The Biggest Advertising Fail You'll See All Week

Noah Hawryshko · Nov 3, 2016

So I came across this on my news feed a little while ago. Notice something wrong?

Doesn't it seem to you look like the guy on the right is uhh... lacking a little depth?

I've never, ever laughed harder at something on my news feed.

The person on the right is literally a cardboard/paper cutout, probably of a stock photo, that was placed into a chair.

Heiko · Nov 3, 2016

Noah Hawryshko said:
So I came across this on my news feed a little while ago. Notice something wrong?

Doesn't it seem to you look like the guy on the left is uhh... lacking a little depth?

I've never, ever laughed harder at something on my news feed.

The sad thing is, that there are still people that believe this.

Wilson Fisk · Nov 3, 2016

Heiko said:
The sad thing is, that there are still people that believe this.

Well, there are many things on the internet, that people still believe. So it's not that rare and surprising.

Noah Hawryshko · Nov 3, 2016

Wilson Fisk said:
Well, there are many things on the internet, that people still believe. So it's not that rare and surprising.

Proportional bias. In any set of "x" people there will always be some proportional subset that believes a given thing arbitrarily, no matter how irrational the belief.

That's why people worship tea pots, practice homeopathy, and sacrifice children.

DutchStuff · Nov 3, 2016

same for all those gurus and other people who spend on adds their whole income and never make a penny on the internet

Sherb · Nov 3, 2016

Baldy's head looks like a damn jellybean.

BlogPro · Nov 3, 2016

Ok, the curiosity is killing me.

At the risk of sounding ignorant and possibly clueless, Noah, can you be a good soul and explain what is wrong here. I re-read this thread thrice to make sure I wasn't missing something, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. :|

issorc · Nov 3, 2016

BlogPro said:
Ok, the curiosity is killing me.

At the risk of sounding ignorant and possibly clueless, Noah, can you be a good soul and explain what is wrong here. I re-read this thread thrice to make sure I wasn't missing something, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. :|

Glad to see I'm not the only one.

Noah Hawryshko · Nov 3, 2016

BlogPro said:
Ok, the curiosity is killing me.

At the risk of sounding ignorant and possibly clueless, Noah, can you be a good soul and explain what is wrong here. I re-read this thread thrice to make sure I wasn't missing something, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. :|

issorc said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one.

OP edited. I said left instead of right.

The person on the right is a cardboard/paper cutout, probably of a stock photo, that was placed into a chair and taken a picture of.

DentalMidget · Nov 3, 2016

What is wrong exactly couldn't find it. am i dumb ?

issorc · Nov 3, 2016

Noah Hawryshko said:
OP edited. I said left instead of right.

The person on the right is a cardboard/paper cutout, probably of a stock photo, that was placed into a chair and taken a picture of.

Thanks! I was so deeply focused on that guy on the left I wouldn't have noticed this fail in a year

BlogPro · Nov 3, 2016

Noah Hawryshko said:
OP edited. I said left instead of right.

The person on the right is a cardboard/paper cutout, probably of a stock photo, that was placed into a chair and taken a picture of.

Now that makes sense. I kept seeing the guy in the left, even ran a Google Image search to see if he was a known scammer or a charlatan of sorts, but landed on his actual product site.

Not a cutout, it looks like a really poor webcam image to me. Bad cameras are known to fuck with depths.

Wilson Fisk · Nov 3, 2016

DentalMidget said:
What is wrong exactly couldn't find it. am i dumb ?

First dominate Amazon, then the WHOLE WORLD.

DentalMidget · Nov 3, 2016

Noah Hawryshko said:
OP edited. I said left instead of right.

The person on the right is a cardboard/paper cutout, probably of a stock photo, that was placed into a chair and taken a picture of.

hahah yes it is acutally. nice find

Noah Hawryshko · Nov 3, 2016

BlogPro said:
Now that makes sense. I kept seeing the guy in the left, even ran a Google Image search to see if he was a known scammer or a charlatan of sorts, but landed on his actual product site.

Not a cutout, it looks like a really poor webcam image to me. Bad cameras are known to fuck with depths.

You don't think? I'm pretty sure it is. Look at the top right side of his head, at the light spot that doesn't match any area lighting around him. Even if we assumed that the light to create the light spot was there, it wouldn't make sense that the transitional area from his shirt to his right neckline would be darker than everything else on the right side of his body. Also, can't you see the lack of depth from his neck to his right shoulder, and the way his whole body is tilted a little bit to the left in a way that wouldn't be proportional to a human being who's body takes up a length longer than 1 centimeter?

The fact that his profile picture is just a mirrored version of the ad photo also doesn't help.

Maybe I'm wrong. What do others think?

BlogPro · Nov 3, 2016

Noah Hawryshko said:
You don't think? I'm pretty sure it is. Look at the top right side of his head, at the light spot that doesn't match any area lighting around him. Even if we assumed that the light to create the light spot was there, it wouldn't make sense that the transitional area from his shirt to his right neckline would be darker than everything else on the right side of his body. Also, can't you see the lack of depth from his neck to his right shoulder, and the way his whole body is tilted a little bit to the left in a way that wouldn't be proportional to a human being who's body takes up a length longer than 1 centimeter?

The fact that his profile picture is just a mirrored version of the ad photo also doesn't help.

Maybe I'm wrong. What do others think?

It looks like a still from a video -

Dude sits on the same chair, wears the same shirt.

But who knows, its the Internet. People do all kinds of stuff here.

blogzandstuff · Nov 3, 2016

Nice chair though

bartosimpsonio · Nov 3, 2016

This is inconclusive. Seems like just a bad webcam and taken midday or with too much background lighting. Bad choice of photo for a marketer though IMO.

Noah Hawryshko · Nov 3, 2016

BlogPro said:
It looks like a still from a video -

Dude sits on the same chair, wears the same shirt.

But who knows, its the Internet. People do all kinds of stuff here.

It does look like the same chair.

Either way, it's still an advertising fail if IM'ers need to look at the picture 10 times to figure out if the poster was using a cardboard cutout

DentalMidget · Nov 3, 2016

mfkr still looks like a cardboad even when talking

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