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Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang mourned Bonnie Tyler, became emotionally invested in Neil the Seal, questioned why TikTok...

Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang opened from Paris (sort of), debated whether everyone outside Los Angeles should just say...

Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . Another week, another episode of Silence, Brand! Live where we somehow started with AI-generated hamster pants discourse and ended with...

Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang opened with lip gloss, bedazzled salt, and tummy-ache girl essentials before spiraling in...

Fragrance check. Moonwalk Sea Cocoa — pineapple upside-down cake meets coconut, passion fruit, Italian mandarin, Sicilian frozen lemon. Ryan gives it a 10/10 for summer. World Cup is a month out and… condoms? Toronto’s handing them out, fan-zone funding still hasn’t been dispersed in a bunch of cities, Houston traffic is already cooked, and LA looks unprepared from the inside. Meanwhile Mercedes-B...

Met Gala 2026: Pale Blue Dots, Piss Bottles, and a Cheesestick Ryan, Benton, Janine, and Dejaih break down the 2026 Met Gala — the looks that landed, the ones that didn't, the brand plays worth watching, and the chaos around it. Plus a Lady Gaga 2019 detour, Bezos discourse, and a new virus we're absolutely not doing again. (00:00) Cold open — mic checks, backgrounds, getting started (00:44) The t...

Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang ricocheted from Drake’s icy comeback stunt to influencer cruise ship mess to the extremel...

Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang drifted from retro weather feeds to appointment television to moon joy with the kind of w...

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Welcome to Silence, Brand! , a potluck of internet absurdity at the intersection of brand marketing and internet culture written by a collective of award winning digital marketing professionals. If you like what we do, please consider becoming a paid subscriber . In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang took a machete to Q1 and asked the only questions that matter: what actually felt good, w...

This week’s Silence, Brand! Live had everything: AI fruit cheating scandals, a gummy burger from France, Pinterest spring trend forecasting, Oscar carpet dumpster lore, trade show thirst traps, and Afroman reminding America what freedom is supposed to look like. Between butthole discourse , microplastic burgers, and reluctant admiration for slop with plot, the underlying question emerged: if this...

In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live , the gang gathered in the glowing aftermath of a trinket swap to do what we do best: turn cultural noise into meaning, and meaning into a semi-coherent group chat dissertation. We opened with a Glossier mirror phone accessory (the rare object that is both useless and immediately essential), survived a brief spider-based horror vignette, and then wandered into t...

In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live, the gang tried to do a normal post–Super Bowl debrief and immediately got dragged into the flaming group chat of reality: politics on main, an attention economy in crisis, and brands still acting shocked when the numbers dip during a literal news apocalypse. We’re big on “snow day in hell” social reporting and Bad Bunny’s halftime show turning into a community...

In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live, the gang did what we do best … tried to have a normal pop culture conversation but then got jump-scared by politics, weird AI sludge, and brands doing the absolute most in the least charming way. Between Super Bowl ad discourse, Bad Bunny Spanish TikTok, and two separate creator economy faceplants (hi Bauer, hi Fly By Jing) So i guess the take away is “stop tre...

In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live, the gang crawled into a very real conversation about culture and “community” look like when the internet is on fire and the apps are actively betraying us Between Grammy tea, jazz renaissance theories, and existential dread over TikTok purgatory, the through line was clear: vibes matter, transparency matters more, and people can smell b******t from several floo...

In this week’s Silence, Brand! Live, the gang dug into the existential soup pot of brand community, from the delicate emotional labor of social media managers to the bizarre marketing fallout of executive outbursts. Topics on the table: * Can brands really build community? We talked crabs, hot tubs, and the paradox of brands playing human online. Spoiler: It’s hard to hold space when you’re preten...

this week’s S,B! Live was pure internet anthropology around what them brands doing about the cost of living crisis

in this s,b! live, the birds are on the arms and the brands are in hot water… 📯 RIP Ace Frehley, long live Porch Fest 🍗 Chip-dip mukbangs, but make it OnlyFans the influencer marketing strategy?— hyper-specific CPG content— OnlyFans-style parasocial packaging— brand collabs via ranch drizzlevibe check: drip down the chin, capitalism in the comments 🐶 The petfluencer industrial complex goes full...

in this s,b! live, blink and you might miss … 🥤 protein cold foam enters the discourse * turns out “chunky chalk foam” is not what the people ordered 👹 SORA App = Hell Unleashed * top outputs: Jake Paul makeup tutorials, MLK fakes, Mr. Rogers doing jackass stunts * general vibe: Rule 34 + unlicensed Ring surveillance * everyone agrees: the app is cursed and must be stopped 📺 Duo’s animation era...

In this deeply unhinged Silence Brand Live, the gang: * Unboxed Labubus from TikTok Shop (that’s a write off. weather you take financial advice from crabs is on you) * reviewed Big Milk’s baffling protein push via Trisha Paytas * dissected the cursed Maxwell House → Maxwell Apartment rebrand (yes, they made housing insecurity a punchline) We also explored: * the déjà vu of legacy TikTok trends rea...

🪨 buy fruity pebbles with rocks 👑 princess dianas time capsule 💻 chat gpt getting parental controls 🍗 kfc jelly beans 🫐 big benny blanco blueberries 👖 sydney sweeny and scooter braun are dating + the katseye connection 💅 cardi b reaction memes 🎥 the tiktokification of SNL ✨ trisha paytas is on linkedin 🦠 toxic avenger vs medical debt 📦 labubus are in stock 🎨 barkbox did a really yucky...

thank you to everyone who showed up for this edition of Silence, Brand! LIVE watch the replay to hear our takes on: 🤠 CapCut TOS update🇺🇸 Trump’s 90-day TikTok extension ⚾ Los Angeles Metro and Los Angeles Dodgers react publicly to ICE presence in LA on social🧧 RedNote USA is an official sponsor at Cannes 🎨 Canva did a super cute OOH activation 📍 Pinterest drops coffee collab with Emma Chambe...