What this meme means
Corporations are the drug pushers that 80s and 90s kid's media warned us about. Drug pushers: Refers to the classic street-level drug dealers constantly featured in 80s and 90s kids' cartoons and public safety announcements. The hilarious irony here is that while we were warned about shady guys on street corners, it turned out that giant tech corporations using notification badges and algorithmically engineered doom-scrolling were the real dopamine pushers all along. 80s and 90s kid's media: A nostalgia-inducing phrase referencing the era of heavy "Just Say No" anti-drug campaigns in children's television. It creates a witty contrast between the simple, exaggerated dangers we were warned about as kids and the insidious, legal tech addictions we actually face as adults today.
