The Red Stapler/Playing With

Basic Trope: A fictional character's tastes drive real-life demand for a product.
 * Straight: Alice, a character on Generic Trendwhores, wears a specific T-shirt week in and week out. This causes demand for the T-shirt to skyrocket at stores that carry it.
 * Exaggerated: Every item Alice wears, drinks, or uses is met with a giant bump in demand.
 * Justified: Alice is the most popular character and is seen as a fashion maven.
 * Inverted: Bob, The Scrappy, wears a specific T-shirt, which causes a huge jump...in returns to the various stores.
 * Subverted: The item they specifically created to utilize this jump in demand is met with lukewarm response...
 * Double Subverted: ...at first. It eventually catches on.
 * Parodied: Alice spends five minutes naming not only the clothing store where she got her T-shirt, but every clothing store that might carry it.
 * Deconstructed: The demand lasts for all of a few weeks. People soon get sick of seeing the same shirt everywhere and voice their displeasure in their viewing options.
 * Reconstructed: The producers are Genre Savvy and make sure there's another fad for the viewers to latch on to.
 * Zig Zagged: The item takes a while to catch on. Even then, sales aren't what they hoped.  Then it really catches fire.
 * Averted: The demand was separate and apart from the TV show.
 * Enforced: "Our sponsors need to sell more T-shirts! Stick one of 'em on Alice, she's popular!"
 * Lampshaded: "Such a nice T-shirt! Where did you get it?"  "Well, I'll tell you...right after this commercial break!"
 * Invoked: The producers give Alice a distinct T-shirt to wear, hoping for this effect.
 * Defied: The shirt doesn't become popular for whatever reason.
 * Discussed: "Haven't I seen that shirt somewhere before?"
 * Conversed: "Ugh, I remember how cool I thought that shirt was! What was I thinking?"

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