Funko Pops, to me.

I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn’t work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there’s so much representation and variety that it’s good to have a few.

If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.

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      U2 was very obnoxious and pretentious in the 2000s. We’re talking, they thought they were as popular as Jesus without saying the quote the Beatles did way back when.

      Glad they aren’t really much of a thing these days.

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      I feel like, but then, U2 was on their way out as a band. They weren’t bad, but they were ubiquitous for so long that people were getting sick of them.

      I know the band still tours and makes music still, but I feel like that giveaway was the watershed in breaking their popularity.

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      The same one that was installed on people’s devices without their knowledge or consent? I think you’re avoiding the real issue there.

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        It was added to the libraries in iTunes. Not forcefully downloaded.

        Bono didn’t go through everyone’s iPhones

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          In an era when libraries synced automatically and space was valuable.

          Bono did get Apple to do something invasive and shitty.