Mattel Is Offering a Day of the Dead Barbie Doll

In case you don’t have a child in your life that requires regular gifts and offerings, let me assure you that Barbie dolls are still very much a thing. Mattel has responded to some concerns about their dolls, like giving Barbie different professions and creating Barbies with different skin tones, and even coming out with Barbie dolls that aren’t unrealistically thin.

Now, they’re crossing cultural boundaries and releasing a “Day of the Dead” Barbie that celebrates Halloween according to the Latin tradition of the holiday.

The Barbie – Día de Muertos – is beautifully designed by Javier Meabe, who originally crafted her in 2019 as a special edition.

She was so well-received that Mattel is planning on making her an annual release, and Meabe issued a press release to talk about how she’ll be the same – and different.

“Adding new textures, fabrics, flowers, and a new dress silhouette were ways to introduce the new elements to the second doll while still keeping the traditional elements that are important to the Día de Muertos celebration. Traditions like marigolds, skeleton details, and Calaveras makeup were elements that I knew we had to keep but introduce in a new way.”

Romper reported that the new doll wears a pale pink lace hook skirt that’s underlaid with a colorful floral pattern (and some skulls), while the original version wore a black, trumpet dress adorned with butterflies and flowers.

The special edition version wore her hair in two long braids, black with blue highlights, while the 2020 version will have a braided updo set with matching flowers.

Both wear the skull-like makeup that is traditional on the day.

Día de Muertos is said to be the say when the dead return to their families to enjoy food, music, and memories. It begins at midnight on Halloween, with children arriving first and adults 24 hours later.

If you’re looking to incorporate the tradition – or continue to celebrate it – in your home, you can preorder the 2020 doll for $75.

I think both of these dolls are just beautiful, and would have a hard time letting a child play with them, to be honest!

Also, not to sound old, but man, Barbie dolls are certainly pricier than they used to be!

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People Discuss What They Think Folks Will Be Nostalgic for in the Year 2060

It’s hard to believe that people will be nostalgic for ANYTHING that’s going on in the world right now, but you never know…

I’m sure people in 1980 thought the world was going to Hell in a handbasket, but 40 years later, 1980 probably looks pretty decent to some people…

But what will people be nostalgic for in the year 2060?

Here’s what people had to say on AskReddit.

1. Privacy.

“Privacy and the ability to go somewhere without seeing 75 cameras all the time.

Went to the beach today and no one was in the water except for me and my friend. Everyone else was waiting for “golden hour” in their dry beachwear.”

2. In-person.

“Playing physical games with friends.

Going to friends’ houses to play basketball/soccer and a few video games, and then have a sleep over.

Socializing to the extent even the youngest here have experienced.”

3. Remember when…

“The short period of time in 2020 when most of us got to spend some time at home with our families, traffic was bearable, people in the supermarkets were asked to keep distance.

As an introvert, I’m gonna miss it for sure.

As a doctor, not so much.”

4. Hang on to it!

“Physical media so you don’t have to micropay for every movie you feel like watching.

When the DVDs and Blu-Rays are no longer in the stores, there will be no reason for streaming services to charge a flat rate.”

5. That’s depressing.

“Driving.

Cars will be 100% automated and it will be illegal to drive your own car on roadways unless you have a special license, because it’s so dangerous.

There will be amusement parks where you can drive a car all by yourself.”

6. Show me the money.

“Paper and metal currency.

Virtual money, wire transfers, alternative finance models, blockchain money will be a norm I anticipate.

It is coming faster than we think.”

7. I really hope not.

“The golden days before covid-25 when you just had to wear a mask instead of a full hazmat suit…”

8. Scary stuff ahead?

“Contemporary weather patterns and jet streams.

Lack of mass migration and climate change refugees.

Clean beaches. Peace in India.”

9. Off the grid no more.

“Being able to go “off the grid” for a weekend.

I may have been the only student my senior year of high school and first few weeks of college not to have a cell phone (Out 200+ person freshman engineering 101 intro class, 5 of us didn’t have a cell phone, and the other 4 were from mainland China.

I was the only one who had the access to phones that would work on American cell phone networks but simply didn’t own one) and then had a pay-as-you-go phone mostly for emergencies for the next two years.

