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Bad news for fidget spinners

‘It’s very likely that peak fidget spinner is behind us.’

 A look at the popularity of the ubiquitous fidget spinner reveals that the toy and stress management tool is on the way out.

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Published by FiveThirtyEight, the article written by Walt Hickey, explains that data from Google is revealing that interest in fidget spinners is well and truly trending down.

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Hickey says that according to Google the fidget spinners first appeared in searches around May 6.

‘Then the fad made its way to internet news consumers over the next week; May 18 was the high-water mark for fidget spinner news searches,’ Hickey writes. Ever since then, however it has been on a steady decline.

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‘It’s very likely that peak fidget spinner is behind us.’

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