Not what you're searching for but this one is weird as hell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS45_L8fLLc

humans exhibit this behavior in the corporate setting while following the agile processes but losing the scent of value

90's anti-drug PSA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGAVTwhsyOs

Involution is one word sometimes used for this kind of thing, e.g.:

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006391/how-one-obscure-word-...

'Self licking ice cream cone' as I first heard it described is similar, although the currently available definitions have unfortunately oversimplified it.

It seems analogous to the "cargo cult" phenomenon that is often mentioned here...