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Product Advertisements that You Dislike
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Jeff T
puzzling lifeform
Sure glad that TV remotes have a mute button!
The advertising that grinds my gears are the drug companies. Puzzled why they spend so much to advertise, as people aren't going to the store to buy prescription meds. Seems like directly marketing to physicians and HMOs would be more cost-effective. I imagine that doctors aren't too pleased to have patients asking if 'this drug is The Cure' for whatever ails them......
The advertising that grinds my gears are the drug companies. Puzzled why they spend so much to advertise, as people aren't going to the store to buy prescription meds. Seems like directly marketing to physicians and HMOs would be more cost-effective. I imagine that doctors aren't too pleased to have patients asking if 'this drug is The Cure' for whatever ails them......
Any sexual ads. Also scam ads. Whether it be mlms, cheap products, lies or recently Temu.
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
The only TV commercials I like are vintage ones from the 80s or earlier, especially if they're for toys or video games. All commercials now are just horrible and stupid. I had to try to force myself to ignore them or they'd drive me insane.
Here is a list of things in modern commercials that I cannot STAND:
Actors trying to be funny, but failing miserably at it.
Dancing for no real reason
Whistling for no real reason
Kids acting like little demons and we're supposed to think it's "cute" and "funny"
Clueless, pea-brained parents of said kids. The parents are the ones who go out and slave away every day so they have money for the worthless product they want, so the kids being such little snot rags has to stop.
"Ask your doctor" ads
"Ambulance chaser" ads telling you that the drugs in the "ask your doctor" ads will give you worse diseases or kill you.
Ads basically telling you you're a stupid loser human for using their rival product.
Hypersexualizing EVERYTHING.
Cartoon bears having creepy, fetish-y obsessions with bowel movements and toilet paper
Anything to do with insurance with animal mascots that are supposed to be cute but are really annoying.
Commercials with clueless man-children who can't do anything without their wife telling them, like how to take cough medicine or make a bowl of cereal.
Yelling and screaming for no real reason.
Blatant lying.
Subtle lying.
Trying to tell me something about a product they haven't already told me 300 billion times already.
Fear mongering e.g. telling me I'll die of covid if I don't use their germ-killing household cleaner.
"Studies suggest that bla bla bla..."
Being more than 10 seconds long.
Here is a list of things in modern commercials that I cannot STAND:
Actors trying to be funny, but failing miserably at it.
Dancing for no real reason
Whistling for no real reason
Kids acting like little demons and we're supposed to think it's "cute" and "funny"
Clueless, pea-brained parents of said kids. The parents are the ones who go out and slave away every day so they have money for the worthless product they want, so the kids being such little snot rags has to stop.
"Ask your doctor" ads
"Ambulance chaser" ads telling you that the drugs in the "ask your doctor" ads will give you worse diseases or kill you.
Ads basically telling you you're a stupid loser human for using their rival product.
Hypersexualizing EVERYTHING.
Cartoon bears having creepy, fetish-y obsessions with bowel movements and toilet paper
Anything to do with insurance with animal mascots that are supposed to be cute but are really annoying.
Commercials with clueless man-children who can't do anything without their wife telling them, like how to take cough medicine or make a bowl of cereal.
Yelling and screaming for no real reason.
Blatant lying.
Subtle lying.
Trying to tell me something about a product they haven't already told me 300 billion times already.
Fear mongering e.g. telling me I'll die of covid if I don't use their germ-killing household cleaner.
"Studies suggest that bla bla bla..."
Being more than 10 seconds long.
I also dislike advertisements in general. Advertising is a cynical practice. It's all about, "Sell, sell, sell." They'll try to make all kinds of things seem better than they are, and often they'll even exaggerate or lie.
One type of advertisement that always made me mad is sugared cereal commercials. They claim to be "part of a nutritious breakfast," when in reality they have as much sugar as candy bars. When I was little my mother told me they weren't good for me, despite what the commercials said. We never bought those cereals. Later when I was in third grade I read about it in Consumer Reports magazine, and that confirmed it. Eventually I couldn't even stand to listen to those commercials anymore. It's always astonished me that so many people actually believe those ads and eat those cereals for breakfast.
In the not too distant past when I was exploring YouTube, I learned that the Jackson 5 did Alpha Bits commercials (most likely before I was born) - quite a few of them. In them Michael sings the lie about it being "part of a good breakfast." The Jacksons were certainly excellent singers and first-rate music makers, but they surely also did some quite foolish things in their lifetimes.
One type of advertisement that always made me mad is sugared cereal commercials. They claim to be "part of a nutritious breakfast," when in reality they have as much sugar as candy bars. When I was little my mother told me they weren't good for me, despite what the commercials said. We never bought those cereals. Later when I was in third grade I read about it in Consumer Reports magazine, and that confirmed it. Eventually I couldn't even stand to listen to those commercials anymore. It's always astonished me that so many people actually believe those ads and eat those cereals for breakfast.
In the not too distant past when I was exploring YouTube, I learned that the Jackson 5 did Alpha Bits commercials (most likely before I was born) - quite a few of them. In them Michael sings the lie about it being "part of a good breakfast." The Jacksons were certainly excellent singers and first-rate music makers, but they surely also did some quite foolish things in their lifetimes.
Dagan
Well-Known Member
New medicines ads make me laugh. First off, they sound like they are named by George R. R. Martin because they sound like names he gave to dragons or something. Second, the first minute of the commercials are what the medicine claims to be or the one thing it's supposed to help...and the next minute-plus of the commercials are listing all of the horrible side effects that no one in their right mind would want to deal with.
Lingerie ads are humorous to me. Just overall, lingerie is next to pointless, even. If you're a gal wearing something like that and so revealing in front of me, alone in a bedroom...it's coming off quick...she wasted money wearing that for like ten seconds only or whatever. Also, though, it's likely not being worn in really bright lighting...so the colors, designs and quality of it is probably going to be truly unseen.
Lingerie ads are humorous to me. Just overall, lingerie is next to pointless, even. If you're a gal wearing something like that and so revealing in front of me, alone in a bedroom...it's coming off quick...she wasted money wearing that for like ten seconds only or whatever. Also, though, it's likely not being worn in really bright lighting...so the colors, designs and quality of it is probably going to be truly unseen.
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