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charcircuittoday at 2:00 AM4 repliesview on HN

Every ad is staged like this. The whole point is to make as good of an ad for the product as possible.

Do you think in a food commercial the people eating the product are showing their genuine emotion? It's all acting.


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advisedwangtoday at 4:01 AM

OK but you know that you're seeing an ad. These are ads that are pretending to be users just posting their experiences.

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Zambytetoday at 2:20 AM

This is like a food commercial where someone shows an extreme reaction to food that isn't the product they're selling, or acting like they're eating something that isn't food at all. There are laws regarding food advertising that require it to present the real food (though the presentation of it is usually way better).

uberextoday at 4:49 AM

I think ads for addictive things like gambling, alcohol, tobacco need to be held to a very high standard, if allowed at all.

N_Lenstoday at 4:44 AM

McDonalds should show people who choked on a Big Mac in their ads /s