1970 “Special Barbie Month” Commercial | Know Your Meme

This submission is currently being researched & evaluated! You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation. [Researching] About 1970 “Special Barbie Month” Commercial is a viral vintage commercial that gained popularity in 2023. The video has led to several works of fanart involving the commercial’s two characters. Origin The commercial originally aired sometime in 1970, and was first posted to Vimeo (shown below) by Ira Gallen[1] on March 16th, 2018, to embed on his vintage television website TVDays.[2] In the commercial, a very excited girl talks to a mellow girl about a free membership to the Barbie fan club along with other free Barbie items. Afterwards the mellow girl runs off to claim the offer herself. The commercial was reposted to TikTok by surroundedbystatic[3] on September 7th, 2023, where it received over 296,000 views and over 77,000 likes in three days. The TikTok video was then reposted to Twitter on the same day by luvsygn[4] where it received over 38,000 likes and over 5,700 retweets in over three days. The Twitter post also led to a wave of fanart of the characters. Spread An art thread of the commercial’s characters was
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