#joe camel

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I think that Ken needs some help

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Joe Camel airbrush commercial art 🐫

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 Mike Salisbury

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Joe Camel - Camel Cigarettes (1994)

Cigarette Advertisement

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Nostalgic Lookback: Camel VS Cheetah

Back in the late 80s and early 90s, there were two "hip and cool" cartoon animal mascots who wore shades often appearing in places to sell their respective products - Joe Camel for Camel cigarretes, and Chester Cheetah for Cheetos. Very similar yet oh so different.

See, Joe was a fairly obscure camel drawing for a French advertising campaign of the cigarette brand back in 1974. In 1988, he was suddenly brought back for overseas markets and redesigned to be this stylish, alpha male gangster character who glamourized smoking Camel cigarettes while doing cool shit. While Chester was created two years prior in 1986 as a mascot to finally take over from the Cheetos Mouse who was last seen at the end of the 70s. The sly, smooth voiced, self-described "hip kittie" began starring in more cartoony Cheetos commercials as he became the official mascot for the snack food, using slogans like "It's not easy being cheesy" and "the cheese that goes crunch!" until his signature tagline / catchphrase became "Dangerously cheesy!" from 1997 onward.

Obviously, one of these mascots outlived the other, and it's the way I'd wanted and expected it to be. Whereas I was quickly endeared to Chester Cheetah and Cheetos, I was always repelled by Joe Camel and the cigarettes he advertised. I don't know how many more kids felt that way, but certainly many adults did, as they soon realized that the Joe Camel ad campaign was appealing to children just as much as to adults, leading to fears of children actually buying what Joe was selling them. Because of this, Joe Camel was suspended and retired in 1997. The poor bastard couldn't even make it a full 10 years.

Well, at least they both have more legacy than the even shorter lived Mac Tonight of McDonalds and Boomer the Goldfish of Goldfish!

(What WAS it with cartoony mascots wearing shades back then?)

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Prompted by Bill Oakly on Twitter

https://twitter.com/thatbilloakley/status/1740437988516175979

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god i miss smoking

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#joecamel #camelcigarettes #cigarettemerch #vintagetee #vintagetshirt #marlboro #marlborotshirt

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God I kinda love posting shit knowing like 0 people are gonna see it. It's like taking a long drag of a cigarette, and immediately flicking it away such that I will never see it, or it's consequences again.

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1995 Camel Cigarettes Magazine Advertisement

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if Kaneko had a stand/sona what would it look like?

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