• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “Playstation is a drug”

    It’s edgy marketing. You’re not wrong it’s also clearly sexualizing her, but they’re pushing a console like a party drug.

    On the one hand, it’s a very dated ad, on the other I really wish marketing companies would do weird shit like this more. Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

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      10 months ago

      There’s nothing wrong with sex appeal. Removing sex appeal, drugs, whatever else is how you get boring corpo bullshit ads instead of edgy corpo bullshit ads.

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        10 months ago

        Listen I’m not going to respond to a woman saying an ad is gross and off putting by telling her to lighten up.

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            10 months ago

            They absolutely can. This just isn’t really one of them. Ads in the 90s all treated women as sex objects to be “played”. And this ad isnt wild in that regard, but you’re kidding yourself if you think they didn’t choose that angle and lighting deliberately.

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        10 months ago

        I dunno if corpos hiding under sex and drugs to lure people to their corpo products is a great reality either.

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          10 months ago

          Maybe not, but damn it, that’s our reality. I kind of like it better than the hollow virtue signaling these days. And of course it would be great if corporations could actually be virtuous, but apparently that’s been litigated away.

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          10 months ago

          Maybe not but it’s certainly more entertaining. This ad doesn’t make me want a PlayStation, it makes me want to go out and party

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      10 months ago

      Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

      Counter point: sex appeal is fine.

      It’s the people who are pushy irl who are the problem. IMO you can still be very “sexy” and as long as you don’t push it, that’s not a problem.

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        10 months ago

        Said to another commenter as well, but listen I’m not going to respond to a woman saying an ad is gross and off putting by telling her to lighten up.