The 15 second ad made Google Home devices read another ad!
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00:00 Burger King has released a new ad intended to trigger Google Home devices in viewers
00:03 homes into reading the ingredients for the Whopper from Wikipedia.
00:07 "Okay Google, what is the Whopper burger?"
00:10 And almost instantly the ad was a flame broiled failure.
00:13 "What is the Whopper burger?"
00:17 "According to Wikipedia, the Whopper is a hamburger consisting of a flame grilled quarter
00:22 pound beef patty, sesame seed bun, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, pickles, ketchup, and sliced
00:27 onion."
00:28 Once the internet got wise to Burger King's tricks, they started editing the Wikipedia
00:32 for the Whopper.
00:33 And this is where it gets fun.
00:34 "According to Wikipedia, the Whopper is a burger consisting of a flame grilled patty
00:39 made with 100% medium sized child with no preservatives or fillers topped with sliced
00:43 tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cyanide, pickles."
00:46 Google quickly blocked the Burger King ad when it aired on mobile devices, but brought
00:50 it back when it started airing on late night TV.
00:53 And the backlash against Burger King has been fiery to say the least.
00:57 Space Potato asks, "Hey BK, are you going to pay for all the Whoppers Amazon just ordered
01:01 me?"
01:02 Ronnie Kudrow says, "This sounds like an excellent reason not to turn your house into
01:05 a voice activated house."
01:07 Listen, was this innovative?
01:08 Yes.
01:09 It's pretty smart.
01:10 But the future does scare me.
01:11 I mean, I'm wondering when the time will come when an ad plays on my TV and if I'm
01:15 not looking at my TV and I'm looking down at my phone and my social feed, the ad's
01:18 gonna pop up there.
01:19 That's where we're heading folks.
01:21 Just saying, I'm an early adopter, I'm a trendsetter, so it might happen.
01:26 You heard it from me first.
01:27 I'm sure other people said that too, but you know, whatever.
01:31 And I think we're also in this experimentation time with these robot personal assistants
01:35 and things will go wrong.
01:37 20 years or 50 years from now, they're gonna be making fun of us like we make fun of cell
01:42 phones.
01:43 Like remember when we used to hold a cell phone that was like a brick?
01:46 That's gonna be like future generations when we talk about robots and personal assistants.
01:50 They'll be like, "Remember when Burger King tried to do that thing and they messed it
01:53 up and it would call that other burger place and everyone made fun of it?
01:59 That was so early 2010s."
02:03 So what did you think of this ad?
02:04 Do you want extra advertising that really invades your space more than it is right now?
02:09 Let us know in the comments below.
02:10 For more trends, go to whatstrending.com.