15 Advertisements That Were (Rightfully) Banned
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You are the most powerful and important being on the planet Earth. You enjoy this list of interesting facts. You enjoy the way you think about things in terms of “interesting facts.” It's a big universe out there. You are part of it. This universe is one of trillions of other universes, but you are the only one in all of them who can appreciate the fact that your brain has just been engaged by an amusing and entertaining list of facts, which is itself an interesting fact. It's all so complicated, yet so simple. There's a kind of simplicity to it all, don't you think? The universe is composed of nothing but little bits of stuff and energy. Energy and stuff are constantly changing from one form to another. Your brain is made up of little bits of stuff and energy, constantly changing from one form to another. And your brain, this universe inside your skull, is more complex than the whole universe. That's what makes it interesting to enjoy this list of interesting facts about you and the universe.
eHarmony
![eHarmony Step aside, fate. It's time science had a go at love. gine being able to stack the odds of finding lasting love entirely in your favour. mistry rmony's so scientifically-proven don't have to. Why matching leave the system most decodes important the search mystery of your of compatibility life to chance? and GRACKEDAN you You know those eHarmo- ny ads that go on and on about their scientifically proven matching sys- tem? You can't see them in the U.K. Because that's not what science is.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/8/862068.jpg)
Nottingham’s “Anti-Begging” Ads
![Nottingham's Anti-Begging Ads CRACKED.COM City councils and police are some other groups that are typically pretty careful with their messaging, but in 2016, a joint effort by the city of Nottingham put up posters all over town depicting homeless people misusing panhandling money, claiming that such money just goes to a fraud or up in smoke. The posters were obviously immediately defaced by the public, who made it clear they'd rath- er fund some guy's weed than these ads, and the ASA banned them for just being, like, really jerky.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/7/862067.jpg)
An Online Gambling Site’s “Pay For Your Wife’s Cancer Treatment” Ad
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“White Wellbeing”
![White Wellbeing O PENTAK - I - Done paz Facebook ads capture their - - Adverting de Facebook nume maly Your people are here CRACKED.COM Facebook had a real problem with conservative extremist ads in 2020. After an ad for something claiming that White people make up just 8% of the world's popula- tion, so if you flood all white-ma- jority countries with non-whites, you eliminate white children for ever was noticed on the network, they scrambled to take it down.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/5/862065.jpg)
Anti-Government “Boogaloo” Ads
![Anti-Government Boogaloo Ads GRACKED.COM 2020 was not a year marked by its po- litical unity, but just to rile people up further, a group of anti-government or- ganizations known as Boogaloos (why are they always so embarrassingly named?) started creating ads for social media imploring people to join the mi- litia, fight the state through violent clips from action movies. Facebook re- sponded with a resounding whoopsie and pulled the ads.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/3/862063.jpg)
Natural Cycles’s Entire Existence
![Natural Cycles's Entire Existence MILK ..... HE SarasCycles Prognas file vectran - - - adit ele for Iday tre to - - exit - DE OUR - U mar 2015 77 28 of 25 20 e a 2 . 5 2 y 19 SA 12 12 15 30 4 R 25 por 19 S 18 18 25 26 22 26 23 P . 24 In 2018, a fertility-tracking app 3 2 called Natural Cycles tried to undo a ٩٦ I on generation of sex ed by claiming to the Z be a highly accurate contraceptive CRACKED.COM ad in a series](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/2/862062.jpg)
Klarna’s “Lift My Mood” Into Debt Ads
![Klarna's Lift My Mood Into Debt Ads صا App. CRACKED.COM At the height of restrictions on public gathering during the COVID-19 pan- demic, the buy now, pay later service Klarna paid a bunch of influencers to post that using the service lifted their moods during the lockdown, only to be struck down by the ASA for the im- plication that pandemic-induced de- pression and anxiety can be relieved by going into debt. Basically, they said the quiet part out loud.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/4/862064.jpg)
