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Is "De-influencing" Worth It? The Trouble with Tiktok's Controversial New Tre
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(Living)
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... of relatability and dishonest advertising. The aforementioned internet personality, @mikaylanogueira disclosing that she was wearing false lashes in a sponsored mascara advertisement.
People are calling ...
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Created on 23 March 2023
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People Who Struggle With Food and Body Image Really Want You to Ditch These Five Common Phrases
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(Living)
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... conflates how much and what we eat and/or do with our value as human beings. The glorification of thinness is embedded in our collective consciousness and reinforced every day through advertising (the ...
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Created on 23 February 2023
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5 Creators Fighting Diet Culture That Go Beyond Body Positivity
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(Living)
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... themselves to helping women heal their relationships with food, exercise, and their bodies that have been so damaged from years of exposure to targeted diet culture advertising. Challenging an industry ...
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Created on 26 January 2023
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Now That Barack Obama Listens to "Sad Girl Pop," It's Time to Talk About this Music Subgen
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(Music)
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Ethel Cain’s 2022 hit “American Teenager,” from her album Preacher’s Daughter, has been rapidly gaining attention lately after being included on former President Barack Obama’s “end of year roundup” ...
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Created on 11 January 2023
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Hulu Rolls Back Censoring Policy After Facing Blowback From Democrats
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(TV)
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... of ad policies across its linear networks and streaming platforms over the last few months, Disney is now aligning Hulu’s political advertising policies to be consistent with the Company’s general entertainment ...
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Created on 28 July 2022
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You Won’t Believe Who Baby Formula Makers Are Sending Samples To—Despite The Shortage
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(Feminism)
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... our hyper-vigilance post-Roe may make it feel like that. Formula companies have long participated in aggressive advertising campaigns, even to the detriment of parents, as well as the confusion of non-parents. ...
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Created on 26 July 2022
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Noom, The Toxic Weight-Loss App That Claims Not To Be A Dieting Program, Is Being Called Out On Twitter
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(Living)
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... weight loss app that caters to over 45 million people worldwide, came under fire on Twitter for its false advertising as a weight loss app that is apparently “above diet culture.”
Since its founding ...
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Created on 03 February 2022
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Hey Babe! How Multi-Level Marketing Companies Use Feminist Language, Insecurities, and Community to Exploit Women Financially
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(Feminism)
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... them the ideal sellers for MLMs.
In 2020 Rodan & Fields received a warning letter from the Federal Trade Commission stating that they were falsely advertising working for the company. In posts on social ...
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Created on 11 July 2021
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Rollerskating is Back! Here 's How to Get Started, From Skate Queen Lola Sta
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(Living)
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... D.C., 1880
An advertising trade card by the Roller Bureau, 1885
Roller rinks proliferated across the U.S. in the ’50s and ’60s to amuse the children of the post-war baby boom. And in the ’70s, disco ...
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Created on 05 May 2021
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What Makes Gen Z BIPOC Folks Feel "10 times more beautiful"? SELFMADE's Founder Stephanie Lee Know
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(Sponsored)
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Much of advertising makes us question if we’re pretty, sexy, or skinny enough to be “worth it.” According to a 2018 Eventbrite study, the average American spends 22% of their disposable income on products ...
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Created on 28 April 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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... as a vaginal cleanser. Agonized women were the focus of an aggressive advertising campaign placed within the pages of popular magazines promising “immaculate internal cleanliness,” while assuring readers ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Fashion Nova's $1 Million "Women On Top" Campaign Demonstrates How The Brand Can't Stop Exploiting Black Wo
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(Feminism)
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... (AAVE) when advertising. (Hosting an "It's the stimmy for me" sale? Really?)
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— giabuchi lastrassi (@jaboukie) March 16, 2021
When global protests erupted last year ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Catch First Time Directorial Debuts From Questlove to Rebecca Hall, 10 Must-See Films From Sundance 2021
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(Entertainment)
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... to access the tapes, Preble falls for Bella’s younger self, and gets mixed up in a corporate conspiracy that allows advertising to invade people’s dreams. With a scrappy analog aesthetic and low budge ...
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Created on 12 February 2021
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The Timelessness Of The Cheerleader Flick: Serving You Veracity In A Y2K Miniskirt
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(Movies)
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... Body, via 20thcenturystudios.com.
As a horror-comedy that addresses how monstrous the over-sexualization and objectification of teenage girls by men actually is, its advertising was remarkably tone-deaf ...
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Created on 04 February 2021
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Feminist Comedian Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator Of "The Daily Show," Wants You To Laugh To Keep From Crying: Bust Intervie
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(Entertainment)
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... the special's premiere on November 25, Winstead realized that she was unable to promote it on social media: Twitter had blocked her from taking out advertising due to alleged profanity in her feed and bio. ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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This UK Tampax Ad Was Pulled From Ireland Airwaves For Being Too “Vulgar”
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(Feminism)
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... “We will cease to show this advert now in Ireland in line with the authority’s decision,” a spokesperson from Tampax stated, citing the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland’s (ASAI) decision that ...
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Created on 02 September 2020
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A Tampon Commercial Was Pulled From The Air (For A Ridiculous Reason)
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(Feminism)
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... a smiling woman, it didn’t come off in the patronizing way that tampon advertisements usually do.
The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI) got several complaints about the advertisement. ...
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Created on 13 August 2020
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Yikes: Bacardi Made A Vodka "For Today's Modern Women" And It’s B
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(Eat Me)
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Spirits company Bacardi Limited just released a new vodka, called Plume & Petal, which is reduced-calorie and reduced-alcohol. And surprise, surprise: the advertising was initially aimed exclusively ...
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Created on 23 July 2020
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Why Getting Rid Of The Aunt Jemima Brand Isn't Enoug
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(Eat Me)
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... and Harrington were compensated for their labor is unclear.
Dr. Maurice Manring, the author of Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima, explains that the advertising was aimed at white middle-class ...
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Created on 22 June 2020
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Progressive Businesswoman Marie Newman Unseats Anti-Abortion, Anti-Immigration Incumbent
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(Feminism)
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... to politics, Newman was a marketing and advertising executive. After her son was bullied in school, she created an anti-bullying nonprofit in Chicago, partnering with Sears. From there she went on to become ...
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Created on 20 March 2020