It wasn’t until the summer between my sophomore and junior year that I got a phone on a plan, and that was bc I needed it for a job with “on-call” shifts. Even now, I’m on one of the smaller carriers, so when I go camping for a weekend, I’m frequently out of cell phone range when I’m not on the interstate.”

10. Scary to think about.

“Cashiers.

They were already slowly being replaced by self checkouts, and now covid has put a rush on it.”

11. Not much faith…

“Large animals.

Rhinos, elephants, orangutans, giraffes. I have little faith that we won’t destroy the world.

Looking at the old onesies from our kids pajamas that we packed in a box showing safari animals will become as extinct as dinosaurs, but more painful…”

12. Bleak.

“Jobs.

Most people fail to realize what is happening in industry. They are blaming other people and countries, but the truth is, along aside the technical revolution of phones has been the technical revolution of industry.

Industrial level stepper motors and servos have become so cheap, along side multi core 64 bit control boards, which are so cheap they are essentially disposable, that entire swaths of the labor pool have already been replaced by computers.

The issue here is these incredible control boards are continuing to get better and cheaper, and the software is getting better. Every day the march of technology continues, the closer it comes to replacing Jobs we traditionally think as irreplaceable.

Computers don’t need a break, they rarely make a mistake, and they are cheaper than your labor. We are <10yr from massive disruption in some of the largest employment vectors, like transportation, that is going to put a lot of people out of work.”

13. No!

“Barnes and Noble.

They’re the last major chain bookstore, and they’re not doing well. The one where I am is going out of business after 20 years.

There will not be a bookstore in my city. (I’m in a suburb to LA, so not the middle of nowhere.).”

14. You’re being watched…

“Someone already said privacy, so I’m gonna go for freedom, it’s basically the same but it’s the effect of the lack of privacy.

People change when they know they are being watched.

This is already happening and will only get worse with time and technological improvement.”

15. Look into the sky.

“The night sky.

By that time, Musk, Bezos, and god knows who else, will have hundreds of thousands of satellites in orbit.

Our cities will have doubled in size, and urban sprawl will cause further light pollution. Stargazing will be something future generations will only hear stories about…”

Now we want to hear from all the readers out there.

In the comments, tell us what you think people will be nostalgic for in 40 years.

Please and thank you!

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People Talk About Things They Were Into Before They Became “Cool”

You’ve heard people brag (or humblebrag) about being into certain things before they hit the mainstream.

Movies, music, artists, etc. People always like to make sure that everyone out there knows that they were into it WAYYYYYY before it got popular.

But some people really were into stuff before everyone else knew about it.

What were you into before it was cool?

Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say about this.

1. Snapchat.

“Snapchat. I downloaded it when it was in its early stages..and then deleted the app shortly after because none of my friends were on it.

I still have people asking me how I got my username.

@ohsnapyo.”

2. Wow!

“I went to a bar a long time ago (illegally- I was below drinking age) to see this punk band play. I liked it enough that I shelled out for one of their cassettes (pre-CD).

The band was Green Day.”

3. Rock star.

“I got stoned with John Mayer in a college town before he put out a CD. He was playing the blues at a club in front of 100 people and i only caught the last song.

We got high and he gave me a cd and wrote on it…. few weeks later I put the cd in and quickly tossed it out.

So I was early adopter of John Mayer playing the blues, AND throwing out his trash studio albums.”

4. Vinyl.

“I was into vinyl before it made a comeback.

And since nobody in the ’90s or early 2000s wanted their records anymore, I basically got 500+ records for free or nearly free.”

5. Potterhead.

“I was reading Harry Potter from like, day one. I remember how this happened so clearly. My dads birthday landed on the same day day that the book was released in the US, September 1, 1998, and we got him a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble, among a few other things.

The very next day, my dad and I went to Barnes and Noble. He picked two books, one was a New York Mets coffee table book and the other was the newly released Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, which he handed to me.

There were stacks and stacks of them on a display table right at the front of the store. He mentioned that he had read an article about how good the book was a few weeks prior, and that it would be releasing in the US soon. We were in the store for all of five minutes.

I read the first two chapters on the way home, and was immediately hooked. I swear I read that book a dozen times before going to the midnight release of Chamber of Secrets the following year.”

6. Awesome!

“Saw Metallica for my first concert in 1985 on the Ride The Lightning tour in Austin Texas.”

7. Interesting.

“Donald Glover.

