Willy Wonka experience uses AI renderings to sell tickets, delivers bleak nightmare: ‘They charged $45 for this’

Snake oil salesmen have been around as long as we’ve had snakes and oil. Conmen have been preying on our vulnerabilities for decades, if not centuries, and they find new ways to get us every year. Sure, maybe we’ve evolved past thinking a dubious «miracle elixir» that smells suspiciously like urine is going to make …
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25 Old Posts & Naive Declarations That Aged Like Milk

The future is impossible to know, that’s what makes it the future. If I could predict the future, I probably wouldn’t have gotten a tattoo of my Neopet from 4th grade. How was I to know that I wouldn’t be a Neo-head forever? We all make decisions that we will eventually come to regret. That …
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If Cruises Were Honest | Honest Ads

Cruises have been a luxurious way to vacation since, well, boats existed we imagine. Cleopatra’s barge definitely seemed like a private cruise of sorts. Anyway, despite the idyllic image of floating around the Caribbean, or perhaps the Greek Isles or Alaska, cruises aren’t always what they’re cracked up to be. And today, Cracked’s Honest Ads …
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Vintage Ads That Range From Weird To Offensive

Advertising is absolutely unavoidable these days. We’re inundated by promotions on television, our email inboxes, and everywhere on the internet. Sometimes we wish that these attempts at snagging our money were a little bit more creative. Perhaps a little more like the advertising of yesteryear. These bizarre ads are a sort of trippy advertising time …
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Ryan Reynolds Uses Peloton Wife For Hilarious Gin Ad

Remember the uproar over Peloton’s Christmas ad? We doubt you can forget. The luxury exercise bike company has been receiving flack (and has inspired a whole lot of memes) since it first aired last week. The uproar seems to have caught the eye of Ryan Reynolds, who hired the ad’s actress Monica Ruiz for an …
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