The Barnardos ad was exactly what it needed to be - emotional, upsetting and uncomfortable. If people felt that way watching it, imagine what those kids go through every day. Far as I'm concerned, the ad company could have gone further.
Agreed, but if it's distressing for children, the question needs to be why is it being screened to children? In the UK we have a 9pm watershed after which more shocking TV programmes and adverts can be screened. The advert should be screened after 9pm.
The Barnardo's advert was the only one that got the message across. Yes it made one very uncomfortable, but then child abuse should. The other nine should be under the title 'the most unsuccessful adverts around' as not one of them would get me to use the service or buy the product advertised.
@@LADYRAEUK there are a lot of over sensitive people these days who are offended over the least little thing. SNOWFLAKES, although Mary Whitehouse would have wanted some to be on after 9pm
The only one of those adverts that was remotely shocking was the one for Barnado’s - but it should be, given its mission of combatting child abuse. On the other hand some of its activities in the 1950s & 1960s relocating orphan children or those from difficult home situations to sometimes abusive placements in places like Australia or Canada are an area they now gloss over.
I remember one, I think may have been bernardos. It was a cartoon, a child comedically being hit, thrown around, and kicked and popping back up again. The last bit was the cartoon child being kicked down some stairs, bouncing on each step twirling around, landing on the head etc, pulling funny faces. Then it cuts away to a real bloody child lying at the bottom of some stairs.
@@johnwaga3702 ever notice how small the number of complainers are why does society cater to the small minority it also makes you wonder what the hell these parents are allowing their kids to watch you don't see these on kids channels.
@@samuel10125 I was goni say the same thing. They actually take action if even only one moron complains. We live in a giant nursery they refuse to call a nanny state.
The Barnardos advert is really harrowing, but unfortunately for some children, it happens all too often. It’s heartbreaking, but they got their point across. The people who complained about this advert have no idea what some children are living with 😓
you hit the nail on the head. People who complain about these adverts have far too much time on their hands. I think these people just complain about everything and nothing.
I thought the VW Golf "Engineer" advert was rather clever - it was for the launch of the Mk VI Golf - the 5 doppelgangers represented the Mk I - Mk V Golfs, hence "Sometimes, the only one you have to beat, is yourself".
The issue with it was that it was shown before the watershed. Before 9pm, when kids are ‘up’ what can be shown is pretty restricted. After 9pm though, all bets are off and you can show pretty much anything.
Didn’t find any of these offensive. A health advert has to hit the point home, here in the UK tv adverts for cigarettes were banned in the 60s and there have been so many campaigns to stop people smoking, and no matter how many times we are told and showed how smoking damages our lungs, people still buy cigarettes no matter how expensive they are on our pocket and health. To be honest, some adverts are better than mainstream tv.
Maybe anti smoking adverts need to be in smellovision to get it across to people exactly how they’ll be stuck with that horrible rancid stench for as long as they continue to smoke, not just the foul breath but the overall stench.
Another great vid. I thought the VW advert was more like the Matrix. The advert that I was expecting in there was the one for Fanta! That created a trend of slapping people! All the best.........
I think with the Banardo's advert, the whole point was to make you feel uncomfortable so doing it differently would have been a wrong choice. Hopefully, something like the advert could make someone question something they've seen & help save a child 🤞
Christ on a bike, genuinely some people will complain about anything at all! I bet it’s mostly the same people complaining about each and every ad! Bunch of curtain twitching busybodies
The thing with the Barnardo’s ad is that it is supposed to make you uncomfortable, it is supposed to completely put you on edge. It’s meant to make you realise that if it feels wrong to witness actor’s recreating these situations in a completely safe environment, that it is beyond wrong to keep allowing our youth to actually have this as their reality. It is ultimately hoping that your discomfort will make you do something to help…even if the only thing you can do is make a financial contribution to enable them to carry out the work on your behalf. So personally, I don’t think that the advert should have been toned down, it is meant to turn people’s outrage into something productive. If they increased their charitable donations by even 5%, I’d say they achieved their goal.
