The past year I've seen a lot of popular games being released off of trending YouTube videos. Has anyone have any success with this? Here are a few examples: https://storify.com/dabontv/pop-culture-games
As I monitor the app store, most definitely everytime there is ANYTHING that goes on trending, some dev are going to make an app/game about it. Now, it's the fidget spinner. Just search fidget and there are many games about it. It becomes ridiculous really. Some just a clone of flappy bird or other famous game with the spinner as the character. like wtf. lol
Or rather than looking for a bandwagon to jump on, you could aspire to be the thing that other people are ripping off.