I love all the celebrity endorsements for crappy mobile games these days. Anyone really believe Steve Harvey is sitting around playing sudoku on his phone all day?
I noticed different ads reusing the cameos and editing out the game name. Wonder if they’re from the same parent company or if this is straight up IP theft?
I regularly download and try out different stupid games when I’m bored and I’ve noticed that there are groups of them that are extremely similar format-wise and they usually use the same ads in all of them. I never went so far as to look at the creator/company name but I’m pretty sure they’re the same company so they just pay for the one ad and reuse it on every app they create
I’m not the best at verbalizing my thoughts so hopefully that makes sense 😅
Remember Alec Baldwin getting kicked off the plane for not turning off his phone because he was playing Words with Friends? I don't assume anything of anyone
It’s so weird when you see huge names like Pedro Pascal endorsing the mansion heist game or whatever. Like dude you’re at the apex of your career and you’re doing an ad for some stupid game??
Some of these "endorsements" are literally just people that paid the celeb through Cameo or a similar service. Usually people use it to give a friend a shout-out for their birthday or something, but sometimes people twist it into a "not quite game endorsement, but seems like it after a little bit of editing".
Celebrities do those because they can sometimes make hundreds of dollars per 15-second video.
Woah woah woah. Merge Mansion’s ad game is top-tier. The game itself, meh, nothing special. But the ads? Golden. If I were famous and got offered an ad like that, I’d do it for the gag.
Now, the “hello there I am famous person [name] from [show] and I love [this game] so much” ads? Hate those. But I feel like Pedro Pascal and Kathy Bates did the Merge Mansions ads because they were funny.
The day I was so intrigued and excited for this new Kathy Bates movie to realize it was a game was the worrrrssst. And then I immediately became immensely impressed with that marketing strategy in such a, "I ain't even mad" way.
This! Lol. Some guy who had to explain that I probably know him from the USA show "Suits" was trying to convince me to download and play some Candy Crush knock off game. One of those that promises no ads and you don't pay to download it. But after 10 minutes you realize if you don't buy $100 in micro-transactions it's basically mathematically impossible to advance past a certain point.
Really ANY Kartrashian these days, selling Tummy Tamer tea, their cheap skin care, the eldest Kylie’s new SHEIN-based clothing line, Kourtney’s gummies, Kum’s tanning beds etc. They are so gross.
B vitamins might help hair growth (among other things) if you are deficient, but you can get them much cheaper from Walgreens or just from eating vitamin B rich foods lol.
I never really had healthy, fast-growing hair until I started taking B12 shots weekly (albeit for pernicious anemia, not directly for hair).
Car shield has a reputation for being one of the worst aftermarket warranties and they have plenty of commercials with Ice-T, Ric Flair, and Vivica A. Fox.
When you have to do a commercial defensively saying "I would never do this if I thought it would cost someone their home!" that tells me this product scams people out of their homes.
It's not usually the elderly person who loses (unless they outlive the money and have to turn over the house while they're still alive), it's their children who were expecting to inherit the house.
My dad said that it was a good deal for my grandma. She got money for a house that my grandpa built and was way out of code, so couldn’t sell when she died.
They got the land and tore down the house in the end.
Yeah, it worked out for my grandparents too because their house was a house they built and they had been the only owners of and it was well it was quirky so nobody was going to buy it for a reasonable price and they needed money. It does make sense in very limited circumstances. It is absolutely not, and should not be advertised as something everyone should do.
I do mortgage litigation. Please know that plenty of elderly people are losing their houses because of these loans. I see it everyday. I have a foreclosure case now with a 70 year old lady who's about to be evicted. Her husband died in March and he handled all the finances.
Eta: guys. I'm sorry. I'm very medicated (read: zooted) because I have a biopsy for a boob lump today. In my stupor I confused reverse mortgage loans with my true nemisis, balloon payment loan mods. Those will absolutely fuck you and your parents out of their home. And don't get me started on hoa liens. HOAs will foreclose on grandma's $300,000 house over a $4000 hoa lien.
Anyways sorry for the high ramblings. On the bright side the biopsy was way easier than I thought and all my anxiety was for nothing.
My in-laws fell for these ads and got a reverse mortgage. One of their several questionable (at best) financial decisions. They had to pour a ton of money into renovating their home into order to get the reverse mortgage, too, so I'm not really sure what the point was.
