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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,604 Member
    edited March 17
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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.
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    All of these are from the same article. They get crazier the further down. Is this what’s known as doom scrolling?
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    Most realistic one of the bunch
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    WTF?
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    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.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
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    Just for fun I reloaded the same page an hour or two later.

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    After you’ve done all your chair yoga, apparently you’ll be able to wear this awesome bullet bra/codpiece set from Temu:
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    (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? )
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,333 Member
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    springlering62 wrote: »
    Just for fun I reloaded the same page an hour or two later.

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    After you’ve done all your chair yoga, apparently you’ll be able to wear this awesome bullet bra/codpiece set from Temu:
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    (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!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,095 Member
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    How much wishful thinking does it take to fall for this stuff? So sad.

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
    edited March 18
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    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    How much wishful thinking does it take to fall for this stuff? So sad.

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    Short and simple. At least there’s that.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,095 Member
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    springlering62 wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    How much wishful thinking does it take to fall for this stuff? So sad.

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    Short and simple. At least there’s that.

    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.
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,303 Member
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    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    How much wishful thinking does it take to fall for this stuff? So sad.

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    I haven’t run or jumped in a decade.
    My backside still looks better than that!

    😂
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
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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.

    😩
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
    edited March 20
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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.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
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    Good thing the Daily Mail has our backs.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
    edited March 20
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    ..but, its verified news, right?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
    edited March 20
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    Jeez Louise, at least resize the head when you photoshop it onto another body?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,095 Member
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    springlering62 wrote: »
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    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 . . . .

    :D
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,303 Member
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    springlering62 wrote: »
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    Good thing the Daily Mail has our backs.

    They can pry those gluten free Tate’s cookies out of my cold dead hands
    /s

    The ginger ones are my favorite.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 8,987 Member
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    ^^ 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.
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,333 Member
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    springlering62 wrote: »
    Jeez Louise, at least resize the head when you photoshop it onto another body?

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    🤣 and he’s not exactly slim is he? Low body fat but he ain’t skinny!
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,303 Member
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    To quote the deli patron in When Harry Met Sally: l’ll have what she’s having!
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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,430 Member
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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.)

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