Vintage Kodak Magazine Ad Goes Viral for Treating Readers Like They're Smart
jwt0625 · x · 2026-10-28
A viral post shares a vintage Kodak magazine ad that "hits like you are not dumb": it opens with a chemistry joke — "Roses are red, violets are blue / Sugar is sweet and attached to the 3- or 5-hydroxy group" — then dives into anthocyanin pigments, metabolic screening kits, and thin-layer chromatography. Tech circles are sharing it as a jab at today's dumbed-down marketing.
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