Yves St. Laurent’s Skeletal Model
![Yves St. Laurent's Skeletal Model CRACKED.COM Also in 2015, the ASA banned a print ad for Yves St. Laurent that featured a model who was al- ready extremely thin but then also lit in such a way that made her appear on the verge of death. They can't even find an actual body thin enough for high fashion anymore.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/1/862061.jpg)
XLS-Medical Max Strength Diet Pills
![XLS-Medical Max Strength Diet Pills GRACKED.COM A 2015 ad for diet pills was banned by the ASA for taking an irresponsi- ble approach to body image and confidence by featuring an already unusually slim young woman com- plaining that she'll never fit into the clothes she bought for vacation, a problem seemingly more easily solved by exchanging them. Now do all diet pill ads.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/0/862060.jpg)
Rachel Weisz Revitalift Ad
![Rachel Weisz Revitalift Ad L'OREAL adidas REVITALIER CRACKED.COM The ASA also banned a 2012 ad for L'Oreal Revitalift anti-wrinkle cream featuring a suspiciously smooth-faced Rachel Weisz that read, Wrinkles appear reduced, skin looks smoother, complexion looks more even. It's not a facelift, it's Revitalift. It turned out it wasn't either - it was Pho- toshop.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/9/862059.jpg)
Taken 2’s Fake Reviews
![Taken 2's Fake Reviews CRACKED.COM Presumably clued in by lines like Eat your heart out, 007 and 10 out of 10, which no self-respecting film reviewer would ever say about even their favorite movie, a Spo- tify ad for Taken 2 was banned by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority on the grounds that its endorsements were obvi- ously fake. The production company be- hind the movie tried to claim they'd cleared the endorsements with the news- paper they attributed, but the person they got permission from wasn't even the same one who wrote the review. It could have been the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/8/862058.jpg)
Dacia’s Car Commercial That Offends Everyone
![Dacia's Car Commercial That Offends Everyone CRACKED.COM Romanian car company Dacia made what AdWeek described as the most offensive car commercial ever in 2011, using dick jokes and ethnic stereotypes to offend the elderly, car salesmen, and the entire country of Romania. Warning: There are ra- cial slurs for the Romani people in that commercial. Like, whoa, really bad ones.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/5/862055.jpg)
“Would You Rather Slap Rihanna or Punch Chris Brown?”
![Would You Rather Slap Rihanna or Punch Chris Brown? GRACKED.COM In 2018, Snapchat pulled an ad for a game called Would You Rather?! that asked users whether they'd prefer to slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown, which would be bad enough if some of those things hadn't actu- ally happened. The game itself ар- parently had questions about, among other things, raping llamas, so at least it was upfront about its tastelessness.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/7/862057.jpg)
Dolce and Gabbana’s “Gang Rape” Ad
![Dolce and Gabbana's Gang Rape Ad OLCE & GABBAN CRACKED.COM In 2007, Dolce and Gabbana advertised their spring collection with a print ad of a woman presumably wearing a D&G dress, but it's kind of hard to tell under- neath the man holding her down while three other men look on with expres- sions that can only be described as patiently rapey. It was quickly banned from publication in Italy by the country's somewhat misleadingly named Advertising Self-Discipline Insti- tute, who released a statement amounting to, Come on. Like, serious- ly, come on.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/6/862056.jpg)
Calvin Klein’s Pedophiley Brooke Shields Ad
![Calvin Klein's Pedophiley Brooke Shields Ad CRACKED.COM Calvin Klein is known for their gross commercials, but they went too far for CBS and ABC in 1980, when the net- works banned a commercial featuring a panning shot over the body of a very 15-year-old-looking Brooke Shields, in- cluding directly into her crotch, before she peers coyly into the camera and whispers, You wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing. Poor Shields didn't even real- ize what she was implying about her undergarment situation.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/4/862054.jpg)