How an Adorable, Grinning Dumpster Fire Became a Symbol for 2020
How an Adorable, Grinning Dumpster Fire Became a Symbol for 2020 Brian McCarty It was quite a year for an L.A.-based artist’s small, smiling trash bin For Truck Torrence, the Koreatown-based artist behind cute pop-culture brand 100% Soft, 2020 has been a succession of dumpster fires—in the most adorable way possible. Last year, well before the horrors of 2020 were known to the world, he turned his popular character—a teal, anthropomorphic trash bin with flames shooting out of its top and a little, contented smile on its face—into a collectible toy. Later came a purple-and-pink varian...
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