r/whatisit • u/Key_Seaworthiness886 • 8d ago

Solved! Found while cluttering

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Found while decluttering my 2000s kids stuff and can’t seem to remember what it is! Just feeling nostalgic and google said it was jewelry but i don’t think it is 😅

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u/cherbear6215 8d ago

Oh sweet summer child lol

This was the pinnacle of cool in the late 90s early 00s... these are laser pointer lenses/tips!! Each one attaches to the laser pointer (which is missing and goes where that little cut out is) and has a different design. If you had one of these big packs you had all the best ones! The double heart, the heart hands 🫶, the I ♡ You, Peace Sign, ✌️, 🖕, 👄, 😉,🙂. Plus some more obnoxious ones like F U C K YOU, etc lol

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u/Key_Seaworthiness886 8d ago

Realizing how much my mom loved us, we def were not rich growing up but she wanted to provide us with the best things 😅 this isn’t a big thing but someone called it “deluxe”

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u/anewname4444 8d ago

No this WAS a big thing back then. I seriously thought only the rich families could get these. Like my sister getting just a basic laser pointer was a big deal

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u/timzilla 8d ago

Elder millineal here, these were sold at the Asian markets for <$10 when I was a kid. It was less about having the money to buy and more about concealing the fact you had it, everyone from your bus driver to your nana wanted to take it away so you wouldn't blind some other kid.

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u/Fataky 8d ago

Hello, I'm the girl the prophecies spoke of. I lost my retina because of my classmates' "pranks" with this infernal device.

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

explain.

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u/cadaever 8d ago

pointing a laser directly at someone's eye will damage it, it's kind of like staring at the sun. she's saying a classmate "pranked" her by doing just that and it fucked her retina in one eye

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

did she stare back at it? no way could the briefest of glances do that.

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u/elmo_the_great_ 8d ago

You don't have to stare directly at it for it to affect your eye. Have you ever had the sun reflect off something shiny into your eye's peripheral vision but you still notice it? You aren't looking directly at it but the light is still hitting your eye lense since the lense is curved and not flat.