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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

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Watch "The Foodening: How We All Got Cheerily Poisoned," from Probably Alexandra
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

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Let's save Cracker Barrel
August 27, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Let’s save Cracker Barrel! Ideas inside

Cracker Barrel is no longer changing it’s logo — that’s right, the company just announced it’s keeping the old design — but that doesn’t mean its problems are over. Far

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