The Hat Man. I saw the tumblr meme a few years ago (already a few years after it was made).
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The Hat Man. I saw the tumblr meme a few years ago (already a few years after it was made). It's funny. Telling Mary about it, I did a quick online search.
Our #culture apparently can't leave anything alone. Maybe, with the death of the monoculture, we're all desperate for some shared references. Maybe some Very Online People have made little micro-cultural groups that spread through larger cultures like mycelia.
There is now a little subgenre of Hat Man merch (t-shirts, etc.) and at least one low-budget horror movie titled The Hat Man, so #capitalism had to get its hand in, too.
This makes me simultaneously more and less interested in The Hat Man as a phenomenon.
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The Hat Man. I saw the tumblr meme a few years ago (already a few years after it was made). It's funny. Telling Mary about it, I did a quick online search.
Our #culture apparently can't leave anything alone. Maybe, with the death of the monoculture, we're all desperate for some shared references. Maybe some Very Online People have made little micro-cultural groups that spread through larger cultures like mycelia.
There is now a little subgenre of Hat Man merch (t-shirts, etc.) and at least one low-budget horror movie titled The Hat Man, so #capitalism had to get its hand in, too.
This makes me simultaneously more and less interested in The Hat Man as a phenomenon.
Mary's take. I hadn't thought of it like that, but from that angle this is pretty interesting.
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Mary's take. I hadn't thought of it like that, but from that angle this is pretty interesting.
Folklore has always been weird.
And Capitalist exploitation is not new, either. I mean, _someone_ made a bunch of money with the Magical Treasure Hunt craze of Early Modern Europe, and it probably wasn't the actual treasure hunters.
