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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

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

Image reminiscent of the final scene from the movie Planet of the Apes in which Charles Heston's astronaut character finds the ruined Statue of Liberty on the beach and realizes that mankind has destroyed itself

October 26, 2025 The Cranky Creative

How advertising created a nation of entitled assholes

It’s over. I’m done. For years, I’ve used The Cranky Creative to vent about the decline of the advertising industry. I’ve complained about the lazy concepts, the idiot creatives, the

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

August 24, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Cracker Barrel’s rebrand disaster: what’s really going on?

What started as just another bafflingly bad corporate rebrand has quickly escalated into a full-on scandal. As customers, employees, and rival companies pile on, the company’s “woke” policies, reports of

A collage of virtue-signaling ad campaigns that flopped: Bud Light, Pepsi, Jaguar and more

August 20, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Virtue, Inc.: How progressive politics hijacked business and marketing

Marketing used to be about connection — understanding what people wanted and selling it with style. Today, marketing has become a megaphone for progressive politics, preaching woke ideologies that alienate

This new American Eagle jeans ad featuring Sydney Sweeney is driving the woke mob mad.

July 29, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad triggers woke freakout

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad is fun, flirty, and — gasp! — blonde. So naturally, the woke screeching class are calling it Nazi propaganda. Here’s why their meltdown is

Joe Rogan interviews Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience

January 23, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Facebook firing its ‘fact checkers’ is a win for truth

I’ve seen a lot of emotional posts from people upset that Meta has put an end to its “fact checking” on Facebook. What they don’t realize is that Facebook’s “fact

The Cranky Creative blog: Why better advertising is worth fighting for

January 5, 2025 The Cranky Creative

We can’t let them win: why better ads are worth fighting for

I’ve been feeling a little defeated lately, to the point where I considered quitting the blog. Ever since Google changed its search algorithm to shortchange small blogs like mine in