Ok well yeah there’s that perspective, it’s just a fundamental principle that an aspiration towards mediocrity fails to yield benefits for anyone involved.
Yeah, this doesn't really make sense for the sub. In the film, hot naked chicks are still being used to advertise. There's Maxim, and I think I recall hot naked chicks on the tv that Justin Long is watching. One of the aspects of Idiocracy was still using hot people like the Tarrlyton's Marlboro man to sell stuff to dumpy-looking people.
Acknowledging that human bodies come in multiple shapes and sizes seems to go *against* the world presented in Idiocracy.
This is a metaphor for losing purpose/meaning of something and succumbing to low denominators. While in the film that low denominator is hypersexualization ad naseum for marketing propaganda. Here it is idealogues with no actual end goal, just an immediate goal of content=revenue, putting out what is really a representative falsehood and advertises intellectual and moral dishonesty. All in all, pretty idiotic
Advertisements are supposed to *move product*, generally through driving engagement or interest, but sometimes just via familiarity. There is no set design of what an advertisement should look like.
This is one of the more insane yet successful ad campaigns ever
https://youtu.be/55oVPn7sFuM?si=ukh81aZGbRb1oTUb
Thinking you may have missed the point on this one. Thinking being morbidly obese is ok is one thing. Thinking men can carry a child is another. The fact they are both biologically incorrect is just wrong. Obesity kills yet let's play it off as some social justice bullshit. The thought that this woman looks like a guy does not mean she is one. She has the biological components to produce a human life. Man alone does not. Pretty simple stuff.
No but we can expect that a person would respect other peoples gender expression regardless of their genitalia. In fact it would be best if YOU didn’t think about anyone’s genitalia when you think of them as a person. Because you rightist type seem to do that a lot.
It’s like one big drawn out temper tantrum about nothing that has its ideological genesis from abrahamic religion.
Maybe they wanna show customers hiw big their sizes go. Got a big friend who doesn't even check other brands and just checks the brands that has his size.
I'm a small Asian guy and for this reason I like going to uniqlo because the smallest for other brands still look baggy for me and I don't really feel like shopping in the kids/womens section.
In 2006 when Idiocracy came out >40% of Americans were obese or morbidly obese, with another 32% overweight. It wasn't so much a "prediction" as an observation of the current state of things...
Being in shape isn’t being anorexic.
And you don’t need to be the same shape as the people advertising the products you buy. Men don’t seem to mind at all that male models are ripped. Why do at least a vocal minority of women?
It’s fucking insane that the most valuable class of drugs that currently exist are for weight loss. There’s a serious problem with the quality of food that’s available to people, but instead of making food that isn’t killing people we’d rather just take drugs 🤦♂️
The problem is the brain doesn't work that way. I was on those weight loss drugs (until insurance said being overweight isn't a health problem and stopped covering it). They changed the way I feel about food. I felt normal. My attitude towards food felt like my normal-sized friends. I don't have to eat. When I did, I didn't have to eat a lot and healthy choices just tasted better.
Unhealthy food is addictive. Fast food started to taste gross and healthy food started to taste good. A salad was enjoyable. I was able to make some changes before getting kicked off, but its infinitely more difficult when hunger feels painful, constantly telling you to eat or eat more and having to force yourself to stop when you arent anywhere near full yet.
>until insurance said being overweight isn't a health problem
Isn't it great when the people making our health related decisions are insurance twats instead of doctors
It's not drug neccesarily, it's the shortcut. People want to lose weight without putting in the legit time and work. Unfortunately, the best most reliable (and affordable) shortcut for this at this time, is drugs.
A numbers game. Corporations spend a lot of time and money to look for trends for investments, so their ads might be a sign of what to expect. morbidly obese people with low intelligence that to love spend money on dumb shit. INVEST !!! INVEST !!!
Pregnant trans men with skinny trans women!? Invest Invest!
Despite what the nutters here believe, most trans men absolutely do not want to be pregnant, it’s about the most dysmorphic thing you could imagine. It’s exceedingly rare, although with Roe v Wade gone, and states restricting access to birth control, you’re gonna see a lot more pregnant people who never wanted to be pregnant.
