The internet dug into the past for a viral 2000s ladybug costume originally from Leg Avenue, causing many variations of the outfit to take the internet by storm. This includes DIY versions that might be more accessible to college students.

"That one costume that everyone’s wearing, we’re not wearing that exact one," packaging sophomore Hannah Sanderson said. "I'm not sure what I’m actually wearing yet because I have a tank top and I was thinking of wearing like a jacket over it. I like ordered like a red dress with like black spots because like that would work. I'll just, like, wing it on the night of."

To compliment this, a 2000s bumblebee costume also returned from the dead. Exploratory preference freshman Emma Wilkinson is going the DIY route for her costume with a yellow shirt, antennae, wings and socks she bought from Amazon and a black skirt that she already owned.

"I was the one that kind of mentioned it, but I saw [the bumblebee costume] on TikTok, and this was well before the Halloween season before it got popular," Wilkinson said. "It's my first Halloween at college and like, I'm broke, so I wanted, like something easy to put together and I know that it's a popular costume and it'll be really easy for people to realize."

It was Wilkinson who hoped to be a bumblebee and first suggested the costumes to Sanderson. 

"Hannah and I just met this year so we both hit it off really well," Wilkinson said. "We're both in the marching band together. We just connected really fast and it's important to make connections while you're at college, so I was like, 'Oh, perfect, I got a person to do Halloween with.'"

Wilkinson and Sanderson then asked their friends whose personality would fit each of the costumes and settled on Sanderson as the ladybug and Wilkinson as the bumblebee.

"I think especially if we're together, they'll know, like, that's a ladybug and that's a bumblebee," Wilkinson said. "There's like the old Leg Avenue popular costumes from like the 2000s that I know people are finding them everywhere, but we just did the DIY."

"People might be wearing like the one ladybug costume," Sanderson said. "I think they'll know and there might be other people [wearing them], I'm not sure. If they are the same thing, I don't think they'll be the exact same just because like we didn't buy like a costume, we bought like different things."

Another viral costume is the bird Blu from the 2011 movie, Rio. The costume trend started out small last year but is fully taking flight this year with the song that goes with it on TikTok currently having 250K videos.

"I saw it kind of like start to become trending and I love the Rio movie, that was my childhood," biosystems engineering junior Sierra Moore said. "I love that movie so much, so when I saw it, I was kind of like, 'I have to do it.' It's really cute, I like the sparkles and everything, too, with the costume."

Moore will be one of four "Rio" birds with her friends on Halloween. She will be the character Blu while her friends will be red, pink and purple variations of the costume. 

"I had the idea of it, I wanted to do it, and they were kind of like, 'Oh, that's cute let's do it like the same day together,' I was like, 'Yeah, of course,'" Moore said. "I think everyone will kind of know what it is because it's, like trending right now and I feel like with the wings and everything, I feel like it, like, kind of pulls it together and makes it, like, noticeable."