History Main / YouAreTheNewTrend

Compare AccidentalDanceCraze. See also IJustWantToBeYou and SincerestFormOfFlattery.

* In the epilogue chapters of ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'', following Soma's participation in the BLUE, many students in the middle school section of Totsuki took to wear a towel wrapped around their left forearm like he does. Others have also copied Ryou Kurokiba's bandanna.

* In ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', as soon as Vanellope finds common ground when she agrees with Rapunzel about how big, strong men are automatically supposed to magically solve problems, the other Princesses welcome her into the club, and based on Vanellope's casual hoodie look, the princesses have a slumber party, where they each wear T-shirts and casual outfits as alternate wear that individually characterize their defining traits.

** Kim's mission outfit becomes a fashion fad in "Kimitation Nation" when a fashion designer looking for ideas sees a TV report of Kim's latest heroics and creates a new clothing line based on her mission outfit. Ironically Kim's attempt to take advantage of it to gain popularity fails, and she becomes fed up with it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode "Supermodel Cow", Cow becomes a new fashion icon and starts a craze for udder bags. Of course, like all fads, It does not last.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]] interactive short, "Best Trends Forever", Rarity does a report on the latest trend, but when she has nothing to talk about on her, she improvises by making up a trend after looking at Rainbow Dash (rainbow hair), Twilight Sparkle(glasses), or Pinkie Pie(confetti). Who she chooses yields different results. Rarity finds herself in a panic when she find herself unable to tell who is actually Rainbow Dash if she chooses her. If Twilight is chosen, People taking her look causes her to have trouble getting the book she is wanting. If Pinkie is chosen, she embraces her trend with excitement by filling everybody's lockers with confetti.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode ''Run Away Runway'', Phineas and Ferb become designers, with their Summer All The Time collection. The collection consists of the clothes that Phineas and Ferb wear in almost every episode - so Phineas and Ferb are the newest fashion. Later on, when Doofenshmirtz creates his clone army, as they enter the Googolplex Mall, everyone thinks that the outfit he's wearing has become the newest fashion - so Doofenshmirtz becomes the newest fashion.

* Creator/RobertMunsch's story, "Stephanie's Ponytail". Everyone in school boos the main character's hairstyle, only to copy it the next day. She keeps changing where the ponytail is, and everyone keeps copying her. At the end, she announces that she is going to shave her head. Everyone else shaves themselves bald immediately... and Stephanie comes to school with the same hairstyle as at the start of the book.

* Early in the Thursday Next novel ''Lost in a Good Book'', Thursday and Landen go to her Uncle Mycroft's retirement party. Thursday sees her cousin's wife uncharacteristically dressed in chinos and a shirt, ''sans'' makeup and with her hair in a ponytail secured with a black scrunchie. Landen asks about the expensive dresses she used to wear, and Gloria tells the couple that ''[=FeMole=]'' magazine is promoting the Thursday Next look. Thursday finds this ridiculous, and the women have this exchange:

* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'': Jim comes back from a trip to Japan with the newest thing over there -- little shorts with HelloKitty style decorations. Andy thinks they're ridiculous, but soon becomes unhip when he's the only one not wearing them. By the time he comes around they're out, since middle-aged folks have taken them up.

%%* Riley in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' puts a different spin on this trope by having Tish's ''name'' become a hot new slang word.

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* In ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', as soon as Vanellope finds common ground when she agrees with Rapunzel about how big, strong men are automatically supposed to magically solve problems, the other Princesses welcome her into the club, and based on Vanellope's casual hoodie look, the princesses have a slumber party, where they each wear T-shirts and casual outfits as alternate wear that individually characterize their defining traits.

* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'': Played with -- George takes a wrong turn in a TV studio and finds himself at the office of a "with it" producer [[YourCostumeNeedsWork that thinks he's only a Beatles impersonator]]. He tries to get George to appear in an advertisement for trendy clothes, warning him that he'll be an unhip pariah if he doesn't play the game.

* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'': Played with -- George takes a wrong turn in a TV studio and finds himself at the office of a "with it" producer who doesn't recognize him and takes him for another poser with a phony accent. He tries to get George to appear in an advertisement for trendy clothes, warning him that he'll be an unhip pariah if he doesn't play the game.

