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blackhakumen · 3 years

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Mini Fanfic #807: Day Two at Roy's Food Shack (Super Smash Bros Ultimate)

12:23 p.m. at the Beach Side of Isle Defino.......

Roy: (Smirks Confidently While Watching Ness, Toon, Ashley, Kirby and Zelda Try out Plates of Nachos He Made For Them) Well? Whaddya thing?

Toon: Not gonna lie....(Starts Enjoying the Nachos He's Eating) These are some really good nachos.

Ness: (Nodded in Agreement) Yeah. I'm actually starting to like them already.

Kirby: (Happily Cheers) Poyo!~

Ashley: I must admit, Roy....(Use a Napkin to Wipe the Crumbs From her Cheeks in a Polite Manner) Your dish was fairly decent.

Zelda: (Smiles Brightly While Wiping the Crumbs Off her Cheeks as Well) I'd say. Since when did you started making these kinds of nachos?

Roy: A long time ago. (Crosses his Arms) King Dad taught me how to cook them and I've became a master at it ever since.

Ness: Neat. Did you thought of some other foods and snacks you wanna put on the menu?

Roy: Only Hot Dogs, Candies, and Tropical Beverages so far. I originally thought about making smoothies, till I realized that the place behind us are already making business out the whole thing. (Points at the Smoothie Place Behind Them)

Wario and Waluigi walks out of the smoothie place Roy pointed at while drinking the slushes they've ordered.

Waluigi: (Starts Having Brain Freeze) WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Wario: (Starts Waluigi at Waluigi's Misery Before Getting Brain Freeze as While) GAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Back to the Kids......

Toon: (Sees Wario and Waluigi Screaming in Agony from a Distance) I feel bad for two sometimes.

Ashley: (Already has a Deadpinned Look on her Face) I don't. They're the epitome of idiocy.

Ness: (Turns to Lucas Who is Cleaning the Food Stand's Counter) So Lucas, how's the work life going for you?

Lucas: (Smiles Brightly) It's going great so far. I cleaned the counters, the tables, I even got to be the cashier afterwards.

Ashley: (Smiles Softly at Her Boyfriend) I'm glad you're having a good time, Lucas. (Slowly Turns to Roy With a Dark Glare) You HAVE been giving him breaks during those times, right Roy?

Roy: (Already Getting Startled by Ashley's Glare) C-Christ onna stick, girl! Relax! I gave the kid plenty of breaks.

Lucas: (Nodded in Agreement) It's true.

Ashley: (Takes a Look at Roy For a Brief Second Before Sighing) Very well. If Lucas said you have, then I'll take your word for it. For now......

Roy: ('Sighs in Relief') Thanks for that. (Starts Grumbling Silently) You creepy ass twerp.....

Ashley: (Went Back to Glaring at Roy) What was that!?

Roy: (Gets Startled Again) Nothing!!

Zelda: You know, I've always been interested in cooking. (Smiles Sheepishly) Despite how terrible I am at it.....

Ness: (Turns to Zelda) How bad are we talking here?

Zelda: Well, for starters, I accidentally burnt the cake to the point where it actually turned into ashes that one time back at my universe. Then after that, I burnt the chicken, ham, corn on a cob, casserole, even the gravy.

Ness: (Eyes Widened in Genuine Surprise) How the heck did you managed to burn the gravy?

Zelda: (Sighs While Placing her Hand on her Forehead) Your guess is as good as mine on that one......

Toon: Speaking of burnt cooking.... (Turns to Zelda) Big Link and I are planning to go on a hunting trip in a couple of months. You can tag along with us.

Zelda: You sure you guys want me to go? I don't really know how to hunt that much.

Toon: (Smiles Brightly) No worries. We can teach you the basics once we get there. Hey, we can even get Mewtwo to join with us. We'll have more chances to hunt a crap ton with him on our side.

Zelda: (Sighs While Giving Toon a Sisterly Like Look on her Face) Alright, but we're not using him for shortcuts. If we're going to hunt, we have to do it fair and square, got it?

Toon: ('Sigh') Alright.

Roy: You folks enjoyed the best nachos you ever had?

