• dumbass
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    7 months ago

    Parents stopped buying them, so kids had to find other ways to mess with the world.

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      7 months ago

      Oh man, you reminded me of LED magnetic throwies, just little homemade LEDs with a watch battery and a magnet. Throw em wherever they’ll stick, they’re like $.50 to make. Seems like the 00s version, if a little less ubiquitous

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        7 months ago

        We just wanted to bring a little light into this dark world with pretty glowing stickers, if anyone killed it, it was these damn boomers and their rock and roll music.

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      7 months ago

      Hey, my kids both have them. I put them up as the night sky when they were born, so all the constellations are more or less in the right place.