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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺
@JoeWynne@mstdn.plus  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

🐺🩸 THE TRIVIALING 🩸🐺

🎃 Some context for the Smiley face buttons and stickers...
First appearing in 1963, by 1971 over 50 million smiley face buttons alone had been produced. T-shirts, stickers and other pop culture appearances were ubiquitous.

🎃 I barely made it through this period with my insanity intact. So it's not surprising that by 1980, the image was ripe for use in dark storylines.

More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face-2058483/

#TheHowling1981

Smithsonian Magazine

Who Really Invented the Smiley Face?

It's supposedly the 50th anniversary of the original design of the iconic image, but its history since then is surprisingly complex with millions of dollars at stake
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