen in spite of mass Polaroid popularity, but
|because it had become so obsolete and rarely purchased. By 2008, the
|owner of the brand decided to completely cease production. In 2012,
|a documentary covering the rise and fall and potential grassroots
|interest in reviving Polaroid came out. And a bit later, a company
|that had been keeping instant film barely afloat finally acquired the
|Polaroid brand and relaunched it just in time for nostalgic
|millennials to gravitate towards it as a hip, vintage novelty.
|Although, it's still nowhere near its previous popularity. And it's
|not even the same company, the brand having been traded to multiple
|buyers since the company became defunct in 2002. March 2020 marked
|the first instant camera to have the Polaroid branding in decades.
|Since I think the i-Zone in 2000ish. So yes, people have been taking
|Polaroids all this time. But it was an intentionally dated reference
|even in 2003's Hey ya. Because the reality is that instant film
|effectively died once digital cameras became mainstream. They overtook
|all film cameras in sales by 2004 and by 2006 people were carrying
|digital cameras everywhere in the form of cell phones. Notably, the
|iPhone came out in 2007.
|u/SanrioAndMe - 5 hours
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|Polaroids are still being used to this day! In fact, Polaroid has
|partnered with Sanrio to make special Hello Kitty cameras in honor of
|the beloved character's 50th anniversary
|u/BadNameThinkerOfer - 2 hours
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|Yeah, digital cameras were shit back then, they gave everybody red
|eyes.
|