He was part of a comedy group called Derrick Comedy that was absolutely hilarious.”

8. Eminem.

“I once did a Google search for Eminem and it came back with zero results.

I was an editor at All music at the time and emailed my higher ups to tell them he needed a listing ASAP.”

9. Old school.

“I was chugging Pabst Blue Ribbon years before it became the go-to hipster brew.”

10. Back in the day.

“Reddit.

This account is rather recent but I discovered the platform in its infancy. It had less stuff back then but the discussions were better.

And then, mainstream caught up.”

11. DMB.

“When I started college in 1993, the first real big party I went to was a sorority party with a band. I was there before they went on, and when I saw they had a saxophone set up on stage, I (having played alto sax in hs) set my beer down on the stage in front of where the sax player would be.

They wound up being really good live, and a few weeks later the Dave Matthews Band first album came out, and I bought it first day.

I’ll never forget taking that cd home at Christmas break and playing it for high school friends who said “WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS SH*T?” The next year they all apologized because they were all into them once they got popular.

I saw them a few times, but after they got super big I really didn’t like any of their new material and quit listening to them. The last time I saw them I remember seeing Daisy Fuentes outside the theater interviewing people after the show and had a feeling they were about to be a big MTV band.

However, from time to time I’ll hear an old tune of theirs and will remember when I thought they were very cool.”

12. Get with it!

“Adult coloring.

I never liked drawing but loved coloring, so as I grew up I would seek out all kinds of coloring books. I loved how calming it was, and I would often color with my grandparents so I created a lot of fond memories there.

I got made fun of a lot for my hobby until it suddenly became cool in the last few years.”

13. Good stuff.

“Tito’s Vodka.

I was living in Austin before it went nationwide and after moving back to the Midwest, it took a couple years for the mass release before it really took off.”

14. Cool Mom!

“My white suburban mom did yoga back in the 1970’s when it was considered “a hippy thing”.”

15. Crazy.

“I was out for the night back when I was 17/18/19. A friend and I went to a good pub in Oxfordshire where we thought we’d have a chance to pick up some girls.

Ended up getting drunk, taking an E and listening to the band who were pretty good. After their set we popped out of the pub for a quick joint.

The band walked over and asked for a toke. Ended up spending the rest of the evening In the back of their van smoking weed and drinking.

Turned out that the band was an unknown indie/rock group called Radiohead. A couple of weeks later Creep went international.

Been a fan ever since.”

Now we want to hear from you.

What were you into to before it became really popular?

Talk to us in the comments!

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People Share the Interesting, Dark Facts About People’s Favorite Cartoons

If you think cartoons are all rainbows and sunshine, think again, friend.

There is some pretty dark and disturbing material embedded in those seemingly innocent and fun TV shows and movies that might surprise you…or even shock you.

Let’s get weird with folks from AskReddit.

1. That’s a little weird.

“There was a Smurfs PSA that was made for UNICEF.

I believe where their entire village is carpet bombed.

It. Was. Nuts.”

2. Don’t tell me that!

“Ren and Stimpy was an absolute nightmare for the people who worked on it. John K ordered them not to make the same face twice. Pretty, but it was hell for the workers because they were constantly drawing things.

John K was a nightmare boss. One of the producers had a sign on his wall labeled “John’s knees” and invited people to kick it. By the time he left it was reduced to a hole.

They made several episodes that were just the animators ranting about how much of an *sshole that John K was.”

3. Great idea!

“The pilot of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy called “Trepanation of the Skull and You” tells kids that because of a mistake in evolution our skulls are too small for our brains, and that you should drill a hole in your skull as to grant the brain more space.

Which is then followed by Billy doing exactly that.

The whole thing looks like some cursed forgotten video tape.”

4. Creepy.

“Some of the earliest versions of Little Red Riding Hood end with the wolf raping Red and then eating her.

The literal moral of the story was for girls to not trust strangers.”

5. Whoa!

“The creator of Skeletor was inspired by a corpse in a haunted house that he was 100% sure was real.

Turned out he was right.”

6. Awful.

“The studio had to get someone else to sing “Soon You’ll Come Home” in All Dogs go to Heaven because the voice actor, Judith Barsi, had such a traumatic home life because of an abusive, alcoholic father that she couldn’t sing the song without having a breakdown.

