I loved that guy - and Rick Sanchez abusing them.

https://www.stickermule.com/custom-stickers

Where I work genuinely has hundreds of devices that must be networked but should never be on the internet.

IOT = Internet of Things, i.e. appliances and stuff that connect to the internet. These often have very poor security, so the joke is that there's no S in IOT.

What?

Well I do know some of them won't work until you set them up with an account, i.e. the cheaper Roku TVs. That being said, I'd disconnect it right after.

the answer is consumerism

Because that's how you get access to most of the functionality people would want a smart TV for.

Sure you can just hook it up to cable and a blu ray player but most people want a smart TV to stream from Hulu or other services.

You can set up a local service to stream video from your own media server, but that's beyond most users technically

Not the exact same but https://www.printables.com/model/1327860-do-not-connect-machine-to-internet-sign