I'm seriously creeped out by the lack of lids anywhere in this ad- so even if you buy one of these things at the drive-through window, a lid is not included? So basically it's dirty before you can take your first sip (getting it all over your mouth, as apparently a straw is not included in that one-dollar price, either....)
"What? It's ONLY a DOLLAR? Why am I limiting myself to just ONE A DAY, then? I mean, sure it's 350 calories for a few slurps of chocolate-flavored chemicals, but it's ONLY A DOLLAR! Serve them for breakfast too, Wendy's! I can worry about diabetes later!"
1. The host, Quincy Brown, says he's also known as "Q Side B Side." I'm willing to bet real money that he's "also known" that only by himself and a few hangers-on. Seriously, buddy, I have never heard of you, and after watching barely a minute of this insulting wall of noise I'm quite good with never hearing anything more of you again.
2. Around the first minute of this program, we realize that this is basically a racist's fever dream. The way these people act is exactly how racist whites expect black people to act. So watch this "fun" show, allegedly sponsored by Walmart, and see media images of black people as your grandparents did.
3. Do the YouTube Math:
a) this channel has 3.1 million subscribers.
b) this particular post has 3.7 million views in the ten months since it was posted.
c) this channel with 3.1 million subscribers and 3.7 million views has generated 24,000 responses...
d) and 20 comments. That's Twenty. Not even 20k, which would be tiny. Twenty.
All of which means that the subscriber number is fake, the views number is fake, and probably the response number is also fake. Well, at least that restores some of my faith in humanity.
Meanwhile, Walmart, if you really do have anything to do with this....just, why? Is it because only 11 percent of your customer base is black, compared to 74% that is white- in other words, you just don't give a damn? Please, explain.
...so I don't have to be subjected to the seventh "season" of a long-running "joke" that everyone with two brain cells to rub together stopped finding even remotely amusing at least six years ago.
In other words, Enough Already. If there really are people who look forward to these little snippets of dumb, let them pay a subscription fee to watch it and stop interrupting my football viewing with (apparently) endless "dramas" about football-and-crappy-soda-obsessed lunatics living in Stupidville USA. Hulu, etc. are starting to strip networks of games already- these ads should be part of the package.
Yes, you could adopt Paycom and farm out work you are supposed to be doing to your employees (they aren't busy enough doing the work they are already contracted to do, of course.) OR, you could learn to manage your time and create that magical Work/Life balance that does not mean half-assing your way through either.
Some people see a guy working when he's supposed to be with his family as the kind of Go-Getter who Made This Nation Great, a guy know Knows How To Hustle and has his Nose to the Grindstone and any number of stupid cliche's invented by Capitalism to convince us all that Life IS Work. I look at people like this and think "disorganized," not to mention "selfish"- seriously, buddy, if you are devoted to your job 24/7, you have no business being married, let alone being a dad.
Either way, handing off your responsibilities to your employees is no more ethical than handing them off to freelance drones in Pakistani call centers. Do your own work, or don't- and suffer the consequences. But get your act together. Life is too short for this crap.
"What do you do when you're NOT being the Capital One Credit Card guy?"
"Um, I'm a commercial actor. I act in commercials. Having answered your inane question, here's one for you: Other than ask commercial actors for selfies, what do you do in your life that is so shallow and meaningless that you feel getting a selfie with a commercial actor and asking about his private life is a worthwhile use of your time?"
Hey look, it's another Smarmy Kid Lecturing His Parents on what he needs to be Cool for School ad. I think that makes pretty much all of them.
I do think that the anger expressed at the little brat is misdirected, however. Yes, the kid has a very punchable face and his "hey lame parents, let me explain something to you in words even you can understand" condescension is grating, but let's remember that he's just reading lines fed to him by someone else and he's being exploited by his actual parents, who will be taking care of the royalties. Chances are this kid will have a moment of stardom in his little community that will quickly fade away and we'll never see or hear from him again. And the money from this ad will not exist by the time he's ready for college and could use it. Maybe to buy a backpack with sharks on it.
So we see a guy having fun with his dog, playing tug-of-war in...um, the living room. This is really stupid yet so typical of American television ads to watch a grown male with the means of possessing a large suburban home but not enough brain cells to avoid doing something common sense tells us not to do. Surrounded by expensive furniture, with sunlight streaming in the windows, he's going to play tug-of-war with his dog in the living room because of course he is.
Naturally, the guy falls down and breaks something while doing this stupid thing because again he's a Guy in an American Television Commercial. And then we get the pointless single phrase- an off-screen "What was that?" female voice because of course this doofus is married to a probably long-suffering woman who is somewhere else in the house trying to hold everything together despite her pathetically dense partner and his tendency to do damage every time she turns her back for fifteen seconds. We did not need to hear from this woman. She doesn't actually make an appearance. The guy quickly uses Gorilla Glue to mend the piece of furniture he broke. Maybe the message is that he would not have fixed the broken item right away if not prodded by the threatening tone of his female partner? Maybe his quick action is motivated by sheer terror? Maybe if that voice didn't pop into the ad we'd be wondering why he was in such a hurry to fix a broken piece of furniture in his own house (there's no woman in my house, so there's literally nothing BUT broken furniture here. Why would I fix anything- I'm not afraid of anyone pointing out my inability to take three steps without breaking something?)
Now that I've done all of this analysis, I guess the "pointless single phrase" wasn't so pointless. Watching this ad without sound, it makes perfect sense that this guy is playing with the dog in the living room instead of the lawn- he's a male, which means he's a moron, after all. But we'd be totally confounded as to why he's so quick to repair the damage he does. The off-screen female voice puts it all together and makes it all work. Thanks again, Sexist American Advertising Agencies!
