“What’s Crack-a-lackin’ , Homie?!”

First: A Gavinners: Guilty as Charged tour t shirt for $36, designed by Nina Matsumoto!

The shirt features both Klavier and Daryan, and comes with a Lamiroir & Klavier sticker! I can't remember any Lamiroir/Thalassa official merch aside from the cute orchestra pins released for the AJ trilogy. Daryan also hasn't been featured on any official merch, as far as I can remember.

Next we have a Phoenix and Kristoph pin set for $15, also by Nina Matsumoto!

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRUCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!! I mean congrats Kristoph! You don't get much official merch either.

And finally, we have the Courtroom Standee set for $29, designed by Melora Mylin!

The standee comes with the defense and prosecution benches, as well as the witness stand, Polly the parrot, and 7 characters (Maya, Franziska, Phoenix, Edgeworth, Larry, Gumshoe, and Godot)! The background of course is the rest of the courtroom, with the gallery and the judge watching over everything. I do wish we had Mia or Pearl (or even Ema) over Larry, but this is still super cute and I'm excited for it!

Backlash against 2010's hustle culture? Backlash against 2000's "girls can do anything" messaging? I don't know. But why are the AI advertisements all about how you forgot your wife's birthday or your boss's deadline and the AI saves you? Why is the ideal young-20s woman a frail little girl who lives on her boyfriend's income and makes him lattes while she does nothing all day? Even the sports-betting craze feels like it reskinned the "savvy young day-trader who's skilled at reading the market" to "blind and dumb luck might make you a millionaire so you should try."

And it feels like there's something here because like--yeah AI is being advertised as a functionality of convenience, but so have things like food delivery apps. And I swear my best recollection of food delivery app advertisements used to be like, "busy mom comes home from work and finds the kids messed up dinner--oh well, at least there's doordash!" Like the key target is not someone lazy or useless, they're just busy as hell and won't this convenience service we offer help them a bit?

The instagram girlies were running businesses in the 2010's--most of them scammy bullshit I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole--but the aesthetic of being busy, hustling, operating with drive and passion, was in. The men were founding start-up companies and calling themselves entrepreneurs--again, scammy, 10 foot pole, etc. But the aesthetic of doing something and being capable was in vogue.

fuck twitter

fuck reddit

fuck tumblr

and fuck you