Weirdest Ads You've Ever Seen?

[DSC]

I was watching a YT video, and like always there was an ad at the very beginning. I was ready to skip it, but something caught my attention. The ad lasted for a whole 30 minutes! Very intrigued, I allowed it to play. It was... Very fucking weird, to say the least. They started by saying that making a pose like Wonder Woman would "increase your testosterone levels" and allow you to assert your dominance over others and thus succeed at life, or some shit like that. They also talked about how your mind "could shape the reality around you". All in all, just a bunch of bollocks.

 

But it doesn't end here! I did some quick googling and I found this gem of a YT video covering the CEO of the company who made the ad:

People are strange, indeed. Anyways, this episode gave me the idea of asking you what are your personal examples of crazy ass nonsensical ads you've come across. The internet can be a real wild west of insanity sometimes, and I can only wonder about some of the stuff that's lying in there.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

33 minutes ago, DSC said:

They started by saying that making a pose like Wonder Woman would "increase your testosterone levels" and allow you to assert your dominance over others and thus succeed at life, or some shit like that.

They're talking about twerking. It really does work, I dominate people so hard that they stare in silence for a good minute straight before walking away. Some people even record it so they can try it at home. They know not to fuck with me now.

[Sonikkumania]

This one was made during the economic depression of the 1990's. A Kiosk branch add.

 

[Sonikkumania]

And this one is awesome too because it's very late 90's / early 2000's.

 

[Sonikkumania]

One more for now. This one is rather interesting with a back story. It's actually not really an commercial, but rather an governmental social behaviour instruction video aka "propaganda" in the term's lowest qualifications. This one is an ironic music video from the 1970's showcasing the bad sides of alcohol consumption, obviously telling the viewer about the dangers of alcohol and prefering sober hobbies.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

[Lila Feuer]

 

YT tried to sell me a sex toy a couple of times. This wasn't late at night, it was during the day. On the app for the TV in the living room.

[DSC]

@Lila Feuer, lol, that reminds me once of a screenshot a friend sent. He was googling the name of a rock we talked about in geology class and one of the first results was an ad for a dildo made of it.

[ducon]

All ads, I hate ads.

[thiccyosh]

This was a few years ago, and I cannot post the actual ad that was shown and I cannot possibly describe it in full detail because that will get me nuked off this site.

 

So, what was it? It was an ad for some fail compilation youtube channel, that showed a person and a bovinae. It's a pic you don't want to see because they are [insert verb of choice here].

 

Yes, for a short period of time in 2019, it was possible to see very digusting shit on Youtube in form of ads. From porn to stomach-turning gore Youtube got everything you really didn't want to see.

[plums]

If we're counting infomercial-type things on youtube: This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop. It's an ad for a step-thing that changes your posture on the toilet featuring a magical pooping unicorn. It's even weirder than I make it sound.

[RonLivingston]

you might want to know what this weird ad looks like

[ClumsyDoomer]

For the last few years there's been a ridiculous amount of ads that ask to engage in unlawful social activities, donate money to terrorist organisations and sabotage my country. I wonder what kind of product they're trying to sell me, those guys from the opposite end of the globe.

[Geniraul]

 

[Jakub Majewski]

The worst ad I can think of is the one I've seen as a young child once on TV. It advertised some hygiene product, but I don't remember what for or how it was called. It shows a group of tiny demons or gremlins appearing beside a human foot. One of them grabs the toenail of the large toe and opens it like a latch/trapdoor, and it shows an entrance to some kind of fleshy cave. The gremlins go inside and enter inside, then they wreck the pink fleshy surface of the cave and cover it with brown substance, indicating ruin. That freaked me out back then, but since I only saw it once, I thought it could have just been a dream. Nonetheless, several years later, I did stumble a weird ad compilation on youtube, and that thing was actually featured. I think it also included an ending where a fireman made out of white liquids uses the white liquid to eradicate the gremlins and clean the damage they caused, further adding to the WTF factor. What a fucking ad, amirite?

 

On a less disgusting and more of a funny note, I know that Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES had an ad where a man is enjoying a meal, and the more the narrator praises/gets excited about the game, the more the man in question gets fatter/more inflated. Certianly, this was patient zero for some people's deviantart kinks...

