#adverising

[zoomar]

Shady Pool Co.

[fictionalnation]

As a marketer, I have to say Tumblr blaze is genius lol

[3liza]

i mean the truth is that we do not need and should not have all this stupid plastic clutter in or houses. no one should be producing or selling this shit. everyone make your own merchandise and charge a living hourly wage to sell it 🤷 sorry to be so simplistic about this but it's one of the results of the lack of class unity specifically in the means of production-owning creative class, who is not mentioned or dealt with by the core Marxist texts as far as I know (i asked about this earlier on here, did marx ever address in his analysis people like, for example, a professional photographer who owns a camera ans prints his own dagguereotypes? or a portrait painter or idk, independent milliner or seamstress? these people all own the means of production and do not employ anyone, and the answer from better educated people than I was that no, Marx didn't mention them), I'm not well read on this at all, there is just a big void where leftist analysis of what modern economists call "the creative class"

I'm getting off topic. my point is make your own keychains in your kitchen. it's actually not hard. you can even mass produce (on a small scale) little plastic crap if you want, with resin and a UV lamp, or a 3d printer, or a laser cutter and acrylic sheets (or just use balsa wood damn, at least its biodegradable and less tacky).

all this stuff is available to little creators AND there are hundreds of people who already own these machines who will take work for you and produce your designs. you just have to actually find them and know them and email them. that's what I mean about the class unity issue with creatives. we have no large scale union, we have no large scale class consciousness, and we're all sending our orders for little plastic crap to sweatshops instead of emailing a guy with a laser cutter in his garage and saying "hey Keith can I get uhhhhhhhhhhh 50 laser cut keychains of this twerking Diggler design I made, like how much would that cost" and he's like sure here's the work and materials cost and tbh it's always always less than i think it's going to be. you just have to do some basic arithmetic and then order shipping, and I hate order fulfillment with my life but you can actually pay or barter with someone to do that for you too. learn to delegate and then factor that into your unit cost. this is basic shit every commercial creator needs to know. they should teach you this in art school but they dont

don't give me crap about "I can't afford a laser cutter" either because I just told you to email Keith. and all these machines get sold secondhand when a manufacturer or hobbyist needs to upgrade. i got a color laser printer perfect for making zines and wheatpastes and shipping labels from a retired lesbian on capital hill for $75 and it was still full of ink. my friend gave me her 20 year old canon dslr because she just didn't need it and didn't want to bother selling it. it works fine because I spent the time finding the right drivers and shit for my computer. and card readers exist. Craigslist. Facebook marketplace. nextdoor sales section. eBay. everyone always forgets eBay. eBay lets you save searches and will email you when it finds a guy selling his vinyl plotter in your city with local pickup. I'm serious

[smuglemon]

fun childhood memory: when i was 10ish me and my dad called our cat alice legendary black kyurem. like that was one of her consistent nicknames.. i didnt even have b2w2 as a kid so i dont know why i found and fixated on kyurem specifically

[goshyesvintageads]

Zena Jeans Inc, 1990

[ugghouly]

THEY ARE JUST PUTTING HIM IN THE ALCHEMITER 😭😭😭😭

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

OPI Nail Polish Add

early 2000s

found on fuckyeahnostalgicbeauty

[kply-industries]

[mikotofubar]

Damn, I'd give a kidney for this.

Store link

[speedofsoundsketches]

they also give us a tease of Sonic's world and then promptly trash in favor of le earth for the audience

“You see this here? This crazy awesome world with loop dee loops, checkerboard soil and a promise of an exciting adventure to come?”

“BOOM. San Francisco.”

[23rdhunter]

Medical Adverts from 1899 and 1901

aka, snake oil, examples of why the fda is good sometimes, etc. Viewer discretion is advised.

Notes: the treatment for goiter might actually treat goiter, I'm having trouble tracking down what this particular remedy was but there was a new treatment (iodine) available at the time

[thewondermentofillustration]

Nevarust print advertiseent, The Diggers' Gazette, South Australia,, Vol. 3, no. 2, 7th June, 1921

[lukestarkillerisgay]

the amount of products available , the amount of brands , the amount of people trying to create their own brands their own products their own stores , working in marketing and branding for that short time has done more to tyler durden-ify me than any well written essay on consumerism , like it’s genuinely so exhausting ,

[msnbccelebrating29years]

"It's Time To Get Connected" Advertisement from MSNBC, July 1996

[msjarvis]

I’m more impressed at where they placed the bucket with the Coronas… 😏

Marketing at its finest… 👏👏

whoever placed that table there must hate me

[rainecannotdie]

I think this is the funniest shit Tumblr has advertised to me because this looks like absolute shit.