Does anyone think that the announcement trailer for the 2022 Saints Row reboot should qualify here? It garnered a lot of controversy due to the way Volition marketed it, touting the reboot as a return to the series' roots (by having the Saints Row website turn into a brick wall that got slowly covered in graffiti in the days leading to the trailer's premiere), only for the trailer to show the exact opposite. The trailer has a massive amount of dislikes and tainted the game for many people.
Edited by IvanovTroping97 Hide / Show RepliesThe ad had its defenders, who thought the game looked interesting and that the haters were overreacting.
But does that really excuse Volition's "haters gonna hate" response after the backlash to the trailer?
Edited by IvanovTroping97At some point we have to draw the line between troping actual promotional material and just troping any social media behavior from a company. Plus it sounds like it's not the trailer that's the problem so much as dissonance from fan expectations, which isn't restricted to the promotional material.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I second that notion. People's reactions sometimes go too far, but if they don't relate to the actual advertising in the first place (or even the overall product within), then it's best not to mention said reactions in the first place, lest we go too far away into the complaining about things we don't like territory.
Since the Saints Row reboot ended up as a Creator Killer for Volition, I think the game's marketing may have played a part in the game's poor performance and the company's demise (along with Embracer Group's failed Saudi Arabia deal).
Edited by IvanovTroping97Should we add the ads for the Mexican banking service Nipper? These ads are not only infamous for the snake with a girl's head which scared the viewers, but their other ads have little to no relation to the product. It seems they tried to imitate the weirdness of Japanese ads given that the service was aimed at a young otaku audience.
It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee. Hide / Show RepliesI swear I said "go ahead" years ago.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkShould we add the infamous 2019 trailer for the now-cancelled Commander Keen mobile game revival? The trailer garnered so much backlash that the game was cancelled, and Bethesda removed all official traces of its existence. Even worse was when the gameplay was revealed and the controls are extremely unintuitive. Fans complained about the following:
- It had a Thin-Line Animation art style that many fans derided as too far off from the original aesthetic of the DOS games, as well as being generally seen as ugly.
- The franchise was dormant for far too long, so a reboot in the form of a Mobile Phone Game was seen as a slap to the face, considering the unpopularity of mobile games.
- It had a very Audience-Alienating Premise: longtime fans were furious that a mobile game would be the long-awaited return of Commander Keen, while casual mobile gamers were generally unfamiliar with the franchise. Adults found the art style far too cartoony and childish to be appealing (especially for the very '90s Commander Keen), but despite the generally kid-oriented style and humour of the trailer, there are some baffling instances of Demographically Inappropriate Humor in the trailer song ("Get Uranus to Mars" and "Don't give a f***") that would generally not be accepted in an E or even E10+ game in 2019.
As someone unfamiliar with the franchise, I see nothing wrong with the animation or artstyle. With that said, that is one HELL of an Audience-Alienating Premise, and the fact it was canceled as a result also gives it support for the dishonor.
Edit: indeed, several YouTube comments also don't mind or even like the artstyle. They're just still bugged by it being a mobile game and the controls and wish it was a more normal game.
Edited by AlmightyKingPrawn She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkSame, dunno the franchise but wouldn't mind the art style... And then the announcement trailer ends with "oh wait it's on phones" and that's where the commenters' hearts start breaking (and finish breaking on some gameplay trailer apparently?)
sigh... When will companies learn that the audience for nostalgia games (at least in the West) is on PC and Switch, not phones? In fact, the West seems to hate games on phones in general. I wonder if some company will wisen up to it and make their game for consoles in the West and phones in China...
Edited by Medinoc "And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."As written, the Alliance Defending Freedom example sounds like a violation of “offensive ≠ horrible”.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Here’s one to keep an eye on. Tesco has put out an advert for its Clubcard loyalty scheme in which Clubcard users’ faces morph into hideous Cheshire Cat Grins after saving money on their shopping. The reaction from viewers has been almost universally negative (some have called it “creepy” and “terrifying” while others have compared it to Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” video) and, as of 14 March, 58 complaints have been made to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Edited by Maxiboy136 Hide / Show RepliesCan't find any particularly solid evidence for horrible inclusion but these ads are a shoe-in for NightmareFuel.Advertising and Unintentional Uncanny Valley, Jesus fuck.
Edited by AlmightyKingPrawn She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkOh, you already added it to nightmare fuel lol oops.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkNo worries. It’s early days yet, will see if anything happens. Just thought it was worth a mention on the discussion page given the backlash.
Waiting to see what the ASA says about it. The digital advertising screen at my local Tesco seems to no longer be showing the poster version, so it’s possible that they might end up quietly phasing them out.
So far ASA has nothing. I'll keep an eye out on what happens.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkThink we should include the Velma ads that have been displayed on YouTube so far? Many people have shown that they genuinely dislike the show for the targeted Take That! offenses they've done thus far to their potential audience and the general Narm they have to the scenes shown beyond the general ideas of Scooby-Doo with some race swapping in mind and in a more mature rated setting has caused quite the stir online in places like the aforementioned YouTube and Twitter, with I believe both trailers in question (the opening reveal trailer and the general trailer that gives more information away to the public) currently being stuff that people are unable to comment on directly, which is always a great sign for things to come!
Hide / Show RepliesWait and see if it's the trailer's fault or just the show itself having these problems, as it seems to be pointing towards the latter so far.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.MySpecialDates and LoveForHeart should get a mention, due to scam-advertising dates with Ukrainian women, while the country is at war and seeking refuge. Now, that's what I call bad timing. I have compiled some examples on what those ads look like here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10juTFF7xjuSNgOWOchyeTyhIpb_3p3ED?usp=sharing
Edited by RiffyDiffy PFP Source from Kirby Reanimated Collab, drawn by Mike Patten.Could one add the Evertale ads because they are misleading (where's the promised Pokémon creepypasta?) or would you say "'misleading' and what army?? What else is there?"
writer/producer/director/visionary/troper Ai-Fan The Master Of The Romantic (But Deadly) Drinking Game And Haiku™ Hide / Show RepliesPeople like the ads more than the game, so they are arguably disqualified, even if the game unfortunately isn't that.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkDo you guys think we should include this ad from this smartphone game called Prehistoric Era: 10,000 B.C. here? This ad just straight up showcases a caveman knocking multiple women unconscious, raping them, and then wanting to continue his deviant desires before he notices it's a woolly mammoth for the final attempt and instead of being killed by it, it's implied that he gets raped by the woolly mammoth instead. I don't even know who the fuck thought that was an okay thing to show for an advertisement at all! Vinesauce covered it in this video here, being shocked by the ending in particular.
And on that note, plenty of other smartphone ads shown in that second video (i.e., the ones that wouldn't qualify for the So Bad, It's Good page like the ape game ad shown earlier in the video) I linked here probably should qualify also, such as the nasty foot fetish ad shown after the Prehistoric Era: 10,000 B.C. ad.
Hide / Show RepliesThat specific ad seems especially heinous and bizarre even by shitty mobile game ad standards, so while this is usually the type of thing I turn down I say go for it.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkI think there are some ads worth mentioning in the page:
- Simply Piano/Guitar ads.
- Future Evony fake gameplay ads (Eg: A person in the ad says "Are you annoyed over those ads? Well, I found the perfect game! That's right, this is the exact same game that was found in the ads.")
- AFK Arena IRL ads (EG: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSau01OUnRZf1KkOxpvLGOK7hwNfYwwup (Watch 1 and 2.))
If we mentioned every generically annoying and awful phone app ad the page would be flooded. While everyone I know hates the average mobile ad, there must be SOMETHING working for this genre to stay alive. So I think we are good with what we already have and shouldn't add more unless they are as notably and uniquely Horrible as, say, the Etika one. Gardenscapes can stay because they actually got into legal trouble and the modern Evony ads already on there follow an entry for the more infamous older ads for the game, and feel to me notable enough to list. Hero Wars I also feel is notorious enough to stay. Meanwhile, I have never heard of the ads mentioned.
Edited by AlmightyKingPrawn She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkSorry for the absolutely late reply, but it should be obvious if you watch all the Simply Piano/Guitar ads in this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwmQlrDe0SpEnfMQ7q9TPFg
Especially THIS one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlLuODj3w4
It's absolutely fine if you don't want to add it, since your statement says that mentioning every single ads, the page might get bloated, but it's worth adding a mention for Simply Guitar/Piano.
PFP Source from Kirby Reanimated Collab, drawn by Mike Patten.Eh, they are annoying, but there at least is some effort put in them, which makes them better than most mobile ads.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkConsidering Google Stadia's going to be dead soon, I think we can safely say that the Google Stadia ads for it might count here.
Hide / Show RepliesI mean, from what I heard, they barely ran any ads at all. However, even when they did run, people clearly did not like the ads they showcased at all, especially for the launch trailer. Here's their official launch trailer that Gamespot decided to save for the public eye. I've seen plenty of people criticize that ad in particular myself.
Classic suggestion: the Apple "Lemmings" commercial. A failed follow-up to the famous "1984" ad, it got backlash for being incredibly bleak (depicting its consumers as blind Suicidal Lemmings) and the product it was advertising (Macintosh Office) wasn't even ready to ship until 1987. They didn't go back to Super Bowl ads until 1999.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.It might be too early to tell if it qualifies for this page, but the Mehmet Oz "crudités" video might be a candidate for this page. It's already being portrayed as a failed attempt at being relatable to voters, Wegners went trending on Twitter, and his opponent John Fetterman claimed he raised $500k since the video went viral. That being said, it's still an active election race as of writing, so it might be also wise to wait and see.
Hide / Show RepliesYeah, it’d be better to wait and see, too. At least wait until the election is over so we can be certain that the hype has died down a bit.
Of course, if "Dr." Mehmet Oz does lose his election at hand, I think it's probably safe to say his video might at least be a partial reason for why he lost. Am I correct on that possibility?
With regards to "Piracy. It's a crime", it may have to be rewritten to remove the "used stolen music" part, as it's been claimed since 2017 that this story is actually about a different anti-piracy PSA. Might be something to look at.
Hide / Show RepliesWith that, I wonder if it even still qualifies.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkVery recently, some news outlets ran articles claiming that a study showed that people who watched the PSA were more likely to pirate films. If that is accurate, then it would probably be good enough to keep the entry in here.
Can we consider Mark Zuckerburg's introduction of the "Metaverse" from his November 2021 presentation on it as a potential candidate? I've noticed ever since his Metaverse presentation, Facebook, I mean "Meta" has taken a significant dip downward in terms of its reputation. Plus Mark continues to be as stiff as ever with himself. Not to mention the way it was presented just felt like VR Chat with extra steps or even a VR downgraded version of Second Life.
I feel as though Cryptoland's presentation should be on here, but I'm not sure if it's placed more for Web Ads or Promotions. This video that got Cryptoland into some serious trouble was definitely fit for a promotion at hand, but the more official version that still remains uploaded onto Cryptoland's YouTube channel feels more like it's properly placed for the Web Ads section.
Edited by CrazyLuigi Hide / Show RepliesWelp, the official version from a couple of months ago got removed by that channel now. Guess I'll officially go with promotions instead, until proven otherwise.
