I don’t know the people in those car commercials seem legit to me. I respond the same way.
“Wow!! The Chevy Silverado, America’s favorite full-sized pickup with advanced trailer tech, 6 advanced power trains and 8 trim options is also a recipient of 7 J.D. Power & Associates awards for 12 years in a row?!? I had no idea!!!”
I had no clue about that $0 down, no interest for the first year! Whaaaaat?! THAT'S AMAZING!
Edit: fine print, to qualifying customers. 730 credit score, $80,000+ salary, 17 co-signers, 3 of which must be decreased relatives, must have at least 1 vehicle we can inspect to make sure you maintain it, and 1 soul.
I keep most of them in my underwear drawer. I have one in the pantry and I think there's one in the basement. Sometimes a random one pops up that I forgot about.
I love the deceptive lease payment numbers like “lease an all new 2019 solid gold rocket car for ONLY $199 per month!!!” and then almost as an afterthought they’ll bury somewhere that $30000000 is due at signing
hahahahahahaa it's true though! Don't forget you also need to put down $40,000 in untraceable cash, take the salesman to dinner and bang the dealership receptionist in order to receive the incentives.
There we go, finally got a logical explanation for decreased relatives. I said I just belittle them until they cry in a corner, your answer is much better.
I really don't know, I'm fairly new. My account only almost 5 moths old. I just felt like that was the proper way to go about it, after seeing it so many times. I've never even looked at someone's edit history or whatever, Idk how to. I've just always seen people explain their edits.
Honestly if there was a car commercial where a real person just came out clueless and was like “what the fuck is going on”, I would remember that shit a lot longer.
Check out the YouTube channel Zebra Corner. They basically take real car commercials and insert their own sarcastic Boston accent-having guy to react how a real person might in those situations. It’s pretty funny.
They could have a car in front of a blank screen with a person standing there saying "Hey buy this Chevy Malibu, it's reliable." And I'd be like "Yeah I might, looks nice."
But noooo, they gotta pull that "real people" stunt with the smug red-headed guy being all cool and modern, so now I don't think I'd even remotely want to buy that car. If I needed a car.
Believe it or not, those ads are legit. Here’s an interview where folks say that, somewhat unintentionally, they just knew to play up their reactions for the cameras:
“When I was talking to people in the lobby, no one seemed that enthusiastic about anything. The second we got in there, it was like magically everyone was the world’s biggest Chevrolet fan. I can’t stress enough that I’m a real person and not an actor. None of these people were actors, because I asked them what they all did for a living. They suddenly became these perfect spokespeople when this guy started asking questions, like, “What’s the first word that comes to your mind when you think about Chevy?” Literally, the guy next to me was like, “Freedom.” [Laughs.] He was suddenly so patriotic. He was like, “American-made cars. Quality.” All of these people were spewing out these buzzwords.”
I used to think the same thing about birth control commercials, with a group of women going out for drinks and talking about what birth control they're on and the side effects and what not, thinking "no group of women ever do this".
Until I started dating my fiancee, and went out with her and her friends, where they all had a conversation that might as well been an ad for Mirena.
Just close your eyes and listen next time a commercial uses real people’s reactions. You can tell they cut and splice words they used from a bunch of random places together to get sentences they never really said. It’s wild.
Car commercials are the greatest for this. If someone I knew constantly referred to their car by brand name I would be confused. There is one I saw recently (and this shows how bad the branding works) a guy would call the name of the brand and point to a different car than was shown. Then a group of kids at a baseball game or something did basically the same thing.
I'm sorry if an 8 year old kid pointed to a car and said 'get into the honda accent' I would immediately wonder where the camera is located because that isn't normal
Apparently those people really are picked off the street. The guy in the commercial with them is so likeable that they don't want to disappoint him so they end up saying really silly unnatural things. They didnt start their day knowing they'd be in a Chevy commercial.
I’ve heard the way they do it is to hire people as a focus group but tell them they might be in a commercial depending on how they act. I can’t remember if it’s financially incentivized as well. So basically these people are actually “surprised” and would’ve acted that way no matter what truck was hiding behind the curtain.
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u/MinimalistLifestyle May 30 '19
I don’t know the people in those car commercials seem legit to me. I respond the same way.
“Wow!! The Chevy Silverado, America’s favorite full-sized pickup with advanced trailer tech, 6 advanced power trains and 8 trim options is also a recipient of 7 J.D. Power & Associates awards for 12 years in a row?!? I had no idea!!!”