She and her mother were murdered by him before the movie was released in a double-murder/suicide. She was only 10.

She was also the voice of Ducky from Land Before Time. Her tombstone reads, “Yep! Yep! Yep!””

7. Poor Donald.

“Donald Duck fought in WWII and has PTSD.

In an episode he wakes up and thinks he is in a Japanese mine field and he is in a lot of WWII cartoons.”

8. Creepy.

“Sleeping Beauty is only 14 years old in the original story and Prince Charming is around 30.”

9. Witchcraft?

“Adventure Time is full of occult references

My favorite one is in the episode “All The Little People” in which Magic Man says “Do what thoust will be the whole piece of law” which is taken from Aleister Crowley’s “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.””

10. Apocalyptic.

“The premise of Adventure Time is actually really dark.

Its the aftermath of a literal nuclear war that killed most of humanity and caused evil mutants like The Litch to wreak havoc on the planet.”

11. Oh, no!

“There was a Tom & Jerry episode where Tom dies and goes to heaven.

While waiting in the line of counter they show a wet sack with baby kittens inside it coming out and running towards train. Ticket counter guy notices it and says ” what some people won’t do”.

He’s talking about old times when people use to tie up small kittens in the sack and let them drown in river.”

12. Let’s eat!

“In the Peppa Pig universe, characters eating each other is slightly acknowledged when a couple of the characters are stranded on an island.”

13. Not good.

“The Carmen Sandiego reboot is animated by Top Draw Animation.

They’re a sweatshop and they fired an animator for asking for minimum wage compensation.”

14. Nuclear fallout.

“Bikini Bottom is called so because of the Bikini Atoll.

In the 1940s and ’50s, the US held nuclear tests there.

All the characters on SpongeBob SquarePants are like this because they’re radioactive creatures.”

15. Makes sense.

“The reason Mickey and other characters where white gloves is because it allows their hands to be seen better.

This is a reference to actors when they did black face they wore white gloves so the audience could see their hands and fingers moving.”

Do you know any weird or dark facts about cartoons?

If so, please share them with us in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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The Dark Origins of Auntie Anne’s Pretzel Shops

If you’ve ever enjoyed a pretzel or pretzel bites or cheese from Auntie Anne’s, whether at a mall or an airport, or somewhere else, chances are you haven’t thought much beyond how delicious a snack you’ve procured.

If you had, well…you probably would have been shocked by how Auntie got her start.

Auntie Anne’s actual name is Anne Beiler, and she was raised in the Amish community, where she dropped out of school in eighth grade, then married at 18.

An aunt to over 30 nieces and nephews, she had her own children, too.

One of them, a daughter, was killed in a tractor accident, and when Anne sought help with her grief at church, her pastor r*ped her.

Afterward, he coerced her into a six year sexual relationship, and when Anne finally gathered the courage to out him, things blew up.

He had been doing the same thing to almost every women in their congregation, including every last one of her sisters, and the community eventually ran him out of town on a rail.

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Her husband wanted to open a counseling center where women could seek grief counseling free of sexual manipulation (wtf, y’all), but Anne decided to deal with her grief and betrayal her own way, buying a local pretzel shop that had recently gone out of business.

She threw herself into learning how to make delicious pretzels and run a business, and within a year, had opened seven additional locations.

She used the money to open the grief counseling center, hoping that other women who suffered as she had would not be further traumatized when asking for help.

None of this altered her faith, and recently, she even did a stint on the Museum of the Bible’s board of directors.

She’s a strong woman, no doubt, and even though her pretzels are delicious, I’m sorry all of this had to happen to her for them to become a thing.

One thing’s for sure though…I wouldn’t mess with her. Not for all the pretzel bites in the world.

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Mark Zuckerberg is the Third Person in the World to Achieve Centibillionaire Status

Even Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t have predicted that Facebook would ever grow this huge. Yet, the former Harvard dropout’s company has become not just a money-making machine but also a part of everyday life.

As a result of his brilliant and bold business, Zuckerberg has become a wealthy man. Even amongst the world’s elite, he still stands above nearly everyone else.

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In fact, the 36-year-old Facebook CEO became just the third centibillionaire in the world on Thursday, August 6. Coincidentally, the company just released Reels, its competitor to TikTok.

