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The 6 Creepiest Marketing Campaigns Aimed at Children

cracked.com — When you're a child, all of your income is disposable, and as far as you're concerned so is your parents'. That's why everyone from mega-corporations to school yard drug dealers crowd in to get a piece of the pie.

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  • EX3CUTIONR, on 08/03/2008, -1/+28Thongs for kids? ugh...
    • FatBird19, on 08/04/2008, -0/+8It does make you think though. To what age does marketing thongs become "acceptable"? Puberty? That sounds ridiculous, but what would make 15-16 so different?

      This culture is way too oversexed....
      • Swivelstick, on 08/04/2008, -1/+4Oversexed? Or sold the image of sex as slutty/dirty which in turn becomes cool for teenagers as it is seen as rebelling, after all show a titty on prime time and look at the uproar.
      • TheUngod, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Oversexed my ass!...wait, not oversexed my ass, but you know what I mean. Seriously though, America is one of the most UNDERSEXED countries out there! Take a trip to Brazil and see what you think.
      • tech42er, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1I think the culture is undersexed, my friend.
    • Eezyville, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2You know someone's parents bought them those thongs. SOMEONE BOUGHT THEM.
  • drewsheldon01, on 08/03/2008, -42/+42BURY ME!!!!
  • Armor1901, on 08/03/2008, -5/+52Whoever came up with the idea for thongs for 10 year olds needs to be ***** beat
  • jack0lant3rn, on 08/03/2008, -0/+14Who's trying to start one of those Santa hotlines with me?
  • smacksaw, on 08/03/2008, -2/+14"And fortunately for cereal companies, they don't sell Rozerem in the cereal aisle." was pretty much the article's pinnacle of comedy gold until the whole "Maybe kids realized a frying pan with a delicious egg in it is better than one without."

    Rozerem. Amazing. I wonder if people will ever realise that only a small fraction of the population actually NEEDS medication. Kids wouldn't need Rozerem if they didn't drink Monster, Red Bull, Rock Star, etc and you wouldn't need it if you didn't drink a double shot venti mocha every day at Starbucks.

    That's the problem with corporate insurance AND socialised medicine: it's corporate welfare for big pharma. Either way, they win.
  • imdeanlabouty, on 08/04/2008, -5/+2I love American Apparel ads.
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    • ThinkOutTheBox, on 08/04/2008, -1/+6Ok so whats the deal with this bear? I know its a joke and it has something to do with little kids but where the hell did it originate from?
  • kgd222, on 08/04/2008, -0/+19Dugg for the link to that brilliant Nerds Candy Cereal commercial.

    "NERDGATE!!"
  • Chronoped, on 08/04/2008, -2/+10The anti-drug propaganda campaigns are still running rampant through this country, throwing wave upon wave of ignorance and pseudoscience at our youth. They should be ashamed of what they've done and continue to do, and we should be doing more to combat them.
    • abdo, on 08/04/2008, -0/+5Sometimes these ads make kids want to try drugs even more.
      • Chronoped, on 08/04/2008, -0/+5It shouldn't just be about if kids are using drugs or not. It needs to be about teaching responsibility when some inevitably try drugs. These ads are like abstinence education, there are only negative results. All drugs are not evil, and being a drug user does not necessarily mean the destruction of your life.
      • tech42er, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1It's pretty damn close, though. Sex isn't illegal and they don't throw charge you with a felony and throw you in jail fr 10 years if you break abstinence. But if you try drugs, they can.
    • groo68, on 08/04/2008, -0/+5Yeah, i learned you could snort heroin from that commercial( I learned not to snort it from pulp fiction) and that if SHE's not on drugs, being on drugs can't be much worse.
      • xenonflash, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2Seriously, after watching Pulp Fiction I don't think I'd ever do cocain.
      • bjornski, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1You do know that wasn't cocaine she overdosed on, right?
    • celotil, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3Heh,

      "This is your brain on drugs. Don't do drugs!"

