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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    What I find more useless in such "plans" is not the repetition of moves, but the utter lack of volume. I've seen some say that you'll get results by doing 5 pushups and 10 sit-ups and calling it a day. I fully realize that different people have vastly different levels of fitness, and a workout by one is just a warmup by another. But there's keeping things low-intensity, and there's "click a button on the remote control, you're done" level.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
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  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,655 Member
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    Eeew
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
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    Am I the only one getting these gems?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
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    Am I the only one getting these gems?

    Gotta admit, that's "one weird trick" I hadn't seen yet in my internet ads!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
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    Spotted nearby at breakfast this morning. Face Gym. It was only a matter of time, right?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
    There have been books for years, probably decades, with facial exercises that are supposed to resist or reverse effects of aging.

    I hope it might surprise you when I say that I bought one (though not for anti-aging but because some of the exercises were supposed to help limit negative effects from tooth-clenching during sleep). I did them for a while, didn't get any younger ( :D ), and it didn't seem to help the headaches or jaw muscle tightness from the clenching. (Yes, I have/use a night guard.)

    Nowadays, there are a bunch of "anti-aging" exercise devices for the face, too. Anything to make money!

    Here are just a few random ones, some of which look a little NSFW, but technically are SFW. ;)

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  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    It was an article, not an ad, but apparently the new thing is the Sardine Diet.

    You can only have water coffee tea and canned sardines for (this was confusing) three or ten days.

    I think the gist was it was ten days, but most couldn’t make it past three.

    Just to make sure it wasn’t an Onion-type post, I googled it. It really is a thing.

    I heard my dad’s voice in my head when I read it. “Stupid is alive and well, honey.”

    Have they read Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum?

    Because I don’t think they have read The Tin Drum.

    Hint: An all sardine diet is not a good idea.

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,884 Member
    Oh hell no, I am NOT three years away from being a senior, *kitten* those advertisers!

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  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,655 Member
    Lietchi wrote: »
    Oh hell no, I am NOT three years away from being a senior, *kitten* those advertisers!

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    Well I’m apparently well and truly there at 50😮😮

    Looking forward to the magically appearing grey hair in a bun at 56 though - that would be a cool base for all sorts of hair colours!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
    Lietchi wrote: »
    Oh hell no, I am NOT three years away from being a senior, *kitten* those advertisers!

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    I'm grateful that the print is too small/fuzzy to read what I'm supposed to do at age 68. Pretty sure it would tick me off. :D
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    Is it just me, or do the Play-Doh looking boobs look really funny? Is this what AI thinks of women?
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 2,133 Member
    Is it just me, or do the Play-Doh looking boobs look really funny? Is this what AI thinks of women?

    Lol, i was just wondering if 1 of the side effects twas 'perky'
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
    edited October 7
    Is it just me, or do the Play-Doh looking boobs look really funny? Is this what AI thinks of women?

    IMO, they look saggy, and somewhat large. I felt like all of the "models" were just slightly hinting at age stereotypes about what happens to bodies as the years roll on. Little bit saggy, little bit of belly, etc. But just a little. Presumably these are the "after", but supposed to be relatable?

    (Large-ish boobs is how all women are supposed to look, maybe, in marketers' view?)
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    edited October 8
    I remember when my girls teased me because my sports bras gave me the “uni-boob” look.

    Apparently this was a no-go for the millennial generation, along with uni-brows.

    These ads seem to go in the opposite direction. TBH they look like milk cows with the teats hanging in various unnatural places, mostly from the underarms.

    Btw, where I’m currently at, uni-brows are highly desirable and are encouraged at all ages, particularly older women. They use some kind of plant dye to achieve extra dark, extra thick, extra close brows. I have to say, I kinda like it. Boobs are unmentionable and preferably well hidden though, so no idea if uni or not.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    And PS I don’t give a flying *kitten* how sports bras make me look. As long as they control the bounce and flail, all is good.
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    Spotted at the town scarecrow contest.

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    You can get your GLP injection at the same time as your Botox and fillers.

    Yeah, this looks legit. I’m making my appointment today. /s

    Winner Winner !
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    Is that the actual nurse going to administer both injections?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    Is that the actual nurse going to administer both injections?

    I’m sure they trained at the same place.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
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    Weight loss shoes. Not the first go around for these, but the first to rearrange your ankles to the top of your foot, and turn your wrists in unimaginable directions.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    edited November 19
    Anybody else getting the endlessly varied before/after AI generated ads for the “Costco Wrinkle Cream”. Or the two jacked older cowboy looking guys leaning on the the souped up car, staring pensively and (AI version) sexily into the distance?

    I got one yesterday for a super buff but really old looking guy in his 80’s, doing a forearm plank, with wildly vascular arms, only the arms had that weird AI partially developed look, so his arms were kinda the shape of an hourglass. Are Ai ads inserted by Ai marketers and never doublechecked by human eyes?

