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by revelation 3054 days ago
They are complaining about "toxic content directed at children". We are talking about the worlds biggest ice cream manufacturer, they own brands like Lipton who make billions from sugar water with ads like these Muppet animations targeted at children gulping it straight from the bottle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8n-BF5lrnQ

Once those kids are fat teenagers, they own Axe of course, infamous peddlers of archaic gender role pushing crap like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpPJjgIfRkI

So yeah, the first step on making responsible ads for the internet is banning these particular vermins at Unilever.