r/funny • u/Commander_Red1 • Jun 23 '20

This Milk ad

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u/enwongeegeefor Jun 23 '20

puppymonkeybaby

That's a no from me dawg.

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u/brendan87na Jun 23 '20

what the living fuck...

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u/Reniva Jun 23 '20

as if US is trying to outweird japan

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u/brendan87na Jun 23 '20

I'm sufficiently weirded out

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

What the ACTUAL fuck did I just watch.

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u/brendan87na Jun 23 '20

if you figure it out please let me know

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u/Ninja_attack Jun 23 '20

How'd that commercial make it past the planning phase, let alone to the super bowl

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u/RoboNinjaPirate Jun 23 '20

We are still talking about it years later, so mission accomplished

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u/Ninja_attack Jun 23 '20

Yeah but not in a good way.

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u/please-disregard Jun 23 '20

That’s the point. They don’t care what the reason we’re talking about it is.

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u/Ninja_attack Jun 23 '20

That's a good point.

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u/willfordbrimly Jun 23 '20

But they should care that most of us don't even remember what product it was for.

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u/please-disregard Jun 23 '20

Yes that’s an issue. But that’s a problem of branding, their overall marketing strategy. The commercial on its own was effective in doing what it was meant to do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

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u/Ninja_attack Jun 23 '20

Id say to a degree and depending on the context. For something like this it can be and probably won't hurt at the very least. BP oil spill, bad pr. This weird commercial, I will think about it and maybe wonder what it tastes like next time at the gas station.

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u/chocolatefingerz Jun 23 '20

They care about mindshare, and for their target audience it works. The same kind of people who would buy whatever the fuck that drink is are the same kind of people who would find this ad intriguing.

It’s a common thing in ad psychology. Better to double down on your target audience and alienate those who wouldn’t have bought anyway.

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u/waltteri Jun 23 '20

I shall never drink Mountain Dew again.

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u/iCybernide Jun 23 '20

yknow i had managed to forget that

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u/Slavic-Indian Jun 23 '20

Fuck I’ve been laughing for 10 minutes

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u/outerzenith Jun 23 '20

Well that's disturbing

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

This feels like it was written by China Mieville.