alternately: there is already an alibaba-based industry of pop culture costumes so dressing up now as a ghostbuster or whatever is way simpler than doing it in 1994, plus there are ads for all that crap in all my non-open-source-or-walking-dead social media feeds
after reading this (https://www.straight.com/news/halloween-gay-holy-grail) I figured it out: I don't have time for non-camp costumes. boo to heath ledger joker, hooray to cesar romero joker