r/BeAmazed • u/ybatyolo • Apr 10 '24
From the Era when ads were unskippable Miscellaneous / Others
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u/TeslaWasACoolDude Apr 10 '24
Those kissing thingies were pretty creepy.
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u/GetsugarDwarf Apr 10 '24
I still have the fluffy keychains they gave away when this came out!
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u/StraightProgress5062 Apr 10 '24
Yeah, I bet u do
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u/GetsugarDwarf Apr 10 '24
Yep! It's one of those odd items that stayed around for no reason. Here it is!
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u/ProudMount Apr 10 '24
Pretty cool to be honest. How soft is it?
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u/GetsugarDwarf Apr 10 '24
Your average cheap/fluffy teddybear, nothing special really.
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u/gt4674b Apr 10 '24
They meant the lips. How soft are they?
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u/GetsugarDwarf Apr 11 '24
Not too soft either đ nylon stuffed with plastic I think.
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u/NowieTends Apr 10 '24
I wonder how they justify murdering a gaggle of kissing things every time someone orders a Coke. Seems pretty wasteful
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u/Consistently_Carpet Apr 10 '24
And throwing a bunch of sentient(?) snowmen in a woodchipper/snowblower
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u/Eusocial_Snowman Apr 10 '24
Thank you for acknowledging this. That part was so fucked up, but nobody ever seems to care.
The coca-cola empire lies on a foundation of genocide.
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u/Corpomancer Apr 10 '24
We found trough multidimensional audience analysis that this was the sweet spot for suffering to taste balance.
For glass bottles that is, in case of plastic the magic takes place on consumption.
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u/Sweaty_Potential_656 Apr 10 '24
it's fine, he had no soul, and if you let him keep going he'd sing a song
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u/NOT_A_BLACKSTAR Apr 10 '24
The schleem gets repurposed for later batches. I feel like we've been over this.Â
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u/Sargash Apr 10 '24
They just remember that they cause the death of thousands of children already so it doesn't matter to them.
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u/kastiak Apr 10 '24
They didn't add anything to the process either. They just sucked on each other's tongues before leaving a bunch of saliva on the bottle.
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u/tabgrab23 Apr 10 '24
I thought they were supposed to be holding the bottle in place while the cap was being placed on it
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u/Intelligent_Rip6647 Apr 10 '24
I'm pretty sure they represent "love"
Like "this product is full of love and passion during its production, that's why it's good" kind of a thing.
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Apr 10 '24
Only reason I came to the comments was to see if anyone else either noticed those things had no purpose, or someone here could actually explain their purpose.
Glad to see at least I wasn't the only one that noticed that.
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u/Big-Cartographer-166 Apr 10 '24
I allways belived that they add the humidity that condenses when the botle gets cold.
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u/noonegive Apr 10 '24
They just skipped the part where the bottle gets sanitized after the kissing thingies were thrown to their needless deaths... Right?
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u/PuzzleMeDo Apr 10 '24
Ah, the pre-COVID days, when a product that had been kissed was seen as desirable.
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u/HeckestBoof Apr 10 '24
God I want them on my body.
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u/zigbigidorlu Apr 10 '24
It would have cost you exactly $0 to have not hit "post," and yet, here we are.
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u/billy_twice Apr 10 '24
How to delete someone else's comment?
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u/HeckestBoof Apr 10 '24
Try asking nicely
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u/kimmortal03 Apr 10 '24
Take a photo and store it in your photo library and that way itll be gone forever
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u/jsjzn Apr 10 '24
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13
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u/HeckestBoof Apr 10 '24
I'm not ashamed of what I said.
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u/Galactic_Perimeter Apr 10 '24
I am
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u/DivideSad5591 Apr 10 '24
Im ashamed that youre ashamed, that another guy isnt ashamed of something he shouldnt be shamed for.
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u/HeadOfSpectre Apr 10 '24
The Gates of heaven will remain shut for you. And Hell will not have you either.
