{"id":2361969,"date":"2026-04-07T05:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2361969"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:21:33","slug":"the-rock-gets-in-on-viral-what-were-you-like-in-the-90s-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-rock-gets-in-on-viral-what-were-you-like-in-the-90s-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock Gets In On Viral \u2018What Were You Like In The 90s?\u2019 Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Rock has joined in on the viral \u201cWhat Were You Like In The 90s?\u201d nostalgia trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhat Were You Like In The 90s?\u201d is a viral social media trend. Set to the Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 song \u201cIris,\u201d the trend often begins with the on-screen text \u201cDad\/Mom, what were you like in the 90s?\u201d\u00a0and sees users, including celebrities, sharing current pictures of themselves before transitioning to a montage of throwback images\/videos from the 90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WWE legend Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson also joined in on the trend. The video he posted on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheRock\/status\/2041165387807543762\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X\/Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;X\/Twitter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">X\/Twitter<\/a> shows his current look with his daughters Jasmine and Tiana, before moving to his various WWE moments from the 90s, and finally ending with his iconic fanny pack photo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWell my loves, dad earned a few scars and callouses back then.. that stuff never goes outta style. And for the love of all that\u2019s sacred in the universe, stay far away from turtle necks,\u201d the Rock wrote.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">The Rock reveals main challenge of live-action Maui costume in Moana<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a recent interview with\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/moana-dwayne-johnson-live-action-maui-transformation-exclusive-11931570\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, The Rock and director Thomas Kail discussed the upcoming Moana live-action movie.\u00a0Disney recently released <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/dwayne-rock-johnson-live-action-164102700.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:the trailer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the trailer&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">the trailer<\/a> for the film, showing the WWE legend\u2019s look as Maui. Speaking about reprising his role from the animated film, The Rock revealed he wore 40 pounds of prosthetics, saying it was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/rock-reveals-main-challenge-live-233314620.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:the biggest challenge;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the biggest challenge&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">the biggest challenge<\/a> of playing the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe thing that became a challenge, that I had to work through very quickly, that I didn\u2019t anticipate was the prosthetics and the hair and then the body. That is an additional 40 pounds on you,\u201d the Rock said. \u201cThere\u2019s a freedom when you perform, whether it\u2019s as an actor or singing. So that was an adjustment on how to actually work my emotions through the 40 pounds of prosthetics and hair and body that I had on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/shawn-michaels-says-issues-rock-190707959.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Shawn Michaels Says Issues With The Rock Have Been \u2018Blown Out Of Proportion\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Shawn Michaels Says Issues With The Rock Have Been \u2018Blown Out Of Proportion\u2019&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Shawn Michaels Says Issues With The Rock Have Been \u2018Blown Out Of Proportion\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1630329-the-rock-90s-viral-trend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Rock Gets In On Viral \u2018What Were You Like In The 90s?\u2019 Trend;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Rock Gets In On Viral \u2018What Were You Like In The 90s?\u2019 Trend&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The Rock Gets In On Viral \u2018What Were You Like In The 90s?\u2019 Trend<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wrestlezone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Wrestlezone&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Wrestlezone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rock has joined in on the viral \u201cWhat Were You Like In The 90s?\u201d nostalgia trend. \u201cWhat Were You Like In The 90s?\u201d is a viral social media trend. Set to the Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 song \u201cIris,\u201d the trend often begins with the on-screen text \u201cDad\/Mom, what were you like in the 90s?\u201d\u00a0and sees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2361970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[458809,458808],"class_list":["post-2361969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-nostalgia-trend","tag-viral-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Rock-Gets-In-On-Viral-\u2018What-Were-You-Like.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361971,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361969\/revisions\/2361971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}