I mean, cringey social media account mateyness probably deserves its own thread. Or purge.
― Alba, Monday, 8 November 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
I like the sign-off because it separates it from the anthropomorphic brand shit netflix and amazon do and highlights that behind that tweet is a deeply miserable person.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 November 2021 12:20 (two years ago) link
I wouldn't make matey jokes about going over to George's house to hang out, Waitrose guy.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 8 November 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
It’s easy to get distracted by misinformation these days, but don’t worry…Science has got your back. #ScienceWillWin pic.twitter.com/aXVzAsfa6Z— Pfizer Inc. (@pfizer) November 9, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 05:10 (two years ago) link
Corporate brands awkwardly appropriating out-dated memes is a whole subgenre of this kind of thing. That one is a perfect example
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 08:56 (two years ago) link
is this that or is it different cos its for the kids?https://www.club.ie/meet-pat-frog/
― Stevolende, Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Tech seems to be the homeland of this aesthetic even more than food packaging now
I really didn't think I could hate Fiverr any more than I did, but then I found out about their internal job titles pic.twitter.com/XJvaqSi6OX— nathan ma (@nthnashma) February 6, 2022
― Alba, Sunday, 6 February 2022 12:53 (two years ago) link
winner
pic.twitter.com/jtRSxrUkA5— Chris Ashworth-Bennion (@ChrisBennion_) February 15, 2023
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 17 February 2023 08:56 (one year ago) link
the 'innocent smoothies' voice crossed with the 'buckle up fuckos/2am chilli' voice is particularly horrifying
― soref, Friday, 17 February 2023 09:55 (one year ago) link
"We’re here to punch lunch in the taste buds"
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 February 2023 10:17 (one year ago) link
Feels a bit weird to put cutesy puns on a liquid that is literally poison pic.twitter.com/uuo5xj85IW— Rob Manuel 🧻 (@robmanuel) February 16, 2023
― Alba, Friday, 17 February 2023 10:18 (one year ago) link
we have some Tesco kitchen foil at home which for some reason has "foiled again!" written on it
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 17 February 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
I had a better looking ham sandwich thrown to me at the milwaukee county jail in 1994
― joygoat, Friday, 17 February 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
I'm fairly sure Wilkos own brand stuff was the first, and among the worst, for writing terrible random slogans on every single product. Coat hangers - "get the hang of it"Dish cloths - "dish the dirt "Rubber gloves- "time for the dishes" (?)
― kinder, Friday, 17 February 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
Some marketing people have too much time on their hands
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
Collecting these is a national hobby
Dear brands, please, for the love of god, could you just stop with this shit. pic.twitter.com/ztbb5SyPy2— Melissa Harrison (@M_Z_Harrison) May 21, 2023
― Alba, Monday, 22 May 2023 08:48 (one year ago) link
That one’s especially bad cause “which order do you put shit on a scone” is just the feeblest patter, you know you’re in for a bad time when someone trots it out
― michel goindry (wins), Monday, 22 May 2023 08:57 (one year ago) link
Why does vegan food think it can talk to me like that? AN INVESTIGATION: https://t.co/lCIBpbWYf8— Amelia Tait (@ameliargh) August 4, 2023
I’m in the supermarket and a line of stand-up comedians are calling me to attention in the alternative milk aisle. “Drink to avoid Fear Of Missing Oat,” jibes one carton. Another provocatively demands that I “slurp, gulp, guzzle”. A few rows over, the meatless meats fancy a chat. “Hello,” says a packet of not-bacon. “Just FYI, you might not tell the difference between THIS product and bacon. Pretttttay cool.” Some plant-based lardons are keen to talk about “our buddy Mr Piggy”. A packet of smoked tempeh boasts “flavour as smouldering as a secret agent walking seductively out of the sea”.
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Friday, 4 August 2023 08:54 (nine months ago) link
Thanks for that.As a person who eats meat I am mildly interested in trying vegetarian (not nec vegan) alternatives but I am hugely put off by all this shite. I want information, goddammit, not cutesy twitter bullshit.
I'm sticking with chickpeas, beans and lentils but if there is a nice product out there that's not over processed crap please do let me know.
― kinder, Friday, 4 August 2023 11:02 (nine months ago) link
lol at the Oatly guy. what a douche. people in marketing need to be incessantly ridiculed for being giant losers and also for basically ruining the world we live in. shitheads.
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 August 2023 16:46 (nine months ago) link
TESTIFY
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 August 2023 17:45 (nine months ago) link
Bleach, please.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 17:47 (nine months ago) link
It's annoying but pretty low on the ruining the world scale, c'mon. Most people really do still think vegan = gross so who cares.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 4 August 2023 18:47 (nine months ago) link
marketing has turned our entire world into a transactional, monetized hell. arguably capitalism speaks to us primarily through our bodies, but it's through marketing that the language of capital enters our psyches. the fact that these assholes get paid what they do to use the insights of psychology to manipulate our fears and desires is just beyond fucked up imo
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 August 2023 18:58 (nine months ago) link
it also ruined the internet btw
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 August 2023 19:00 (nine months ago) link
Also this phenomenon is not at all limited to plant based products, as documented itt for the last 15 years
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 4 August 2023 19:01 (nine months ago) link
i've never even seen iCarly
or Bleach for that matter, i heard there was way too much filler towards the end
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 11 August 2023 23:01 (nine months ago) link
the beavis & butthead take on the innocent smoothies aesthetichttps://i.postimg.cc/bwZkmSTw/20230929-181002.jpg
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 September 2023 17:12 (seven months ago) link
https://Twitter.com/mippy/status/1708957795591110689?s=46&t=zQbxLGLurMqWqcXnRpq5zA
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 09:59 (seven months ago) link
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― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:15 (four months ago) link
This honestly reads worse than most innocent-style copy & now I’m amusing myself picturing uk media dipshits lining up to declare the anonymous composers of shitty brand emails the greatest stylists of their generation
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:17 (four months ago) link
On 20 July 2013, GCHQ officials entered The Guardian’s offices at King’s Cross in London, six weeks after the first Snowden-related article had been published.At the request of the government and security services, Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson, along with two others, spent three hours destroying the laptops containing the Snowden documents.
At the request of the government and security services, Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson, along with two others, spent three hours destroying the laptops containing the Snowden documents.
the Graun as the last bastion of the UK free press is the only funny joke in there
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:33 (four months ago) link
feel like that awful kid acne graffiti is adjacent to the topic of this thread
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:47 (four months ago) link
I was unfamiliar with the Innocent Smoothies brand until this thread. Looking at it online, I don't find the aesthetic particularly irritating at all.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:12 (four months ago) link
https://twitter.com/maxtundra/status/1749138392099491950?s=61&t=AL5DD_4iz350KGtptOz8ew
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 21 January 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link
What stage of capitalism is this?
https://nickasbury.substack.com/p/purpose-authenticity-and-nepo-brands
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:29 (three months ago) link