Contemporary

Trends
Contemporary Trends can be defined by
combining the definitions of the individual words
that comprise them:

Contemporary - anything existing within the time

period

Trend - general movement/current preferrence

As such contemporary trends within the same time
period. As an example, social media sites such as Tiktok,
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are all
trends that became famous in the early 21st Century and
are contemporaries towards each other while Friendster,
MySpace, Vine, Imeem, Multiply are all contemporaries
towards each other despite their fame in 21st Century.
That is because the Friendster-period social media sites
where different than the onesfrom the Facebook-period
Flops (or Bombs)
popular culture icons that don’t meet the standards
for them to be succesful
Example: Megamind 2 (Dreamworks), Cats(Tom Hooper),
Junji Ito’s horror collection (Junji Ito)
Fads
popular culture icons that gained a significant
following, although they couldn’t last long and can be
replaced by a next “big thing”

Example: Justice League(Zack Snyder), Flappy

Bird(Dong Nguyen), and Tamagotchi
Sleeper Hits
started out as weak but gained popularity over time.
This is usually applicable to movies. Some
subcultures have developed a cult following like
Star Wars(George Lucas), even a love team in our
country like KathNiel(Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel
Padilla) also gained following.
There are also subcultures that are so well-liked by everybody that leave
a lasting impression on them. They are considered as blockbuster (or
widely acclaimed). Some of them are Titanic (Harland and Wolff) and My
Hero Academia (Kohei Horikoshi).
Parodies, Samplings and Remixes
are popular icons culture icons that are made by people and
that are consumed by people. Each of them aims to provide
entertainment. but how they achieved this is done
differently
When something becomes a part of a popular culture, expect that
people will create something out of it either of appreciation, mockery,
or some other reason, parodies are made. Example of this is the
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Others use some elements of pop culture and reuse them to create
new things from it without the intention of satirizing or imitating it.
This is called sampling. Example of sampling are Gotye’s “Somebody
That I Used to Know” and Britney Spear’s “Toxic”.
There’s also some people who completely rip apart one music piece
and repurpose it into another song, combining two or more songs into
one cohesive piece that is all together a new thing for others to
consume. This is called a remix