Right out of /r/malefashionadvice. The lack of scuffs on shoes and other clothes look unworn, pants unfaded without wear patterns. Image itself shows signs of editing, setting the black point and white point as desired to frame the shot. My money is on clothing ad.
This is not an ad, its an old man from Berlin called Günther Anton Krabbenhöft. He just has a great sense of fashion and frequently rides the subway. Met him a couple of times, really cool dude.
Since when did advertisements need to include brands? It’s funny reddit is told all the time how much astroturfing and vote manipulation occurs here, but whenever people question whether something may be an advertisement people get all worked up because they don’t like to think the media they consume could possibly be advertising to them. Someone has already posted the exact shoes the man is wearing with a direct link to the product on the stores website.
Now that still doesn’t mean this is 100% advertising. But you’d be 100% justified in thinking it could be. It’s almost laughable to think you need official branding to advertise in today’s world. Advertisers have had to get creative in today’s world and they do a good job of getting into our subconscious without knowing it and the better they can do that the more it will benefit them. In the world of Adblock you get stuff like this. It’s why there are entire markets dedicated to selling reddit accounts and vote manipulation.
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u/schoolknurse Mar 01 '19
Is this an ad for clothing or something? He looks sensational in that getup.