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HelpRe: Why isn't a "trendy" name considered a good sign?
in reply to a message by Francisinfp5w4
Many people don't like that trends are so fast and they wouldn't want to have a name that was in style one year and out of style the next, because you can't just change your name as easily as you change your clothes.
To me it's more of an aesthetic thing, and I think some names have a trendy aesthetic even if they're not 'trendy' in the sense of going through a fast trend cycle. Think cheerleaders, pop stars, the aesthetic of "the popular mean kids" in a high school movie -- that's what I'm thinking of when I describe a name as trendy, and it's just not an aesthetic that I like personally. It's not objectively bad in real life (regardless of what it would signify in a movie), it's just not my thing.
To me it's more of an aesthetic thing, and I think some names have a trendy aesthetic even if they're not 'trendy' in the sense of going through a fast trend cycle. Think cheerleaders, pop stars, the aesthetic of "the popular mean kids" in a high school movie -- that's what I'm thinking of when I describe a name as trendy, and it's just not an aesthetic that I like personally. It's not objectively bad in real life (regardless of what it would signify in a movie), it's just not my thing.
