Even worse is the dissonance that comes when you consider that the author is treating this like a celebration of pop-culture that he loves, while in-universe th

Even worse is the dissonance that comes when you consider that the author is treating this like a celebration of pop-culture that he loves, while in-universe this is the result of incredibly poor and culturally oppressed people desperately memorizing a dead guy's favorite stuff to try and get all the wealth he stumbled into and then hoarded until his death.