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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
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springlering62 wrote: »I am 🤬 tired of AI generated senior goddesses, with flat bellies, flawless skin, no wrinkles, perfectly coiffed silver hair, and………toothpick arms.
These are popping up on Atlas Obscura. I’m sad. They’re better than that.
All of these are from the same article. They get crazier the further down. Is this what’s known as doom scrolling?
Most realistic one of the bunch
WTF?
I hate these ads. Mostly because chair yoga is a real thing, and can be very beneficial for people who are disabled or very elderly and unable to do standing exercise. But to misuse it and misadventure it like this is just sad.3 -
Just for fun I reloaded the same page an hour or two later.
After you’ve done all your chair yoga, apparently you’ll be able to wear this awesome bullet bra/codpiece set from Temu:
(I have no idea why that’s in my feed unless it’s picking up that I listen to a lot of medieval history podcasts? )0 -
springlering62 wrote: »Just for fun I reloaded the same page an hour or two later.
After you’ve done all your chair yoga, apparently you’ll be able to wear this awesome bullet bra/codpiece set from Temu:
(I have no idea why that’s in my feed unless it’s picking up that I listen to a lot of medieval history podcasts? )
OMG I just snorted out loud! 🤣 that’s hilarious!0 -
How much wishful thinking does it take to fall for this stuff? So sad.
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springlering62 wrote: »
Actually, the ad wasn't short. It was video slide show type thing, multi pages of equal nonsense. I just screen grabbed one of the many.0 -
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Found on TwitX
The only thing I can think of that can cause a person to lose 13 lbs in 3 days is cholera.
I reeeealy hope this isn’t cholera….6 -
It requires a kit in order to fast?!? I thought all it required was . . . not eating?8
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They’re selling empty boxes?
Is this like the Pet Rock of dieting?
I wonder how long before some newb says they’re going to use a Burn Box to “jumpstart” their loss.
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BTW and totally OT, I scrolled past a headline yesterday that said young Asians are using pet rocks for mental health reasons, as something to talk to.
I tried to go back to it, but couldn’t find it again.
The rabbit hole had gone too deep.3 -
Good thing the Daily Mail has our backs.2 -
..but, its verified news, right?1 -
Jeez Louise, at least resize the head when you photoshop it onto another body?
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springlering62 wrote: »
Good thing the Daily Mail has our backs.
I'm doomed. I eat 500+ calories for breakfast every day. Some of that is - gasp - cereal! (OK, oatmeal. But there's added sugar! (OK, blackstrap molasses.))
When does all that body fat start adding fast, I wonder? It's been 8 years . . . .
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springlering62 wrote: »
Good thing the Daily Mail has our backs.
They can pry those gluten free Tate’s cookies out of my cold dead hands
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The ginger ones are my favorite.1 -
^^ that picture is a lot of making something out of nothing - none of them are surprising really - no reason to think gluten free cookies would be lower calorie than non gluten free,we know peanut butter is high in fat, nuts are high in calories and of course cereal ( or anything) can be 500 calories if no quantity is defined.
I take objection to the low sugar ice cream increases cravings claim though - no reason to expect that and certainly doesn't for my husband and me, who both eat it regularly.0 -
springlering62 wrote: »Jeez Louise, at least resize the head when you photoshop it onto another body?
🤣 and he’s not exactly slim is he? Low body fat but he ain’t skinny!2 -
To quote the deli patron in When Harry Met Sally: l’ll have what she’s having!
🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸
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Am I paranoid? That url has a .ru in it. Why would Russian influencer be targeting an English speaking viewership? And have their location marked as “earth”?
No way I’d click on that sucker.
And,no, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I just listen to too much Darknet Diaries. (Awesome podcast btw, even for someone technologically challenged at that level.)2 -
And hey @MargaretYakoda nice to see you active on the boards again! It’s been too long. Or else I’ve been on the wrong board, lol.1
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springlering62 wrote: »Am I paranoid? That url has a .ru in it. Why would Russian influencer be targeting an English speaking viewership? And have their location marked as “earth”?
Because it's hard to sue or fine or jail a lying marketer that's hard to find, and seemingly in another country?
Because some countries smile on entities that exploit the vulnerabilities of their perceived enemies, including psychological vulnerabilities of the population, and take their money?
It may be malware in the technical sense, or just exploitative marketing. Also, anyone can buy a domain in the ".ru" top level, looks like.No way I’d click on that sucker.
Well, yeah.
And,no, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I just listen to too much Darknet Diaries. (Awesome podcast btw, even for someone technologically challenged at that level.)
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Thanks. Glad to be back.springlering62 wrote: »And hey @MargaretYakoda nice to see you active on the boards again! It’s been too long. Or else I’ve been on the wrong board, lol.
Computer died. Stress got me for a while. I backslid a bit.
But I am back. NuStep enthusiast still!springlering62 wrote: »Am I paranoid? That url has a .ru in it. Why would Russian influencer be targeting an English speaking viewership? And have their location marked as “earth”?
No way I’d click on that sucker.
And,no, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I just listen to too much Darknet Diaries. (Awesome podcast btw, even for someone technologically challenged at that level.)
Yeah. It’s an ad from Muskrat’s Twitter.
You never click on a Twitter ad these days. They are all sketch A(kitten)3 -
I don’t know why this one makes me so irate, but it does.2 -
it makes me irate because it is trivialising and misusing a serious issue for commercial purposes and no doubt, intended to target vulnerable people for some scamming nonsense.4
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Twitter at it again.
This time not an ad, but a bluecheck account scammer, making some dubious claims for likes and followers to get people on the pipeline to her website, which promotes a $98 food storage course, raw dog food, and her YouTube channel.
Apparently she lives on a 30 acre farm “outside Seattle”
Which…. No. Seattle is a huge city. 30 acres of anything is not just outside the city.
And she says she used to spend $500 on Christmas Dinner?
But she’s only 23, and she bought her farm in 2021…. We’re supposed to believe an unmarried 20 year old spent $500 on Christmas dinner?
She’s either a trustfundian, a liar, or both.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/29/lifestyle/washington-woman-preps-christmas-dinner-months-in-advance-for-free/#
Editing to add: YEESH
Her books are incredibly expensive!
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While looking at that article, I got yet another stunning silver haired woman with a competition body. Where are all these women in real life?
If we thought marketing was making us feel inadequate before, AI models are upping it to a whole new vicious level:
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MargaretYakoda wrote: »
Editing to add: YEESH
Her books are incredibly expensive!
She'll need the money for skin cancer treatment!
Facebook doesn’t seem to know what age I am, a bit early for this ad:
The magic of walking - I wish it were that easy!
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We need a 😱 button3
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I showed this to my husband and he just died laughing. That’s the thing. Men can look and laugh. Women look at utter BS photos and immediately compare and feel inadequate.
And anyway, why are three studly senior men on the golf course, shirtless? And are the club positions subliminal? Is that how they get the men in?5
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