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THAT Folgers commercial

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Two speakers discuss a famous 1990s-2000s Folgers commercial featuring a brother and sister with uncomfortable chemistry that has spawned thousands of fan fiction stories online with explicit content covering numerous sexual categories.

Summary

The speakers discuss a viral Folgers commercial from the 2000s that featured a brother and sister with an awkward, seemingly suggestive dynamic. One speaker reveals that this commercial has inspired an enormous fan fiction community online, with thousands of stories written about the characters. They note that these fan fictions have expanded into an entire fictional universe with an 'expanded universe' concept. The speaker examined the content tags on these fan fictions and found that the community has created explicit content covering virtually every sexual category imaginable. The conversation then shifts to imagining the experience of the actors involved in filming the original commercial. They speculate that the actors likely worked on set for only a few hours, earned modest compensation (around $200), and expected to receive residual payments. However, decades later, these actors have become unintentionally associated with an enormous body of sexually explicit fan-created content, making them inadvertently famous in internet culture for content they never created or intended to inspire.

Key Insights

  • A Folgers commercial from the 2000s featuring a brother and sister generated thousands of fan fiction stories online
  • The fan fiction community created an expanded universe around the commercial with extensive fictional lore
  • Fan fictions based on the commercial cover nearly every sexual category and explicit content type
  • Actors who filmed the commercial for approximately three hours and minimal pay became unintentionally famous for internet sexual content they never created
  • An actor from a simple commercial shoot can become permanently associated with explicit fan-created content decades after filming

Topics

Folgers commercial from the 2000sFan fiction community and expanded universeInternet culture and unintended consequencesActor experience with viral contentExplicit fan-created content

Transcript

[0:00] There's a folders commercial from the 90s. Oh, I know. From actually it's from like the 2000s and it's a brother and sister and they're they're weirdly horny for each other. Did you know that on the internet there is thousands upon thousands of fanfics >> about it? >> Oh, >> and there is a there are series it it has there's an expanded universe. >> What? >> And it is crazy. I I didn't read them, but I looked at all the tags for it and I was like, "Oh my god, they hit every sexual category." I'M LIKE, "WOW, THEY HAVE THEM DOING EVERYTHING." [0:30] >> WHAT INTERESTING fodder for a fan? >> I was like, "WHAT…

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