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The only constant ads I can remember are the empty your bowel one. Its the first one trick your doctor doesn't want you to know one I can remember. They've fronted eggs, burning nuts, and boiling banana peels. Medical history has no shortage of examples of ways to make you poop that make no sense and can fool no one (because the poop doesn't come out) I put forth that poop scams are the first quackery and will be the last quackery.
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zedprime posted:I put forth that poop scams are the first quackery and will be the last quackery. There’s no way that title doesn’t go to boner scams.
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RandomFerret posted:A collection of ads I have gotten while browsing Tumblr. You know who's gonna buy garbage trucks? Teenagers arguing about Steven Universe ships and Hazbin Hotel or whatever is big with the kids now.
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You outed yourself because no one but tumblr cares about Hazbin Hotel
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zedprime posted:The only constant ads I can remember are the empty your bowel one. Its the first one trick your doctor doesn't want you to know one I can remember. They've fronted eggs, burning nuts, and boiling banana peels. Medical history has no shortage of examples of ways to make you poop that make no sense and can fool no one (because the poop doesn't come out) True. It's produced great art as well. I found a framed copy of this in a charity shop about twenty years ago and it's been on the wall ever since. 
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StillFullyTerrible posted:fishmech is that you? that is the meanest thing anybody has ever said to me
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jojoinnit posted:Elbows are overrated Isn't that just Chloe Ting? I've been told she's basically a robot/AI creation.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Isn't that just Chloe Ting? What's super weird is I saw this exact ad on Amazon recently but the woman was wearing an entirely different outfit and -didn't- look photoshopped all to hell.
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Segmentation Fox posted:What's super weird is I saw this exact ad on Amazon recently but the woman was wearing an entirely different outfit and -didn't- look photoshopped all to hell. Some Intern got the memo "thinner" as the only response eighteen times in a row and submitted that as a joke
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This Jesus has pretty bad skin, we can't have some greasy neckbeard on our public fresco, time to break out the ol' Shop... Oops, finger slipped, I'll just edit that area a bit as well... Well, now we just have to make some changes all around to keep things consistent... There, perfect. 
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https://twitter.com/MrPeanut/status/1293190124084240386?s=20
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They made the peanut too sexy now.
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I like it! Wanna buy that peanut a beer. Doesn't seem like all those stuck up "I only drink armangac" cashews you see all the time in bars.
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Why can't companies just go "Look, we get it, the baby peanut was weird, we hosed up. We're bringing back the tophat mascot that we've had for years but nobody really cared about but was instantly recognizable" Instead they do poo poo like this. What happens in those marketing meetings?
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Joey Freshwater posted:Why can't companies just go "Look, we get it, the baby peanut was weird, we hosed up. We're bringing back the tophat mascot that we've had for years but nobody really cared about but was instantly recognizable" People with expensive marketing degrees who are absolutely desperate to justify them.
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Jesus Christ. Crosspost from the BWM thread, because this is totally dumb marketing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-04/the-inside-story-of-pepsi-s-philippines-bottle-contest-fiasco quote:Within a year, a violent consumer uprising would be under way, with riots and grenade attacks leaving dozens injured and five dead.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Why can't companies just go "Look, we get it, the baby peanut was weird, we hosed up. We're bringing back the tophat mascot that we've had for years but nobody really cared about but was instantly recognizable" Because that would mean someone admitting they were wrong. Far better to keep pushing the same campaign until people grudgingly accept it because who's going to give a poo poo about peanuts for that long?
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It's like when companies change their logos (often for the worse) for no loving reason.
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Groovelord Neato posted:It's like when companies change their logos (often for the worse) for no loving reason. Weird-cult-like-Pepsi-re-branding-document.pdf
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Joey Freshwater posted:Why can't companies just go "Look, we get it, the baby peanut was weird, we hosed up. We're bringing back the tophat mascot that we've had for years but nobody really cared about but was instantly recognizable" I loving loved watching them fall down the rabbit hole with this stupid poo poo. It's not going to make me any more or less likely to buy peanuts or anything, but it was a great source of entertainment. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:Weird-cult-like-Pepsi-re-branding-document.pdf 
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Joey Freshwater posted:What happens in those marketing meetings? 
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Double post, I'm sure you'll survive Dig up, stupid.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Instead they do poo poo like this. What happens in those marketing meetings? There are three reasons for a logo change 1) The company was bought, bought someone, divested from their most well known but less profitable business line and management unanimously agrees they need to change to mark the new chapter of their business 2) A new CMO got hired and to prove their value, changes the company logo to show they are leading in a bold new direction 3) An entrenched CMO feels like the company is totally different now and needs a design reflecting that, even though nobody outside the company or below VP level has noticed any actual change during said CMOs tenure, much less over the preceding decades
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4) The company has become so infamous for their crimes that their brand recognition has become a liability rather than an asset, and it needs a new identity so their public image can move up from “universally reviled” to “unknown”.
