r/Millennials • u/McLovin_Cee • Sep 07 '26

Meme Anyone?

Post image
16k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

727 comments sorted by

View all comments

498

u/ConceitedWombat Older Millennial Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

Commercials used to be creative ads selling real products from real companies.

Now it's AI generated robots trying to sell me tai chi walking or articulation training. Sigh.

Edited to add: These creative ads from real companies became cultural catch phrases. "Yo quiero Taco Bell!" "Back off, get your own sandwich!" "Weaddababyitsaboy." Never gonna happen with today's AI slop ads.

22

u/CitizenCue Sep 07 '26

That’s a bit of selective memory. The cool ads existed, but they were interspersed with TONS of low budget crap from local car dealers and furniture stores and whatnot.

We accepted long ad breaks because TV was a live feed and there was no other option.

3

u/Sororita Sep 07 '26

at least those shitty used car dealer ads were usually in the "so bad its funny" range of awful.

3

u/CitizenCue Sep 07 '26

Not most of them. Most were just “Come on down for our HUGE [insert upcoming holiday] sale!”