[HN Gopher] The collapse of companies like SVB is triggering dem...
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The collapse of companies like SVB is triggering demand for
corporate merch
Author : leotravis10
Score : 39 points
Date : 2023-03-21 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| flappyeagle wrote:
| For anyone who is confused or making up theories, cursed
| corporate swag is a bit of a fashion trend
| https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/the-dark-allure-of-black...
| colesantiago wrote:
| I don't think there is a market for merchandise of bankrupt
| crypto companies collapsing. They will be as worthless as the
| fake crypto tokens they created.
|
| I would expect though to see more bankrupt crypto companies and
| this is the only way they will have to sell off their assets.
| rx_tx wrote:
| Well the article does mention FTX hats and bobbleheads, so the
| highest profile crypto companies at least do have some
| "valuable" swag.
| colesantiago wrote:
| > FTX hats and bobbleheads
|
| hardly a collectors item, probably needs to be thrown away,
| recycled or burned in shame.
| samtho wrote:
| People have a morbid fascination and collect infamous
| mementos all the time.
| [deleted]
| JauntTrooper wrote:
| I have an Enron-branded calculator.
|
| It's one of those cheap ones companies used to give away at
| convention booths.
|
| I've always toyed with the idea of re-programming it so that the
| math comes out all wrong. 2+2=7.
| dpflan wrote:
| Ha, yes, modding it would make it a more accurate
| 'fraud'-ulator.
| TylerE wrote:
| If you want to be really evil make it mostly work right, and
| only invoke the bogus logic of the 5th bit of the first
| argument is set or something, so it fires maybe 1/10 Or 1/20
| Krisjohn wrote:
| Some of this is going into the background of interview videos to
| back up the claims people make of having worked at places that no
| longer exist and can't be verified.
| synaesthesisx wrote:
| This is what's currently happening with Twitter (since they
| laid off the entirety of HR).
| gnatman wrote:
| Pretty funny if this is common practice!
| paxys wrote:
| Unofficial corporate swag is an entire industry in itself on
| Etsy. I don't understand it, but then when it comes to fashion
| who ever does?
| kirykl wrote:
| Can you keep the merch and sell an NFT for it?
| _trampeltier wrote:
| That's all nothing compared to the SKA/CS cap. They had been
| already cult before CS colapsed. In the 80s, they had been
| everywhere. Almost every person in Switzerland had one.
|
| https://bellevue.nzz.ch/mode-beauty/stilkritik-cs-krise-eine...
| te_chris wrote:
| Ngl, was in SF at the weekend and got a pic outside a branch
| downtown.
| RyJones wrote:
| I regret not holding on to my Sun Microsystems merch with both
| hands.
| zeruch wrote:
| I still have some of mine (e.g. an original Java varsity
| jacket). All in storage somewhere. I loved working there in the
| 90s
| pcurve wrote:
| Had a friend of friend who worked at Enron.
|
| Years ago, she showed me her Enron Beanie Baby corporate merch.
| (Oh the irony..)
|
| I wonder if she still has it. It's obscure enough that you can't
| even find a photograph it online. I guess it might be worth a few
| bucks these days.
| nickfromseattle wrote:
| It's true. After the Theranos scandal broke I bought a hat on
| ebay.
|
| It sits on my desk as a conversation starter.
| user982 wrote:
| Not how I expected that headline to end.
| tennisflyi wrote:
| Like you couldn't spin up the merch yourself if you really wanted
| to. Obviously it wouldn't be authentic.
| zer00eyz wrote:
| Story time.
|
| In 2001 when the bubble was bursting we had a business deal with
| one of the trendy dot-com's. Because their office was across the
| street from us we had a lot of in person meetings, and they
| always had us come to their far more swanky office. Along with
| free drinks and food we always left with the pile of merch they
| shoved into our hands. It got to the point where my self and
| several co-workers had boxes of their crap at our desk.
|
| They were in a consultant role. They often told management nonuse
| and made our lives hard on good day and miserable on a bad one.
| To say we could not stand them would be an understatement.
|
| Then it happened, the news came down that there would be a
| massive layoff (ahh fucked company was great). I grabbed my perch
| box, and a coworker and his merch box and dressed as many
| homeless people as we could, head to toe in their gear and had
| them sit out side their main office door. Folks were streaming
| out of their office, boxes in hand with a bunch of homeless
| people dressed in their march.
|
| That line in the sand between funny and asshole, I laid down and
| made a sand angel in it that day.
| abuehrle wrote:
| Because homeless people wearing their company's merch, in your
| minds, would further degrade the company's image? Or something
| else? I'm an anonymous internet stranger, but I invite you to
| think about what you're actually saying, and whether it
| reflects true views you wish to hold.
| CPLX wrote:
| About a year ago that guy Carlos Watson from Ozy reached out to
| me cold and wanted to have coffee. I said sure why not then he
| cancelled on me short notice. Then a month later that big story
| came out. Then a day after that I went on their website and
| bought an Ozy coffee mug, which is sitting on my desk as we
| speak.
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