      Next ad,

      "I can feel a XXXX coming on ...", or in the States, "It's Miller Time!"
    • zip000, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2I always loved the:
      "Who taught you how to do this."
      "You Dad! I learned it by watching you!"
      commercial.

      I still say that from time to time - "I learned it by watching you!"

    • lou2005, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2Gee. I never thought about those ads before. Yeah, if your brain is an empty frying pan - it's just about asking for some drugs.
      And I never saw the Rachel Leigh Cook version before. That one is great. First its the egg thats the brain. Then everything gets smashed. Also it gets your attention. Plus it's sort of funny cause you just expect her to actually fry the egg. Not destroy the kitchen.
  • l31101, on 08/04/2008, -2/+9LMAO on the back to school sleeping pills. What will they think of next? Spring break viagra?
    • celotil, on 08/04/2008, -0/+9"You've worked hard all semester ... Now party hard and stay hard all Spring Break!"
      • psykiv, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2If I was in charge of hiring at Pfizer, you'd get that marketing job. That was awesome.
    • tech42er, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2But isn't the whole point that Spring Breakers don't need viagra? The only people who will buy it are old or at least middle aged men.
  • P1um, on 08/04/2008, -28/+3social experiment
    =============

    bury all comments beyond this point to below viewing threshold
  • gamben0, on 08/04/2008, -8/+5First one to find Nerdgate cereal bowls for sale wins.
  • Immune, on 08/04/2008, -22/+2social experiment
    =============

    bury all comments that start with the words: social experiment. ...>_<
  • diggdiggerid, on 08/04/2008, -8/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVk21Pco-c

    How could they forget this? This is basically pedophilia. "have you ever made love in the film?" "think you can rip that shirt off?" "nice body"
    • fxu1989, on 08/04/2008, -1/+6Well, considering they asked the questions to what it seemed adults, it's not pedophilia. Not even close.
  • leetdood, on 08/04/2008, -2/+17If Rachel Leigh Cook asked me to bang her, I'd say "No way, you made that horrible commercial about drugs. I could never respect myself if I had sex with you."

    Just kidding, I'd totally hit that, horrible commercial or not.
    • DreKor, on 08/04/2008, -0/+4I just looked at IMDB, time has not been overly friendly to her or her career. Which is very, very unfortunate.
  • SpectreFire, on 08/04/2008, -9/+33 Creepiest Marketing Campaigns Aimed at Children you mean? Cause I'm not ***** loading another page. ***** you Cracked, you're not funny.
  • TheWebSwinger, on 08/04/2008, -0/+18New tagline for A&F:
    You wear it, you're gonna get *****.

    And hear a lot of techno.
    • celotil, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6It was after seeing that A&F compilation from SNL on YouTube that I went searching, curious, for the A&F web site.

      It looked a little, commercial, but no big deal, and that was when I saw THEM.

      Winter seasonal clothes ensembles ... with FLIP FLOPS.

      That's when it occurred to me that the SNL skits weren't entirely satirical. A&F really is cool, hipster stuff ... for retards.
  • iNNeRKaoS, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6I love Rachel Leigh Cook. Not only because she's quite the looker, but because she made fun of that commercial on Robot Chicken.
  • DiNatalePepe, on 08/04/2008, -8/+3Forget you, two of my friends died cooking their brains in a frying pan.
    • nymphetamine, on 08/04/2008, -3/+4***** you, two of my friends died censoring their memes.
      • DiNatalePepe, on 08/04/2008, -4/+2Forget you, I'm Mormon and I'm not allowed to curse. (serious)
      • iizh, on 08/04/2008, -2/+1Who's going to know? This is the ***** internet!
  • thedragon4453, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6How about ATT advertising a Treo to kids on Nickelodeon?
  • Eavesdropping, on 08/04/2008, -2/+12When I was a kid I thought my underwear was pretty fashionable because it had the days of the week printed on it. Little girl thongs with "Eye Candy" on the front? Disgusting. Let's hope parents have enough sense not to buy them.
    • lisaawesome, on 08/04/2008, -0/+9Day of the week underwear was the best thing ever! It made the choice so simple.
  • FatBird19, on 08/04/2008, -3/+12Holy *****!!

