Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
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ever since the “stuck poop” adI’m in a horrible cycle of suggestions, most of which are either so shocking or vulgar I can’t even bring myself to mention them. What happened?All I did was innocently look at a 99 year old animated movie posted on YouTube?
I very rarely even look at YouTube. These are coming up as suggestions on recipe sites, Good Housekeeping and the like.
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Loosely and generally speaking, internet advertising is managed by advertising concentrators, so we're interacting with one of the same few big advertising concentrators even as we go to different online sites. The sites sell advertising space to the concentrators, sort of. For sure, most sites aren't contracting directly with companies that want to advertise their products online.
On top of that, there are outfits usually called brokers who track lots of information about us including things like what we visit or click on, our demographics, guessed locations, and more; then they package and sell that to the companies delivering the advertising so they can target us. The brokers include outfits like Experian, whose overall business portfolio includes credit reporting.
We're going to see generally the same advertising content repeated from one site to the next, kind of, because of how the underlying business works. Clicking on a ad to check it out will serve us more ads of that type or from that advertiser. Probably visiting a site like MFP will get us more health and fitness content in our ads, including some skeezy stuff like we're seeing here.
In the mix, there's some contracting between these outfits about what kinds of sites the actual company being advertised is willing to appear on, and what kinds of ads a site is willing to have show up on its site, but it's fairly general categories, comparatively speaking. For example, might not see "adult" products advertised on a family site, or extreme political content on mainstream consumer retail sites who want to sell to everyone across the political spectrum.
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Pretty sure 'Stuck Poop' is now your future @springlering62! Better on your internet then yourself!
I've noticed lately several real 'friends' on Facebook asking me to vote on 'something', generally artistic, paintings, music, etc that they or their friends/family have entered and are trying to win.Seriously received 4 of these in the last week, all from millennials & genZ thinking their life goals will be solved (& some GenXer's who have reached out on the other's behalf) basically begging me to vote for them, so they can 'win' some pseudo artistic contest they entered.
Except, I checked & the 'entries' with the Company actually running this 'contest' & they are collecting a ridiculous amount of information, in their effort of 'securing the vote' (huh?) and ensuring you are who you say you are…. Um, piss off?
Their only purpose is to collect my information so they can sell it. All of these, in the last weeks, go back to the exact same Company. I know because I checked each of them.All of it is crap, regardless of the prize, it's run by a data collection service. That's their purpose explained on their own website!
But don't worry - *… these sites promise they will keep your name, address, telephone and credit card data completely secure."
They won't, they're in business to sell you're data so, vote away on these useless contests!! to make some youngling feel good about their pseudo talent? Sigh!Is there anyway to inform millennials & genZ and misguided GenXer's they are being data mined so they understand what they are doing is stupid?
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The stuck poop adds are spreading 😳 with video ads too, yuck.
Some bug's intestines I'm guessing? I wanted to post the picture behind a spoiler but I can't, so I'll do it differently:
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Intestinal purification is so much more …errrr…..palatable in French, right?
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As if they’d listen to us. My daughter in Europe almost fell for a toll scam, but luckily checked her toll account first.
She was surprised. It was the first time she’d heard of it over there.
My other daughter piped up and said my parents had fallen for a couple of fake “need money” calls purporting to be from her. First I’d heard of it. This was a few years ago, before the voice cloning was even a thing. First I’d heard of it. I’m not sure I want to know any more. Moot point. Both have passed. Why stew over it now.
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I'm sure they wouldn't….but I got to rant about it and at least I felt better after 😂
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not a crazy marketing ad, but the inevitable result of too much social media “influence”?
gotta love the Virgin Mary pouty makeover.1 -
Say what ?
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nuclear bellies seem to be on trend for spam ads all of a sudden:
And just because it’s riotously funny:
They obvs needed some of this cream before cutting that military ad:
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anyone else notice the giant donkey/elf ears on those guys?
(It’s ok to point and laugh if they’re AI, right?)
