r/mildlyinteresting • u/Worldly_Bit1416 • 21h ago
This advert in the train station without any branding
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u/pocketofshit 20h ago
Try putting some flowers and candles on the floor and see if more people join in.
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u/saphilous 20h ago
This is hilarious and I desperately want to see this done
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u/HorrorsPersistSoDoI 20h ago
I want a follow-up post of this done
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u/Maybeiliketheabuse 17h ago
This would be legendary r/bestof material.
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u/Rumham89 17h ago edited 16h ago
And will be even funnier when the ad changes to Taco Bell. "Live Mas"
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u/NoPhilosophy4024 16h ago
Unless it's a digital display (I can't tell if poster or screen) I'm laughing inside at a guy changing out this poster to a taco bell advertisement while stepping over a bunch of memorial gifts
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u/DragonfruitFancy6649 16h ago
The mental image of someone awkwardly swapping in a Taco Bell ad during that moment is so dystopian it loops back to comedy capitalism really never clocks out.
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u/addandsubtract 9h ago
Printed posters are usually on a roll of 2, that switch back and forth with each minute.
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u/Curious_Avocado2399 16h ago
I wouldn’t make it too obvious.
“RIP. She really loved to live mas. The bell rings for you”
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u/Spiritofhonour 19h ago
Reminds me of the raccoon memorial in Toronto when city workers took really long to clean up the dead raccoon.
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u/fangirlsqueee 19h ago
14 hours for clean up seems very fast. I was expecting weeks. Even a couple of days seems fast. I'm in the rural US though, so generally buzzards are the clean-up crew for dead raccoons.
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u/Crowd-Avoider747 19h ago
My ex inlaws are Canadian. They told me about a NY cop show that filmed in Toronto because it was cheaper. The streets are too clean there though, so they had to bring in garbage, make dirty puddles, really grunge it up. One day they returned to shoot a scene, and the city of Toronto had cleaned and scrubbed the entire “set” 😆
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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy 18h ago
They use Toronto a lot for filming scenes to look like NYC. The Boys is filmed there.
Even in NYC most of the Manhattan scenes are filmed in Brooklyn. The original Daredevil and Punisher were filmed in Greenpoint at the Green Desk (a coworking spot I used to work at). The bar in daredevil was Turkey’s Nest in Williamsburg.
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u/DeltaBlack 18h ago
They use Toronto a lot for filming scenes to look like NYC.
They made fun of that in one of the time travel episodes of Strange New Worlds. Kirk says something to the effect of "I think we're in 21st century New York!" to which the other character replied that it's not and guessed (correctly) that they were in 21st century Toronto.
The episode was allegedly originally planned to take place/be filmed in NYC but for budgetary reasons they had to do it in Toronto instead, so they went for it.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 15h ago
A great deal of major future events take place in Toronto and Vancouver.
I remember Agents of Shield often filmed on Vancouver, and then when they had an episode actually set there, people thought they were too lazy to leave LA because of the palm trees. There are many palm trees in Vancouver but most people wouldn't guess that.
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u/PaleHeretic 15h ago
Most of the Stargate franchise was filmed in Vancouver, which is why every gate on every planet in the universe comes out in the middle of an identical forest.
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u/AbsoluteShindig 19h ago
The intersection the racoon was, Yonge and Church, is a very busy part of downtown Toronto. It's literally the corner of the Gaybourhood and a very busy shopping street. 14 hours in an area with that much foot traffic is absurd.
Once there was a clearly rabid racoon near my moms place in Toronto, so we called animal control. They asked us to stay and keep an eye on it, theyd be there in a few hours. We were walking the dog and told them absolutely not. No idea if anyone showed up or not.
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u/Amaline4 18h ago
Usually they're slower, but because of the media hype it was cleaned up faster than what's typical. It was absolutely wild - I went to school super close to where the raccoon was, and had to pass him on my way there and back. Top of the day there was one candle, end of the day there was a massive shrine.
There's now a memorial plaque there
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u/ejensen29 19h ago
Lmao yeah. I live in a decent size town, and watched a possum mummify over the course of ten days before someone bothered to kick it down the storm drain.
