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Whats the cringiest ad you watched, can be from youtube, tv, AI / non AI...etc?

For me, it is the Tachi workout style ad. I said “style” because it started out to sell Tachi workout, then gradually moved on to sell you Speech training exercises.

Format is the same:

I’m {insert age above 50}, I dont follow experts instead i use the {insert their products} for {insert number less than 10} minutes per day.

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Replying to @⁨mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world⁩

95% of my watching and listening are ad free. So anytime I see an ad I think it’s cringy already.

That being said, ads for medications are the fucking worst. Playing on trying to treat a disease by going straight to the patient, who doesn’t have a medical degree. Showing shots of frolicking and loving life while the announcer quickly says all the side effects that are worse than the disease itself.

That’s then most cringeworthy to me.

Replying to an earlier post

There were some ads that I have seen on YouTube that I found unsettling before I started using Morphe. They were basically taking some celebrities from where I live and using AI to put them in embarrassing situation that never happened with headline like: “You will never guess who was found naked at X place.” I also hate the ones that use a celebrity and use AI to try to make them endorse a course or some other garbage.

Seriously, if I was one of the person in those ads, I would sue Google. I feel those ads being allowed on YouTube might give them some legitimacy for people that are not good at recognizing AI generated content.

As an example, here is one of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pushing for some bitcoin: https://youtu.be/uAhlKVTDtiw?si=cSp_IAuDNRLlkyyl

YouTubeFake AI video Ad of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears on YouTube Ads on July 7, 2025by Khurram Qureshi