I have seen at least two businesses recently who use memes as part of their ads or in-store signs (including a fucking Price Chopper), and such. Is this a new trend or something?
Businesses using Memes in ads
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Wait till they start playing Darude - Sandstorm as the backround music for their ads.
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Everyone plows like they can. Memes are popular, uncopyrighted symbols. They make perfect trademarks.
Businesses/companies that try to use this technique of marketing is really something I feel unusual about. They're trying to get their product or whatever it is to appeal to a younger/general audience in a more "modern" way, I guess? It's especially ridiculous when the memes are used incorrectly. I haven't seen many businesses around where I live doing this, but I've seen prime examples of it happening elsewhere. But I honestly don't care
I hate that shit. Didn't the fucking White House use a meme in a post on Twitter?
They're all terrible.
Memes in ads are just weird.
Ads try to cater to easily-controlled groupthinkers. Ergo if they seem less than intellectually stimulating, there's a very good reason for this.
Also TV is frequently very late behind the Internet. TV news stations like to report things which were well-known on the Internet for years, and so forth. People who get their information from TVs are silly.
It's horrible. They also tend to use old/shitty memes.
"Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody."
What's worse is when they use the memes incorrectly.
The redesign happened, now my signature doesn't match anymore.
Well that was just the official public announcement that 'Memes are dead.'
Sure, they've been dead for a while now, but now it's officially announced by companies using them in ads.
Besides, we know they can hardly touch the deeper parts of planet internets soul.
(Furry, gay sex, pornpornporn, sexy zombies, curse words, cheese, Exomite, ManDeep, other NGs, rattlesnake hobos, creepypastas -bad publicity-, loneliness and depression brought on by a shitty world and shitty problems, Raptor Jesus, murder plots, French pot heads, more sweaty porn, clown raping, President slamming, ice cream molesting people, fat fetishes, Cambodian ass stuffers, tons of Japanese stuff, creepy people, Marmite, racism, blood and gore, Al Gore, Necrophilia Napoleon dynamite, Devil love, ear fisting, tentacle lollipops, typing faggot everywhere, Paranormal shit, end of the world all the time, Child molesting trees, slapping boobs on everything -even on shoes-, Nostalgia, and EXCETRA.
A whole lot more than that, that was just the icing on the internet cake.... which this time ain't a lie.
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At 7/17/14 02:32 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote: If they use memes, I don't want to do business with them.
No no no. Don't you see? Continue to do business with them. Take their products. Just pay them entirely in Dogecoin. It's their problem if that somehow can't convert very easily into any actually meaningful currency.
At 7/17/14 01:17 AM, YellowisCOOL wrote: Memes are so 2011/2012
Hipsters are also too mainstream
The cake is a liar!
I don't really care about that, that's their way of attracting customers, then by all means they should go for it. That doesn't mean that I (or most people) won't necessarily do business with them because of this, but they figured that the "nothing ventured, nothing gained" philosophy applies to advertising.
If you people are that much offended by this, then you seriously need to get a hold of your life.
Just stop worrying, and love the bomb.
I think that since memes are in ads, they have gotten way out of control and have spread further than the internet
cartoon netwrok uses memes in their commercials
I probably won't like Nintendo of America tweets then.
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It's awkward as hell for everyone involved when they do this.
It's the only thing more embarrassing/awful than regular people using memes.
At 7/17/14 01:15 AM, koopahermit wrote: Wait till they start playing Darude - Sandstorm as the backround music for their ads.
Seriously, what's up with that? It was only around last week or so that I saw it restricted mostly to r/montageparodies, now it's gone the way of the arrow in the knee?
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At 7/17/14 01:15 AM, koopahermit wrote: Wait till they start playing Darude - Sandstorm as the backround music for their ads.
When did that come back? Seriously?
At 7/20/14 07:42 PM, fieldertiger wrote: Didn't Geico made one that was annoying as hell. *cough* Hump Day *cough*
Geico always makes terrible advertisements.
At 7/20/14 07:43 PM, Voltage wrote: Welcome to the new age of unoriginality
We've outdone ourselves here, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRP9OFx9W8c
From a year ago, but it's the worst attempt I've ever seen.
I don't think anything is more horrifying as seeing a "u mad bro?" t-shirt. Everything else is acceptable to me.
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At 7/17/14 01:17 AM, YellowisCOOL wrote: Memes are so 2011/2012
And yet dumbassess are still not tired off them
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At 7/17/14 01:24 AM, Sword-of-Kings wrote: I hate that shit. Didn't the fucking White House use a meme in a post on Twitter?
but..... why?
*sigh*
