Pringles Ad Accused of Ripping Off 'One Tiny Hand' Tumblr

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[Note: The agency says this spot was never approved to run. See update below.] I'm sure advertisers have ripped off individual Tumblrs before, but it's never been quite as obvious as Grey Mexico's "One Tiny Hand" spot for Pringles, which bears some rather convenient similarities to a blog created by Zach Vitale, Bob O'Connor and James Weinberg, in which they Photoshop pictures of celebrities to make one of their hands comically smaller than the other.

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