At this point the DIF became infested with paid shills & Merlin & Sean began being paid protection money by the shills...

At first glance, this appears to be a vintage ad by the "Soda Pop Board of America" extolling the virtues of drinking cola at an early age. It's been circulating around the internet for quite a while, during which time many sites have angrily responded to the claims made in the ad.

For instance, the Queen Anne Chiropractic Center declared that the ad demonstrates "just how wicked the Mad Men of yesteryear were." The parenting blog babble.com wrote: "We all know that, on occasion, advertisements can offer some fairly crappy advice. Back in the day, though, ads had no shame." And NaturalNews.com offered the ad as evidence that, "Soda companies, much like drug companies, have relentlessly tried to convince parents that forcing their products onto their children is a smart thing to do."

I could go on, but I'll cut to the chase: the ad isn't real. It's just a very successful vintage-ad parody created in 2002 by RJ White, who explains its full provenance on his blog Ice Cream Motor:

About seven or eight years ago, I made this fake ad, exhorting parents to give soda to their babies. It was done on a bored afternoon when J.D. Ryznar asked for someone to make that very specific thing on his livejournal. I whipped it together, posted it to the web, joke over.

THEN. A couple of years later- it started showing up online, in those weird lists that pop up every so often with a "Oh man, ads sure were strange back then, weren't they?" theme. Thing is, those ads are largely real and mine is not and very obviously so.

White links to the original livejournal post that inspired him to create the ad. His ad seems to be currently enjoying a fresh wave of popularity thanks to tumblr and pinterest which are presenting it to new audiences, many of whom (once again) seem to be accepting it at face value as a genuine vintage ad.

At this point the DIF became infested with paid shills & Merlin & Sean began being paid protection money by the shills...

dreadnaught wrote:
Who are the shills in your opinion? I dont mean DIF usernames, I mean outside of that, in real world.

dreadnaught wrote:
Who are the shills in your opinion? I dont mean DIF usernames, I mean outside of that, in real world.

novum wrote:
In the USA Glen Beck is a shill who actually is waking some people up....but he hides the major stuff....
Beck shilled Sandy Hook .He said the conpiiracy theory people didn't know what they were talkng about with Sandy Hook.....
But Beck had to follow along with the Boston Marathon conspiracy business because it was so obvious....

Rush Lembough,etc...... & the "serious" talking heads on National Public radio...because they fool a lot of people .

dreadnaught wrote:
So basically your saying the shills are right wing nuts...

Hagbard tell's me that Droike was going to smash my head in, and throw me from the top of a multi-storey car-park.

Charming eh?

I'm going to need to stock up on the popcorn it would appear....