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Related to [[Be Yourself]] and [[Disobey This Message]], since they're both pretty much the end result of this, as well as [[Anyone Remember Pogs]].

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has inspired ''tons'' of these in its approximately 30 years of existence, as the comic takes place in a [[Crapsack World|future dystopia]] where most humans are practically permanently unemployed and take up unusual hobbies, trends, and activities to pass the time. A lot of them end up being banned or heavily regulated by Justice Dept. after a problem arises because of it; notable examples include:

** Boinging. The miracle plastic spray Boing was a substance that would expand itself over whatever it was sprayed on, engulfing it in a giant, bouncing ball and allowing people chances to engage in various fun activities like shooting down crazy tube slides and playing pinball games as the ball. People would also start using it outdoors, [[Hyper Destructive Bouncing Ball|bouncing like crazy across building structures and roads, creating a lot of property damage in the process]]. Justice Dept. had to issue a law to restrict the Boing's usage.

** Boinging. The miracle plastic spray Boing was a substance that would expand itself over whatever it was sprayed on, engulfing it in a giant, bouncing ball and allowing people chances to engage in various fun activities like shooting down crazy tube slides and playing pinball games as the ball. People would also start using it outdoors, [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball|bouncing like crazy across building structures and roads, creating a lot of property damage in the process]]. Justice Dept. had to issue a law to restrict the Boing's usage.

** [[The Grotesque|Otto Sump]] tried to start a beauty clinic but ended up making his patrons hideously ugly. Customer's unsatisfied, he rebranded his business as an ''ugly'' clinic and, with the help of a beautiful celebrity who wanted to look as horrible as Sump, helped turn ugliness into a fashion all its own and became extremely popular, until Dredd decided to crack down on Sump's business for using Dredd's image for publicity and believing that his products are a danger to the health of citizens, ruling to heavily tax them after mass demonstrations of people demand they have a right to be ugly. As a result, this is only remains a trendy fashion amongst the extremely rich.

*** The same plot was recycled when Otto Sump came out with his new line of delicious food products, Gunge. Yes, it tastes as good as it sounds with food names like "Mold Jam", "Slime Sauce", "Bacteria Soup", "Maggot Steak", etc. His logic was that following the food shortages as a result of the Apocalypse War, people can look to his trash slop as a healthy source for nutrition. Justice Dept. effectively bans Gunge... and then [[Future Food Is Artificial|rebrands the exact same trash as Foodstuff A, B, C, etc. for the people to eat]] to combat the food shortages.

** Blob was a fashion trend created by a [[Legitimate ~~Businessmens~~ Social Club]] as a way to make their activities easier. The idea was to create the perfect, unidentifiable criminal by erasing every physical feature from a person's face with the aid of face-changing machine, replacing his voice with an electronic scrambler, and dressing him in a single, identifiable outfit... [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|then they present it as the next big thing]] so that large quantities of people ins Mega-City One look like the same featureless blob that no one can tell apart from another, thus allowing their own criminals (also unrecognizable blobs) to commit crimes while not being able to be identified. Massive confusion ensues as no one is sure who people around them are, forcing the Judges step in and decide that anyone partaking in the blob fashion trend has to have an ID number printed on their foreheads so it's easy to tell who is who... and let Judges figure out which blobs are committing crimes.

** Blob was a fashion trend created by a [[Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club]] as a way to make their activities easier. The idea was to create the perfect, unidentifiable criminal by erasing every physical feature from a person's face with the aid of face-changing machine, replacing his voice with an electronic scrambler, and dressing him in a single, identifiable outfit... [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|then they present it as the next big thing]] so that large quantities of people ins Mega-City One look like the same featureless blob that no one can tell apart from another, thus allowing their own criminals (also unrecognizable blobs) to commit crimes while not being able to be identified. Massive confusion ensues as no one is sure who people around them are, forcing the Judges step in and decide that anyone partaking in the blob fashion trend has to have an ID number printed on their foreheads so it's easy to tell who is who... and let Judges figure out which blobs are committing crimes.

** And last, but not least, [[media:Simping_4107.jpg|Simping.]] The entire purpose of the fashion is to dress as ridiculously and absurdly as possible and get noticed for it. The simp in that picture is dressing like that to his ''wedding''. Things do not go very well for him.

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