NathanNBA2K16 Ad
2K Games were celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. that gave the players of the game to compete at the NBA 2K basketball series if they buy the in-game shoes. They were trying hard to have a good sale but using the King’s speech was highly unnecessary. The band had a lot of backlash for trying to let people buy from them too much. Was it too much?
SpaghettiOs & Pearl Harbor
The cartoon SpaghettiO was commemorating Pearl HarborDays. Social media users felt like the cartoon was using this horrible event as means to get publicity. It joined the Campbell Soup Company where the SpaghettiOs mascot joined the national conversation talking about Pearl Harbor. Is this too much or was it not okay?
Bisquick’s Ad
Bisquick made use of the 2016 presidential campaign. It depicted a fight between waffles and pancakes in the light of the election on social media. It had chants that included serious words like “lock her up” and protesters getting assaulted at rallies. This was surely no cute way to speak about rallies and protest. The company went a little too far to prove their point.