I think the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser trailer has a good chance of qualifying. It received so much backlash for being cringeworthy and making the hotel look cheap that it was deleted. It has even been speculated that the trailer was unappealing enough to make people cancel their reservations.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersion Hide / Show RepliesSo far so good, but it's too soon. I think we should wait until the hotel is open and had time to fail or succeed. This could potentially be a case for the theme park stuff on Other instead of Advertising.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkThat's a good point. I suppose that if the trailer was poorly received because it showed a Horrible hotel for what it was, it belongs on Horrible.Other instead, but if the hotel itself is fine and the trailer was just a bad case of Tainted by the Preview, it goes on this page.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersionSo now what do we do in regards to YouTube's stupid decision to remove dislikes as of late? With the way we know dislikes can help understand people's displeasure, do we have to go back to looking at a majority of comments to find awful advertisements again?
Hide / Show RepliesThere seems to be a growing trend for people to simply leave "dislike" in the comments and have people who agree leave likes on said comment.
Ryoko.Theres also extensions that show the dislikes.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkHonestly, if the backlash is truly sizable for an ad to be considered SBIH, we'll have more than just dislikes to go off of, like social media backlash.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I notice that several of these campaigns were not horrible per se, but ended up disastrous thanks to being victims of their own success through attendance/demand going way over predictions.
I think those would warrant their own section on the page.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Where do things like the Fortnite MLK event or the recent Cinderella traffic stall go?
The sad thing is with the first one is I could see it working in a HEAVILY moderated game like VR Chat, Minecraft or such. Not Fortnite.
Hide / Show RepliesAre they actually seen as horrible or did they just get mocked online by those who already disliked the game or James Corden? And the Cinderella traffic thing seems to have been a stunt on James Corden's TV show rather than a standalone advertisement.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Fortnite I've seen more polarized reception than negative. That they could have handled it better, but unfortunately this may be the only way kids will learn of civil rights in the way the modern world is going.
While the "James Corden Twerking Rat Incident" is almost universally hated, I still don't think its SBIH material. This is because I've only seen hate from people who already hate James Corden. No response from his fans.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkWould the Chips Ahoy! Imposter ad be worthy of going here? The official upload of it has 3.1k likes as opposed to 7.1k dislikes and the top comments are negative towards it.
Here's a link to the ad in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReT3KhB54Vo
Hide / Show RepliesSeems sus like a definite case of Were Still Relevant Dammit at the very least. Though take the blatant Among Us reference away and even the joke they're trying to make doesn't really seem to make any sense, and the whole thing feels like a Shallow Parody.
Maaaaaybe it could be listed on here, but I'd like to see someone else's opinion before we do anything.
"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"Consensus on the clean-up thread is that the ad is certainly a good fit for Were Still Relevant Dammit, but not quite bad enough for Horrible.
"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"So Netflix released a trailer for this new series called Q Force, which got thrashed by the internet almost instantaneously. It gained 11,000 dislikes to 3,500 likes within a day, likely due to an offensive premise and a lack of self-awareness. Should we add it now or is it too early to tell?
Hide / Show RepliesI say way too early. It came out literally yesterday and the show isn't out yet.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkEntry ideas I came across:
- The Pacific Airlines print ad by Stan Freberg. Apparently it's regarded as one of the worst advertising decisions of all time, basically reminding airline passengers of how terrifying it is to fly a plane, and its failure cost the ad execs their jobs and got Freberg fired.
- This campaign for the film A Cure for Wellness which just posted entirely made-up news stories about Trump and other highly contentious subjects just to get people to click on the headlines and get redirected to the website. The fake news barely had anything to do with the movie.
A Cure for Wellness has been added, so lemme add that I think that Stan Freberg ad qualifies as well.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkI added Cure because I was confident enough in it, so glad to hear the Freberg one counts as well.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Burger King started a campaign both in print and online today on International Women's Day proclaiming that "Women belong in the kitchen", before trying to pull a bait and switch and say that they're trying to achieve gender equality in their kitchens by giving women more opportunities to work there. As expected there was some heavy backlash and Burger King eventually apologized.
That being said, is this suitable for this page? Obviously it caused some big outrage and forced BK to apologize, but BK did have a small group of defenders who tried to point out the other tweets.
Hide / Show RepliesBrought it up to the cleanup thread earlier today. They thought it wasn't bad enough to qualify.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkAaaaand somebody added it anyway. It's gone now, but like, can people read the discussion page?
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Been thinking of adding the Truth Campaign's infamous "Smoking Memes" PSA to the page. Here's a draft:
- The anti-smoking Truth campaign has always been pretty contentious, but "Smoking Memes" is probably their most universally reviled PSA. The message is that just because you only smoke "socially" doesn't make it any less addictive or unhealthy - which is a fine message, to be clear. The problem is that it's delivered in the most grating and asinine way possible: namely, with faded Vine stars and outdated meme characters shouting, "IT'S A TRAP" at partygoers while crappy EDM blares in the background. The most viewed upload of the ad (linked above) currently sits at 1.5k likes compared to 8k dislikes.
Scroll down a bit. We discussed "It's a trap" but I don't think it flopped badly enough outside of the Internet demographic to be SBIH. For example, TMZ apparently liked it.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Ah. Fair enough.
I love to learn, I love to yearn, and most of all... I love to make money.Does "Introducing Team Siren" qualify? Almost everyone seems to think it's cringeworthy.
- Team Siren, an ill-fated all-female League of Legends team, tried to make a good first impression with their introduction video Introducing Team Siren. Unfortunately, it backfired. The video oversells their skills and promotes them as the first all-female team, which is incorrect. The attempts at seriousness come across as fake and corny, with two of the more infamous moments being the pointless shooting range scenes (clearly a forced attempt to make them look badass) and the cheesy scene where Solvanas says she'll "bait you and outsmart you" before moving a chess piece. Even the girls themselves dislike the video.
Edit: Does this count as a promotion so it can go here, or is it still a web video (a type of media that has been banned from the Horrible namespace)?
Edited by MathsAngelicVersion Hide / Show RepliesWeb Ads are allowed on the page, but this seems a bit risky, especially with phrasing like "ill-fated all-female team." Might count in the same vein as High Guardian Spice, though.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I agree that it's a bit risky, which is why I focused on the corniness of the ad and didn't really discuss the gender politics. I'm not sure if the "ill-fated all-female team" part needs to be cut, but I'm fine with removing it. The example should focus on the ad and not the team anyway. A write-up without it:
- Introducing Team Siren was intended to promote a League of Legends team called Team Siren. Unfortunately, it backfired. The video oversells their skills and promotes them as the first all-female team, which is incorrect. The attempts at seriousness come across as fake and corny, with two of the more infamous moments being the pointless shooting range scenes (clearly a forced attempt to make them look badass) and the cheesy scene where Solvanas says she'll "bait you and outsmart you" before moving a chess piece. Even the girls themselves dislike the video.
Something about the Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE entry doesn't seem right to me. I can't quite put my finger on why, but it just feels...off, for lack of a better term.
(Also, the fact you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to add a new post bugs the heck out of me.)
Edited by JHD Hide / Show RepliesI know that the game's reputation suffered a lot because the "Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem" teaser set the wrong expectations. I think that a trailer making a good work look bad qualifies as SBIH, but the trailer doesn't make the game look bad; it just makes it look like something different than what fans expected.
Maybe if the example was rewritten to focus more on how the combination of the teaser and trailer worked poorly together, it would be better? The example currently focuses mostly on the trailer rather than the teaser, and most of the issues are only issues because viewers were upset due to feeling misled, and thus were more on the lookout for things to complain about.
I think the following sentence is what feels off:
A potential rewrite:
- The pre-release material for Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE demonstrates why setting the right expectations is important when teasing an upcoming work, especially if you make fans wait a long time for new information. In January of 2013, Nintendo posted a teaser trailer for a game called Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem showing the main characters of both franchises, to positive acclaim. Due to the teaser's name and content, most people assumed it would be a straightforward crossover between the two series, an assumptions that fans held on for two and a half years due to the lack of concrete information. Finally, at E3 2015, a reveal trailer was shown. Unfortunately, said trailer went completely against fan expectations, showing that the game would be a Lighter and Softer Urban Fantasy game themed around the Idol Singer industry, with the SMT characters being background details and the FE characters being Guardian Entities similar to those from SMT's sister series Persona. This subversion of expectations led to some loud backlash that damaged the game's reputation, leading to its failure both in its homeland of Japan and overseas. Launching exclusively on the unpopular Wii U might have played a part in the game's failure, but even when it later got an Updated Re-release for the successful Nintendo Switch, its sales remained disappointing, despite being considered a good game by those who did play it.
Now I know why I felt the entry was off - even with the potential rewrite, it still seems to be focused more on the reactions to the trailers, rather than the trailers themselves (which I honestly thought were pretty good)
The game's first showing was the teaser, not the trailer. The teaser preceded the trailer by roughly two months, give or take.
Edited by JHDI have similar feelings about The Culling 2's entry. It's less about the announcement being bad and more about the stuff that was announced.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Mewtron, do you want to take Tokyo and Culling to the SBIH cleanup thread? I'd tell them myself, but I don't want to interrupt any discussions currently in progress.
Someone, are you referring to the 2013 SMT Cross FE teaser, or the 4.1.2015 teaser?
EDIT: Okay, I guess you've both left. Now what?
Edited by JHDDoes that recent Grubhub dancing ad qualify? It’s been a very frequent source of ridicule and derisive memes as of late but I’m not sure if it’s bad enough.
Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last? Hide / Show RepliesI think most of the hate is because it's overplayed and trying too hard to be "hip." The animation and music isn't technically bad. I personally don't mind the ad much at all. (The song gets suck in my head though.)
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Fair enough. Aside from being rather cringy, having uncanny character designs and movements, and not being very good as an advertisement it probably isn’t egregious enough.
Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?It ended up being added anyways.
Edited by TheLivingDrawing Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?We removed it because it's competently made, even if it's trying too hard to be hip.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I'm very confused by the entry for "Dicks Against a Sexist Dick". Conflating a president's belief that abortion should be illegal with attempting to make abortion illegal doesn't seem like much of a stretch, and there certainly are plentiful accusations of Trump packing courts, so that doesn't seem particularly unusual. I do not see the "hypocrisy" in complaining about pay discrepancies while destroying currency, nor do I see how the legality of the latter is relevant. And, uh, "the sexual objectification of men" is not a serious issue, especially when it's being used to criticize the actual problem of sexual objectification of women. Can somebody who's seen the ad in question please rewrite the entry so it actually makes sense, or, if it doesn't really belong, remove it?
This is Draco Rex, signing off. Hide / Show RepliesI brought it up in the cleanup thread for second opinions but haven't gotten feedback yet. Personally that entry always felt like it exaggerated the flaws of the ad, and looking up the response to the ad, there are several people who do enjoy the video (high amount of likes and such), with most of the detractors remarking on the politics instead of the quality.
EDIT: We agreed to remove it in the thread.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I'd like to pitch the following ads for inclusion.
- Irish bookmaker site Paddy Power not only making light of disgraced sprinter Oscar Pistorius's murder trial, but actively trying to profit off of it by offering to refund bets if he was found not guilty (spoiler alert: he wasn't). This resulted in a record 5,525 complaints made to the ASA, every single one of which was upheld.
