Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Ayds, the Diet Candy That Refuses to Stay Buried
A parody revival site for Ayds Reducing Plan Candy, the mid-century appetite-suppressant confection with an unfortunate modern name.
Why it surfacedThe site stages its pitch through archival advertisements, a 1977 mail-order coupon, television references, and the cheerfully alarming promise to make “fatties slim again.” It even gestures toward $AYDS and Robinhood before admitting that the whole revival is parody—a compact museum of diet culture, branding mishaps, and internet provocation.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.