Ads that have made you want to avoid the product.

[SSJBlastoise]

Hey everyone, with the current annoyingness of those damn Killzone Mercenary ads popping up all over the screen (oh how I despise that game now) I got to think are there any other advertisements that have made me want to avoid the product they are advertising (yes, I am actually going to avoid that game due to the ads, not that I have a Vita anyway)?

I think there was another group of ads that made me want to avoid the product but they seem to have slipped my mind at this stage.

What ads, if any, have made you want to avoid a product?

 

[Lionsfan]

99% of all beer ads.

Fuck all that man card bullshit. The man card is the dumbest thing ever thought of, and I have no qualms about drinking my cheap beer

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Well, not to sound repetitive but all those Xbone ads were... uh... less than fetching.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I vaguely recall a sociology class I took where a study that showed peoples' opinions of products when they spend their ad time bashing their competitors, and it generally makes the attacking product look bad. This means all those Verizon wireless "We have a bigger e-dick than AT&T" or "Mac v PC" ads with John Hodgman tend to make people think less of Verizon and Apple. I generally tend to agree with that kind of study too, if a product has to attack a competitor directly to try and tear them apart instead of building up their own strengths, then there's likely something wrong with the product.

 

[Genocidicles]

Pretty much any ad I am forced to sit through, apart from movie/game trailers.

 

[Timotei]

Any advertising for makeup brands trying to get me to try some new type of product whose effects I have no interest in. It's one of the reasons I stopped watching cable television.

 

[Zhukov]

Yeah, I too am not about to buy Killzone Mercenary.

Just looking at the cover of that game would be liable to induce a pavlovian response of frustration and anger by this point.

 

[JoshGod]

All adverts which tell you nothing about the product/service especially this.

 

[TheScottishMexican42]

Simple. Adverts that are over the top about something not very remarkable.
For example, EVERY SINGLE DEODORANT ADVERT EVER.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Go Daddy commercials. I like women as much as the next heterosexual male, but come the fuck on. How the hell are your commercials even remotely related to your product? You sell domain names, for God's sake.

They also supported SOPA. Fuck that noise, you chauvinist pricks.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Not a product, but I saw a movie poster when I left a theater after seeing Pacific Rim (the hypest sit) with my bros and the poster literally made me and my friends annoyed. I can't remember the title but it looked like the most generic, outdated, pile of shit movie, ever created. It showed a family with a dad, mom, 12 year old daughter, and teenage son and they all had quirky little labels for all of them (cause they apparently weren't a normal family! Hur hur hurr). All I remember is that the son was labeled "virgin" and the 12 year old girl was labeled "drug dealer" and I immediately wanted the producers responsible to die in a fire

 

[Miss G.]

I vaguely recall a sociology class I took where a study that showed peoples' opinions of products when they spend their ad time bashing their competitors, and it generally makes the attacking product look bad. This means all those Verizon wireless "We have a bigger e-dick than AT&T" or "Mac v PC" ads with John Hodgman tend to make people think less of Verizon and Apple. I generally tend to agree with that kind of study too, if a product has to attack a competitor directly to try and tear them apart instead of building up their own strengths, then there's likely something wrong with the product.

I see the MS Surface ads trying to do the same to iPad nowadays, doubt that's working out for them. In regards to the Mac v PC ads, I was put off as well... up until I ditched PCs for Macs. Now, after having a hassle free time with mine since I got it a couple years ago, I wholeheartedly agree with them when I see it. Maybe sometimes what seems like attacks can turn out to be just stating the facts, even if it's mostly 'I'm not my competitor', because that in and of itself can be a major plus.

 

[Queen Michael]

Go Daddy commercials. I like women as much as the next heterosexual male, but come the fuck on. How the hell are your commercials even remotely related to your product? You sell domain names, for God's sake.

Word. There's a point where it just becomes stupid, and they crossed that line.
That line which is actually a point.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Well, not to sound repetitive but all those Xbone ads were... uh... less than fetching.