Unfortunately, child abuse will be around forever no matter what anyone does. It's been around since the dawn of time and will exist as long as we're here
The adverts weren't really contraversial in themselves, sure, adverts like the Bernardo's one were made to make the viewer sit up and take notice but it was more to do with how many complaints each advert received. Sadly, in the UK, people will find fault and complain about anything - you could advertise a glass of water and someone would complain sooner or later.
@@Greenwood4727 Not at all. You could say that the people making the complaints sat firmly in the 'Mary Whitehouse Brigade' camp and weren't all women either, Karens are something completely different.
Arthur Dent: "What's unpleasent about being drunk?" Ford Prefect: "Ask a glass of water!" From 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams.
Some people are just not happy unless complaining about something other than the weather. Those numbers were quite low compared to the millions who probably viewed them. Surely that is the purpose of an ad, to grab one's attention. When it comes to safety ads, the idea is to shock people. There is a current info ad on the TV here in Ireland about safety on farms, that is a graphic and shocking to some advert, the intended purpose.
The complaint about encouraging children to acts of violence comes from the Tango advert 'You've been Tangoed' it was pulled because kids were being slapped in playgrounds
The most offensive to myself as a single dad of 7 kids for 14 years are both Asda`s " Behind every good Christmas is a mum" And Iceland's "Mums gone to Iceland" Both stereotypical saying that only mums are good at home and not dads, would not be allowed to say only men know about cars and electric etc.
Oh yes I agree but that's the only one shown here that I remember the most, another advert that isn't shown here is the advert for Xbox that has the slogan "life's too short" where a woman gave birth and the baby shot out and flew through the sky, getting older and older and eventually landing right into a grave. Not sure if you remember that one but that was way more disturbing!
Can I say a big Thank You for another great RU-vid video, here's to next video 😀👍my favourite (I think we have the same sense of humour) do you have the PotNoodle horn 😂🤣😁
The Bernardos advert was important the fact people complained means it was done right abuse is an uncomfortable subject and should be highlighted so that people suffering can be brought to prominence so it can be spotted by the ignorant masses (and by ignorant I mean ignorant of the signs)
As adverts go, I think the worst (by worst I mean the best!!) was the Tango advets that created all the outrage when the youth of the day re-enacted then....... "ooooooooooa Tonee...."
Some adverts that have been used in the UK were shocking, some intended to shock. Like the anti drink driving adverts always went in hard to make an impression. One that was particularly graphic and had to be removed and only shown after 9pm (watershed hour) was a guy driving after a couple of pints with pints after a football game with mates, the other half was a family in the garden, he crashes and rolls the car through a fence and kills the child, last scene is the dad holding a dead child. Graphic, hit home hard and had to be removed.
The "controversy" with these ads is usally nothing more than professional offence takers doing what they love best. As an aside, the actor in the Hooked advert is Tim Plester who went on to various high profile support roles such as Roy Thomas Baker in Bohemian Rhapsody, Julian in Afterlife and Black Walder Rivers in Game of Thrones. To those of us at school with him though, he'll always be known as the creator and star of Pansy Man... Well it was the 80s...
There's been a heavier crackdown on imitable adverts being seen by children since the Tango advert "you've been Tangoed" of someone being slapped on both sides of the head put the odd kid in hospital.
The VW advert was complained about because it was shown pre-watershed so pre 9pm and Marie Stopes is a large abortion provider here in the UK whilst some of these adverts might not be controversial as such the metric that the video you watched measured controversy by volume of complaints. I think you should some reaction videos to public information films such as Apaches or Lonely Water
The complaint that the Bernado's advert was misleading and scaremongering was offensive. Many people trapped in domestic abuse situations would unlikely feel that way.
That wasn’t “misleading and scaremongering”. The Barnardo’s ad was considered unsuitable for children. The next ad, the bedtime story, was “misleading and scaremongering”.
The kicking cats video was based on blind football where the ball has bells on it so the players can locate it………then the cat runs in with a bell on its collar, quite funny I thought.
