Sharpie Markers wants you to STOP PROTESTING

[TalkingDog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feIlvjN6fIM&feature=player_embedded


This isn't a political video, so I can't really put it in that section...

But at 10 seconds the protest marchers are carrying a big banner sign that reads

STOP PROTESTING


WTF?

Anybody want to field this one?

[PoliticAverse]

1. Yeah, you missed the joke... n/t

[Quantess]

2. But, they really DON'T want anyone to stop.

It's meant to be ironic.

[ryanryanryan]

7. re: It's meant to be ironic

rather blunt, messy and unsophisticated irony at that.

[Tunkamerica]

3. meh... just a joke. it's irony for dummies.

[SpiralHawk]

5. When they start doing Dummies for Irons jokes then...

...we will have turned a corner of some sort and possibly have arrived someplace or other.

[trumad]

4. Great commercial

Watch it again and you might get it.

[ryanryanryan]

6. nonsense

Every other symbol that occurred after the skateboard goes from blank to magic marker colorful is positive and clearly non-ironic. The sign doesn't make sense in context. Either it was a deliberate joke or the ad agency's sense of irony is as faulty as some on this board.

[Quantess]

8. It's an advertisement, and clearly it has been successful.

We're all sitting around discussing it, meanwhile being bombared with imagery of the product. So that was a win for the ad agency.

They don't care whether you protest or not, as long as you buy some sharpies.

[trumad]

11. Clearly it means what you don't think it means.

[ryanryanryan]

12. Okay. I get get it and feel stupid.

Protesters protesting protesting.

[Quantess]

14. But OTOH,

if the sign said "keep on protesting", then FOX news watchers would get upset. But they just want you to keep thinking about sharpies, and that part worked!

Welcome to DU, by the way. :hi:

[TalkingDog]

15. That was my take. There was no context for the "non-protest"

That said, it can be read as "ironic", but my first impulse is to think: Sharpie doesn't want me to buy their product.

I think it's a flawed concept.

[CJCRANE]

9. But they ARE protesting.

My opinion: don't express your opinion.

[ryanryanryan]

13. well said

Damn I wish someone would have just explained it as though I were never going to figure it out on my own.

[Owlet]

10. Question Authority!

Sez Who?

[Gabi Hayes]

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