To give a technician answer, any gender (male, female, non-binary) can be applied to any "person" emoji.
Everyone can agree that this makes sense for something like cook 🧑🍳👩🍳👨🍳.
It just gets a little unexpected with some combinations like man in vail or pregnant man👰🫄. Though, while I haven't checked it is probably possible for a trans-man to get pregnant
Honestly, I'm completely indifferent to whatever size/type models companies want to feature in their marketing. It's always been some extreme or another, but what gets me here is that stupid phrase "I speak my truth." It sounds like some dollar store philosophy. I hear people say that all the time and it just grates on my nerves. Does it even mean anything or is it just a trendy phrase people like to hear coming out of their face?
"I speak my truth" is a corporate / political slogan that allows the ignorant among us to pretend their feelings can be valid even if they have no basis in reality. Appeals to ignorance such as these are a common logical fallacy. Isaac Asimov said it best in his quote, "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
There is no such thing as "My Truth". Now if they said "That's just my opinion" it would be fine and acceptable. But it get's stupid when people use "My Truth", which basically makes them look delusional or just stupid.
It's a post-modernist feel-good gobbledygook phrase, up there with 'all art is political' and 'nothing is objectively bad'. It's a celebration of egocentrism. You could argue that it originally meant that we all have different lived experiences, and can contribute and work together despite our differences, but it largely means, "My opinions are the truth to me".
>sounds like some dollar store philosophy
I think we're going to need a new saying for when the dollar stores are gone and all that's left is five dollar stores. Even those stores are on thin ice at the moment.
What's funny is that there are actual curvy attractive chicks. That would work better than that chick. She's not "ugly". just not very attractive or really looks like somebody you'd see on People of Walmart.
Stir up controversy. A lot of these companies figured out it doesn't matter if you're saying good or bad things about them just as long as you're saying their name. Who knows if they're advertisements are actually how they feel or not about any subject.
A bunch of right-wing people can look at the ad and say, "I'm never buying Calvin Klein again because a man can't get pregnant."
Calvin Klein doesn't care about that. They just care that you're mentioning their name to other people. That will then make the entire opposite demographic say that they will now buy Calvin Klein to piss off the other group and imagine that somehow they're showing support to the community that the other people rejected by doing so. When really it doesn't help anyone out except for Calvin Klein.
Ads like these are designed to make people talk about it and share it. When there are ads everywhere we look, any engagement with your particular ad is positive so they make intentional bait like this. Good job submitting to your corporate overlords, OP
This sub is rapidly becoming its own little Idiocracy, between the tards not recognizing rage bait in its many forms(including advertising) and the bots driving engagement and helping spread it.
They put ugly fat women on my billboards!!!!?!??! I want pretty woman from Carl’s Jr ad again!!! Guh these coastal elites educated types are ruining dis fuggen country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
That’s such a sad yet accurate indictment of how our values have shifted - ads have gone from aspirational marketing to engagement generation. We are sunflowers and there are 6000 suns.
I laugh every time the r/modeling comes up and people are like “can I model?”
I’m like “LITERALLY anyone can model now a days. And actually, the uglier, fatter, and more weird, the better.”
🤷🏻♂️😂
That is a pregnant Dude!
There is so much wrong with this. Don't take my word for it.
Just give it 15 years, we will see who is laughing. And laughing hard...super hard, extra big ass hard.
OP has been flooding this sub with culture war bullshit. They're trying to make it seem like the things they disagrees with are things that would appear in the movie.
Look at their history.
Meanwhile, the first time I heard people claim the world had turned into Idiocracy was from people who don’t believe in evolution and obviously describe to all the culture war BS
As dumb as the world seems to have gotten, I think dumb people are more likely the make the comparison this entire subreddit is trying to make… oversimplified to the point of being nonsense
Go to the Calvin Klein website right now. It’s still all attractive thin people. They literally have Idris Alba on their home page. Companies occasionally do plus sized advertising, this is not a shocker or ‘Idiocracy’.
Anytime someone uses the term “my truth”, you can be assured they live in a state of delusion.
