Really strange Applebee's ad during news coverage about war in Ukraine, ad at roughly 0:27 - https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/applebees-apologizes-pulls-ads-after-cnn-plays-annoying-commercial-during-invasion-of-ukraine/
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Decades ago, Coca-Cola was trying to enter the market in Saudi Arabia. They ran an ad where "pilgrims" walked around a giant coke bottle, in the same way that Muslim pilgrims in Mecca walk around the Kaaba during Hajj and Umrah. It was very, very poorly received, to say the least, and many attribute it as the main reason why Pepsi has dominated the market instead of Coca-Cola.
Anything related to AI nowadays
I once saw a billboard that only had text and a picture of some guy.
The text read "You can't block this ad"
It made me so irrationally angry and I still to this day don't even know what they were advertising for.
Ooh, I saw something like that once. What they haven't considered is that you could just cover it up. Hey presto, blocked.
Ooh, I saw something like that once. What they haven't considered is that you could just cover it up. Hey presto, blocked.
I'd guess it would be the owner of the billboard advertising the space. I've definitely seen that before, often accompanied by a "x thousand people see this every day!" type message.
Advertising advertising is one of the most hilarious things to me.
I hate ads on principle but an ad for an ad is just a level of debauchery I can barely fathom
I once saw a billboard that said somethimg like: if ads for cigarettes are gonna be illegal, it's not gonna be long and you won't see an ad of a sausage anymore.
Like i saw that and was like: good
Who is driving by that and foaming out of their mouth: NOT MY SAUSAGE!
I remember driving around Germany and seeing ads with really exuberant people eating sausages with slogans like "Fleisch! Na ja!"
So I'm going to say: the Germans.
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Was in a flyer I got years ago.
No way. Just...no way. Definitely not in a litigous society like the USA. The liability alone would be insane.
Nope not USA. But incredibly stupid regardless. "The clean team"? Like what? Haha.
Funnily enough the hotel we're staying at has a vending machine with candy and snacks. And also sells Tide detergent in a pack that looks like a box of candy. I'll get a picture next time I walk by.
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When bleach is mixed with ammonia, toxic gases called chloramines are produced. Exposure to chloramine gases can cause the following symptoms:
- Coughing.
- Nausea.
- Shortness of breath.
- Watery eyes.
- Chest pain.
- Irritation to the throat, nose, and eyes.
- Wheezing.
- Pneumonia and fluid in the lungs.
https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/contaminants/bleach-mixing-dangers
I spent a lot more effort learning French than chemistry. Whew!
IMO, the easiest answer is always gonna be literally any pro genAI ads, so I'mma go with something different.
I don't remember the brand, but it was this car ad where someone sealed themselves in their car in their garage and was doing the thing where you set it up so the emission fumes backfire into the vehicle and you commit suicide that way. The ad basically boiled down to how their car was so clean you couldn't kill yourself off the emission fumes and shit.
I really hope anyone involved with it and/or approved it were either fired and/or had to take some sensitivity course because suicide is something you should never joke about.
Every time the self checkout prompts me to donate to charity.
Sir this is a Loblaws, why don't you donate.
(They've jacked the cost from "round up to the nearest dollar" to like $4.95 for some reason too)
NVidia recently:
"... Like how everyone has a home cinema."
"The 2070 is too old! Buy a new GPU, I need the money."
Ending driver support for the 1080 still makes me angry. It is a perfectly fine and powerful card but they just ended support on Linux and in cuda.
Me, glancing over at 1660 Super...
There was a partnership between a genealogy group and a cruise line. It makes sense that the people who like one would like the other. The cruise line put out an ad “sail the Atlantic and trace your family” Which is kind of tone deaf for a number of people.
Great learning opportunity if you chain them below decks the entire time.
Oh that's funny, I thought this was a joke about the Titanic..... Probably because I pictured it going from Europe to the US.
That sounds right up Boomer alley
That old Saturn Ion commercial. A car ad about a world without cars, accidentally showing what a complete waste of space their own product is.
Another one near me, not technically an ad but a name: The Dead River Company. They deliver oil.
This ad honestly reads like satire. I can't believe this came out of Texas.
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I'm not sure if this applies. Yesterday, in Canada, I saw a commercial for a cellphone network provider company that showed a bunch of their logos dot across Canada on a globe map and they said "anywhere in Canada" and then the globe spun around as far away from the usa as possible and they said "or anywhere in the world". I thought that was a very subtle diss against the usa. Sometimes I see Jesus on burnt toast though so maybe I'm reading something that's not there.
How is that tone deaf?
I was abroad recently. At the radio I got an ad for a company from my country. At the end of the ad, they said their slogan... in their own language. How do you expect people to get your slogan if it's in a language they don't speak!?
Slogans in foreign languages are sometimes considered prestigious or exotic. They're saying it for the vibes, not for the literal meaning of the words.
Rock and Roll Hairstyle USA
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