have you ever heard of no-when?

The tadc / simpsons crossover that no one asked for

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Marshall Blount: https://www.instagram.com/marshall_blount?

Ace in Grace/Ashabi: https://www.instagram.com/_aceingrace_?

Yagirllici: https://www.instagram.com/yagirllici?

This one is more of a group but there’s Black Ace Culture: https://www.instagram.com/blackaceculture?

Asexual/AroaceBarbie: https://www.tiktok.com/@asexualbarbie?_r=1&_t=ZT-97gFM9iWa3a

Kim Riottt: https://www.instagram.com/kimriottt?

1) If a brand reaches out to you, people are free to talk about that. A brand emailing you is not a magical legally binding contract. Nor is it “a crime” to tell people a brand reached out to you. Some agents try to tell people that to intimidate them but that’s not how anything works. Some campaigns dont even have contracts

2) Bands are allowed to do undisclosed paid videos for a song because a product is not being sold. This happens with political videos as well. Its not regulated or required to be disclosed by the FTC but it should be

3) If an influencer does not follow the terms of their contract that is also not “a crime” and 99 times out of 100 they will not “be sued” and they certainly wont “go to jail.” First, their agent has to notice and decide its worth the drama. Secondly, they have to refuse to work things out with the brand amicably. Then, they either wont be paid, wont get the full amount, their agent might get mad if they even have one, the company may just eat the loss, etc depending on various factors.

4) Influencers DO NOT “do research” on anything they are given a brief and barely even read that. It is fairly normal to have a fully signed contract and then the creator decides to drop because they didnt look at what they were promoting before signing. It is also common for creators to not follow their contract due to negative comments and it can take months to resolve. The solution is not “they go to JAIL” its that they most likely get partial payment and the agency makes an internal note not to work with them again

5) A lot of brands dont even have an NDA because that doesnt make any sense. Nobody is posting the email addresses of the sender because they dont want to doxx random marketing people esp if they have a good relationship with the agency

6) If this even happened whoever wrote the brief is a marketing person that prob doesnt care if the video is 100% aligned with mcr deep lore and punk ethos they prob care about the CPM which is cost per 1000 impressions because they are being judged by their manager and director on those metrics

7) Not all influencer videos have a script but tons of them do have a word for word script. Or they have suggested examples and everyone just does the suggested examples

8) Assuming this happened, the label probably hired an agency or something. There is no “proof it came from MCR” because it didnt come from the desk of mx gerard way nor is mx gerard way looking at or approving every video. Where I work not even other ppl on my team see every single one of each others campaign videos

9) Someone deleting a video is not proof a brand campaign didnt happen, it just means that specific person doesnt care about not being paid or if the agency works with them again

10) “Random nobodies” do get reached out to for campaigns because they are less expensive but can still go viral. Marketing in general is moving away from influencers and towards community programs and everybody is obsessed with community programs. TBH the “MCRMY” thing is probably a community program

11) On the subject of there being “only 6 videos with the same caption” and “MCR can afford more than 6 videos.” At least for me personally usually campaigns I manage are anywhere from $20k for 15 creators or $1M for 200. Assuming this was a smaller campaign that might mean that only 6 people used the provided script and other people did their own idea or havent posted yet. Bigger campaigns also take months to run and tbh a random cover would be a micro campaign

12) Everyone is saying the brief is fake and tbh it is short but that brief sure looks like it was written by a millennial in marketing or someone trying to please a millennial manager with a specific vision who gets offended if you suggest they are no longer in touch with the youth or internet culture

13) Why is it so unrealistic to people that a major label band would not do any social media marketing when that is all advertising. Like …

a) the shambling rotten corpse of the nonbinary 30 year old who died in the music video