parody scarface 80s toy commercial goes viral for sunglasses kid

Recently I decided to roll the dice on an idea that's been rattling around for years in my head, but only since the latest developments in A.I, was I able to make my parody toy commercials a reality.

If you're old enough to remember the 80s and 90s toy commercials the first time round, they aggressively targeted kids with toys that were often based on totally violent adult movies. I kid you not - there were Robocop toys. Yes, four year olds were being targeted to buy merch for an R Rated Movie that included someone having his hand blown off with a shotgun and shot in the head pointblank, someone being machine gunned for about 20 seconds, someone being blown up with a hand grenade mere minutes after they were snorting coke off a woman's cleavage, and a man completely exploding after being exposed to toxic waste and hit by a car.

You can still find on youtube ads for Aliens toys with exploding chest action, Terminator 2 toys and more.

I've always enjoyed anarchic humour, and with the more recent A.I image and video models came a bunch of parody toy commercials on TikTok, but no one was doing movies.

As you'll know - my music is very much inspired by film soundtracks and movies of the 80s and early 90s.

So, with my music as the soundtrack, I went ahead and created parody commercials for fictitious toys for Scarface, Lethal Weapon 2 and Carlito's Way.

There's just something inherently funny about operatically violent crime movies getting their own figures, and kids quoting lines from the movie, and I had a feeling the internet might agree.

All three videos went viral, with Scarface getting almost a million views in 12 days, 50K+ Likes and 107k+ sends, Lethal Weapon 2 just passed 1 million views and Carlito's Way is at 500k plays. In 11 days I gained about 13k more followers.

John Leguizamo Liked my Carlito's Way video and the actress Ingrid Rogers, who plays Steffie in Carlito's Way -slid into my DM's to say hi and thank you for the laughs.

A few big celebs started following me and I received real enquiries by email and DM about purchasing the toys for Lethal Weapon, and had to break it to excited Millenials and GenXers that this was actually evil A.I!

I'm very mindful to not turn my Instagram and Tiktok into mindless A.I slop machines, and have risked the wrath of people who understandably hate A.I., but as a strategy to get out of the 400K jail I'd been in for about the last eight months, I decided to make something that I saw no one else doing. As with my "P.O.V It's the 80s..." concept for promoting music, I'm sure the thieves and grifters will come for this idea too - and knowing this makes being there first that much more important than sitting back and letting someone else do it. The road to a million followers ain't always pretty.

You can watch videos on my Instagram.