Did you know Finns are crazy? We don't need much of a reason to go crazy over something, and that once awoken craziness will never go away. I'm dead serious. Once a Finn invents something and that invention goes global, it's doomed to be centre of our world forever. It's the only thing Finns ever accomplished, or that's at least what anyone would think seeing the situation.
It's been three years since Rovio entertainment published Angry Birds. It's 2012, and I live in Helsinki, and this is what I see every day, everywhere. I try to go buy milk or go to the movies or take the subway, and what do I see?
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| Card games. |
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| Slingshot games. |
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| Towels. |
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| Plushies (that talk). |
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Umm...bubbles.
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| Shitloads of everything. |
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| Fizzy drinks. |
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| Pricy candy. |
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| ...that will follow you where ever you go. |
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Entire Stores.
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| Entire theme parks. |
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| Evening dresses. |
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| Goddamn official hockey maskots. |
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| The fucking world. |
I'm begging you, Rovio. Stop this madness. It is true that the birds are good to us, and they make money, but why does it always have to go so far? We are a small country and we take what we get, but seriously, a hockey maskot? For the same reason this happens is the same reason we still proudly carry our Marimekko handbags and Nokia phones and soil our drawers out of sheer joy every time something Finnish is mentioned in the tv. There's national pride and then there is this. Rovio, I'm happy for you, please sell your product while you can. But you recently launched even more birds. There's no end to this, is there?
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| Why am I even asking. |