With a net worth in excess of $100 billion, that puts Zuckerberg on the same level as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

Of course, his route to fame and fortune has been well-documented. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook from his dorm room in 2004.

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Even years later, he still maintains a 13% stake in the company. That paid off big time recently when the company’s stock price surged by 6.5% after Reels launched on Instagram—another key part of Facebook’s assets.

Reels could turn into another revenue-generating machine given Donald Trump’s threat to ban TikTok. The Chinese-owned app has become very popular, especially with so many stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Speaking of the pandemic, Facebook has acknowledged that its engagement numbers have increased with people staying in their homes and perusing the platform for entertainment.

In 2020 alone, Facebook shares have increased by nearly 30%. As a result, Zuckerberg’s added $22 million to his impressive fortune.

Sadly for Zuckerberg, that still puts him well behind Bezos.

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The richest man in the world gained more than $75 billion during that same span. But who’s really counting?

What is your favorite part of the Facebook platform? Do you plan on using Reels instead of TikTok?

Tell us in the comments!

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Brands That People Boycott Due to Poor Ethics

It can be difficult to figure out which brands to support and which to avoid, especially if you want to be a conscientious consumer. We don’t want to purchase products from companies that exploit children, who don’t care for their workers, who source meat from farms where animals are treated badly – and that’s just the start of the list.

If you’re someone looking to be responsible in your consumption, here are 16 brands people say to avoid.

16. Working conditions are terrible.

Fashion Nova is horrible. Fast fashion is a HUGE issue.

They exploit workers overseas enduring horrible conditions for very little pay and they also significantly hurt the environment.

15. Well that’s not very nice.

Lumber Liquidators should be on here.

They keep getting caught poaching endangered trees for hardwood flooring.

14. It’s like trying to avoid gluten.

Ever since they said water isn’t a human right, I’ve tried to avoid Nestlé products but it’s hard: they’re everywhere and sometimes you don’t realize that a brand is a subsidiary of Nestlé

13. Overseas labor practices are a huge minefield.

hey everyone check out the #payup movement.

people like kylie jenner haven’t paid workers in Bangladesh for like months now. There are people there surviving on a bag of rice for a f*cking month

it’s not just her, there are heaps of more brands doing this. The same brands that have been supporting BLM and hashtagging on twitter – turns out they’re a bunch of c&nts.

12. Because it’s as bad as it sounds.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP.

11. When you can’t quit, but you’d really like to.

If I could ditch the over priced insulin, I would in a heart beat but you know, I’d like to live.

Here in Canada, the vial is $40 CAN. In the US, the same vial by the same company is $550 CAN.

So freaking unethical overpricing life sustaining medication.

10. And let’s face it, it’s not worth the money.

Victoria’s Secret, among many others.

VS has most of their exorbitantly priced items made by free prison labor.

9. Why aren’t there better ticket options?

Ticketmaster.

Pearl Jam tried to sue them back in the day. No success.

“Hey buy this concert ticket for 50 bucks” … “Processing fee is $3000 and your firstborn”

Ugh.

8. Anyone who treats their employees like dirt.

All MLM and “network marketing ” companies.

Walmart, the humane society, I’m sure there are more but I can’t think of them at the moment.

7. No one respects teenaged girls.

Sinful Colors nail polish. 10+ years back my sister told me about how they took her friends nail art pictures and used them for marketing purposes.

She asked them to either give her credit or take them down and they refused.

6. When the money doesn’t go where you think.

Humane society of the United states. I worked as a volunteer for them in the office and saw how little money they take in from adoption and donations actually goes to the care of the animals. Most of it goes into administrative, (CEO, shareholder,etc) and media expense.

Its run like a school board runs things allocating money to the ones in power and upgrading their offices etc, instead of to the schools where it’s needed. They don’t vet their foster parents or workers either. I’ve seen so many workers abuse the animals in the shelters.

5. Theft is not cool.

I refuse to buy from Wish.

It’s a scam with horrible products but also they steal designs from real people and sell cheap shitty knockoffs with the original creators images

4. The term “banana republic” isn’t cute at all.

Chiquita Brands International because it’s the continuation of the infamous United Fruit Company.

United Fruit Company is the company that engineered a massacre of striking workers in Colombia.

3. I don’t like it at all.

Backcountry.com and it’s affiliated websites. They hired a bunch of lawyers to sue small businesses using the name ‘backcountry’ anywhere in it’s name or tag line.

