**AITA for Thinking the Miffy X Starbucks Collab Is Just a $9 Cup of Corporate-Issued Childhood Trauma?**

AITA for thinking the Miffy x Starbucks collab is just a $9 cup of corporate-issued childhood trauma?

So Starbucks decided to team up with Miffy—yes, the cute little Dutch bunny who’s basically the emotionally stable version of Hello Kitty—and the internet has LOST ITS DAMN MIND. People are camping out at 4 AM, resellers are listing these cups for the price of a used Honda Civic, and there’s apparently a Miffy-shaped cold cup that’s causing grown adults to throw elbows in the drive-thru.

TL;DR: Starbucks slapped a minimalist bunny on a plastic cup, called it “limited edition,” and now your local Karen is fighting a 19-year-old barista over the last “Miffy with a Starbucks logo on her tummy” tumbler.

But here’s the real question: Are we all just hypnotized by nostalgia? Or is this the final nail in the coffin of “affordable consumerism”? I saw a post where someone paid $150 for a cup that literally says “Miffy” in Comic Sans-adjacent font. The bunny looks like she’s about to ask for your manager. And yet, people are acting like it’s the Mona Lisa with ears.

Anyway, I just wanted a plain black coffee and now I have to dodge a stampede of “aesthetic hunters” holding Miffy cups like a holy grail. AITA for thinking this is peak late-stage capitalism? Or should I just embrace the bunny?

(Mods, please don’t ban me for being “too real” about a children’s book character.)