John Karel’s Tumblr is an addictive rabbit hole of skeletons, houseplants, and aliens living through the trials of crappy late capitalism. They deal with declined credit cards, mountains of e-waste, grocery stores full of high-fructose corn syrup, and more.
But Karel’s above GIF, of a skeleton wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat while attempting to walk down an “up” escalator, is probably the best use of GIF as political cartoon I’ve seen in a while. And as social media users in this election year, I think we can all relate to this impulse:
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