And as Sir Martin Sorrell tells us, advertising is really all about the numbers. The first YouTube video currently has about 30 times as many downvotes as upvotes. Wait for it to disappear just like last week’s blatant Tim and Eric ripoff, which came to us for a short time courtesy of Cheez-It. It’s kind of like The Most Interesting Man in the World.Īnd most of the comments in the linked thread are like…we did not invent this concept, duh.īut you know how the hive mind works, and the campaign has already earned a lot of bad press for Axe. Pod links here Daily Shower Thoughts website. These miniature epiphanies are also known as shower thoughts, and they happen more often than you would think. Join us for random, amusing and mind bending epiphanies. By Carrie Weisman FebruShutterstock / Ever zoned out in the shower, only to be resuscitated by an exceedingly random thought You're not alone. Look forward to hearing from you Promo Daily Shower Thoughts is a new podcast launched by myself and my co-host Lorelai Stewart. We might mention that most of the jokes on reddit–and most jokes in general–are not exactly original and that the first spot encourages viewers to “claim as your own” even though the bros who might do so obviously didn’t come up with it. Just leave your name, the city and state you live in, and your best Dad Joke. That one doesn’t seem to be a direct case of theft, but maybe it stemmed from this thought: “ There should be a video website for tuba players called YouTuba.” There’s also a separate subreddit dedicated to all things tuba, “The Original Heavy Metal Instrument.” But why did it have to be a scrawny white dude playing the horn? That sentence felt more complicated than it had to be. “Generate, a division of digital content studio Defy Media, created the ad with Mindshare Entertainment, the branded content arm of media buying agency Mindshare.” OK, so which agency made the work? From AdFreak: Here’s the first spot starring everyone’s favorite diminutive b-baller Muggsy Bogues.Īs reddit user Sleepy_time_wit_taco put it, “ AXE” is jacking our shower thoughts and not giving credit. Of course they’re wrong the similarity between the two ideas is purely coincidental. But fans of the group in question seem to think that Axe has ripped them off mightily with its “Shower Thoughts” campaign, which launched last month. We know not all redditors are serial harassers and that “shower thoughts” is one of the least (potentially) offensive pages on the whole property. Today in Friday Dump, the trolls are pissed.
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