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HerStuddMuffin posted:4) The company has become so infamous for their crimes that their brand recognition has become a liability rather than an asset, and it needs a new identity so their public image can move up from “universally reviled” to “unknown”. Ah, the ValuJet -> Airtran tactic
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Is there really a significant number of examples of that, it seems like most of the 'universally reviled' companies (Amazon, Ryanair, EA, etc.) are doing just fine and in fact better than average, since most people value their personal savings over abstract things like labor and consumer rights
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It gets better (worse). https://twitter.com/7ElevenAus/status/1293785397319761920 darkspider42 posted:Ah, the ValuJet -> Airtran tactic Blackwater→Xe→Academi
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Phlegmish posted:Is there really a significant number of examples of that, it seems like most of the 'universally reviled' companies (Amazon, Ryanair, EA, etc.) are doing just fine and in fact better than average, since most people value their personal savings over abstract things like labor and consumer rights Is Amazon really universally reviled though? Outside of the internet I've never heard about all their bad poo poo. Even when brought up in normal conversations, I've mentioned to people something like how they don't pay taxes and it gets met with complete confusion. My parents loving love Amazon because a portion of the poo poo they buy goes to their favorite charity (which Amazon then uses as a tax write off yay)
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Phlegmish posted:Is there really a significant number of examples of that, it seems like most of the 'universally reviled' companies (Amazon, Ryanair, EA, etc.) are doing just fine and in fact better than average, since most people value their personal savings over abstract things like labor and consumer rights These companies basically have monopolies. I do everything I can to avoid buying from Amazon but every so often I run into something where it's like 10 on Amazon or 50 elsewhere, such as a screen protector or phone case or some kind of cable. I also have had Amazon fulfil orders from other sites like abebooks.
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CommonShore posted:These companies basically have monopolies. I do everything I can to avoid buying from Amazon but every so often I run into something where it's like 10 on Amazon or 50 elsewhere, such as a screen protector or phone case or some kind of cable. Maglite torch, 35 Eur in Amazon.de with home delivery, 95 Eur in the local "near monopoly" hardware store. And the one in the hardware store was the smaller model with non-led bulb. I hate using Amazon because of obvious reasons, but in this country we basically have two Wallmart-style superchains who sell everything and own every other retail store chain (and we also have Lidl but only the small stores). They price gouge you with every item they can get away with, and realistically have no interest on competing against each other.
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All good points, although where I live (the Benelux) Amazon isn't really a thing at all so far, that niche is already occupied. Sometimes I just get a little frustrated at how there can be visible and justified frustration at a certain company's practices, yet it doesn't seem to affect their profits (clearly the only thing they care about) in the slightest. I totally get it if you're short on cash and I'm not judging those people, but if you claim to despise Activision while not even having the willpower to play a nearly identical shooter instead of their latest hit Call of Duty 37: Modern Darkfare, I reserve the right to mock you for that.
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When I worked at Barnes & Noble and had a book discount (30 percent not sure how that;s changed in the past six or so years) I still bought my books on Amazon as it was so much cheaper.DrBouvenstein posted:Weird-cult-like-Pepsi-re-branding-document.pdf This and slack were what I had in mind when I made the post haha Groovelord Neato has a new favorite as of 15:18 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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Phlegmish posted:All good points, although where I live (the Benelux) Amazon isn't really a thing at all so far, that niche is already occupied. Sometimes I just get a little frustrated at how there can be visible and justified frustration at a certain company's practices, yet it doesn't seem to affect their profits (clearly the only thing they care about) in the slightest.
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Phlegmish posted:All good points, although where I live (the Benelux) Amazon isn't really a thing at all so far, that niche is already occupied. Sometimes I just get a little frustrated at how there can be visible and justified frustration at a certain company's practices, yet it doesn't seem to affect their profits (clearly the only thing they care about) in the slightest. I'm trying to think of an alternative to CoD that isn't made by EA and I'm coming up blank. There are battle royales and games like Overwatch but those are essentially different genres.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm trying to think of an alternative to CoD that isn't made by EA and I'm coming up blank. There are battle royales and games like Overwatch but those are essentially different genres. is the joke that we're forgetting Battlefield exists
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Splicer posted:Yes but libertarianism works because Yeah, that's the obvious problem with economic liberalism, and it's even been a part of basic economics classes for decades, so there's no excuse. It is in companies' immediate individual interests to subvert the idealized capitalist 'free market' by establishing monopolies (cartels if necessary), withholding information from or misleading consumers, underpaying their employees even if it means they can't be proper consumers in their own right, permanently destroying the environment that is sustaining their activities, etc. Similarly, 95% of consumers will put convenience and their bank accounts above anything else, no matter what they might say. I don't even think this is particularly shocking or reprehensible, especially the latter case. It takes very strong moral convictions to personally inconvenience yourself in a tangible way just to make an insignificant contribution to whichever abstract moral or ideological issue you think is affecting the collectivity and/or people you don't know. Fundamentally, it's not up to us as individual consumers to change the system. As a society, we need to establish a (better) baseline of what we think is morally acceptable, and then do what it takes to enforce that, no excuses or exceptions. Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 15:45 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:is the joke that we're forgetting Battlefield exists That's EA.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm trying to think of an alternative to CoD that isn't made by EA and I'm coming up blank. There are battle royales and games like Overwatch but those are essentially different genres. I don't actually know anything about Call of Duty beyond the sequel from 2005, I'm just a nerdster disdainfully using the incredibly popular FPS series as an example. Alhough I will now proceed to glibly assume that in that scenario you could just go back and replay Call of Duty 36: Dark Modernfare, which you already own, instead
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