    At least, as things are now, we’ll know a Terminator when we run into one.
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,655 Member
    Anybody else getting the endlessly varied before/after AI generated ads for the “Costco Wrinkle Cream”. Or the two jacked older cowboy looking guys leaning on the the souped up car, staring pensively and (AI version) sexily into the distance?

    I got one yesterday for a super buff but really old looking guy in his 80’s, doing a forearm plank, with wildly vascular arms, only the arms had that weird AI partially developed look, so his arms were kinda the shape of an hourglass. Are Ai ads inserted by Ai marketers and never doublechecked by human eyes?

    At least, as things are now, we’ll know a Terminator when we run into one.
    I’m currently getting loads of ads for menopausal women who were flabby and then became ripped with this “one weird trick”. Sigh. With weird AI abs and trout pout. And strange hair.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
    Anybody else getting the endlessly varied before/after AI generated ads for the “Costco Wrinkle Cream”. Or the two jacked older cowboy looking guys leaning on the the souped up car, staring pensively and (AI version) sexily into the distance?

    I got one yesterday for a super buff but really old looking guy in his 80’s, doing a forearm plank, with wildly vascular arms, only the arms had that weird AI partially developed look, so his arms were kinda the shape of an hourglass. Are Ai ads inserted by Ai marketers and never doublechecked by human eyes?

    At least, as things are now, we’ll know a Terminator when we run into one.

    Maybe it's analogous to some of the old email scams. It was pretty much accepted among computer security people that the seriously badly written ones, or highly implausible ones (like the "Nigerian prince" ones) were intentionally that way, because the scammers wanted to filter out smarter people (who'd waste their time) and reel in not-so-clever greedy victims who were easier targets.

    Maybe that's true for the scammy AI ads, too: True plausibility is inefficient for attracting the desired target audience?

    I didn't deal with it personally, but I was aware of an instance some years back at my employer university, handled by colleagues, where the "Nigerian prince" was a US-born college student who was too technically ignorant to realize that when he launched his scam emails from a student computer lab, it was easily traceable back to him. He'd had to sign on to his personal student account to use that computer (which was logged) and the behind-the-scenes data involved in transmitting the messages linked the messages to that computer during that session's time period. 🙄🤣

    Even despite the technical ignorance, I strongly doubt he wrote his college papers with that level of non-colloquial English.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    edited November 20
    OMG, Margaret. you’ve made my day with that one!!!! Well we could weep til we need hydrogenation ourselves and what good would it do?

    ….smarter people (who'd waste their time) and reel in not-so-clever greedy victims who were easier targets.

    Maybe that's true for the scammy AI ads, too: True plausibility is inefficient for attracting the desired target audience?


    🧐 wow, Ann. I hadn’t thought of it like that. I had wondered how many of the aggressively stupid and provocative political texts I got were scam-click-bait. You may be on to something there. Make it stupid and aggressive enough and a certain mentality (on either side) will click to rush to defend.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    edited November 20
    Speaking of hydrogenation, I started Meloxicam yesterday to see if it would help with the inflammation and swelling, and thus the fatigue.

    I can’t believe a bout of Traveler’s ….erm….Tummy could wreak so much havoc for weeks afterward.

    It’s even screwing with my eyesight. I’ve got an ophthalmologist appointment this afternoon. They worked me in because of the “flashes” and spots. I caught myself swatting a cloud of gnats out of my eyes on my bike a couple of days ago, only to realize they didn’t exist.

    Swelling, eyes, joint pain, fatigue- all pursuant to travelers tummy. Lesson learned. In a third world country- no matter how first world and charming most of it looks- don’t eat fruit washed in tap water, don’t buy fresh squoze juice in a park from a guy with a crate of fruit and a press (supremely stupid in retrospect), and brush your teeth with bottled water.

    My husband (who just had the garden variety travelers tummy) is chortling and wagging his finger because I’m scheduled to go to Guatemala next.

    I’m going to invest in a Life Straw for traveling. I don’t know how much it’ll help but the peace of mind’ll be priceless.

    I’m back to working out, though. I’ve had similar in the past and it knocked me all the way down to a walker for a while. I am NOT going to let that happen ever again. At least not being obese and sedentary has made it a minor beyotch-fest rather than a serious health crisis.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,670 Member
    edited November 20
    Oh 🤬 I thought I was on the 60+ thread. Ignore. Too late to delete.

    That’s what happens when you’re 60+. You start forgetting where you are, IRL and virtually.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    edited November 20
    I couldn’t get a screenshot of it but today I saw a weight loss ad hawking hydrogenated water

    I weep for humanity

    Some years back, a couple people tried to get people to sign a petition to force the government to ban "dihydrous monoxide" (aka H20, or water), citing its nefarious ability to dissolve materials, increase erosion, encourage bacterial growth and how dozens of people die every year due to excessive exposure. They managed to get several hundred people to sign their petition.

    On a college campus. A COLLEGE CAMPUS. True story.