I can't stand the Poopourri lady getting in the way of the videos I watch on You Tube. What does anyone else think?
Hide / Show RepliesSince she appears to be gone, I want to bring up the Capital One ads with these unnamed randos they pick up from the street. Those ads appear constantly on random YT videos and I find them annoying. But I'm not exactly sure how to have them count as Scrappies.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Can it even HAVE Scrappies?, started by Webby on Sep 11th 2011 at 12:00:49 AM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIt feels like 95% of these "scrappys" are taking the examples in commercials at face value, accentuating the negative, equating having a successful ad campaign to wasting money/cheating their consumers out of money, linking a commercial to an ugly word like child poverty or prejudice. Showing children being something other than cute little obedient perfect PC angels as opposed to you know children. Being metaphoric. Being literal. And probably the biggest offender talking about goods and services and trying to sell you something. It seems like every memorable ad is on here, which is my point, this doesn't seem to be list of advertisements' which people do not like and reasons why, it seems like here is a list of advertisements, which people do not like and here's why. With people so annoyed at You Tube ads, the popularity of ad block, Hulu, DV Rs it seems any situation where ads are being played repeatedly is making a small but vocal community of people who don't like a certain ad, it gets posted here, where a response of hey I liked it, (I'm not a sore person who got a comment deleted on tho page I just know TV Tropes), multiplied by hundreds has created a page where being able to be recalled makes an ad annoying. You don't have to buy my theory but can a mod or something at least look at this page and count the number of times someone wrote something because they took something at face value miscontrued it as an callous/ offensive remark, is critiquing the company, is annoyed by children not acting like mature adults, think the mascot of a company is annoying for trying to sell their product,takes an implausible effect of a product as genuine indicator of its effectiveness. Or complains about an advert played often. For a point of reference most of the Geico ads are on here, this troper now does not know who has good ads? Head On?
Hide / Show RepliesAlso, some entries seem to direct the ire more towards the commercial rather than the spokespeople, even though scrappy is a character trope.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Some of these examples come off as a public pillory for personal pet peeve promotions - I just love alliteration. I'm going to remove the ones that just say "X is annoying" and not "The public found X to be very annoying and that annoyance can be seen today."
Edited by BackgroundGuyIs Flo a scrappy? From what I've seen she has had a mainly good reception.
Is it just me, or is this page a disorganized mess? Why are there Burger King, Subway and cereal Commercials in the Automobiles section? Not to mention some parts are basically repeating themselves.
Edited by SamMaxAnyone else hate the Capital One "Visigoths"? You know, those viking guys who aren't much like actual visigoths and have a kid with a beard?
Some of these companies seem to forget the concept of 'test audiences'.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettMerged Spokes Sue (YKTTW) with TheScrappy.Advertising as per TRS thread
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman"The guy from the commercials for the Amazon Kindle. He's supposed to make you want a Kindle, but he just makes you want to hit him over the head with a book."
This tells me nothing. Which Amazon Kindle advert? What's so annoying about "the guy" in it? Could someone elaborate on this because I've looked a number of Kindle adverts on YouTube and none seemed to match this complaint.
Edited by Rabukurafuto
This is how I feel about Grammarly's CEO Diana for telling me to click on "the blue button" on their You Tube ad. Shut up Diana, we're not stupid.