Bright green has the benefit of having been christened as the best color for visibility purposes. So I guess there’s that.

I mean... it’s hard to fault them for picking a demonstrably popular figure in the target demographic. That’s a pretty solid, basic PR move. AND YET.

All right, well. This is still a free country. No one is stopping you from glorying us with your objectively correct opinion. By all means, share.

Yeah. After decades of having to watch advertising, the public has developed a pretty damn good bullshit detector – at least as regards advertising. :p

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I was getting at with their insincerity. Unfortunately, this was created by their in-house marketing team, not an agency. But that could be a good thing, if they’re able to learn and course-correct.

I’m glad you liked it!

I totally did notice that sign and lolwtf. Literally, I imagine someone coming up and asking “What conversation?” and the reply being, “The conversation about how great Pepsi is! Would you like a free sample?”

Part of my day job for the past several years has been “advertising commentator” and this fucking thing, oh man. The ways in which it doesn’t work are myriad.

I thought this was a joke, but I updated my app and HOLY SHIT

I’m going to limit my comments to the pitches:

I liked the Burn Notice solution: Just act like you’re absolutely insane – break a bottle, brandish a bar stool. Like you’re not someone with which to be fucked. I don’t actually recommend that tactic, but I like it, because it’s hilarious.

They think the “wrong” people are the reasons for their troubles.

No, did the same and now I am deeply disappointed.

Not to downplay her efforts in any way, but because it’s too funny not to share: it’s not the first time a “cosplayer” has run for office.

You’re still doing it. Relevance ≠ recognizability OR fame. That was my point.

I think you are conflating “fame” with “relevance”. Ali’s name and face are instantly recognizable to an enormous percentage of the population over a wide demographic spread. That’s what “fame” means. Like, you wouldn’t dispute that Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe are famous – despite having been dead and irrelevant…

Actual like danger trouble, opposed to parental trouble? Probably the head-on collision with a moving car while riding my bicycle on the wrong side of the road.

Yeah, that’s a pretty good example.

I, too, wonder who the fuck that guy was.

...yeaaaaahhhh that makes a little too much sense. I mean, I think the busboys are normally the delivery method, and she did seem genuinely distressed that I hadn’t got my food yet – BUT she was also not very attentive so I’m kind of inclined to buy into your theory.