fad

thing or behavior that achieves intense short-lived popularity and then fades away
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fad

Summary

fad is a social phenomenon[1]. fad draws 351 Wikipedia views per month (social_phenomenon category, ranking #11 of 42).[2]

Key Facts

  • fad's instance of is recorded as social phenomenon[3].
  • fad's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85046868[4].
  • fad's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 121403159[5].
  • fad's IdRef ID is recorded as 029867282[6].
  • fad's subclass of is recorded as collective behavior[7].
  • fad's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00569891[8].
  • fad's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025szyl[9].
  • fad's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fads[10].
  • fad's facet of is recorded as fashion[11].
  • fad's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/fad[12].
  • fad's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/craze[13].
  • fad's has characteristic is recorded as popularity[14].
  • fad's BBC Things ID is recorded as 09f33ff1-d1d2-4157-a470-904ec693daca[15].
  • fad's different from is recorded as Q3007130[16].
  • fad's FAST ID is recorded as 919810[17].
  • fad's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00023619n[18].
  • fad's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as fads[19].
  • fad's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm003800[20].
  • fad's American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID is recorded as afset006484[21].
  • fad's Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID is recorded as sj2021052481[22].
  • fad's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/38b1ff9a-dd82-4a59-a9fb-27862b7d66fa[23].
  • fad's Teen Vogue tag ID is recorded as trends[24].

Why It Matters

fad draws 351 Wikipedia views per month (social_phenomenon category, ranking #11 of 42).[2] fad has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] fad is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . The Berg Companion to Fashion. Retrieved . bloomsburyfashioncentral.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). fad. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fad
MLA “fad.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/fad.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fad_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fad}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fad}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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