The Cranky Creative, Author at The Cranky Creative Blog

A rusted, bent shopping cart overflowing with pixelated digital icons like shattered red hearts, a broken blue verified checkmark, and smiling emojis, set against a background of a crumbling, post-apocalyptic city street.

March 5, 2026 The Cranky Creative

Age of decay: the enshittification of everything

Am I the only one noticing that everything is turning to crap? Crap ads. Crap science. Crap food. Crap music. Crap movies. Crap people. Crap software that you “subscribe” to

Pringles Super Bowl LX ad "Pringleleo" featuring Sabrina Carpenter; a prime example of modern advertising’s decline into absurdism and celebrity worship.

February 10, 2026 The Cranky Creative

Bad ads for bad brains: the mutual dumbing down of ads and audiences

Is the advertising industry dying because creatives are lazy, or because audiences are too dumb to care? For years, I’ve used The Cranky Creative to document the slow-motion death of

The Cranky Creative's Super Bowl LX drinking game

February 3, 2026 The Cranky Creative

Super Bowl LX: a drinking game for the red-pilled

A thinking person’s guide to surviving the $8M-per-30-second brainwash. Welcome back, Cranky readers, to the $1 billion psychological experiment we call the Super Bowl. While the “normies” are bawling over

Nuclear explosion symbolizing the explosive fallout from calling out hypocrisy in the 'bold' ad industry

January 21, 2026 The Cranky Creative

The creative farce: why the world’s “boldest” thinkers are actually the biggest cowards

If your “boldness” requires a permission slip from the HR department, you are not a pirate — you’re a parrot. WARNING: explosive post ahead. In the ad world, we worship

January 13, 2026 The Cranky Creative

The lost generation: how DEI mandates erased Millennial white men

They told you it was “progress.” They called it “equity.” But if you look at the cold, hard numbers, it looks a lot more like a targeted demolition. For a

January 4, 2026 The Cranky Creative

Flu risk increased 33% after vaccination: Cleveland Clinic study

Trading the flu for something worse? They’re at it again. For more than a week now, my Facebook feed has been inundated with “news” channels from around the country posting

Three wistful elderly ladies watch young sledders in the Amazon holiday ad, "Joy Ride"

December 14, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Amazon’s ‘Joy Ride’ ad: the sweet art of emotional manipulation

A reader named Terri recently asked if I’d seen the Amazon holiday ad, “Joy Ride.” It features three elderly women looking wistfully at a snowy hill where young people are

Windows By Andersen: Trust Your Windows to Andersen: The Cranky Ad Review

December 10, 2025 The Cranky Creative

So dumb, it hurts: the ‘Trust Your Home to Andersen’ Ad Review

Well, folks, let’s toast the end of the year with one final, satisfying roast of the modern advertising industry. Why bother trying to pinpoint the worst TV commercial of 2025

Our hidden history. Photo of the White City at the Chicago World's Fair.

December 7, 2025 The Cranky Creative

History is a lie — uncovering a lost global civilization

What if everything you learned about history was wrong? Is official history a lie? Did we inherit a majestic past only to be taught “we built it”? In my recent

NASA bloopers showing astronauts on wires, combined with a composite image of a CGI globe and missing Apollo 11 tape boxes.

November 9, 2025 The Cranky Creative

NASA bloopers: wire fails, lost evidence, and CGI globes

After taking aim at processed food in my last post on “The Foodening,” I felt the need to aim a little higher… about 200 miles above Earth, to be precise.

November 4, 2025 The Cranky Creative

The brands you trust are poisoning your food (for profit)

Stop blaming yourself for being sick. We are living in a rigged game, and the playing field is literally your dinner plate. As devoted Cranky readers know, I am highly