Many of the companies were much older than backcountry.com. They have since sent out a ‘sorry we were caught’ letter, but there’s too many other outdoor companies that are run ethically, I can’t justify buying from backcountry.

2. They own so much of our online lives.

Facebook, too much shit revolving around them.

1. LulaRoe is a scam, friends.

My mother sells this out of our foyer. She put $5,000 on a credit card to get started 3 years ago and is still in the hole maybe $3,500. It’s a borderline scam.

Awful designs that you roll a die to get. You have to order a minimum quantity without getting to choose your designs. If they end up being ugly, well, you’re sitting on assets that no one wants.

For the smaller retailers, it’s basically a constant loop of buying items, then selling them at wholesale prices to other retailers because no one wants them for retail prices. So yeah, you get your money back. But remember, you spent $5,000 to play this game.

The company also appears to care very little about its “consultants.” They leave you in the dark while they bribe you with perks and prizes for making milestones in sales, but really you “earn” the ability to purchase the prizes.

My mother recently “won” a cruise, but it turned out she still had to pay the full price of the trip. You sign up under successful retailers because you fantasize about making bank like they are, but you soon find out they got special treatment to get to where they are. The company plays favorites and lets certain people choose which items they get, or even pick them out of a bin at the LulaRoe warehouse.

They’ll often get priority when a new “launch” happens, where these favorites get to place their orders first. And because they’re the favorites, they have more money to spend and very quickly buy out all of the popular items before the smaller retailers even get onto the website. The favorites get insider information to boost them even further as the icons of the company.

It’s a winner’s game. The little guy is screwed but the big players push them to continue because “look where it got me! I’m rich!”

It’s sh%t. Avoid LulaRoe.

I always want to do better but it can be hard to do the research on your own.

Are there any brands you would add to the list? Tell us what and why in the comments!

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Brands Whose Ethics Are Costing Them Customers

Many people don’t want to know all of the bad, immoral, and even questionable practices of the brands they shop and love. It makes it easier to turn a blind eye, continuing to buy what we enjoy and not worry too much about the other stops in the process.

If you’re someone who is concerned about animal welfare, child labor, human rights violations, and safe practices, you might want to scroll through this list of 13 companies who are not doing it right.

13. Please, please don’t take my Ben & Jerry’s.

Digiorno and tons of frozen food brands are owned by nestle too.

They own so many brands that it’s hard to not buy from them and still buy any packaged foods.

They don’t own Ben & Jerrys though!

12. As if small businesses don’t have enough troubles.

Zara, they’re disgusting.

They straight up steal designs and ideas from small businesses and refuse to give credit or pay for what they’ve taken.

Their clothing is overpriced poor quality garbage.

11. Not basically – it is.

Tik Tok – it’s basically Chinese spyware.

Also, it’s just Vine.

Next.

10. Color me not-shocked.

Random one, but Kylie Jenner.

She exploited young fans by saying she didn’t have fillers and looks like she has big lips from wearing lipstick and liner. Then sold Kylie lip kits to take advantage of self conscious girls wanting bigger lips, and seriously thinking that she hadn’t used filler.

She stole designs from smaller brands and used them for her own clothing, pretending her company made the designs.

Then her skincare is awful. Overpriced stuff that barely works, and the scrub will cause serious damage to your skin.

Another which some have commented on. She isn’t paying her workers in Bangladesh. She is taking advantage of desperate people in order to save money…when she is close to being a billionaire.

Overall she just exploits her fans for money. Nothing she does is actually as good as it is made out to be.

9. The big ones are always bullies.

Walmart and Amazon. I work for a small transport company so Ive seen how they bully small companies with fines for like, everything if you don’t do things their way.

Plus they also have a lot of internal stories about terrible employee treatment.

8. “If I would have known that was frowned upon…”

Lenovo.

It seems every year they are either putting malicious code or conveniently overlooked security backdoors into their hardware.

And when called out on it, their response is “Was that wrong?

Should we not have done that?”

7. The actual story here is terrible.

Honestly, McDonald’s.

After running that poor old lady through the mud for literally serving coffee that was dangerously hot and then refusing to pay her bills over their coffee being so hot that it gave her third degree burns and nearly killed her after putting her in shock….

