Al sinds de oprichting van Eigenwereld.nl waarschuwen wij voor de naderende zombie apocalypse, maar in enkele jaren tijd is er een behoorlijk zombie hype gaande. Daar door zijn zombies mainstream geworden en zelfs een bedreiging voor de popculture geworden. Daarom heeft de website Topless Robot nu dit artikel geschreven, met negen redenen waarom de hele Zombie hype nu mag dood gaan.

8. Stupid Zombie Products

With any fad comes lazy attempts to profit from it. If there are lots of fans out there some sucker will buy the T-shirt you whipped up in five minutes, so why bother working any harder? With the zombie fad spiraling out of control, something has to be done before we drown in crap like this.

Zombies are a hack advertiser's dream come true. Take a common product, slap zombies on it, jack up the price and wait for the profits to roll in. That's how we ended up with zombie mints, and lawn gnomes, and family car decals, and beer glasses, and lunch boxes, and coffee, and dog toys, and cookie jars, and cookie cutters, and back scratchers, and socks, and candy canes, and key chains, and clocks, and salt shakers, and bumper stickers, and sleep masks, and pencil holders, and magnets, and mouse pads, and messenger bags, and purses, and pet clothing, and bird feeders, and notebooks, and business cards, and whiteboards, and bumper stickers, and skateboards, and headphones, and speakers, and phone cases, and hundreds of terrible shirts, and I could literally do this all day. Hell, zombie condoms actually exist. You can also get zombie dildos and fleshlights, which presumably come in handy after you try to introduce zombie condoms to the bedroom.

People are buying these things, and those people are terrible. Anyone who owns a zombie birdfeeder has a black hole where their personality should be. This has to stop before someone can decorate their entire house with zombie products. Because they will, and then the brains of good taste will have been eaten.