A friend who proposed to his fiancee over the holidays told me the Instagram ads popped up not long after he shared a photo of her new, glittering diamond. “Rings made with 100% real T rex fossilized bone,” screamed a post from Manly Bands, a line of wedding rings designed for men. “Step into the saga with our Lord of the Rings Collection,” read another, promoting not a line built with hobbit bones, but one officially licensed by the fantasy epic.
Perhaps the most cursed image: a Batman-inspired ring, with “Ha ha ha” inscribed on the inner side, a nod to the psychotic Joker, most recently played by Joaquin Phoenix.
