Probably this in all honesty but people are still talking about these two even after most theaters stopped showing the film so I guess it shows just how effective an ad it was. It's a cute and memorable ad that feels very timeless in a lot of ways so it makes sense why it resonates with people today.
I thought it started on Cinemaphile? I remember when the original threads were being made before you really started seeing it everywhere, one anon even made a drawing of the two girls replicating that mugshot meme with Barbie and Ken in a thread once.
In my personal opinion, commercial are suppose to be a marriage of marketing and art, there has to be a balance between the two to craft a truly effective commercial. Back in the 20th century, more companies knew this, so they hired actually talented artists to help them craft a short film to advertise their product. The scarcity of sufficiently talented people meant that companies actually had to use discretion when hiring to be sure they got competent people and didn't create lower quality commercials than the competition. Remember that commercials use to be viewed as conversation topics, and some have had such profound impacts on culture that we still see their influence to this day.
If you look at today, I think most people recognize instinctually that the balance is off. As time has go one, the corpo marketers have gained more control, and it causes commercials these days to be mediocre. Actors and musicians are more plentiful than ever, and animation can easily be outsourced to some Indian call center to whip up some inoffensive CGI sludge. It's cheap, and with the modern internet destroying our collective attention span, its more important to pump out ads than to craft one with staying power.
I think when people see a commercial like this, they can see a time when things were more balanced. Sure, its an advertisement, it wants to trick you into buying something, but the people who made it actually had to think and work to trick you. They had to practice a craft, develop themselves, they even had to have a sense of fun! Despite everything, I still think most people gravitate to stuff like this because the effort put into it gives it a charm that modern commercials just don't have Also waifu baiting, that's basically the driving factor behind why many of these old peices of media are brought to our attention these days
For sure. There was a homosexual here yesterday trying to shill some animated chick from the Electric Company of all things. Just posted the original video, and a couple of screen shots without comment, just expecting her to take off and him to get some free lewds. The sheer degree of laziness and entitlement are astonishing
For sure. There was a homosexual here yesterday trying to shill some animated chick from the Electric Company of all things. Just posted the original video, and a couple of screen shots without comment, just expecting her to take off and him to get some free lewds. The sheer degree of laziness and entitlement are astonishing
I mean, what exactly do you mean by, where do they fall?
Their job is to get through your mental filter. If we were perfectly rational robots, they wouldn't need any advertising people, only announcers rattling off data.
This. Most of them are selling you something you don't really need, or that you could get cheaper. They want to get past those mental barriers to make you think you need it. I'm not saying that's wrong, after all, maybe you DO need it, or just wanting it is a good enough need of you, ur that is what they're doing.
Their job is to get through your mental filter. If we were perfectly rational robots, they wouldn't need any advertising people, only announcers rattling off data.
I'm pretty sure the barbie movie led to someone digging that up. Having cute girls, good animation, and zoomers/millenials loving retro shit helped a lot, too.
I question if this commercial is real, I tried to look the source but no information could be found, but there is something else that came up, looking though decades of Barbie commercials from decades past, I couldn't found a single fully animated one like the one with the groovy and cheerful girl that is the only non live action add and the only one for a limited promotion as well. Everything else is live action and exclusively to sell dolls or other products.
I'm inclined to say that it's real, the channel uploaded it 2 years ago along with some other Barbie ads that it would be a very long con to upload realer looking ads with a fake one.
Then again, 2 years ago is when the pandemic happened and people had too much time on their hands, so I can't really trust that era.
The special fan club offer at the time was real from what I can find. Still can't find anything about those girls in the commercial. Maybe drawing cartoons just fore a couple of seconds for a commercial wasn't that strange at the time?
I don't think it's fake. The entire youtube channel is full of nothing but vintage barbie commercials. It's just this specific one that happened to go viral.