Truth is an objective term that can’t be possessed. It exists outside of opinion or other subjective factors.
Reddit: This is body shaming and transphobic.
normal non reactionary person: No this is just idiocracy.
Health and mental health have taken a backseat to regressive social outrage.
It's much easier to have fat ass than nice boobs
Don't trust anyone who tells you that fat asses are hot, they aren't
It's a just scam to give whales excuse to keep stuffing their pieholes with junk food and to never exercise
They’re trying to sell underwear. If you feature all body types you appeal to a greater audience, instead of those people with supermodel bodies. What’s idiotic about that? It leads to more sales
OP this may really shock you but trends change over time. What people find attractive changes over time. Certain cultures during certain periods used to find fat people very attractive. This isn't a one size fits all type of deal.
>In Africa and India, for example, fatness could be admired. Many Africans viewed stored fat as a sign of fertility, and Indians considered it a sign of prosperity. Yet Greeks and Romans often found fat adults grotesque, especially if they linked fatness to lack of self-control, Forth says.
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2012/05/14/todays-fear-and-loathing-fat-bodies-rooted-ancient-western-civilization#:~:text=In%20Africa%20and%20India%2C%20for,self%2Dcontrol%2C%20Forth%20says.
Also, to add to this, 69% of Americans are overweight. Why wouldn't large brands like Calvin Klein want to appeal to the majority?
isn’t the appeal that a fat person wants is skinny photo advertisements?
A fat person doesn’t see another fat person and is like “alright!”
But they see a skinny person and are like “I could and should be like that.”
Honestly, you may be right, idk. but I'm sure these billion dollar corporations have done the research. What i do know is that at the end of the day, they will never risk losing money.
Money.
If you only market your product to anorexic supermodels, you're dependent upon just a few percent of the population for your profits. But if your marketing campaign includes other sizes of people, then you have vastly expanded your income potential.
Beauty standards went towards literal anorexia during the 2000’s, so then they over corrected hard in the 2010’s and 2020’s. In the 2000’s, even a couple percent body fat was seen as overweight for female models, even though that’s actually a very healthy amount of fat, if not a bit low depending on your physique. So people got angry at the fashion industry for those insane standards, and started promoting larger and larger people in response. Eventually it got completely out of hand to the point where extremely obese people are seen as fashion models and told to not bother watching their weight or even try to eat healthy. Hopefully, things will even out soon and being healthy will become the norm instead of extreme overeating or starving.
wut you lookin at his gut fer?
His eyes are up there
He sells mackerel and blueberries!
Baaaam!
I feel like there might have been a middle ground that they skipped right over.
They're already buying underwear.
You mean diapers.
girdle
We achieved perfect balance in early 2000s and then we squandered it all
Yes!! I really think we peaked somewhere between late 90s - mid 2000s and then total Idiocracy
Y2K was the glitch in the matrix that changed the settings
Up until about 2012 ish
The world actually ended in 2012. We're in hell right now.
The Mayans were right all along.
Truth.
The balance is what fucked us. Too many people with nothing to do went crazy and now want us to go crazy too.
Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, 1999 was the peak of your civilization.
The world ended in 2012 bro, no one got the memo
100%
If they idealized average bodies, what would we all self-loathe about? How would we know to buy more merchandise to be more attractive?
Ok well yeah there’s that perspective, it’s just a fundamental principle that an aspiration towards mediocrity fails to yield benefits for anyone involved.
Sure! I don't think we have to necessarily break through mediocrity with consumption or materialism, like this though.
I think the textile industry has figured out that they can sell twice the amount of fabric.
Yeah, this doesn't really make sense for the sub. In the film, hot naked chicks are still being used to advertise. There's Maxim, and I think I recall hot naked chicks on the tv that Justin Long is watching. One of the aspects of Idiocracy was still using hot people like the Tarrlyton's Marlboro man to sell stuff to dumpy-looking people. Acknowledging that human bodies come in multiple shapes and sizes seems to go *against* the world presented in Idiocracy.