- Apple automatically adding U2's Songs of Innocence onto millions of peoples' libraries without their consent. Those who had auto-download enabled had the album added to (and later pointlessly taking up space on) the device itself. Bono's reputation as a self-obsessed "capital-A Artist" was further exacerbated and the stunt was met with widespread public derision as Apple initially offered no real way to delete the album rather than just hiding it. This also ate into the album’s commercial and critical reception: Songs of Innocence became the band’s lowest debuting album on the UK rock charts in 33 years (peaking at #6 and lasting only nine weeks on the charts) and while the reviews spoke of an album that was decent-at-best for a band of U2’s caliber, it’ll more than likely be remembered for its incredibly botched marketing campaign.
- Spotify promoting Drake's 2018 album Scorpion by plastering Drake's image on almost every single editorial playlist, including ones he doesn't even appear on like ambient, EDM, and gospel.◊ Worse yet, the aggressive marketing campaign even made its way to Spotify Premium, a service people pay for to NOT see ads. The outrage led to many angry Spotify users grilling the company on social media, with one Reddit user requesting (and eventually receiving) a refund.
- Rax's Mr. Delicious: an ad campaign so bad it essentially tanked an entire company. In a hare-brained attempt to recoup their dwindling consumer base, roast beef restaurant chain Rax ran a series of commercials featuring their new mascot, Mr. Delicious, an awkward, middle-aged, down-on-his-luck animated sales representative who does little more than monotonously drone on about the supposed benefits of eating at Rax. While likely a Ur-Example of "weird brand Twitter", especially in regards to the character's approach to deadpan humor bordering on anti-humor, these ads, coupled with the dumbed-down new slogan “You can eat here”, were nonetheless a transparently half-assed attempt at upselling the already waning fast-food chain with tired "take my wife... please!" humor that 1.) had very little to do with the product they were advertising and 2.) even at the time was considered passe.
- Green Day's "NO FEATURES..." billboard used to promote their 2020 album, Father of All Motherfuckers. What was most likely meant as a lighthearted jab at mainstream pop music was instead widely◊ chided◊ for◊ coming across like a severe case of Were Still Relevant Dammit by way of played-out retro rockist snobbery.
Sorry that it's days later but all seem good.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkShould this be added? It seems to have many things in common with the ads shown on this page. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV6J5jlticg)
Edited by TheScorpion Hide / Show RepliesThe astounding number of likes over dislikes (1400 likes, 58 dislikes) indicates that this is, at worst, So Bad, It's Good.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Since there are three examples for movie posters now, should they get their own folder?
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe. Hide / Show RepliesI'm not against the idea.
"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"Sure
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkWould the trailers for "Star Trek Lower Decks" and "Hoops" qualify.
The former received so much backlash that the Likes and Comments are disabled on the official trailer. The show got OK reviews from critics (not from audiences) and was renewed for a second season.
As for Hoops, most of the comments are accusing it of being a Rick and Morty clone. Unlike Lower Decks, Hoops was lambasted (It might even qualify for Horrible Western Animation)
That's all. Any comments?
Hide / Show RepliesI don't think so for either. I saw some defenders of Lower Decks on Twitter when the trailer came out (I myself couldn't see a problem outside of the artstyle) and as for Hoops, that's mostly the show's low quality draining out rather than the trailer being poorly edited.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkNetflix is trying to make an NC-17 French movie appeal to.... some group..,. https://twitter.com/miggsboson/status/1296495374056775688?s=20
Talk is cheap on satellite but all I get is static Hide / Show RepliesI think this should be included for an entirely different reason. The film was made a French immigrant about her experiences growing up and criticizes the media's hypersexualization of minors. The film has a totally different poster too. Netflix instead started advertising the film in a different way and made a new poster which, ironically, felt hypersexualized.
Seems like a qualifier.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkWould this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAP1HrUZmAU) be qualified for this page or just plain old Were Still Relevant Dammit?
Hide / Show RepliesPlain Were Still Relevant Dammit. It has way more likes than dislikes and a comments section that seems to find it So Bad Its Good.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkCan we include sports promotions that went wrong (Cleveland Indians' "Ten Cent Beer Night", Chicago White Sox' "Disco Demolition Night.")? Maybe just limit to the more notable ones where things got out of hand and not just things like "free giveaway of crappy little trinkets."
Hide / Show RepliesGiven that some other factors botched the latter in particular (like insufficient security to keep the drunk rowdy crowds in control when the records went boom), I don't really have a issue with listing them personally. It may need further discussion than we've already had in the dedicated Horrible clean-up thread, though.
"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"Watch this space https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/walt-disney-world-reopens-florida-coronavirus-welcome-home-video-inspires-parodies.html?via=rubric_recirc_recent
Talk is cheap on satellite but all I get is static Hide / Show RepliesI'm not sure if the commercial itself is what's considered Horrible so much as the idea of Disney Parks reopening at all. But the jokes about how unintentionally dystopian it comes across might qualify similarly to the Peloton ad. Might hold off on it for a bit to see if it's still considered Horrible after the backlash dies down.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.You think Voodoo's tasteless Ball Shoot ad was bad? Ketchapp made a similar style of ad for their Basket Dunk 3D game and they put "Are you retarded" as their caption.
I am not making this up: https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilegameads/comments/fnbg38/are_they_allowed_to_put_that/
Think you can give another mobile developer their spot here?
Hide / Show RepliesDoesn't seem like it caused enough unanimous outrage. I agree that word's pretty horrible, but offensiveness alone isn't enough to call it Horrible.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Should there be a mention for anti smoking/vaping advertisements (The Real Cost and Truth being sone of the more notable offenders)? Most of these often resort to grossout or potentially triggering imagery of the harmful effects of smoking amd vaping...
flag edit: nonbinary flag but Luigi Hide / Show RepliesThat's very, VERY general, something we don't do on Tv Tropes as Examples Are Not General. Also, Scare 'Em Straight psas have fans, an entire community of You Tube uploaders in fact. Most people do dislike Truth though, not for their grossout but for being Totally Radical. Check out their "It's a Trap" campaign, it may qualify.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkThat makes sense. Didn’t know they were too general. Also yeah, the It’s A Trap ads were.... ew.
Edited by GalacticDriftwood flag edit: nonbinary flag but Luigi"It's a Trap" is definitely the most infamous example. Th first reupload I found has a dislike bar of about one like to six dislikes. I'm not sure if it upset people outside of the meme-savvy internet community, but that's also the group they were trying to target, and it doesn't seem the ad is up on their page anymore for understandable reasons.
Apparently TMZ did some positive coverage of the ad, if that means anything.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I'd say that Mike Bloomberg's anti-Trump billboards should get a mention, probably after the democratic primaries (or, if he gets the candidacy, the 2020 election) wrap up. They're incredibly childish ad hominems that have been mocked and edited to criticize Bloomberg, and it's likely that they hurt his campaign more than helped.
Edited by canidApath Hide / Show RepliesUpdate: He's dropped out after his disappointing Super Tuesday results. I have an example ready, would the writing of it be considered too inflammatory?
- During his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidacy, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg spent roughly $500 million on his campaign, one of the most expensive of its kind in U.S. history, most of which went towards advertising. However, it seems as though money can't buy good advertising, if his Anti-Trump billboards are anything to go by. Rather than legitimate criticisms of Donald Trump's presidency, the billboards employed incredibly petty and childish Ad Hominems to attack him, such as how he prefers his steak well-done. Once the billboards began to circulate on social media, they became a source of mockery, with many denizens editing the billboards to mock and/or criticize him. Unsurprisingly, Bloomberg dropped out of the race after only winning one (minor) territory during Super Tuesday, after less than four months on the campaign trail.
Eh, Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement makes me feel like this should at least be waited on, if not avoided entirely.
Also, the entry seems to draw an overly direct connection to the ads and dropping out... Bloomberg was a bad candidate who entered an already crowded pool incredibly late. The entire last sentence is at best irrelevant.
Looking at the link, using the argument "Donald Trump supporters mocked billboards mocking Donald Trump" isn't terribly convincing either.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I saw a lot of Bloomberg's anti-Trump ads, but I don't recall one mentioning that he likes his steak well-done.
Political ads (or any political work in general) should be hated by people who agree with the ad's general direction to qualify as SBIH. So an example for an anti-Trump ad should should include proof that even people who hate Trump hate the ad.
I saw a lot of anti-Trump folk mocking these ads on Twitter. Granted a lot of them came from people who don't like Bloomberg either. The real question is, did Bloomberg supporters also criticize the ads?
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.How about "The Memesteins" Xfinity ad? It has a lot of the same shortcomings of the Wendy's example, albeit shorter, and it was apparently taken down by the original company for reasons I can infer from the dislike ratio on the reupload.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe. Hide / Show RepliesIs this ad actually from 2018? Because these are incredibly outdated memes even for back then.
The fact that the video was taken down by its uploaders, that it has such an awful like/dislike ratio even though the one you linked is a reupload for the purpose of letting people continue snarking about it, and the fact that every single comment is about how bad the ad is are signs that it does qualify.
Edited by SomeonemanCan confirm it's from 2018, and it seems there are more in this campaign, but the Memesteins one is the one I saw really get backlash (and the only one I can still find still available to watch). https://www.adweek.com/creativity/face-swapped-filtered-and-memed-xfinitys-new-ad-families-are-the-internet-incarnate/
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Personally, I think the Run trailer that You Tube shows periodically looks too awful for me to not skip. I'm sick of horror trailers relying on jump scares and screaming girls; it's really f!@#$%^& annoying.
Hide / Show RepliesI'm not familiar with this ad? Can you look into it, I don't think it has caused enough controversy to qualify.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkDoes anyone remember that one add from Bianco footwear that said women deserve more than equal pay because women’s fashion is more expensive (and saying that men don’t appreciate fashion) and ends with women either vandalizing their boss’ property or assaulting them? I think the last woman even kicked a full coffee mug in someone’s face.
Regardless of where you stand in regards to feminism, equal pay etc, I think we can all agree that that add was not the way to go about it. The youtube video has 1k likes and 37k dislikes to, so I think it qualifies for the page. I’d link it directly but I don’t know how to on mobile. Thoughts?
Edit: fixed spelling error.
Edited by Bluefang Hide / Show RepliesSeems good
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkWould any of the commercials for Gardenscapes/Homescapes count under Web Ads? A lot of them have Viewers Are Morons in full effect - They usually show someone making obvious mistakes like pouring gasoline over a fire or hammering a broken fish tank, while some variant of the term "Why is this game so hard (insert crying emoji here)" appears. While that's already fairly asinine to begin with, the worst part is that its pretty much false advertising because Gardenscapes/Homescapes isn't an interactive story game but instead a Match-Three Game.
Hide / Show RepliesI think so.
She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqkShowing gameplay footage where the player deliberately makes several obvious mistakes is standard practice for mobile game ads, since it tempts viewers into playing the game so they can do things the right way. That being said, this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwiAiKI1Ov8)'s comments are filled with people complaining about the false advertising, so I think it might count.
Either I must have dreamed it up, or it was removed, but I vividly remember there being a section here that mentioned the constant redirecting "congrats you are win giftcard" scam ads here...
flag edit: nonbinary flag but Luigi Hide / Show RepliesOh ok. Was wondering where it went.
flag edit: nonbinary flag but LuigiCan we add Doom: Annihilation first trailer? The number of dislikes prevailed over number of likes, and most people were also offended by Amy Manson's tweet on Annihilation's Twitter page.