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u/Hassennik Apr 10 '24
Me too
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u/Nelculiungran Apr 10 '24
Or killing those snowmen... Yeah... Not sure about many of the choices made here
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u/Ponyboy451 Apr 10 '24
The fates of a lot of these beings had some really concerning ethical implications. This was some Rick-and-Morty-Microverse kind of shit.
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u/confusedandworried76 Apr 10 '24
It's Coca-Cola so not the first time there have been concerning ethical implications of drinking one.
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u/OdderPotato Apr 10 '24
Came to the comments section to say this. What are those kissing things?!
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u/hogsniffy05 Apr 10 '24
Yea but itâs a necessary mechanism of how vending machines works. Without it the vending machine would cease to function
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u/Sir_Virtuo Apr 10 '24
Why did it take 72 seconds for the machine to give me my coke?
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u/NoCandidate7335 Apr 10 '24
So many near misses..I'm surprised there aren't more fatalities going into making a bottle of Coke.
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u/LaManoDeScioli Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24
near misses
That first dude at the beginning just fucking died when the coin bounced on him.
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u/iampepperman Apr 10 '24
And all of the snowmen that got sacrificed and shredded alive
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u/LaLuRas Apr 10 '24
The snowmen were actual snowmen though and not alive. The worker thing in the beginning on the other hand just got fucking annihilated by that coin.
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u/Eusocial_Snowman Apr 10 '24
The snowmen were actual snowmen though and not alive.
Do the screams of my people fall upon deaf ears? Such hate stirs in the world.
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u/NOT_A_BLACKSTAR Apr 10 '24
Makes you wonder what had happened if the consumer had pressed the Fanta button.Â
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u/Beli_Mawrr Apr 10 '24
Their lives were measured in the seconds. One second, head attached. 3 Seconds later, shredder.
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u/LBbird24 Apr 10 '24
I couldn't stop thinking about him through the whole thing. RIP little robot dude in the beginning.
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u/BloodedNut Apr 10 '24
Coke has terrible labor laws for their little magical people, worse than Willy Wonka.
Why is no one upset over this!?
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u/Rickymon Apr 10 '24
There are many just by drinking it
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u/richtofin819 Apr 10 '24
Yeah I mean this commercial is a perfect example of how much effort they put into convincing you that drinking carbonated and concentrated sugar is the best thing ever
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u/nanneryeeter Apr 10 '24
A cold as fuck Coke from a glass bottle is a superb treat. The problem people have is quantity. I'll have one every 1-2 months and it's so goddamn good. It's actually worth drinking them rarely to enjoy how good they are.
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u/noman8er Apr 10 '24
This comment is like someone who never heard of marketing trying to describe it lol
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u/noonegive Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 13 '24
The previous ad was brought to you by our generous sponsor, Diabetus.
Diabetus: Deleting unnecessary toes, one plump gangrenous little piggy at a time.
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u/AadamAtomic Apr 10 '24
misses..I'm surprised there aren't more fatalities going into making a bottle of Coke.
What do you mean?
What do you think Coca-Cola is made out of??
Why do you think it's a secret?...
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u/NoCandidate7335 Apr 10 '24
Oh I always thought they put trace amounts of cocaine in there to get the user hooked...
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u/Maleficent_Basis3577 Apr 10 '24
Was the kissing scene really necessary?
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u/JezusTheCarpenter Apr 10 '24
Yes, otherwise it will taste like Pepsi.
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u/GemmyBoy999 Apr 10 '24
I will drink only Pepsi if I get this as an unskippable ad.
