eg. I was obsessed with Teenage mutant ninja turtles as a kid

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    What? It was pure marketing for the toys. So was transformers. It was this whole thing in the 80s, but GI Joe was pretty much the classic example of it. But there was strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, even he-man, and others.

    Unless you’re using propaganda in place of advertising/marketing?

    But the history of the GI Joe show and toys is well documented, and it wasn’t tied to political shit except indirectly, in that it was essentially all US military at first.

    Mind you, it eventually jumped the shark with the snake king and such as that. But it was never done as military propaganda as the goal.