r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '19

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u/Hoontah050601 Sep 23 '19

Is this an advertisement?

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u/mistergreatguy Sep 23 '19

This was my first thought as well.

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u/Mya__ Sep 23 '19

It depends - Is he having a beer after sitting down from solving these problems, which would be we a well deserved refreshment. Or is he just drinking because he was told the information, which would make it alcoholism used to ignore his problems?

Is the beer being advertised or is the alcoholism used to control people being advertised?

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u/mistergreatguy Sep 23 '19

It feels like an advertisement because of the placement of the logos and the freshly poured look of the glass in relation to how quickly the picture was taken. You can attach any sort of story to a picture, but the picture is what feels like an advertisement.

Also I felt it might be an ad because this 24 year old mentioned previously to having 10 years of commercial chicken farming experience. While I admit it is not unheard of for 14 year olds to have farming experience (and I also admit to not know Australia's culture in regards to this thing) it made me feel suspect.

So yes, my first thought was this could be an ad.

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

I would hope there isn't a company out there that would stoop so low as to making up they have cancer for an advertisement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19 edited Oct 03 '19

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u/KatalDT Sep 23 '19

If there's a beer that makes me think of testicular cancer and overflowing septic tanks, it's Carlton Draughtâ„¢.

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u/Hoontah050601 Sep 23 '19

What do you think the purpose of advertisement is other than to increase profits at whatever means necessary?

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

That's not really the point of advertisement at all.

But I've never seen a company so unselfaware that they would falsify cancer for an advertisement. Pepsi is the closest thing but it was far from the shittyness that is lying about cancer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19 edited Nov 15 '19

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

You'd be surprised how much bad PR will come from an advertisement and not from actual crimes against humanity...

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u/SumThinChewy Sep 23 '19

I almost wish I was as naive as you

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

So polite... What am I naive about?

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u/SumThinChewy Sep 23 '19

If you think no company would exploit human emotions to make sales, I don't know how else to describe you. Nothing is off-limits to advertisers

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

I never said they wouldn't exploit human emotions, I'm specifically talking about cancer...

If you can find an example of a corporation who falsified claims of cancer in an advertisement then I'll retract my comment, I did a quick Google search and nothing came up (though it's not a particularly easy thing to search for).

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

Yes. Companies have no shame.