A blue puppet with red hair is troubled by abandoned real estate lots, gentrification and the current state of Asheville’s Carrier Park, among other things. And it loves posting its feelings about these topics online.
That’s the premise of Asheville Proper, an Instagram and Tik Tok page that has racked up hundreds of thousands of views over the last few months. The page stars Little Ginger, the puppet, who shares cheeky, weird and sometimes philosophical observations on everything from potholes and property taxes to the Asheville City Council election.
One video that helped launch Little Ginger’s celebrity is his outrage over the real estate practices of Ingle’s Supermarket, the Asheville-owned grocery chain. In one of the puppet’s most popular videos, he stands in front of the old K-Mart building on Patton Avenue, suited up in his signature black pinstripe vest and red tie…