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spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Colonel Cancer posted:

RC Cola did it.

I'll choose an RC over any other carbonated sugar water any day.

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COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed

Blue Train posted:

#bluecansmatter

Look we should've seen Pepsi's tone deaf campaign coming:

Dethanc
May 22, 2005

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

thanks to whoever posted the pepsi internal memo pdf. that last page floored me

dsf
Jul 1, 2004
its nice to see these hip attractive young people taking breaks from their art projects and sex orgies to give pepsi products to the police.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

thanks to whoever posted the pepsi internal memo pdf. that last page floored me

it's like reading a kyoon article, except it just goes on and gets crazier every page and somenoe was paid $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for it instead of an sa shitpost

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.


Pepsi stops your thirst right in its tracks!

dougie
Dec 28, 2012


A big OK from the USA

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.




A big flavor for those big moments.

Dely Apple
Apr 22, 2006

Sing me Spanish Techno


Xaris posted:

this is the company did this after all which is amazing;ly bad. they dont have the best track record for hiring sane marketing ppl





This is like when you hail mary make 15 pages of insanity to see if the professor even reads your finals.

Macasaurus
Oct 12, 2012

bepis bad

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
thanks for posting that Pepsi pdf. always good to have more evidence towards the premise that the people running the world are utterly inhuman and insane.

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp

Xaris posted:

this is the company did this after all which is amazing;ly bad. they dont have the best track record for hiring sane marketing ppl





I'm really glad Time Cube guy landed on his feet

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

uber_stoat posted:

the people running the world are utterly inhuman and insane.

:ussr:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy


:effort:

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

uber_stoat posted:

thanks for posting that Pepsi pdf. always good to have more evidence towards the premise that the people running the world are utterly inhuman and insane.

Lol oh man look up the guy who heads that agency Peter Arnell. He's an incredible little rear end in a top hat himself

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
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Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

ive always been a coke man, but that add has made me reconsider

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.


A Taste so Bold, it leaves the other guys begging.

https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/sta...-kendall-jenner

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Nobody in the other thread about this could explain it:

What is so upsetting about the ad?

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
It takes the hilarious concept of police oppression and blends it with delicious Pepsi-Cola

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.

Flesh Forge posted:

It takes the hilarious concept of police oppression and blends it with delicious Pepsi-Cola

It's the two tastes you never knew you wanted but now you can't get it out of your head.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

hakimashou posted:

Nobody in the other thread about this could explain it:

What is so upsetting about the ad?

Because it took protest imagery and sanitized it into a happening multicultural scene full of attractive people in the key demographic all having a good time and chilling out with sexy, young cops. It's basically spitting in the face of anyone who ever suffered from police brutality or marched for a serious cause.

mucocele
Nov 3, 2012

Gaunab posted:

she's armenian

She's actually not Armenian at all.

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

mucocele posted:

She's actually not Armenian at all.

Yeah, she's Part-Transsexual Americanus

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Applewhite posted:

Because it took protest imagery and sanitized it into a happening multicultural scene full of attractive people in the key demographic all having a good time and chilling out with sexy, young cops. It's basically spitting in the face of anyone who ever suffered from police brutality or marched for a serious cause.

So not taking the protesters seriously.

The thing is hardly anyone does, so doesnt that make it a good ad?

Also I hate to go all 'stop being autistic and talking in memes' on people, but isn't actually getting your face spit in at a march "basically spitting in the face," and something like this not?

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

If they pulled it and apologized it pretty objectively bad hth

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
It got people talking about Pepsi though and thinking about it.

I can't remember the last time I thought or talked about Pepsi.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

hakimashou posted:

It got people talking about Pepsi though and thinking about it.

I can't remember the last time I thought or talked about Pepsi.
sure but "any publicity is good publicity" is really loving stupid and not true anymore, and maybe never was.

it'll hurt sales a very small fraction of a bit since no one thought this was good, but probably not a lot really and people will just forget in a couple weeks and get another pepsi next time they're at taco bell or w/e.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Xaris posted:

sure but "any publicity is good publicity" is really loving stupid and not true anymore, and maybe never was.

it'll hurt sales a very small fraction of a bit since no one thought this was good, but probably not a lot really and people will just forget in a couple weeks and get another pepsi next time they're at taco bell or w/e.

It worked especially well in the election last year...

Flutieflakes017
Feb 16, 2012

only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

diet pepsi tastes like a weak rum and coke

I drank alot of diet pepsi the first two years of high school. Later in life I drank alot of rum and cokes. This would explain a few things.

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

Flutieflakes017 posted:

I drank alot of diet pepsi the first two years of high school. Later in life I drank alot of rum and cokes. This would explain a few things.

explains a lot actually.......about you

Salem Saberhagen
Feb 23, 2009
Hey guys I just saw a really powerful 2 and half minute commercial and it convinced me to join the conversation.

Salem Saberhagen
Feb 23, 2009

I remember this moving imagery.

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


the death of marat, but he is lying in a tub of crystal pepsi

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


skeletonotherkin
Sep 26, 2014

Bah Faygo is the true sugary beverage of the proletariat.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

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Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010

It's a brave new world

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