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sharknado slashfic posted:Sometimes I remember that this man spoke to me and I get one of those crack ping things I talked to him on the phone. It was unsettling.
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Frank Frank posted:I talked to him on the phone. It was unsettling. Just think you dodged a bullet that you didn’t have to talk to him about the Angel Gabby.
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Oct 27, 2023 00:30
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I shook his hand and got a selfie. I introduced myself as 'a big fan'. He was unfazed. Of course someone would be a big fan of nathen mazri.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Sometimes I remember that this man spoke to me and I get one of those crack ping things blocked Frank Frank posted:I talked to him on the phone. It was unsettling. blocked Killingyouguy! posted:I shook his hand and got a selfie. I introduced myself as 'a big fan'. He was unfazed. Of course someone would be a big fan of nathen mazri. you’re all blocked. none of you are free from sin
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Oct 27, 2023 02:05
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In my defense, I did not want to talk to him on the phone or have any reason to believe he’d call me directly regarding my frozen lasagna refund.
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Oct 27, 2023 02:25
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The Lasagna Trap
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Oct 27, 2023 02:35
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lol all of you wanted to talk to nathen or you wouldn't have
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MrQwerty posted:lol all of you wanted to talk to nathen or you wouldn't have It's called "entergagement". Learn the lore.
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Frank Frank posted:In my defense, I did not want to talk to him on the phone or have any reason to believe he’d call me directly regarding my frozen lasagna refund. I forgot about that lol. What happened again? It was only available in Canada or something?
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Oct 27, 2023 04:11
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sharknado slashfic posted:All the value is in the autograph tbh Yeah, and the fact that he put it on the back so you don't have to see it. Anywhere else would de-value it.
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Oct 27, 2023 05:39
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Last Chance posted:I forgot about that lol. What happened again? It was only available in Canada or something? I ordered an overpriced mail order lasagna so I could review it for the thread. Apparently, they could not ship to the US so they needed to refund me. I got an email from someone who worked for Nathen who said they’d let me know when my refund processed. A day or so later, Nathen called my cell phone to tell me the refund processed and thanked me for my interest in his lasagna. This was 2-3 years ago iirc.
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Oct 27, 2023 13:00
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Every time I think of how long ago this started it kind of freaks me out tbh.
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Oct 27, 2023 13:11
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it was so long ago that nathen was actually the world's youngest garfield licensee at the time
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Mozi posted:it was so long ago that nathen was actually the world's youngest garfield licensee at the time The weirdest thing about his pride in being the youngest Garfield licensee is that it never occurs to him that young people don’t really give a poo poo about Garfield. It’d be like someone who made ragtime music now boasting about being the number one ragtime performer in 2023: of course you are, you’re operating in a functionally extinct discourse. His nostalgic bent lately fits neatly into his narcissism: he’s still seething about GarfieldEats’ failure and can’t work through his own part in its failure, so his isolation and hatred keep getting projected into bigger, weirder things. Tl;dr - garfeidl
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Killingyouguy! posted:I shook his hand and got a selfie. I introduced myself as 'a big fan'. He was unfazed. Of course someone would be a big fan of nathen mazri. Even doobie would have caught on that you were bullshitting
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mediaphage posted:blocked Fair tbh He called me out on his discord I wasn't even interacting with anyone!
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Frank Frank posted:I talked to him on the phone. It was unsettling. The predator arms meme except it's the state of Maryland and Nathen Mazri
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Hasturtium posted:It’d be like someone who made ragtime music now boasting about being the number one ragtime performer in 2023 I'd be interested in seeing this.
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Oct 27, 2023 18:17
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There's a big opportunity here to be the world's youngest Garfield-themed ragtime performer.