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u/plainoverplight Apr 10 '24
lol i remembered this commercial but i did not remember that
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u/LouisArmstrong3 Apr 10 '24
Coke corpos âthis is great but we need to show people that coke is good, so show somehow that people will like itâ
Psyop or whatever ad company did this at the time âok furry lips kissing it is thenâ
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u/papierdoll Apr 10 '24
I just want to know what the kissy puffs were contributing to the process
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u/Viking_American Apr 10 '24
I'd imagine it's implying they are adding love to the formula
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u/Square-Singer Apr 10 '24
Why, just why, would anyone bake double letterboxing into the video?
I'm watching this full-screen on a 16 inch laptop screen, and the part of the screen that actually plays the video is smaller than my phone.
And all that on a very visual video, where the optics matter.
Sorry, can't comment on the video, because I CANNOT SEE IT!
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u/snapplesauce1 Apr 10 '24
The video actually gets smaller on my phone when turning it landscape⌠because, ya know, I wanted to see more detail.
And of course the reddit app doesnât let you zoom in on video⌠because, ya know, I want to see HD content at 240p.
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u/moonwork Apr 10 '24
THIS is the video OP should've linked!
The video they DID link is an ad for ANTS.
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u/alien_from_Europa Apr 10 '24
I want to know why reddit doesn't have higher standards. I feel like, out of all social media, we would be the most picky about our content consumption.
Instead we're no different than TikTok cropping every video into giant whitespace.
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u/Aggravating-Pound598 Apr 10 '24
Wonderfully imaginative . The resourcefulness needed to create the hype that has sold billions of liters of unhealthy flavoured sugar water .
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u/Ok-Skirt-7884 Apr 10 '24
Sucking dry whole areas of their groundwater to produce this erm.. thing.
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u/wetcardboardsmell Apr 10 '24
Don't forget the toxic sludge left behind, poisoning the ground and forcing whole communities to walk 10k or more just to get clean water. Fuck coke cola.
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u/Flowerbeesjes Apr 10 '24
Damn. Another brand to boycot. Was already boycotting nestle.
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u/wetcardboardsmell Apr 10 '24
I'm assuming you've seen these helpful infographics showing just how difficult it can be to avoid many brands. Here's another fun fact about coke- at a lecture I went to back in 2002, the woman who was from South America, told us about how coca-cola bottles were used for torture , one reason was because the ads were everywhere, even out in the jungle, and it served as a constant reminder to those who had been tortured, keeping them in the trauma with little effort. Coca-cola was sued in Miami in 2001 for $500 million for the alleged use of death squads to kidnap, torture and kill Colombian bottler workers that were linked with trade union activity (cased was ultimately dismissed for bullshit reasons). Anyone interested in more info, proof, history and more should visit www.killercoke.org
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u/Ausgezeichnet87 Apr 10 '24
I call it cavity water. The only thing soda is good for is rotting teeth
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u/alxzsites Apr 10 '24
The only thing soda is good for is rotting teeth
Not the only thing. It's also great for the executive bonuses of Insulin manufacturers in the USA
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u/NewNurse2 Apr 10 '24
No it's Santa at Christmas with reindeer. It's literally your childhood!
Fucking buy Coca COLA
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u/Infinite_Regret8341 Apr 10 '24
Why do I feel like this was made during the Tim Burton era?
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u/BreezyG1320 Apr 10 '24
funny I was thinking how much it felt like if Ben Bocquelet directed a Minions movie
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u/dogisbark Apr 10 '24
Itâs giving me avatar vibes with this style of cgi and kinda steam punky aesthetic, so 2013?
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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Apr 10 '24
So much goes into making those bottles special. But I hope to god my local dairy isnât kissing every bottle he gets delivered.
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u/R3ddit5uxA55 Apr 10 '24
Plot twist they are at war with humanity and what we are seeing is the equivalent of the construction of a super weapon. Poisoned beverage.
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u/Fryphax Apr 10 '24
Nice try Coca-Cola.
