Recent ads by big companies go awry, spark controversy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100414/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1615
Seriously? If you find yourself offended by the Burger King, it's time to put some things in your life into perspective. A) on a scale from 1 to 10 how important is the Burger King in your life? B) If this is what you have worry about, your life is probably pretty okay. C) The Burger King is a fictional character, meaning, not real. Personally, for someone who does have rampant mental illness in the family, I think the BK ad is pretty funny. I like the King, he makes me laugh, and isn't that a good thing?
Tiger Woods - His father's voice talking is offensive? I mean Tiger did the dirty deed, has owned it, knows what is father would say about the whole scandal, and for crying out loud, it's
HIS father. If he is okay with it shouldn't you be? Yes, nike is using it for their advertising campaign. So? One exec described it as: "A 'deeply manipulative' attempt by Nike to kickstart merchandise sales" Ummmm... correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that sole purpose of advertising?
The Exec added this: "Worse, the ad's format — a voiceover played atop a static shot of a nonspeaking human — made it easy for Internet muckrakers to insert their own audio clips into the video and unleash a slew of parodies,
which wound up being more popular than the add itself."
Again, so? If nike wants to set themselves up for mocking, I say power to the people who put that stuff together for our entertainment! I'm guessing that humor is a foreign concept to this man...
And lastly - POM, it's juice people, you can't hang it, don't create more meaning than was intended.
Hey, I might play some hangman later, I hope nobody gets upset or reads too much meaning into my game of hangman.
Bottom line - if you don't like the ads, don't buy the product and for the love of humanity, lighten up!
These are advertisements, they really don't mean anything except "buy our product".
