Quote:

"seems like there's a growing trend .."

I hope that was intentional 'cause it was funny


it wasn't intentional, it was just stupid. (My trademark) <--also redundant

much like saying: "corrupt politician"
(that's redundant... you already SAID he was a politician...)

or "bad cat"

more:
http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/redundancies.htm

but in this case there is some validity to combining the two words.
a TREND indicates movement in a specific direction, but does not imply the speed of movement
a GROWING TREND is picking up speed as it goes (and that's the point I hoped to make)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0