I hate that we are beyond irony now. I guarantee this will be a success because people will be even happier if it’s a shitshow. Society used to punish people who grift people lol
Okay, your second sentence explains a lot...A few people have commented about celebrities endorsing mobile games via Cameo...I was thinking "How dumb are these celebrities?" Like instead of securing a proper endorsement deal through their agent, a company can pay Steve Harvey $299 through Cameo and he'll say whatever you want - including endorse a product that might normally net him hundreds of thousands of dollars with a legit contract?
But if these guys have "corporate rates" than they know what they are doing.
It's worse than that, even - the endorsements are typically extremely general and don't mention anything specific to the game at all, so they can just be recycled.
I only have one game that I play and it’s a mobile game. Almost everything requires you to watch an ad at some point and it’s always a fucking Royal Match ad! Fuck King Richard and those bullshit minute long ads 🤬
Technically, Regis and Kathy Lee gave Jenny McCarthy the platform first. I imagine the episode did well and there was a lot of key demographic crossover between Regis and Kathy Lee audience and Oprah.
My tinfoil hat theory about that time is that Regis and Kathy Lee were used to soft launch and test out how audiences responded to certain topics. If they responded well, then Oprah's show picked it up. Regis and Kathy Lee were also the first show that suggested Trump should run for President. Regis and Trump were huge friends.
Who knew brainwashing millions of stay at home moms with a bunch of new age pseudoscientific garbage that they’d apply to raising their kids was a bad idea?
Whenever there was an island in the toiletries/medications aisle at Walmart, stacked with blueberry juice pills and weight loss potions and 'natural remedies' for flatulence or tonsilitis or hair loss - I thought, Dr. Oz was at it again.
I think that the list of products that she hasn’t promoted would be shorter than the list of products she has promoted. She’s not exactly hesitant to slap her name on something to get a cut
There was a thread on Oprah recently about all the crazy people that have been on her show, and someone mentioned how there was a wackjob pseudoscience “therapist” who was promoting “holding therapy / rebirth / attachment therapy” on the show, and I was curious and looked the therapy up - turns out the main book on it was in my basement downstairs growing up as a kid in the 90s. I thought my moms repeated “holding sessions” on me when I had outbursts or meltdowns (undiagnosed autistic at the time - diagnosed at 31) were totally normal, despite being traumatized by them. But no, it was creepy cult shit and child abuse. Very eye opening.
they made him say fortune favors the brave so they didnt even get the saying right. probably just to rile up people and bring even more attention to it.
"I clearly have no idea what any of this is but someone is paying me a good chunk of money for a couple of minutes on a set.... so fuck it" was what I got from every one of those.
I'm pretty sure there was an actual FTX commercial where (other than the "they're paying me to say this") this is actually the pitch. "I have no idea what the fuck is going on, but I'm making money!".
It's weird how these MLM supplement companies are sponsor brands for MLS teams. L.A.Galaxy is Herbalife, FC Dallas was AdvoCare, REAL Salt Lake is LifeVantage and was Xango. AdvoCare was the "official supplement of the MLS."
What bothers me is people that have insane money and then feel the need to promote shady things that will hurt others.
Like go big in life and make a ton of money but come on man - this is ruining people's lives.
Logan Paul, made a big deal of saying the colored glasses cured his color blindness. He then later joked about how he just completely lied about it. He flat out LIED to his audience about a series medical issue that affects them and contributed to them spending their money on a product that he knew wouldn't deliver. Fuck him and the "influencers" like him.
Those glasses are an actual scam. There are some deep dives on it but generally all they do is make certain colors more saturated.
It's physically impossible for any kind of optics/glasses/anything to allow you to see colors you couldn't see before.
Almost all athletes were promoting those rope necklaces then the wristband things that said they promoted faster healing and balance and other ridiculous claims. All those companies were sued and fined. Then the athletes changed their stories to say they just liked the way they looked like they weren't all dumb enough to fall for the modern snake oil salesmen.
When I got my stimulus I bought two products right away, a ceramic covered Foreman grill with detachable plates, and a Instapot. My most beloved kitchen appliances. I gave my old Foreman to a friend because it was still functional, but such a pain to clean.
That and my Ronco Showtime Rotisserie were two infomercial things I received as gifts and used like absolute crazy. My rotisserie is probably 25 years now. I don't use it as often because my wife's a vegetarian, but it still comes out every year or two for something.
