• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
    15·
    2 hours ago

    I got a face mask with this design on it at the start of covid. One day I was talking out of a shop and a guy wearing a jacket with the same design walked past me. We both did the “Spider-Man pointing” meme

  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    I didn’t know the cups, but that design has been all over the 90s and especially the colors. Everything was in those colors. Including fake silk track suits.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 hours ago

      Back in the late 80s and early 90s we had these things called malls, and they all played music without lyrics, because a mall is a noisy place and any lyrics get lost.

      Also I think there were performance fees for playing copyright music. The laws are obtuse.

      Anyway, most of the malls settled on this mass produced milquetoast “smooth jazz”. And then piped that into all of their stores.

      This story has nothing to do with the creation of that pattern, which was made for a Sweetheart Cup Company internal design contest. The designer needed a name that wasn’t just Gina’s submission, and so a random word was picked.

      The fact that most malls had started using those same sort of pastel colors might have had some subconscious impact, but that’s just my thoughts on it.

      • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        That’s better than my lazy assumption that it had to do with an old trope started in the 1950’s that resurged during the early personal computer age in the form of lightning bolts, stars, smoke, animations shooting out of an instrument to show the intensity of the musician or just a banging song.