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Related to BeYourself and DisobeyThisMessage, since they're both pretty much the end result of this, as well as AnyoneRememberPogs May also overlap with GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt if one REALLY wants it. A common lesson for the EasilyEmbarrassedYoungster to learn. It also goes with InternetSafetyAesop because they should have enough common sense to not participate in a trend that can ruin their life or immortalise their stupidity.

** Blob was a fashion trend created by a LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub 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... [[CutLexLuthorACheck then they present it as the next big thing]] so that large quantities of people in 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.

* ''Series/LizzieMacguire'' inverts this moral. Gordo becomes mad at Lizzie and Miranda for accidently making his love of the Rat Pack the latest fad at school, to the point where he gives it up to avoid following the crowd. Eventually he realizes giving up something he loves because it's popular is as mindless as taking up a hobby because everyone else is doing it- and simply decides to enjoy the fact others are giving the Rat Pack a go, at least for the time being.

* ''Series/LizzieMaguire'' inverts this moral. Gordo becomes mad at Lizzie and Miranda for accidently making his love of the Rat Pack the latest fad at school, to the point where he gives it up to avoid following the crowd. Eventually he realizes giving up something he loves because it's popular is as mindless as taking up a hobby because everyone else is doing it- and simply decides to enjoy the fact others are giving the Rat Pack a go, at least for the time being.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E19 Simpson Tide]]", in which Milhouse gets an earring that everyone else in school thinks is cool, so everyone starts getting one. Bart gets his, much to Homer's outrage. Bart later gives Homer the earring before embarking on a nuclear submarine with the Naval Reserve. The earring ends up becoming the ChekhovsGun that saves the submarine from sinking.

* The episode "Dressed To Kill" from ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' dealt with this. [[AlphaBitch Brit and Tiff]] are infuriated when XJ-9/Jenny manages to one-up them in terms of fashion sense. As the girls prepare for their prom, their gowns turn out to be made from Pip Crystals unknowingly lost by Smytus. It's soon discovered that said crystals [[AppliedPhlebotinum give them]] [[StockSuperpower superpowers]]. Naturally, they try to enact their revenge on Jenny until they discover that a new fashion statement has rolled in, causing them to abandon their dresses in horror. A later episode ("Victim of Fashion") has the two engaging in a fashion war with Jenny once more.

* ''Series/FraggleRock'' had an episode in which some young Doozers took up pogo stick jumping, despite the fact that jumping gives Doozers the hiccups, which makes them unable to work. One Doozer decides to stop and is shunned by the others, but in the end he ends up saving them after they get the hiccups and cause a building collapse.

Related to BeYourself and DisobeyThisMessage, since they're both pretty much the end result of this, as well as AnyoneRememberPogs May also overlap with GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt if one REALLY wants it. A common lesson for the EasilyEmbarrassedYoungster to learn.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The latest fad in "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E11Chinpokomon Chinpokomon]]", which Kyle gets too late in the game. By that time, the rest of the kids are going to bomb Pearl Harbor because all the other kids are doing it, but then they get de-fadded because their parents (pretend to) like it, and who likes something their parents like? But Kyle wasn't there (again) when everybody decided to stop liking Chinpokomon.

-->'''Kyle:''' But if I stop now, I'll just be going with the group again. So, to be an individual, I have to bomb Pearl Harbor. See ya.

-->'''Kyle:''' Aw, screw it; I'm too confused.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The latest fad in Chinpokomon, which Kyle gets too late in the game. By that time, the rest of the kids are going to bomb Pearl Harbor because all the other kids are doing it, but then they get de-fadded because their parents (pretend to) like it, and who likes something their parents like? But Kyle wasn't there (again) when everybody decided to stop liking Chinpokomon.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it in "Simpson Tide", in which Milhouse gets an earring that everyone else in school thinks is cool, so everyone starts getting one. Bart gets his, much to Homer's outrage. Bart later gives Homer the earring before embarking on a nuclear submarine with the Naval Reserve. The earring ends up becoming the ChekhovsGun that saves the submarine from sinking.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotAndMonster'': Happens in "Dirty Money" with Robot.