Now that I think about it, has there been anyone alive in 1970 who claims to remember this commercial? You'd think there would be at least a few internet-savvy boomers in the Youtube comments who claim to remember it, seeing as though they're in every comment box known to man for just about anything vintage. Not sure why this is the exception. It really is all just Tiktok zoomers.
No you need that mix of cheerful girl and not so cheerful girl. IRL women are emotionally volatile so having one that keeps the same emotions for long periods of time is a fantasy.
Consumerism is ok when I can fap/schlick to it.
>Captcha: WOP2SO
Yes
Post the whole thing.
groovy
I'm interested
Where the frick do you think you are tankie?
Release of the Barbie movie and corporate manufactured memes and trends.
Not as bad as people worshipping fast food mascots on social media at least.
Probably this in all honesty but people are still talking about these two even after most theaters stopped showing the film so I guess it shows just how effective an ad it was. It's a cute and memorable ad that feels very timeless in a lot of ways so it makes sense why it resonates with people today.
Tiktok zoomers. That's why.
I thought it started on Cinemaphile? I remember when the original threads were being made before you really started seeing it everywhere, one anon even made a drawing of the two girls replicating that mugshot meme with Barbie and Ken in a thread once.
titwiener is made by zoomer rabbis
Blame Cinemaphile
Like how 1988 treasure planet, or 1957 jucika became popular.
>1988 treasure planet
I mean 1988 treasure island sorry
This?
Island!
I questing myself the same thing, zero interesting in the product but I found the ad charming.
In my personal opinion, commercial are suppose to be a marriage of marketing and art, there has to be a balance between the two to craft a truly effective commercial. Back in the 20th century, more companies knew this, so they hired actually talented artists to help them craft a short film to advertise their product. The scarcity of sufficiently talented people meant that companies actually had to use discretion when hiring to be sure they got competent people and didn't create lower quality commercials than the competition. Remember that commercials use to be viewed as conversation topics, and some have had such profound impacts on culture that we still see their influence to this day.
If you look at today, I think most people recognize instinctually that the balance is off. As time has go one, the corpo marketers have gained more control, and it causes commercials these days to be mediocre. Actors and musicians are more plentiful than ever, and animation can easily be outsourced to some Indian call center to whip up some inoffensive CGI sludge. It's cheap, and with the modern internet destroying our collective attention span, its more important to pump out ads than to craft one with staying power.
I think when people see a commercial like this, they can see a time when things were more balanced. Sure, its an advertisement, it wants to trick you into buying something, but the people who made it actually had to think and work to trick you. They had to practice a craft, develop themselves, they even had to have a sense of fun! Despite everything, I still think most people gravitate to stuff like this because the effort put into it gives it a charm that modern commercials just don't have
Also waifu baiting, that's basically the driving factor behind why many of these old peices of media are brought to our attention these days
waifu baiting nowadays feels forced if not done naturally
For sure. There was a homosexual here yesterday trying to shill some animated chick from the Electric Company of all things. Just posted the original video, and a couple of screen shots without comment, just expecting her to take off and him to get some free lewds. The sheer degree of laziness and entitlement are astonishing
What other examples come to mind?
so where do insurance ads fall into this?
I mean, what exactly do you mean by, where do they fall?
This. Most of them are selling you something you don't really need, or that you could get cheaper. They want to get past those mental barriers to make you think you need it. I'm not saying that's wrong, after all, maybe you DO need it, or just wanting it is a good enough need of you, ur that is what they're doing.
Commercials aren't trying to trick you into buying something. They're advertising a product, which is their job.
Their job is to get through your mental filter. If we were perfectly rational robots, they wouldn't need any advertising people, only announcers rattling off data.
tl;dr back when the United States was more than 90% white things had a soul. And no, there's no turning back.
Took me a bit to catch the big-ass grin she sports just before Groovy Girl runs off.
Cute art.
Because the designs are nice and the way they speak humorous
because Cinemaphile likes these girls in a special and deep way
truer words never spoken Cinemaphilemrade
Dude that van looks like it remodels girls interiors for free
Does Mattle know about the fan content?
