I have more or less done this, same with Instagram and Facebook. I am so much happier and at peace. It is the single best thing I’ve done for my mental health and I preach it to anyone who’ll listen.

I think those who display a very basic misunderstanding of what free speech is are the people who make me want to burn the internet to the ground the most.

Fucking bullshit.

When I was maybe 21 I was out with my new boyfriend’s friends. I was holding my drink in one hand. One of his friends asked me to hold his drink in my other hand. He then grabbed my tits which I couldn’t stop him from doing because both my hands were full. I laughed along with everyone else because I wanted them to…

On Retta’s Instagram story her rebuttal was “sure Lindsay, Hitler never killed me.”

Dyptique for luxury - beautiful scents and holders.

Dyptique for luxury - beautiful scents and holders.

Steve’s got jokes

From all I’ve heard he’s a fucking paedofile and the sooner he’s outed and thrown in jail the better.

If this true then fuck you Matt Damon and Russell Crowe. Fuck them. Even I, a nobody a million miles away from Hollywood, had heard the allegations over the years so you’d have to imagine they weren’t just aware of rumours but perhaps knew first hand accounts of the abuses. So not only did they seem to turn a blind…

Vomit.

Wait... Robin Thicke’s 22 year old girlfriend is pregnant with his child? Insert “you in danger girl” gif here.

Some do for sure but this is so at odds with their usual strategy that I do think this was just idiots left unchecked.

This is definitely a tactic a lot of marketers employ, for sure. A lot of brands know that controversy won’t last as long as the name recognition that comes with it. But the type of brand Dove is and the type of narrative it and a Unilever pushes is so at odds with this campaign that I don’t think it was intentional…

Ha! Well at least you’re capitalizing on clients like that. Someone should! And actually, for the specific example I used above it was a freelancer getting that work so at least I knew the poor guy working all night was getting paid handsomely for the overtime. I, however, was not.

Absolutely. I imagine there were multiple problematic reasons as to how this got made.

Yes. My favourite clients were the ones that asked for laborious changes to a campaign at 5pm the evening before the live date and then fucked off home leaving us implementing bullshit petty inconsequential amends until after midnight to get it done. LOL just kidding I hate those cunts :) :) :)

I love you and what you started here.

To somewhat paraphrase something someone else pointed out, I think when you’re so used to your world view being the default you can’t and don’t see the oppression at play. It’s just normalized to so blatantly make white the pinnacle.

You’d be surprised. Soap does one thing, cleans skin. They’re basically all the exact same product so this is the type of shit companies resort to in order to stand out and differentiate. It’s basically how advertising was born.

Not to mention that given the amount of people involved in a campaign like this, you’d also have to assume that not a single person of colour could have been included because this simply would not have been made if there were.