All she wanted was her medical bills paid for. She only sued because they kept refusing, despite the courts saying that 190 degree coffee was too dangerous to serve in the end. They were in the wrong, and painted her lawsuit as frivolous and that she was the idiot.

Coffee is hot, but it shouldn’t be served at 190 degrees…. Plus the way they treat the franchisees and employees. Food ain’t good enough for me to want to give them any money.

6. It’s made by a kid like you.

I will never forget when I was in the 4th grade, wearing a GAP kids tank top.

A cool teenager told me that the GAP uses child labour and I just thought, “oh sh%t”.

I’ve never bought anything from the GAP to this day.

5. When the same ones keep coming up…

Nestlé and its brands, Mars, Hershey, and Folgers.

More generally I don’t buy any chocolate, coffee, or clothing that uses exploitative labor, as far as is in my power.

Lots of child slave labor in those industries.

4. This one would be so tough.

I’m really trying to stop shopping on Amazon.

It’s tough. I live in a pretty rural area and I’m not shopping in stores at all lately, but I’m finding substitute vendors for things I can’t do without…

3. You can feel the awful in their ads.

Wish.com.

They openly market illegal/dangerous products (glock auto sear) and sell products copied from creators without consent.

2. It’s a darn shame.

Nestle.

I love crunch bars and butterfingers but once I learned how nestle operates I stopped buying them.

1. Terrible person, terrible company.

Well in light of recent events Jeffree Star cosmetics.

He’s racist AF!

Some of these are super disappointing – I already had to give up my Hershey’s Kisses!

Is there something you’d add to the list? Tell us what company and why you don’t buy from them in the comments!

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Recreated Movie Scenes From a Very Creative Couple

Let me tell you, this is a ton of fun!

And we think it might inspire you to be very productive and creative during this never-ending quarantine that we find ourselves in right now.

Aylia Caulwell and her husband Dan have been spending their time recreating iconic scenes from movies and I think it’s safe to say that they’re doing a bang-up job.

Now, this is what I call “time well spent”.

Let’s take a look at some of their creations. Enjoy!

1. An excellent adventure!

Bill and Ted forever!

2. Home Alone.

Time to defend the house.

3. The famous shower scene.

Psycho is a masterpiece.

4. A little Lord of the Rings action.

Spot-on!

5. Are you a Twilight fan?

Just admit it…

6. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze.

Let’s get dirty!

7. Gotta go back in time!

A timeless classic!

8. Are you ready to dance?

I sure hope so!

9. A good one!

Have you seen this underrated gem?

10. The Matrix.

All kinds of action about to break loose.

11. Here’s lookin’ at you.

An old classic.

12. How to Train Your Dragon.

This is good.

13. Yes! Heeeeere’s Johnny!

I love the homemade axe.

14. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

This one is all in the family.

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The fight for good has made some significant strides in these last few weeks. Breonna Taylor’s murder case has been reopened. They arrested all four officers responsible for the death of George Floyd, and upped the charges against his murderer. LA is redistributing $150 million from the LAPD budget to invest in communities of color. Marches have happened in all 50 states and around the world, pressuring our representatives to introduce legislative change. And all that happened because of the protests, the emails, the donations. But unfortunately the fight is far from over. Just yesterday, Georgia was rampantly suppressing the black vote claiming it was for the safety of voters due to the coronavirus, even though more and more businesses are opening around the country. It’s so frustrating that it’s so hard to get people in power to do the right thing. We elect them hoping they will take the responsibility. It is, after all, their jobs to do so. But it’s an imperfect (REALLY imperfect) system, and the way we fix it is by getting loud, donating, hitting the streets, making angry calls and sending angry emails, and never relenting. I have learned so much these last weeks. My privilege has shielded me from so many horrors – many of which were not even hidden. My eyes are being opened to the police brutality and the over funding crises and I’m mad as hell. But anger is exhausting. What we truly need right now is heart, integrity, and a fuckton of courage. So I hope this helps brighten your day, but never forget that the fight isn’t close to over. Now let’s start down that yellow brick road which hopefully leads to real racial equality. You can find a link in my bio with wonderful resources to help the cause.

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Those are pretty awesome, don’t you think? I told you this was a great way to spend your quarantine!

Now we’d like to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us what you’ve been up to during quarantine and fill us in on how you’ve been spending your time.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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