This maybe be an unpopular opinion but am I one of the few that’s pretty revolted by the materialistic Barbie-pink-hype spreading across every corner of our earth? In a period of time where we are fighting serious climate issues (Greece and Italy in total chaos because of fires and storms) - why are we celebrating this wasteful, plastic world which does nothing but create more plastic landfill? I just don’t get it. Is it escapism gone mad? Is it head-in-the-pink sand consumerism? Barbie was slowly dying but sadly she’s come back with vengeance selling 100 dolls every minute… is this what we all need? And why on earth did we actually run out of the colour pink? I didn’t even know that was possible… they can masquerade Barbie as a female icon with all her amazing buddies, with a film being created by a female producer… but let’s be real, it’s not about that, it’s about Mattel selling more dolls, more merch and more plastic. They focused on what will sell more and blindly everyone’s being suckered in. Image below created via midjourney #barbie #pink #consumerisim #design #dolls #climate #climatecrisis #mattel #greed #merchandise #merch #merchdesign #barbiethemovie #barbiemovie
Apparently they have a dozen more Matell films in production
Agreed...it's crazy!!
Freelance Senior Graphic Designer | Art Director
1yThank you!! I am so over the hype! And I won’t ever hide that I was a huge Barbie fan as a kid. But this is exactly what I’ve been thinking. Im all for the story of women being who they want and that Barbie never married or had kids and (apparently that was on purpose but it’s the first I heard of it and all since the movie came out) I wanted to go see it. But im really so over all this and wondering if there are any Barbies out there that will get recycled? Can they be?