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This is plainly just someone having some fun with whom I have zero aesthetic overlap. So it's quite intellectually interesting to me to try to understand why I find it so intensely irritating. Perhaps at core I'm just tired of infantilization.
Likewise I’m annoyed with the whole glasses some how being either a new sex symbol, innocence, or technical prowess of which there is zero correlation.
Some people wear glasses but most do not. I have no problem with advertising showing glasses if it isn’t some obvious targeting or biases in play. In this case it appears to be the nerdy but sexy trope but maybe I’m wrong.
Interesting - at least 90% of people I've ever known in real life wear glasses. In fact at the moment I'm the only one who doesn't and I should probably get some eventually.
Maybe the human race is just getting worse at seeing and we're coping by trying to make the workaround seem cool and attractive.
I wear contacts. My grandparents (greatest generation) and their parents did not wear glasses till they were much older.
Look I wouldn’t have a problem with cartoons with glasses and I’m sure given the downvotes I pissed people off but it is fucking marketing just like in the 80s we had everyone He-Man steroid trope we now have this big big fucking black rimmed glasses as hipster irony incel shy approachable girls/guy. Intellect is hot … sort of but fuck differing opinions or the real driver late stage capitalism.
It is bullshit and and will seem lame as fuck thirty years from now.
I’m sorry for the rant.