Enshittification.
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agowhat happened to thinkgeek?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Comment on xkcd #3100: Alert Sound
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agowhat happened to thinkgeek?
Enshittification.
jqubed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They were bought and basically no longer exist. Hot Topic was going to buy them but then GameStop came in with a higher offer. For a while they launched ThinkGeek retail stores in shopping malls but eventually shut them all down and now they basically only exist as some tchotchkes in GameStop stores. Even the website just seems to redirect to the main GameStop page now, not their “store” within the GameStop webstore.