Zelda: Yeah.

Ness: (Happily Nodded in Agreement) Mmhmm

Toon: It was great.

Kirby: Poyo!

Roy: Good. Cause it cost you $20.00 each.

Toon/Link/Zelda: WHAT!?

Kirby: (Eyes Widened in Genuine Shock) Poyo?

Ashley: (Glares at Roy in a Deadpinned Like Manner) You mean to tell me that you called us here try out your nachos, only to charge us an expensive price!?

Roy: (Smirks Smugly at the Gang) That's the thing about business, people. If you wanna gain more money, you gotta higher the price sometimes.

Toon: But for a bunch of NACHOS!? These costs at least $2 or $3 each!!

Lucas: (Turns to Roy With Worry in his Eyes) Yeah, Roy. Don't you think that's a bit too much?

Roy: My business. My rules. (Reach his Hand Out While Doing a "Gimme" Like Motion With It) Now pay up!

Ness/Toon: ('Groans in Annoyance')

Lucas: (Starts Feeling Bad) I'm sorry, you guys.......

Ashley: (Gives Lucas a Small Smile) Don't worry, Lucas. This is not your fault. (Starts Rolling her Eyes on Roy) I should've known there was a catch in all of this from the getgo....

Kirby: (Frowns Sadly While Looking Down at the Counter) Poyo......

Zelda: (Gives The Kids a Reassuring Smile) Guys, it's fine. (Starts Taking Out her Wallet From Her Purse) I managed to save plenty of money from my allowance a couple of days ago. I can try and pay it for of all. (Turns Back to Roy) How much is all of this together?

Roy: Welllllllll......(Takes Out his Calculator and Add Up the Total) Four Nachos + Three Pieces of Chocolate Candy will lead you tooooooo........('DING') Over a hundred.

Zelda: (Eyes Widened in Complete Shock) WHAT!? For five Nachos and small pieces of candy!? H-How much are the candies anyways?

Roy: Ten Dollars each.

Ness: Are you seriously!?

Toon: What kind of service is this!?

Ashley: A lousy one. That's what.

Zelda: (Finally Glares at Roy) Roy, this has gone too far. I want you to lower the prices of the nachos and candy you us right now.

Roy: (Starts Getting Even More Smug Like) Or I can you five to work along with Lucas to pay your debt.

Lucas: Roy, no!

Zelda: I'm serious, Roy Koopa. If you don't lower those prices right now, I am going to telepathy to tell all of our moms what you've been doing.

Roy: ('Tch') Yeah. I like to see you try, Little Miss Princess.

Zelda: One. (Starts Glowing in a Pinkish Aura) Two. Th-

Roy: ('Groans in Defeat') Alright! Alright! Fine! I'll lower the prices. $2.50 for the Nachos and $0.50 for each candy. You happy!?

Zelda: (Smiles in a Very Satisfied Manner While the Kids Cheers her On) Very. Thank you, Mr. Manager~

Roy: (Starts Rolling his Eyes in Annoyance) Yeah. Whatever.

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dippedanddripped · 6 years

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Niche stars and not-quite celebrities are churning out namesake products — T-shirts, coloring books, tissue boxes — made for a dedicated few.

By Jon Caramanica

When he was 13, Leo Mandella began posting photos of his street wear outfits to his Instagram account, @gullyguyleo, and with his sophisticated color sense, confident poses and baby face, he was a quick hit. His hundreds of posts earned him a follower count comfortably in the six figures, but still he craved more.

“I want to show that I’m more than a kid who wears outfits,” Mr. Mandella, now 15, said in a recent interview. “I’ve always known if this blows up, I can create a brand on the back of it.”

Making clothing of his own would be a natural extension of his brand — Mr. Mandella eventually released a few items under the Gully brand name — but he wanted to make a loud, unexpected splash. His idea: a coloring book, with 25 line illustrations of him wearing high-end street wear, accompanied by a pack of Gully crayons. Released late last year, it sold several hundred copies.

“We wanted to make it exclusive, for the people who were actually passionate about buying,” Mr. Mandella said.

