Vaseline shows hole in one of the wildest brand tweets we’ve ever seen
top and bottom Pride Whoopers and Nutter Butter nutting all over everything.Otherwise, we can’t figure out why Vaseline—the 150+ year old brand of petroleum jelly-based products—thought they could post this and not get people riled up:A post shared by Vaseline US (@vaselinebrand)Yup, Vaseline just posted hole(s)!What was intended to be a simple social ad promoting their signature Healing Jelly became something wildly suggestive thanks to their choice of graphics: Two puckered-up donuts sitting side-by-side.It’s meant to tout the glow you can give you skin by “slugging”—a skincare practice wherein you trap moisture with an occlusive moisturizer such as Vaseline—but we can’t get over these visuals.
We’re no doctors, but the wrinkles on the inside of that brown cake donut sure do make it look like… well, you get it. And it doesn’t help that the liquid-y, pearly-white glaze on the confection beside it calls to mind a certain bodily fluid.Should we be censoring this?You may say, “get your mind out of the gutter!,” but we’re not the only ones to notice.
On Facebook, the post has garnered over 200 comments and 1.8K shares (exponentially more than anything else they’ve posted of late), with folks reacting in equal parts horror and delight.“So that’s how I fix my… my issue.
THANKS! Lemme call up the fellas and plan out my weekend!!,” one commenter jokes. Plenty of others remarked that Vaseline “knows exactly what they’re doing” with the post.Not since that one ‘Broad City’ episode has the word been so widely discussed by.But… do they know?
