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From misleading mangled popsicles to magical weight loss underpants,
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we count 10 Hilarious Examples of False Advertising.
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Yay, what's up, YouTube fans. How are we doing today?
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They got some crazy new content for your face
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So here we go!
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10 - SpongeBob. The person that purchased this popsicle was probably
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expecting a nice little ice cream version of everybody’s favourite sea character:
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Spongebob Squarepants. • Instead what they got was a horrifying
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corpse of a deranged zombie popsicle. It looks he has been impaled on that stick and his
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eyes look like they’ve exploded. I wonder if the factory made him this way or he melted
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into a corpse on the way to the store. The worst bit is that haunting toothy smile,
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which says ‘hey kid I might just eat your soul while you sleep.'
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I don't really have a good Spongebob square pants impression
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But I think I got his laugh. Here, check this out: Heeee.
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Oh man. That shit makes my head hurt. Man, isn't it annoying?
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9 –BioSlim • What’s worse than false advertising
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is when people are stupid enough to believe it in the first place.
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• In 2001, Nivea brought out a cosmetic cream called BioSlim that claimed it could
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literally make you lose weight by applying it to your skin regularly. I’m no scientist
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but rubbing cream into your ass to lose weight seems about as sensible as putting peanut
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butter in your coffee to cure baldness. • Nivea was forced to take the product off
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the shelf and pay over $900,000 to the gullible people who bought the product.
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8 – Pepperoni Pizza • Imagine walking into your local supermarket
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with a hankering for some tasty meaty pizza only to come across this sorry excuse for a snack.
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The label claims that it’s a pepperoni pizza -
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but inside the packaging is one single lonely slice of pepperoni on an 8 inch pizza base.
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I guess in all technicality they aren’t lying but it’s just not acceptable.
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• What were the chefs even thinking? Is there some sort of critical worldwide pepperoni shortage
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that I wasn’t aware of? How are you gonna be single slice pepperoni?
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I heard of a single slice Pringle, but not a single slice pepperoni!
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7 – Classmates Reunion • A website claiming to reunite old school friends was sued when it turned out that
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they were promising to reunite people who didn’t even exist.
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• Classmates.com told their users that if they paid for a membership upgrade
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they would be reconnected with all their best buddies from their childhood. Turns out it was just a big lie,
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and the website was forced to refund their disappointed customers’ money.
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• It just goes to show that people are deceiving and the world is a terrible place sometimes
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6 – Rice Krispies • Parents love to give their kids healthy snacks,
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so why wouldn’t they believe that a bowl of cereal can drastically improve their immune systems.
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In 2010, Kellogg’s started advertising
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that their Rice Krispies cereal had the ability to improve the immune systems of kids and
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give them 25% of their daily vitamin needs. The Federal Trade Commission said that this
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claim was pretty ‘dubious’ and told Kellogg’s to knock it off.
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• Next they’ll be telling us that the puffed rice does not in fact snap, crackle
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OR pop. Liars.
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5 - Pretzels • This machine has a notice that is telling some straight up fast food lies.
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• One can see that the oven in question is jam-packed with freshly cooked, delicious looking pretzels.
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Yet the deceiving sign on the front of the machine claims that they
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are ‘Out of Pretzels’. If those bendy pastries are not pretzels, than what exactly are they?
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Figments of my imagination? Or is the poster being more esoteric – is it suggesting
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that it is on the outside of the machine, like out of *range* of pretzels.
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• Either way, ‘Sorry for the inconvenience’ is just not good enough.
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I want my damned pretzel.
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4 – Easter Pope • Nothing makes me angrier than when I buy a chocolate resembling the Pope,
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only to find dairy-based lies under the wrapper. • The company that produced this chocolate treat
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must’ve thought they were being pretty clever when they used their leftover Easter bunny designs
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to sell their new season Pope-themed chocolates.
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Not that I'm much of a fan chocolate anyways
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3 – Berry Loaf • Here’s another example of a company
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giving absolutely zero fucks about what you want.
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• This bakery is offering a ‘berry loaf’ which seems to be just that - a loaf of bread
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with one berry. How generous of them to create such a flavour-filled treat. The advertisement
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next to it clearly promises at least a dozen. • Maybe the pizza chef and this baker are
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the same guy, ruining people’s lives one shitty baked good at a time.
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2 – Baby Can Read • Have you ever seen a two-year old reading a novel?
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Or even reading anything for that matter? No. It’s because they can’t.
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A company that promised it could teach kids to read whole books before the age of 3
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was sued and forced to take its products off the market in account of flagrant false advertising.
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The program was called, ‘Your Baby Can Read!’, but they just didn’t mention that
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no baby has ever read anything in the history of babies.
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Not only are most babies not geniuses, they don’t even understand how to not shit their own pants.
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Come on, y'all. Babysteps, babysteps. You gotta go one step a time.
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1 – Caffeine Pants • It seems that some people will try anything to lose weight, except for you know,
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eating healthy and exercising. A couple of companies recently developed
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caffeine-infused undergarments that allegedly advertised they could make you lose weight
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by somehow magically dissappearing your fat cells. I don’t know whether it’s sadder
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that someone actually made these – or that people thought coffee in your underpants was
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a legitimately good idea. • There are no shortcuts to weight loss and good health.
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Just good old fashioned sweating, self-control and emotional support.
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I mean I managed to lose over 50 pounds in 3 months.
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Which is a little too fast but it's possible!
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You just gotta believe in yourself!
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Exercise! Do it! You gotta believe in your dreams!
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I've never really encountered any kind of false advertising.
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Moreso I've encountered some pretty misleading ones.
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One being from McDonald's words said: Now serving white meat!
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And in my head I was like: What kind of meat were you serving before?
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What about you guys? What's something really misleading that you've seen before?
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Much love and appreciation guys. Take care. Peace