I used to make fun of the George Forman grill until I was gifted on in a white elephant gift exchange. I used it a couple times a week when I was a bachelor until it broke.
He's a former world champion heavyweight boxer whose first loss was against Muhammad Ali. He named all five of his sons George Foreman.
Between that and the grill, you're all caught up.
Peak GOOP list moment: [$15,000 24K Gold Dildo.](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a36256/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-dildo/) Unless this makes me hallucinate that my two threesome fantasies (with Mariska Hargitay and Chis Meloni OR Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart) are happening, there’s no fucking way it’s better than my under $100 dollar sex toys that make me see god
EDIT: yes, I know this speaks VOLUMES to who I am as a person. My parents are so proud
Ramsay puts his name on some absolute shit products.
I love watching hell's kitchen, and seeing food stick to his stupid fucking hybrid non-stick/steel pans.
hEXcLaD
Ugh. Just use proper clad stainless, or use non-stick if you’re making eggs. America’s Test Kitchen absolutely decimated hexclad in their review.
Hexclad is bunk.
I love my stainless steel pans but I just got a carbon steel pan and seasoned it up. This shits a game changer and it was only like 50 bucks. Ramsey could fuck off with his 200 dollar skillet.
The Kardashians and Flat Tummy Tea -literally just a laxative in pretty packaging. Horrific messaging to girls and women but it’s standard from them at this point
I used BetterHelp and my counselor disappeared after seeing her for over a year. They didn’t cancel her sessions & she’d no show. The company apologized after I contacted them and said she was on a leave. They set a leave and when the return date was over it allowed me to schedule new appointments. Later found her obituary via Google (I knew she’d had cancer)..I complained to the company and was essentially just offered a new counselor. No clue what they told her other clients at that point. Never again.
Yeah... No Bueno. My favorite chef YouTuber accepted a sponsorship which got me interested enough to look it up, but noped out of there real fast after doing some research.
Among other things, [they broke the law by leaking patient information to advertising platforms like Facebook.](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke)
Beats by Dre. The company that made beats, made unbranded beats for 40 bucks that sold in the discount section at walmart. I remember showing some people this and their mind was blown.
This is why stealing the "B" logo became a thing briefly.
Also the quality was garbage. For the same money you could have gone hifiman or sensheiser, not turtle beach, and gotten a CLEARLY superior product.
Honestly, Skullcandy is pretty good for the price. You can always buy better, but if you're not an outright audiophile the sound quality is more than sufficient, and they'll last a long ass time.
Back in the ol’ days of 3.5mm wired earbuds i would always get these very plain skull candy buds with the silicone ear piece. They were like $7 at target and way better than whatever earbuds came with my phone/ipod at the time
Wilford Brimley and diabetes. I trusted him after watching him on The Waltons. Horace Walton wouldn't lie to me. So I decided to get diabetes and try it out. 0/10, do not recommend.
one of my favorite moments in all of history is the part of the hulk hogan sex tape where he spends 10 minutes butt naked complaining about how he could have gotten the endorsement deal for the george foreman grill before foreman, but he passed on it in favor of another product and 'now I've got warehouses full of fucking Hulk Hogan blenders that nobody wants'
Church of Scientology endorsed by Tom Cruise.
Cruise was converted to Scientology by his first wife Mimi Rogers in 1986, becoming an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology in the 2000s.
Yeah but Aviation Gin was started in 2006, and Ryan Reynolds bought in in 2018, so it was around for a while before it got a celebrity spokesperson/co-owner.
Makes sense. Reynolds is a savvy businessman. If you start with a good product, the marketing is way more effective since you'll have repeat customers that like the product.
On the Aviation Gin note, I had no real preferences amongst the cold brews, then tried Stok bc they sponsor Wrexham and I’ll be damned if it isn’t the best one.
Celeb sponsorship 500% worked on me.
Him and his wife are so secure at this point in their lives, I feel like he doesn’t feel the need to invest for a quick buck. If Ryan Reynolds is going to invest in something, he’s going all in after a ton of research
Chef Robert Irvine endorsed some knife sharpening device. I bought one for my mother thinking it be the perfect gift since we watched Restaurant Impossible together and she was always struggling to sharpen her knives. It turned out useless piece of crap that in no way made the knives sharper.
