what started as a joke but people take it way to seriously today?

what started as a joke but people take it way to seriously today?
Maybe not anymore but Morbius
That vibrating anal beads chess thing.
Celebrities becoming politicians
Truck Nuts. They were a joke at first. Now they are a point of pride on emotional support trucks.
Dogecoin
Flat Earth
Those masculinity types, like Apha, Omega and Sigma male, etc. Some people take this too seriously.
The schools having litter boxes in bathrooms thing
I'm not convinced Donald Trump really thought he'd be president when he first started his campaign.
Schrodinger's Cat was formulated as a thought experiment to illustrate how odd quantum mechanics is, not that the cat is actually both alive and dead.
Qanon
Scientology.
Being an edgelord whose entire personality trait is trolling and bullying other people.
The OK symbol being a white supremacist sign.
The whole sigma, beta, alpha shit.
School teachers telling us we won't have calculators in our pockets, some nerds took that as a challenge
No Nut November
Brain only using %10 of its ability
The Area 51 challenge
Taco Bell giving anyone diarrhea.
How Palahniuk used 'snowflake' ironically and now it's the conservative go-to.
Birds aren't real
Msg is bad and vaccines cause autism