    Linked in the article:
    http://www.americanapparel.net/gallery/photocollec ...

    If you can look through their model galleries without feeling like a pedophile, then congratulations, you're a pedophile.
    • killtrocity, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2One girl's nipple is snowing in one of the slide shows!
    • Anonemousk, on 08/04/2008, -1/+4Pedophile is not the word you are looking for, try again.
    • lou2005, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2I think all the girls there are over 18. A couple of them are porn stars.
    • teethandeyes, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3You are silly, these girls are all models who are over 18. Perhaps you have issue with this because you are the pedophile fighting your repressed desires.
  • TheCash, on 08/04/2008, -0/+10I dunno what you all are bitching about, I loved that ad with Rachel Leigh Cook beating the ***** out of kitchen with cookware.

    But then, I totally have a thing for psychotic petite chicks, and hate filled omelets.
  • ChunkyLover36, on 08/04/2008, -4/+0The animated ads made it difficult to read so I skipped most of it. Its almost as bad as TBS showing a whopping 13 commercials every other scene.
  • Br3ach, on 08/04/2008, -8/+2Thongs for kids, how in this country is this not ILLEGAL.

    I love Cracked, it is the eye on the ridiculous as well as the outrageous.
    • Anonemousk, on 08/04/2008, -0/+5Do you even realize how stupid you sound?
  • grneye53, on 08/04/2008, -2/+2WHY NOT ? After all the have Stiletto's for baby's and the next new toy for the crib will be a shine new strippers pole ,now all you have to do is slit her diaper up the side and everybody can get a piece of the pie, for a $1.00 !
  • Abomonog, on 08/04/2008, -0/+8http://www.bcreative.com/images/success/thumbnails ...

    Sorry, I can't find a larger version.
  • fatas, on 08/04/2008, -0/+4The first girl to post a comment on cracked
    is ***** hot
    http://www.cracked.com/members/purple16heaven

    Talk about creepy
  • spearce, on 08/04/2008, -2/+2Miley Cirus should have been on that list. She the most pedo promotional ad campaign I've ever seen.
    • DerpDerpMD, on 08/04/2008, -0/+0Miley Cyrus should go die in a hole.
  • SymbioticSounds, on 08/04/2008, -3/+0Best comment from the site:

    "Rachel Leigh Cook, in a thong, KO'd on Rozerem. That's what I'm getting from this article. And I LIKE it!"
  • psykiv, on 08/04/2008, -6/+1"This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs." Am i the only one that has a problem with the grammar from the ad? it's "These are drugs." Makes me think the people who made the ad were on drugs themselves.
    • tech42er, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3You ***** idiot. It's "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs."
      • psykiv, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Look at the ***** ad in the video. It clearly says "This is drugs"
  • lunarship, on 08/04/2008, -0/+4Yeah, cracked.com. Not their best, but above average at the moment.
  • alexra, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3dugg, did anyone else see the ad under the anti drug videos (pineapple express)
  • clearwaterlab, on 08/04/2008, -1/+2"Wasn't that ad basically the equivalent of a WWF wrestler pointing at his opponent and then crushing something in his hand?"
    -best line in the article
  • digitalgreek, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6Now I liked Cracked.com, but someone has got to stop posting every single article they are making!
  • disrupter, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3Why don't you take a seat over there
  • smashv2, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2That Santa at Home thing is pretty damn genius. It sorta creeps me out though, just thinking about what kind of a sick ***** you'd have to be to think up something like that.
  • strikethemdown, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Holy hell i remember the freddy ad's.
    dead time stories ftw
  • TexanRudeBoy, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1I love the way the government tells us not to do drugs on one hand, then helps smuggle drugs into our country to finance operations that don't have public support.
  • ddrugstore, on 10/09/2008, -0/+0When we travel to differents country we take it http://digg.com/users/drugsrxstore that have good rest time. It help for us.
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