Shakeweight

The shake weight is one of the funniest things that got so popular for all the wrong reasons, making it pretty successful. The shake weight started out as this really low budget commercial that would played a few times throughout the day, but soon it went viral on the internet and of course everyone started to make jokes.

I remember walking in Great Mall and seeing the shake weight being sold there and teenagers buying it. I was thinking.... "oh jeez... why do they need this..." but soon I realized it's a birthday novelty. The shake weight became such a popular birthday gift instead of a workout tool. I was actually surprised by how many people purchased it as birthday gift for others. Pretty soon when my birthday came around, I too got the shake weight. It now sits in my room collecting dust...

Anyways, the shake weight was such as "fail idea", but the through the help of silly internet users it went viral and became an internet sensation. When SNL had the shake weight sketch more and more people knew about it and started buying it for their friends.

Yeah... it became really popular. Kristen Wiig did that snid bit. 

I still think that shake weight totally became accidentally famous. They got so much revenue from the first shake weight that they made a new one just for men. According to CNBC the shakeweight has hit 40 million in sales http://www.cnbc.com/id/38788941 The bad idea continues to profit and still the jokes will live forever.

In the Arms of an Angel....

When that song plays... You're probably watching an ASPCA commercial. It has to be the saddest thing shown on television. There you see animals getting abused, starving, and dying... It's incredible sad. Then there's this voice over asking for your help to save these animals lives, and the free shirt, jacket, magazine, and tote you get when you donate!

Sometimes I wonder where the money actually goes to... Instead of giving the people all this free stuff for donating money, couldn't they have used the money it takes to produce the "freebies" into helping animals? Anyways the advertisement is actually really effective, I actually donate to the organization even though I'm a poor college student. They catch you with the song and the frail animals, and pretty soon you start associating the song with dying animals and ASPCA.

Whenever I think of ASPCA I think of it's theme song, "In the Arms of an Angel" and the dying animals... I really do believe in ASPCA message to help animals because of how all the images they show, it's actually real footage. They advertise the fact that the animals are INDEED getting abused and that money is a solution to give all the animals a better home. ASPCA also does a good job of reaching out to all animal lovers. From dolphins, dogs, cats, and horse lovers, they show real footage of that animal in harm which really catches the public's attention. As your listening to the commercial you'll probably hear "in the arms of an angel" in the background as you see these animals in pain, the commercial tries to subliminally point out that you are the angel (if you donate)



ASPCA Commercial  <-- watch to see the commercial

Arms of an Angel <---  Song

i'm a girl and I'm very girly....

Well if you guys don't all know... I'm a girl! Pink and girlish things do attract my attention, but that's just who I am. Growing up, I liked legos and other random boy things like pirates and race cars, now I look back and think, "I was a pretty normal child. yay for me."

I'm actually really sad to see advertisements for children today. Everything is so gender stereotyped. Once I saw that girl washing clothes and doing cooking things, I was not please. A girl shouldn't be limited to the kitchen, that's so outdated. We're capable of everything, and I hate that at a young age they are molded to think that they are limited to certain things. I fell like for boys, they can grow up and do anything they want just because it's always been accepted, but for girls.... We've always just been pushed into the kitchen. I hate easy bake commercials because you only see GIRLS cooking instead of boys. I'm pretty sure, a boy would want to bake yummy treats too.. Or at least show a girl and boy working together... I believe that all children commercials should show boys and girls working together instead of just all girls/boys.

Sports or outdoor activities are the only things where I see boys and girls play together

There needs to be more commercials that promote playing with both genders! I noticed a lot of the outdoor toys like the slip and slide involve girls and boys which is great.  There needs to be more ads that focus less on the gender and more on the fun part. If they keep showing these brainwashing ads the children of tomorrow won't become anything special and just live in that norm. We could be potentially losing the best male dancer or the best female scientist. Both boys and girls should discover what they're good at and commercials should only remind them that they are always capable of everything and anything they want.



Here's a roaring springs ad that actually shows people having fun rather than their gender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoP8QYSoyD0