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Gail McCall's avatar

Maybe, just maybe, the brand manufactured the outrage themselves. Sure, sex sells; but in today's atmosphere, controversy and outrage produces more clicks.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

If you’re meaning they created the accounts on TikTok etc — possibly. If you mean they came up with this campaign with the goal of stoking Nazi ideology — that’s just too risky.

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Scott Brown's avatar

I've been watching the internet collapse over the last few years. It really is done.

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PT Lambert's avatar

The pun isn't that clever, but you've got to admit that blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and supple-bodied imply good genes that fit well with good jeans. I'm Aryan, R U?

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Linda Gumper's avatar

I loved this! There may be huge out cry about this but how many are still looking? It's the sly glance they don't claim.

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emma's avatar

Unfortunately this is the only piece of yours I've vehemently disagreed with. I worked at a branding agency for a year; there are at least 4 long meetings on the text positioning and font in ads alone. You cannot sit there and tell me this isn't intended to push a right-winged agenda.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

“Wouldn’t it be a great idea to stoke Nazi ideology?” — said nobody in any marketing agency

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DiagnosisInLove's avatar

I’m not sure that commenting on the internet…about it being time to break from the internet…holds much more water than the internet fixing its propaganda issues 😂

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