This was never supposed to go on the Bredemarket blog, but here it is. Because when a product marketing consultant wants to improve his storytelling skills, he practices with…toilet paper.
Wylie likes to share art challenges, and she recently shared this one. The text below, including the emojis, is straight from the challenge.
📣 New Weekly Wednesday Challenge 📣
🌟 Glitch N’ Sass and AI Anonymous Present:
🎭✨ MESMERIZE THE MUNDANE ✨🎭
Where glitter drips from code and imagination struts in stilettos. @everyone 💥
Take the forgotten, the overlooked, the tragically basic —
and unleash the glam-core magic of AI.
Allow creativity to glitch the system, let sass polish the mundane, all while reshaping reality.
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Flip the script on the everyday:
🥄 A spoon stirs time’s secrets
👟 A shoelace coils into cosmic scales
📎 A paperclip snaps open hidden realms
✨ Rewire purpose.
✨ Reframe presence.
✨ Reveal what the world forgets to see.
📌 Tag it: #AIAnonymous #GlitchNSass #MesmerizeTheMundane
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💬 This isn’t an art drop — it’s an everyday clutch, transformed into a chasm of creativity .
A call to those who see depth in the digital, beauty in glitches, and freedom behind the mask.
We are not escaping the world — we are a reminder, to view it. For all the purposes they told us it never possessed. 🔥
✨ So go on… Mesmerize us, With glitter in one hand and encrypted vision in the other. ✨
Preparing my response
Now on the surface such an exercise has nothing to do with “know your business” or “biometric product marketing expert” or “content – proposal – analysis”…
…but it does.
In essence, written business communications are opportunities for storytelling. As I noted, case studies are inspiring stories about how a challenged company realized amazing success, all thanks to the wonderful Green Widget Gizmo.
Now that’s a riveting story.
Tell us about the Green Widget Gizmo again PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Imagen 4.
And of course I’ve performed AI image storytelling before: for example, with my three “Biometric product marketing expert” reels. Here’s the second:
Biometric product marketing expert, the content for tech marketers version.
But back to the “Mesmerize the Mundane” challenge. So to participate in the challenge I had to find something mundane. Now some of you think a single finger sensor is mundane…but I don’t. (There’s actually a connection between fingerprint sensors and art, but I’m under NDA.)
My response
So I picked a mundane topic: toilet paper.
What’s even better is that toilet paper is filled with emotion. Particularly relative to the ongoing debate about whether…
I’m not going to say it. I hope this reel—my entry into the “Mesmerize the Mundane” challenge—speaks for itself.
The over/under.
When I shared this reel on Facebook and elsewhere, I did so with the following text.
A storytelling exercise…and a challenge.
You can’t get more mundane than toilet paper, or spawn fiercer battles over orientation. But love conquers battles.
One of the challenges in multi-image storytelling is the need for consistency between the images. You can’t have the hero wildebeest wearing a blue cap in the first picture and a red one in the second.
So to enforce consistency, I’ve been bundling all my picture prompts into a single request to Google Gemini, and including instructions to enforce similarity between the pictures in the series.
AI art creation. This is the picture I use for the Bredemarket Picture Clubhouse Facebook group.
So here is the specific request used to create the four pictures in the reel above.
Draw realistic pictures based upon the following four prompts:
Prompt 1: Draw a realistic picture of a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. The toilet paper is white. The toilet paper end is hanging in front of the roll.
Prompt 2: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompt, a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. The toilet paper is still white. This time, however, the toilet paper end is hanging behind the roll.
Prompt 3: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompts, a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. Now the toilet paper is glowing in a neon red. Due to mesmerizing magic, there is a toilet paper end hanging in front of the roll, and there is also a duplicate toilet paper end hanging behind the roll. The presence of both toilet paper ends removes the conflict of whether to hang toilet paper in front of our behind the roll; now, both are simultaneously true.
Prompt 4: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompts, a toilet paper holder next to the toilet. But now the tiles on the bathroom wall are colored gold, vibrating, and throbbing. The toilet itself is glowing with a bright light. Now the toilet paper is glowing in red, green, and blue, and sparkles are shooting away from the toilet paper roll like fireworks. Again, due to mesmerizing magic, there is a toilet paper end hanging in front of the roll, and there is also a duplicate toilet paper end hanging behind the roll. The bathroom floor is covered in hundred dollar bills and shiny gold coins.
And here are the full square pictures, which do not completely display in the reel.
Now I just have to tell the riveting story of a single finger sensor.
The Meta properties are great for driving engagement, but Meta’s odd and untimely application of its rules can be maddening.
I was checking my personal Facebook account this afternoon when I noticed a “Profile has some issues” message and clicked on the “View details” button to see why my profile had a gold restricted minus sign.
Profile has some issues.
When I clicked on the button I found a list of 11 issues encompassing my personal profile, the Bredemarket page, and the Bredemarket groups.
I got flagged because Facebook said my content could “trick people to visit…a website.”
We removed your post. You figure out what happened.
But even after removing the parenthetical comment I got flagged again.
Eventually I just posted a link with no text on Facebook, and since that time have studiously avoided posting calls to action on Facebook posts.
But this past issue remains a present issue because my account is restricted…and I’m supposed to do something about it. But without a DeLorean I’m not sure what. I can’t remove the offending posts since Facebook already did so.
My personal Facebook account is technically a “professional” account, and therefore has Meta’s silly weekly contests. I have the content part down, but I’m NOT creating a Meta personal AI bot. (The Bredemarket Instagram account has two.)
Remember last month when I created the Meta AI character N. P. E. Bredemarket? “He” identifies as “wisdom in technology, at your service.” Although I need to train him more, he is fairly good at illuminating technology topics.
N. P. E. Bredemarket.
But he doesn’t make me money.
To make money, I need an influencer to promote Bredemarket.
But not a macro-influencer like a Kardashian or Jenner.
“She” is still in anti-hallucination training; at one point she said that I was the past president of the International Biometric Association (whatever that is). But she’s getting better.
Will she drum up business for Bredemarket? Probably not, since my Instagram influence pales in comparison to my Facebook and LinkedIn influence. But I’m curious to try it.
I even scheduled a Facebook event. Because Meta wants me to turn every Facebook post into an event, I set one up for Monday at 8 am (Pacific Daylight Time).
Nothing special at the event; I’m not even planning to go live. Just a time to check to see if the video is posted, and to spend 32 seconds watching it.
Last Friday I shared my beef with the so-called LinkedIn “experts” and their championing of generic pablum.
“The ideal personal communication is this: ‘I am thrilled and excited to announce my CJIS certification!’”
This drivel is rooted in the idea that LinkedIn is a business network…and anything else is just “Facebook.”
Oddly enough, my Bredemarket consulting blog gets much more traffic from Facebook than it does from LinkedIn.
Despite me emphasizing LinkedIn more than Facebook for Bredemarket social media.
And despite the fact that Bredemarket’s LinkedIn pages have many more followers than Bredemarket’s Facebook page and groups.
It appears that Facebook users are more willing to click on links (and leave the walled garden).
Perhaps that’s not “businesslike” on LinkedIn.
Therefore, despite my issues with the Metabot at times, I’m paying more attention to Facebook these days.
And if Facebook users pay more attention to Bredemarket than LinkedIn users…well, I won’t impede on the LinkedIn users as they perform thrilling and exciting things.
In the distance.
By the way, I probably won’t post an anti-LinkedIn “experts” diatribe on the Bredemarket blog next Friday…