any one of the numerous modern tech stack memes, but instead whatever structural unit the meme normally uses is replaced with a person running back and forth down a line of sticks on which they’re spinning ceramic plates while frenetic music played by the house band goads them onward.
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@djsundog This is what people did before videogames. This is Rock Band 1960s.
it’s hard to explain the fact that there was once a vibrant, well-employed plate-spinning industry in USia.
it’s not hard, actually - we had an entertainment industry that featured entertainers. not actors or singers or dancers necessarily, but entertainers. comedians. magicians. acrobats. people doing things to entertain other people. not content produced to drive audience growth.
@djsundog to be honest, "type of guy you see doing some weird thing in times square, day after day" for the last century is exactly the same as the modern "type of guy you see doing some weird thing on tiktok, day after day". it's just we now have the technology for the times square guy to work from home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhoos1oY404
Erich Brenn "Plate Spinning" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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