My girlfriend and I were just talking about brand twitter in the car, how it’s repulsive and seems to have gotten woefully moreso in the last year. It’s almost something has coarsened the entirety of Western culture as it also rockets us towards economic and ecological doom, creating severe desperation on the parts of…

Did any of these come through?

Did any of these come through?

*pssst* thank you for your message.

*pssst* thank you for your message.

I worked in a Manhattan commercial photo studio (Group 4) in 1969 when Caroll joined Henson and Associates. Our town house buildings were next door to each other. We would photograph the larger puppets for them. I remember Big Bird sauntering out of their studio and into ours for the photos. Completely in character…

I’m afraid i cannot recommend investment without your startup implementing a name-change involving blockchain

Awesome! Please take your social security number, bank account and routing number and mother’s maiden name and put them in a video to be auto-played, full-screen, as an ad on the G/O Media site of your choice. We will be in touch.

Want any additional parters? I’m really good at spending money in profoundly unproductive ways.

Your honesty is refreshing and inspiring. Put me down for $10 mil. 

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And it turns out the shooter was a Saudi 2nd Lt, so there’s all that fun garbage too. Ugh. Please God, for once do not let hate crimes go up in response.

Something about Beyond burgers hits me in a bad way. They reminded me of the horrid soy burgers served at our shitty public schools, but actually worse. I despised those school ‘burgers’, so this is some sort of bad flashback or something? I couldn’t get past the taste and I was burping up nastiness for the rest of…

I honestly think Pelaton-husband is the target audience. Like the whole thing is mid-level MBA bro aspiration porn: “Give your smoke wife a Pelaton, she tightens that shit up, and then thanks you for it a year later. BALLER MOVE.”

What gets me is the part where she raves about going from 116 to 112 pounds. I did appreciate that the ad (mistakenly) outed the fact it took a year of insane workouts to lose four damn pounds and she looks exactly the same.

I hate the ad because the wife’s behavior is so weird. She’s nervous about riding it for the first time? And filming herself? And then she compiled a year’s worth of videos into one and made her husband watch it, all while she’s sitting there looking like it’s the most vulnerable thing she’s ever done??? Nobody would…

Yes, if her demeanor changed throughout the ad that would have been enough. Instead, she keeps that same scared, constipated look on her face the whole time. If we saw her start excited but tentative, then move to attacking her workouts, with huge smile and proud look on her face we would see the change. That’s what I…

I don’t think people are upset over the ad, I think they’re amused by the ad. I know I am amused. It is just so over the top and sentimental, and cringey. It is funny and tone-deaf. 

All they needed to do was make this ad more about her making a change in herself. One line midway though would have done the trick: “I never thought I’d stick with it—I’m proud of myself” or whatever. Instead she just says she can’t believe how much it changed her, but there is literally nothing in the commercial to…

This was my favorite tweet about the whole deal:

My initial take way when seeing before find out about the brewhaha was “This commercial is unintentional hilarious because she looks terrified during the entire commercial.” I am not sure if it is the way it is film (which the cellphone selfie shots giving a found footage horror movie feel) or the way she played the…

100%. People would have dunked on the skinny woman’s life being “changed” no matter what, but if the actress had just played this a bit differently (or the director directed her to play it differently), I think it wouldn’t have been nearly as remarkable. But after she gets the Peloton, at no point does she look like…