Is this a recent fad? It's been around for a long time."

Whether it is a recent fad or not is irrelevant to whether it has been around for a long time, so to say "it has been around for a long time" where we are talking about recent times is out of context reminiscence.

relevance - One symptom of aging - A variant of Sudden self-talk, A sudden old story - Mold thinking that had a similar thing in the past - Thinking like something similar in the past

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