# Badvertisements: When an Ad Repels Me from Its Product **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [March 29, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992 "2021-03-29T22:32:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/1 "2021-03-29T22:32:37Z")
Just like the rest of you,\* I occasionally fall down a U2B rabbit hole and watch a buncha music videos in a row. When I do this, before every other video–literally between every two videos–my vid association flow is interrupted by an ad for . . . wait for it . . . U2B MUSIC VIDEOS! I am literally prevented from watching music videos BY AN AD TELLING ME TO WATCH MUSIC VIDEOS! I can handle this maybe three times before this ad makes me _stop_ watching music videos. Are there other examples of advertisements that are so offputting they actually cause you to actively avoid the product being touted? \*I mean right? We all do this right?? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/2 "2021-03-29T22:37:04Z")
Who the hell refers to YouTube as “U2B”? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/3 "2021-03-29T22:37:42Z")
Where’s the _like_ button? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/4 "2021-03-29T22:40:34Z")
KarsforKids. _We hates it, we hates it forever!_ I actually needed to donate a car. I donated to NPR channel instead. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/5 "2021-03-29T23:34:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Who the hell refers to YouTube as “U2B”? This is an example of the type of question you couldn’t even ask unless you already know the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/6 "2021-03-29T23:36:29Z")
Yes, I figured out the stupid leetspeak you’re using, but it’s still stupid. ---
**Author:** ![PB\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@PB\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PB_J)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/7 "2021-03-29T23:38:00Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > KarsforKids. _We hates it, we hates it forever!_ My sentiments exactly!! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/8 "2021-03-30T01:09:13Z")
U2B or not U2B that is the question But first, an ad for U2B! ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/9 "2021-03-30T01:21:38Z")
Carl’s Jr. When their campaign wasn’t boasting about how disgustingly messy their food was, they had Paris Hilton skanking around. Honestly, when your spokesperson primarily has the viewer wondering how many STDs she currently has because she’s so proudly sleazy, she doesn’t exactly make the food appealing. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/10 "2021-03-30T01:23:56Z")
Every commercial that yells at me. With people yelling. They can all go to hell. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/11 "2021-03-30T01:43:58Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yes, I figured out the stupid leetspeak you’re using, but it’s still stupid. I’m 58 years old and I made that up myself. But thanks for keeping this _ad hominem_ hijack alive! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/12 "2021-03-30T01:50:00Z")
It isn’t _ad hominem_. It was the inane abbreviation that was stupid. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/13 "2021-03-30T01:51:29Z")
Actually it is exactly ad hominem. “Nuh uh” isn’t really a great rebuttal. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/14 "2021-03-30T01:57:53Z")
I avoid any product or service whose ads gleefully describe how they’re supposedly putting competitors out of business and costing people jobs. Example: the ad showing the despairing owner of an Italian restaurant which is empty because its customers prefer buying frozen DiGiorno pizza with cardboard crust to eating actual Italian food. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/15 "2021-03-30T02:46:55Z")
I didn’t even know the OP was talking about YouTube. I thought he was watching U2 music videos. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/16 "2021-03-30T03:17:30Z")
Since this thread is spluttering, I’ll give an example that’s many years old and that I think I may have mentioned on the Dope before. There was a series of adverts for salad cream in the UK. (salad cream is just a kind of salad dressing) The theme for the adverts were that salad cream could make any food delicious. So, for example, there was one advert where a guy wakes up hungover, finds a dry slice of pizza stuck to his bedsheet, pours salad cream on it and eats it. All the adverts were nauseating, and put me off salad cream for years. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/17 "2021-03-30T03:29:47Z")
That was my thought, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/18 "2021-03-30T03:36:53Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Who the hell refers to YouTube as “U2B”? I thought he talking about a solo by Bono. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/19 "2021-03-30T03:37:07Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I thought he was watching U2 music videos. I assumed UB40. Which crushes U2 like a grape. Prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992/20 "2021-03-30T03:38:34Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I assumed UB40. Which crushes U2 like a grape. Thus creating red red wine? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badvertisements-when-an-ad-repels-me-from-its-product/938992.md?page=2)