Hide / Show RepliesSeems the film itself is more at fault than the trailer. Let's see how much it sucks when it comes out.
SP00PY month!Well, some people on Russian Doom Community website watched it, and they mostly seemed to like it in comparison to the 2005 movie.
Edited by DukeNukem4everI have the main commercial for a bank service called Nipper. It features a talking snake with a human female's head.
Also a series of some ads from a Brazilian shoe retailer named Star's Chic. Some of them can be Nightmare Fuel
Edited by Mahzui It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee. Hide / Show RepliesPlease post it here so the link works. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15574101790A64005900&page=5
SP00PY month!I can't. It takes me to A "404 Not Found page". What can I do instead? Update: Maybe if I copy and paste it into the Chrome search/link bar...
Edited by Mahzui It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee.Copy paste it.
Also I've seen the Star's Chic ads via Cursed Commercials and freaking love them and find them so bad they're good.
SP00PY month!Copy the "please post this" first, go down, and then stop copying please post this. Hovering over the link and clicking the copy that appears doesn't work.
SP00PY month!I thought the Star's Chic ads were unknown in America. Sorry, it looks like I live under a rock
It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee.Oh no, it's ok. As for Nipper I think it qualifies. It's creepy and poorly animated.
SP00PY month!Star Chic is more suited for So Bad Its Good, The Nipper ads are bad enough for this entry imo.
Possible qualifiers?
- Pepsi's lottery in the Philippines where they announced the wrong code, causing hundreds of people to think they won the lottery and get disappointed.
- The 2013 Hyundai ad where a man tries to commit suicide with the car's fumes.
- The Mc Donald's Dead Dad advert.
- Acclaim's "Name your baby Turok" contest.
- Cartoon Network's "It's What You Do" rap against bullying.
- The Boston Bomb Scare
- The CEO of Lifelock making his Social Security number public, daring people to steal his identity, and tons of people doing exactly that.
If you need more info on any of these, please let me know.
Edited by TheAlmightyKingPrawn SP00PY month! Hide / Show RepliesI remember suggesting the Mc Donalds Dead Dad ad on here a while back. Seeing as the company had to remove the ad and apologise after intense critisism seems like a qualifier.
Edited by ChipGoffOfRORThe Pepsi lottery should probably go under Promotions on the Other page.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Absolutely the “Dead Dad” advert. The backlash was every bit as strong as those against the other ads here. Add the hell out of that.
I'll add all 3 of the suggested when I'm home from vacation and the wifi's better.
Edited by TheAlmightyKingPrawn SP00PY month!Just look at this stinker◊ This ad is for the Ball Shoot, the game made by Voodoo. Their games vary in quality, but this ad brings up Etika's death to either mock his fans or fool them into playing this game. Probably both.
Edited by DukeNukem4ever Hide / Show RepliesDirect URL because links are broken in discussions:
https://i.redd.it/4fqdxuuq3ra31.jpg
I looked for people who would defend the ad and didn't find any, so I guess it can be listed here.
It's been more than 24 hours since this thread was started. I don't know if it would be rude to add this myself.
I feel someone's gonna add it, so lemme just say straight up that the Cats trailer does not qualify. The designs, while horrific, are the only bad thing about it, and I'm already seeing defenders.
SP00PY month!Someone added the Ghostbusters trailer. Does it really qualify? I thought it was Flame Bait.
SP00PY month! Hide / Show RepliesThe Ghostbusters example didn't really talk about the trailer's content at all, so I'd say keep it removed for now
So umm, someone just made an entry for "Asgha(?)" that is legitmatly the worst entry I've ever seen. I hid it for now. What do we do with it? Does the ad qualify or is it just a typical Kitschy Local Commercial?
Edited by TheAlmightyKingPrawn SP00PY month! Hide / Show RepliesLooking at the user's previous edits, they don't seem to be making fake commercials like other people have in Nightmare Fuel and other advertising related tropes. What I do see is that their editing style is very personal, like a blog. Either way, it does sound more like a Kitschy Local Commercial to me.
I think that superkeijikun's new entries need a bit of cleanup (while well written, they have a different tone than the rest of the page), but I don't know how. I'll at least add some links tomorrow, but if any of you guys could do it before hand it'd be greatly appreciated.
Edited by TheAlmightyKingPrawn SP00PY month!Does the teaser trailer for Trolls count, because I already have a draft for it?
Edited by TheFallofElDorado Hide / Show RepliesDo you mean the Dream Works movie? I think it qualifies.
SP00PY month!If you're specifically talking about the one with the Whip and Nae Nae, it has 5k likes and 4k dislikes, with most of the positivity coming from children and after the film's release. Make that of what you will. Personally I think it deserves it.
SP00PY month!Found an upload with more views that has 6k to 13k. Do your magic.
SP00PY month!Not sure if it counts as an ad, but I believe Comcast's "What Can You Do With A Terabyte"? (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9OuNK-QWg) qualifies as Horrible.
- In 2016, Comcast announced its unpopular 1 TB data cap and released a promo video titled What Can You Do With A Terabyte? in an attempt to make it sound more palatable. It did not work at all. At first it explains what a byte is and that a terabyte is a trillion bytes, and then it lists facts like "you can upload 60,000 high-resolution photos with a terabyte" and "a terabyte is 1.8 billion tweets" while making no attempt to understand why anyone would actually want to use more than a terabyte of datanote , and failing to realize that most people who'd be unhappy about a data cap are already perfectly aware of what a terabyte is. It doesn't help that the narrator throws in a few unfunny jokes. The whole thing just comes across as a condescending attempt to pass off a bad "feature" as a good thing.
I think it qualifies. If it isn't an ad you should put it under Other.
SP00PY month!I don't think it is, since its purpose is just to inform you that the film exists (and scare the shit out of you) rather than show you what the film is, and it contains less than a second of actual footage.
Should we make a folder for trailers? Y'know, High Guardian Spice, Titans, Mighty No 9, Sam and Max, possibly the Sonic movie trailer if the redesign is good enough. I think that we have enough for them to be their own category.
SP00PY month! Hide / Show RepliesSo apparently, the late Stan Lee's Twitter account has been used to promote the Captain Marvel movie and many people are upset about it. I've seen a couple of people defending the move, but I don't know if that's enough to disqualify it as SBIH, or if using his Twitter posthumously is enough to be SBIH. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to add it here, so I'd like to know in advance if it should be removed or added.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/468/477/2bb.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/CorporateFacepalm/comments/ayd0im/using_a_dead_celebritys_twitter_account_to/
Hide / Show RepliesOof. Looks like a qualifier. The supporters seem like a small enough minority for it to be added.
SP00PY month!Searched the internet extensively and that Reddit page you linked was the only place with defenders.
SP00PY month!I would like to contest the recently added Burger King Andy Warhol ad. Looking it up, while there are some people criticising it, most people seem to just be indifferent about it. The You Tube upload has more likes than dislikes and the comments section is full of people who love the ad or don't care about it. It seems like it was added just because the editor must have thought there was some hidden rule that every Super Bowl must have an ad that should be added to this page. Anyone agree?
SP00PY month! Hide / Show RepliesI checked the ad and I agree that there are way too many positive comments for the ad to qualify as SBIH. It's pretty clear it doesn't fit the criteria for this page.
I saw this local ad on TV recently and I could not get it out of my head. The editing is just so bad, especially the slow-mo and the poorly placed rimshot, and the acting is pretty lame too, especially the lady at 0:21. Checking the Youtube comments, I seem to not be alone on it, and other people are confirming it does not really represent its target demographic well (apparently they misused Yiddish, but I am not Jewish and I cannot really say for certain). I considered putting it under So Bad, It's Good because I personally found its poor editing choices funny, but the comments seem to just flat out dislike it. Thoughts?
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe. Hide / Show RepliesI managed to get the link working and I think it could fit on this page. The likes are around 40%, but there aren't too many of them so they're not necessarily representative of a big fanbase, especially since people could have just liked it ironically in a So Bad, It's Good manner, and comments are more decisively negative.
Would this qualify for the page? https://twitter.com/CursedAds/status/1086389744290988034?s=20
SP00PY month! Hide / Show RepliesThe PlayStation 3 ads linked have far more likes than dislikes, do they really count as horrible? Or are those just nostalgia likes?
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe. Hide / Show RepliesRubik's Cube can probably go, as their aren't any comments complaining about it and most people seem to just be happy that there isn't any creepy baby. As for the Baby... I genuinely don't know. While there are more likes than dislikes, there's still quite a lot of dislikes.
Also I exist. I'm brand new. Hi.
SP00PY month!So this example was added recently (edited to have correct formatting):
- Gillette's infamous advertisement "Men Can Be Better". It basically starts off as portraying men being utter assholes such as brushing off bullying as "boys being boys" or condemning harmless actions like watching scantily-clad women on TV. The advertisement proceeds to then say men have recently changed, which translates to them thinking men have been horrible for all of history. The ad then starts portraying men doing the right thing and the ad states this is only what some men are like. The blatant misandry got this advertisement hundreds of thousands of dislikes on Youtube overnight.
Here's a link to the ad if you're curious.
While the ad does have 700k dislikes, it also has 300k likes. It seems like the ad is more controversial than objectively horrible, and there definitely are people who support its message given the 300k likes and major news sites speaking in its favor. Given how controversial the ad is, I'd say presenting it as objectively bad (or good, for that matter) is against the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment.
Hide / Show RepliesJudging from the Important Note, I think this could be removed because of it. While it does mention the reaction in Youtube, It doesn't mention the reaction in other social media sites, where it is more of a mixed bag overall. I believe that due to the reaction being more mixed than negative, it should be removed from this page.
The ad's pretty controversial, but not universally hated. Remove it.
Edited by chasemaddiganDoes Juicero's "Making Juice is Easy" count? It has more than 10 dislikes per like, but I'm not sure that's because people find the ad itself terrible — the product ended up on Horrible.Other. I hate the ad because of its annoying voiceover (especially when she arrogantly says "uh, Juicero, the best juice ev-uhr!") and Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket approach to normal juicing, but I'd like a second opinion.
Could we add Life Alert's 2014 Basement advertisement?
- Life Alert's initial ad campaigns were deemed So Bad, It's Good, spawning a variety of jokes about their overly silly natures. Worried that this silliness would cost them sales, the company released a new, Darker and Edgier advertisement in 2014... which ended up backfiring and caused public outcry. Many people decried it over its unnecessarily bleak tone, with reports of panic attacks occurring to unsuspecting viewers with anxiety disorders flying about. In addition, Life Alert was also accused of preying on the elderly and those worried about their senior relatives using paranoia-based emotional blackmail. It’s a small wonder the ad was pulled only two months after its initial airing, quickly being replaced with still serious, but much more uplifting commercials.
Not only did Life Alert's ad cause outcry, its product has also been criticized for not being senior friendly, locking customers into long term 3 year contracts and charging a fortune... [https://www.seniorsafetyreviews.com/comparisons/medical-alert-systems-comparison/]
Edited by marcfI don't know if the Cottonelle commercial is really bad enough to belong here. I've never really heard anyone complain about it outside of this page, and this page's only complaints with it are that its subject matter is kind of gross (again, toilet paper ad) and that the kids in it are maybe kind of annoying.