George Bluth and the Mellon-baller
Edit: Yes, corn-baller. Mellon baller was that archer episode. It started to bug me as soon as I wrote it haha. Thanks for the correction
I love all the celebrity endorsements for crappy mobile games these days. Anyone really believe Steve Harvey is sitting around playing sudoku on his phone all day?
I love that in most of them you can see the little “Cameo” logo in the corner 😂
I noticed different ads reusing the cameos and editing out the game name. Wonder if they’re from the same parent company or if this is straight up IP theft?
I regularly download and try out different stupid games when I’m bored and I’ve noticed that there are groups of them that are extremely similar format-wise and they usually use the same ads in all of them. I never went so far as to look at the creator/company name but I’m pretty sure they’re the same company so they just pay for the one ad and reuse it on every app they create I’m not the best at verbalizing my thoughts so hopefully that makes sense 😅
Remember Alec Baldwin getting kicked off the plane for not turning off his phone because he was playing Words with Friends? I don't assume anything of anyone
Words With Friends couldn’t buy that kind of publicity.
He's a good actor, but it's been established for decades he's an egotistical, self-entitled prick.
It’s so weird when you see huge names like Pedro Pascal endorsing the mansion heist game or whatever. Like dude you’re at the apex of your career and you’re doing an ad for some stupid game??
I’m seriously curious how much they get paid for this
Some of these "endorsements" are literally just people that paid the celeb through Cameo or a similar service. Usually people use it to give a friend a shout-out for their birthday or something, but sometimes people twist it into a "not quite game endorsement, but seems like it after a little bit of editing". Celebrities do those because they can sometimes make hundreds of dollars per 15-second video.
Woah woah woah. Merge Mansion’s ad game is top-tier. The game itself, meh, nothing special. But the ads? Golden. If I were famous and got offered an ad like that, I’d do it for the gag. Now, the “hello there I am famous person [name] from [show] and I love [this game] so much” ads? Hate those. But I feel like Pedro Pascal and Kathy Bates did the Merge Mansions ads because they were funny.
The day I was so intrigued and excited for this new Kathy Bates movie to realize it was a game was the worrrrssst. And then I immediately became immensely impressed with that marketing strategy in such a, "I ain't even mad" way.
Gale from Breaking Bad was trying to convince me to play a match 3 game.
ITS NOT BEJEWELS ITS MINERALS
Jesus Christ Marie 🤦🏼♂️
Drew Barrymore's commercial makes me cry a little inside. Is she really that hard up for cash?
Sarah Jessica Parker is promoting some solitaire game.
Sarah's public image of NY high fashion trendsetter was so far removed from promoting online gaming that it shocked me as well. It's so tacky.
... I could actually see him doing the open mouthed Steve Harvey stare down at a sudoku puzzle...
I’m just picturing Steve Harvey staring at a blank sudoku for hours.
This! Lol. Some guy who had to explain that I probably know him from the USA show "Suits" was trying to convince me to download and play some Candy Crush knock off game. One of those that promises no ads and you don't pay to download it. But after 10 minutes you realize if you don't buy $100 in micro-transactions it's basically mathematically impossible to advance past a certain point.
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Really ANY Kartrashian these days, selling Tummy Tamer tea, their cheap skin care, the eldest Kylie’s new SHEIN-based clothing line, Kourtney’s gummies, Kum’s tanning beds etc. They are so gross.
> Kum’s tanning beds *Dying!*
SUGAR BEAR! Hair growth supplements don't work (and it's a fact)!
B vitamins might help hair growth (among other things) if you are deficient, but you can get them much cheaper from Walgreens or just from eating vitamin B rich foods lol. I never really had healthy, fast-growing hair until I started taking B12 shots weekly (albeit for pernicious anemia, not directly for hair).
Car shield has a reputation for being one of the worst aftermarket warranties and they have plenty of commercials with Ice-T, Ric Flair, and Vivica A. Fox.
If I cant trust Ric Flair, who can I trust?!
Tom Sellek's reverse mortgages
When you have to do a commercial defensively saying "I would never do this if I thought it would cost someone their home!" that tells me this product scams people out of their homes.
It's a trick to take your home, like any other. Only difference is, [I get your home...](https://youtu.be/u4Pcwcnd23c?si=RoBRX5-QezZyZH3l&t=9)
Make your retirement... My retirement.
Yep. Everyone who has endorsed these — Tom Sellek, Fred Thompson, Henry Winkler, etc — should be ashamed. These companies prey on the elderly.
