What's some of the most offensive ads (magazines or commercials) from the 90s/early 00s?

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What this thread is about is more of what would be considered offensive today, not back in these days.

I found this and it inspired the thread. This wasn't offensive at the time, but given our current timeline it's now crazy to think this was an ad.


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The 90s were about hyper-sexualization and being an edge-lord. When it comes to games some of the more risky stuff was like, "Sega Does What Nintendont" and like Boogerman. Although I think there were some Nintendo ads that were like stuff they would never do today.
 
HeisenbergFX4 said:
Its super hard for me to find offense in most things

I grew up in a different time where we weren't looking for things to offend us.
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I agree.

I'm not saying necessarily that even the above is "offensive" but I meant offensive to the current society. Title and thread is all over the place.
 
Imagine the context....

In Mexico, Dragon Ball was still broadcast, DBZ did not arrive (I was still in the Red ribbon saga) AND DBZ came one year later , and in this edition they made a Spoiler of the Series of DBZ


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There was a PS1 ad in a magazine at one point that was just a photo of a PS1 and it said "He can't leave you if he never leaves the house." Can't seem to find it anywhere online now tho.
 
"Don't just make fighting an art. Make everything into art."

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A woman shopping for cleaning supplies.
Reeee would find a way to identify this ad as a misogynistic hate crime.
 
RagnarokIV said:
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My favorite lol
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This was offensive at the time. Sony had to take it down and publicly apologise.

"Whilst the images used in the campaign were intended solely to highlight the contrast between the different colors available for the PSP, we recognize that the subject matter of one specific image may have caused concern in some countries not directly affected by the advertising," the company said in a statement. "As a result, we have now withdrawn the campaign."

Was just supposed to run in the EU I think. But this was a pretty dumb gaffe from a marketing perspective across the board I'd think.
 
SaintALia said:
This was offensive at the time. Sony had to take it down and publicly apologise.

"Whilst the images used in the campaign were intended solely to highlight the contrast between the different colors available for the PSP, we recognize that the subject matter of one specific image may have caused concern in some countries not directly affected by the advertising," the company said in a statement. "As a result, we have now withdrawn the campaign."

Was just supposed to run in the EU I think. But this was a pretty dumb gaffe from a marketing perspective across the board I'd think.
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Weren't there a bunch of these "black vs white" ads featuring these two in conflict? This one got singled out as being racist though.
 




All the PSP Squirrels ads are famously weird and nobody would try it again in current year.

I dunno if it's offensive, but there was an ad in Edge magazine where they had a picture of a plucked cartoon dodo with a bunch of real feathers between the pages and the text "don't be a dodo" or something, I don't even remember what it was for (I'm sure Guru Larry would remember).
It was incredibly silly and I think they apologized for publishing the ad.
 
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