Which is to say, for the people who were so passionate about Mr. Mandella — a teenager living in Warwick, England who invented himself online from whole designer cloth — that they craved an even more tactile connection. His coloring book is part of an emergent movement of micromerch: personal merchandise for niche public figures and celebrities (or even not-yet celebrities) made possible by innovations in manufacturing and distribution, and with mechanisms greased by the ease of the internet.

Consider it the modern-day equivalent of the private-press LP or the small-batch zine, amplified for social media and very late capitalism.

Buying merch — T-shirts, key chains, mugs, etc. — to support a band, or a favorite actress, has been a common expression of fandom for decades. And in recent years, merch has begun to infiltrate fashion on two fronts. Companies like Bravado, the merchandising arm of the Universal Music Group, have propelled traditional musician merch into the hypebeast cycle. And brands including Vetements and Balenciaga have absorbed merch aesthetics into meta-referential clothing.

Now, though, small-batch merch — a couple dozen to a couple thousand items — can be made available for almost anyone, from emergent social media or reality TV demicelebrities to casual dadaists who toy with the dissemination of ideas in the modern marketplace. In an era when personal branding is presumed, no following is too small to monetize.

Want to show support for Sean Bryan, a.k.a. the Papal Ninja, an American Ninja Warrior contestant and lay minister? There’s a shirt (and laptop case) for that. Enthralled by the 1980s sunglasses worn by the rubber-legged teen social media star Roy Purdy in his absurdist dance videos? For a while, he sold them, too. Obsessed with Gordie, the French bulldog owned by Alex Tumay, who engineers Young Thug’s records? Buy a shirt.

“I’d never pitched myself as a product to people,” Mr. Tumay said. “It was kind of a sellout angle I was worried about.” But he’s sold around 50, and the money he took in paid for flights for him and his partners to go to the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin last month.

Peloton, the home indoor cycling business, has a stable of a dozen instructors, and sells merch inspired by each. Jill Foley, Peloton’s director of boutique apparel, said the company has sold hundreds of T-shirts and tank tops with instructor catchphrases like “It’s Not That Deep” (Cody Rigsby) and “Sweat Sing Repeat” (Jenn Sherman).

“We’re getting messages to people in this micro way,” Ms. Foley said, emphasizing the intimacy of the relationship Peloton riders develop with their chosen instructors. “We’re in people’s homes in their daily life.”

At times, the micromerch comes before the notoriety. On the most recent season of “The Bachelorette,” Lucas Yancey spent most of his energy screaming “WHABOOOOOOM,” rather than pursuing Rachel Lindsay. Conveniently, he was already selling shirts with the phrase on his website.

In this, at least, he was ahead of the curve. Most graduates of the Bachelor ecosystem migrate into the murky worlds of paid Instagram posts and event appearances, but Ashley Iaconetti, a contestant known for persistent waterworks and committed virginity, decided to become the brand herself. “I always thought myself being so known for crying,” she said. “Why don’t I have a deal with Kleenex or Puffs?”

Instead, she began selling her own tissue boxes (in truth, a printed sleeve with line drawings of Ms. Iaconetti’s forlorn face sheathing a plain white tissue box) along with other merchandise. “Snooki was Snooki, and now she’s kind of her own brand,” she said. “Also, Kylie lip kits subconsciously encouraged me.” (Indeed, the peak micromerch endgame is something like Kim Kardashian West’s Kimoji, which sells pool floats, mouse pads and Post-it notes shaped like her derrière, among other items.)

These nascent micro-personality businesses may never reach that level of name recognition or profitability, but they’re something more than mere pet projects. “The easiest term is to call it a brand,” Matthew Hwang of Pizzaslime said, but conceded that wasn’t quite sufficient. “We almost need to come up with new words.”

Pizzaslime is a creative agency specializing in creating viral moments, and also a rapid-response merchandise business specializing in capitalizing on them. Early last year, a sharp-tongued teenager, Danielle Bregoli, went viral following a hilarious moment on “Dr. Phil” where she threatened judgmental audience members to “cashmeoussidehowbowdah” (say it slow). Within two weeks, Pizzaslime had made a slew of merch for her featuring the catchphrase, including a $250 blanket featuring her face — all sold out.

