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.
This one has ruined me. And it’ll ruin you, too!
It’s basically a condom commercial, but for on-the-go tooth brushing.
That Wendy’s ad with the meme guy that I wanna strangle. Haven’t eaten at Wendy’s in like 8 years because of that ad
Eats spicy goodness
Like a boss
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
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?
You know you can change the typo in the title right?
But then people won’t flood to the comment section to correct them
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Literally any ad. I hate advertising in all forms and it does nothing but piss me off. If your ad is intrusive enough, I’ll remember it well enough to never buy your product.
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?)
Mark Zuckerbergs dystopian animatronic metaverse ad: “You will be surplus to requirements, first fungible and ridiculous and then literally disposable.” It was so bad, the video was privated https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/12/22930776/metas-quest-2-super-bowl-metaverse-ad-animatronic-dog-virtual-reality
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.