[DannyMan]

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The worst ad I can think of is the one I've seen as a young child once on TV. It advertised some hygiene product, but I don't remember what for or how it was called. It shows a group of tiny demons or gremlins appearing beside a human foot. One of them grabs the toenail of the large toe and opens it like a latch/trapdoor, and it shows an entrance to some kind of fleshy cave. The gremlins go inside and enter inside, then they wreck the pink fleshy surface of the cave and cover it with brown substance, indicating ruin. That freaked me out back then, but since I only saw it once, I thought it could have just been a dream. Nonetheless, several years later, I did stumble a weird ad compilation on youtube, and that thing was actually featured. I think it also included an ending where a fireman made out of white liquids uses the white liquid to eradicate the gremlins and clean the damage they caused, further adding to the WTF factor. What a fucking ad, amirite?

 

On a less disgusting and more of a funny note, I know that Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES had an ad where a man is enjoying a meal, and the more the narrator praises/gets excited about the game, the more the man in question gets fatter/more inflated. Certianly, this was patient zero for some people's deviantart kinks...

 

Could it be this one?

 

[Murdoch]

Some ice cream ad, think it was called Little Babies Ice Cream. If you have not seen it, take my advice and keep it that way.

[Lila Feuer]

Nothing will top mobile gaming ads. I watch Vinesauce's Commercial Chaos and there are some real doozies that crop up from time to time.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

30 minutes ago, Lila Feuer said:

Nothing will top mobile gaming ads. I watch Vinesauce's Commercial Chaos and there are some real doozies that crop up from time to time.

Woman: Will you marry me?

Man: ......

 

MAKE YOUR CHOICE!

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

 

[Fart in her face]

[Marry your own mother instead]

 

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[Jakub Majewski]

2 hours ago, DannyMan said:

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The worst ad I can think of is the one I've seen as a young child once on TV. It advertised some hygiene product, but I don't remember what for or how it was called. It shows a group of tiny demons or gremlins appearing beside a human foot. One of them grabs the toenail of the large toe and opens it like a latch/trapdoor, and it shows an entrance to some kind of fleshy cave. The gremlins go inside and enter inside, then they wreck the pink fleshy surface of the cave and cover it with brown substance, indicating ruin. That freaked me out back then, but since I only saw it once, I thought it could have just been a dream. Nonetheless, several years later, I did stumble a weird ad compilation on youtube, and that thing was actually featured. I think it also included an ending where a fireman made out of white liquids uses the white liquid to eradicate the gremlins and clean the damage they caused, further adding to the WTF factor. What a fucking ad, amirite?

 

On a less disgusting and more of a funny note, I know that Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES had an ad where a man is enjoying a meal, and the more the narrator praises/gets excited about the game, the more the man in question gets fatter/more inflated. Certianly, this was patient zero for some people's deviantart kinks...

 

Could it be this one?

 

Yes, that's the one.

 

Why the fuck did this receive an award in animation...

[Daytime Waitress]

3 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Some ice cream ad, think it was called Little Babies Ice Cream. If you have not seen it, take my advice and keep it that way.

 

Oh, you did try to warn me.

First rule of the Internet, kiddos - if someone tells you not to search for it, don't damn well search for it.

My waistline thanks you, Murdoch, because I ain't gonna be able to eat ice cream for a good long while now.

[EraserheadBaby]

I feel obligated to post this.  The New York Sanitation ad is particularly good, imo.

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by EraserheadBaby

[Maes]

Not a weird ad per se, but more like weird (and eerie) ad placement: ages ago (somewhere 2011-2013) I was reading an article about illegal immigration in Greece, and an ad for Golden Dawn was embedded in the article. Kinda like "you read about the problem, now here's the (final) solution". Never seen something like that ever since.

[DynamiteKaitorn]

England.

[Sena]

 

See if you can guess what the actual product they're selling is before it ends. 

[Panzermann11]

7 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Some ice cream ad, think it was called Little Babies Ice Cream. If you have not seen it, take my advice and keep it that way.

Was gonna talk about it aswell, I've seen that ad. From what I've heard, the narrator also voices Isaac's dad in The Binding of Isaac.

Edited November 20, 2023 by Panzermann11

[HavoX]

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...looks at the uBlock Origin icon via the status bar...

 

What ads?

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

2 hours ago, Daytime Waitress said:

Oh, you did try to warn me.

First rule of the Internet, kiddos - if someone tells you not to search for it, don't damn well search for it.

