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Adweek reports:
There's a long and not-very-proud tradition of anti-drug advertising that gets ridiculed for missing the mark with young audiences. Australia's New South Wales government just added a classic new entry to that hall of shame with #StonerSloth, a campaign designed to shame teens who get high--but who are finding the ads hilariously delightful instead.
In three short videos, marijuana has turned teens into giant sloths--and the metaphor is made literal, as the kids are actually depicted as giant hairy beasts with long, curved claws. Socially, they're utterly useless. All they can do is moan, since they're so high. And they can't take tests at school, make small talk at parties, or--most comically, if unintentionally so--even pass the salt at dinner.
[...] The campaign is so cartoony and weird that teens, rather than learning any lessons from it, are embracing it as one big joke. There are already parody videos, endless Twitter jokes--and even a "Pass the salt" sloth T-shirt for sale.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by CortoMaltese on Sunday December 27 2015, @10:09PM
For anyone wondering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rHm8GbTHyE [youtube.com] for the videos, While they are somewhat funny I bet they are more fun while stoned, also the website seems to be a meta parody of itself with some jewels like [Stoned at dinner and the struggle is too real.] like really this is where you wanna take it? eating while stoned is A+.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 27 2015, @10:25PM
Doing anything while stoned is A+, except when you're an edgy teenager and you have to maintain.
My longtime but clingy girlfriend hated it when I got high. She said that i wasn't the same person, that I was an airhead. One day I decided to get high with my bro and I forgot to call her. She called and I picked up the phone and it was pretty much, " Why didn't you call me what were you doing that's not cool I was worried about you I've been sitting by the phone for 4 hours what the hell dude blah blah blah..." and as she rambled on I looked at my friend's moronic Mickey-mouse grin and bloodshot eyes, and out of nowhere as my girlfriend rambled I sputtered into the phone, " PFFFFFF HAAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAWWWWWWWW HAHA HA HAH AHAH A HAHAH A"
Man, had to kiss some major ass and put up with a week of passive-aggressive bullshit to pay for that one.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fadrian on Monday December 28 2015, @12:34AM
Dude, even I'm not too stoned to see that if this chick doesn't help you get three-way action frequently, she's waaayyyy too high maintenance. You can do better. And she better be rich, too.
That is all.
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Wednesday December 30 2015, @03:42PM
Dude, even I'm not too stoned to see that that is Ethanol-Fueled. If that chick isn't made of plastic then she must be entirely imaginary.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @02:04AM
> One day I decided to get high with my bro and sucked his dick and licked his balls.
(Score: 4, Funny) by CirclesInSand on Monday December 28 2015, @01:31AM
Maybe the people who made it were also stoned.