One funny thing that happened recently was when Nivea ran that ad that straight up said that Afros are not civilized. Remember that? Haha, those ad guys were on so much crack cocaine, I guess? Well now they've apologized!
Vaseline got in serious PR trouble last week over their skin-whitening Facebook app. But hey, check out this Indonesian ad for their Skinwhite™ lotion. Take a moment to let it sink in. Wow, that's racist. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge.]
In 1996 the New Yorker ran a "Talk of the Town" piece about the notoriously reclusive Thomas Pynchon becoming a huge fan of an indie rock band called Lotion, a story the magazine now acknowledges was all a hilarious hoax.