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Busters posted:I'd be interested in seeing this. https://youtu.be/L0s6UDqHM5Q?si=izCHd17LIOGpE9m5
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Hasturtium posted:The weirdest thing about his pride in being the youngest Garfield licensee is that it never occurs to him that young people don’t really give a poo poo about Garfield. It’d be like someone who made ragtime music now boasting about being the number one ragtime performer in 2023: of course you are, you’re operating in a functionally extinct discourse. His nostalgic bent lately fits neatly into his narcissism: he’s still seething about GarfieldEats’ failure and can’t work through his own part in its failure, so his isolation and hatred keep getting projected into bigger, weirder things. You might be surprised just how popular Garfield remains to this day, even amongst Gen Z and younger. It's a remarkably resilient intellectual property
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Captain Yossarian posted:You might be surprised just how popular Garfield remains to this day, even amongst Gen Z and younger. It's a remarkably resilient intellectual property You’re right. I thought about the whole /r/imsorryjon phenomenon after posting, and the whole Garfield without Garfield thing, but I still wouldn’t call Garfield a thriving property based on its own inherent artistic worth. I don’t take back any of the stuff about ragtime though, and now I want some goons to make a Garfield ragtime song for the next Something Awful Christmas album.
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It certainly occupies cultural space, Garfield without Garfield is a great example, but like the only people I think of as buying Garfield stuff are boomers and older who inexplicably wear loony toons, Garfield, etc stuff
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Didn't the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie some how become a success? Like I would of thought that was an even deader IP as like it's started as pretty much just a joke gimmick about don't pitched up voices sound funny, and that was back in 1958. It can be really hard to tell what's still gonna resonate and what's not. And just what young people these days know about. I remember just through like Animaniacs, and Simpsons references, as well as old Looney tune re-runs being sort of aware stuff like The Godfather, Casablanca, Citizen kane, and other classic stuff existed, well before I was at an age I'd actually watch them. With how weirdly referential modern media is it can be hard to tell what kids do and don't know about. I remember a few weeks ago my six year old niece was telling me about this spooky scary monster called slender man all the school kids were talking about...
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Oct 28, 2023 16:20
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Wasn't there a recent Zoomer fad of watching the original Columbo show or something?
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people are definitely watching columbo again but i don't know if they even stopped there's nothing else that scratches that same itch poker face was kind of close but it ended up going a different direction a lot of the 'free' tv options that are bundled with things like plex have a 24/7 columbo channel
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Figuring out why a thing is suddenly all over the place can be almost impossible because the impulse that gave rise to the current wave of relevance can be really obscure and ephemeral (remember when Seinfeld thought people wanted Bee Movie spinoffs because of the memes? Lol). However in the case of Garfield, it never went away in the general population as an ubiquitous marketing vehicle, but it occasionally makes an additional splash for ironic and post ironic reasons. I don't think any Zoomers actually care about Garfield, the official IP, but they may sometimes appreciate a Garfield meme because Garfield has become a symbol of old and uncool things that were always poo poo, like Alf, to a lesser extent, and has been thoroughly assimilated into the world of internet surrealism and shitposter culture. So it's only natural that Nathen is the exact opposite and wants to be a crusader for Garfield purism and protecting the brand integrity and decorum of GarfieldTM.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Wasn't there a recent Zoomer fad of watching the original Columbo show or something? There’s a spiritual reboot starring Natasha Lyonne called Poker Face that wasn’t terrible. Same formula though
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steinrokkan posted:(remember when Seinfeld thought people wanted Bee Movie spinoffs because of the memes? Lol). Remember when Sony re-released Morbius because of the memes? Laffo
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root beer posted:Remember when Sony re-released Morbius because of the memes? Laffo IT'S MORBIN' TIME
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Hell yeah ponderin’ my morb
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MorbEats (blood) (I think. I've never watched it or read the comic).
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Escape From Noise posted:MorbEats (blood) (I think. I've never watched it or read the comic). From what I understand he only MorbEats synthetic blood, and the plot of the film revolved around him being an rear end in a top hat to one of his friends who was dying of a diseases he could easily cure. Yay morbo!!!
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Captain Yossarian posted:You might be surprised just how popular Garfield remains to this day, even amongst Gen Z and younger. It's a remarkably resilient intellectual property GenZ and etc like drawing Garfield as a goth trans girl and I just think that's harder to market. I think that owns and is cool btw
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dr_rat posted:With how weirdly referential modern media is it can be hard to tell what kids do and don't know about. I remember a few weeks ago my six year old niece was telling me about this spooky scary monster called slender man all the school kids were talking about... Please make sure she doesn't go to the woods with her friends. We don't want a repeat of that other very nasty business.
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A zoomer was buying an ancient Garfield plush or something of the like at an antique place I was at.
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