{"id":4827,"date":"2008-12-03T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2010-11-25T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T10:24:10","slug":"picture-these-pimples-in-a-movie-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/03\/picture-these-pimples-in-a-movie-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Picture These Pimples in a Movie Close-Up!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a vintage Fleishmann&#8217;s Yeast ad (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/adarchive\/1.html\">here<\/a>), which presents yeast as the answer to the horrors of pimples&#8211;awful, hideous pimples!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4828 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1b.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4829 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1c.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4830 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1d.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4831 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/1d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know in what world high schools have movies, but whatever. Clearly, the message is &#8220;pimples = social death and eternal loneliness.&#8221; It&#8217;s not just that Davy can&#8217;t be in the movie due to his horrible affliction; if he can&#8217;t play the lead along with his girlfriend, he faces the possibility of losing her to a leading man with a clear complexion.<\/p>\n<p>Given such messages about the importance of clear skin, it&#8217;s no wonder teens and their families were willing to shell out enormous sums of money on skin-care products. Apparently yeast didn&#8217;t catch on as a treatment, though.<\/p>\n<p>For other examples of vintage ads playing on teens&#8217; fear of facial blemishes, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/30\/clearasil-personality-of-the-month-ad\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/28\/hand-sapolio-soap-will-make-you-welcome-among-the-best-people\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a vintage Fleishmann&#8217;s Yeast ad (found here), which presents yeast as the answer to the horrors of pimples&#8211;awful, hideous pimples! I don&#8217;t know in what world high schools have movies, but whatever. Clearly, the message is &#8220;pimples = social death and eternal loneliness.&#8221; It&#8217;s not just that Davy can&#8217;t be in the movie due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,257,223,2089],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-hygiene","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender-beauty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29979,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/29979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}