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lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 12:43 PM Jul 2018

Recent advertising for "Feelin' Good Tees"

Kept repeatedly appearing on my DU page with a smiling woman wearing a "I don't care, do you?" T-shirt. No mistaking that political statement in this timeframe. Holy Moly it took a dozen times of clicking "As was inappropriate" for Google Chrome to remove it.
There's one odd hypocrisy in my view, for a company to be stylizing it's advertising as "1970's counter-culture" to be so complicit in it's right leaning advertising then placing that message as it's click-bait on a left-leaning site? Has Google got some RW freaks playing jokes like the anti-gay ads placed usurping LGBT videos? WTF, Google?
At one point I clicked just to see what they offered. There were more of the same, lot's of "proud I'm a drunken idiot", "You'll pry the guns from my cold, dead hands" and other dipshit shirts with no alternative offerings.
Wow... "Feelin Good Tees"... you certainly made me feel:
nauseated.

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Recent advertising for "Feelin' Good Tees" (Original Post) lambchopp59 Jul 2018 OP
What sells zipplewrath Jul 2018 #1
You have to attribute your feelings to that shirt. wasupaloopa Jul 2018 #2
God bless the self-fulfilling prophecy LanternWaste Jul 2018 #3
Yep splain'n thanks wasupaloopa Jul 2018 #8
Not much spain'n necessary after the first... ahem... lady wore that garbage lambchopp59 Jul 2018 #4
Sure there is. It's what you make it wasupaloopa Jul 2018 #9
They had that same T-shirt on sale for months if not longer. denverbill Jul 2018 #5
Didn't know, still relevant gripe... change that approach, FGT's lambchopp59 Jul 2018 #7
I've encountered RW ads on DU as well; had to click "inappropriate" many times to block 'em lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #6

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
1. What sells
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 12:47 PM
Jul 2018

That site has a business model the basically detects what will sell and gets them out quickly. The offerings suggest who is willing to buy. Apparently "morans" have excess cash to waste.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
2. You have to attribute your feelings to that shirt.
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 12:48 PM
Jul 2018

It doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone.

I could wear it because I don’t give a shit about a lot of things.

This is another one of those group think things that I feel we need to walk away from.

Now if I get a lot of spain’n then I feel I am right.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
3. God bless the self-fulfilling prophecy
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 12:51 PM
Jul 2018

"Now if I get a lot of spain’n then I feel I am right..." (unless of course, it's one of those things you "don't give a shit about...)

God bless the self-fulfilling prophecy. Keeping people validated in regards to their own cleverness for 1.75 million years.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
4. Not much spain'n necessary after the first... ahem... lady wore that garbage
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 01:14 PM
Jul 2018

Obviating not only her crappy message but the echo from FGT's.
There isn't much wiggle room for that at this time.

denverbill

(11,489 posts)
5. They had that same T-shirt on sale for months if not longer.
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jul 2018

I saw it many months before Melanoma wore her coat.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
7. Didn't know, still relevant gripe... change that approach, FGT's
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 02:52 PM
Jul 2018

At least the first page had nothing but facepalmingly drunkard/stupid and GUN rights T shirts. Something's not left there. Er, right. Er... alternative from generalized RW nutjobbery. If they're too dense or stupid to see the bent of their site, not inclined to purchase anything from them, that horrible act by Melanoma is too fresh in my mind and much of my hispanic family and friends to be overlooked.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
6. I've encountered RW ads on DU as well; had to click "inappropriate" many times to block 'em
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 02:32 PM
Jul 2018

I hope that it causes some kind of harm to the advertiser when I do that.

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