“Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” the googly-eyed, furry blue muppet declared on X on Monday, tapping into an economic trend of the day. “Guess me going to have to eat double da cookies!”

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    8 months ago

    The Count is going to start teaching kids about corporate profits. “One billion extra dollars untaxed! Ha ha hah! 2 billion…”

    Oscar the Grouch is going to be a working homeless who is forced to move his can every week by police.

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    Between this and Elmo asking if everyone is OK, it makes me happy to see these characters in the current zeitgeist!

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    Cookie Monster is onto something: OREO Double Stuf Chocolate Sandwich Cookies shrank by 6% in size by weight from January 2019 to October 2023, according to a report based on Labor Department numbers.

    Double Stuffed Oreos are the new regular Oreos and regular Oreos are now ‘go fuck yourself’ sized.

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        And you’d think, with the democratization of fame, everyone would be famous, now. I mean, used to be if you wanted fame, you had to pack up and move from bumfuck nowhere and go to Hollywood, work as a waiter/waitress/whatever, and attend casting calls in your free time. Now, with the Internet and cameras that fit in our pockets we don’t even need to leave our houses.

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          Except that isn’t how fame works. Fame is actually a transactional process. The famous person does something in exchange for attention but they do not get attention unless they offer something the average person can’t- they’re prettier or funnier or a better actor or whatever. If you can’t offer that, it doesn’t matter if everyone has their own TV show. It only matters if your TV show is the one people want to watch.

          Unfortunately, in general, their actual morals and ethics are not taken under consideration by a large number of those who give them the attention they want.

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    Makes sense. Biden was prattling on about shrinkflation a few weeks ago when he was trying to pretend he was looking out for the common person suffering from capitalism eating all their economic growth for decades.

    It’s such an easy target to look like you care, without doing shit. Oh this cookie is 13% smaller? I’ll get right on that, ignore the 1300% corporate profit increase, the stagnant wage growth for 63 years, the CEO wages growing 9300% compared to workers, etc, etc.