Hide / Show RepliesI was surprised that was on here as well. I thought the ad was kind of funny the first time and only mildly annoying (I've seen way worse ads that wouldn't qualify at all). It's neither offensive nor really obnoxious like the ads here. Remove that one.
Seconded. The like/dislike ratio on the video is only 106/79, and while a lot of commenters do call it annoying, there's enough people who find it cute that it isn't unanimously horrible at all.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I'm removing this entry because the comments on the video are mostly positive and it has a positive likes ratio as well. The entry itself comes across as Complaining About Shows You Dont Like as well. If it failed to appeal to its demographic, we'd probably have heard about it by now with how outspoken the League community can be. Additionally, I doubt whether or not they have a page on This Very Wiki should be used as an indicator of popularity given that other popular personalities like Jared Dines don't have pages here and yet have a healthy viewerbase.
- The YouTube ads for League of Legends are mostly harmless, but the ad featuring Nevercake falls into this. First off, he claims to be a YouTuber extraordinaire despite not even having a page here. Second off, he often jabs at the fanbase in a mean spirited way, saying that they have no friends. He also outright gives false advice, like telling them that they only need to Button Mash to win. Watch it here.
There's a Direct TV ad where a girl breaks up with a girl and she throws stuff out at him. It kinda looks like it's hitting him, too, if you look closely. Here's the link for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2xhmgfUgs
By the way, just a heads up: only 90 likes and 617 dislikes on this one.
i'm not really sure about the league of legends ad from nevercake being here. here are a few reasons.
1. the video has 19k likes and 611 dislikes. most of the comments i see seem to be from people who like it rather than hate it. i think there are fans out there for the commercial, and i'm not really sure that a commercial with fans can be here.
2. every reason listed for the ad being so terrible is an obvious joke. i don't think there was much in the ad that was intended to be taken seriously.
that's it. i tried to be as calm as i could. i'm sorry if it seems dumb, i'm not really the best at determining what can go on the sbih pages. i hope you have a nice day.
yarisflat is a pretty cool ship lolLooks like Dodge's recent Super Bowl Special with a Martin Luther King speech seems to fit here.
- For Super Bowl LII, one of Dodge's Big Game ad campaigns that season featured a rousing montage of working class people all across America... set to a sermon from one Martin Luther King Jr.. Said sermon, "The Drum Major Instinct", had a portion where in King criticized advertising, using car ads as an example. Needless to say, the spot drew widespread condemnation from social media, especially during the end of a politically turbulent season for the NFL, for using the anti-capitalist MLK Jr's image to sell pickup trucks, and the King Center (a seperate entity from his notoriously litigious estate, which Chrysler claimed approved the ad) and his daughter Bernice were quick to distance themselves from it.
I'm from Illinois and the backlash towards Jeanne Ives' ad is astounding. Both liberals and conservatives hate it, not an easy task. On top of that, when you try to represent certain groups like transgender, immigrants etc, don't make them look like a bad guy for YOUR campaign.
Read about it here, they also provide a link to the ad http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-jeanne-ives-bruce-rauner-transgender-ad-cps-20180202-story.html
If social media reactions are anything to go by, the new advert for Tui (formerly Thomson) appears to be annoying the hell out of everyone who sees it. Is there anyone who's seen it who thinks it deserves a place here?
Hide / Show RepliesLink to the aforementioned TUI advert. I genuinely think it deserves a place here, but I'm not talented enough to sufficiently convey its crapness.
A MESSAGE TO ADVERTISERS!!!
STOP MAKING ADS WHERE WE FEEL BAD FOR THE OLD GENERATION, IT MAKES THE NEW ONE LOOK BAD!!!
Xfinity, this was a terrible ad https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wpVV/xfinity-mobile-a-new-generation-of-iphone
Regardless of politics, the level of strawman on the Latino Victory Fund's ad for Ralph Northam against Ed Gillespe is pretty damn bad. Relying on strawman, feeding of a fears and stereotyping to an insane degree. And given that the ad has been seemingly barried by those involved, I'm not the only one who agrees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVckRJvuBQY
I think it would be appropriate to add the Wii U's marketing campaign to this list of horrible advertising. Not only did it poorly show what the system was capable of but it was also potentially confusing since it focused on the Game Pad so much and left the console out of focus, leading to false assumptions that the Wii U was just an expensive add-on for the original Wii. The logo having similar music and animation in TV commercials didn't help the confusion.
Also, it doesn't help the TV ads have actors being given some cringe-worthy dialogue and direction, the fact that Nintendo didn't even try to consistently market the system on TV that much and eventually taking their advertising to the internet via Nintendo Directs, where for the remainder of the Wii U's existence has lead to the system's low lifetime sales and eventual discontinuation in 2017.
Edited by warner14Does Protegent really belong here? The Memetic Mutation and the fact that it has far more likes than dislikes would indicate that it's So Bad, It's Good.
We need to add Orange Truth, It's Trap ads to this lost. While YMMV on the message against smoking, the execution is deplorable.
1. The creators have gotten the effects of cigarettes confused for marijuana as evidenced by the behaivor of the teens and at one point they use a BONG for cigarettes.
2. Annoying, outdated and unfunny internet meme usage such as "I can has cheezberger" in order to appear "hip" and "with it"
3. The obnoxious techno music which is at full volume and sounds like absolute garbage
4. They are like two ads in one as we get two scenarios, with the same joke.
The hatred for them is pretty wide too. There are annoying and repetitive web and TV ads "here in my garage anyone?" But this one is a special kind of bad
Hide / Show Replies"Annoying, outdated and unfunny"? Jokes never get old, rage faces and lolcats are still the funniest memes the Internet ever got around. The only unfunny meme in the universe is the one that says that memes have an expiring date or something like that and so they're not funny anymore after a year or two.
Number one fan of characters that appear only once and ultimately were a recurring character either in disguise or trying a new image.I'd suggest that this UK commercial for McDonald's be added to the page. The ad starts with a boy asking his mother about what his deceased father was like. Through the ad the mom fondly describes many things about him, none of which the son has anything in common with... until they arrive at McDonalds and the mom points out that the Filet-O-Fish her son ordered also used to be the dad's favorite. Immediately the ad drew ire from the public and McDonalds was accused of being exploitative of families that endured bereavement, prompting the company to quickly pull the ad and issue an apology.
Edited by ChipGoffOfRORBy now, I think we can all agree that The Emoji Movie... isn't very good as a film but I think their Twitter campaign making a shallow parody on The Handmaid's Tale should be here as well. Even if you look past its lack of class and its Unfortunate Implications, the ad itself looks lazily made and poorly designed. I think it fails on all aspects, but what's your thoughts on the matter?
Here's an article from Hollywood Reporter about this misfire of a social media ad: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emoji-movie-criticized-tasteless-handmaids-tale-tweet-1024054
Edited by sanfranman91 Together, we are one.Crazyrabbits: Removed the following examples:
- In the late nineties, early two thousands, there was an anti-smoking campaign sponsored by the tobacco companies, it had the slogan "Tobacco is Wacko (if you're a teen)!" So wait, tobacco's bad, but only if you're a teen? In other words "we don't want you to smoke underage because it reflects badly on us, but once you're legal feel free!"
- "If you're a teen"? They didn't say anything about kids?
- There's a popular theory that the tobacco companies intentionally backed anti-smoking ads so painfully corny that they'd actually encourage teens to take up smoking just out of spite.
If I understand this example (and the text in the page for Stealth Cigarette Commercial) correctly, this is more an example of a Broken Aesop than a horrible commercial. Remember, to qualify for this page, the ad has to fail to appeal to its target audience. If said target audience is actually lighting up more than before because of this commercial, it doesn't count, regardless of the content. That said, the production values are no worse than some of the other entries listed.
- The most recent Prego commercial poses the viewing audience a truly compelling dilemma: eat pasta sauce from a jar (illustrated by someone dropping a jar onto a pile of spaghetti) or eat Prego (illustrated by someone lovingly spooning it over another pile of spaghetti)? It doesn't sound stupid at first (at least no dumber than any average commercial)... until the camera pans out, to reveal the JAR OF PREGO. What?! The thought process behind this is mind-boggling. Are they implying that people are so stupid that they would drop an entire jar of (Classico, judging from the shape of the jar) pasta sauce onto their pasta, or the jar itself? Would they drop the jar of Prego if the ad didn't come with instructions? Has Prego developed new, magical, fresh-sealing jar technology? Why is your jar better than anyone else's jar?
- The message seems to be that tasters preferred Prego over others when they didn't know which jar it had come out of. Unfortunately, that's not the strongest message in the ad.
This doesn't describe how the ad is horrible. It only describes a kind of backhanded message. Either rewrite it with an indication of how it drove audiences away, or leave it out.
- There is an ad on Tvtropes as of this post for Raheem Devaughn's album The Love & War Masterpiece. Normally this wouldn't be bad, but it features sound, like those annoying smiley ads. Not only does it slow down this Troper's internet to horrible levels, but every time this troper opens a new page, it seems to be there, playing a song that isn't even that good.
Aside from the fact that this reads like Licence To Whine, there is still a market for this guy's type of music. You're not the demographic who would listen to this guy, the ad will probably be gone in a couple weeks anyway, and you're complaining more about the issue of sound than anything else. There are hundreds of online ads that are just like that, and none of them are considered So Bad Its Horrible. If you really can't stand the ad, just download Firefox and Ad Block Plus.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 Hide / Show RepliesHeh Man: [I can't block it because the freaking ads are in FRAMES. I'm an idiot.
Actually, there's a good point you make with all of these removals. Like you said, dude, all of these could apply to different niches, as all of these examples (to me, at least) could be So Bad, It's Good. 1. Not a single anti-smoking ad to me is anything but Narm or a Stealth Cigarette Commercial, so there's that. 2. I use Prego myself, but that's not the point. The point is that the ad has more Narmish-ness than outright SBIH material. 3. If I were to see an ad to listen to music, like every now and then on Spotify, I'd be thrilled. Even if I didn't like it in the end, I'm still able to say I could see if I liked it.
Edited by ASusNunCompany Everybody knows Heaven is a place on Earth, but so is Hell! It's true, look it up.Can we make a folder here for movie posters? That has some potential
I gave the 3DO entry the axe.
- The 3DO advertisement campaign by The 3DO Company. The Panasonic version of the system referred to itself as the most advanced gaming system in the universe and blatantly insulted the popular SNES and Sega Genesis consoles by calling them "baby toys". For its supposed advancement, the 3DO had for the most part only one controller input, instead of two as consoles had for years at that point. And while it had superb graphics at the time, it was very expensive, costing $700! Few were sold, and it was quickly overshadowed by upcoming consoles.
The entry doesn't tell us why the advertisement itself is bad and instead chooses to explain how the 3DO was unable to live up to its hype. Insulting the competition does not qualify the commercial as "So Bad Its Horrible". It was a common advertising tactic during the 90s console wars.
Edited by supernintendo128 pee pee poo pooI feel like the Arby's ad for its gyro sandwiches should get a spot on this unflattering page. The obnoxious commercial uses the song "Holding Out for a Hero." Normally, that wouldn't be so bad, especially since it's a good song, but what makes it So Bad Its Horrible in my opinion is that every time Bonnie Tyler sings the lyric "hero," the audio is replaced with the announcer saying the word 'gyro,' and very off-key at that, as if he's not even trying to sing.
