This Postcard Aged Bad
This postcard aged bad love how the tone of this postcard shifted ever so slightly between its making and today I hope the lead I’m mining will be used in your paint
A vintage postcard shows a mustached miner wearing a helmet with a headlamp, alongside a donkey and another miner underground. The cheerful message about lead being used in someone’s paint becomes disturbing in hindsight because lead paint is toxic, making the postcard’s tone age badly. It is used as a reaction to outdated, unintentionally ominous, or historically insensitive messages. EN: A vintage postcard shows a mustached miner wearing a helmet with a headlamp, alongside a donkey and another miner underground. The cheerful message about lead being used in someone’s paint becomes disturbing in hindsight because lead paint is toxic, making the postcard’s tone age badly. It is used as a reaction to outdated, unintentionally ominous, or historically insensitive messages.
- @eternalclassic / 15369 2022-06-23
- Type
- image
- Size
- 762×766 · 108.7 KiB
- Mood
- darkly humorous
- Language
- en
- Added