that wasn't really a campaign or ad, just a gaff made by an out of touch dipshit during the reveal. It was still tonedeaf, sure, but it was hardly Blizzards marketing intention.

tramsgender

We had something similar, but it was just a play on the word transport and was just a normal bus and only for the pride parade we had, thankfully.

Nah, those are brilliant

I work in 911 dispatch, and there's a couple crematoriums in the county I work for. Once in a while they call to give us a heads-up when they're doing a cremation in case anyone calls about smoke.

We enter it as a "controlled burn" notification for our fire department, which I suppose it technically is, but it makes me chuckle a little that we're entering the same way we would as if someone was burning yard waste or having a bonfire or something.

I don't know how often they actually do cremations, I assume it's pretty frequent, and I'm not always the one getting the call, but based on how often I've seen these calls go in I don't think they do it for every cremation. I remember hearing somewhere through the grapevine that when the deceased is extremely obese they tend to really smoke up, so I kind of suspect those are the ones where they give us a heads-up.

Reminds me of an old billboard screw-up in Finland.

One billboard (I can't remember what the ad was actually for) was quoting an old saying: "If sauna, tar and booze won't help..." ("...the disease is going to kill you")

Next to it was an ad for a private clinic. "We've got everything to keep you healthy"

Peak of advertising, I bet these pictures spread on internet like wild fire

That's a good one.

Just in general, I get the feeling that she's not all there. You can probably sell her on anything.

Holy shit I already hated the woman but this is next level. Got any proof?

shes been selling scams for quite a while, not surprising she is willing to do this.

And The Boys remake of it a couple years later

In hindsight this has to be a far right psy op. It was a year after Trump was elected and they definitely wanted to see an end to both the BLM and MeToo movements.

The Secret Service is a thing and nobody bats an eye, sooo....

What else is it supposed to stand for? South Africa?

probably not naming the organazation having abbreviation of "SA" too.

The "hide the pain" facial expression really sells it.

The only thing I remembered about that commercial, is the number of tires changed in each shot...

All coke's still image ads are AI now. Clearly AI and creepy as fuck.

Here's one off their site:

It just gives you the ick when you see it in public.

At the same time a french supermarket chain released a human made animation which was a big success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA

No way lmao

That's a new level of tonedeaf

Oh yeah. That reminds me a while ago there was some car ad, a car is driving in some beautiful remote mountainous area and the music playing is Major Tom.

I'm still laughing. Gonna die far away and alone in that tin can.

The timing of the post was a coincidence (the actual inspiration is in a separate comment), but this is indeed a great example of the title. I just read up on this incident, and oof…😬

The coffee chain triggered an uproar when it attempted to promote a series of stainless-steel tumblers it called “SS Tank” by declaring May 18 to be “Tank Day.” The date marks the anniversary of the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the southern city of Gwangju. It was violently suppressed by Seoul’s military government at the time, which deployed troops, tanks and helicopters, leaving hundreds dead or injured.

The campaign further fueled outrage by using the slogan “Thwack it on the table!” which many read as a reference to a notorious 1987 police statement that attempted to cover up the torture death of student activist Park Jong-chol. Authorities had falsely said Park died after investigators “hit the desk with a thwack.”

😨😨

constant bombardment of AI this or that tech, business ads.

How deliciously blasphemous. Makes me almost want to drink a Coke. Almost.

Came here looking for this. Insane that someone thought of it, someone agreed with it, and someone approved it.

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.

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.

Great learning opportunity if you chain them below decks the entire time.

That sounds right up Boomer alley

This ad honestly reads like satire. I can't believe this came out of Texas.

Wow, it gets worse the more you read!

There's a furniture store near me that's always going out of business and having closing sales (at least for the last few decades). But the name on the store always seems to change every year. I'm wondering if it's just the same owners that shut the business down and rotate out names every now and then.

I guess that's one way to get out of fulfilling warranties?

Just for you

There is a carpet shop having "final sales" or "closing sales" in the next town since I started reading newspapers 50 years ago. The carpet shop survived the newspaper. And it is still having "final sales".

No way. Just...no way. Definitely not in a litigous society like the USA. The liability alone would be insane.

Peggy, that's the recipe for mustard gas!

Given the English/French in both the packaging and the ad, this is probably Canada?

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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.

Meat-eating and patriarchy are tightly linked.

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...

What's crazy is I see far less (near zero) advertising than when I was younger.

That's the one nice thing about the current internet I guess.

Back in the day it was newspapers, tv, billboards, radio, flyers, theatres, and so on. Now it's nothing.

Why limit yourself to just those two options anyway, when there's a car superior one out there that oozes freedom.

I run Super Hans, btw.

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.

I remember a good take on it! An ad in one of Nordic languages where a happy family sings to a metal or punk(?) radio tune which refrain went "I want to f*** you in your ***".

It was an ad to promote learning foreign languages.

Your country doesn't speak English, by chance?

I'm from the US and live in the suburbs, so public transportation is nearly non existent around me.

Visited Montreal a couple years ago for the solar eclipse, took Amtrak up from New York (technically it would have been a little faster to drive but not by a whole lot.)

And then once we were there, I felt absolutely no need for a car. The subway and a short walk got us everywhere we wanted to go, and we never found ourselves waiting around long for the next train. We didn't end up needing to take one but we saw plenty of buses around too.

And the bike lanes- actual protected bike lanes! They even had little plows clearing the bike lanes when we got a bit of snow while we were there. I could actually see myself choosing to get around on a bike if I lived there, there aren't many parts of the city or suburbs where I live where I'd feel safe to commute on a bike.

I spent a week there, and even with probably some extra traffic from eclipse tourists I felt that there was never much traffic in any part of the city we visited and we got around a lot.

And with RESO you can cover a lot of ground downtown on foot and barely need to step outside.

I haven't traveled abroad much, I'm sure there's other cities in the world that have all that and more, but it definitely blew my mind as an American.

I'm not usually much of a city person, but I could absolutely see myself living in Montreal. If I thought my dog could adjust to city life well and I spoke at least passable French, I might have considered relocating. It's probably the only city I've visited so far (again, not that I've traveled much) that I really look forward to visiting again someday.

If you're in the northeastern US looking for a vacation, get to new York, take the train to Montreal, and just experience it for week. Open your eyes to what we're missing out on.

And not for nothing, all of the food I had while I was there was absolutely amazing. It's worth it just for that.

Being PM didn't keep his foot out of his mouth, did it?

Oh boy I hope that’s not the Chicken Fried inciden—okay yep it’s the Chicken Fried incident

How is that tone deaf?