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[emilly]

I don't watch tv very often, and I can ignore ads for lollies and soft drink and cars as easily as the next 25 year old, but did ads for anti-smoking and various other government-type initiatives recently get harsher?
The new quit ad just made me cry.
It could be really really simple: they're quiet. The background noise is just background noise - even a busy airport terminal is much much quieter than the jingle for some car.
And they're more graphic: I'm thinking of the Work Safe ad with the guy working in a restaurant. I tend to look away and talk loudly until the screaming stops.
And so I notice these ads and random colourful noisy 30 second block just slips past me.

Still. I don't think you can use "very quiet, no dialogue, severe injuries" to sell a car. Actually I think the TAC used that formula to sell not driving earlier this year.

Now, etsy will make me spend money. And yet, I have self-restraint, so I'm just going to avoid it until the dollar isn't at 5 year lows.

Comments

[umbrellaleaf.livejournal.com]

oh i cannot handle those new worksafe ads! the one where the girl puts her hand in the breadslicer?? it made me feel physically ill! i change the channel every time they come on. and i don't even really watch telly much either, usually only sort of randomly late at night and yet i've come across them HEAPS.

oh etsy :( i haven't even checked there since the dollar went to crap.

as you can tell, i am studying hard!! 2 exams down, 2 to go!!

[celuran.livejournal.com]

halfway there!!
no, the worst one is still the one with the pot of stock.

[mystefaction.livejournal.com]

The Work Safe ads are right on the brink of too graphic, IMO. The first time I saw the restaurant kitchen one I couldn't believe it. Now the sound goes off the second either of them starts.

(Also, I know that's the *point*, that ignorance and insecurity lead to unneccessary tragedy, but the poor boy in the kitchen one must almost never have entered even a domestic kitchen in his life, if he'll lift a pot he suspects to be too heavy for him *anyway* without first checking his gloves' heat tolerance. *wibble* So unneccessary.)

[celuran.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are certainly effective, and they are aimed at 15-20 year old who are supposed to be over stimulated, but LALALALALALA CAN'T HEAR IT

Do you want to go see burn after reading? my shout.

[dodgethis.livejournal.com]

Ahhh I have huge problems with the worksafe ads!! I change the channel as soon as one starts. They played one when I was waiting at the vet and i like had my hands all over my head so I couldn't hear or see anything until it was over. What really bugs me is that they show them during G-rated sitcoms, video hits, etc etc. Have they seriously got a G-rating? If I saw one of those ads when I was eight it would have totally fucked me up! There was an old worksafe ad years ago that was less graphic, where a guy gets covered in.. I think acid? And you see his bloody body on the floor from a distance? I was about seven and crying myself to sleep for weeks.

Horrid awful horrid.

That one with the lost little boy makes me so sad, too. Did they seriously just make a child cry all day to film that??

[celuran.livejournal.com]

I imagine four year olds cry fairly easily.
But really? They show that stuff during video hits? That's nasty! I only saw them at night time.