Noah’s okay but that little girl at the end … can’t take her squeaky voice anymore. So I mute the whole thing, along with the other commercial which begins with the little girl who loves Disney princesses.
YES. Me, too!..and if I see one more commercial with poor Noah, I’m driving to St. Jude’s, track him down, and bop him on his bald head…Aren’t we terrible human beings?? 
Next time you’re tempted to donate to St Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Google just how much money they already have in reserves (more than ten billion) and how much they spend on advertising and fundraising (more than $100 million annually). I guarantee that there is another children’s hospital nearby that also does good work but isn’t as flush with cash and also treats more children in your area.
A third St. Jude commercial has been added to local rotation. Muting that as well.
The channels I like with L&O and FBI reruns (easy to watch as background while doing hobbies, because I know enough of the plot to follow while not actively watching 100%) are overrun with “sad” commercials full of sad things that Need Your Help Now. Sad puppies, sad children, sad deformed children with thalidomide arms and deformed faces, sad wounded vets with severe brain damage, sad kitties, sad tigers, sad elephants, sad, hungry eastern European Jews. Won’t you help them? Please!
I actually interviewed for a job with that organization (the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews), fifteen years ago.
It was the shortest interview I ever had: their job posting said nothing about experience in fundraising campaigns, and neither did my resume; after I applied for the job, they immediately invited me for an in-person interview. The interviewer started out by asking me about my experience in fundraising; when I replied that I had none, he told me that he had no idea why I was there, and ended the interview. 
Anyway, I am pretty sure that they target evangelical Christians, who believe that that the existence of Israel is required for the second coming of Christ, for their advertising and fundraising.
Jeez. Now they’re using AI bullshit in their commercials! Are they really that desperate for new customers that they need computers to make their product appear more effective?
How about an old ad?
Early '80s - James Garner and Marriet Hartley and their (what totally came across as) faux-jaunty repartee in those Polaroid ads. I wanted boiling lead poured on them.
Other old ads- vintage funnyman Bob Hope must’ve been obligated to Mobile Oil and had to make some humorless ads for them where he’s wearing a white hard hat, posing like in a refinery, and you can tell he’s absolutely miserable.
I just reloaded my ad blocker because of Twitter. There was this ad that popped up every single time I logged in about doing something that annoying water blister, or what the fuck ever, the ad being an animation of a foot with a huge irritated looking lump on it and finger poking it repeatedly. It’s disgusting. It makes my feet itch. I was reloading the page every time just to get rid of it, but … fuck that. Ad Blocked.
Posted to YouTube on Apr 13, 2012:
How many times have these things been “just located” over the past 14 years?
My father gave one of those to my son to use for his commissioning ceremony last year.
I just saw the silver dollar one on TV last night. If you know anything about ad manipulation, that commercial is a master class on ripping off the rubes. The false scarcity, the vague threats about China (and India!) becoming a superpower on OUR precious metals, the meaningless numbers (.77344 oz! .900 pure silver! the extra significant figures means VALUE!), the dropping price, the limited time (act now!) which is always in the future no matter when you see the ad, and the “limit X per customer!” to make you think you’re one of the special! Plus “coins shown are uncirculated”. You think you get one of those? Ha! You get one that was in someone’s pocket for 150 years.
You think you need to invest in silver to keep the godless Chicoms from sapping our precious bodily metals? Then buy ingots, not cheesy overpriced coins.
That commercial describes that the silver dollars will be from brilliant uncirculated (very nice, indeed!) to fine condition (total crap). Usually conditions are listed the other way, from lower to higher, from fine to BU, so it’s almost like they’re trying to hide something.
I should add that the dollar was one that was in his grandfather’s pocket 150 years ago.
A Marvel ad on YouTube (from faulty memory) starts off with frenetic superhero animation and then there are two guys, apparently playing an rpg game of sorts. One guy starts off with, what if Ironman had (some magical Marvel thing) and is countered by the other guy with, what if Kingpin had Captain America’s shield? I’ve seen this ad a couple of times, and only watch it until the skip button comes up. So I don’t know if that’s a real game, and if so it just seems amazingly pointless 
And of course, “fine condition” meaning “utter crap” is, itself, ad-speak, just long-established ad-speak that predates these specific commercials.
Probably Magic: the Gathering, whose latest expansion is Marvel. In one of the rare cases of the algorithm actually understanding me (I’m in both of the target markets for that ad), I’ve been seeing ads for that a lot online (though mostly still ads, not video). And that sort of what-iffing is common among comic book nerds, so that commercial is probably pretty successful at motivating the people they’re trying to motivate.
Yeah, the “U.S. Money Reserve” ads are making the rounds again, trying to get people to move their retirement savings over to a “gold” fund, for, ya know, “safety” in these troubling times. “It’s physical gold” and “safer…” but they leave out the part where you have to, ya know, find a buyer for your gold coins and bars. A proven scam, but they must be finding rubes to keep it going. SMH
And of course you don’t need U.S. Money Reserve to invest in gold or silver. You can certainly find local dealers that will sell this to you, perhaps at a lesser commission than this company. And even Costco will sell you gold or silver bullion.
When society collapses, you won’t need to find a buyer. Someone will find you, and take your gold. Easy!
Which goes to show that the best metal to have when society collapses is lead, maybe in a copper jacket.