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One of the care homes was done up in the style of a boutique hotel. The lobby was perhaps the tackiest room I've ever been in. It was designed with many bright, conflicting patterns (which does hide stains at least) and had many very colourful vases and art-ish objects. Among them were sculptures of hashtags and at signs, thus gesturing to influenced culture.

I am sceptical that anyone there is actually on any influencing sites. The symbols are not skeuomorphs. The floppy disk save icon refers backwards to past functionality. The hashtag symbols refer forwards, past the communal understandings. Its a boutique cargo cult.

Anyway, that TNG episode where everyone gets caught in a pulp novel in a 1960s Vegas hotel seemed to be their main inspiration.