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Hot girls eat Arby’s
Well that’s just a violation of truth in advertising laws.
they have the meats
it’s a good thing arbys didn’t do a cyberpunk collab
the american dream fell off so hard. it used to be about owning property and having a family or starting your own business, shit like that, but now it’s about being pandered to in advertising. pathetic.
KKKostco
“antique”
Man you could have just bought one glizzy a day for that price
I think that’s still the American Dream, but now owning property, having a family and starting your business have all fused together in the sense that you own property, then start a business renting out your property, and you have a family to serve as props to advertise your Christian-friendly traditional business
FYI: These ads are “anti-woke” because they contain explicit and creepy dog whistles about “genetics”, not (merely) because they star
people. Akilah is making a joke (or she’s oblivious), and Oli is observing a genuine (and disturbing) trend.I feel like this has to be pointed out, because right wingers often celebrate “fake” culture war victories over which we rightfully clown on them, but these are real IMO. It’s similar to all the companies dropping Pride month.
Disclaimer: I haven’t seen the ad on the left; I’m assuming it fits the trend of the other two.
Edit: It looks like the Arby’s one is just a photo shoot of a white woman, which may be why Akilah made the joke.
What are the dog whistles being shown here?
The Sydney Sweeney jeans ad makes a bunch of “genes/jeans” puns that can be read as “white genes = good genes,” although it’s not explicitly presented as such and could be interpreted as “I got hot girl genes.” Which is the trouble with dog whistles, they take the same form as innocuous things. That being said, I’ve seen waaaay more “discussion of it being controversial” than people actually being offended by it, which flags for me that this might be more a manufactured outrage than an organic response. Like either American Eagle is planting “this ad be controversial” stories or the right wing outrage machine amplifying a small handful of critiques into “the left has been triggered by Sydney’s boobala!”
No clue about the other two.
The entire outrage and backlash-to-the-outrage cycle has been so obviously manufactured from the beginning. They’re playing chuds like a fiddle.
I wonder how many millions of dollars a year the 22 year old dipshit consultant who designed these ad campaigns gets paid a year
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Like not to minimize nazi stuff, but I think there’s a bigger chance it’s a reference to the actual concept of the “Golden hour” rather than being a reference to a greek neo nazi party
Fair point.
Golden Dawn
New fictional Digimon organization, too. I’m hoping it’s a reference to the British Hermetic Secret Society but you never know with Japan.
Digimon creators are really into weird esoteric shit, so it is probably referencing the British one here.
i genuinely dont understand this kind of racism
how do you get threatened by people who aren’t like you getting marketed to?
it’s a bit crazy making. i know the art of rhetoric gets used to mislead these folks, but that kind of bullshit requires a kind of base substrate to bloom properly - so what’s got Whitey so insecure that this is a thing?
I’m white and I mostly just wanna be better than my ancestors, and do my best to not be a racist shithead? it’s easy and it sometimes feels validating and stuff - what in the fuck is going on. was it always like this. were we always like this? is my growing sense of alienation just me becoming aware of and pulling away, rather than some amplification of a new phenomenon?
that’s slightly rhetorical, i just wanna invite analysis
generally speaking the closest thing a typical burgerlander experiences to engaging with public art is receiving advertising. they are isolated and miserable, and the only evocative experiences they have are ads, where much time and energy is expended to try and connect with them and make them feel something. like hungry for burger or sexually charged desire for an SUV.
when they see an ad that isn’t trying to connect them, all they know is that they have been left out, they are alone and they’ve lost something they don’t know how to replace.
the one true God is no longer reaching down from heaven to touch their heart and divinely inspire them specifically to order curly fries. because God doesn’t speak to them anymore.
it is truly a pathetic phenomenon of the most wretched and unloved losers in history.
That’s an extremely ungenerous description that still manages to make me feel bad for them
i’m religious too - i just feel like if there’s a God, it would want me to unify with and reconcile with other humans - anything that’s fundamentally alienating therefore needs be carefully analyzed, imo
but there’s no doubt this wretched nation has lost the mandate of heaven. I just wonder how you have to be wired such that you inherit these trends?
idk what i’m seeking really
I may be agnostic, but I have a personal saying.
“I hope God is real so fascists can be dragged to hell for their arrogance.”