I remember Barnardo's "Break the Cycle" advert very well. It was on TV all the time in the summer and autumn of 2008, particularly in the breaks of Big Brother, Coronation Street and The X Factor. I was 17 with a short attention span at the time, but it was one of the only adverts I'd pay attention to. I could never take my eyes off it. It's meant to shock and cause discomfort.
Dr Barnardo started his hard-hitting campaigns to raise awareness of homeless children over 150 years ago. Back then he used photographs of street kids
I think the point of the Bernardo's add was to make you uncomfortable, we have extreme anti-drink driving adds hee in nz that are the same, they make you uncomfortable and make you think
Reason that the fight scene ad was complained about was because it was shown before 9pm which is before The Watershed so kids could see it but people didn't mind it been on after 9pm.
Upon your recommendation I tried smashing that like button and you know what? I was into it! Also it speaks favorably of the UK that these were their most controversial ads. Some of the ad agencies here in the states are truly full of some garbage human beings.
Other than the child abuse one (Which did exactly what it should to the viewer) the rest just prove Karen's and snowflakes have been around a lot longer than we thought.
May be the last ad was more about it being an emergency call centre? I wonder if you would check out Victoria Wood and some of the comedy sketches she did either as a stand up comedian or with Julie Walters. Sadly she passed away too soon in 2016...she wrote a sketch which Julie Walters was in called 'Two Soups' which I can't ever say when ordering two soups without bursting into laughter. Haley Bailey Step Aerobics or Fatitude are some other funny ones too.
@@LADYRAEUK you might have to dig around for it. There are cut down versions which don't let you see just how brilliant the whole sketch is. And there are many recreations too. Julie Walters is the original one.
What was it a fellow Irishman ( George Bernard Shaw) once remarked, I,m deffo paraphrasing here ...no greater crime than man,s indifference to his fellow man... that is why we should try our best, on a happier note I,m going to drink too much tonight... cheers...
When I was a young in the 70s there used to be a Cadbury's Flake advert where a beautiful woman would eat a flake quite suggestively I always wondered why it was hard to get to sleep after seeing that advert . I didn't think any of these adverts were truly shocking I think the people that might have complained about these might be a little bit of a snowflake.
There was the one in the early 80’s when she was in the bath and it was overflowing, my old dear wasn’t too happy when I tried to recreate the overflowing part. I was only about 4/5 😂😂😂
There is a certain section of UK society that will just complain about anything on TV. If you want really hard hitting stuff, you should check out the UK equivalent of PSAs: Public Information Films, or PIFs.
Iron bru advert compilations are worth a watch. Some older ones not as good but a lot of newer ones are funny as well as sometimes being a bit controversial
Reaction Suggestion - Scary UK Public Information Films. From warnings about being careful with fireworks, to "Stranger Danger", to cautionary tales about messing about on railway lines... The phrase "High-Octane Nightmare Fuel" has rarely been so apt.
As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s with unsettling Public Information Films stuffed into TV ad breaks (often pre watershed) I don’t see a problem with any of these. The Barnados one is uncomfortable, but the rest of them 🤷🏻♂️. Maybe react to some UK Public Information Films (pifs), some of them were pretty grim.
@@LADYRAEUK I would very much like to see you react to those. Just don't expect to be able to do the whole reaction in one sitting... You'll need to take breaks in between the videos just to get your head back together, especially some of the ones featuring children (they can make the Barnardos ad look like a Tango Slap)
The one with the cat was absolutely hilarious . I think some people just love to complain. If there were nothing to complain about they'd complain about that
Marie Stopes International Reproductive Services offer advice on contraception and abortion, as well as the procedures themselves. In the UK they work with the NHS. I just did a quick internet search and found their website.
Spot on, Amanda ! Some people have too much time on their hands. And with that long, long fight scene, that would be the thing that stays in your mind and make you forget what was being advertised.
The problem with smoking adds is the nhs services only work for relatively few smokers it would be better if there was more resources to encourage smokers to take up vaping to break the habbit with a safer alternative. The NHS premotes vaping now but they do not put out literature to help smokers choose the right first vape for them.
