Polar Trends Meaning

Polar trends are inventions, neologisms, or just new things in general that aren’t popular yet, but are on the track to becoming huge. 

When someone says that something is a polar trend, that doesn’t mean it’s a literal trend, it just means it’s a concept that is currently very small, but is showing signs of becoming much more popular (even mainstream) soon.

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Examples of polar trends:

• Smartphones back in 1992
• Social media platforms in the early 2000s
• The word ‘YOLO’ back in 2005
• The concept of ‘slugging’ in 2019 before it become a common beauty practice
• The use of #hashtags in 2003

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Not all polar trends are equal. While a topic is in this stage, we use a ranking system known as RFCI to help others to understand how relevant and mainstream we (whoever found the particular polar trend) think the topic is going to be in the future.

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Polar trends may seem irrelevant, but using them to your advantage can have some serious growth benefits for your business thanks to Seed Merit.