The core of the neoliberal turn and the conservative embrace of free market absolutism was the idea that letting the market dictate things meant white people living traditional lifestyles dictating things. Back in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, those were the people with disposable income. So letting Mr. Market decide instead of pesky things like democracy or need meant a whites-oriented political economy without explicitly being whites-oriented.
However, that’s not so much the case anymore. Not that white people are not economically advantaged, just that it’s now a combination of enough non-whites with disposable income plus the whites with disposable income are more likely to be urban professional whites with at least a surface-level desire to look multicultural (and it don’t get much more surface-level than fast food commercials). So the advertising industry went from “putting a mixed race or gay couple in an ad would be the death of the product” to “a mixed race or gay couple in an ad will bring in those sweet, sweet Brooklyn dad dollars.”
This presented an existential crisis for “traditional” whites. The market was no longer catering to them, but they were too deep into the neoliberal game to truly turn on the market. This the sort of advertising minutiae we regard as background noise becomes a “canary in the coal mine” for their sense of identity.
Crackers are the most loyal lapdogs of the ruling class because they see themselves as porky’s fellow porks.
So if their ego isn’t properly pandered to 100% of the time, they feel betrayed. Of course, this doesn’t lead them to proletariat consciousness that they were simply used by porky, but they double down in their loyalty while still hating them.
It’s a lib book, but it’s very poignant and part of many socialist pipelines called What’s The Matter With Kansas? it explains everything and this phenomenon has been observed since the 2000s. Except now there’s hundreds of Rush Limbaughs and Fox News to tell the masses everything they want to hear and give them easy false answers to everything.
Capitalism wants to sell products to everyone. Capitalism requires exploitation to function. Racism is required to justify exploitation. Capitalists, consumers, and producers absorb racism and take it at face value. Consumers want racism reinforced through consumption. Capitalists cater to them in order to sell products. Consumers are wholly unfulfilled as the things that would satisfy them have been stripped away in order to bolster consumption. Therefore it’s very important that their consumption cater to every part of their being, which includes the racism.
: “Boy, I sure suck don’t I? Here’s some commercials where I show brown people aren’t all THAT bad! Might as well sell the rebellion against me!”
: “I knew it! Da jooz are taking away white people in commercials! Globalists, as the aryan master race, I COMMAND you to censor anyone who isn’t me! How dare insult the gods?”
: “Yeah sure, no problem. Glad we see eye to eye, fellow bourgeoisie!”
: “We DID it! We stopped da jooz by asking them to stop!”What is this Sydney Sweeney shit about? She’s been in like 20 commercials but this one has weird rightoids talking about… something. I can’t understand any of it.
She has big honkers and rightwangers think leftists don’t like titties because they’re antiwoke.
Welcome to late stage right wing culture wars, next stop is ‘zero pretense, just murder’
The left needs to reclaim boobs
All Power to the IBTC!
no, that way lies lolicons
Nah.
It’s some eugenics shit about her blue jeans (alluding to her blue eye genes)
And in response to the all the noise about this ad, American Eagle released a statement with Nazi dog whistles 🙃
They did? Apparently I missed the follow up, but guess its not really surprising
i thought it was the
genes
I could explain it to you but im to tired
it’s the eu-jean-ics implication
Okay, but I’m not buying any of that shit. Nor can a lesser being (an ad) disgrace my divine screen (half a dozen adblocks + custom ublock blocks + no TV/streaming)
honkey ass mayo ass wonder bread crackers ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!
western civilization has been saved
We’re being beaten by the dumbest people on the planet.
We’re being beaten by the richest and most powerful people on the planet. The dumb ones are just cheering for the wrong side.
Yeah true enough.
Imagine being former KGB and seeing Americans tweeting out state secrets from their gaming chatrooms.
It’s kind of strange seeing CHUD advertising going back to the “sex sells” kind of ads of a few decades ago. Did anyone actually like that idea? It just seem weird and uncomfortable to me. Maybe my greyace is showing, but I feel like it is at best irrelevant, and at worst, actively confusing.
When did “sex sells” marketing ever stop to begin with?
I thought it got replaced with that sort of “lol random” obnoxious marketing for a while there, but I do go out my way to avoid ads as much as possible.
Brain so fried it’s got 100000 additional calories
american eagle still exists??
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