I've just watched Eclectic beard reactions do a video on stephen fry giving a short speech on American vs British comedy and it was absolute genius I would love to see you react to it 😀👍
I'll start by saying I appreciate you for the time taken for the great videos. As for these adverts being "offensive" I agree with you that some people have way too much time on their hands. Great video keep em going
Try "TOP 10: MOST EFFECTIVE BRITISH ADVERTS" that one might make you think. There is one ad which is the same as in this one. "TOP 10 SCARIEST DRINK DRIVING PSAs" is another one that hits home.
Government ads are meant to provoke discussion so job done there. Great reaction as I love how calm your voice is. Also I now live in Canada and tend to pvr everything so I can skip ads completely.
I suspect the complaints owed more to the time of day when they would be allowed to be shown - we still have a fairly strict enforcement of violent content up until 9pm on the terrestrial channels for example which would account for the Volkswagen one. They may also have been about what certificates they received for cinema showings on similar grounds. I didn't find any of them that bad beyond the Barnado's one which felt a bit manipulative (which is a fine line for ads to walk), but I can see why some people would question when they could be shown
I thought the Carling ad or the “Yorkie - It’s not for girls” one would be on there as they were quite popular ads which got banned. That KFC one was just a bit silly. I’d forgotten about it until I saw this. The “hooked” one was from a long line of quite graphic and dark Public Information Films; I remember it and there are far “worse” ones than that.
I saw another " American reacts " to this same video set. JT reacts I think it was and he could not watch the little car in the car park one . His reactions were a bit over the top on most of these. I did not find any of these offensive but then I'm Scottish and our humour is a bit darker. I love how you didn't find them so bad either so maybe your becoming more British xx
Most of these were pretty much okay, I loved the VW advert, better than a lot of movie fight scenes if I’m honest. The only one that was uncomfortable as you rightly said was the Banardos ad with the girl getting hit and abused. But it did its job and made us uncomfortable and was thought provoking.....exactly what was intended, the producers did a good job raising awareness in my opinion.
Actually very surprised that there wasn’t the “Belly is gonna get you” advert from Reebok or Adidas? Where a belly chased a man down a street or the “You’ve been Tango’d” adverts where a guy came up to someone who took a drink of Tango and was slapped in both ears simultaneously (that got banned because kids were doing that at school and causing pretty bad hearing damage to each other!) Both ads got banned but I can’t remember why the belly advert did tho
@@chindleymuffin Thanks mate, I was too lazy to Google it, but just remembered it got banned, but why is still a mystery even after your explanation, people need to get a grip
@@chindleymuffin I might have been an older teenage enjoying the distractions of that particular period… I worked hard and scoffed at things that we absurd and laughed greatly and ordered a Chinese followed by an Indian for desert
With regard to Pot Noodles, I can't help but think of an episode of _Red Dwarf_ when Lister's stranded and the only edible things he has are a tin of dog food and a pot noodle and our hero says, "Well, it's easy to see what gets eaten last, then... I _can't _*_stand_* pot noodles!" So, I can't understand why _anyone_ would have a "pot noodle horn".
The CO2 one, fair enough. It is a bit scaremongering. And some of the the ones for products are awful (I'm looking at you, KFC). But for the serious ads, what's the problem? Serious and shocking issues require serious and shocking advertising.
They didn’t even show the old Tango adverts from the 90’s which had kids all over the county smacking complete strangers round the face and running off shouting, you’ve been Tango’d. Good time’s lol
In the 80’s, the was garage company called SMC, similar to Kwik Fit. All you heard was a car braking hard. A hedgehog walks on and says, that car needs an SMC seeing too! Turns and walks away but is flat as a pancake. Funniest advert ever.
Hi Amanda, the thing about British TV "rules", is that there's an agreed time, called "the Watershed" when certain scenes aren't supposed to be shown. This is around 9pm, before which, it's assumed children may still be up (not in bed). So maybe that's why there were complaints about the VW advert (which i actually liked - Jason Statham fan).
