Toilet paper blogger stunt should get flushed

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Look what just landed in the department of bad social media campaigns! Toilet paper brand Charmin has put out a casting call for five bloggers who will spend five weeks working as "Charmin Ambassadors" in a pop-up bathroom in New York's Times Square.

I'm going to say it right now: The Procter & Gamble-owned brand has creeped me out for a while with those commercials that feature cartoon bears gallivanting in a forest with rolls of soft and fluffy toilet paper and then sneaking behind trees to do their business. I don't want to think about pooping bears. Sorry. But this new campaign, detailed Tuesday in an article in the Business Courier of Cincinnati, really pushes it to a new level.

"Job requirements include interacting with hundreds of thousands of bathroom guests, maintaining their own blogs and content on Charmin-branded Web sites and popular social media sites, and sharing family-friendly video from the restroom space and surrounding areas," the Business Courier article explained. I'm afraid this is pretty much validating and encouraging those weirdos who like to post to Twitter about bathroom visits.

The new campaign tag line is "Enjoy the go." GROSS.

The bloggers will be paid $10,000 apiece, which I sincerely hope they will use to invest in a name change and a wardrobe of high-end disguises, because if I were one of them I'd be way too embarrassed to go on through life with my current identity.

But don't worry! Charmin has loads of experience so there's absolutely no way this will look stupid. According to the Business Courier of Cincinnati, "This is not the first year Charmin has hosted a temporary, or pop-up, bathroom in Times Square. In 2008, it kicked off a "Plush Potties for the People" tour that traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to Times Square, where it settled for the holidays."

Plush Potties for the People. As one of my colleagues put it, "You've got to be s***ting me."

[Mergatroid Mania]

I agree about the bear commercials. Showing little bears with bits of toilet paper stuck to their bums is gross for sure. They've always creeped me out too. Lite commercials that describe how their dolls "go number one and number two", these companies don't seem to know where the good taste line should be drawn.

[RayTheGeek]

Wow, talk about really stupid marketing ideas, this one is a major stinker (pardon the pun)! Ok, not only is the concept of using a "pop-up bathroom" sponsored by Charmin just a little on the weird side, but actually having someone who represents Charmin hanging around to videotape you or take comments about it then blog about it is bordering on voyeurism.

I could see it now, come out after using the facilities already eager to exit since using a public toilet is already creepy and then as you are washing your hands, assuming they provide the means, you get accosted by some stranger asking you if everything came out alright and what did I think of using Charmin!

Take that one step further imagine what it would be like having to do that on New Year?s Eve!!!!

ROTFL

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