Dude has like 45k subs on YouTube. Fucking weird.

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    311 days ago

    We would wear t-shirts with stylised image of his face, an image that would become part of pop culture and newer gens wouldn’t even understand the full significance.

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      311 days ago

      He wasn’t some revolutionary, though… he’d just watched Taxi Driver about fifteen times and wanted to impress Jodie Foster (who, it must be noted, was twelve when shooting the film, and barely eighteen when Hinckley shot Reagan).

      I very much doubt he’d have become an idol, given that.

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        11 days ago

        Yes, I agree with it being relevant - but with time relevance changes or gets forgotten.
        (Tho that other revolutionary was just some professional curfuffler, it’s merely that icons sometimes become randomly monetised (due to lack of overwhelming ad campaigns/propaganda forcing a single imagine or meaning for their own agenda).)

        Maybe kids would wear those shirts and ask fellow cool-shirt-wearers if they even have a favourite “Jodie Foster” song (thinking that dude was Jodie).
        (My little scenario-for-the-sake-of-a-joke didn’t include the dude becoming a beloved idol as such, just a common image.)