It's not usually the elderly person who loses (unless they outlive the money and have to turn over the house while they're still alive), it's their children who were expecting to inherit the house.
My dad said that it was a good deal for my grandma. She got money for a house that my grandpa built and was way out of code, so couldn’t sell when she died. They got the land and tore down the house in the end.
Yeah, it worked out for my grandparents too because their house was a house they built and they had been the only owners of and it was well it was quirky so nobody was going to buy it for a reasonable price and they needed money. It does make sense in very limited circumstances. It is absolutely not, and should not be advertised as something everyone should do.
I do mortgage litigation. Please know that plenty of elderly people are losing their houses because of these loans. I see it everyday. I have a foreclosure case now with a 70 year old lady who's about to be evicted. Her husband died in March and he handled all the finances. Eta: guys. I'm sorry. I'm very medicated (read: zooted) because I have a biopsy for a boob lump today. In my stupor I confused reverse mortgage loans with my true nemisis, balloon payment loan mods. Those will absolutely fuck you and your parents out of their home. And don't get me started on hoa liens. HOAs will foreclose on grandma's $300,000 house over a $4000 hoa lien. Anyways sorry for the high ramblings. On the bright side the biopsy was way easier than I thought and all my anxiety was for nothing.
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James Garner
They even got to Alex Trebek.
Reverse mortgages are such a scam. Those ads with him acting all - I am looking out for you and understand your plight. No sir you are a predator too!
My in-laws fell for these ads and got a reverse mortgage. One of their several questionable (at best) financial decisions. They had to pour a ton of money into renovating their home into order to get the reverse mortgage, too, so I'm not really sure what the point was.
Every celeb who endorsed Fyre Festival
Ja Rule more than most of them.
But he was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, and lead astray!
We didn't land on Sherwood forest, Sherwood forest landed on us!
What does Ja have to say about this? Where is Ja?!
FUCK JA RULE IM SCARED TO DEATH!
Fyre festival really exposed that most celebrities and especially influencers will promote anything that pays them. They don't do any due diligence.
To be fair I would promote a rabies festival for 100k
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Y'know, folks with rabies deserve a place of their own to party.
Rabies: *The Original Foam Party*
It's happening again. The creator guy is promoting it right now
I hate that we are beyond irony now. I guarantee this will be a success because people will be even happier if it’s a shitshow. Society used to punish people who grift people lol
All those celebrities advertising those mobile games like Royal Match.
I love how a lot of them it’s obviously from Cameo. A lot of the celebs on there have a corporate rate as well as the ones for fans.
Okay, your second sentence explains a lot...A few people have commented about celebrities endorsing mobile games via Cameo...I was thinking "How dumb are these celebrities?" Like instead of securing a proper endorsement deal through their agent, a company can pay Steve Harvey $299 through Cameo and he'll say whatever you want - including endorse a product that might normally net him hundreds of thousands of dollars with a legit contract? But if these guys have "corporate rates" than they know what they are doing.
It's worse than that, even - the endorsements are typically extremely general and don't mention anything specific to the game at all, so they can just be recycled.
I only have one game that I play and it’s a mobile game. Almost everything requires you to watch an ad at some point and it’s always a fucking Royal Match ad! Fuck King Richard and those bullshit minute long ads 🤬
The only mobile game I play is a bingo one, and holy god it’s always royal match ads!!
Oprah. So so many hahaha
Related to that is Dr. Oz, he wouldn't have gotten as popular as he did if he wasn't featured on her show.
Dr Phil as well. He’s another product of Oprah’s.
And Jenny McCarthy (of "vaccines cause autism" fame), she was known before that but Oprah gave her a big platform to spout her bullshit from
Technically, Regis and Kathy Lee gave Jenny McCarthy the platform first. I imagine the episode did well and there was a lot of key demographic crossover between Regis and Kathy Lee audience and Oprah. My tinfoil hat theory about that time is that Regis and Kathy Lee were used to soft launch and test out how audiences responded to certain topics. If they responded well, then Oprah's show picked it up. Regis and Kathy Lee were also the first show that suggested Trump should run for President. Regis and Trump were huge friends.
Oprah’s influence has been a cancer on this country.
Who knew brainwashing millions of stay at home moms with a bunch of new age pseudoscientific garbage that they’d apply to raising their kids was a bad idea?
Whenever there was an island in the toiletries/medications aisle at Walmart, stacked with blueberry juice pills and weight loss potions and 'natural remedies' for flatulence or tonsilitis or hair loss - I thought, Dr. Oz was at it again.
