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Trends are often considered the come-and-go "necessary evil" of human culture. Whether they're [[Popularity Polynomial|locked in a cycle]] or they [[Deader Than Disco|plain old wither and die forever]], they help define specific moments in history, [[Vindicated by History|for better]] [[Unfortunate Implications|and worse]]. So it only makes sense that [[In-Universe]] examples of trends exist in fiction.

*** 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 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.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Amy and her limes in ''[[Little Women]]''.

* ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' has a fad regime change from autograph books to name cards, orchestrated by Nellie Oleson just in time to make Laura uncool again.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==