History Main / AdDissonance

* In a video explaining how Google AdSense works, the [=YouTuber=] Appabend invokes this trope by mentioning how he once saw an ad for Iron Fist on Netflix right before a video criticising Iron Fist for Orientalism.

** There's at least one photo out there of an article on a baby dying in a house fire... with an ad reading Burn Baby Burn.

* Bridal magazines first started appearing during TheGreatDepression, encouraging brides (or rather, their families) to spend gobs of money on lavish weddings and {{Fairytale Wedding Dress}}es, as well as ads for household items (you know, for the bridal shower!) Given the time period, most of the readerships of these magazines would have found those kind of weddings difficult (or even impossible) to pay for, or have their parents pay for. And prior to this, most weddings were ''much'' simpler affairs, at least among middle and working-class people; only the well-to-do could afford lavish weddings. This trend continues to this day.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', especially in the areas added by Secret Armory of General Knoxx has optimistic, 20's style billboards advertising settlement on [[DeathWorld Pandora]].

* ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': When Tim returns to Gotham he stands in front of a cheery add with a smiling family declaring Gotham a great place to live right before diving into the graffiti covered streets to deal with a mugger.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]

[[AC:TabletopRPG]]

[[AC:VideoGames]]

[[AC:WebComics]]
* Somewhere in ''Webcomic/TheEnds'', which happens in good part in the eponymous hellhole city, there is billboard advertising the legendary city of Avalon, that people are looking for. It's a stark contrast. [[spoiler:The Ends is actually the ruins of Avalon.]]

[[AC:WebOriginal]]

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]

[[AC:RealLife]]

Subtrope of IronicJuxtaposition. As you see above, it's a definite TruthInTelevision. For examples from Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, see JustForFun/AdOfWin and DarthWiki/AdOfLose.

* In a video explaining how Google AdSense works, the [=YouTuber=] Appabend invokes this trope by mentioning how he once saw an ad for Iron Fist on Netflix right before a video criticising Iron Fist for [[EverythingIsRacist supposed Orientalism]].

Subtrope of IronicJuxtaposition. As you see above, it's a definite TruthInTelevision. For examples from Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, see JustForFun/AdOfWin and JustForFun/AdOfLose.

Subtrope of IronicJuxtaposition. As you see above, it's a definite TruthInTelevision. For examples from ThisVeryWiki, see AdOfWin and AdOfLose.

* In a video explaining how Google AdSense works, the YouTuber Appabend invokes this trope by mentioning how he once saw an ad for Iron Fist on Netflix right before a video criticising Iron Fist for [[EverythingIsRacist supposed Orientalism]].

* While watching TV, the ads during the commercial breaks may contrast the show you're actually watching. Heck, some commercial breaks may run ads that contrast ''each other'' (like, say, if a fast food commercial was followed by an anti-drug [=PSA=]).

* ''Film/{{Brazil}}'': Advertisements for things like secure cruise lines ("A panic-free atmosphere!") and things to buy are all over the place, plus standard "anti-espionage" posters ("loose lips sink ships") on the offices. All of which are more than literal window dressing to try to cover the colossally screwed-up, barely-functioning world the characters live in (one scene shows a road with an endless line of billboards on each side, which prevent anybody on the vehicles from seeing an endless arid wasteland lying beyond).

* In a video explaining how Google AdSense works, the YouTuber Appabend invokes this trope by mentioning how he once saw an ad for Iron Fist on Netflix right before a video criticising Iron Fist for [[EverythingIsRacist supposed Orientalsim]].

* Website/{{Tumblr}} once ran ads for Autism Speaks, an organization that belittles autistic people and believes autism to be an "epidemic"... This despite the fact that many people on Tumblr are autistic and absolutely ''despise'' Autism Speaks. It was most likely because not everyone knows how horrible Autism Speaks actually is, but you'd think that Tumblr would know better, considering how many autistic people talk about how bad the organization is.

* The above page image is a good example. Doubly so when you consider the racial situation at the time.

As you see above, it's a definite TruthInTelevision. For examples from ThisVeryWiki, see AdOfWin and AdOfLose.

* ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper: Quartz Zone Massacre'' - The opening scene is a Nort propaganda video boasting about how much the Southers have been beaten. At the end of the scene, the camera pans out to show the TV is lying in the middle of a battlefield in which the Norts were creamed.

[[quoteright:350:[[TheGreatDepression http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/standing-in-line-for-free-food-bread-line_1135.jpg]]]]