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5th April 2017, 09:06 PM | #1 |
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Somebody didn't use the right focus group: Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad kerfuffle
Wired: Pepsi’s Kendall Jenner Ad Was So Awful It Did the Impossible: It United the Internet
All you have to do is not be blonde and you are in! Rich, born with the silver spoon, income based on fashion and fame, no problem, take off that blonde wig and you are one of the real people. |
6th April 2017, 02:02 AM | #2 |
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And dumps the wig on a black skivvie without so much as a thank you around 1.40.
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Finding it hard to get worked up over this. Sure, it's crass and overblown and self-indulgent and conceited, but then what big-budget advertising trying to sell a product as a philosophy isn't? It's basically this for the selfie-generation:
The only thing more ridiculous than the advert itself are some of the reactions to it, especially people claiming that something that clearly has more of the trappings of a peace/anti-war demo is somehow as "appropriation" of BLM or recent anti-Trump protests. It's not just Pepsi who need to stop being up their own arse. |
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6th April 2017, 02:57 AM | #4 |
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Who honestly gives a ******... when are people going to get it that the twitterverse doesn't actually represent society or thinking people?
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6th April 2017, 03:15 AM | #5 |
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Percentage the global population that uses Twitter: 3.9%. (according to this) Unfortunately the 0.9% seems journalists (or, possibly "journalists") who've realised they don't actually have to work for a living if they delude themselves into thinking that Twitter represents the whole world. The population of twitter is the very definition of a self selecting group. |
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6th April 2017, 03:26 AM | #6 |
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This one I don't get. I heard about Pepsi pulling the ad but not why. So I tracked the ad down and watched it, expecting some obviously outrageous thing. Didn't spot it.
I think I have to turn in my "in touch with the mainstream" card. It's one thing to disagree, but here I find myself unable to even understand the issue. Makes me feel old. |
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BBC News: Pepsi pulls Kendall Jenner advert amid outcry
"But within minutes of its launch, observers said it trivialised protests in cities like Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, that followed the police killing of black men." Yeah, because they're the only sort of protests that ever take place! The BBC piece even highlights the claim that Jenner handing a can of Pepsi to a short-sleeved shirted cop in a baseball cap somehow "drew comparisons with Ieshia Evans who faced police in Baton Rouge." Yeah, Ieshia Evans faced police wearing full Judge Dredd riot gear as they arrested her, therefore not in any way being comparable to what Jenner is depicted doing. If anything, what the advert shows is a commercialised version of the old hippy flower-in-the-gun-barrel protest from the 1960s. |
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That anyone can imagine a dull brown liquid represents a 'life style', fills me with endless mirth.
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6th April 2017, 04:14 AM | #11 |
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That's what advertisers are paid to do (the first part above).......... A "new" style car also. Even clothes with someone's name that is not that of the person wearing them and shoes that are vastly overpriced and made for under 5.00 a pair in sweat shops/child labor centers in much of the third world's countries!!!!
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6th April 2017, 04:26 AM | #12 |
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It boggles my mind that Coca-Cola's profit is greater than the GDP of some Third World countries, and could pay off Mexico's debt. Do read Mark Thomas' book on this topic.
Cola is basically just water coloured with caramel and flavoured with kola nuts. What sells is the highly branded tin. It is a joke. I have a friend who collects Coca-Cola memorabilia. |
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6th April 2017, 05:09 AM | #13 |
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News flash! Pepsi commercials are stupid. Except for any that feature Ray Charles, they were all dumb as ****.
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6th April 2017, 06:54 AM | #18 |
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Well, it could be worse...
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To paraphrase a comment I made a few years ago concerning a questionable "romance" novel, "Who thought - with Germany's history (especially the 1933 - 1945 period) - that using this slogan was a good idea?!?" |
6th April 2017, 07:35 AM | #19 |
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That may be what they were trying to suggest, but things are going to tend to be interpreted in the context of current events rather than things that happened 50 years ago.
Even if that was what they were trying to do, it doesn't seem a whole lot less insulting to take that imagery and replace "Get out of Vietnam" with "Join the conversation". |
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6th April 2017, 07:56 AM | #21 |
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I think this is one of those issues where "Criticism of outrage" is outpacing actual outrage by quite a lot. See also: People "outraged" by people wishing a Merry Christmas.
In any case, I think this is mostly people laughing at the ad for how tone deaf it is. |
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6th April 2017, 08:48 AM | #23 |
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I've seen the commercial. I thought the image was based on this photo, not the more recent protests.
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A one percenter offers up a soda?
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6th April 2017, 02:32 PM | #26 |
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Telling people that the world cares what they think is like telling people that there is a life after death, everyone just wants to feel smart about themselves for showing other people how smart they think your tweet is. I can recognize humor and intelligence, therefore, I must be funny and smart... It's so ********** up and weird...
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6th April 2017, 02:56 PM | #27 |
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Well...the only real protesting going on in the US at the moment is against Trump, "so obviously they're validating protesting Trump" and by the way, when going out for your fun outings, drink some Pepsi, and here's an overpaid Kardashian do-nothing whom you worship when sitting around at home not protesting, so vapid are your lives and compartmentalized what you consider thought that you don't see the contradiction. Why don't they do a Pepsi commercial with people going out and getting jobs, or not nominating twin septuagenarian power mongers so we don't get into this problem in the first place. |
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6th April 2017, 03:31 PM | #28 |
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1. Who cares about Kendall Jenner?
2. Who drinks Pepsi? 3. Who watches commercials? |
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6th April 2017, 04:13 PM | #29 |
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I keep being amazed at the things people get totally outraged by. You'd think I would get used to it.
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I loved it!
I mean the ad, and the outrage surrounding the ad. "Tone deaf"? Our whole society is tone deaf to anyone outside of the particular bubble they happen to be in. I really thought this was a classic Pepsi ad, of the sort they have been running for as long as I can remember, which goes back to "Come alive. You're in the Pepsi generation." I suppose the outrage is based on the fact that the message is fairly clear. It's the sort of ad that says, "We don't take you very seriously, but we will gladly take your money for our fizzy sugar water. By the way, this is a very pretty girl and we want you to think about her when you think about our brand of sugary water." |
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From the OP...
Originally Posted by Wired
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6th April 2017, 06:38 PM | #34 |
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No, I saw quite a bit of anger mixed in with the mockery - if anything, mockery is usually how "black Twitter" expresses anger best. But when MLK Jr's daughter starts to weigh in, well, it's probably best to give up.
(And I say that regardless of my feelings on how they hoard MLK Jr's legacy - yes, he didn't leave them much, but still...) |
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Not me.
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No comment. OK I'll comment. Coke seems to be more frothy and coat the inside of your mouth more with foam. Taste... mostly subjective the boffins have shown us we can't argue about that crap anymore with any self-respect, but I'm detecting more husky notes of kola...
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Celebrities prefer Coke
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