Lets talk about the fake diversity culture in advertising: I’m a woman of color who fell into the agency world via a jr designer position posted on craigslist in 2011. I’ve always felt like an intruder in a white mans world no matter how ‘nice’ everyone was. From then til now Ive watched clients call for an ‘attractive white women’ model shift to ‘racially ambiguous models’ and seen copy voice / tone change to ‘sound less white’. BUT nothing has bothered me more than this. Thoughts???

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Can you provide more context as to why you are upset? I know people personally in all three of those slack channels. They are wonderful humans who are talented and have built community intentionally. I’m sorry you are upset but please do be respectful - you are putting on blast communities of real people of color that are also suffering. Let’s please be empathetic and find ways to articulate our pain without hurting others. Sending positive vibes. ❤️✨✨✨

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I’m guessing the stars are the positive vibes you are sending...🤣

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It’s about time an agency stood up for footwear crowd. Thank you, Gary V.

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The Vayner responses...cringey and super aggressive. I actually don’t mind Gary Vee, bought one of his books. But I do mind is an aggressive work culture (visible through this thread), must be very exhausting in daily life.

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I couldn’t say it better myself. This place is a cult. At vayner you’re either drinking the kool aid or you’re not and punished for it. I missed the ‘optional’ summer party and HR brought it up in my review. Gary knows how to manipulate his early in their career employees. I found the ‘ride or die’ ones usually have never worked anywhere else. Working there was truly the saddest year of my life.

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As a Latin person, I notice a mismatch between “Latinx” and “amigos.” Even though “Latinos” actually means all genders and “x” is an unpronounceable Anglicism that makes no sense, if you’re going to use Latinx, you should also be saying “amigxs.” Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to feed my gatx.

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Chief Heart Officer!!!

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Why do women get the most boring one....? we could be Vay-ginas 💅

For real these names are cringey as a headdress at Coachella.

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Sometimes it seems people are just looking for something to be offended by. No agency I’ve ever worked at had anything like this, because I would’ve been the only one in it. It’s cheesy for my taste, but I suppose I’d appreciate the effort even if I didn’t use it.

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Wait until you hear about VX-Vindians...

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#sneakerheadlivesmatter ?

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You work for Gary vee. That’s your first problem. And all the problems on this printout

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I know a lot of agencies that have slack channels for the BIPOC employees that people like having as a safe space for discussion but i feel like it would all seem more accessible to newcomers if they had pointed out on the posted they were all started by employees and not by HR. Also, People need to stop grouping LGBTQ+ alongside initiatives for BIPOC. I’ve seen a lot of companies doing this over the last week and it’s insulting to all communities involved. You could have printed a new set of posters so as not to be like “let’s just lump all of these communities together.” Also lots of people are into sneaker culture that are white? Just a lot of tone deafness in this poster and this thread.

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Is vaynoire trademarked? 😂😂😂

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OP, based on some of the Vayner comments, you made a lucky escape!

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