iwonder &mdash; Hey, it's Bernie! https://berniepng.com/tag:iwonder Building at the intersection of AI, data, and real-world impact. Singapore. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:37:14 +0000 The paradox of cute things https://berniepng.com/the-paradox-of-cute-things <![CDATA[You've seen them everywhere - Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, Kuromi and other Sanrio characters, Sumiko Gurashi, Sonny Angel, Fugglers, Labubu, Hirono, Space Molly ... the list goes on. There's an explosion of cute things in our post-pandemic years, I have some, you have some. Cute things make us happy, we look at them and we say "Awww, so cuuuute!" But therein lies our weakness. What if one day, the very thing that's going to destroy all of humanity is a cute thing? I'm pretty sure we will all be dead meat. iwonder]]> You've seen them everywhere – Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, Kuromi and other Sanrio characters, Sumiko Gurashi, Sonny Angel, Fugglers, Labubu, Hirono, Space Molly ... the list goes on. There's an explosion of cute things in our post-pandemic years, I have some, you have some. Cute things make us happy, we look at them and we say “Awww, so cuuuute!”

But therein lies our weakness. What if one day, the very thing that's going to destroy all of humanity is a cute thing? I'm pretty sure we will all be dead meat.

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