How do you think a trend gets to be so popular among youths? Is there a cycle that every trend goes through? John Backderf, also known as Derf, introduces a comic strip by the title of “The City.” In the comic strip, Derf describes a trend and the cycle it takes for the fad to become so popular among a certain group of people and finally come to an end. It explains the stages a ridiculous fad goes through, from where and who may have started it, how it becomes so popular that everyone is doing, and the reasons why it eventually dies out. I agree with Derf’s theory because a current fad that is among the youth today is pants sagging. The pants sagging trend follows a similar cycle that is described in the comic strip. In Panel one, Derf explains the origin of a trend. Derf says that a group of art students are seen “walking about with large, hardening boogers dangling from their nostrils.” Art students …show more content…
Certain groups of people have a bigger influence on kids than others. There is always that group of cool kids in school that everyone notices. If they start doing something, most likely many will follow because that’s who they want to be. Celebrities and music artists benefit from this too. They get more popular and get more fans if they connect with the youth. The media will use current trends and try to benefit from them. Television programs will get a bigger audience if they feature celebrities displaying the current fad. Once the trend starts to get banned or seen as breaking the rules, teenagers will only want to do it more. They are at the age when they do not want rules and want to do everything their own way. A trend will only last for so long. One day a new trend will show up and replace it. After time, the trend will be looked back on as something silly or stupid, like mullets or spiky hair with