#to be entirely fair: 1) spencer's known to steal art designs from fan artists and such online via predatory sites
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Aro culture is going to spencers and seeing only ace pride merch and no aro pride merch
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#piperrose#aro culture is#aro#aromantic#actually aro#actually aromantic#ask#mod phoenix#i mean.#to be entirely fair: 1) spencer's known to steal art designs from fan artists and such online via predatory sites#2) online art tends to forget us :/#3) to be totally honest a lot of places go like 'oh these are demographically the Major Identities so let's have 5 options total'#or smth like that#and that's like. middle manager capitalists with zero care about real ppl types placing those limits#i'm honestly surprised they even got around to including ace folks tbh#usually those sorts of high-predatory mall-goth types of stores (hot topic / spencers / lunchbox) are uh. very very very focused on like.#maximizing profits at the expense of absolutely zero fucks given about real ppl along the way#knowing that the edgy teen demographics most interested in them *tend* to not have a lot of money + want to be ~counter culture~#they find the cheapest way to make a buck on marginalized folks in a very rainbow capitalism way#also for the lucky 10k: those stores have all been implicated in the last 2 decades of repeatedly and constantly stealing art from poor#online artists via various sites like deviantArt#via little secret TOS conditions around those sites being able to sell your work by proxy without exception#unsure if that's still common knowledge but a decade ago it was like. every tenth post on my dashboard once a year when someone a little#bit bigger than average on social media had their art stolen yet again by these corps
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