#the problem with putting together a list of gifst people can buy for me for the holidays is I have money. i can just buy the gifts for mysel

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Three types of baseball hats on kickstarter:

plain black "smart" "high tech" hat that is just ultralight sportswear fabric in the shape of a hat. They talk about how "hats these days are awful for putting in your bag because they always get crumpled, not that you'd want a baseball hat anyway because they're covered in bRaNdInG" so their hat can crumple smaller than a mosquito but doesn't hold creases, and the video is b-roll of some Kendall Roy looking mofo in a suit and a plain black baseball hat*

these are rarer but kickstarters that are trying to fix another problem with the technological aspect of baseball hats, usually the customizability. That's right, there are a surprising amount of modular baseball hat kickstarters. Instead of having one brand permanently affixed to your forehead, why not attach different logos with velcro or magnets or a whiteboard (ok that one was a gag gift that i saw on poshmark but it's playing on the same concept) or have a literal screen with an associated app! or fi you don't care about branding, why not a fully modular baseball hat? take apart each of the panels and brim and closure and make htem all reversible with really ugly zipper seams connecting all of them. Or don't have it be modular but attach lights to it, or bone conduction headphones

artists who are trying to sell hats that for the most part I like, but if I love the hat then it's no longer for sale on their website, assuming they have a separate one from the instagram that they set up just to advertise for the kickstarter (adrianus kundert please I am begging you do another run of the woven baseball hats, i had a dream about it i yearn for it)

*I have one of these foldable sports hats (did not buy on kickstarter tho) and it fits worse than any of my other hats because it has a stretchy band to grip onto my head/hair except I have v nice bleached+dyed curly hair so the elastic is constantly threatening to slip off. If I was bald or had a corporate man's haircut like the idiots who designed it then it would work perfectly but like ultimately I want a hat to sit on my head rather than use a giant rubber band around my forehead to hold it on