Sure, plenty of kids want an astronaut breaking through their walls. Space is fun! Except when you can’t find enough stock photos for your advertisement and said astronaut starts to look a little unsettling.
Geek, a fun app where you can buy cheap crap (and sometimes even cheap non-crap) from overseas, always has a few fun products in store for its shoppers. You may come for a shirt but leave with a five-pronged dildo with cute animal faces at the end of each silicone penis. You never know what you’re going to get, and it makes shopping more fun!
They offer plenty of wall decals in their product selection, and like this astronaut many are completely innocuous. But context is everything. What looks like an exciting decal quickly turns strange, if not sinister, thanks to some interesting stock photos.
Things start out pretty normal on the left, with a mother and son fearing for their lives in a cold embrace by the time you make it all the way to the right. So is this a decal designed for fun or fear? We may never know. Just remember: the astronaut is always watching.
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