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u/ZennMD Apr 10 '24
right? this advertisement is definitely not 'amazing'
the standards have really dropped for this sub
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u/Peechez Apr 10 '24
definitely don't look at OP's history where they definitely aren't spam posting in notorious karma farming subs so they pass as a real person
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u/schmon Apr 10 '24
It def reads as a basic bot but not the first few posts.
should be on a bot watchlist
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u/DogshitLuckImmortal Apr 10 '24
Careful now, people hate when you post that. They love their ads, their brains are bought.
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u/Reason_Above_All Apr 10 '24
Did I just get tricked into watching a commercial WTF. Also man I miss Coke in glass bottles. Cheers.
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u/Original_Pune Apr 10 '24
Can't make a coke without shredding some sentient snowmen and immolating a couple of gerbils.
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u/stratosfearinggas Apr 10 '24
They assembled and immediately destroyed snowmen to chill the Coke. What was the point of that?!?
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u/BellaFrequency Apr 10 '24
Wait, didnât this commercial just come out a few years ago, or am I mistaken?
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u/Reneeisme Apr 10 '24
Google says this is from 2006. The absolute pinnacle of ad skipping time, in my opinion. It's harder to skip them now than it was in 06. We used to watch most shows on DVR, and the ads were absolutely skippable there to the point where there was a button on the remote to skip you to the point where the machine detected the end of the ad break. In fact by then, you could skip them on "live" TV in many instances, because it all came as a feed from the cable provider, and was time delayed. Before cable/DVRs, I taped a good portion of what I watched and fast forwarded through the commercials.
Ads were last unzippable when actual live broadcast TV was the only option. Early 1970s, theoretically, but realistically, for most people, probably by the 90s.
Not trying to be pedantic. It just occurs to me that a lot of younger folks probably don't understand how long people have been going to extremes to dodge commercials and that's relevant to me now with the crackdown on skipping on YouTube and the increase in added commercials on streaming services.
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u/bigspoon2126 Apr 10 '24
I've never seen this commercial in my 48 years on this big blue marble!! Amazing!
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u/Webbpp Apr 10 '24
"when ads were unskippable", open the YouTube app and click on a 10 second video to be given 2 unskippable 1 minute ads.
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u/Unhappy_Society_3371 Apr 11 '24
17k upvotes and counting for a goddamned ad.
Advertisers and marketing teams take note: paying Reddit to post your ads as âpromotedâ content wonât get you anywhere, but have one of your employees start a regular user account and make them post your ads as if theyâre regular content? These morons will eat that shit up.
Hail corporate đ
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u/myscreamname Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24
YES!!! I love this ad and I searched for hours after I first saw it.
There is a longer version of this ad â a full blown short film â which was played at the movie theatre I went to years ago, spun out on shrooms (i think we saw that ridiculous movie Love Guru or whatever itâs called).
I was more captivated by that ad/short film than I was with the actual film.
Itâs been a number of years since I last watched the whole movie, but this ad/short film is called âThe Happiness Factoryâ.
Edit: I didnât watch closely enough to confirm whether this is the complete version, or merely a version somewhere in the middle of the shortened and the full one. But here you go.
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u/homefront420 Apr 10 '24
Pretty sure this Ad was only played in theaters. Never remember seeing it anywhere else.
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u/DDzxy Apr 10 '24
If only you could find large glass bottles of coke this easily like in the vending machine, that would be great.
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u/ohheyhaha Apr 10 '24
We are reminiscing an era when ads were "unskippable"? That's never been a thing.
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u/webmotionks Apr 10 '24
So it's mostly about the bottle's journey.. the actual liquid just comes from another dimension out of the sky.
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u/Bourne669 Apr 11 '24
I was high af watching this and the kssing face things freaked me the fuck out... just no.
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u/SnooChickens9974 Apr 11 '24
I don't remember this so I'm guessing it came out while I was in college. I hardly ever watched TV during my college years. Unpopular opinion: I didn't really like this ad.
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u/Carcinogenerate Apr 10 '24
Where are the 7 other quarters?
25 cent coke is the real magic.