My waistline thanks you, Murdoch, because I ain't gonna be able to eat ice cream for a good long while now.

I actually thought it was kinda funny. That stare lol. I was sort of expecting something depressing when I Googled it, so I was relieved to see it was just a bukkake nightmare.

[Murdoch]

29 minutes ago, Panzermann11 said:

Was gonna talk about it aswell, I've seen that ad. From what I've heard, the narrator is apparently also featured in The Binding of Isaac.

 

I saw it on one of Nostalgia Critic's commercial specials. Pure nightmare fuel...
 

14 minutes ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

I actually thought it was kinda funny.

 

... unless you're TheMagicMushroomMan lol.

More generally, I think a lot of modern ads are just plain weird or nonsensical. Don't see much as stream most things, though catch the odd one as some of the streaming is from the free to stream TVNZ on demand. I can't think of anything specifically but my lady and I are often left looking at each other in bewilderment because the ad just doesn't seem to communicate what it's supposed to. 

[Chow Yun Thin]

A few years ago Target had some commercials where the first few seconds show someone doing something and repeating as if they were in a .gif, right down to the last frame of animation followed by the first. It felt seriously jarring to see stuff in the online world try to break into the real world. I have the same reaction when people say lol or rofl out loud instead of actual laughter.

 

There was a McDonalds ad on Twitch where an older guy speaks real softly about eating the bit of cheese product that gets stuck to the wrapper or the last slender crispy fry in the box. I admit that I do get the appeal of ASMR that the ad is catering to, but for me that headspace is late at night when I'm unwinding before bed. Not the mindset to have when watching games with lots of action, violence and swearing.

 

I used to read the ShittyMobileGameAds and CommercialsIHate subreddits because of those misleading Evony ads, the ones about pulling pins in the right order to free a guy. Apparently, the ad pulls the wrong pins intentionally to infuriate the viewer and goad them into downloading the game. The pin-pulling game isn't even the whole thing, the actual game is some kind of base builder thing. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the company behind Evony (used to, maybe they still do) run browser ads showing CGI women's cleavage with the game name placed dead center.

 

I'd be careful about CommercialsIHate though; any ads that are perceived as diverse or woke get especially venomous comments.

 

I've seen pictures of a rather haunting anti-smoking ad that was put on the ceilings of elevators so that you're looking up out of an open grave. Not sure how effective it was.

 

On a related topic: 80s/90s PSAs are pretty unsettling even today, but as a kid watching cartoons during that era? I didn't sign up for commercial Russian Roulette. Sure the cartoons might take some of the edge off, but what about afterwards, or at night in bed? I think I talked about the drug dealer snakeman before, so I'll go into two others.

 

There was one on the Asian TV channel about what I think is gambling addiction. You see a woman's manicured hands holding a playing card, a mahjong tile and a large black domino tile. A screen of fog shows up to block everything out and when it clears, you see a polaroid picture of presumably the woman's family being clutched by skeleton hands. All this time, there's a piece of music playing that comes off as seriously alarming. I didn't understand what the voiceover woman was saying, but the images certainly crossed the language barrier.

 

The other was about what to do during a lightning storm. It's animated in a cutout-style like South Park and starts off with an orange cat sauntering in an open field when it's hit by a lightning bolt. Cue flash followed by a gnarly closeup of the cat's face with eyes wide open in shock and 9s in place of the irises replaced by 8s. Other places to avoid are under a tree and an open boat, shown by a fisherman and fish getting skeletonized by the lightning flash. Then that cat goes back out into the open field and surprise, gets hit again and does the jumpscare bit with the 8s replaced by 7s. How many times are you gonna learn this lesson before it sticks, you dumb fucking cat?

 

I've read of a British PSA that's thought of as psychologically scarring to everyone who's seen it, something about a spirit in a river that waits for unsuspecting people to drag down into the water. Never saw it for myself and don't want to, just remembering its entry (or any entry) in the PSA section of the Nightmare Fuel page on TVTropes sends a wave of goosebumps all over me. Then again, what was I expecting?

 

11 hours ago, DSC said:

@Lila Feuer, lol, that reminds me once of a screenshot a friend sent. He was googling the name of a rock we talked about in geology class and one of the first results was an ad for a dildo made of it.

Was it this rock? One hopes it lives up to its name. :P