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these screenshots taken from video fanfictions on youtube from 2009 will never not be funny to me

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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

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Ignore how most of these are DEVO lol M - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) - Fall Out Boy

A - Alone Together - Fall Out Boy

R - Rhinestone Eyes - Gorillaz

S - Speed Racer - DEVO

I - I’m a Potato - DEVO

N - Numbnuts - The Quick Brown Fox

G - Girl U Want - DEVO

T - Through Being Cool - DEVO

O - Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo

N - NAMx - Renard

N - Na Na Na - My Chemical Romance

Tagz: @floofyquenchiest @sleepybamboo @catswingz @lilithofthevaalley @raise-a-gla55-2-fr33d0m + anyone else idk

tag game: username songs! 

"share a song for each letter of your username"

thanks to @cloudcatjanet for the tag ^^ (i'll be replacing the numbers in my name for the letters because i don't know many songs that begin with numbers)

s - swimming to the shore - Aimee Carty

t - turning out - AJR

a - afraid of the quiet - Lydia the Bard

r - record player - Daisy the Great x AJR

z - (don't know any songs that start with the letter z, so here is the jeopardy theme song!!)

i - important - Ian McConnell

n - numb little bug - Em Beihold

t - takedown - kpop demon hunters

h - hey jude - The Beatles

e - eda's requiem - The Owl House

s - sober up - AJR

k - karma - AJR

y - your idol - kpop demon hunters

my username is kinda long ^^"

tags tag - @marsingtonn

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Drew the monster/furry-esque fob in a lil updated version of my old art style,,hehe 😺

Yes they’re based on the frog out boy guys I made a while ago but Patrick and Pete are dogs, Andy is some kind of,,Bear??, and Joe is some kind of creature with antennae but also paws. Maybe an alien idk

I have a bit of lore for these guys btw. They’re on a kids show about music that’s all I have 😺

Yes I will make devo into creatures too and they’ll be friends w fob :3

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Sighs makinf sprites 4 da Louise animation,,

using old art as a color ref hahahah,,,,,rgh I don’t have anything recent 2 use sighhhhf

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so much (for) stardust ✨

I don’t think I've posted my fursona Patrick here, but he’s based on So Much (For) Stardust and Fall Out Boy in general! :3

I’m really proud of this drawing :3 let’s hope this doesn’t flop lol

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CW: A bit of blood. Not a lot but I just wanna be safe :3

Horatio ❤️‍🩹

Our favorite tortured puppy is back <3 Missed ya buddy! This is DEFFFF giving captured by the British asmr but I wanted sum drama :3

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USE UR FREEDOM OF CHOICE!

umm I actually drew this yesterday but I’m posting it today bc I forgot yesterday. Bleh 😝😝 doggy mrak,,

Wruf wruf :3

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Tw: sui ideation

Here, 50,000 notes and I won’t kill myself this whole school year

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Update I drew them :]

Wanted to sculpt fob but I can’t sculpt people well so I made em monsters❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹,,but like Sillau monsterz like Sesame Street or Yo Gabba Gabba (mark mothersbaugh!!) idk

Left 2 right: Andy, Joe, Pete, Patrick

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Wanted to sculpt fob but I can’t sculpt people well so I made em monsters❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹,,but like Sillau monsterz like Sesame Street or Yo Gabba Gabba (mark mothersbaugh!!) idk

Left 2 right: Andy, Joe, Pete, Patrick

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Animal Jam: Play Wild. I’m okay, plus I get to be a fox, wolf, and Arctic wolf!

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💔🇵🇸 My Daughter Was Born Under Bombs — I'm Just Trying to Keep Her Alive

My name is Abdulmajid.

I got married one month before the war. Those were beautiful days — full of hope, love, and simple dreams. I dreamed of a small home, a quiet family, and a baby girl I could hold without fear.

But the war came… Suddenly. Brutally.

My mother was killed. My brother was killed. Children in my family were taken by the bombs. My home was destroyed. And my work stopped completely.

Then… in the middle of this nightmare, my baby girl was born. A tiny soul, innocent, unaware of the war. She cries from hunger, from cold, from the sounds of bombs shaking what’s left of our walls.

Today, I’m a father with almost nothing… Fighting every day to find flour, milk, or even a small meal to feed my child.

Prices are sky-high — a single 25kg bag of flour can cost $800. There is no work. No income. No safety. No stability.

I write this from under siege, hoping my heart will reach yours.

Even $1 can make a difference. It can feed a child, buy milk, or bring a moment of peace. Be the heart that reaches Gaza. Be the hand that saves.

📌 Please share this post. Let our voices be heard — not buried under rubble.

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Puppy made hand (or paw) painted taggiez!! :3

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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Wore a couple modified shirts recently and someone asked “how?” so my illustrator background made me draw this because work was slow ✂️ Featuring examples at the end— drawn in Procreate.

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IM SORRY AMREV FOLLOWERS THE SPECIAL INTEREST SHIFTED,,, I’m still gonna post amrev but like. Expect a lot of Fall Out Boy and DEVO haha