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16 year old pop sensation Sasha takes the world by storm and everyone copies her trademark blue hair with blue stars around her eyes. She then gets in a car accident and is horribly disfigured. She worries this will ruin her career. To her manager's relief millions of kids begin imitating her wounds by mutilating themselves. Her manager encourages her to mutilate herself more and pretty soon it becomes the biggest youth craze the world has ever seen. They make millions of DIY self-mutilation kits. Then all of a sudden she falls out of favour due to a lip syncing incident at a concert and no one likes her anymore but a whole generation is left disfigured. It ends with a young boy en route to see the next big thing in concert, writing "she was never any good anyway" to his friend on a napkin because he cut his own tongue off to imitate Sasha and can't talk anymore.