Well, do we agree that it belongs here, or does anybody like this ad?
Edited by MattBen789 Hide / Show RepliesFor sure it's dumb, but it's more on the So Bad, It's Good side of things.
Edited by Cavery210Should we add Burger King's Google Home ad because it backfired?
Hide / Show RepliesDefinitely needs to mention how the Wikipedia page was vandalized quickly.
This recent pepsi ad is incredibly controversial for co-opting political imagery, and has attracted enough for Pepsi to apologize for it but at the same time I'm not well versed in the background of it enough for me to write an entry for it. (and it's a pretty sticky topic as is)
I do think it fully belongs here, though.
Edited by mariofan1000 Hide / Show Repliesit definitely needs to be added here, although i would suggest using another link in case kendall removes it
I agree too and a reupload would be good just in case.. Here's a draft that I had a ridiculously hard time even trying to post here for whatever reason.
- In what seemed to be an attempt to connect with politically active millenials during a time of major protests against police brutality, Pepsi released an ill-thought out ad featuring Kendall Jenner that featured her walking around during a protest with non-descript signs like "Peace" and "Join the Conversation" and culminated with Jenner walking up to a riot cop and handing them a Pepsi. To say the least, Pepsi ended up pulling the ad after fierce Internet Backdraft, not helped by the ad being released on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
I took Giant Jumbo Jellyfish's description and added it to the article. I uploaded it to my own You Tube channel, and I replaced the part about it being released on MLK's assassination (because I hadn't actually heard any complaints about that, although that is admittedly not scientific)
Can we add a special category for Superbowl commercials? My logic behind this is that if you screw up a commercial for a huge event like the Superbowl, then you really screwed up.
I also think political campaigns should be in their own separate folder.
Edited by ergeisWould two Nintendo game ads (in different forms) qualify for this page? The ads in question:
- The TV commercial for Yoshi's Island is built around a Shout-Out to the Mr. Creosole sketch from Monty Python, instead of focusing more on the game. Unfortunately, it follows the sketch a little too closely, resulting in a horrifying gross out ad. The ad is supposed to be referencing how much content the game has, but it is often considered one of the worst and scariest game ads ever.
- The Earth Bound "This Game Stinks" ad campaign in game magazines. Nintendo put scratch 'n' sniff cards in magazines, but they were made to unintentionally smell bad to emphasize Vulgar Humor as a selling point. It may have damaged the game's sales (the game later became a Cult Classic), the effects of which are still being felt today with Mother 3 yet to secure an official release.
These should really be called...
BADVERTIZMENTS
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG LOLOLOLOLOL kill me
Memes are a halfway decent way to mask the pain. Hide / Show Replies... that's not bad.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Should we add Always's campaign ads for more "girl" emojis? They have twice as many dislikes as likes and have been mocked nearly everywhere.
Hide / Show RepliesI think that it should be added, since everyone thought they were overreacting about the issue.
I think Littlewood's Xmas advert from 2011 might deserve a place here. It's the one with the kids singing about how mum buys all the presents. The example could go like this:
"Littlewoods' 2011 Christmas advert attempted to be charming and sweet, but ended up being remembered as one of the worst Christmas adverts ever made. In it, children in a school play sing an ill-conceived song about the one who brings the presents at Christmas time. No, not Father Christmas and his sack of toys, but mum and her Littlewoods purchases. The ad received a huge backlash from outraged viewers, who accused Littlewoods of ruining the magic of Christmas."
Can't think of a way to finish it. Feel free to suggest anything. You can see the ad here, and there's a wee bit about it on AdTurds as well.
Edited by Maxiboy136Asking first because this could spark a lot of controversy: how about the infamous "I Am Autism" commercial from Autism Speaks? Aside from the fact it misrepresents the disorder (as most of the company's promotional material does), it barely gives any information as to what autism actually is other than just making it sound threatening and promising to fight against it. It's also accompanied by unrelated home videos that don't fit the tone of the message, as if they are intended to be autistic children, and none of them are particularly threatening, what is there to be afraid of other than the concept of a neurological disorder?
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I think a certain infamous Frosties advert deserves a mention. The one which a kid sings an intensely annoying song about how "They're gonna taste great", with all kinds of desperately painful rhymes that try to rhyme with "great" ("pie-rate"?). To make matters worse, it was on all the time. Not only did it get a massive backlash for being so irritating, but there were (fortunately untrue) rumours that the boy in it had received death threats and had killed himself! There's already an entry for it on the advertising page for The Scrappy.
Edited by Maxiboy136The section about Allstate insurance could probably be removed, since it only seems to be added on the basis of twisting "girl shows up her sexist boyfriend" into "Allstate thinks all men are woman-hating animals".
I mean, the joke in the commercial isn't really funny or anything, but the entry on the page is all but lying about the commercial's content.
Hide / Show RepliesThat would be fine. It seemed like this trope at the time it was first posted because of its suspicious stereotyping. Although on You Tube, there is much hostility towards this ad too.
Good point, I stand corrected. I am putting too much confidence in honesty of the comment section.
Edited by Taxi-PizzatimeOh, I don't think they're being dishonest... they're just a collection of the worst people in the world.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I'm not sure if this belongs here:
- The "first they're sour, now they're sweet" ad campaign for Sour Patch Kids was never very good in this troper's opinion because of the implications of "it's okay to do mean, physically hurtful things as long as you say you're sorry/do something nice" in alot of them, like repeatedly denting and damaging a car being forgiven by putting a little smiley face topper on the antenna. The worst, though is a Halloween-themed ad from 2015. Trick-or-treaters show up and its answered by a scrawny teenage boy who shows up in a shirtless firefighter costume and then starts yelling at the top of his lungs in the most annoying way possible because some Sour Patch Kids are pulling on the one and only hair on his chest, terrifying the kids, who run off screaming and dropping their bags of candy, which the kid takes at the Sour Patch Kids' suggestion. Frankly, this ad is sick and unrealistic even by the standards of most live-acted commercials (contrast the Ouya example, which goes straight for gore and vomit) because who in their right mind would dress like that if they're expecting to answer the door for trick-or-treating children. The unrealistic part is how the sicko reacts to having a hair pulled—how would this person react to a drop of water falling on him, or being hit by a gentle breeze? Pulling a hair can hurt, but not that much. Sour Patch, you just lost a customer, maybe for good.
Maybe it's just me, but this seems like it belongs in the advertising section of DMoS, as the troper seems to state his personal opinion of the ads in the same campaign before it, and then at the end, says that he'll stop buying the product, as if the example were on that section.
My avatar is Mark Twain because I was out of ideas.Any thoughts on Nationwide's Super Bowl ad "Make Safe Happen"? The advertisement has been destroyed by critics and viewers alike, with both viewing it as a creepy, manipulative ad that uses cheap shock value. More specific to the advertisement itself, it has little to do with their product (insurance) and it even implies that they could prevent accidents, which is absolutely deplorable given how many families have been broken by deaths from accidents. Thoughts?
Edited by sanfranman91 Together, we are one. Hide / Show RepliesI say give it some time first. It's a crazy world out there, people might jump in and say it's not that bad. If nothing changes after a few months, then I say it'd definitely qualify.
It's solid. Fits all criteria (like-to-dislike ratio is heavily skewed in favor of the latter), has a misaimed message and corroborating news sources.
The quality of the examples on this page has really jumped up over the last couple years.
Does anyone think this commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mycxSJ3-_Q belongs on this page? Not only is it filled to the brim with Unfortunate Implications, but it's so depressingly bad that it could be considered Nightmare Fuel if it wasn't narmy to pathetic levels.
I have an idea for a web ad:
- There is a site known as Lower My Bills.Net, which uses advertisements with very misleading (sometimes animated) images. Usually containing text regarding President Obama and ending with "Tap Here to Calculate New House Payment", online reviews have shown the extreme downside to this program, seeming to be scams attempting to gain the personal data of it's customers. The Lower My Bills ads appear on many sites, even this very Wiki!
Sorr, but I'll have to say no to it. Misleading ads can be unpopular, but that entry needs to demonstrate how they are excpetionally unpopular and devoid of a fanbase.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanSo if it doesn't work in Horrible/Advertising, would it work under any other page or none at all?
Not in any place I know of.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think what makes them so infamous is the rather odd and sometimes creepy and disturbing imagery Lowermybills uses in their advertisements, which have remarkably nothing to do with lowering bills. They could be a case of Very False Advertising at best considering the pictures used.
Not sure if this one really counts as even the linked video doesn't have a particularly terrible like/dislike ratio. Some more evidence would be appreciated.
- The commercial for Blur was intended as a Take That! to Mario Kart, but it was done in way that suggests that they never even played Mario Kart. The Tastes Like Diabetes imagery is just an exaggeration, but the go-carts are shown driving at a snail's pace set to cheap 8-bit music, totally unlike the breakneck speeds and catchy tunes of the franchise they were supposed to be spoofing. And the line "Racing isn't about winning, it's about making friends!" shows that they definitely never played Mario Kart in multiplayer. The ad campaign backfired horribly, serving only to alienate fans of Mario Kart and failing to attract the mature gamers it was aimed it, because, being mature, they didn't care that the game was cartoony.
Honestly, after reading this:
"The ad campaign backfired horribly, serving only to alienate fans of Mario Kart and failing to attract the mature gamers it was aimed it, because, being mature, they didn't care that the game was cartoony. Not only did it help kill developer Bizarre Creations, there's a rumor that the ad actually increased sales for Mario Kart Wii, the exact opposite of what the ad hoped to achieve!"
It sounds like someone desperately trying to provide proof of things that aren't there, and there's no concrete proof the ad caused any of this. Not only was it received fairly well critically, but the company was shut down by Activision for unknown reasons - I seriously doubt that one ad drove people away.
If people like the ad unironically, it's not SBIH. If people are laughing at it because of its badness, it's not SBIH.
Edited by 99.229.0.226How about the Verizon web ads that are showing up everywhere? You know, the ones with the horrendously annoying host (I know that's the wrong word, also "CMON TOD") the people who seem completely disinterested and like they are reading straight from a cue card, an incredibly sterotypically nerdy sidekick, and awful reasons to even think of buying Verizon stuff?
Hey, thanks for reading this signature. You're great! <3As heartbreaking it is to say this, Nintendo's "Pitch" ad for the Wii U is nothing short of terrible. As you can see here, it barely features gameplay of the game in question (Super Mario 3D World), instead focusing on kids poorly presenting the Wii U to their parents. It also completely misses the demographics' preferences these days. Most kids of the same age as the presenters would prefer FPS games like Call of Duty these days and many are shunning the console for its inferior selection of games as well as its specs when compared to other Gen 8 consoles. The ad does nothing to address these issues and in fact reinforces the stigma of it being a underpowered expansion to the Wii at best to the viewers. What are your thoughts?
Edited by 148.85.235.147 Together, we are one. Hide / Show RepliesI don't think that it applies. You may take issue with the fact that the Wii U isn't addressing what you think the target demographic should be, but the fact the Wii U is more of a family-friendly console means that they don't have a lot to work with. Plus those kids are about 8 and 12. Chances are, they do like Mario.
