All the capitalist advertising in Times Square is even hollower than usual this year. Hardly anyone out to celebrate (as it should be in a dense ass city like NYC) and you have to watch a fucking KIA ad just to see the ball drop. It's hauntingly quiet, really a shadow of it's former self. Half way through the lyrics of an old song pop through and it starts with "start spreading......the news" like wow holy shit lmao. More like spreading the plague. The fireworks are so tiny compared to the billboards. They tried to fill some of the standing area with wacky waving inflatable tube folks but it's pathetic. They put people in socially distanced pig pens too, because I guess tape on the floor wasn't enough.
:floppy-parrot: Anyways, here's just one NYE celebration from China. :floppy-parrot:
There were more inflatable dancing tubemen then there were people in their little cheer kennels waving their planet fitness floatie things.
Times square empty in a way i havent seen since the last time I was there after midnight.
It’s surreal how the capitalist machine has to continue going, even when it runs low on the bodies it feeds off of