Trickle-Down Culture

During the summer of 2010, I experienced the inexplicable rampage of Silly Bandz in real time. At a ten-day camp in Washington, D.C. filled mostly with teenagers from the East Coast, everyone seemed to be wearing the same rubber bracelets. They were neon and flimsy and only revealed their true shape when taken off, sometimes a letter, sometimes an animal, always useless.

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