I would suggest making an official “I am a professional Substacker and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker” bumper sticker, but I don’t know whom to contact
So, if I understand things correctly - the only roadblock from a vibrant stolen iPhone market is if you never delete the phone from the "Find My" app... Can't Apple put it on a perma-ban list? Or would that hurt company profits?
p.s. loved all three pieces.
p.p.s. (and I promise I'll stop now) - you forgot the whole "fish with feet" genre for poking fun at the scientifically challenged religious crowd.
If bumper stickers are back, did they ever go away? I have a bumper sticker on my Outback that I do indeed park at a farmer's market in the Berkshires. (The tide of history is cruel.) It may be the only way to distinguish my vehicle from its many, many identical siblings.
on the uber-ironic bumper sticker trend, best i can tell it stemmed out of the recent popularity of bootleg t-shirt business run by Millenials & Zoomers off of Instagram.
I date this recent reemergence back to the shirt designs Nate Sakrulich did back in 2016ish (he was the first person i noticed, and one of the more notable folks doing designs for t-shirt shops) mashing up band design styles (famously, classic punk album iconography w/ steely dan merch). The Steely Dan "Goo" design is now everywhere...
Through him, i actually ended up discovering an entire underworld of small run bootleg shirt / hat (and eventually the bumper stickers) all aping a similar trend (many focusing on oddly dated / formerly uncool artists like Steely Dan, The Dead, and Billy Joel) and it's been weird to see it keep gaining steam...especially given the copyright implications (which only rarely end up shutting these folks down).
Personally, I only started thinking about bumper stickers again when I heard this King George banger on the radio a few years back... I love inescapable logic and I love country
Either from the "stolen iphone" message on the lock screen or from trying to reset the phone and getting asked for the password to my apple ID (which is also my imessage email address)
interesting... i get the impression car culture in America and Canada is quite similar? I don't recall ever seeing a bumper sticker here in the UK, or while driving through Europe
Thank you, Veronica. That was great.
Our old classmate is making bumper stickers for your phone, so those without an automobile can get in on the fun too. https://bumperstickers.blog
lol thanks I was wondering where all those orders were coming from!
The Hilary Clinton hentai sticker is really something
I would suggest making an official “I am a professional Substacker and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker” bumper sticker, but I don’t know whom to contact
So, if I understand things correctly - the only roadblock from a vibrant stolen iPhone market is if you never delete the phone from the "Find My" app... Can't Apple put it on a perma-ban list? Or would that hurt company profits?
p.s. loved all three pieces.
p.p.s. (and I promise I'll stop now) - you forgot the whole "fish with feet" genre for poking fun at the scientifically challenged religious crowd.
hey, honda fit brothers
If bumper stickers are back, did they ever go away? I have a bumper sticker on my Outback that I do indeed park at a farmer's market in the Berkshires. (The tide of history is cruel.) It may be the only way to distinguish my vehicle from its many, many identical siblings.
only one ??
on the uber-ironic bumper sticker trend, best i can tell it stemmed out of the recent popularity of bootleg t-shirt business run by Millenials & Zoomers off of Instagram.
I date this recent reemergence back to the shirt designs Nate Sakrulich did back in 2016ish (he was the first person i noticed, and one of the more notable folks doing designs for t-shirt shops) mashing up band design styles (famously, classic punk album iconography w/ steely dan merch). The Steely Dan "Goo" design is now everywhere...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFeu40sGpvl/?igsh=MTMwbzB3Z20xcGhqeg==
Through him, i actually ended up discovering an entire underworld of small run bootleg shirt / hat (and eventually the bumper stickers) all aping a similar trend (many focusing on oddly dated / formerly uncool artists like Steely Dan, The Dead, and Billy Joel) and it's been weird to see it keep gaining steam...especially given the copyright implications (which only rarely end up shutting these folks down).
Thank you for this detailed research!!
Personally, I only started thinking about bumper stickers again when I heard this King George banger on the radio a few years back... I love inescapable logic and I love country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmaQvpBmfg
Question: how did the thieves get Veronica's contact info? From the SIM?
Either from the "stolen iphone" message on the lock screen or from trying to reset the phone and getting asked for the password to my apple ID (which is also my imessage email address)
ah that makes total sense!
Meh, I dislike stories where every character is the villain.
My favorite bumper sticker I've seen locally is one that says "Hot girls hit curbs" and I need that one tbh
have bumper stickers gained significant popularity in any country outside the US?
They are a thing in Canada!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wit/p/the-wits-guide-to-bumper-stickers?r=457f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
interesting... i get the impression car culture in America and Canada is quite similar? I don't recall ever seeing a bumper sticker here in the UK, or while driving through Europe
True, but we cling tightly to the narcissism of small differences!