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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

imagine one day buying some shitpost novelty stickers from that one site you heard a friend mention sometime, and then getting them and laughing about it and forgetting it

all too rapidly the years pass: young trees shoot up, older trees start boughing their way past electrical lines, the oldest all already in their position of maximum comfort. whole generations of memes have been born and died. you no longer even get to make fun of your weird aunt for still sending the dancing baby gif (these days it’s all about the autotune clips of a decade ago..)

and then one day you get reminded that the shitpost novelty sticker web store exists by receiving an email from them

what the fuck.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In his twitter thread he's attempting to troll people in the replies. And not even doing a particularly good job at it. A bold business strategy.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apparently they also once chained a design into 'liberal moron' from what was some political message once in the past, so it isn't coming from nowhere. Guess it wasn't an innocent mistake.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

yeah stickermule is where I got the bitcoin "it can't be that stupid" stickers

how annoying