I don’t mean like scams or anything like that. I mean what’s the ad that has done the worst job as an advertisement? Instead of making you want to buy the product you wanted to avoid it.
Idk where to start.
Weirdly, I’m now drawn into seeing how expensive they actually are.
Maybe it’s actually marketing genius. 🤔
This ad is not for consumers. The line “征求经销商” means “looking for retailers”
I’ll start. Ahem. What is she leaning on? What cables are they talking about? Why are they expensive? Is it good that they’re expensive?
I’ll stop there, and see myself out
White font on white shirt?
The confusing messaging certainly takes second place behind that bad typography.
You know you can change the typo in the title right?
But then people won’t flood to the comment section to correct them
Political campaign ads. Not a product so it might be different. I remember watching one that took advantage of homeless people and it made my stomach hurt.
There was an ad recently on UK TV for some shitty food delivery company,and had a constant loud doorbell sound.
I emailed the TV channel and said myself and everyone I know have stopped watching their channel because the advert was so obnoxiously irritating.
They emailed back a month later and said they’d asked the advertiser to redo the advert due to multiple complaints
We can make a difference if we make an effort!
Wendy’s had a recruitment campaign “a job at Wendy’s serves me right” and I could not think of a job there as anything other than a punishment for something
Fitting punishment for a Karen that goes ballistic over a fast food order and assaults a cashier.
Gillette had an advertisement and it was a bunch of different hot men lined up and a woman fondling their bodies, evaluating what trimming style she found most sexually appealing. They were encouraging you to buy their trimming products.
I just thought, let’s flip it around. There’s a bunch of busty and tight women in swimsuits, and a man comes and lustfully fondles their bodies, and then they’re telling you to buy makeup.
Edit. I should add that this was what made me decide to just stop buying their products. It was just one commercial, and I’m not making a big whoopee about it, but it motivated me to make a change and there’s no reason to go back. I pretty much realized through this that I don’t need any of their products that I formerly used, and I can shave myself for pennies versus what I used to pay them for disposable blades.
I just thought, let’s flip it around.
This is how you best determine the presence of gender bigotry.
Take the genders in contention, and swap them. If the skit or saying or phrase or whatever no longer “reads” exactly the same as it did before, then the “inoffensive” version is nothing more than gender bigotry being aggressively whitewashed.
Example: “kill all men” ↔ “kill all women”. Do both sides read the same? Are both sides taken to be “equally offensive” by most of society? No? Congrats, you have correctly identified the left hand side - frequently lobbed about by a majority of female supremacists as “a joke” - as being a whitewashed example of gender bigotry. And mercy upon the soul of anyone who utters the right-hand version, such is the severity of how offensive society sees it as.
I can shave myself for pennies versus what I used to pay them for disposable blades.
Safety razor, FTW. Blades are cheap, I can shave myself daily for five years for the same price as a 16-pack of replaceable Gillette razor heads that barely last me six months with only thrice-weekly use. And I have a straightedge for dealing with neck hairs during the winter when I let my beard grow out, works wonders in giving me a clean edge to my beardline. If I take care of it well, I could pass that straightedge down to one of my grandnephews in near-mint condition.
Papa John’s always showed some of the most revolting looking pizza in their ads, and I know ads are usually doctored to make the food look better so if that’s what it looked like in the ad there was no way in hell I was coming into one of those places to get a pizza.
Rama margarine
Every 90s ad looked (almost) like this. At least in my country. Cringe times.
We might not live far away… this one was the cringiest to be honest, the others ones, not as much. But this… I do eat margarine, but after seing this, I never even thought about buying Rama ever again, though it has crossed my mind before I saw this ad.
It seems weird the whole family is going nuts over margarine. And a whole lot of it too.
It’s a cultural thing, it’s like butter in the Balkans. Why is butter not as popular? Because it’s a lot more expensive 🤷. People have historically been fairly poor around here.
We’ve had a lot of popular margarine commercials in the US too, but no ones nearly that excited about it lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7-vau8DiU0
Love the last one 😂.
Not gonna lie, I kinda love it.
Yeah, wholesome ads like this…
I wish there was an ad like this for buttplugs or horse dildos… now theres an ad I’d watch 😂.
How about this then?
Lol 😂, IDK what that was about, but it was great 😂.
All the anti-smoking ads. I don’t support smoking, but the anti-smoking ads are so dramatic I’m surprised they’re allowed by the Geneva Convention on psychological warfare.
And the real world affect of those ads were they just reminded smokers they hadn’t had a smoke in a while and they’d go light up.
Now Im reminded of he Thai Insurance ad
Crazy frog. Advertising what, a ringtone? I stopped watching television and never really started again.
I feel like any ad you remember isn’t the worst.
The point of ads is to entice you to buy sonething. Theres a higher chance of me buying something I dont remember the ad for than one that I make a point to avoid because of how terrible the ad for it was.
You got it! Aside from anything seriously offensive, these are ALL better ads than the ones we’ve completely forgotten about.
Any ad that runs on youtube. Literally. All of them. You have paid for the privilege of ruining my enjoyment of whatever I was trying to see. Eff you and the product you rode in on.
Every grammarly as that has the English mistake in it.
So, all of them.
Any of the ads that have started autoplaying when I turn on my FireTV Cube. It pisses me of so much I’m actively avoiding the shows and movies they’re promoting.
Turn off the auto play video option in your settings. It used to be off by default and got turned on in a recent update.
You are my hero, I looked for something like that but hadn’t found it. Thank you!
The Quiznos ad with the talking chinchillas.
Most people didn’t even know what those things were. I heard them being called weasels and rats and deep-fried hamsters and even beavers.
But, no. Photos of chinchillas, with talking human mouths superimposed. Ended up being the most fingernails-on-a-chalkboard commercial I have ever come across. Sure, there have been worse commercials in terms of raw stinkers or stupidity, but this one was by far the most repellant one I have ever personally experienced.
They’re called spongmonkeys and I’m pretty sure they’re modified tarsiers.
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