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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I still find it wild that blockbusting has all but fallen out of memory, and blockbuster, a company that would probably have had to rebrand if not for atrophy, escaped an extremely expensive name change by dying.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What on earth?!?!

A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a movie that is highly popular and financially successful.

It grew from WWII bombs that could destroy a whole block.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m aware of the root of both words, but the shifts in language landing just beyond and before blockbuster’s rise and fall is a little funny. Blockbuster rose as blockbusting died and blockbusting renewed shortly after blockbuster went kaput. Weaving around it like an intangible barrier. Almost like bigotry couldn’t be bothered to do its thing under the strain of verbal confusion

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Shut the fuck up, waxing philosophically about a goddamn video rental store and trying to make a poignant remark about the fact the business Blockbuster went out around the time the verb "blockbusting" came back in.

[–] Starduster75@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Hey. How's it going?

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

lol. no u.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

They’re hyperbolically attacking and immediately explaining my statement for the funi. I take no offense