What the…yup, you know what I want to write here, but I’m trying to be polite, so I won’t. I thought toys were meant for superheroes, though.
Oh, but that’s just it. Steve Jobs was one, so to speak, for this day and age, I guess.
The “Super Realistic Steve Jobs 12″ Collectible Figure, from In Icons and Dragon Team Corporation, is without a doubt, the creepiest, stupidest, and many other derogative adjectives I won’t waste my time by writing. Or maybe that’s just me.
Hopefully not, though. Hopefully, you feel that this mini shrine to Jobs is as ridiculous as I do.
It’s not that Jobs is ridiculous. I mean, he was, but in a good way of course, but it’s ridiculous some people thought it’d be smart to make this doll. Unfortunately they were right on that one, just based on the media attention they’ve already received, but surely, in the Internet age, it won’t end there.
Simply because social media will continue to blow this story up, and the media will go along with it, and anyone who would normally be embarrassed to buy this product in person in a real store won’t have to because they can do it online, as well as a number of other factors I’m overlooking.
Yet so it is, and so this Jobs doll will sell for $99, and so I assume, a large profit will be made at our expenses.
As if our culture wasn’t already idol-obsessed.
This “action figure,” though, I find problematic. If, from Bieber fanatics to the world’s richest entrepreneurs, will continue to look for ways to outdo each other, not to mention themselves, the further we go into the future, then I’m honestly scared for what’ll be next.
When is enough enough?
