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From CNN+ to Fyre Festival: This collector seeks swag from companies with epic ends

Christina Warren collects T-shirts, mugs and other items from companies that promised huge changes, but failed to deliver — often in spectacular ways.
Christina Warren wears a MoviePass T-shirt, a piece of her collection of swag from dead companies.

Long after the memories of the epic flameouts of Fyre Festival or CNN+ dwindle, a piece of these companies will live on.

Christina Warren has made sure of that.

For the past six years, the software developer and former journalist has made it a point to collect T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs and PopSockets branded with the names of these spectacularly failed companies.

Warren, currently adeveloper advocateat GitHub, is also now a bit of a technology and pop culture anthropologist.

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