The Anti-Soda Ad That Looks Just Like The Real Thing

I see way too many ads that have nothing to do with the product they sell. Here’s a group that gets why big companies do that. What they do with that knowledge is pure genius.

Now that we’ve got your attention, we want to make one thing about this video clear. While we LOVE that it shows how advertisements aren’t as much about the product as they are about a (usually manipulative) image, we don’t love that it equates a can of soda to obesity. Obviously, things are more complicated than that.

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