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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

What's scary is that some people are conflating what they see on stranger things with the real 80s. People over here definitely didn't have the means to buy all that

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    What we see on Stranger Things is just advertisements for IP from the 1980s. Everything from Ghostbusters to Neverending Story to D&D is just a brand name. Hell, the centerpiece of Season 4 was a mega-mall.

    It's history through the eyes of Madison Avenue. Great if your goal is to recycle period kitche at obscene mark-ups. Which... in fairness... was the design philosophy of much of 1980s mass media.

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