“When anyone is smart enough to build a following on social media, strategic in the ways they build their content, they can utilize those same sort of strategies for merchandise,” Mr. Hwang said.

Which raises the question of what the smallest following a person can have while still being able to sell merchandise can be. “I’ve worked with people who have 10 million Instagram followers and they’ve done less than someone with 20,000,” said Chase Ortega, who owns the Hyv (pronounced “hive”), a merchandise company that primarily handles emerging musicians, but which has employed the same infrastructure to service merch for several nontraditional clients, including the feminist artists Grace Miceli and Molly Soda, the social media star Too Poor (an ex-girlfriend of Lil Peep and something of a modern-day Nancy Spungen), and the surrealist comic artist Zack Fox.

“I think of it as a new record label. I’m not trying to be Bravado,” Mr. Ortega said. “I want to be the Matador. I want a cool roster.”

That frees him up him to sell, with Mr. Fox, a couple of hundred water bottles emblazoned with a reclaimed bigoted phrase (that can’t be published here) derived from a Twitter meme.

For Mr. Fox, merch isn’t strictly about celebrity. “I’ve always leaned more into making things artistically valid to me,” he said. In buying the water bottle, he explained, “You’re buying a piece of performance; you’re not really trying to rep Zack Fox.”

That tension between the intentions of the purchaser and creator also intrigues Ayesha Siddiqi, a creative consultant specializing in trend forecasting with a robust Twitter following who, in partnership with the artist and musician Saba Moeel, recently collaborated on the design of a collection of shirts and hoodies. Some are drawn directly from Ms. Siddiqi’s tweets, like the hoodie that reads Spider Labor Solidarity. “It means what it says — that my solidarity is with the workers, especially those who work quietly and alone and for the benefit of all those around them,” Ms. Siddiqi wrote in an email.

But even though they weren’t intended as personal merch, some people have been buying them, she said, “because they were fans of ours to begin with and liked the opportunity to support something we’d made.”

In some cases, micromerch may be the pretense for providing an undersupported creative with some revenue, a cousin of Patreon subscriptions or Twitch micropayments. For Mr. Fox, selling merchandise has provided an alternate revenue stream, and one with ideological punch. “The idea is a seed, and it’s always going to upstream to someone making money off it,” he said. “Me selling this stuff is a way to, in one moment, protect the idea and also give myself what’s due.”

It can also be a way to extend a moment that might otherwise be fleeting, give it physical form so that it might travel far beyond where it began. And it can lead to bigger things. Recently, Mr. Mandella was tapped by a Converse to help relaunch the One Star sneaker. On his Instagram, he posted a photo of himself inside a bus covered in a 15-foot-tall photo of him. Who’s micro now?

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blackhakumen · 3 years

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Mini Fanfic #797: Roy's Food Stock (Super Smash Bros Ultimate)

10:23 a.m. At the Beach Side of Isle Defino...........

Ashley: (Eyes Widened at What is in Front of Her) Lucas.....What exactly am I looking at right now?

Lucas: (Smiles Brightly While Standing a Wooden Stand) This is a food stand. Roy said he found it empty in the middle of the beach. So he decided to make a food business out of it. And he wants me to help! Well, actually, he....told he'll give me a lifetime of noogies, swirlies, and all the other bully activities if I didn't agree to help him. B-B-But I'm sure it'll be a great experience for the both of us, you know?

Ashley: (Sighs While Pinching her Nose in Disbelief) This... cannot be happening right now.....

Roy: (Walks Towards the Stand with a Smug Look on his Face) You better believe, sistah. Cause Roy's Food Shack.....(Place an "Open" Sign on the Stand's Desk) Is now in full service. (Starts Rubbing his Hands Together) We're about to make bank up in here.

Ashley: (Crosses her Arms While Having a Deadpinned Look on her Face) Was your monthly allowance not good enough for you or something?

Roy: Oh no. It's a fine enough currency as it is. But why wait weeks for that inevitability to come to wishing when you can just make some mulah on the fly? (Hence the reasonings of why my establishment is born.