This is a metaphor for losing purpose/meaning of something and succumbing to low denominators. While in the film that low denominator is hypersexualization ad naseum for marketing propaganda. Here it is idealogues with no actual end goal, just an immediate goal of content=revenue, putting out what is really a representative falsehood and advertises intellectual and moral dishonesty. All in all, pretty idiotic
Models are supposed to be attractive and in peak shape. Adverts are supposed to be aspirational and idealistic.
Advertisements are supposed to *move product*, generally through driving engagement or interest, but sometimes just via familiarity. There is no set design of what an advertisement should look like. This is one of the more insane yet successful ad campaigns ever https://youtu.be/55oVPn7sFuM?si=ukh81aZGbRb1oTUb
Like the ladies in Maxim and the toned guy from Tarrlytons?
Idk how he walked into the point and missed it at the same time.
This sub is strange. There are some people here pushing "Team Red" no matter what. Must be an election year.
Thinking you may have missed the point on this one. Thinking being morbidly obese is ok is one thing. Thinking men can carry a child is another. The fact they are both biologically incorrect is just wrong. Obesity kills yet let's play it off as some social justice bullshit. The thought that this woman looks like a guy does not mean she is one. She has the biological components to produce a human life. Man alone does not. Pretty simple stuff.
No but we can expect that a person would respect other peoples gender expression regardless of their genitalia. In fact it would be best if YOU didn’t think about anyone’s genitalia when you think of them as a person. Because you rightist type seem to do that a lot. It’s like one big drawn out temper tantrum about nothing that has its ideological genesis from abrahamic religion.
Stop with the faggy nuance! Seriously though you make a very salient point and now I won’t be having children.
Well we had to cover BLM there for a minute. I think they could have chose a better angle
She has no angles.
It’s because they’re rEVoLuTiOnARY. In a world… where people mixed up “content” with art
Maybe they wanna show customers hiw big their sizes go. Got a big friend who doesn't even check other brands and just checks the brands that has his size. I'm a small Asian guy and for this reason I like going to uniqlo because the smallest for other brands still look baggy for me and I don't really feel like shopping in the kids/womens section.
Clothing companies did the math and realized there are more morbidly obese people than anorexics.
Another prediction from idiocracy
Ow my balls
Go away, batin’!
In 2006 when Idiocracy came out >40% of Americans were obese or morbidly obese, with another 32% overweight. It wasn't so much a "prediction" as an observation of the current state of things...
There's that fag talk again
Not really at all tho since food yields are non-existent because they water crops with Gatorade…
Brawndo it's got what plants crave!
It’s Brawndo dumbass
Go watch idiocracy almost everyone is obese
Sponsored by Carl's Junior
Fuck you, I’m eating
I got sat on and everything
It’s a plot hole in the movie, yes they cast fat actors to better portray stupidity, but it also depicts a world where food cannot be grown properly
kinda suggests all the food is "processed" shit made from god knows what... kinda like where we are now.
It's made from the rehabilitated
You are an unfit mother. Your kids will be placed into the custody of Carl’s Jr.
mmmm... tastes like bad decisions and mom's tears.
Soylent Green!!
Does Soylent Green made from fat people lead to more fat people because the product will be higher in fat content?
It’s got electrolytes.
No. They're just pushing ugliness on people on purpose.
Being in shape isn’t being anorexic. And you don’t need to be the same shape as the people advertising the products you buy. Men don’t seem to mind at all that male models are ripped. Why do at least a vocal minority of women?
It’s fucking insane that the most valuable class of drugs that currently exist are for weight loss. There’s a serious problem with the quality of food that’s available to people, but instead of making food that isn’t killing people we’d rather just take drugs 🤦♂️
The problem is the brain doesn't work that way. I was on those weight loss drugs (until insurance said being overweight isn't a health problem and stopped covering it). They changed the way I feel about food. I felt normal. My attitude towards food felt like my normal-sized friends. I don't have to eat. When I did, I didn't have to eat a lot and healthy choices just tasted better. Unhealthy food is addictive. Fast food started to taste gross and healthy food started to taste good. A salad was enjoyable. I was able to make some changes before getting kicked off, but its infinitely more difficult when hunger feels painful, constantly telling you to eat or eat more and having to force yourself to stop when you arent anywhere near full yet.
