I do have to say the recent Asda adverts make me cringe. I saw the Ant & Dec Santander ad the other day, which made me so very happy that I don't use them. If it wasn't for watching a boxset of a TV programme I watched in my teens, and all 151 episodes being on All4, I would be avoiding TV full stop. The ads, ooh they annoy me.
That being said, YouTube has gone awful for ads. I really, really, want Wish to get rid of that ad with the dad that's been a cheapskate and bought his 3 kids smartwatches. It's been repeated so much it drives me crazy, and you do have to feel sorry for the poor soul who buys inferior products on Wish...
I think what annoys me the most about that ad, apart from the kids who I can barely understand and make such stupid noises, is that one of my most favourite pre-cycling tunes (also a big favourite for getting pumped up and ready to go for a 3am start at work) has recently had an advert placed a little over halfway through it. That's fine, understandable, but nearly every time it's that same Wish advert. Having to wait to skip the ad, which should of course only be 5 seconds but the skip button seems to lag sometimes, meaning you have to suffer the ad you've seen/heard 306 times for at least 7 seconds sometimes, can really completely destroy the mood and I will be so very happy if I never see the ad again. I would be happy to throw a parade to see Wish go bankrupt and become a regrettable part of history!
The same applied very much to TikTok in the early part of the lockdown. Oh my good grief I was so happy to see that ad with the women doing their hair go away, with the music I couldn't understand, and that phrase 'what are you feeling? That's what TikTok's for!' will possibly stay in my memory forever. Hearing that 30 times an hour, if not more, was infuriating! Same as with Wish, I would be very happy to see TikTok die a death and become a moment in history we can all put behind us.
And don't start me on Instagram promoting ad nauseum their stories function...I haven't heard the Facebook adverts as much lately which is good, Will Smith's going on endlessly about bucket list madness is all I think of when I see anything he's in now. I will never be able to watch Men In Black the same way, and the third Bad Boys film when I eventually see it will be similar. I just won't be able to see his role in the same way!
Phew, sorry about the long post, as you can tell that lot's been on my chest for a while!