21 JULY, 2023
Debodinna Chakraborty
Barbie has certainly made people go all crazy on social media. The Greta Gerwig movie about the doll line releases today, July 21, and people are all aboard the hype train.
Photo: IMDb
Photo: IMDb
The craze for Barbie has been going on for quite some time and social media is carrying the most of it. Among all the other Barbie trends, one that has gone proper viral are the Barbie marketing memes.
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The use of the colour pink has garnered a lot of attention, which, in turn, became a canon for numerous Barbie memes.
Photo: Twitter
Twitter user Mark Rofe shared a picture of the pink sky on Twitter and, obviously, when it's pink, it's Barbie: “The Barbie marketing team have done it again. So creative."
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Lake Hillier in Western Australia went pink because of Dunaliella salina, a unicellular micro-alga with red/pink pigment. But of course, it's the Barbie marketing team at work!
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A real marketing stunt that deserves a mention on this list is the Pink Tardis near the Tower Bridge in London, which was set up by Warner Bros as a promotional campaign for the film.
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A man fishing along a river in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, US, spotted a rare pink dolphin. Netizens wasted no time: It was also part of Barbie marketing!
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America recently got introduced to the Messi effect after Inter Miami FC signed the Argentinian footballer. Messi's announcement post got the Barbie memes out... because of their pink kit.