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by hexasquid 19 days ago
Disney, here to save kids from screens.

Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

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Hot Topic's "You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same" shirt sold in every mall across America in the late 90s has always been my favorite.
> One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead...

Joyce Messier in Disco Elysium.

Che Guevaras Image used to be the most widely sold T-shirt print (or maybe still is?)
Why would I extend the creative energy to figure out how to look punk when I can get the shirt for just $49.99
Only $49.99?! I missed the sale!
> Disney

in this context, 'Disney' represents a plurality, and it's likely that there's people at Disney that want their kids off screens

Even those people still decided that the best course of action would be to make a movie about it. To be shown on screens.
which is reasonable (everyone watches screens) and if they want to communicate this to kids who watch too many screens, is there even a better way?
My take: When punk originated in the UK it was hostile and highly political. By the time it got to NYC it was still hostile but pretty much lost the political part. And by the time it got to L.A. it got sucked into the TV/media machine as a fashion show object of derision. R.I.P.
I remember when Pixar created a virtual skinner box.
which one?
Or how the Ramones sold more t-shirts than albums.
Between popularizing the perfecto jacket from Schott and “rock and roll high school” the ramones were 10/10