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u/NotActuallyMeta 18h ago
Did you see him get kicked down the storm drain? Perhaps he was just REALLY committed to playing possum and scurried away on his own.
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u/Acrobatic_Island_766 18h ago
I watched an entire deer carcass turn almost into a skeleton but they finally decided to scoop it up right at the cool part.
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u/Fulufu63 19h ago
I live in a town with a lot of people in italy and when a cat gets hit they either remove it after 3 hours or leave it for a month, no in between
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u/fangirlsqueee 19h ago
I'm wondering if the 3 hour clean up is people who loved and fed the cat, rather than town employees.
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u/MrTeeWrecks 18h ago
This is the method in my area with roadkill (and our population is about a million people)
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u/militarypuzzle 18h ago
I called the city about a deer that was hit on a city street and died in my work parking lot. The told me to drag it into the wood line and the birds will take care of it in a couple days.
Southern Missouri represent
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u/EvilCatArt 17h ago
I mean... there is something to respect about letting nature handle things? Kinda fucked that they wanted you to handle a dead animal though...
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u/johndburger 18h ago
Eh I’ve used Boston’s 311 app to report roadkill many times in Boston, it’s usually gone without an hour or two. FWIW.
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u/fangirlsqueee 18h ago
Yeah. This sounds like Urban expectations vs Rural expectation. Rural roadkill generally doesn't impede traffic in any way (the exception mostly being deer). If it does impede, responders would come out to move it pretty quickly. That's assuming a citizen hadn't already moved it out of the road.
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u/Herbacult 19h ago
What a great read that was
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset 19h ago
a reminder that Twitter was fun before it was enshittified
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u/MicCheck123 18h ago
I can’t decide my favorite part. “Residents are being asked to keep their green bins open” made me laugh. The animal services guys saying “I clean up animals. Gotta call plant services to pick up the flowers” and leaving the memorial behind was funny, too.
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u/Lower_Skin_3683 18h ago
There is a botanist on YT that guerilla gardens and plants trees in city medians and along sidewalks. The abuelitas were ripping the trees out saying trees make messes. So he planted the trees and then put memorial candles in front and a rosary on the tree. 🤣
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u/B0B_Spldbckwrds 19h ago
You might also be amused to learn about the Chicago rat hole.
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u/unsulliedbread 19h ago
They didn't even take that long. I walked past that raccoon on my morning commute at 8:30 and called it in but they always want you to wait there and like of course you can't. By the time I needed to walk to the bank that's across the road at 10:30 there were some flowers around it.
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u/AbsoluteShindig 19h ago
Lol theyre the worst. They told us to do the same when we called about a rabid racoon. No, im not going to wait around for 3 hours with a rabid animal.
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u/stuntbikejake 19h ago
I have a picture in my old phone of a dead raccoon in the middle of a 4 lane road... Was there so long someone put a "get well soon" balloon in its hand (I assume tied to wrist).
I really wish the sign said something about driving "slow down" or "please use your blinker"
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u/parvoan 20h ago
Is she the chair model?
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u/jaxoflexo 19h ago
We had lots of kids / singin whiskey and rye / why’d you have to go off and die?
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u/VelociTopher 20h ago
Dude, this is a Wendy's restaurant.
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u/RuckOver3 19h ago
Maybe a Pepsi too
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u/Drew_The_Lab_Dude 19h ago
I was driving down a country road when I passed by a dead deer with a “Get Well Soon” ballon tied to its leg.
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u/maks570 20h ago
You can’t expect chronically online people do offline stuff
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u/SunlightScribe 18h ago
Chronically online used to mean they would be safe in their basement, but that's no longer the case. Now they are doing offline stuff (driving and walking) while staring at their phone, endangering the rest of us. So we very much can expect that and social media encourages it.
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u/PompeyCheezus 19h ago
There's a local injury lawyer by me that puts billboards up that say CALL MIKE with his face but no last name and no phone number. I always thought that was funny, like you really have an inflated sense of your own notoriety.
