Shameless Advertising Mega-Thread

[PlayOnWords]

A thread to highlight marketings manipulative methods and the potential consequences of blindly trusting advertising.

 

Reed.co.uk, a job search website, proposing a career - rat race type jobs - will make you fall in love with Mondays and 'be the person you want to be'.

Edited July 31, 2023 by PlayOnWords

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Charlie Sheen in Japanese cigarette advert. The advert suggests it's cool to smoke, it's part of the glitz and glamour, and at the end Charlie Sheen catches the eye of a girl who sees him smoking and a romance begins to blossom.

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Cockney man's man Ray Winstone in online betting advert. Some quotes: 'You're in control', 'just forget about the final whistle', 'sometimes you've just gotta take the money and run', 'the world's favourite online sports betting company'.

Highly appealing for men with a crude, rigid view of masculinity (Stage Red, Orange): the risk, the bravery, the reward.

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Total unabashed preying upon the demographic with body-image problems.

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WW2 British propaganda poster.

[mr_engineer]

[Dauntment]

CLASSIC: 

 

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 Spotted on the train last week.

[Roy]

Good timing for this kind of thread, I was gonna make on but backed off. This commercial/advertising seems kind of dystopian to me. It's almost like it was made by robots or something. "Shopping like a billionaire.", while clearly not spending that kind of money just seems like a blatant trigger for materialism in someone's reptilian brain. It makes me actually uncomfortable to watch it.

 

[Buck Edwards]

Nothing can be flabbergastingly shameless than....

 

[toasty7718]

My personal favorite from big tobacco 

 

 

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[lostingenosmaze]

 

[Nilsi]

This guy is such a hilariously bad actor.