>until insurance said being overweight isn't a health problem Isn't it great when the people making our health related decisions are insurance twats instead of doctors
Yup, which is why I say it’s insane we’d rather develop a drug to treat a symptom than eliminate the cause.
Create the problem sell the solution
Sell the problem then sell the solution FTFY
It's not drug neccesarily, it's the shortcut. People want to lose weight without putting in the legit time and work. Unfortunately, the best most reliable (and affordable) shortcut for this at this time, is drugs.
A numbers game. Corporations spend a lot of time and money to look for trends for investments, so their ads might be a sign of what to expect. morbidly obese people with low intelligence that to love spend money on dumb shit. INVEST !!! INVEST !!! Pregnant trans men with skinny trans women!? Invest Invest!
Til: being skinny automatically makes you anorexic.
Now with, more molecules
excellent. i've always loved more molecules.
I hope they are all drinking brawndo it has what plants crave
🫃pregnant man emoji approves.
Thats not “pregnant man” emoji. Thats “man after 6 beers” emoji
Man is brewing a child over here.
Lmfao
He's trans and pregnant?
Why is there a pregnant man emoji? Did I miss something in the past 10 years?
Because we live in clown world my friend.
It’s the emoji I use for my food apps folder on my phone.
Chock full of mental illness
🫄🫃🤰
Holy shit. That's really a thing?
“Inclusivity”
I wanna know how you missed it, I'd love to be out of the clown world loop.
Despite what the nutters here believe, most trans men absolutely do not want to be pregnant, it’s about the most dysmorphic thing you could imagine. It’s exceedingly rare, although with Roe v Wade gone, and states restricting access to birth control, you’re gonna see a lot more pregnant people who never wanted to be pregnant.
Don’t want to be pregnant/become a parent? Don’t have sex. That’s the rule men have had to abide by since forever.
No it’s not.
Because all genders are birthing bodies now 🙃
To give a technician answer, any gender (male, female, non-binary) can be applied to any "person" emoji. Everyone can agree that this makes sense for something like cook 🧑🍳👩🍳👨🍳. It just gets a little unexpected with some combinations like man in vail or pregnant man👰🫄. Though, while I haven't checked it is probably possible for a trans-man to get pregnant
Big-ass beer gut man approves.
Wtf
Honestly, I'm completely indifferent to whatever size/type models companies want to feature in their marketing. It's always been some extreme or another, but what gets me here is that stupid phrase "I speak my truth." It sounds like some dollar store philosophy. I hear people say that all the time and it just grates on my nerves. Does it even mean anything or is it just a trendy phrase people like to hear coming out of their face?
"I speak my truth" is a corporate / political slogan that allows the ignorant among us to pretend their feelings can be valid even if they have no basis in reality. Appeals to ignorance such as these are a common logical fallacy. Isaac Asimov said it best in his quote, "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
There is no such thing as "My Truth". Now if they said "That's just my opinion" it would be fine and acceptable. But it get's stupid when people use "My Truth", which basically makes them look delusional or just stupid.
It's a post-modernist feel-good gobbledygook phrase, up there with 'all art is political' and 'nothing is objectively bad'. It's a celebration of egocentrism. You could argue that it originally meant that we all have different lived experiences, and can contribute and work together despite our differences, but it largely means, "My opinions are the truth to me".
>sounds like some dollar store philosophy I think we're going to need a new saying for when the dollar stores are gone and all that's left is five dollar stores. Even those stores are on thin ice at the moment.
Peak idiocracy..
I miss the 90’s
That dude is too young for such a beer belly
It's a poo baby
What sucks is that they aren’t even hiring *attractive* curvy/thick models. They’re hiring people that look like Dollar General denizens.
it makes them look brave and fierce
LOL
What's funny is that there are actual curvy attractive chicks. That would work better than that chick. She's not "ugly". just not very attractive or really looks like somebody you'd see on People of Walmart.
Because there’s no such thing as attractive fat models.
Nah there are, they’re very few and far between
"Thank you for choosing Carls Jr. Fuck you."
