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What is especially bad about this ad? To me it seems no worse than the infernal Paintin Manning ad from last year or the State Farm Megan Trainor ad this year.
by onionisafruit 10mo ago
What is especially bad about this ad? To me it seems no worse than the infernal Paintin Manning ad from last year or the State Farm Megan Trainor ad this year. If this was on rotation in NFL games it wouldn’t make me scramble for the mute button any faster than other ads.
- bavarianbob 10mo agoI thought similarly to you, until I saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abRie4vAvJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abRie4vAvJ4
- nixass 10mo agoI still cannot see the bad part
- dymk 10mo agoI am legitimately sorry
- alamortsubite 10mo agoHave you ever ridden a bike over a canal? The ad was pushed in front of a lot of people who have. I thought it was creepy throughout, but I can't believe they used that clip up front.
- NetMageSCW 10mo ago“a lot of people” - citation needed.
- alamortsubite 10mo agoYou realize it was a Dutch ad, correct?
- array_key_first 10mo agoYou have to turn your monitor on, silly!
- jamesbfb 10mo agoIt almost seems intentionally AI? If anything, if my job at Maccas…ahem, McDonald's (sorry, spot the Aussie) is in marketing, I’d expect to to be promptly fired if this wasn’t expected to pass for anything less than satire.
- NuclearPM 10mo agoDo you have children’s names for other restaurants?
- kraquepype 10mo agoYeah, seeing it just once it looks like an ad with a terrible premise. It certainly has an AI feel to it though, and I'm sure the more times you see it the more it falls apart. On 1st watch the part that sticks out is the couple sitting by a window, who seem to be somehow sitting both inside AND outside at the same time.
- rsynnott 10mo agoWell, for a start it's a bad concept, but also the actual images are kinda nightmarish. The living teddy bear is particularly off-putting. And it's very obviously AI slop; physics is at best a mild suggestion.
- soco 10mo agoI have taken it as a tongue in cheek reference to the current AI slop discussions, so like purposefully made sloppy. Appropriate joke? Apparently not, according to the masses. Well, just a matter of taste.
- rsynnott 10mo agoI mean, it's _possible_ they were aiming for "so bad it's good", missed, and ended up at just "really, really bad", I suppose. In practice, conscious attempts at "so bad it's good" virtually never work out; it is a thing which happens, not which is deliberately done.
- ErigmolCt 10mo agoThe difference is that those ads were annoying on purpose