* The end of ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' features the citizens of New York (and the world in general) showing their admiration of the titular group by doing things like getting their beards cut in the style of [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and images of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica The Mighty Shield]] appearing on t-shirts and graffiti.

* In ''Batman: ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'', there's a gang that follows a series of trends, starting with their "Mutant" leader and ending with... Batman himself, after he defeats the previous leader. They're young, bored, quick, and dangerous, and although Batman is disgusted by the crimes they commit in his name he manages to turn them into his own personal army called the "Sons of Batman".

* In ''ComicBook/XStatix'', the titular team are all celebrities, and have whole stores devoted to peddling related merchandise to their fans. One of the Doop dolls even shows up in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' (owned by Molly Hayes, of course.)

* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'': Played with -- George takes a wrong turn in a tv studio and finds himself at the office of a "with it" producer who doesn't recognize him and takes him for another poser with a phony accent. He tries to get George to appear in an advertisement for trendy clothes, warning him that he'll be an unhip pariah if he doesn't play the game.

* Creator/RobertMunsch's story, "Stephanie's Ponytail". Everyone in school boos the main character's hairstyle, only to copy it the next day. She keeps changing where the ponytail is, and everyone keeps copying her. At the end, she announces that she is going to shave her head. Everyone else shaves themselves bald immediately ... and Stephanie comes to school with the same hairstyle as at the start of the book.

** In the episode "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You" Rarity lose most of her mane because she accidentally uses Zecora's magical remover potion. Once she accepts that she can't grow back her ruined mane quickly, Rarity opts to turn it into a multicolored punk mohawk. By the end of episode, Rarity's new manestyle (appeared on the front of the magazine for the best manes in Equestria) becomes a trend among the residents of Ponyville (and apparantly a long-lasting one, considering months had passed).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' [[TheMovie Movie]], "the box look is IN!" after [[spoiler: Dizzy's shedding forces him to don a box for modesty's sake]].

* Robert Munsch's story, "Stephanie's Ponytail". Everyone in school boos the main character's hairstyle, only to copy it the next day. She keeps changing where the ponytail is, and everyone keeps copying her. At the end, she announces that she is going to shave her head. Everyone else shaves themselves bald immediately ... and Stephanie comes to school with the same hairstyle as at the start of the book.

* Riley in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''

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* Spoofed in ''Film/MeanGirls'', when Cady and Janice damage Regina's shirt and she successfully turns this ClothingDamage into a fashion fad.
* ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'': The girls play a prank on [[JerkJock basketball jock]] John Tucker so that he will be caught in public wearing only a thong. John Tucker doesn't lose his cool, and in fact is able to convince all the rest of the basketball team that wearing a thong is the way to go. Several of the male faculty members follow suit. Well it does prevent riding up...
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Batman finds various impostors dressed as him trying to take down drug dealers [[ComicallyMissingThePoint with]] [[DoesntLikeGuns guns]]. He's less than thrilled, and warns them to stop. One of them winds up a victim of the Joker.

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* ''Series/{{Community}}'' - Troy and Abed build a blanket fort which quickly expands through the entire dorm complex into a blanket fort village. When they later read in the news that they've created a new fad they decide it's time to dismantle it.

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** Kim's mission outfit becomes a fashion fad in "Kimitation Nation".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': Doug Funnie finds that his trademark sweater has become the new trend after a popular TV character starts wearing it. Worse still, no one noticed ''beforehand'' that he sported what's being called the "Dylan Farnum Look" before the guy made it popular, so everyone thinks Doug is simply copying the trend; he spends most of the episode either trying to convince everybody it was his look to begin with or bucking trends in general (which fails in ridiculous fashion [[FinaglesLaw as the absurd mix-and-match costume he tries on turns out to be the "Schizo Look"]]).\\
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In the end, he learns to accept the situation...just as the Dylan Farnum look goes out of style, and now everyone is dressing like Doug's best friend Skeeter.
** Rufus wears a [[MeaningfulName Branday]] jacket to school, turning it into the next fad. Doug must settle for a [[BlandNameProduct "Brandexx"]] jacket, but the jackets get switched later, and Doug's jacket becomes the new trend.
* On a ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short, Goofy tries out various trends in an attempt to be hip. In the end, he returns to his traditional outfit... which has somehow become a hot fashion trend.
* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. About three quarters through a long episode of the Eds being exactly one step behind the latest trend of the minute, they decide to try and create their own trend (really strange clothing). Which only becomes the latest trend when the Eds have moved on to something else, and in the very short time it takes them to change back into the clothes from said trend, the latest trend is something else entirely.

