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hyundai in firestorm over controversial 'suicide' ad

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  • #2
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    You'd really start to wonder where they hire these clowns in PR.


  • #3
    Icepick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    And?


  • #4
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Well it does have the second (I thought first but wikipedia says no) highest suicide rate in the world so it's a real life-saver.


  • #5
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Firestorm?


    Sounds legit.


  • #6
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    It's a clever ad, if not a little insensitive.


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  • #7
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Ad pulled or ad not pulled, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Bet this getz more attention for their low-em vehicles, one way or another. People will go "Tut-Tut - hmm, zero emission Hyundai eh?"


  • #8
    Arcsin
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭Arcsin


    And we are all talking about it. Straight out of the Michael o'Leary school of advertising.


  • #9
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone




    It reminds me of the type of scenes you would see in them short films that are sometimes shown on RTE really really late at night.


  • #10
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    Well, now that it's been pulled it'll probably go viral faster, I reckon this was the plan from the start. The message of low emissions is inseparable from its controversy as well, pretty clever advertising if you ask me.


  • #11
    galwayjohn89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭galwayjohn89


    It's always going to be a touchy subject but I don't find it too insensitive.


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  • #12
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Arcsin wrote: »
    And we are all talking about it. Straight out of the Michael o'Leary school of advertising.

    They're aim isn't to get people talking about the ad. It's to make them want to buy into it.

    People can be put off buying a product or brand for life just by an advert.. regardless of how many are talking about it.

    Personally, I don't think it's the worst of ads but I can certainly see why people would be sensitive about it.


  • #13
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Don Draper wouldn't approve.


  • #14
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    I thought it was near impossible to kill yourself that way nowadays no matter what make/model car you use as supposedly catalytic coverters mean that the poisons necessary to do the job aren't plentiful enough in the fumes that are expelled.

    Maybe some mechanic can clarify it for us?

    Also, strange ad coming from Korea, where 15,000 people die by suicide each year. The overall population is only 50 million.


  • #15
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    kraggy wrote: »
    I thought it was near impossible to kill yourself that way nowadays no matter what make/model car you use as supposedly catalytic coverters mean that the poisons necessary to do the job aren't plentiful enough in the fumes that are expelled.

    Maybe some mechanic can clarify it for us?
    A guy that works for a relation of mine attempted suicide that way and failed. The doctor told the relation that his failure was down to the catalytic converter. He's tried since and failed though so he might just suck at committing suicide.


  • #16
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Wow. It's clever and all that, and I get that they obviously wanted a bit of controversy to make it go viral... But it is just one of those things that never should have been done.

    ETA: I just can't believe how bad it is. It's so wrong.


  • #17
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    FFS what is everyone's problem!!!!

    The poor guy was just try to create his own steam room at home. He'd didn't realise that Hyundai's engines are so under powered that he couldn't create enough steam :pac:


  • #18
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I thought the "red light" camera videos in that ^ sequence were far more noteworthy. Bl00dy hell:eek:


  • #19
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    100% Water emissions?

    I guess that makes me only about 50% as environmentally friendly as the Hyundai...


  • #20
    Nabber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    You can't have attempted suicide as a advert. But you can have soaps on TV get a few episodes out of it. Both trying to make money, one is tolerated the other is not.....


  • #21
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    It's a clever ad. Because if I owned a Hyundai I'd probably want to kill myself too.


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  • #22
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    humbert wrote: »
    Well it does have the second (I thought first but wikipedia says no) highest suicide rate in the world so it's a real life-saver.

    The Hyundai? Which model? I have a Trajet. I needs to know...


  • #23
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    What a terrible advert . So insensitive , Who ever came up with that should be lined up against a wall and shot


  • #24
    galwayjohn89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭galwayjohn89


    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    What a terrible advert . So insensitive , Who ever came up with that should be lined up against a wall and shot

    Why do you say that? It's a fact of life that people commit suicide and for far too long it's been a taboo to talk about.


  • #25
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Vuzuggu wrote: »
    Why do you say that? It's a fact of life that people commit suicide and for far too long it's been a taboo to talk about.

    So the best solution is to make it an advertising gimmick that completely detracts from the seriousness of the situation?


  • #26
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    What a terrible advert . So insensitive , Who ever came up with that should be lined up against a wall and shot

    Or perhaps forced to shoot himself in an ironic twist!!


  • #27
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    What a terrible advert . So insensitive , Who ever came up with that should be lined up against a wall and shot

    :eek: That would be a trajety.


  • #28
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You won't see Foxconn or any of the people they make electronics for making ads like that.


  • #29
    galwayjohn89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭galwayjohn89


    miss no stars wrote: »
    So the best solution is to make it an advertising gimmick that completely detracts from the seriousness of the situation?

    If it gets people talking and removes the taboo I'm all for it.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It is quite well shot.


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  • #31
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,616 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    I agree the ad is crap, but I am actually not quite sure what the difference between depiction of suicide in this advert is and the indentical depiction of suicide in the music video for "High Hopes"

    One is promoting a car, one is promoting a band, but both are commercial entities?


  • #32
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    :eek: That would be a trajety.

    Oh god, that's terrible !!:D


  • #33
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    errlloyd wrote: »
    I agree the ad is crap, but I am actually not quite sure what the difference between depiction of suicide in this advert is and the indentical depiction of suicide in the music video for "High Hopes"

    One is promoting a car, one is promoting a band, but both are commercial entities?
    Musicians are artists though - and their videos are mini films.


  • #34
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNtBvxGY2b0


    seems familiar.


  • #35
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,616 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Musicians are artists though - and their videos are mini films.

    Are they - like at the professional level they're limited companies just like everyone else, and usually the label makes the video?

    Some people would argue car manufacture contains a lot of design and art too.


  • #36
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    Utterly stupid add by Hyundai...

    What will they show next?

    Yer man hanging through the attic door opening from the rafters in an ad for strong rope??


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  • #37
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Turner wrote: »
    Utterly stupid add by Hyundai...

    What will they show next?

    Yer man hanging through the attic door opening from the rafters in an ad for strong rope??

    A man crying in a dingy motel room goes to shoot himself in the head with a no-brand gun only for it to jam followed by

    "Sig Sauer: To hell and back reliability".


  • #38
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    The Hyundai? Which model? I have a Trajet. I needs to know...
    Fair point, I read it and berated myself but was too lazy to edit it. (At leas there both its refer to the same thing).


  • #39
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Turner wrote: »
    Utterly stupid add by Hyundai...

    What will they show next?

    Yer man hanging through the attic door opening from the rafters in an ad for strong rope??

    From Lidl?


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