[LWJoestar]

http://www.whatswrongwithu.com/1/ Click "Singapore" for the English language version.

I really can't find a way to express just how amazingly terrible an ad campaign this is. This just might beat Sony's white PSP ad!
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[Broco]

If it had been "whatmoredoyouwant.com"or something this might've been not bad, what with the feedback form and all. But I can't imagine why they thought it might be a good idea to insult their potential customers.

[rabite gets whacked!]

Japan, your hurting our feelings over here. Don't you know we are very big men with very big feelings? And you are small and must have small feelings with that and little misunderstanding minds, and we wish you wouldn't ignore us all day long like this?

[Broco]

There is no Japanese version of the site. It's Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea.

[Mikey]

Maybe they messed up and it was really supposed to be "What's wrong with US"?

[Craptastic!]

I selected the "None of the above" option for what was apparently a 1 question survey, and it asked me for my email address so they could send something to me.

The first thing that came to my mind was a message containing various racial slurs.

[Broco]

I signed up! (On a disposable account, obviously.) I haven't received any spams yet though.

[Broco]

Note that this campaign or anything Sony has done isn't half as bad as this. What the fuck!?

[dmauro]

Best videogame campaign ever. This is much better than the white psp campaign. "How can you not like this?! Are you fucking stupid?!"
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[diplo]

america, fuck, yeah, etc.

[Lasakon]

The best way to get a consumer to buy your product.

[108]

i mean, yeah.

snickers, dramatic unintentional gayisms

i like the comment on that blog page that says "this is why i don't buy snickers" -- that was the most hilarious thing i read in a week

if the guy writing it was trying to be exactly as funny as he is, there's no issue here; if he was serious, and who the fuck would know either way, that's pretty sad

personally, as a violent liberal i can most certainly see the irony and intended humor or sincerity of the ad, though fucking god -- the gall, the lack of conscience or THOUGHT behind it

you know, in japan, marketers are SO much more mindful and careful of stuff like this

trust me! i would know!

i've been out of touch with america for a long time -- i don't really mind it, most of the time

then i realize that they're holding the keys to the bus and they can drive it off the side of the bridge if the spirt moves them and i kind of get uneasy
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[Broco]

Well I've seen incredibly racist stuff in Japanese commercials. Though I guess they wouldn't have to be mindful of that, since nobody cares.

Hmm, what kind of stuff has caused scandals and boycotts in Japanese commercials anyway?

EDIT: Look at this vile Japanese ad for Pocky-like candy. What the fuck?? What the fuck??? They'd be half-bankrupted by boycotts if they broadcast that in America.

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[Broco]

If it doesn't promote physical violence, it at least minimizes psychological violence. It promotes this attitude of "ha ha, sexual harassment is all a big joke. Stop, you're sexually harassing me! ha ha." You don't think some Japanese manager isn't going to see that and get the idea of putting a picture of his dick on his secretary's desk?

[Balzac]

Yet at no point did he actually harass her.

All the man did was leave his pocky on a high shelf and his incompetent secretary got herself into a series of wacky predicaments!

This is on the same level as Bridget Jones' Diary.

[haze]

I hear video games cause violence. let's debate!

[rabite gets whacked!]

[Broco]

Except when he carefully ate the Pocky at the beginning to look like a blowjob (probably the inspiration for the clip in the first place).

The sexual tension in that clip is unmistakable, the lopsided power relation between the two characters is also unmistakable (look at the way she demurely looks away at the beginning). The commercial shows a situation with all the vibe of sexual harassment, but it tries to make a joke out of it and it also shows the girl actively participating (with the implication that she is not wearing panties, and in way she does not immediately leap away from the copier). It is vile, dangerous garbage.

Look I am no dessgeega and I can appreciate that some slightly racist or slightly sexist stuff is not that bad, but I'm not backing away from my condemnation of that clip.

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also

girl = hotttttttttttt

guy = ugly as shit
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[haze]

the guy's probably gay if he's thinking about giving blowjobs at work. (quick, do something manly!)

since he's asian I bet he doesn't even own a Xbox 360. WHAT'S WRONG WITH U

[Rud31]

This website was a lot more tame than I thought it was going to be.

I'd like to talk to the team behind it. I'm curious what their motivation was. I can think of 3 or 4 different possibilities.
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[RussianLullaby]

lol duckroll
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oh jesus fuck

[Broco]

[PianoMap]

Broco when you see a girl's thighs do you get a geyser of a nosebleed? Just wondering is all.
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[Ebrey]

Broco, you could not be writing a better parody of political correctness if you tried. That's clearly a silly, inoffensive ad.

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[negativedge]

Is this the new "I hate America and love Japan <random>" thread?

[Dracko]

Guys, that Mikado ad was shown in France with no problems whatsoever, just so you know.

Mikados are delicious (Also produced by French companies under licence of Ezaki Glico.

Also, man, that's hairstyle.

That hairstyle, man.
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[Broco]

Well, I guess my tone was out of proportion; one commercial doesn't make that much difference one way or another, and it's probably not worth getting angry about. I'm not angry so much at this one ad as the whole culture of casual abuse of women in Japan; the general attitude is that it's nothing worth taking seriously, and when you hear references to it it's usually in jokes. It's sort of like the attitude to prison rape here. It's a serious problem but you can't hear the calls for reform among all the snickering.

This commercial was more a punching bag to air my feelings on the general matter. Whenever that happens it often looks like I am overreacting, and I probably ought to have made the iceberg lying behind my complaints clearer. I can see from an American point of view the spot can appear pretty harmless, but seen in its context it feels like part of a pattern.

[aerisdead]

[chompers po pable]

pull out broco, pull out! (no homo)

[guest253]

[PianoMap]

got my feedback e-mail from what's wrong with u.com

containing such supreme tidbits such as:

"We know you'd agree that Xbox 360 is the ULTIMATE GAME CONSOLE."

"...MANY JAPANESE COMPANIES ARE ALL COMMITTED to create many epic Xbox 360 games."

I wonder if enough people in Japan actually give enough of a shit about Mistwalker and Sakaguchi to buy this thing.
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[Predator Goose]

[firenze]

http://www.e-crusade.com/

Just thought some people might be interested to know that the above is the Hong Kong marketing firm behind this campaign. I looked at domain registry info because I honestly doubted this was legit. But it looks like it is! I can't wait for Sony to hire them too and work on the "Buy a PS3 already, you asshole!" campaign.

[stotelheim]

About the blowjob thing.

The way I see it, if it involves biting, chewing and swallowing, the it's not about blowjobs. At least not the kinds that I'd consent to.
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