>Does Mattel know about the porn?
Even if they did I doubt they'd acknowledge it
>Why did an obscure and forgotten commercial from 1970 suddenly regained popularity in 2023?
tiktok
groovy
Assuming both these girls were 10 in 1970, they'd be 63 today.
don't ask granny how she got all them barbies
Might have something to do with the multi million dollar movie they've been advertising for the last year.
Pedophiles
there, OP.
Groovy.
It had gay girls in it.
When is 'groovy' going to return to every day vernacular?
>When is 'groovy' going to return to every day vernacular?
It won't unless we start using it ourselves.
just gotta meme a few zoomers into a neo70s period and then tiktok will do the rest
Wish more people did art on the Girl from ABC All Stars Saturday Morning
I'm so glad I was one of the first Anon's who pushed this.
Name of the cartoon.
Same
Wish you stopped breathing.
Frick off, Birchy.
https://desuarchive.org/co/search/image/BXafbeRv48BRVeaO0aANHA/
Frick off, Augie.
Stay Jealous homosexual.
>jealous
>of disgusting shit art
Lmao, I'm taking that meme and running.
Yes, run. Run into oncoming traffic.
In your dreams schizo.
Pot calling the kettle black.
Based Schizo namegay
I'm pretty sure the barbie movie led to someone digging that up. Having cute girls, good animation, and zoomers/millenials loving retro shit helped a lot, too.
I question if this commercial is real, I tried to look the source but no information could be found, but there is something else that came up, looking though decades of Barbie commercials from decades past, I couldn't found a single fully animated one like the one with the groovy and cheerful girl that is the only non live action add and the only one for a limited promotion as well. Everything else is live action and exclusively to sell dolls or other products.
Looks like it's by Dancer, Fitzgerald and Sample ad agency, who did the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. Voice actress sounds like June Foray.
I'm inclined to say that it's real, the channel uploaded it 2 years ago along with some other Barbie ads that it would be a very long con to upload realer looking ads with a fake one.
Then again, 2 years ago is when the pandemic happened and people had too much time on their hands, so I can't really trust that era.
This feels fake
It's as if it was made for modern social media culture
I'm also pissed that we don't get shows drawn in this style[/spolier]
WTF is Dexter's Lab and Robot Jones then?
Good to know the 70s appreciated dead pan girls
Its cute
The special fan club offer at the time was real from what I can find. Still can't find anything about those girls in the commercial. Maybe drawing cartoons just fore a couple of seconds for a commercial wasn't that strange at the time?
I don't think it's fake. The entire youtube channel is full of nothing but vintage barbie commercials. It's just this specific one that happened to go viral.
The blondie doxxed herself
What a dum-dum.
need art of the kissing
I love Peppy more than Groovey
Now that I think about it, has there been anyone alive in 1970 who claims to remember this commercial? You'd think there would be at least a few internet-savvy boomers in the Youtube comments who claim to remember it, seeing as though they're in every comment box known to man for just about anything vintage. Not sure why this is the exception. It really is all just Tiktok zoomers.
Who on the left and is the groovy girl has black eyes?
it's daria and brittany
There's a few comments that they showed it to a mom or aunt and they remember it.
I meant comments from people who actually grew up during that era, preferably comments from before the commercial gained popularity.
because of a random co mental case
all it takes to get people excited is one emo/goth girl
No you need that mix of cheerful girl and not so cheerful girl. IRL women are emotionally volatile so having one that keeps the same emotions for long periods of time is a fantasy.
It's over.
>only 1 page worth on paheal
we need to fix that with more yuri
Cute girls are cute. Simple as.
Pedophiles desperate for material.
I don't want to frick the kids
I just think they're really really cute and charming and I wish they were my daughters
They're basically Lily and Zari from Duolingoslop
Because why not.