Thats pretty much all i've got. Before a showing of Pacific Rim there was a looooooooooooong Xbox One ad that tried to show of the console. Tried.
I love being in a room where we can all agree on and laugh at something. Thanks MS for bringing people together. :,)

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Not a product, but I saw a movie poster when I left a theater after seeing Pacific Rim (the hypest sit) with my bros and the poster literally made me and my friends annoyed. I can't remember the title but it looked like the most generic, outdated, pile of shit movie, ever created. It showed a family with a dad, mom, 12 year old daughter, and teenage son and they all had quirky little labels for all of them (cause they apparently weren't a normal family! Hur hur hurr). All I remember is that the son was labeled "virgin" and the 12 year old girl was labeled "drug dealer" and I immediately wanted the producers responsible to die in a fire

That would be this piece of gem.

It's about a dude that puts up a fake family made up of "outcasts" to pose like your average WASP outfit while smuggling drugs across the Mexican frontier. I still don't "get" the virgin label though. Is it supposed to be politically incorrect? Why wouldn't a dude his age NOT be a virgin?

 

[McMullen]

Head On: Says nothing about the actual product. Refused to find out.

Slim Jim ads on this site: Just plain insulting.

There was this one "reality" TV show about a group of roommates advertised in the theater once. There was a character who was a ridiculously stereotypical hollywood nerd. Producer or director whatever comes on later saying that this is scripted and the characters are actors. I thought "No shit, asshole."

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Go Daddy commercials. I like women as much as the next heterosexual male, but come the fuck on. How the hell are your commercials even remotely related to your product? You sell domain names, for God's sake.

They also supported SOPA. Fuck that noise, you chauvinist pricks.

I definitely agree with this one and it reminded me of the Just for Men hair products that cover up grey hairs. The way it uses women to sell it's products are so lame. They'd show a guy who is has greying hair (usually in his 40s) and then after some talk about the product he'd have no more grey hairs and a woman (usually in her 20's or early 30s) is all of a sudden attracted too him. I'm not usually opposed by this stuff but the age differences between the actors makes them kind of creepy.

 

[TWRule]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCAqc9J3iZc

Love the game, hate the commercial. I recognize the irony of my saying this on a gaming website called 'The Escapist', but the glorification of escapism in this commercial makes me ashamed to play video games at all, let alone this one. Good thing I played the game before I saw the commercial.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Not a product, but I saw a movie poster when I left a theater after seeing Pacific Rim (the hypest sit) with my bros and the poster literally made me and my friends annoyed. I can't remember the title but it looked like the most generic, outdated, pile of shit movie, ever created. It showed a family with a dad, mom, 12 year old daughter, and teenage son and they all had quirky little labels for all of them (cause they apparently weren't a normal family! Hur hur hurr). All I remember is that the son was labeled "virgin" and the 12 year old girl was labeled "drug dealer" and I immediately wanted the producers responsible to die in a fire

That would be this piece of gem.

It's about a dude that puts up a fake family made up of "outcasts" to pose like your average WASP outfit while smuggling drugs across the Mexican frontier. I still don't "get" the virgin label though. Is it supposed to be politically incorrect? Why wouldn't a dude his age NOT be a virgin?

Well obliviously he must be some kind of loser to have his virginity in high school. Apparently virgin shaming is still a funny joke. Thanks for clearing up the title by the way. God damn, the shitty comedies they put out. It's like there's some kind of competition to make a worse movie than The Internship. So much of this garbage is based on outdated 80's tropes, you think Hollywood made of only writers in their 40's and 50's

 

[Hero of Lime]

Go Daddy commercials. I like women as much as the next heterosexual male, but come the fuck on. How the hell are your commercials even remotely related to your product? You sell domain names, for God's sake.

They also supported SOPA. Fuck that noise, you chauvinist pricks.

This, and AXE body spray/deodorant commercials. So much dumb pandering, buy our products because we use hot girls!!!! No thanks, it's just made to make you less smelly, not that big deal of a deal AXE.