What happened to commercial mascots? I can't think of a single one that's still around. Can you?

What happened to commercial mascots? I can't think of a single one that's still around. Can you?

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the meerkat

What happened to Moonman? How did he become like he is today?

Companies stopped explicitly marketing to children.

Everyone has their limits, user, even extraterrestrial cheese heads.

Some say he's still out there... somewhere... in the shadows.

Someone thought the head looked like a klan hood and the rest is history

McDonald's acts like Ronald never even existed now. Well, I remember McDonald's. I remember!

mcdonalds managed to have the most dated ugly looking mascots of all time until they got rid of them all.

Honey Comb!!

They're still big in the UK.

You have:

>the Russian meerkat
>the Go Compare opera guy
>Brian the robot

off the top of my head

Ronald McDonald was literally a holdover from the Bozo the Clown era in the 50s. Local Bozos would advertise for local McDonalds until they weren't allowed to advertise on kids tv, so Mcd's made their own clown

yo quiero taco bell

>Moon "Grab a Coon" Man

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The Geico Gecko is in a lot of commercials.

Flo
The General
the gecko

It's still a thing for insurance companies.

I thought they got rid of him.

Because people on the internet turn your mascot into maymays and then it can be forever tainted. All it takes is one black guy on Twitter turning Mac Tonight into some sex meme or whatever, and it's ruined. E.g. whatever happened to that esurance mascot.

Now we just have super bland mascots like the Geico Gecko or whatever.

the evergreen frog
youtube.com/watch?v=3Mz0G0F-QfA

so easy a gecko could do it!

>we don't want free publicity
who are these people?

no
literally no one cares, in fact companies would want to have people make memes with their mascots

Is that really why they stopped using her?

Just because people are laughing at something doesn't mean they'll buy it

Yeah, when you image search for Erin e surance you get bunch of rule 34

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lol they made porn of her

that's a good thing

Company's are literally begging to become memes.

I was aware but I didn't think it was such a big thing

Imagine if Kim Possible was a current show and Disney had to deal with that endless sea of porn

Pg tips/ITV monkey is a top lad

> Just for the record, I'm not a guy.
I think the Moon Man meme is ridiculously stupid.
I don't think the Moon Man meme is funny at all.
I adore MAC TONIGHT (that's his name) and I don't enjoy seeing him bastardized.
MAC TONIGHT is the greatest character ever.
Leaving a comment telling me to "Moderate this, nigger: Kill yourself" doesn't offend or impress me, grow up and stop wasting your life being a moron. Just go to one of the many other Mac Tonight videos and leave your racist comments there. It's not that hard.

>I adore MAC TONIGHT

literally no one cares
publicity is publicity

The Incredibles is getting a sequel despite the gigs of Shadman porn.

>I adore a man that murders black people

You Nazi bigot

>nazis are known for killing black people

k

>2016
>Not realizing there is more than one King of Nazi.

You're worse than I thought.

>despite
*because

toy story 3 and monsters university appeals to the young pixar audience that now goes to college, Incredibles 2 will appeal to the horny bastards who fapped to Mrs Incredible and Violet

Kind*

Yeah except they actually did

I'm actually a fan of the Dash and mommi stuff

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When I was a kid this commercial always made me want this shitty cereal even though I disn't like it, it drove my mom crazy

...

Why is Mac Tonight suddenly popular again?

How has no one said Mr. Clean yet? He's literally the name of the product, faggoty earing and all

Classic.

youtube.com/watch?v=or9E7yfRB08

>who are these people?

I literally told you who: esurance.

Seriously dude? There are a shitload.

My current favorite is the extra crispy colonel.

youtube.com/watch?v=yN7i5OoImRc

As a kid, I always feared he would cuck me with my mom.

>nazi
>diversity
hee hee hoo hoo

They went full 1488 and moved to Sup Forums.

I heard they brought him back, but now they have those goofy commercials of regular people wearing the paper crowns.

I don't think you know what "cuck" means.

The Version guy is still around, but now he's the Sprint guy.

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>refuted
>hee hee hoo hoo

what's his secret name Sup Forums?

>his actual name in the commercial was "The Memer"

nah m8. Hitler had zero problems with black people. he hated him some Jews alright.

you mean except for the Rhineland bastards he had mass sterilized?

>E.g. whatever happened to that esurance mascot.
Erin Esurance was always meant to be fap material. Early 00's discount auto insurance ads were kinoasfuck. They either leaned hard into the cheese factor, or went for comedy. Esurance went after the 2D Waifu audience instead.

>Flo
>Geico Gecko
>Wendy
>The Colonel
>Lucky the leprechaun
>Charmin Bears
>Coca cola bears (inb4 seasonal)
>Chuck E. Cheese

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>not posting the best one

That Shad porn is fucking blessed. I can't believe it really exists

Have had this exact conversation with my brother for months now.

Commercials are so boring a by the books nowadays. It’s all about the implied realism, I mean, how many times do I have to sit through another “let's interview a group of totally unpaid actors and brag about how healthy our food is” commercial.

Almost every company has done it now, and it’s been done to death by this point. Why can’t commercials just be “fun” anymore?

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