Joy, the world's most fabulous hamster, was generous enough to be a model in Mashable's 100 years of hamster beauty, and it's beautiful.
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Stuffing your right cheek with a carrot was all the rage in the 1910s.
After a brief disappearance in the 1920s, the carrot trend came back with a bang in the 1930s, not only with one cheek, but with both.
After World War II, hamsters rebuilt their community through grains and nuts.
The 1980s called for a plentiful amount of carrots to get that "full-face" look that was ~so in~ at the time.
After the obesity problem got a little too out of control in the 2000s, hamsters made a worldwide effort to walk it off and stay active today.
