I'm not often a tireless anti-ad consumer advocate but this ad pissed me off. It's posted at my bus stop in 6-foot living color. It's a picture of the dog in this Fido ad and it says "On Danse?" (Shall we dance).
What were the assholes thinking? Black people have afros? They like to dance? What's next? Black people got rhythm?
I hate to be in the same business with these guys.
And what is the deal with the endless slew of animals to sell phone services? When will they get off it? Beavers, monkeys, dogs, lizards . . . don't these people have an imagination?
So many questions, so many fools.
You are right, that's not good...
ReplyDeleteBut I think they use animals for phone ads because animals like to talk on the phone so much???
I just wonder what these people are smoking. Their office atmosphere must be so pressurized, that they go off half-cocked imitating anything their rival does at the drop of a hat. No original thinking, because that's not what their rival is doing. Animals! Animals is hot right now! Christ, but for 6 years in a row? It's endemic in Montreal telephony advertising. Because that's the only people who seem to be doing it.
ReplyDeleteBut racial stereotypes through animals . . . that's a new low, even for these bottom-dwellers.
Sometimes I'm glad I'm jobless. . . at least I'm not breathing the same air these guys are.