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How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable

Aggretsuko (who is pretty funny, as it happens) represents part of a new wave for the people behind Hello Kitty, with characters that are “more in sync with the ambivalent humor of memes or the antihero characters of prestige television”. Like an egg yolk with ennui. #link

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You were reading NYT: How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable, a link posted with comment by MacDara Conroy. It’s filed under Aux and was published in October 2017. If you liked what you read here, you can follow this site via its web feed, and find many more entries in the archive. You can also buy me a Ko-fi.