I am so obsessed with the battery charge in cellphone screenshots that even that picture couldn’t distract me from OMG 13% GOTTA PLUG THAT IN NOW!

I google “hormonal changes in middle aged women” when I’m feeling hot.

He actually had a bunch of different sons. All of them were named Bobby and curiously were never in the same room at the same time.

Someone was clearly at a retreat! We’ll call him Ron Roper.

Coke is going to come out with a glorious ad come July 4th or something to counter this and make Pepsi look like even bigger amateurs.

<makes jerking off motion> is the term you were looking for.

It’s like the ad team went to their local walmart, saw this and thought, ‘Wow, that’s great! But we need something more relevant to today’s youth. I know, the protests! Yeah, let’s do this exact and not at all terrible thing but with the protest movement! And pepsi instead of coke, of course.’

“This is a global ad that reflects people from different walks of life coming together in a spirit of harmony, and we think that’s an important message to convey.”

So I can keep not drinking Pepsi?

I was going to say (as someone who has worked in advertising my whole career) that this seems exactly like an idea a client would come up with.

That said, I might now get a bunch of handjob gifs when I google puppies... so that’s great.

The best part about this being in-house is that they have to stand by it and double down because they don’t have an agency to blame/fire.

Yeah, those “join the conversation” posters were some really offensive bullshit given the real issues right now and the risks protesters are taking to make them known.

Pretty sure if you google “handjob” anything, your’e gonna get a bunch of pics of handjobs, regardless of what your previous searches are. I mean, i’m not going to get pictures of puppies when I put in “handjob”...

The explanation is worse or almost as bad as the ad. It is a bunch of word salad.

- How about.... “It depicts various groups of people embracing a spontaneous moment, in an exploration of what that truly means to live life unbounded, unfiltered and uninhibited.”

what I wanted was the handjob motion gif. It was a mistake to google that. At work. I don’t know what I was thinking (penises, obviously).

Apparently, this ad was created by Pepsi’s in-house “content creation arm,” because Wieden+Kennedy or BBDO or a real ad agency wouldn’t be so fucking busy navel gazing that they’d let this one past the goalposts.