![]() ![]() It's telling that the comment section of a Reddit post featuring the ad is chock full of outrage towards and damnation of the company for organizing such a despicable marketing stunt. In other words, they exploited the death of a revered Internet celebrity for their own profit. However, their ad ◊ for the game Ball Shoot, which features the line "If you beat this level Etika note (who had committed suicide in June 2019 after numerous mental breakdowns) will come back to life" (complete with an image of the game being played on top of a grave), took this too far in the eyes of many. Voodoo, a mobile game maker, is infamous for their So Bad, It's Good ads that primarily use Very False Advertising, which usually consists of gameplay footage and a caption promising a prize that can't actually be obtained such as a trip to Disneyland ◊ or legal permission to skip class ◊ if the player can accomplish some goal in the game.It has to fail to appeal even to that niche to qualify as this.Įxamples (in more-or-less alphabetical order): Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). ![]() Important Note: Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as Horrible. British website Ad Turds was set up for just this sort of thing - exposing, ridiculing, and stomping on this sort of advertising. For otherwise-decent ads that had one horrid messup, see the Dethroning Moment page. This is the bottom of the barrel for commercialism.įor a different variety of really bad advertising, see What Were They Selling Again?. But, why buy certain products if their ads are so bad, they're horrible? These advertisements are so bad that they even drove the people who liked the product in the first place away. ![]() and naturally, consumers will fall over and buy what's being promoted. ![]() Advertisements litter every television, newspaper, and website they can find. ![]()
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