Advertising is pretty much the only creative industry besides possibly making Pokemon games where you know for a fact 99% of your intended audiences is going to complain about whatever it is you make. Every now and again though an ad will be of such legendarily shit quality that it transcends the boundaries of the medium to forever tarnish the brand with which it’s associated. So, also quite like a Pokemon game. For example consider how long it took Ferrero Rocher to escape the reputation a single ad from the 1990’s lumbered it with.
The Bizarre (Cut) Reason Remake RoboCop had a Human Hand
It will likely come as no surprise to regular readers of this site that we love RoboCop here at Fact Fiend which of course means we fucking hate the 2014 remake. A lazy, toothless reboot that misses the point of the thing it’s based on so hard Zack Snyder may as well have an executive producing credit on it. Something no better summed up than by the fact the one interesting thing it did differently was only mentioned in a deleted scene.
That Time Fans Argued For a Decade About Whether Mario Called Someone Gay
Mario Mario (yep, that’s his full name according to Nintendo) is a videogame character who casts a imposingly long shadow over the industry. With decades of banger games and now a hit movie under his belt, Mr. Videogame is a beloved icon of the entire medium thanks, in part, to his squeaky clean reputation. We mean, besides that 2 decades fans argued about whether or not he was calling someone gay.
The Alien from Alien Loves Pepsi
Here at Fact Fiend we’re huge fans of the Alien from Alien because he’s just a little guy trying his best. It’s also a creature that propagates via xeno-human turbo-rape and was designed by a penis-obsessed Swiss art weirdo. What we’re saying is that while the Alien is no doubt iconic and rad as shit, it’d be weird if they tried to sell it to kids, right? Like, really weird. You can probably see where we’re going with this.
Steve Jobs Drowned the First iPod in a Fishtank
If there’s one thing Apple are known for among consumers and not terminally online weirdoes who make owning a particular brand of phone their entire personality, it’s making some supremely fuckable looking electronics. With the company usually being willing to get its Job on sacrifice everything from battery life to critical device functionality for the sake of form factor. Something that saw Steve Jobs drowning the first iPod prototype like a mafia snitch.