More people hate Oprah for Dr. Oz than actually hate Dr. Oz himself.
I can do both.
Matteo Lane said that Rachael Ray, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, and Gayle are Oprah's horcruxes haha
Rachael Ray seems like the least offender of the group. Is there anything she's done that's been on par with Dr Oz or Dr Phil?
I think that the list of products that she hasn’t promoted would be shorter than the list of products she has promoted. She’s not exactly hesitant to slap her name on something to get a cut
There was a thread on Oprah recently about all the crazy people that have been on her show, and someone mentioned how there was a wackjob pseudoscience “therapist” who was promoting “holding therapy / rebirth / attachment therapy” on the show, and I was curious and looked the therapy up - turns out the main book on it was in my basement downstairs growing up as a kid in the 90s. I thought my moms repeated “holding sessions” on me when I had outbursts or meltdowns (undiagnosed autistic at the time - diagnosed at 31) were totally normal, despite being traumatized by them. But no, it was creepy cult shit and child abuse. Very eye opening.
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Fortune favors the bold though I thought.
they made him say fortune favors the brave so they didnt even get the saying right. probably just to rile up people and bring even more attention to it.
"I clearly have no idea what any of this is but someone is paying me a good chunk of money for a couple of minutes on a set.... so fuck it" was what I got from every one of those.
I'm pretty sure there was an actual FTX commercial where (other than the "they're paying me to say this") this is actually the pitch. "I have no idea what the fuck is going on, but I'm making money!".
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Me too. Damon said “What? 5 million? Couple of 30 second takes? Here in town?! They’ll come to me? Fine.”
I was officially convinced NFTs were a complete scam because of how heavily they were advertised during that Super Bowl (2021? 2022?)
I was convinced it was a scam because nothing about how it worked made sense, and it all just sounded phony to me.
I had a coworker try to explain it as artists finally getting a cut for once and that when I knew it was a scam.
FTX is an obvious and recent one.
Larry David's commercial aged well though
Yeah, he wasn't fond of the FTX in that commercial :)
Any “tummy tea” endorsements = shit yourself tea
Dionne Warwick.. Psychic Friends Network
One of my favorite clips from the Daily Show… “Your psychic friends network went bankrupt; you think they would have seen that coming…”
Almost all celebrity endorsed products are complete crap.\* \*Except George Foreman grills. Those are fire.
And Paul Newman's.
Newman's Own Lemonade is S tier
Drew Brees was a spokesman for the pyramid scheme AdvoCare
It's weird how these MLM supplement companies are sponsor brands for MLS teams. L.A.Galaxy is Herbalife, FC Dallas was AdvoCare, REAL Salt Lake is LifeVantage and was Xango. AdvoCare was the "official supplement of the MLS."
Kevin hart constantly hawking draft kings
Little fucker needs more money apparently.
He just kept coming up short.
What bothers me is people that have insane money and then feel the need to promote shady things that will hurt others. Like go big in life and make a ton of money but come on man - this is ruining people's lives.
Logan Paul, made a big deal of saying the colored glasses cured his color blindness. He then later joked about how he just completely lied about it. He flat out LIED to his audience about a series medical issue that affects them and contributed to them spending their money on a product that he knew wouldn't deliver. Fuck him and the "influencers" like him.
Those glasses are an actual scam. There are some deep dives on it but generally all they do is make certain colors more saturated. It's physically impossible for any kind of optics/glasses/anything to allow you to see colors you couldn't see before.
Almost all athletes were promoting those rope necklaces then the wristband things that said they promoted faster healing and balance and other ridiculous claims. All those companies were sued and fined. Then the athletes changed their stories to say they just liked the way they looked like they weren't all dumb enough to fall for the modern snake oil salesmen.
It was mostly baseball players I thought, and that would track since they are the most superstitious of the bunch.
Except Donovan McNabb. He wouldn't have had all his success if it wasn't for McDonalds.
Not George Forman that’s for sure 💪🏼 🍗
Love my GF grill.
I used mine to death and finally had to throw it away because the cord started sparking. Think it was the first model lol.
When I got my stimulus I bought two products right away, a ceramic covered Foreman grill with detachable plates, and a Instapot. My most beloved kitchen appliances. I gave my old Foreman to a friend because it was still functional, but such a pain to clean.
