Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?
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An example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw6_5t8XfSk
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@raceprouk that is a little... Odd. And this is coming from someone who knows from odd.
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Because I foresee this topic pivoting into an ad viewing topic very quickly, I'm just going to preemptively contribute:
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@benjamin-hall said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@raceprouk that is a little... Odd
They all are. Some more for your perusal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9scm3NCIH_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhszQ3p6M4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSbJWsIScUE
While we're on the subject of creepy - the girl especially, in this old advert:
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@pjh is this a particularly right-pondian (British?) thing? I don't watch much TV (or ads in general), but those seem extra creepy/weird to me.
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@benjamin-hall said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@pjh is this a particularly right-pondian (British?) thing? I don't watch much TV (or ads in general), but those seem extra creepy/weird to me.
The general creepiness, not especially.
Certainly not in the way that, say, certain US adverts spend half their time listing contraindications and other warnings about the product they're advertising...
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@pjh But those are usually mandated by the FCC, the FTC or the FDA. Hence the sped-up voice--they want to minimize them as much as possible. There's been pushback from the regulators about how much they can do that (and how fine the print can be in printed ads).
This is different than making them intentionally creepy like seems to have happened with these ones.
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@raceprouk I don't know, without the sound they look pretty OK to me.
(fake edit: yeah that's a joke, I know that the fun/creepy part is the sound...)
Now the fun part: I turned on the automatic subtitles, which for some reason said it was Dutch ??? So I told youtube to auto-translate to English. And really, suddenly the whole ad makes a lot more sense, here is a full transcript:
He acknowledges that it did not
Employment in the debate
cabinda
you're the best
continent
Briefly, then an SMS alert message something is not only too long
Watch it for you
previously picked
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I quite like the Haribo adverts. Never saw them as creepy at all
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@pjh said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
While we're on the subject of creepy - the girl especially, in this old advert:
I can do that!
Perhaps not that quickly (I sense some editing magic).
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Haribo: aka Devil Shits, or Satans fury exploding from my rear
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The advert isn't as creepy as some of their products:
(Originally Haribo brand, but looks like they sold the product line to the Albanese corp...)
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And now, the worst animatronic head you'll ever see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwk0bAAfPk
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@raceprouk That was pretty cool, though I have no idea what was going on.
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@boomzilla said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@raceprouk That was pretty cool, though I have no idea what was going on.
It's trying to get people to claim compensation for missold payment protection insurance and you don't really care do you? :P
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@raceprouk I want to know where I can buy one of those Arnie-Head-Tanks, actually.
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@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
Haribo: aka Devil Shits, or Satans fury exploding from my rear
Those are only the sugar-free ones.
You're conflating a giant brand that makes sugar products with one special sugar-free product that literally comes with a warning that you probably shouldn't eat it.
People like you are the reason why companies have to make 3 or 4 brands to sell their different products.
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@anonymous234 said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
You're conflating a giant brand that makes sugar products with one special sugar-free product that literally comes with a warning that you probably shouldn't eat it.
They're the company that made a product that causes shits so violent that the victims need IV drips to treat dehydration afterwards. There is literally nothing else they will ever be known for. All they can do is burn the whole thing down to the ground and incinerate the ashes to remove the mark of shame (much like people who ate the product had to do to their bathrooms)
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@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
They're the company that made a product that causes shits so violent that the victims need IV drips to treat dehydration afterwards.
Just how many Haribo did they eat?
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@raceprouk said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
They're the company that made a product that causes shits so violent that the victims need IV drips to treat dehydration afterwards.
Just how many Haribo did they eat?
Just a handful will do
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@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@raceprouk said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
They're the company that made a product that causes shits so violent that the victims need IV drips to treat dehydration afterwards.
Just how many Haribo did they eat?
Just a handful will do
Sounds like an allergy to me.
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@raceprouk said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@raceprouk said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
@lorne-kates said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
They're the company that made a product that causes shits so violent that the victims need IV drips to treat dehydration afterwards.
Just how many Haribo did they eat?
Just a handful will do
Sounds like an allergy to me.
Sure, if you're allergic to eating laxatives laced with more laxatives.