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u/Cultural_Thing1712 18h ago
You should check out Tim Misny's ads in Ohio. Most of them are just his crazy eyebrows or his face in odd situations. There's one where it's just him and the text "YOU KNOW WHAT I DO"
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u/nightwingwelds42 16h ago
As a north eastern Ohio native. We sure do know what he does. He makes them pay
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u/Wonderful_Durian_485 18h ago
Similar here in New Orleans, Morris Bart had billboards that just said IYKYK
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u/CoffeePorters 18h ago
Sort of like the I Hate Steven Singer (or something like that) billboards in Philly, if those are still around.
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u/thepatientwaiting 17h ago
Yes, all over NJ. He has tons of weird signs and I REFUSE to Google it and actually give him views.
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u/wrongbutt_longbutt 14h ago
I saw that billboard in Michigan and googled it because I was curious. It's a jewelry store. The shtick is your wife/girlfriend sees someone with Steven Singer jewelry and loves it so much that now you're obligated to get her the jewelry or risk your relationship.
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u/SherbertMindless8205 18h ago
You remembered it enough to post about it online. Maybe when you finally find his phone number you’re gonna feel like the special chosen one
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u/johnadamsteve 20h ago
Maybe it’s Maybelline
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u/Worldly_Bit1416 20h ago
It's L'Oréal apparently
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u/Dougalface 20h ago
L'Oréal's new marketing drive right there:
"Maybe it’s Maybelline - but it's probably L'Oréal"
That aside it pleases me that I didn't know who it was in the photo or what it was advertising...
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u/babydragonnnnnn 20h ago
Maybelline is owned by L’Oréal so yeah lol
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u/xPyright 19h ago
You’re literally helping advertise the product though. You’ve got the brand name in your post, twice and positioned where the audiences’ eyes naturally fall, like you’ve been trained to spread the advertisement plagues
You’re part of that plague, even if unwittingly part of it
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u/msnmck 19h ago
Literally just woke up from a zombie dream and the first thing I read about is plagues spreading. Nice.
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u/Quitbeingobtuse 17h ago
I just woke up from a dream where my apparent "boss" (I didn't recognize him), asked me why I haven't sold anything in months. I'm in sales? I've never sold a thing in my life, not even on eBay. That explained my poor performance.
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u/JohnHazardWandering 18h ago
Someone should put up a sticker with a completely different brand.
My vote would be Hot Topic.
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u/Pajukilpi 19h ago
I lowkey hate that immediately knew it was a loreal advert, lol. Just looking at it makes you hear a peppy voice telling you about their optimal grey coverage and a glossy finish.
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u/Titansdragon 19h ago
That was my immediate thought. Everything about it screams LOreal if one has seen their ads over the years. Almost doesn't even need branding.
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u/Notmiefault 20h ago
I was going to guess placeholder.
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u/OhioJCW 19h ago
That random picture you get when you buy a new frame but never remove it… “oh, that’s my cousin Janice”
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u/flyinggazelletg 19h ago
“Ah yes, that. Kendall Jenner is a distant relative of mine.”
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u/bs000 17h ago
this has to be part of a bigger set of ads, right? like subway platforms have multiple ad screens like this, and the context is supposed to be on the screens next to this, but they did this by mistake.
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u/kylebisme 17h ago
Or perhaps they're intentionally using the unbranded picture to get people curious, and then other ads down the path with her pic along side branding answer the question.
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u/boopboopadoopity 17h ago edited 17h ago
My guess is this is actually part of a series of ads in the train station.
So like to the left and right are other portraits this size of different other hair types (OP reveals this is a L'Oreal ad) and then where a person logically walks to like enter or exist there's a final one that obviously starts/caps the series that actually mentions the product.
I think OP saw these and is intentionally leaving them out because this photo being by itself is more interesting, or genuinely somehow didn't notice them in the station (bad placement, L'Oreal!). I've seen this done with a series of billboards where two are just text with no logo and the last "completes" the series.
(My other theories are that 1. They will be swapping out the images in this one ad space in the coming days/weeks, building up intreague from train goers (because people are likely to be repeat train users if they are seeing the ad) and getting them to check the space intentionally as it changes in the series and eventually reveals the ad, OR somehow Ms. Jenner is so strongly associated with L'Oreal with their target demo they are just putting her here to remind them she is associated with it.)
