• ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Recently an ad caught my eye by showing somebody putting mustard and ketchup on the shoes on their feet. I have no clue what they were selling.

  • fisch@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Look, this politician says really stupid things. Let’s all point out how stupid he is, share it, comment on it and boost it in any possible way.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    151·
    9 hours ago

    That plan only works when the ad is not so controversial that it makes people want to boycott the company.

    Because now I am boycotting that company even though I really needed to replace my shoes and already had them picked out.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      6 hours ago

      This assumes you’re in the market for the product / can boycott it.

      For example the biggest culprit of this in my area are ads saying “stop hiring humans” for some AI company. I may hate the company, but my opinion doesn’t matter. The only people that would be in the market for something like that are ghoulish CEOs who just view employees as a cost on their balance sheet. If that ad can make them laugh and look into your product, it doesn’t matter if the other 99% if people hate your company.

      • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
        1·
        28 minutes ago

        Well yes, in this instance I assumed they were talking about the converse ad, and I was literally about to buy some new shoes from them cause my favourite ones just ripped. I saw the ad, will now find another brand to purchase from.

    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
      16·
      9 hours ago

      i hate to be the person giving them exposure, but at the point where they went through bbc and nyt, i don’t think that few people on lemmy make a difference…

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crwyzj53pl1lo

      Converse pulls ‘deeply upsetting’ advert after backlash

      American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised “that we got this wrong”.

      The photo, posted to the company’s Instagram account, received backlash online after critics described lighting in the image as looking like a white pointed hood.

      A pair of shoes, dangling in the picture, were also likened to an image of a lynching victim by social media users.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12·
      9 hours ago

      I assumed it was about that recent Converse ad that looked like a KKK hood with someone hanging. When I read the headline about that I thought ‘that has to be an exaggeration or a reach’, but then I searched for it and went oh naw, the people that saw that at first glance weren’t reaching. I can see how an office full of marketing people with zero perspective could miss it, but I feel like most normal people would go ‘damn bro that kinda looks like a KKK hood’.

    • Aralakh@lemmy.ca
      5·
      8 hours ago

      My first thought was the recent Sydney Sweeney sport betting ad. The fact that we’re having a thread like this, I feel seems to highlight the witty-ness of this comic lol.

    • frog@feddit.uk
      5·
      9 hours ago

      Oh… I though the ad was the Roach Poison.

      It’s controversial because roaches don’t share the food, they die and the other roaches cannibalizes each other.

      …

      Um… I might be reading too much in to this. I am probably completely wrong.

      • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 hours ago

        the ad is the roach poison. it’s just saying we poison people in our circle by sharing negative content, and that it’s controversial by design.