When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same.
He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporation after a wave of acquisitions in the 2000s. After a Reddit post he made about his discovery picked up traction, he started looking at other types of consumer goods – cookware, shoes, tools, clothing.
“It seems like that was a story that just repeated in every industry,” Sapp told the Guardian.
AvE was such fun for a while. Then he turned up the grift with the"town pump cnc" he bought with patreon money. Then when the patreons noticed it was just an endmill breaking machine he went all Fuck Trudeau to scare away the smart people and just leave the fart sniffers.
Really too bad, he was fun for a while.