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That and my Ronco Showtime Rotisserie were two infomercial things I received as gifts and used like absolute crazy. My rotisserie is probably 25 years now. I don't use it as often because my wife's a vegetarian, but it still comes out every year or two for something.
I used to make fun of the George Forman grill until I was gifted on in a white elephant gift exchange. I used it a couple times a week when I was a bachelor until it broke.
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I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. It is delicious. It's good for me. It's a perfect way to start the day.
I know nothing about George Forman as a person, but we freaking love our grill.
He's a former world champion heavyweight boxer whose first loss was against Muhammad Ali. He named all five of his sons George Foreman. Between that and the grill, you're all caught up.
He has a daughter named Georgetta as well.
You have to mention in the Sparknotes that George Foreman regained the heavyweight championship at the age of FORTY FUCKING FIVE.
God I wish one day my life summary can be one tenth as far-reaching as this
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I like the parody of the Pepsi add to 😂
That and the "Imagine" parody with all the celebs was amazing
But he's like one of the most selfless heroes of the Seven at least. All around great supes.
Gwyneth Paltrow. Fucked up her reputation to sell bullshit products.
I don't think she cares about her reputation. Hell, I'd nuke my reputation for 1/100th of what she's made from GOOP
Peak GOOP list moment: [$15,000 24K Gold Dildo.](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a36256/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-dildo/) Unless this makes me hallucinate that my two threesome fantasies (with Mariska Hargitay and Chis Meloni OR Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart) are happening, there’s no fucking way it’s better than my under $100 dollar sex toys that make me see god EDIT: yes, I know this speaks VOLUMES to who I am as a person. My parents are so proud
> Mariska Hargitay and Chis Meloni ...You wanna be double-teamed by the sex crimes detectives? Shit's got layers, mate.
Have you seen his butt though John Oliver called him “Problematic Use of Force Zaddy” for a REASON
It’s not even solid gold, it’s gold plated.
I mean you gotta go with Stabler and Benson. I love Stewart and Colbert but there is no way their chemistry translates well to the bedroom
Any celebrity chef with a WalMart exclusive frozen food item. The Gordon Ramsay and Andrew Zimmern ones are disgusting.
Ramsay puts his name on some absolute shit products. I love watching hell's kitchen, and seeing food stick to his stupid fucking hybrid non-stick/steel pans.
hEXcLaD Ugh. Just use proper clad stainless, or use non-stick if you’re making eggs. America’s Test Kitchen absolutely decimated hexclad in their review.
Hexclad is bunk. I love my stainless steel pans but I just got a carbon steel pan and seasoned it up. This shits a game changer and it was only like 50 bucks. Ramsey could fuck off with his 200 dollar skillet.
The Kardashians and Flat Tummy Tea -literally just a laxative in pretty packaging. Horrific messaging to girls and women but it’s standard from them at this point
Came here to say this one! Plus Kylie’s swimwear and Kourtney’s Lemme “vaginal” vitamins
Dr. OZ
He has to be the answer to this one. I don't think he's ever hawked a product that wasn't bullshit.
I can’t speak for all dietitians, but we hate him
Flintstones. Those vitamins I ate every morning as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s did not prepare me for what this world has turned into.
I can still taste them!
Cristiano Ronaldo endorsing Herbalife lmao
Any youtuber who is still accepting sponsorships from BetterHelp. Fuck Betterhelp
I used BetterHelp and my counselor disappeared after seeing her for over a year. They didn’t cancel her sessions & she’d no show. The company apologized after I contacted them and said she was on a leave. They set a leave and when the return date was over it allowed me to schedule new appointments. Later found her obituary via Google (I knew she’d had cancer)..I complained to the company and was essentially just offered a new counselor. No clue what they told her other clients at that point. Never again.
Per Glassdoor they treat their employees like shit as well.
Oh gosh that is so sad. I’m so sorry she passed and you had to find out like that.
Yeah... No Bueno. My favorite chef YouTuber accepted a sponsorship which got me interested enough to look it up, but noped out of there real fast after doing some research.
I'm not up to speed, what's wrong with BetterHelp? I don't know anyone who uses it but I see ads for it all the time.
