Originally published at: Candle label resembling KKK hoods doesn't go over too well — Bath & Body Works apologizes - Boing Boing
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Were they selling it for $14.88?
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Anyone remember the hitler tea kettle?
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Looks a lot more like Greys to me, but you know. Times being what they are. Pareidolia’s a b’.
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“Smells like anal probing”
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Mere poor design or subconscious slipup?
More ‘perforated’ shapes would have easily remedied the resemblance to klan hoods.
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In their defense, at least they didn’t name the scent “Burning Crosses.”
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Was it allegedly a paper snowflake? Because they could have chosen any of the hundreds of different shapes of paper snowflakes that actually look like a paper snowflake. Instead they go for this weird thing that looks like KKK members circling around for a huddle before they go terrorize some innocent people.
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Similarity (or not) to a hood aside, I don’t know what’s going on with the design. I understand they were going for a “snowflake” pattern, but why are the shapes rounded (so they look like feathers), and why are there those hole punches in it? (Was that the idea, that it was supposed to look like someone took a hole punch to a curvy paper snowflake for some reason?)
Or not having them at all - I don’t get what they were for. It doesn’t fit in the the snowflake motif. (I initially thought it might be depicting something about the candle or its holder, which had some sort of holes in it, but no.)
But apparently a “non-cliche” paper snowflake? Where instead of the angular, crystalline lines of the traditional paper snowflake, it’s all rounded edges? Were they trying to distinguish from their other candles in that line that also use paper snowflake motifs, so they abstracted the snowflake to the point where it looked like, well, not a snowflake?
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No idea.
I’ve personally used french curves and hole punches to create rounded shapes in my paper snowflakes; so it seems to me that such an… unfortunate resemblance could have been readily avoided.
Just sayin’.
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I suspect some “ai” design?
yep.
fascinating how a picture of a certain teapot, photographed under a certain angle triggers a certain reaction from the deeply embeded perception we seemingly have as society just from the appearance of it. evil mfs branding sure was effective af.
(jah, I laughed seeing it, couldnt help it.)
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I suspect not - paper snowflake designs normally go for straight edges (because they’re easier to cut and more closely resemble actual snowflakes), so the training data for an AI wouldn’t include enough curves to be likely to output something like that. There appears to be other candles in this line, each with a paper snowflake, so I suspect some human designer was trying to make paper snowflake designs that were easily distinguishable from each other, and got a bit desperate and went more abstract with this one.
That still doesn’t explain the round holes, though. It really does look better without them, and is more coherent a design. If they felt a need for elements of visual interest to break up the design, notches cut out of the side, or more of those mandorla shaped holes in the centers of the feathers would make more sense*. I expect the designer saw some sort of papercraft where someone had used a hole punch and decided to incorporate that, but (even with hood similarities aside) it just didn’t work.
*Or maybe they tried that, it screamed “vulva” and purely in reaction to that, they went with multiple round holes.
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Looks like the Flatwoods monster to me.
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I remember making paper snowflakes. Not only do they look like hooded figures, but it’s ugly. The shape of the pattern doesn’t look like a snow flake nor like the ones I made in school. 0/10
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