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

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    2 months 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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      2 months 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.)