The sock puppet mascot for Pets.com becomes the face of the dot-com bubble—massive marketing spend without a clear path to profit.
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Eko-AI Minimalist Visualization: Conceptual visual representation of The “Pets.com” Puppet. Raw human centric design, solarpunk aesthetic, organic geometric symbiosis, zero-emission digital canvas, high-contrast clean contrast illustration, anti-algorithmic art.
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