Using Cookie Monster like this to (indirectly) sell a fucking food delivery app is probably the second or third most profane use of the character behind using him as a straight-up food mascot for Nabisco.
The photo reminds me of the cursed knowledge I learned here recently, that Sesame Street has a VC wing
I assume that's venture capitalist. What the fuck does Sesame Street need with a venture capitalist wing
Like all public goods, privatization had to come for Sesame Street eventually. The show and characters just made too much god damn money from book/toy/home video sales (which originally was meant just to fund PBS, the Children's Television Workshop, and charitable causes without corps like Doordash hogging the PR) not for capitalist exploiters to try to make a buck off their brand recognition.
Alright someone have a list of all the companies they have done this so I can send my on the verge of leftism friend?
I know the Bono’s RED charity, Bud, and DoorDash did it. I know there’s others but it gets hidden well
The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery.
It'd be so much easier to hate Daveed Diggs if clipping didn't slap so hard
