this intriguing post i read over @ head-fi made me go
when i read it and it is related to anime and headphones. what the posts were saying is anytime they see someone IRL wearing a pair of white akg 701 headphones, they automatically assume they only get it because of anime. it even gets worse - if the person is asian, it is because they watched k-on or whatever that other anime show is. something about some girl who used to live in a city, and then moved to some small population town (showed the headphones in OP2).
i want to hear if you have anything to say about this. but no one can deny the white akg 701's became more extremely popular once people saw it in k-on.