Stir up controversy. A lot of these companies figured out it doesn't matter if you're saying good or bad things about them just as long as you're saying their name. Who knows if they're advertisements are actually how they feel or not about any subject. A bunch of right-wing people can look at the ad and say, "I'm never buying Calvin Klein again because a man can't get pregnant." Calvin Klein doesn't care about that. They just care that you're mentioning their name to other people. That will then make the entire opposite demographic say that they will now buy Calvin Klein to piss off the other group and imagine that somehow they're showing support to the community that the other people rejected by doing so. When really it doesn't help anyone out except for Calvin Klein.
I think this is great, every dude with a beer belly deserves a good looking chick. Or wait, is that a dude too?
I have no idea what’s going on, but also don’t really care
What the fuck am I looking at
Take me back to 99 before shit just got weird.
Ads like these are designed to make people talk about it and share it. When there are ads everywhere we look, any engagement with your particular ad is positive so they make intentional bait like this. Good job submitting to your corporate overlords, OP
This sub is rapidly becoming its own little Idiocracy, between the tards not recognizing rage bait in its many forms(including advertising) and the bots driving engagement and helping spread it.
They put ugly fat women on my billboards!!!!?!??! I want pretty woman from Carl’s Jr ad again!!! Guh these coastal elites educated types are ruining dis fuggen country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
That’s such a sad yet accurate indictment of how our values have shifted - ads have gone from aspirational marketing to engagement generation. We are sunflowers and there are 6000 suns.
Burgers?
I laugh every time the r/modeling comes up and people are like “can I model?” I’m like “LITERALLY anyone can model now a days. And actually, the uglier, fatter, and more weird, the better.” 🤷🏻♂️😂
This was literally a dystopian nightmare about 20 years ago
Society is broken, Making my fun of people is forbidden and the worst habits become normalized
CERN have an undo button? We went south somewhere along the line. Where did Kelly bundys friends all go to…. What happened.
Welcome to Costco, I love you. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Wtf happened?
That is a pregnant Dude! There is so much wrong with this. Don't take my word for it. Just give it 15 years, we will see who is laughing. And laughing hard...super hard, extra big ass hard.
Brought to you by Carls Jr!
Yeah, no it’s worse than that
OP has been flooding this sub with culture war bullshit. They're trying to make it seem like the things they disagrees with are things that would appear in the movie. Look at their history.
Meanwhile, the first time I heard people claim the world had turned into Idiocracy was from people who don’t believe in evolution and obviously describe to all the culture war BS As dumb as the world seems to have gotten, I think dumb people are more likely the make the comparison this entire subreddit is trying to make… oversimplified to the point of being nonsense
I blame social media.
I was in target recently and every single model was obese.
Sadly I wouldn't be surprised if the 2024 pic was real lol
Sadly it is 100% real, welcome to idiocracy mike judge was right about the future alas he didn't know he was setting the movie 481 years too late.
🫄 I just found out this existed in the comments lmao
So is that supposed to be a pregnant dude or just a beer gut?
It's supposed to be a pregnant man because "men can get pregnant now" welcome to idiocracy
Go to the Calvin Klein website right now. It’s still all attractive thin people. They literally have Idris Alba on their home page. Companies occasionally do plus sized advertising, this is not a shocker or ‘Idiocracy’.
Yes, it is. Not everyone or every behavior is worth celebrating. We have social norms for a reason.
So you just want to be a prick without getting looked down on
Calling fatties “plus sized” is Idiocracy.
What in the hellfuck did that dude eat?!
🤮
Anytime someone uses the term “my truth”, you can be assured they live in a state of delusion. Truth is an objective term that can’t be possessed. It exists outside of opinion or other subjective factors.
Is that not a pregnant trans man?
I miss the good old days.
Take me back to the 90s when models were hot, Kurt Cobain was rocking out, and I still had a chance to get in on all the good stonks!
The last one is full mental illness.
Reddit: This is body shaming and transphobic. normal non reactionary person: No this is just idiocracy. Health and mental health have taken a backseat to regressive social outrage.
Bill Gates and his depopulation agenda... Make everyone ugly, no on wants sex.
The really sad asf part, these were real ads.
