When a popular trend starts to sacrifice creativity & merit for potential profit, often involving hybridization with other unrelated but popular trends, frequent use of deceptive tactics, & inclusion of sometimes vulgar content to lure in mature audiences.

This will often occur when the original creators & propagators of a trend stop producing content related to it, and imitators start adding new aspects to increase popularity, outpacing creators actually devoted to quality product in terms of sheer quantity.
"Man, I remember when Monster School used to be good. Too bad Trend Decay's gotten to it."
by CoolDude272 June 15, 2021
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