A mechanism or tactic · 2010 · Merch
Grief merchandise
Apparel, prints and objects released after a death, quickly, at a profit.
The commercial form of parasocial grief, and nobody involved pretends otherwise any more. It also sustains a cottage industry of people whose entire output is the deaths of people they never met.
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