Have you ever wanted to ‘generate content for major brands’? Have you ever found an ‘interstitial’ really, really ‘dope’? Perhaps you’d love to find out if your ‘user experience’ is living up to a corporation intentions. Then this is the site for you: Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising! (http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/)
contributed by Leroy James
So, say you’re Bob From Marketing. You’ve already received your promotion for creating one of the most successful commercial campaigns of your career, but you just have to out-do yourself. What do you do?
That’s right. I’m talking about @OldSpice. If you’re a twitterbug (I just made that term up. One nickel to my paypal account every time you use it. Thanks.) you’ve already figured out what Bob did. Here are the ingredients for his amazing commercial-sauce.
- Build a fake bathroom and hope no one confuses it with a real one
- Hire Isaiah Mustafa for
an entire dayseveral days (Apparently this thing is still going! Say goodbye to your productivity.) - Get your creative team to just chill and write down random things
- Scope out Twitter and YouTube for comments
- Have a video-editing robot
- Have a GIANT box somewhere with just tons and tons of props
Phase 1: Spend all day coming up with ridiculous things to say in response. Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit.
The latest release of Opera’s 10.60 browser boasted ‘What is faster than the fastest?’ Although tests by Lifehacker and DailyTech show that Opera is still not as fast as Chrome or Safari, it’s really made some headway in the new version. Nevertheless, an Opera-employed copywriter put together a video of one of the most overused — but still entertaining — internet memes: alternative subtitles to the famous Hitler outburst scene from the film ‘Der Untergang’ — aka ‘Downfall’ (via Download Squad).
If you can’t tell by the title by now, it’s obvious that we’re not Twilight fans. In fact, the only fandom we support for Terrible Role Model for Young Women are all great parody materials that came out of 500+ pages of emo angst. To mark today’s premiere of Eclipse, the third movie in the 100-Year-Old Sparkling Virgin Saga, we’ve collected the funniest parody products, comics, and videos for your enjoyment.
