Posted on 12/05/2021 6:04:57 AM PST by NOBO2012
I screwed up. I usually run “Best Christmas Ads” on the Sunday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday but simply forgot this year. Possibly because nobody makes really good Christmas ads anymore. “Woke” and Christmas just doesn’t seem a natural pairing, but still the agencies try; producing such fare as this John Lewis and Partners commercial that morphs the now mandatory inter-racial hook-up into an inter-species encounter where an albino alien meets up with a little earthbound gingerbread man.
Screenshot from John Lewis and Partners Christmas 2021 ad
Now John Lewis is a British company, but even the Brits seem to have lost their way with Christmas. They once had some of the best “adverts” as they call them across the pond. Especially loved were the Christmas Heathrow Bears who starred in an annual ad for, of all things, an airport - an entity one seldom thinks of as requiring promotion. This was one of their best, from 2017, illustrating the arch of the Bears lives via visits to the airport.
Sadly the bears were retired with the 2018 advert, possibly because even the fantasy of commercials could no longer make air travel appear the least bit appealing. Don’t look for them to be back anytime soon either, as the arrival of the Wuhan Cooties – thank you China, you godless, evil tyrant – has made flight even more unbearable (no pun intended). This was the last Heathrow offering, from 2018:
I fear Americans gave up on Christmas ads years ago. Madison Avenue simply lost their sparkle now that ad agencies are run and staffed by woke, tech-oriented, humorless Millennials. The joyless generation, convinced the earth is dying, has even sucked the fun out of Christmas. Yet there was a time not so long ago when even Coke wasn’t ashamed of America – or Christmas.
This year Coke gives us this multi-culti “holiday” ad instead. It doesn’t even sound festive. Such is the lot of the Woke.
So unless you can prove me wrong we’ll have to be satisfied with recycled Christmas ads until such time as we regain our senses and free ourselves of the Ever-Wokes.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
The thing I notice the most is that advertisers seem to be terrified by the Gay Gang and the BLM types. Look at the ads. Almost all ads now have biracial couples, most will also feature at least one gay couple. If advertising is suppose to appeal to the entire country, less than 4% of the country is gay and about 10% are biracial, and most of those are White/Asian origin. Those numbers kinda suggest 1 in 25 ads should feature a gay couple and 1 in 10 for biracial couple. The ads are heavily skewed away from those numbers.
Actually, in don’t care about the ads that much. What I do detest is the need to watch a prime-time TV show with my grandkids and find myself having to explain why two men or two women are being intimate in a TV show.
What I do detest is the need to watch a prime-time TV show with my grandkids and find myself having to explain why two men or two women are being intimate in a TV show.
This is a bizarre post. Who the hell NEEDS to watch a TV show with grandchildren? If this kind of sh!t bothers you, then turn the ‘effing TV off. Better yet … GET RID OF THE DAMN THING.
“What I really detest is the need to visit a hospital every time I eat a shock absorber for breakfast.” Think of how ludicrous that sounds. Instead of complaining about the bad effect this piece of hardware has on your health, just get half a brain and stop eating it.
Love the Heathrow Bears and Coke caravans. Thanks!
The dystopian 2021 Coke commercial is bleak, downright depressing ... and bizzarre.
Remember the Coca-Cola Polar Bears?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9rb7ZfNmr8
Geographically Incorrect, but fun!
Sometimes you have grandkids who like to watch TV shows and spending time with them is not easy since I do not live nearby. One of the children likes 911, I think because of the fire engines. It’s a true dilemma for me: two choices, both bad (time away from the kids, trying to explain things).
Rarely are things as simple as you or that you should stop eating shock absorbers.
I stopped watching TV about 3 years ago. One of the best decision I’ve made for my sanity and peace of mind.
It’s all gaslighting, and if you’re still watching, you have an addiction problem and you’re supporting the pushers.
You see articles like this all the time, and most freepers nod in agreement that 99% of what is shown is rot gut. Yet they keep watching.
I always liked the Sainsbury ads.
I’ve said it before, if aliens landed and watched US media for 1 hour, they would think that 75% of the country was black, 50% were in interracial relationships, and 25% was gay. You would have to be stoned out of your mind not to notice this disconnect with reality.
... And that women are always smarter than/know better than men, but kids know best of all.
And the aliens would find this thing called “holiday” between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. And everybody gives each other cars on “holiday.”
I would say 80% of the ads I see on TV have ONLY black people in them and maybe an occasional brown person. This is propaganda, not advertising.
The coke one is the worst! I’m thankful they don’t show that on tv. Suicides would triple easily.
I noticed that the vast majority of the commercials have token blacks in them, which is good. Since they are all so successfull buying expensive cars, computers, houses and the rest, we can finally piss on welfare!
The Grinch tried, too.
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