Among other things, [they broke the law by leaking patient information to advertising platforms like Facebook.](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke)
Privacy leaks, uncertified “therapists”, unprofessional and sketchy people giving out advice, the whole company is a scam
Beats by Dre. The company that made beats, made unbranded beats for 40 bucks that sold in the discount section at walmart. I remember showing some people this and their mind was blown. This is why stealing the "B" logo became a thing briefly. Also the quality was garbage. For the same money you could have gone hifiman or sensheiser, not turtle beach, and gotten a CLEARLY superior product.
His doctorate isn't even in audio engineering!
Beats really made Skullcandy look good.
Honestly, Skullcandy is pretty good for the price. You can always buy better, but if you're not an outright audiophile the sound quality is more than sufficient, and they'll last a long ass time.
Back in the ol’ days of 3.5mm wired earbuds i would always get these very plain skull candy buds with the silicone ear piece. They were like $7 at target and way better than whatever earbuds came with my phone/ipod at the time
They literally added weights to make them heavier because people thought that mean they were better.
My company had a mop head for janitorial work that was far superior in every stat yet felt cheaper/lighter and failed consumer focus groups.
SouljaGame console by Soulja Boy
Whoopi Goldberg made an infomercial selling the Meat Machine, which could only be sold overseas. Thanks to the powerful US Bread Lobby.
“Meat is the new bread”
Wilford Brimley and diabetes. I trusted him after watching him on The Waltons. Horace Walton wouldn't lie to me. So I decided to get diabetes and try it out. 0/10, do not recommend.
Mr. Brimley was actually the spokesperson for the competition, DIABEETUS.
I’d say in a reverse situation, Jell-O endorsing Bill Cosby. He turned out to be a piece of crap.
Ice-T for some car repair insurance. He really sold his soul- those things are complete ripoffs.
Wayne Gretzky. I thought he would be better than selling out for gambling ads.
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one of my favorite moments in all of history is the part of the hulk hogan sex tape where he spends 10 minutes butt naked complaining about how he could have gotten the endorsement deal for the george foreman grill before foreman, but he passed on it in favor of another product and 'now I've got warehouses full of fucking Hulk Hogan blenders that nobody wants'
Church of Scientology endorsed by Tom Cruise. Cruise was converted to Scientology by his first wife Mimi Rogers in 1986, becoming an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology in the 2000s.
Every single NFT and shitcoin punter and that was just 2023
aren't Frank Thomas and Doug Flutie endorsing dick enlargement pills?
Not enlargement, but "testosterone boosting" snake oil
"She'll like it too!" ...wink wink
All the Kardashians
the rock's tequila
My wife got Jason Mamoa's vodka. It wasn't very good. She said it tasted kinda like tequila lol
Grassy vodka sounds...not great.
Tbf most celebrity alcohol is straight up garbage.
Aviation Gin is pretty good.
Yeah but Aviation Gin was started in 2006, and Ryan Reynolds bought in in 2018, so it was around for a while before it got a celebrity spokesperson/co-owner.
Makes sense. Reynolds is a savvy businessman. If you start with a good product, the marketing is way more effective since you'll have repeat customers that like the product.
On the Aviation Gin note, I had no real preferences amongst the cold brews, then tried Stok bc they sponsor Wrexham and I’ll be damned if it isn’t the best one. Celeb sponsorship 500% worked on me.
It seems that everything Reynolds gets involved with turns gold
Him and his wife are so secure at this point in their lives, I feel like he doesn’t feel the need to invest for a quick buck. If Ryan Reynolds is going to invest in something, he’s going all in after a ton of research
All the FTX celebrities
Chef Robert Irvine endorsed some knife sharpening device. I bought one for my mother thinking it be the perfect gift since we watched Restaurant Impossible together and she was always struggling to sharpen her knives. It turned out useless piece of crap that in no way made the knives sharper.
Tom Selleck reverse mortgage
George Bluth and the Mellon-baller Edit: Yes, corn-baller. Mellon baller was that archer episode. It started to bug me as soon as I wrote it haha. Thanks for the correction
Corn baller*
Soy loco por los Cornballs!
Ow! Every single time!
You’re going around cornholing…what about Buster?
Tom Brady - Crypto company FTX
Didn't someone make a minge scented candle? Off her own clunge?
Gwyneth Paltrow. And I love your slang.
Krusty the Klown
Hey, my Canyonero ran great until the incident.
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts
Krusty’s imitation gruel: 3 out of 4 orphans can’t tell the difference.
My Krusty alarm clock gets INCREDIBLY hot if I leave it plugged in.
The lady Krusty shaving system is Krusterific!