I don’t mean like scams or anything like that. I mean what’s the ad that has done the worst job as an advertisement? Instead of making you want to buy the product you wanted to avoid it.

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Idk where to start.

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Weirdly, I’m now drawn into seeing how expensive they actually are.

Maybe it’s actually marketing genius. 🤔

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I’ll start. Ahem. What is she leaning on? What cables are they talking about? Why are they expensive? Is it good that they’re expensive?

I’ll stop there, and see myself out

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11 points

White font on white shirt?

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The confusing messaging certainly takes second place behind that bad typography.

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This ad is not for consumers. The line “征求经销商” means “looking for retailers”

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You know you can change the typo in the title right?

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But then people won’t flood to the comment section to correct them

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Political campaign ads. Not a product so it might be different. I remember watching one that took advantage of homeless people and it made my stomach hurt.

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Wendy’s had a recruitment campaign “a job at Wendy’s serves me right” and I could not think of a job there as anything other than a punishment for something

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You know what you did

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Fitting punishment for a Karen that goes ballistic over a fast food order and assaults a cashier.

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Papa John’s always showed some of the most revolting looking pizza in their ads, and I know ads are usually doctored to make the food look better so if that’s what it looked like in the ad there was no way in hell I was coming into one of those places to get a pizza.

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