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That last image confuses me…isn't it usually "before-after" in that order? So does this cream change you from the young left image to the old right image?
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WT🤬???
wow! Their 72” is 30% longer than “other’s 72”! Way to circumvent the laws of physics!
Super helpful for those of us with six limbs!Mat description: “…boosts bravery”!!!!
What’s not to like here?!2 -
Does she come included, or is she an additional charge?
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❤️
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that’s where the bravery comes in. How’s your pickup lines?
Unless you mean the midget in the first photo, in which case you can pick her up with one hand.
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Fun fact - I know a photographer who works a lot for furniture companies in the UK. They pick the smallest models (ie women all under 5 feet tall) so that the chairs and sofas look much bigger than they are 😀
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What's the purpose of holding large rocks in front of them???
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obviously fake ones, too lol.
This reminds me of a trip we took to a very isolated town in the Caucasus Mountains. We visited a tiny stone church, where the locals plied us with homemade alcohol and bread and then challenged us to the local sport of rock lifting.
Seriously! This was a real thingThe man or woman who could lift the heaviest rock was locally revered, and had bragging rights They had a whole collection of stones of various weights BIG ones
This was about six months into my weight loss, and about three months into starting weightlifting. I could not budge this mother, much to their amusement.
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@springlering62 I'm thinking you'd probably be decent at that rock lifting thing, even among the local women, though I wouldn't underestimate the value of experience. Did you try it?
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That’s my wide load visible on the photo. No dice. Didn’t budge.
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Sounds like one of the events at the World's Strongest Man competition. Only those guys do it sober…
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@springlering62 I think your technique has probably improved since then… you should maybe go back there and give them a before and after demonstration! :-)
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I haven’t hit a good bad ad for a while, but hit a trove of them tonight, on a so-called science website. Enjoy!
(his legs don’t look funny at all, right?!)
And one just for the sheer horror and potential dangerousness:
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I remember buying one of those abdominal crunch belts back in college when they were first created. This was 30 years ago…can't believe they're still around.
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😮😮
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Can't I be 'ripped' while still in bed? My couch is so far away…..
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the lady eating the stick of butter was a short repeating GIF. I have to admit, I must’ve stared at it for five minutes. It was revolting. Part of me kept waiting for the video to continue to the part she either got ill, or busted up laughing.
And there were several variations of miracle “bariatric drinks”. I guess that’s the coming thing. Throwing around “bariatric” makes them sound so legit.
“Drink me!”
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One campaign that is vexing me lately is a bunch of stupid-long internet ads for a probiotic supplement. Different ones are pitched at different target audiences. One or two even have some guy talking about how the supplement saved his (menopausal or peri-) wife and maybe even his marriage. Some actually laud the fact that it's expensive! (You wouldn't want some cheap supplement would you?)
Others tout ridiculously fast weight loss with no change in eating or exercise. But another compares what she used to eat but what she (automatically?) eats now: Pizza of old, something that looks remarkably like dog chow now, but I think is actually some chickpea type thing or similar that in real life I'd probably find tasty.
I've been able to screen-grab a few images from the ads, but quite a few of them "tell a story" so I can't grab the whole set of stills/videos. They're so ugh, and diversely ugh. Lots of it targeting menopausal women, who apparently are in the frequent victim club for skeezy marketers these days.
This is long, but I want to emphasize the variety of ways ONE SUPPLEMENT is marketed.
Somehow, immolation applies? Not sure whether that's fat burning (good) or hot flashes (bad):
These two are from the "unhappy wife"/"difficult marriage" sell:
Back to the generic menopause-is-doom theme:
A cure for lymphedema, seemingly. Um, what?
And the cheesy generalities:
So . . . not cheap. But 60% off. Yay?
SMH.
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I think that Bioma never-cheap thing is a product of somebody for whom English is not their first language. As it is, it's saying "we could give it to you for less money, but we'd rather take more of your money". What I think the intent was is "we could make it cheaply, using inferior ingredients, but we choose to use only high-quality content".
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