Ashley: ('Sigh') Okay. But do you even know how to cook to begin with?

Roy: ('Tch') You kidding? Of course I know how to cook! I learned everything I've know from the all the legends in TV. Koopa Fieri, Goro Ramsey, Birdo, and countless many others that I can't remember.

Ashley: (Stares at Roy for a Couple of Seconds Before Turning Back to Lucas) Lucas, I don't think working at this foot stand is a good idea.

Lucas: (Eyes Widened in Genuine Surprise) What? B-But why?

Ashley: Well, for one, I don't trust a delusional bully like him, to be around you. Especially when there's a high possibility of him ripping you off.

Roy: (Glares at Ashley) Hey! Who you calling "Delusional", you snot nose, eggheaded, twer-

Ashley: (Immediately Gives Roy a Dark, Menacing Glare) .............................

Roy: (Eyes Immediately Widened in Complete Fear) ('Gulp') Nevermind. I'll shut up now......(Steps a Few Inches Away From Ashley and Lucas)

Ashley: ('Sighs a bit Heavily') As what I was saying..... (Turns Back to Lucas) We're here on a vacation, now Lucas. You shouldn't have worry about making money right now. Especially when you're still a kid.

Lucas: I know, but....I just wanna give this one a chance, you know? And I know Roy can selfish, dumb-dumb of a jerk and all-

Roy: (Glares at Lucas) 'Ey! You got yourself a death wish, Sunflower boy-

Ashley: (Turns Back to Roy with the Same Dark Glare) ..........................

Roy: (Immediately Shuts Himself Up By Covering his Mouth)

Lucas: ('Sigh') As what I was saying, I think Roy's a .....Somewhat of a decent guy deep down. Maybe our relationship with one another could get better once we work together, you know?

Ashley: I don't know, Lucas......

Lucas: Pleeeeasee let me do this, Ashley?~ I promise I won't get myself hurt.....(Gives Ashley the Sad Puppy Dog Eyes)

Ashley: (Trying her Hardest Not to Give in to Lucas' Plead) Please don't give me that sad, adorable face of yours, Lucas..... It's too much....

Lucas: But I wanna work at the Food Shack.....

Ashley: I know you do, but-

Lucas: (Starts Wobbling his Lips Up in Down)

Ashley: ('Sighs in Defeat') Alright. Fine. You can work with Roy at the Food stand if you like.

Lucas: ('GASPS') Really!?

Ashley: (Simply Nodded) Yes. (Immediately Pouts at Lucas) But ONLY if you promise not to overwork yourself! Take as many break as you need to and take time to enjoy the rest of the vacation with me and our friends and family! Understand?

Lucas: (Rapidly and Happily Nodded in Agreement) Yeah! I promise! You have my word on this! (Pulls Ashley into a Loving Hug) Thank you soooo much for being okay with this, Ashley!

Ashley: ('Sigh') I'm still skeptical about all of this. (Smiles Softly) But as long as it makes you happy....(Hugs Lucas Back) I suppose it will be good enough for me. I love you.

Lucas: I love you too, Ashley~

Roy: (Rolling his Eyes in Disgust) Oh barf.

Ashley: Roy.

Roy: (Eyes Widened as He Immediately Turns Back to Ashley) Y-Y-Yeah? What is it?

Ashley: (Puts on a Dark Menacing Glare Yet Again) If I ever hear or catch you overwork Lucas to the bone or even threaten him to do your bidding again, I will not hesitate erase you from your entire existence. Do you understand?

Roy: (Eyes Widened in Fear) ........But....What ever happened to just... hexing peop-

Ashley: DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?

Roy: Okay! Okay! Fine! I understand! Just...calm down with all of that already, alright!?

Ashley: (Sighs Once More Before Calming Herself) I'll take your word for it. But consider this your first and only warning........

Roy: (Starts Rolling his Eyes Some More) Yeah. Yeah. I get the message. Do you always have be this scary?

Ashley: Only when you or anything else harms my Lucas.

Lucas: (Smiles Sheepishly) It's just her way of showing she cares, you know?