alt Hacker NewsPlot twist: anything original will look stupid, until some cultural event makes the original thing the new "way," then all the small minds will act like that was the only way the thing should have been done all along.
"The emperor has no clothes" is a much deeper story about society and human nature than people realize.
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> Plot twist: anything original will look stupid
Clearly not true, lots of original things that instead looks like "Ah yeah, obviously, duh!" once they're public, rather than looking stupid. Browsers/WWW, the iPhone and putting wheels on suitcases are things that come into mind that the amount of people thought "looked stupid" was very low, and they became very popular relatively quickly.
I think the best example for this are the Airpods
like, it was such a joke at first but then it just became the "new normal"
What if the emperor had no clothes but he has a monster cock swanging left to right dickslapping the citizens as he walks by
They would be like Sir, Hey put that huge dick away you're scaring people
There would be a different lesson, is all I'm saying