Pepsi's new suicide ads for Pepsi Max

[Spidey-Bat]

http://adage.com/globalideanetwork/post?article_id=132952

These ads are awful. Whoever thought of them should be fired.

 

[Eggyman]

People are so easily shocked and offended. The world needs to lighten up.

 

[Nirvana]

Kind of gruesome.

 

[Immortalfire]

Suicide is not funny

 

[November Rain]

i would normally say grow up but they are making light of a serious issue.

all it'd take was for that calorie to go on a gun crime spree and take out all the other calories and then require a good guy calorie to take out the bad guy calorie and make love to the damsel calorie and it would be a lil bit meh.....

 

[Shoemeister]

Haha, these are great.

 

[thedeadite]

It won't make me stop drinking pepsi, but I think these ads are pretty insensitive.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I'm not sure the ads are insenstive, I think they just suck. If the one calorie is killing itself, shouldn't Pepsi Max be zero calories?

 

[speedracer216]

that is SICK. it's not even the fact that they're talking about suicide, but that they make it so gruesome. why show chunk of brain coming out? too real to be funny. they think they're appealing to the "metalocolypse" crowd i'm sure but it's only going to make people mad.

most suicides are kids too which makes it worse. it is a very delicate situation and someone considering it can be pushed over the edge very easily. and in the next instant a family is destroyed. that's funny??? not if you know anyone who killed themselves, or is related to someone who did.

sick.

 

[speedracer216]

heck, even if you make it cartoonish (like just have him riding a rocket) but slitting rists? bullet through the brain with brain tissue spewing out the back? come on.

i think it'd be funnier (if he's so lonely) if he was singing happy birthday to himself or something. not to mention that if he kills himself, pesi max becomes coke zero.

 

[Super Kal]

that's disgusting

 

[The Senator]

I find those ads rather humorous, albeit shocking, and I'm certainly not a suicide advocate...

 

[PemLam]

People are so easily shocked and offended. The world needs to lighten up.

...and drink a Coke!

 

[Sam Fisher]

What...The...Hell?



Don't be surprised if many people switch over to Coke.

 

[Immortalfire]

What...The...Hell?



Don't be surprised if many people switch over to Coke.

Pepsi will always live in Coke's shadow.

 

[a cupcake mess]

Makes me want to watch "the bridge" again....or not.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

The pictures are hilarious, but it's too over the top gruesome, especially for kids. Imagine explaining suicide to a kid

 

[Darthphere]

My post was deleted, shocking.

 

[Drizzle]

Suicide is not funny

It was when it happened to Hitler.

 

[terry78]

I like the one with the calorie plummeting to his death strapped to a rocket cutting his wrist with the razor, personally. Emo Calorie, away!

 

[November Rain]

It was when it happened to Hitler.

nah, that was just anti climatic.

like season 1 of heroes

 

[Heffer Wolf]

Holy S, those are awesome.

I dont get it, why is he killing himself like 3 times in each ad? He's got a firecracker strapped to his head, while soaking in gasoline, with acid over his head. then he is slitting his wrists while riding a rocket straight into the ground. and finally he drank poison while blowing out his brains and hanging himself. Seems excesive.

 

[Max J Power]

I laughed a little at the ads, but they are in pretty bad taste. Especially for something that kids (and a lot of people who don't "get" dark humor) will see.

 

[Star]

Does it offend you, yeah?

 

[Shemtov]

It was when it happened to Hitler.

hitler did not commit suicide. somebody from the future traveled back in time, put him on trial , killed him and put the body in the bunker.