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.
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
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?
Not gonna lie, I kinda love it.
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
Idk where to start.
Weirdly, I’m now drawn into seeing how expensive they actually are.
Maybe it’s actually marketing genius. 🤔
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.
This ad is not for consumers. The line “征求经销商” means “looking for retailers”
You know you can change the typo in the title right?
But then people won’t flood to the comment section to correct them
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
You know what you did
Fitting punishment for a Karen that goes ballistic over a fast food order and assaults a cashier.
An ad for Descovy, an HIV prophylactic, that they kept playing in Portland in 2020. You gotta step up… PReP UP!! It featured this super creepy dude who I guess was supposed to be gay and kept making eye contact with the camera. I felt like I was being stalked.
HEADON
Jimmy John’s, Carls Jr…
I feel like any ad you remember isn’t the worst.
You got it! Aside from anything seriously offensive, these are ALL better ads than the ones we’ve completely forgotten about.
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.
Immudefense. Whenever I see this I feel second-hand embarrassment for those people standing there shaking that stupid little pill.
I’ve never seen a good ad tbh but car ads are the most fun bad to me.
There was one sonic ad that looked absolutely disgusting to me, I swear that food was made of plastic
Any Aldi ad in Australia.
I’m sorry but this demands a “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?”
(Also why am I sitting here in the U.S. making my own smoked fish pâté like a heathen? WTF Aldi, where’s my smoked herring paste?)
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.
I think any ad that has the disclaimer guy say about 300 words within 3 minutes at the end has a place in my worst ad bucket. These are mostly drugs. and I don’t remember a single specific so it’s a sure sign.
also those smiling people eating their salad.
and that one ad with iPhone that people are jumping about with colors splashing and so little detail on the actual product.
The law on drug ads is that if they tell you what the drug does, they also have to tell you all the side effects.
But if they don’t tell you what the drug does, they aren’t required to say the side effects.
So they used to make two versions of the ad. One that was all about making people feel good about a drug by showing smiling happy people living a good life with lots of wholesome moments then “ask your doctor if zexophlam is right for you.” Then they’d have another ad that tells you what zexophlam does and send a few minutes listing the side effects. But lately I haven’t seen the second type that lists the side effects. It;s just the first type that doesn’t tell you what the drug does.
Last one I saw kind of made a joke about it where someone is about to tell you what the drug is and they keep getting interrupted. Haha, how clever you are in avoiding telling me that a pill can give people diarrhea or whatever.
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!
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