I don't think you can blame the ad for the Wii U's perceived shortcomings (the kiddie content and the weak specs), unless you want the commercial to lie about it.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I agree with Larkmarn, this commercial doesn't belong here.
pee pee poo pooWhy the fuck was my topic deleted? I was bringing up those horrible Game Fly commercials where they present their target audience as violent adult children that will go absolutely apeshit on you if you so much as -gasp- PLAY A MEDIOCRE GAME! or -ohnoes- GET TOLD HOW MUCH MONEY YOU'LL GET FROM TRADING SOMETHING IN! and to the best of my ability I can't find it now. In my opinion the latter is worse because they're blatantly showing gamers will physically harass other human beings over things so goddamn petty.
Hide / Show Replies^Because Horrible is not about "offensive" but about "unpopular"
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI reject that notion because if its just 'unpopular' no ones bloody heard of it.
I thought Horrible was "Almost no one on Planet Earth even finds this Average! It's way below that!"
Pulled this:
- This absolutely terrible Under Armor spot. Highlights include: the shittiest music heard since Friday went viral (terrible electronic music, of the sort that arises when marketing execs hear about this new dubstep thing the kids are all into, but don't want to pay royalties to anyone), a 60s slot that was entirely consumed by burly footballers doing boring-to-watch manly looking activities, and a random hashtag being chanted off-rhythm with terrible lipsync.
The commercial has about 1,275 Youtube likes to 26 dislikes, with most people enjoying the music. Simply being annoying is not enough to qualify for this page - it has to have some demonstrable reason why the clip doesn't work, and why it isn't even liked by the target audience who would have supported it otherwise.
Tropers/Warner14: A commercial regarding piracy (Link) that has been used in MANY VH Ss and DV Ds is rather hated on You Tube (as the dislikes on the video prove this troper's case). The commercial compares stealing several items to stealing movies on the internet but what makes this commercial truly horrible is that even if it's an anti-piracy commercial, it used music in it without the original artist's permission.
Edited by 69.172.221.2 Hide / Show RepliesSounds like it could be a contender. It does meet the annoying, "doesn't appeal to anyone, even those who should be predisposed to like it" and research failure aspects, and there is a demonstrated overwhelming dislike for it.
I think there might be a new candidate for this page: http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/mountain-dew-under-fire-8220-most-racist-commercial-190800696.html
Then again, "being offensive simply isn't enough", so what do I know? I just thought I would bring this to the table and see what you guys would think.
Pulled these two:
- Microsoft's Kin ads were regarded as being creepy, either by seeming to portray sexting and having someone meet up with people she only knows online.
The subject matter may be suspect, but public opinion (judging from the Youtube votes) seems split on it. Just being offensive or creepy isn't enough.
- An extremely annoying telemarketing campaign for "Extended Warranty" warning you that your car's warranty has expired (even though you don't own a car). What makes it more grating than most telemarketing ads is that they will call repeatedly. Want to block their number? Not a choice since they will change it.
Again, being annoying isn't enough for something to qualify for SBIH. One common mistake a lot of editors make is assuming that "annoying = terrible". It's not. It has to be demonstrably shown that 99% of the people who watched or heard it caused its product or company to implode, and there's no proof given here.
Since some people are disregarding the post about this below...who keeps re-adding the Sales Genie commercials? It doesn't say anything but "They're offensive to Indian and Chinese people and those losing their jobs due to outsourcing!" There is a rule saying that being offensive simply isn't enough, and yet it keeps coming back no matter how many times I remove it. Worse, the entry doesn't explain why they are bad even when disregarding the Unfortunate Implications, which it has to say, and it always comes back with no changes whatsoever! I was told that putting an edit reason in a place like this was Natter, but if this doesn't stop, I may have no option but to do it. I would be fine with putting this back, but it complains about the offensiveness and nothing else, so if they qualify, then add to the entry or don't put it up at all!
Sorry for the Author Tract, but I felt that it should be said.
EDIT: Removed yet again.
Edited by SamMaxDeleted the entry on the Sales Genie superbowl ads, because as a reasonable human being, I didn't see them as racist. Cheesy, perhaps, but nothing along the lines of racist. Even if they were, remember that offensiveness doesn't automatically qualify an ad for So Bad It's Horrible. If the ads were clearly shoddily made, failed to appeal to their intended audience,and were racist, then that would be a different story.
Pro-tip #394: Want to make forum signatures seem more important than they really are? Impose arbitrary character limits. Hide / Show RepliesSomeone put them back up. Should I remove them?
EDIT: And my response came a few months late. Still, someone did put them back there.
EDIT (2): Then again, they don't imply anything other that offensiveness to justify the "soul-suckingly humourless" part. Put here just in case...
- Speaking of awful Super Bowl commercials, Sales Genie released not one, but two commercials that are not only blatantly racist and out of the times, but also soul-suckingly humorless. The first shows an Indian telemarketer using the service to improve the sales. This would be funny, if it wasn't for A. him speaking with a stereotypical Indian accent, B. him having to feed a stereotypically large Indian family, and C. the ad insulting Americans who were losing their jobs to outsourcing offices in India and China at the time. And if the first one wasn't bad enough, Sales Genie released another the following year, this time ripping on Chinese families by portraying them as fat panda bears who speak broken English.
Must I point out this rule?
"Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to fail to appeal even to that niche to qualify as this."
Read the rules, people!
Edited by SamMaxAnd someone put it back up again. It had the same reasoning as before, even. I removed it again, but I think it has to explain the why it is bad even without the rasicm if it is to go back, but I don't want to have to put an Edit Reason up just to ensure people follow the rules.
Edited by SamMaxMore cuts:
- The Orville Redenbacher Pop-Up Bowl Commercial with Criss Angel is so awful that in the future this could be seen as when both him and Orville Redenbacher Jumped the Shark. First, the acting is horrible. If it were just the acting, this would be So Bad, It's Good, but the idiot couple, especially the woman, are Too Dumb to Live. He arrives with a bag of popcorn that clearly says on the label "POP-UP BOWL", microwaves it, and removes the top. The woman freaks out exclaiming "OH MY GOD, HE TURNED THE BAG INTO A BOWL" even though the thing in addition to having the label on it clearly was bowl shaped BEFORE he removed the top! In reality, someone would have said "Hmmm, that's pretty neat" at most. But apparently, ads like these are meant to represent the average consumer. Yeah, the best way to get people to buy your product is to assume that they have the intelligence of a six year old.
Oh, you mean the commercial that has a 95% approval rating? Having oblivious or stupid protagonists in a commercial doesn't make it horrible if it gets the message across. If it was so offensive that everyone who watched it hated the brand, then it would count. Unfortunately, it's not the case with this ad.
- A similarly annoying ad to the above is the Yoplait ad where the woman is yelling at a cake in the middle of the supermarket. A grown woman. Yelling at a cake. "There's no such thing as a bear sherriff" indeed. She's reacting like she just got the news not long ago. I wonder how she'll react to finding out that the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus don't exist, either.
How many times do I have to write this for the benefit of people? Simply being annoying isn't enough to qualify. Not only that, but you haven't explained how this turns audiences off.
Hide / Show RepliesWell, I guess I misjudged human intellect. I should have known it would have a 95% approval rating, since those people can relate to the protagonists. But, at least I get now how horrible something has to be to belong on here. Even though I know that "bad" isn't the same thing as "so bad it's horrible", since "bad" is two quality levels above this, it seems the type of ad you describe warped through and became good yet again then still kept going and became so bad that the TV killed itself so it wouldn't have to air it. Only thing I can think of that bad that sticks out to me is a set of old Coke ads featuring people like best friends and family members suddenly hating each other because there's no Coke, I actually stopped buying Coke during that run. I'd post it, but I don't have the numbers on it, so it'll again come across as Complaining About Shows You Dont Like.
No worries. SBIH has different sets of standards that are used to judge whether a work is horrible or not - do the people who liked the product in the first place hate it? Does it have a 99% disapproval rating? Is it all of that, PLUS annoying, unfunny and unrelated to the product? If so, it just might be SBIH.
Most people tend to confuse Love It or Hate It or So Bad, It's Good with these. If people are laughing at the work in question, it's not SBIH. If public opinion is split, it's not SBIH.
I'm pretty sure the main page was cut by mistake.
Hide / Show RepliesDefinitely. Why? Because a disturbing amount of people on this wiki think criticism is evil.
It is bad in most places, but this was the one place where it was fine.
It was cut in error, and has been restored. Calm down.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.Ah yes, another person who thinks that Love It or Hate It means SBIH:
- Ads for Jell-O Temptations feature parents deliberately terrifying their children away from said jell-O. In one, a mother implies things her daughter loves — such as her teddy — will start disappearing "just like mommy's strawberry cheesecake Temptations." In another, a boy is threatened with being abandoned at the train station. They straddle a dangerously thin line between Edward Gorey-esque Black Comedy and Dude, Not Funny!, but the popular opinion seems to be the latter.
The entry references this commercial, which (like all of the other commercials, all posted on the official Jello Youtube channel, have ratings skewed towards people in favor of the commercial. That, and there's nowhere near enough data to suggest that its Dude, Not Funny!. Its marketed as "Jello for adults" - the content of the commercials is played in a sarcastic manner. More than likely, it's just a bunch of disgruntled fans trying to vote the videos down.
Cut this:
- The Armed Forces Network (AFN) replaces commercials with public service announcements, usually made in-theater, and sometimes by the local affiliate. This leads to poorly-written PS As with horrible-to-no production values. 95% of them are absolutely god-awful. Many of them are somewhat informative, but a large number of them are warnings to young service-members that they can't get away with crimes, such as raping a drunk girl or changing your state of residence to avoid state sales tax.
As I mentioned in the history, if the poster admits that "many of them" are informative (implying they have merit), they cannot as a whole be SBIH. Being made on the cheap doesn't mean anything when it comes to PSA's (most local ones are made for pennies), and in this case, a cursory scan of some of their commercials on Youtube shows that a sizable number of people enjoy or agree with the messages of the commercials. They may be annoying to some, but this sounds more like a Love It or Hate It scenario based on people seeing these commercials for a number of years.
Edited by crazyrabbitsPulled these:
- Vincent Flanders from Webpages That Suck said that a banner ad for insurance was the most tasteless advert he'd ever seen. Specifically, a plane crashing into the Twin Towers.
Okay, so this ad is offensive. I get that. What I don't get is what public reaction and/or reason why it would fail to appeal to the majority of people equates to this video. Yes, it's a tragic event, but the message seems to make that perfectly clear - have your will done, because anything could happen. Don't think this is SBIH.
- "I've got something...for you!" A commercial for Eagle Insurance (a car insurance company from Chicago) with bad acting, No Budget, and a male eagle laying an egg.
So Bad, It's Good at worst. The comments back this up. If people are laughing at the cheapness, it doesn't count.
- This advertisement against chemical residues left behind by cleaning products had to be pulled because it triggered rape flashbacks.
This one is strange. Yes, I get that it has unsettling subject matter. What I don't see is how it's hated by the majority. A group of people complained about it, but the commercial appears to have the "suds" acting intentionally creepy. You can't fault a commercial for suggesting the same behaviour that's being called out by people. That said, the Ad Age article also indicates that the majority of people who've commented on this video online thought it was funny or good. I don't think this fits, but I could be wrong.
Edited by crazyrabbitsThat Pakistanian Sonic commercial could EASILY be considered So Bad It's Good, and I'd added it there without knowing it's here. Should it be here or there?
