Everything about this reads as malicious compliance from the toppling hazard to the graphic design of the banner echoing the famous "Misssion Accomplished"
Does anyone remember Hardee’s California raisins that were just little rubber raisins wish shoes with sharp metal holding it together?
Those were the best.
As a middle schooler, even I knew how dumb everything was. My protest was to wear a rainbow tie dye shirt on 9/11/2002, really thought I was doing something there
thankfully my parents and family are very sane people with great politics who didn't buy into any of that crap, but it was really weird seeing it around in The Culture