Being Sensitive Is Embarrassing, Ohhh Your Tone Was Different Than Usual Well I'm Gonna Go Jump In Front

soooo today i learned that back in the early 90s, coca cola tried making this thing called “ok soda” as a marketing stunt to beat out pepsi since they had way more of a hold on the “younger/rebellious” generation at the time, and their way of doing that was naming it “ok soda” so that they could copyright the word “ok”, the most popular word in the world, and at the same time brand it as an…ironic soda??? like the whole thing with it was that they tried to brand ok soda as a counterculture soda but instead of making it about typical 90s RADICAL EXTREME!!! fodder the theme of it was uh. unsettling capitalist brutalist dystopia. instead of being bright and colorful the color scheme was only stark whites, grays and reds and the cans looked like this. bold shapes and labels stating ominous, robotic things with a figure always staring dead into you on the front, no coca cola branding on it at all.

sometimes there would be “prize cans” of this stuff where instead of having soda inside it there would be hats. and they didn’t sell this option in boxes by the way they just put prize cans in random vending machines. and put like 25 cents in it so hey. you could get an actual soda that isn’t just hats. maybe.

did i mention that this soda also had a fucking MANIFESTO??? because yeah it sure had that printed on some cans and it goes as follows

and there’s these things called “coincidences”, which… yeah it doesn’t make it sound any less ominous

and you might be wondering how the soda itself tastes like does it taste good? ok? well apparently it was just a regular “citric” tasting soda but somehow they fucked it up so bad that it was compared to “carbonated tree sap”, and instead of trying to make the drink taste better they included that it tasted like shit, INTO THE ADVERTISING SCHEME ITSELF. they would literally advertise that it tasted like ass as a part of the ironic marketing, no i am not kidding.

but if you thought that’s where it ended there’s one more curveball and without any exaggeration, you will not expect what i am about to tell you.

take a look at this guy.

this guy is the “face” of ok soda, as in he was printed on the most cans and technically served as a mascot of sorts for the entire thing. his face was a major part of the branding, and this design for the cans was one of if not the most common.

okay. cool. no issue there right?

take a guess on who this guy is based off of.

the artist’s coworker? a generic guy? the artist himself? a relative? some random reference model they hired?

CHARLES MANSON. YES, THIS IS REAL. MEANING FOR A BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME, CHARLES MANSON’S FACE WAS USED AS A MEANS TO SELL COCA COLA.

the lead artist himself has even come forward to say this is the case. and now you may be asking wait. how’d he do this? how’d he possibly get away with this, years after the crimes had been committed?

well according to him, it was simple. apparently none of the contracts he signed said anything against putting a mass murderer on the can. so. there’s THAT.

unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, ok soda never really caught on since *surprise surprise!* teens really don’t want to buy soda that looks like a brutalist art museum, and it never had a wide release so it was only a thing for like two years between 1993 and 1995. but from what i’ve heard there’s still people who are giving this soda a small modern following, collecting all the cans and merchandise and even coming up with stand in recipes for the soda formula itself.

so yeah! that was ok soda.

what the fuck

POST PLUS IS COMING, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!

Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.

SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.

Ad revenue.

We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.

WHEN IS THE PROTEST?

AUGUST 6th, 2021        12 am Eastern Time (US)          5 am Greenwich Mean Time          6 am Central European Time          8 am Moscow Standard Time          1 pm Australian Western Time          2 pm Japan Standard Time          3:30 pm Australian Central Time          4 pm Australian Eastern Time

AUGUST 5th, 2021

11 pm Central Time (US)          10 pm Mountain Time (US)            9 pm Pacific Time (US)

THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!

So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!

WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.

WILL THIS WORK?

Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing SOMETHING.

BECAUSE I’M A TIRED IDIOT, USE THIS TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE!!!!

timeanddate.com

Event Time Announcer - Log off protest 2021

Event Time Announcer shows time for Log off protest 2021 in locations all over the world. In New York it happens on Friday, August 6, 2021 a

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from what i know, i believe he plans to make you his BIRD QUEEN

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the giveaway will end WHEN THE BIRD KING DEMANDS IT

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good luck!

tumblr tuesday: endless fanart

Welcome to the smallest atom of the tiniest bubble resting in the top layer of the tip of the ominously large iceberg of breathtaking fanart you’ve created so far in celebration of the Sandman’s Netflix release. Very good.

@sunsetagain​:

@alexzajfert​:

@irlplasticlamb​:

@jim-jam-gem​:

@amoneyun​:

@themadknightuniverse​:

@cdy148​:

@beeccoe​:

@khadaj-ballad-art​:

@dr-paint​:

@half-confused-blood​:

@captainskells​:

@lamiasage​:

@7lizardsinacoat​:

@marionettefthjm​:

@hattersarts​:

@electric-meme​:

@mmmo0n​:

@joandraws​:

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JENNIFER'S BODY (2009)

dir. Karyn Kusama

I wish to be like Elizabeth, but unfortunately I am like darcy without the money.

hello little disabled people in my phone. do yall have POTS? are you also queer? im wrote up a pretty short survey for yall to take to give some insight into POTS and its effects on queer bitches. ill be posting the anonymous results pretty regularly as i get new information in, so itll be fairly easy to stay updated on the results.

Google Docs

POTS in Transgender Patients

Studying the effects of POTS on natal sex and gender identity. Answers are anonymous.

no pressure to take the survey of course, i just like to conduct research in my spare time. plus im going on hormone replacement therapy and my mom and my fiance are worried about how it would affect my physical health.

theres also the "other" option for yalls assigned sex at birth, but its not for joke answers. be respectful.

just in case you wanted to be very sad

Beware this post contain spoil for Arcane ⚠️⚠️

Arcane isn't even that woke. There, I said it. Of course, it pictures well-written women, POC, disabled people but it got off track with season two. We completely lost the class struggle theme : the rich got to stay rich, the poor stayed poor (even if the physical barriers were taken down, the class barriers are still very much in place). This is very well embodied by the character of Kaitlyn (I've never liked her, her only quality is that we both like Vi so be prepared for Kaitlyn slender)

Kaitlyn is forgiven all of her *war crimes*, literal *crimes against humanity* under the pretext that she was manipulated by ambessa. But like girl, you were ready to kill a literal child, you broke up with your girlfriend because she didn't let you murder the precious little angel that Isha was. SHE GASSED PEOPLE. She profited of her wealth and privilege all the show, she was never held accountable.

The privileged stayed privileged, they got to keep their class disdain and their wealth built on the death of Zaunites.

Anyway,

textposts that remind me of the poppy war: