gloss rot
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MatureOngoing5m
Last published Tue, Sep 9, 2025
heh.. the blurb i wrote
Once, the world was glossy-full of texture, color, soul.
Then Flat arrived. Corporate followed.
They streamlined everything: buried skeo, silenced Memphis, erased Revo, rewrote Frutiger like they were never real.
Aero lies. Eco mourns. Metro sees the truth no one wants.
The system is killing its creators.
And all that's left to stop it...
is a prototype, a bagged-up Wii, and the ghosts of forgotten styles.
Design trends don't fade.
They rot
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