I hate when ads try to get all in-the-know with you like that, it feels like a stranger showing up at your party and reminiscing about old times they weren't actually there for.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
replace the new yorkisms with, say, a white upper middle class suburban milieu and I think you'll find those ads to be a pretty standard form--except there's an extra layer of new yorker self-regard being called upon that's particularly creepy.
― ryan, Friday, 11 September 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
I hate all these "in the know new yorker" ads for seamless and flatrate and that other storage company. Really, really hate.
And also I agree about that roast chicken and red wine poem.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:36 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
i admit to finding those ads pretty fascinating...like how they almost always insist on the quotidian new york experience (take out, walk ups, cabs) rather than anything like the "making it in the big city" narrative. almost as if the highest aspiration that you can appeal to in an ad is the *desire to be a new yorker* rather than anything new york might be a means to.
― ryan, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/10/02/subway-poster_custom-780357a2b706d94d8263cdafcc35a3d0dd1cbfdd-s900-c85.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
FUIUD
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
I hate these ads so fucking much:http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/clever-seamless-campaign-uses-witty-one-liners-tap-how-new-yorkers-eat-166975
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
BEING a SHITTY HUMAN burns a lot of CALORIES
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
the one that always befuddles mehttp://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Sep/seamless-art-3.jpg
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
yeah, that whole seamless campaign is awful.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/GayCouple.jpg
― iatee, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
i find myself wondering what the photo shoot for this was like
'okay guys -- think GAY and FRENZIED'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Lol the facial expressions of that couple always captivate me in a car wreck sort of way.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
They also had that drag queen ad -- whoever photographs them is really good at creating images that are simultaneously a little creepy and hard to stop looking at.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Who the fuck are all these people with spacious, neatly organized walk-in storage rooms anyway?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
yeah lol. the whole thing is just stuffing them with cardboard boxes, right?
i guess it could potentially be smart marketing for the u-stor-it industry... convince people they really should use this more like a spacious walk-in closet or a well-organized backyard shed, and thus upsell them on a much bigger unit.. still it seems bonkers. i mean the brownie cameras and keepsakes just sitting out there! just pack this stuff up into a few u-haul boxes and stick it at the bottom of your closet or something. if you don't like that menorah enough to display it in your house maybe it's time to let it go. not sure if the telescope or the stack of pashminas and hats seems most absurd.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
dr. zizmor has retired, now spends his time studying the talmud
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 January 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2016/01/08/subway_facelift_shutdown.phpthis is gonna be a FUCKED UP PROBLEM
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 January 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link
jelly queen is really disturbing
― 龜, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
i'm just really glad that museum of sex has finally retired the boobs bouncy castle ad.... that was ghastly.
― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Lol at jelly queenI also like the std volcano
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link
Casino otm.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RjmKnh5.jpg
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― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
man, fuck the streeteasy "find your formula" ads:
http://creativity-online.com/work/streeteasy-find-your-formula/45564
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
i really dislike those but part of me is secretly glad that at least it's a hand-drawn illustration from someone with their own kinda gross-looking style. versus the equally gross but also retchingly saccharine mattress ads previously discussed.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Perhaps doesn't need to be said, but those Thinx period underwear ads that were controversial really are much more tasteful than a lot of the ads on the subway.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
frenzied storage couple haunt my thoughts and dreams btw. It's bizarre.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5630a2cc9dd7cc25008c540e-3264-2448/img_3114.jpg hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it
― adam, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
sorry for huge but i want yall to feel me here
https://adsonthesubway.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/fullsizerender10.jpg?w=525&h=537
these are so half-assed and shitty-looking that it actually pisses me off
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah those too
my friend on instagram re: jelly queen: "I find these ads exceptionally strange"
adam you are so great on this thread btw
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
garbage all over the sidewalk + 3am guns + crowded trains + exploding sewer lines = your neighborhoodgreat schools + 5 nearby dog parks + doorperson that knows your name + sunshine and flowers = some place you can't afford
thanks streeteasy!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
thank u doctor
― adam, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
There's so much competition in the "we'll take care of minor inconvenience for you via an app" space.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
I saw like two other dry-cleaning/laundry apps advertised just this week.
Wype: toilet paper delivered to your bathroom in seconds.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/smashedmcdouble/status/694179644560523264
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:43 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
someone has written "bomb all condos" on one of those at the lafayette c
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
have we talked about this one
http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/syphilis-explosion-ads-catch-subway-passengers-eyes/
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
gimme those muslim frittata recipes tbqfh
― ian, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rvrmpzb.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't snap a pic without the dude sitting in front of it thinking I was photographing him, but there's this new NPR ad that says something like "The NSA is listening, why not give them something more interesting to listen to?"
And I had the sensation that I'm pretty sure is the same feeling people get when they suspect the person trying to ingratiate himself is actually a narc.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 13 June 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
That Manhattan Institute personal training guy is terrifying. Can't find a pic.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
is that the one with the lady posing with a skeleton on the other half of the ad?
― adam, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
like you can be a personal trainer or a skeleton lady
yes!
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
seeing this guy's expression ruins all my mornings
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7q3f6bbuhDq_0JPmN55G8u1aKYMW5iA5m9T5MYun7SSoYInFN8n3AL_u6fqJ3ma_rZdx=w300
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
this one is my current fave
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/std_explosion_005.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1
― adam, Friday, 1 July 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link