Every Terrible Ad Cliché You've Ever Seen in One Genius Video

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By Neha Prakash2014-03-25 22:20:20 UTC

Lab beakers and Chinese farmers. Kites and panoramic views of Costa Rica. Cars, babies and canned goods — these are what advertisements are made of.

Stock video provider Dissolve has created a brilliant ad by mocking (what else?) ads.

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The company pokes fun at its own business by pairing stock footage with the text from Kendra Eash's advertising takedown "This is a Generic Brand Video." Eash's poem, originally published on McSweeney's , calls out brands for overusing tropes like wrinkled ethnic men, stop-motion highway shots and skyscrapers.

Dissolve's resulting video is perhaps the most obnoxiously, on-point cliched ad to every exist.

This is consumerism. This is America. This is...kind of genius.

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Topics: Advertising, Business, Videos, viral video

Video: YouTube, Dissolve Footage