I have suspected for years that the porn industry missed that the step-fetishists were just more vocal than the people who watched porn for the, you know, porn parts. but consecutively, once the market is flooded, these latter people's data looks like the former.

funny side note is (it used to be) that the 'top rated' search refinement on pornhub was actually just 'anything that was given stars' AND it turned out that the only group interested in siskel&eberting were the peeps who were into feet

but alas, this is all just an analogy to what I'm actually plurking

a messenger bag is supposed to be designed for being accessible without taking off. but instead, the market has perverted 'messenger bag' into a euphemism for 'laptop bag on your shoulder'.

besides the function seemingly disappearing in the market saturation, there is an irony that most laptops aren't accessed while one is walking + a backpack would bounce your tech less

I guess that besides some aesthetic statement, perhaps people feel that seeing your bag would help those pesky laptop pickpockets....the second irony being that bagsnatchers must prefer the single strap to a backpack

anyway, here's the meta observation and question:
O. after a corp decides that an acute focus will generate more $, all parroting corps follow. now the 'unique' angle is less so. now the only option on the consumer side, hipster idealism aside, is to join the trend, supporting the data that this is what is wanted

until of course some 'innovator' rebrands an old option as the new unique

meanwhile the actual demand in terms of function disappears. messengers have no good bags, people have to wince at dialogue while continuing to beat it---utter chaos

Q. while things like language get an automatic democracy thru majority usagelike telling someone goodbye without attachment to the sentiment that god be with them products, which must be mass produced to have any shot of being widely adopted, are in the hands of either someone hoping to start a wave or to ride the wake of one

granted, language is so that we don't have to get (as) frustrated while grunting and flapping various parts of our bodies, while products are for the aid of making someone money. further, saying something like "that's boss" is about as in demand as having a bag you can pull stuff from while standing. BUT

how do we support the data for a worddesignconcepttheory being dead when the platonic form / the function of it never dies? obviously with something less-chosen we can say that it is dying or at least less favoredworld: we use metric, USA: nah g but if there is no use of a thing or more specifically no option to use a thing,

how can we gauge usefulness?

somethingsomething cyclical. perhaps we are doomed to history repeating itself because by the time it does, the change in status quo seems like a new thing [to be locked into until the next epoch]

anyway, the point is clearly this: if Mike Myers can randomly rejuvenate "groovy" and smashmouth, imma need his next project to be an adaptation of atari's paperboy