33 Misleading Marketing Campaigns and Downright Desperate Ads That Should Be Nuked From Our Collective Consciousness

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33 Misleading Marketing Campaigns and Downright Desperate Ads That Should Be Nuked From Our Collective Consciousness

Big tobacco and alcohol companies approach marketing with a kind of glee you can only feel when you know your customers are chemically addicted to your product. They're out there having fun, trying weird stuff, making frogs and camels talk. That makes these sad attempts at marketing all the more pathetic…

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Jolly Rancher thought prison rape would sell candy. JOL ran GET BUSY SUCKING OR GET BUSY DYING! A tweet that stayed up for a weekend had a blue candy prisoner telling the reader, Get busy sucking or get busy dying! Not only was it a prison rape joke and a threat, it was also twisting a pop culture message of hope (from The Shawshank Redemption). CRACKED.COM

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Would you murder to keep your butt clean? Toletta thinks so. GET YOUR OWN Their ads shows women killing each other in public restrooms over $3 toilet seat covers. A small price to pay for not having to sit on a public toilet seat, apparently. Toletta's defense? Well, these are high fashion ads. CRACKED.COM

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Dolce and Gabbana's Gang Rape Ad OLCE & GABBANIA CRACKED.COM In 2007, Dolce and Gabbana advertised their spring collection with a print ad of a woman presumably wearing a D&G dress, but it's kind of hard to tell under- neath the man holding her down while three other men look on with expres- sions that can only be described as patiently rapey. It was quickly banned from publication in Italy by the country's somewhat misleadingly named Advertising Self-Discipline Insti- tute, who released a statement amounting to, Come on. Like, serious- ly, come on.

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eHarmony Step aside, fate. It's time science had a go at love. gine being able to stack the odds of finding lasting love entirely in your favour. rmony's mistry so scientifically-proven don't have to. Why matching leave the system most decodes important the search mystery of your of compatibility life to chance? and you You know those eHarmo- ny ads that go on and on about their scientifically proven matching sys- tem? You can't see them in the U.K. Because that's not what science is.

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Rachel Weisz Revitalift Ad L'OREAL اليوم REVITALIER CRACKED.COM The ASA also banned a 2012 ad for L'Oreal Revitalift anti-wrinkle cream featuring a suspiciously smooth-faced Rachel Weisz that read, Wrinkles appear reduced, skin looks smoother, complexion looks more even. It's not a facelift, it's Revitalift. It turned out it wasn't either r - - it was Pho- toshop.

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