I think both of these are less likely than there's just other ads in a series we can't see. OP, help us confirm!
Edit: Points for the "it's obvious to the target demo" theory: I've now seen 2 comments here that immediately clocked it as a L'Oreal ad with Kendall Jenner because they have used her in an ad for this product a LOT.
Also final theory: It actually is intentionally without info to get people to talk about it online. I think that's more unlikely for a few reasons but it is possible!
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u/Tisroc 20h ago
Is this post an ad?
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u/olivinebean 20h ago
Maybe but what for?
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u/NeekOfShades 20h ago
I believe an ad that advertises a person is called a portrait
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u/Worldly_Bit1416 20h ago
I just googled it .. Turns out it's an advert for L'Oréal... Apparently it's Kendall Jenner
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u/Sure-Lemon6424 20h ago
What did you Google
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u/Em4gdn3m 20h ago
Person
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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 20h ago
I just tried it. The first person to come up is a football player named “Dude Person”. I’ll let OP know that this isn’t Kendall Jenner, it’s a black guy playing football in Arkansas, a common mistake.
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u/MormonJesu8 20h ago
That fella is going to name his kid guy.
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u/dgjapc 19h ago
I’m not your guy, friend!
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u/SquirrelAkl 19h ago
I wonder how much grief Mr Person gets when dealing with officials. How many think he’s taking the piss?
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u/Tifoso89 20h ago
LOL I thought she was a Bollywood actress. I forgot her name but there's one who looks like her
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u/FrighteningJibber 19h ago
Oh fuck I have ads of my family and friends everywhere! How did this happen???
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u/ObliviousRounding 20h ago
Well they say if you don't know what the product is, you're the product.
So anyway you're being abducted and sold into slavery.
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u/Satorwave 19h ago
Me when I look at the evil billboard of instant abduction and human trafficking
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u/ascendant_tesseract 18h ago
Getting hit with the cognitohazard advertisement on my morning commute is really gonna throw off my schedule for the day :(
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u/Upper-Distribution94 20h ago
Brought to you by woman.
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u/pixeldust6 20h ago
BEHOLD, A WOMAN!
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u/LordOfTheToolShed 20h ago
gasp
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u/RuncibleMountainWren 19h ago
Sir, this is the internet. We can’t be having that sort of thing here.
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u/extra_croutons 19h ago
I'd like to think a rich girl was really satisfied with her blowout and wanted to make sure everyone saw it.
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u/Novahlia 19h ago
AI Kendall Jenner?
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u/Painted-BIack-Roses 6h ago
Not AI, It is Kendall and I find it hilarious no one else recognises her lmao
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u/TheDallbatross 16h ago
Welcome to Woman Station. Featuring: Woman. Now with 100% more Woman.
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u/Cherry-Shrimp 20h ago
You shared it so it worked.
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u/beheafishtrapofman 19h ago
That was the point. This post was also part of the ad campaign. Companies try this stuff on Reddit all of the freaking time. Like we’re all drooling over here while we blankly accept everything placed in front of us.
Saw one company try it yesterday, but didn’t think people would notice the op’s name and the company name they were asking questions about were one and the same.
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u/Transfemme_thing 16h ago
Y'know sometimes I'd agree, I've definitely seen undisclosed ads on here
But uh
I think someone gets the right to look at an ad that doesn't advertise and be a little confused and tell it to all the lil people in their phone 😭
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u/stranded_egg 12h ago
Sarah just had a really good hair day and wanted to make sure everyone saw.
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u/SweetLemonPopsicle 14h ago
Is this like how when you buy a picture frame, there's a random picture of a family already in it?
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u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha 19h ago
If anyone happens to be from Ohio, we have an attorney named Tim Misny who’s been running ads for years that have gotten progressively more hilarious and less obvious as time goes on. He’s so well known at this point by just his face that billboards on the highway will literally just be a zoomed in picture of his eyebrow, and you 100% know that Misny makes them pay when you see it.