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Tue. 12/22 - The Holy Pooper & the Curse of the Targeted Butt-flap PJs Ad

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Down the rabbit hole of targeted marketing through the lens of some strange, butt-flap onesie pajamas for adults. Don’t trust the sea foam in Australia. And some Catalonian Christmas traditions that are pretty crappy. Sponsors: BitTrust IRA, Waive your signup fee at BitTrustIRA.com/kottke Skillshare, get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Links: Why are ads for pajamas with a butt flap taking over the internet? (Business Insider) Why Is This Woman's Left A-- Cheek Following Me Around the Internet? (Vice) The Pajamas Suit lets you pretend you’re dressing up for a Zoom meeting (The Verge) Sea snakes may be lurking in foam covering storm-lashed Australian beaches (The Guardian) El Caganer – Barcelona, Spain (Atlas Obscura) A traditional Nativity scene, Catalan-style (BBC) World's Largest El Caganer, 19-Foot Tall Defecating Giant in Barcelona (Laughing Squid) The Crowning Jewel of Catalonia’s Nativity Scene (Great Big Story, YouTube)  Tió de Nadal – Barcelona, Spain (Atlas Obscura) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the khatky ride home for t December 22nd, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

Down the rabbit hole of targeted ad marketing through the lens of some strange butt-flap onesie pajamas for adults.

0:51.9

Don't trust the sea foam in Australia. And some Catalonian Christmas traditions that are

0:58.5

pretty crappy. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. So I often save articles

1:07.4

that I see while I'm working in the pocket app to read later in the day or over the

1:11.4

weekend. And apart from bookmarking things I'm interested in, one thing that I like about that app,

1:16.0

like many others of its kind, is that it gives you a stripped down reading view without all of

1:21.1

the ads and other junk that clutter up most media outlet sites. But that means that when I sat down

1:26.9

to read the L article about Christy

1:28.8

Smythe and Martin Scarelli that the internet couldn't stop talking about yesterday, I missed out

1:33.6

on a key part of the experience that countless others reported happening to them.

1:38.8

Being bombarded, both on the article itself and in their browsing afterwards by an ad for a flannel onesie

1:45.7

with a partially open butt flap being modeled by a woman in a flirtatious pose.

1:51.9

Kate Taylor, a business insider, was one person who got the full butt flap pajama ad experience

1:57.4

and decided to go digging into why so many other people reading the same article did

2:02.7

as well. So the pajamas are made by fast fashion brand Ivy Rose, and they're listed as plain,

2:10.0

functional, buttoned flap adults pajamas for just 2699. You've probably never heard of Ivy

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