Discussion TheScrappy / Advertising

This is how I feel about Grammarly's CEO Diana for telling me to click on "the blue button" on their You Tube ad. Shut up Diana, we're not stupid.

I can't stand the Poopourri lady getting in the way of the videos I watch on You Tube. What does anyone else think?

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Can it even HAVE Scrappies?, started by Webby on Sep 11th 2011 at 12:00:49 AM

It feels like 95% of these "scrappys" are taking the examples in commercials at face value, accentuating the negative, equating having a successful ad campaign to wasting money/cheating their consumers out of money, linking a commercial to an ugly word like child poverty or prejudice. Showing children being something other than cute little obedient perfect PC angels as opposed to you know children. Being metaphoric. Being literal. And probably the biggest offender talking about goods and services and trying to sell you something. It seems like every memorable ad is on here, which is my point, this doesn't seem to be list of advertisements' which people do not like and reasons why, it seems like here is a list of advertisements, which people do not like and here's why. With people so annoyed at You Tube ads, the popularity of ad block, Hulu, DV Rs it seems any situation where ads are being played repeatedly is making a small but vocal community of people who don't like a certain ad, it gets posted here, where a response of hey I liked it, (I'm not a sore person who got a comment deleted on tho page I just know TV Tropes), multiplied by hundreds has created a page where being able to be recalled makes an ad annoying. You don't have to buy my theory but can a mod or something at least look at this page and count the number of times someone wrote something because they took something at face value miscontrued it as an callous/ offensive remark, is critiquing the company, is annoyed by children not acting like mature adults, think the mascot of a company is annoying for trying to sell their product,takes an implausible effect of a product as genuine indicator of its effectiveness. Or complains about an advert played often. For a point of reference most of the Geico ads are on here, this troper now does not know who has good ads? Head On?

Some of these examples come off as a public pillory for personal pet peeve promotions - I just love alliteration. I'm going to remove the ones that just say "X is annoying" and not "The public found X to be very annoying and that annoyance can be seen today."

Is Flo a scrappy? From what I've seen she has had a mainly good reception.

Is it just me, or is this page a disorganized mess? Why are there Burger King, Subway and cereal Commercials in the Automobiles section? Not to mention some parts are basically repeating themselves.

Anyone else hate the Capital One "Visigoths"? You know, those viking guys who aren't much like actual visigoths and have a kid with a beard?

Some of these companies seem to forget the concept of 'test audiences'.

Merged Spokes Sue (YKTTW) with TheScrappy.Advertising as per TRS thread

"The guy from the commercials for the Amazon Kindle. He's supposed to make you want a Kindle, but he just makes you want to hit him over the head with a book."

This tells me nothing. Which Amazon Kindle advert? What's so annoying about "the guy" in it? Could someone elaborate on this because I've looked a number of Kindle adverts on YouTube and none seemed to match this complaint.