Posted on 11/19/2020 2:49:31 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Tony Piloseno even used his wildly successful and viral TikToks as part of a digital marketing pitch to the company to appeal to younger members of Gen Z.
An Ohio University senior who worked a part-time job at a local Sherwin-Williams store was fired after the company discovered his popular paint-mixing TikTok channel @tonesterpaints, which currently has over 1.2 million followers.
Piloseno told BuzzFeed News he did admit to filming TikToks while he was already mixing paints for customers when he first started posting to his channel in December 2019. But, as his page grew, he committed to purchasing cans of paint with his employee discount.
"I loved the job immediately," he said. "I love how colors blend together, what goes with what... It’s hard to explain, but I really enjoy mixing paint. I like showing what stuff it can do."
The company specifically received a high volume of inquiries about mixing blueberries into their paint because of this viral TikTok.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeednews.com ...
He was buying the paint, so the company was not losing money. I fail to understand the problem here.
Never thought of the embarrassment factor. You may be right that they had to protect their do nothing jobs....... I did not a harrumph out of him,
Sherwin-Williams owns most paint companies these days.
I’ve wondered if acrylic house paint can be used for paint pouring - seems like it would be a lot cheaper that the artist’s paints usually used. Found this - skip to about 6:30 to see results of technique:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA-PdOeRK1M
>”Watching paint dry”
Sounds like a good wall paper background for my laptop!
If I never mix another pint, quart, gallon, pail, or drum of paint again, it’ll be too soon.
Just skimming the article, it doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know what a TikTok is. Some sort of YouTube competitor
How can you not know what TikTok is asit has made major news headlines this past year. Trump at one point threatened to ban it. Google, Microsoft and Oracle all wanted to buy the US counterpart. If you have been Rip Van Winkled I can understand but an avid Freeper who does not know what TikTok is simply unfathomable. How can you be considered informed if you do not know any of that going on.
Bluberriy colors will fade quickly in the sun.
Bluberry colors will fade quickly in the sun.
Your Comcern Has Been:
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I liked that reply!
Now, if only I can remember to use it at the right time.
Thanks.
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