Can we take a minute to talk about the phone company war
Alright so I took some advertising classes, and one of the basic rules of advertising was to not talk shit about the other brands. Following this rule ensures that you don't make a bad image of yourself for taking the low road, and it also doesn't make customers feel like idiots. Now most commercials tend to just be like "Here's our product, here's the leading brand, ours works better" and that's alright because they don't specify what the 'leading brand' was. But phone companies? That rule is off the fucking table. The earliest event I remember was a commercial where some Smart Guy™ compared maps of Verizon coverage vs AT&T coverage, showing that Verizon has much more coverage. I barely even know how it escalated, but AT&T responded with kind of a humble "Psh, that's not true!" And Verizon just pushed it on them like "Nah, it is. Buy our product." Fast forward maybe 10 years later, it's a 4-way WAR between Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. I believe it was T-Mobile that had the AUDACITY to make a commercial featuring all four brands, represented by some balls rolling down a slide. THEN AT&T or some shit ACTUALLY parodied that commercial, doing the ball thing again, but they gave themselves way more balls and the narrator said some fuckin numbers. The other companies were like "Whoa, we can do that?" And all of a sudden you got them fighting over famous actors to promote their brand and talk shit about the others. Some guy interrupting a competitor's commercial and being like "Whoa whoa whoa! This commercial is a load of shit!" Recently this year, Verizon made a commercial with some Business Boy™ giving a speech about unlimited data with some big ass foam "Unlimited" behind him, with the Verizon logo. At the end, he does a mic drop. This was a fucking mistake on Verizon's part. I have seen a Sprint commercial where this NEW Business Boy™ PICKS UP the microphone (the very same "unlimited" behind the stage) and he's like "Yeah, they don't REALLY mean unlimited!" VERIZON BRINGS THEIR OLD BUSINESS BOY™ BACK IN LIKE "Fuck you! It is unlimited, dipshit! [Mandatory numbers]" T-Mobile just made a commercial where some janitor is sweeping up the remains of a wrecked "unlimited", and the narrator's like "Mmmmmhmhmhm naughty boys we are unlimited here are really big numbers bye" Like it's fuckin hilarious but it doesn't make me interested in any of the brands.