Hide / Show RepliesYour choice. It looks to me like it's got enough info to qualify, but I don't understand the specifics of the ad in relation to its reception in Pakistan.
Neither do I, but the comments on You Tube completely hate it. It'll go on So Bad It's Good, as some people were plain laughing at it, and the video's title is even "Hilariously Bad Pakistan Sonic Heroes Kids Meal Commercial."
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- Dead Space 2 used a campaign called Your Mom Hates This. In it, some stereotypical mothers are shown footage from Dead Space 2 and their reactions are predictably horrifying. How did this ad fail? Let us count the ways:
- No game footage was featured in the campaign proper.
- The game is rated M, yet the ads are blatantly targeted towards minors.
- Along the same vein as above: It treats the fact that their parents, usually the people who buy the kids said video games, would not want it in their household as a selling point.
- It gives absolutely no information about the game beyond "shocks grown women."
- It implies that said shock value is its only redeeming quality.
For several reasons:
1) Nothing on any of the social media sites this video/campaign was featured on have an overwhelmingly negative viewpoint about it. 2) According to this article, the campaign generated 1.8 million hits within its first ten days online. 3) Ad campaigns for video games don't necessarily have to have actual game footage in it. There are several examples of recent ads for major blockbuster games (Mass Effect 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops) that are either movies or pre-rendered cinematics. 4) Said DS 2 video was immediately posted on several major gaming websites, and immediately went viral. 5) The campaign is banking on kids asking their parents to buy the game, knowing full well that they would personally be scared by it. That's effective advertising to the target demographic of 18-25 year olds. 6) Guess what? Advertising doesn't always have to be truthful. The fact that you thought shock value was the only redeeming quality means you don't understand advertisements at all. It's a hook to draw the viewer in and buy the game. DS 2 has been critically and commercially lauded.
Even if the content of the ad was suspect or just plain wrong, it's viewing figures and positive response (take a look at the number of positive comments and likes on this video) justify the commercial's success.
Edited by crazyrabbits Hide / Show RepliesShould the Quietus ads be removed? The only bad thing about it, according to the description, is the Most Annoying Sound. It doesn't say anything else about the ad, and I'm not entirely sure if an annoying noise is a good enough reason to put it here.
Troper page Nothing interesting here, move along... Hide / Show RepliesIt's an absolutely redundant and pointless Most Annoying Sound.
Out eating the neighbors' tax forms, should be back soon.Removed the following example:
- Likely the most notorious cases of all time, Enzyte, a product for natural male enhancement, preyed on the fear men have of certain... problems, and claimed to allow natural growth of... a certain male body part. The service cost 99 dollars a month, and was made virtually impossible to cancel, with the only way to leave the program was proving that you had a small penis. Company founder Steve Warshak's practices were so unethical, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Enzyte forfieted all of its half a billion dollars in profits.
- That strangely puts having David Kaye aka Megatron as the voice of the narrator in those commercials in perspective, Yesssss...
Okay, so the product is a complete scam and the company is extremely shady. But that doesn't explain what's so bad about the ad.
Hide / Show RepliesThe ads probably fit better in either So Bad, It's Good or Memetic Mutation. It's clear the company probably paid an advertising firm a decent sum, but... the ads are all chock-full of Narm, to the point that the attempts at selling us on faulty penis drugs are rendered laughably ridiculous. I wouldn't really be surprised if at least some of the lines were quotable to boot.
Really, I should just let the ads speak for themselves.
Pro-tip #394: Want to make forum signatures seem more important than they really are? Impose arbitrary character limits.Would all of those download here/click here to play here now that appear on sites like megaupload count?
Hide / Show RepliesThat's advertising? Unless it's something that can be construed as a legitimate advertisement, I don't think it would count (IMO).
But where do they take you? I think that it is some crappy ad to get you to visit there site.
Well, IMO, it probably falls under the pop-up/banner ad example near the top of the page. You should put in a small note about these types of ads in the example.
Took this out:
- About 98% of American political ads, regardless of your political opinion, are horrible. They spend most of the ad insulting the other candidate and the whole thing is shrouded with a cloud of negativity instead of showing how the candidate will do well in their position. Not to mention that most of the time they blatantly lie, take the other candidates actions or words out of context (for instance, it will say something like "We asked them if they support healthcare, and this was the response:" followed by a random clip of the other candidate saying "No", while not showing the question being asked, which would easily be heard in the same footage. It shows that that was blatantly not the question being asked, and the answer is so vague that you could literally put any question there and it would work) and use stock phrases like "I promise to lower taxes". One recent ad in Washington said things about Patty Murray raising taxes, etc. over footage of a family (A man, woman, and a preteen boy) laying face down in the grass, while somebody steps on all of their backs while the camera pans over their pained and crying faces. Even though it's full of Narm, and it's supposed to be implying that the other candidate is performing the act (higher taxes = stomping on children?), it comes off as if they are just stomping on children while yelling at you about how bad the other candidate is. It's indignifying, low brow and filthy. It does not say one thing to make the candidate advertised seem like a remotely nice, responsible, or well-adjusted person. Oh, and did I mention this was coming from someone who doesn't even like Patty Murray? Did I also mention that said ads will take up about %60 percent of the commercial break?
- It really says something when parodies of political ads -especially 527s- are almost uniformly indistinguishable from the real ones.
For one thing, the writer admits that the listed example of a bad political ad is full of Narm, which means it wouldn't fit.
Secondly, "regardless of political opinion", both U.S. political parties use these types of commercials to win voters over, and given how they've been a staple of the commercial landscape over the last (two? three?) decades, I think it's safe to say that they work in swaying voters. The information presented in these commercials may not always be accurate or correct, but people can and have taken them at face value. That's always been a popular trend in the U.S. political system, and these kinds of commercials have worked because they're cheap to produce and market.
Third, I think this example will attract a lot of natter and irrelevant discussion, regardless of the fact that it doesn't really apply to the page.
Edited by crazyrabbits Hide / Show RepliesI say it should be put back, albiet perhaps a bit edited. They really are horrible and close to elections they get so bad that 80% of ads are political ads. Seriously, yesterday I counted 6 political ads in a row, and that many political ads in a row isn't rare. The only thing that stopped it was the show coming back on. Quite simply, they're annoying.
While I don't use them very often, The Other Wiki summarized this well:
"As research suggests, attack ads in political campaigns are mainly effective because they contribute to citizen education and engagement, and only rarely have negative impacts. Voters often look to negative information to find reasons for supporting one candidate over another. However, there have been times when attack ads become too controversial in society and backfire against a candidate...In the United States, researchers have consistently found that negative advertising has positive effects. According to Finkel and Greer (1998), negative advertising “is likely to stimulate voters by increasing the degree to which they care about the election’s outcome or by increasing ties to their party’s nominee.” This is an important feature of negative campaign advertising because it can solidify a candidate's support going into an election. Negative advertising, then, can be very beneficial to a candidate during a campaign to not only win votes but also get out the vote."
If people are getting out to vote more based on these ads, then it doesn't count, regardless of whether people think they're annoying. They serve their purpose.
As I had noted in my original second important note, merely being annoying isn't enough to qualify for this page. It has to be something so bad that 99% of the people who watch it are turned off by it. That isn't the case with political ads.
That said, there have been a couple of Canadian political attack ad campaigns I know of (especially the 2006 Liberal Party ads that implied Stephen Harper was going to police major Canadian cities with armed soldiers) that were roundly blasted by every political party and the general public. If you can find an ad campaign like that, then it would qualify.
Edited by crazyrabbitsYeah, I don't want to police this trope or anything, but it seems like a lot of people are missing the point of this. Removed the following:
- German ads. All of it. Everytime I watch any ads somebody crys or screams. It also helps when shows or movies are going in a break when the scene is completely silent and suddendly some stupid whore shoves her face right into the screen and screams because she likes yoghurt filled chocolate.
- Another ad-campaign for some energydrink had a bunch of silent and calming ads for nearly half a minute and some Gollum hops to the camera and screams at the top of his lungs. I was ten or so and terrified every time because it had 6 or so versions with the golf-playing man and a woman during buddhist meditation who normally gives it away but one of them looked like a normal car commercial with a car driving alongside of a mountain and then it comes...
Reads like Licence To Whine, and has no explanation of why the ads are bad other than "I hate it". You have to prove that it's such a failure that it doesn't appeal to anyone. If the Germans are still producing "screamer" ads after years and years, it means they're doing something right.
- California Psychics. What kind of mushroom-eating new-age yuppy would believe these goons and their claims of clairvoyance? And how are the guys behind this not in jail?
Needs a bit of a rewrite. Can you tie this into the Psychic Friends Network? After all, stars like Philip Michael Thomas and Dionne Warwick shilled for them.
I can personally attest that not all Ovaltine ads are bad, but moreover, the one in question seems kind of bland at worst. How did it get into So Bad Its Horrible?
Hide / Show RepliesDeleted. (Though I admit may have had it confused with Nesquick when I originally wrote that...)
How about the Orville Redenbacher ad with a creepy, CGI failure uncanny-valley version of Redenbacher himself promoting his popcorn from beyond the grave? Even some of the other actors in the commercial looked creeped out by that.
Crazyrabbits: Once more.
- The "Yum Yum Bumble Bee" radio ads for Bumble Bee Tuna. Sounds like a rejected song from a really bad kids' show. How many brain cells was the writer of this missing, or what type of head trauma did they have?
- The number of radio ads that follow the "awful song" format is mind-numbing. Especially if the company is local (and thus can only profit from limited advertising, which they can't spend much money on). Supporting local business is one thing, but the low budget shows. Horribly.
I think we should put a moratorium on radio ads, because there are very few (if any) commercials that would shove people away. Corny jingles just don't cut it.
- Do radio advertisements count? If they do; a recent one most certainly qualifies. It's for some car stereo place; and it likens installing a car stereo to brain surgery or taking out a kidney, complete with the sound of someone performing said operation on themselves with a tablesaw. Not only is not an effective advertisement(since I don't even remember what it was for), it honestly makes me want physically hurt whoever thought it up!
The number of commercials with corny or silly sound effects are massive. That doesn't mean they're horrible. If it makes you want to "physically hurt" someone, you have bigger problems that you're letting on.
- Somebody has to say it - the banner ad for Raheem Devaughn's new album, which as of March 2010 seems to appear at the top of just about every page on this Wiki, and which plays a repetitive, un-cancellable, and just plain not very good music sample if your mouse pointer ends up anywhere near the banner.
You missed it because YOU DIDN'T READ THE DISCUSSION. We already went over this. Aside from the fact that this reads like Licence To Whine, there is still a market for this guy's type of music. You're not the demographic who would listen to this guy, the ad will probably be gone in a couple weeks anyway, and you're complaining more about the issue of sound than anything else. There are hundreds of online ads that are just like that, and none of them are considered So Bad Its Horrible. If you really can't stand the ad, just download Firefox and Ad Block Plus.
- this commercial for Sakura Con, it seems to be mocking the very people it is trying to attract.
- GaROOOOOOOgamesh!
I don't get it. I went on the Youtube link you posted, and everyone seems to be in agreement that the commercial is a hilarious send-up of popular stereotypes. That means people like it.
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Have we talked about adding the "Augment your Pre-Order" promotion for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided? It was cancelled after severe backlash from gamers and press, given how it amplified every criticism people have about pre-order bonuses.
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