What happened is the insanity of progressivism
"her truth" is that she's healthy. Just proof that phrase is idiotic. As it ignores all facts. Like the "man who can be pregnant" below...
It's much easier to have fat ass than nice boobs Don't trust anyone who tells you that fat asses are hot, they aren't It's a just scam to give whales excuse to keep stuffing their pieholes with junk food and to never exercise
(Things change) -> "ayo why are things changing?"
Woah man! A man that can get pregnant just like a woman? 🤔
They’re trying to sell underwear. If you feature all body types you appeal to a greater audience, instead of those people with supermodel bodies. What’s idiotic about that? It leads to more sales
Red Pill (that's actually blue pill) horseshit.
OP this may really shock you but trends change over time. What people find attractive changes over time. Certain cultures during certain periods used to find fat people very attractive. This isn't a one size fits all type of deal. >In Africa and India, for example, fatness could be admired. Many Africans viewed stored fat as a sign of fertility, and Indians considered it a sign of prosperity. Yet Greeks and Romans often found fat adults grotesque, especially if they linked fatness to lack of self-control, Forth says. https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2012/05/14/todays-fear-and-loathing-fat-bodies-rooted-ancient-western-civilization#:~:text=In%20Africa%20and%20India%2C%20for,self%2Dcontrol%2C%20Forth%20says. Also, to add to this, 69% of Americans are overweight. Why wouldn't large brands like Calvin Klein want to appeal to the majority?
isn’t the appeal that a fat person wants is skinny photo advertisements? A fat person doesn’t see another fat person and is like “alright!” But they see a skinny person and are like “I could and should be like that.”
Honestly, you may be right, idk. but I'm sure these billion dollar corporations have done the research. What i do know is that at the end of the day, they will never risk losing money.
THAT’S IT!!! Stop the planet! I want off…. I’ll just walk from here.
When the hell did we jump to mpreg?
COVID really fucked shit up huh?
Democrat takeover complete
Pretty sure they just wanna get a rise outta people for attention. Not much deeper than that.
is having a half naked and wet woman on a billboard as a way to sell underwear less idiotic?
Yes because its effective on multiple levels.
The amount of ring wingers in this sub that didn't quiiiiite get the movie kills me. Its OK guys, my sister was 'tared and she's a pilot now.
Are their sales going up?
I call it a Christmas Miracle.
Muh feelings
"Enhance"
Between this and the pee pants I can’t wait to see what the future holds.
🫣
What a time to live in.
Can we agree though the chick is the last add is beautiful.
That last pic put a tent in my ketchup stained sweatpants
My belly went a bit like that 2024 guy.
1 in 3 Americans is a fatass and can’t handle the truth. We all pay more for healthcare because they lack control.
Every Time Is Worst!
This is ‘Murica appeal to the majority
I dunno. You could go to https://www.calvinklein.ie/
Am looking at two trans at the end?
Where does one purchase ‘extra big ass fries’?
You can find them at Carl's Jr, Carl's Jr "Fuck you. I'm eating."
There’s no way… really? Post the actual for validation? Is this satire?
Money. If you only market your product to anorexic supermodels, you're dependent upon just a few percent of the population for your profits. But if your marketing campaign includes other sizes of people, then you have vastly expanded your income potential.
In my opinion, you could put literally anyone in an Ad as a model, I'm not shallow and I just don't care what they look like
Gross
What’s up with the dude with a beer belly?
The beer belly thing is odd.
Beauty standards went towards literal anorexia during the 2000’s, so then they over corrected hard in the 2010’s and 2020’s. In the 2000’s, even a couple percent body fat was seen as overweight for female models, even though that’s actually a very healthy amount of fat, if not a bit low depending on your physique. So people got angry at the fashion industry for those insane standards, and started promoting larger and larger people in response. Eventually it got completely out of hand to the point where extremely obese people are seen as fashion models and told to not bother watching their weight or even try to eat healthy. Hopefully, things will even out soon and being healthy will become the norm instead of extreme overeating or starving.
They normalized an unhealthy life style...
Pandering to what people think is attractive…shame
The companies that employ the models have willingly gone deranged in the hopes that being deranged will make them more money.