this is an ad on tunglr dot vom

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[thegikitiki]

1964 Advertisement for Parke-Davis

[gardengnosticator]

my tumblr ads are alternating between reminding me i’m a dyke and telling me to fear the space scorpion

[teenagedirtstache]

[weirdness-is-good]

[shabbytigers]

All-time hall of fame winner for most preposterous Facebook ad (luxury slop category), hands down the worst thing I’ve ever been solicited to buy on FB:

🩵 Jeff Koons x Lexon Drop Is Live! 🩵

Thousands waited for this drop.

Now it's open and the clock is already running. The Lexon × Jeff Koons Chromatic Collection is live with eight collectible Balloon Dog designs in four vibrant shades, each available as a lamp and a speaker.

The 2025 edition sold out worldwide. This one will too. The only question is whether you're on the right side of that.

💰 $800 per piece | Free worldwide shipping

🎨 Max 2 units per color, per customer

Shop now. This won't last.

I am not making any of this up, that’s the ad, that’s the copy, that’s what they’re selling. They’re signed or endorsed or something (the screenshot is of the end of a video, because it says what it is in one visual. I did watch the video all the way through but just the once, and I was a little wigged out, ngl) by Jeff actual Koons, who I hope is doing okay and sleeping well at night about this, things are tough all over. In the vid there’s a scene where we see a guy’s back as he walks up to his fancy bar counter with the Jeff Koons balloon dog speaker on it and twists the dog’s nose. I’m not OK

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

i will not design a corporate minimalist logo for poob

i will not design a corporate minimalist logo for poob

i will not design a corporate minimalist logo for poob

i will not design a corporate minimalist logo for poob

i will not design--

:/

[fallout-lou-begas]

does anybody else remember head on

[fallout-lou-begas]

apply directly to the forehead

[fallout-lou-begas]

this was a real commercial for a real product sold on television. and now i know what you're thinking. "there's no way this headache medication actually worked." and well that's where they got you, smart guy. you can't call it false advertising because at no point in this product's marketing did it ever claim to actually medicate anything

[adnopes]

[hacash]

someone at the marketing department had a little too much fun with this

[villainessbian]

a challenger

[giragirameganedan]

dreamt that itch.io released their own special adaptable accessible super thin flexible silicon game controller called the Butterfly you could also fuck (they packaged each one with lube and toy cleaner) but there was no specific obvious way you were supposed to fuck it they encouraged everyone to find their own special unique way to fuck it. and they ran these ads for it that were different people from all walks of life saying what they do with it . sunburned rural dad who folds it hotdog style and jacks off into it. biracial masc lesbian with undercut who tribs with the joystick. young amputee in wheelchair who lets it vibrate on his lap while he works on his novel. etc. beautiful supermodel woman whos like "and me? i just game. hard." it ended with them all triumphantly saying into the camera "and thats how *I* fuck #MyButterfly"

[adnopes]

oh facebook algorithm, your faith in me is touching. if only i were the person you staunchly believe me to be

possibly the meta robot became confused by my evinced interest in antarctic cruises, which is genuine enough, but not an interest that i can back at present or in the foreseeable future. it’s so penetrating when it’s good, and so incredibly freaking not when it isn’t

[chaifootsteps]

[sagacious-sdaughter]

"Hey there pepperhead, legal isn't super exited about this tweet"

[dandyads]

Gold's Gym, 1991

[unicronian]

almost sobbing trying not to laugh at this ai slop ad. is there no quality checking at ANY point in this process? not the ai generator? not the person okay-ing the ad? not tumblr?

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

Load bearing ‘the dishes’

[shabbytigers]

the emotional journey facebook’s ad-serving algorithm just dragged me through 💀

point the first: facebook is serving me ads for an assisted living facility (that’s what we’d call it in english: senior housing for people at or anticipating the onset of frailty, with a low-intensity, unobtrusive level of care)

when i tell you i had an actual rage adrenalin surge about this. how fucking dare. on closer inspection the copy directly addresses the children and grandchildren of prospective residents, which is fair, and i duly initiated calm the fuck down protocols but ngl i’m still a bit riled up

point the second: the assisted living, though. they’re in berlin. they have ALPACAS. they make their own artisanal ice cream. i’m not dead certain i don’t want to move in

[sapphling]

stories about evil and cruel poly partners forcing others into being in open relationships & hand wringing over "egg culture" and "misgendering feminine cis men" & fretting about the prevalence of kink & one million other obnoxious conservative arguments all fall to pieces relatively quickly when you understand that the norm is just as constructed as that external to it and adherence to the norm is just as much a choice/action/pattern of behavior as dissent is