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@lorne-kates I'm pretty sure we've discussed the whole thing with the Sugar-Free Gummy Bears before. In case you
missed itwere too busy burying trans-hookers in your backyard, it was due to the use of the sweetener Lycasin, a sugar alcohol (the same class of chemicals as sorbitol and xylitol, which have similar but less severe problems). Here's a summation quoted in one of the articles below:“The known side effects of the excessive consumption of Lycasin are bloating, flatulence, loose stools, and borborygmi, the scientific term for tummy-rumbling.” In addition, because our bodies can't fully digest Lycasin “it can ferment in the gut.”
Emphasis added, as it is one of the keys to this problem. Another of them states:
Lycasin is the ingredient here bringing the artificial sweetness — it's also called hydrogenated glucose syrup, maltitol, and often, in larger quantities, regret. Lycasin is actually a brand name for a starch-based sweetener made by French company Roquette — analogous to how Advil is the brand name for ibuprofen. Roquette is, according to its website, "one of the world's most advanced producers of starch and starch derivatives." Roquette says Lycasin is made from the "hydrogenation of high maltose glucose syrups" and is an ideal substitute for sweets. And, in a way, it is.
The Calorie Control Council says that maltitol has 90% of sugar's sweetness but fewer calories (2.1 per gram to sugar's four). It does an excellent job of camouflaging itself as straight-up sucrose (table sugar) while not promoting tooth decay or causing blood glucose and insulin levels to spike — a win for diabetics and sugar shunners alike. But, the thing that keeps these all-important levels even-keeled is also what can make digestive systems go woah: Maltitol is not easily digested.
As a sugar alcohol, maltitol is not completely absorbed by the body, so a portion of it inevitably ends up in the intestines. According to WebMD, people with irritable bowel syndrome or other intestinal sensitivities are more at risk for its notorious effects. But, even if you have neither, the American Dietetic Association warns against eating more than 20 grams at a time. However, it's hard to keep track of how much you're consuming when Haribo's nutrition info doesn't even specify how much Lycasin/maltitol/sugar alcohol is in a serving. And, of course, with the oversized bags available, it's all too easy to down a pound in a highway-hypnosis-like binge.
Twenty grams of a sugar substitute that is less sweet than sugar (as opposed to ones like saccharine or aspartame, which are considerably sweeter) is not much, and there's no easy way to tell how many of those gummy bears that would be. As a result, it was all too easy to exceed that limit without realizing it and get sick (even if you knew it could be a problem in the first place, which almost no one did).
and moving on to the Forbes article:
Reviews of the sugar-free bears on Amazon—Buzzfeed has a good roundup—describe intense cramping, bloating, noxious farts and some of the worst imaginable diarrhea. An intestinal "power wash." A "flood of toxic waste." A "volcano." A "gummy bear assault."
When the indigestible parts of maltitol make it to your intestines they draw water into the digestive tract by osmosis. All that water gets things, uh, moving. For instance, it gets you moving in the direction of the nearest bathroom.
That’s not all. Your body can’t fully digest maltitol. But research shows it gets broken down somewhat into molecules like acetate and butyrate. Those compounds are good food for the bacteria that thrive in our guts. Those bacteria like to make gas. Hence the bloating and the—hey, did somebody step on a duck?
Here's something that is really eye opening in this story. As well as opening other orifices.
Sugar alcohols like maltitol are actually prescribed by doctors to help people poop. They’re called osmotic laxatives. A 2002 study found that 40 grams of Lycasin for an adult is enough to do it. So how many gummy bears will give you the runs?
Again, emphasis added. The stuff is literally a medical laxative (well, maybe not maltitol itself, but sugar alcohols in general can be, so...). Smooth move, Haribo. The Forbes article continues:
Haribo doesn’t say how much lycasin was in each bear, but it was the first listed ingredient, meaning the largest by weight. Gummy bear recipes put the amount of sweetener at about one-third of the total weight. And a little googling tells me a gummy bear weighs around 3 grams. That comes to about 20 bears to get your guts bubbling. Anecdotally, people say about 15 sugarfree bears did the trick. For a kid it would be even fewer.
Twenty, at most. Twenty. How did they miss that?
It's hardly a new problem - Orbit chewing gum, which uses sorbitol, has long had similar problems despite much smaller quantities of the sweetener getting into the body (my father used to love that stuff, but quickly stopped chewing it when he realized it was the cause of his elephant flatulence). This shouldn't have caught them off guard like that. Was there no product testing done at all?
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Then there's the Kinder Egg Surprise commercial
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@scholrlea said in Am I the only one who finds Haribo adverts a bit creepy?:
Smooth move, Haribo.
Good post.
(not sarcastic, actually good post)