Friggin’ hilarious.
I’ll often go looking up something to fact-check what I’m writing and stumble across bizarre things like this. This is a pastiche of scenes from coffee ads ca. 1950s-1960s.
Of course, the comments on YouTube are all about “sexism” or whatever, but my experience of ads from that era is that they were a lot harsher and more aggressive all-around than ads of today. In the 1960s, advertisers were unafraid to tell you that your breath stinks, or that you’ll never get a date if you’re bald, or that you can’t make coffee worth a damn.
Whether the shift in the tone of advertising is due to refinement in advertisers’ technique, or due to people today being pussies who can’t handle criticism, I leave to the reader’s speculation.
