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You can spot them in the parking lot of a grocery store. They catch your eye at a red light or while stuck in traffic. You squint to read: What do they mean by “Former Baby on Board” or “Keep honking I’m eating your girl’s pasta fagiole”?

Gone are the days of earnest “Coexist” or “Free Tibet” bumper stickers. Nowadays, they are dipped in irony with a healthy dose of absurdity.

The hobbits were first discovered 20 years ago inside the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Australian and Indonesian scientists uncovered bones and teeth, along with stone tools that were most likely used to butcher meat.

The firm, City Safe Partners, received a $154 million contract from the New York City Housing Authority in January 2024 to provide “emergency fire watch services” in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx, records show. Sheena Wright, the first deputy mayor in the Adams administration and the fiancée of Mr. Banks’s brother, the schools chancellor, sits on the housing authority’s board and voted to approve the emergency contract, records show.

This new crop of bumper stickers are part of a growing trend of merch being made as much to be photographed and shared on social media as they are to be absorbed in the real world. And the buy-in is broad, ranging from the boutique media empire Dirt to the fashion brand J. Crew. You may find them at your favorite bar, or in a wedding gift bag.

“We’re known as the bumper sticker couple now, I’m sure,” said Brian Gebhart, 32, who, with his fiancée, Alyssa Walker, 30, runs Frog Mustard, one of the most prolific creators of this genre of bumper stickers. They release a handful of new ones each week to their more than 35,000 Instagram followers, whom they call the Frog Army.

The couple started the company last winter, after Mr. Gebhart had a mountain biking accident and needed extra money to pay for a surgery. They came up with Frog Mustard — a moniker as nonsensical as many of their designs — by using a random name generator.

Some stickers spotted around Brooklyn this month.Credit...Graham Dickie/The New York Times

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