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Dollar Shave Club wants to give you more bang for your butt

Sex sells. So does funny. 

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Sex sells. So does funny. 

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Dollar Shave Club, a company that sends razors to customers’ homes for a low cost, gained attention last year when its promo video, “Our Blades Are F**king Great,” picked up millions of views.

CEO Michael Dubin is back with a new product line and a new deadpan video that’s even more ridiculous than its predecessor. He doesn’t have to try too hard. He’s selling butt wipes now.

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Dollar Shave Club argues slightly more than half of American men are using special moist butt wipes, with around 16 percent of 18- to 45-year-olds replacing toilet paper completely. They’re cleaner, better, faster, and make your backside smell divine, it claims. There’s a $9 billion toilet paper market to tap into, apparently. 

If One Wipe Charlies are going to make a splash (sorry not sorry), it’ll be the promo video that does the trick. Riffing on some of the motifs from the first clip—the bear, Dubin’s winking indifference to the over-the-top props around him—it’s both hilarious and dripping with smugness. It’s bursting with non-sequiturs, puns, and talk of No. 2, of course. 

The video, which hit YouTube Tuesday morning, is stuck at 301 views, a sure sign that a lot of people have watched it in a short space of time.

I’ll take a looping GIF of a Dubin hitting a bear in the face with a pack of ass wipes any day.

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H/T Betabeat/Reddit | Screenshot via DollarShaveClub/YouTube

 
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