Pineapple, Orange, Guava, POG, Caps sold like a pet rock when I was a kid. But they never kept their value, it was all hype, no substance, akin to the Tulip craze in 1600's in the Netherlands when someone spent the cost of a house on a single Tulip Bulb, the high of the craze, along with the height Dutch economy, today a mix of tourism, Stroope waffles, Gouda, an sex tourism round out the majority of external economic inputs to the faded failing economy of the Netherlands, but as SEGA of Japan proves, once a company or government gets to a giant size, they can coast on fumes for many hundreds of years, usually through diversification into other sectors.
Branding, licensing, royalties, copyright, SEGA even like many other Japanese Conglomerates moved into Insurance, Property Management, Advertising, Cross Branding, Toy's, Merch, consider SONY of Japan with all its many hats, or Toyota Group, or how about VW in Wolfsburg Germany, which makes up about 97% of the economy in that area, or Norilsk Russia Platinum Group Metal mining, which it exports in a virtual cash printing input revenue miracle, somewhat like the Norwegian Nationalized Oil Industry exports crude while importing a virtually endless amount of money pumped into the Norway Social Security Fund, a novel well managed asset pool used as a reference example in academia.
Tickle-Me-Elmo, my grandmother took me as a young boy to Target, they were selling Tickle-Me-Elmo dolls, and people flocked to that section like they were giving away gold coins for free, and there was in front us only a few left, she reached & grabbed one when a young woman attempted to take it from her hand in real time, so my grandmother swung her purse & bashed the woman in the head to get her to let go, so we could buy the Tickle-Me-Elmo doll for a birthday pressure of one of my younger female cousins who was a little girl as the time.
Snake Oil Salesman
GLP-1 agonist medications
VIOXX by Merck eighty thousand victims
Phisshing texts with strange email address links
Online fraud, check fraud, title fraud, even investing scams
On and on you find so many examples of consumer fad's driving by viral marketing
The internet, including social media and YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, WeChat, the website formerly known as Twitter, the number of viral marketing ads keep increasing, in part why I pay for YouTube Premium, I do not want to ever hear another Dr. Steven Gundry health hack video ad, ever, never again. Gundry has more hot air than a volcano, as a blow hard salesman he rivals a hurricane or tornado, almost Trope level garbage, promising a 10 second health hack, then droning on for half an hour talking about his pedigree, education, world travels, wealthy, prestige, he abuses peoples trust and wastes peoples time, he is time vampire thief, liar, & totally fraudulent low brow idiot with very little common sense, & apparently no human decency, worse than a crooked used car salesman or politician, who must worship mammon the demon of money, because that is all he really cares about if you follow his sales & personal wealth, trends that go hand and hand, as the sales of his supplements increase, so does his personal wealth, which I view as ill-gotten gain. He is using his cleverness at the expense of others who he tricks with empty promises into buying over hyped supplements directly from his viral ad company and its website linked in his video ads.
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