Does the entire Innocent Smoothies aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?

uk beer culture IS hoppy ipas now, it is a fucking atrocity

― imago, Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:06 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

reject modernity, embrace tradition

lager and lime>>>autochthonous, stuffy uk real ale culture > "craft beer"

I get that the banality of the product is part of the shame but tbrr if Brewdog or Innocent made the tastiest shit in the world they'd still be scum and therein lies the point

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210610/11453246967/oatly-sues-pureoaty-trademark-trade-dress-infringement.shtml

https://i.imgur.com/5UqjWXV.jpg

More proof that oatly are wankers: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/sep/01/oatly-vegan-milk-sale-blackstone

Spotify "no one listens like you" ads a new low in this approach imo.

those spotify multimedia analyses of your tastes are so bleak. i assume they happen because they "drive engagement" and "unearned media" but i don't think anyone on earth has ever felt pleasure looking at them.

Dominos new delivery progress bot just did a fake-out joke about there being an error with the order. If you're feeling bad enough to order Dominos then you really don't need that.

Surprised no-one has mentioned the truly awful Innocent advert that is running on UK tv at the moment. The apotheosis of the genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLcgkY2g3pU

Real "exterminate the brutes" energy that ad

Inevitable deployment of the 'different people speak-sing a line of the song' method of presentation just to add to that energy

While I'm here can i just register my hatred for the current advertising fad of introducing the fictional person in said ad. Idgaf what Georgie/Tom/Dan/Suzy are up to cheers

scum

https://i.imgur.com/muBhiS5.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/hkhXh7a.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/hj2xH7L.jpg?1

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOUFUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK

https://i.imgur.com/1TIqNFE.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/ohvzrJd.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/l3ihNZI.jpg?2

Oy, that new Innocent ad belongs in a verhoeven movie

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/28/winner-of-brewdogs-solid-gold-beer-can-finds-prize-is-made-mostly-of-brass

there's a brass neck joke in here somewhere

Where there’s cunts there’s brass.

shitcanned

I know this thread is more about marketing, but this article about how vegan food company & industrial irony smelter No Evil Foods defeated a unionization movement is pretty wild: https://prospect.org/labor/anatomy-of-an-anti-union-meeting/

Thread cops please note their marketing is also insufferable (one of their products is called Comrade Cluck ffs)

"comrade cluck"

jfc. I'm all up for some piri piri chicken wings now and I'm not too fussy where they come from!

The PM who wrote this is ❤️ @SlackHQ pic.twitter.com/yiLI2eZOeL

— Eli Scheinman (@eli_schein) August 3, 2021

I followed a trail

What @annapickard helped bring about at Slack is simply wonderful. https://t.co/I0y2QnmRtQ

— Fredrik Matheson (@movito) August 4, 2021

they got bought by salesforce and everyone i know who works there is quitting but the release notes are wacky!!!!

I’m cced on emails my 79-year-old dad gets from power companies. He’s just changed to Octopus and I see they’ve signed their first email to him off with “love and power”. Wonder what he makes of that.

The aliens were bad, but the “please bear with” finished me off.

https://i.imgur.com/H2poQe0.jpg

Some cunt in a spaceship is blocking.... etc

It turns out the "Sainsbury's copywriter bad day" story was as predicted: a twee copywriting joke from the tweeest food brand in the business. @trequartbeasta has taken this photo of an actual pack of the product (left)

(Image 2 here another example of their writing - be warned) https://t.co/3rIKBMV20M pic.twitter.com/Rctm3F2acI

— dan barker (@danbarker) October 16, 2021

On top of that, I've tried their vegan bacon and it looks and tastes like anchovies

"tastes like anchovies" sounds more appealing than I'd expect for "vegan bacon"

yeah sorry I've tasted that bacon too and it is nowhere near the deliciousness of anchovies. also doesn't taste or feel much like bacon either, really just kinda...non-descript bland nothingness, not offensive or anything but boy do the "NSFW" ad campaigns oversell it

the This chicken substitutes are ok tho

Their vegan bacon is the only bacon substitute I’ve ever enjoyed.

is this the thread for all tiresome twee shit?

Just remembered I visited the worst place in the world earlier… pic.twitter.com/2DBz5RHfKe

— Mrs Gladys Steptoe (@GladysSteptoe) October 17, 2021

it's "fun" to see the uk version of these. though of course wine o'clock is universal

would take all of those over anything 'cheeky'

This looks absolutely delicious George, can we 'karma' over to yours for breakfast tomorrow? - Adam

— Waitrose & Partners (@waitrose) November 8, 2021

I mean, cringey social media account mateyness probably deserves its own thread. Or purge.

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.

I wouldn't make matey jokes about going over to George's house to hang out, Waitrose guy.

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

Corporate brands awkwardly appropriating out-dated memes is a whole subgenre of this kind of thing. That one is a perfect example

is this that or is it different cos its for the kids?
https://www.club.ie/meet-pat-frog/

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

winner

pic.twitter.com/jtRSxrUkA5

— Chris Ashworth-Bennion (@ChrisBennion_) February 15, 2023

the 'innocent smoothies' voice crossed with the 'buckle up fuckos/2am chilli' voice is particularly horrifying

"We’re here to punch lunch in the taste buds"

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

we have some Tesco kitchen foil at home which for some reason has "foiled again!" written on it

I had a better looking ham sandwich thrown to me at the milwaukee county jail in 1994

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" (?)