181. How to Get 60 Million Views and Sell Out of Your DTC Energy Drink

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Americans, in our commitment to capitalism, insist on free markets in ways that we don’t insist on free speech. As Kanye has showed us with his recent line of swastika merch, it’s easy to cancel people, but it’s much harder to cancel their products.

This has created a fascinating moment for art-as-commerce, where tricksters like Jacob Urowksy are using …