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Source: @alexkrokus - Twitter

eh it was fun while it lasted

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is this in response to the BBC going mastadon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seriously, social media brand accounts are always a huge turn off regardless how hard they try to be relatable or "funny".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I always imagine, the poor social media person's wage directly depends on how many viral posts they've made. And so they try and they try again, hoping that one day, one of their ~~sterile~~ brand-safe posts will somehow hit a nerve and make it big time.

Unfortunately, that still does not make these forced jokes any funnier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

god I remember when big brands first started using memes to relate to their customers. Cringe warning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I was expecting this one from 2004

What an idea, take intentionally bad music and art, then unleash it on people not in on the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Those ads really worked well on me 20 years ago haha. So maybe not as stupid as first glance indicates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Quiznos ads are modern art.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Call me edgy, but even at the phase between the brands using it and the normal use of the meme there's the period when the meme is overused and kinda obnoxious (like the pickle Rick meme).

Then sometimes the template becomes deep fried or somewhat distorted and it gets funny again ahah