* Dexter, of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', accidentally cracked his glasses in the episode "Framed", and cracked glasses promptly became all the rage around school.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode "Supermodel Cow", Cow becomes a new fashion icon and starts a craze for udder bags. Of course, like all fads, It does not last.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'': Jim comes back from a trip to Japan with the newest thing over there -- little shorts with HelloKitty style decorations. Andy thinks they're ridiculous, but soon becomes unhip when he's the only one not wearing them. By the time he comes around they're out, since middle-aged folks have taken them up.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Creator/GeorgeClooney. He starts smoking pipes and wearing muttonchop sideburns, saying he's "bringing them back". Sure enough, later in the episode a bunch of other people are shown with pipes and muttonchops
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', the family's lack of funds force Milo to go to school on a rainy day wearing a bucket on his head and a trash bag as a raincoat. The hill kids make fun of him, until the Fonzie [[CaptainErsatz stand in]] says he likes his bucket. Milo shows up at school the next day to find all of the hill kids wearing buckets and accusing ''him'' of copying ''them''. The rest of the plot focuses on his mother helping him stay one step ahead of them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Green Isn't Your Color", Fluttershy's quiet grace (Coupled with Photo Finish and a desire to help ponies) forces her into becoming a walking example, complete with new dresses. She doesn't take to it very well.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode ''Run Away Runway'', Phineas and Ferb become designers, with their Summer All The Time collection. The collection consists of the clothes that Phineas and Ferb wear in almost every episode - so Phineas and Ferb are the newest fashion. Later on, when Doofenshmirtz creates his clone army, as they enter the Googolplex Mall, everyone thinks that the outfit he's wearing has become the newest fashion - so Doofenshmirtz becomes the newest fashion.

* ''{{Doug}}'': Doug Funnie finds that his trademark sweater has become the new trend after a popular TV character starts wearing it. Worse still, no one noticed ''beforehand'' that he sported what's being called the "Dylan Farnum Look" before the guy made it popular, so everyone thinks Doug is simply copying the trend; he spends most of the episode either trying to convince everybody it was his look to begin with or bucking trends in general (which fails in ridiculous fashion [[FinaglesLaw as the absurd mix-and-match costume he tries on turns out to be the "Schizo Look"]]).\\

* In ''Batman: ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'', there's a gang that follows a series of trends, starting with their "mutant" leader and ending with... Batman himself, after he defeats the mutant. They're young, bored, quick and dangerous, and although Batman is disgusted by the crimes they commit in his name, he manages to turn them into his own personal army.

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', the Saints have inexplicably become media darlings, complete with clothing boutiques, an energy drink, and a move deal.

* The end of ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' features the citizens of New York (and the world in general) showing their admiration of the titular group by doing things like getting their beards cut in the style of [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and images of [[CaptainAmerica The Mighty Shield]] appearing on t-shirts and graffiti.

* Early in the Thrusday Next novel ''Lost in a Good Book'', Thursday and Landen go to her Uncle Mycroft's retirement party. Thursday sees her cousin's wife uncharacteristically dressed in chinos and a shirt, ''sans'' makeup and with her hair in a ponytail secured with a black scrunchie. Landen asks about the expensive dresses she used to wear, and Gloria tells the couple that ''[=FeMole=]'' magazine is promoting the Thursday Next look. Thursday finds this ridiculous, and the women have this exchange:

-->'''Gloria:''' Fashions evolve Thursday--I've heard next month's fashions will be marine invertebrates. You should enjoy it while it lasts.