*promote

Also can someone help me tag this? Everytime I try to put something besides Christmas in (Ex Christmas,Kids,Coke) it keeps giving me an invalid error.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 10:41am PST - promote requested by original submitter Darkhand.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Christmas' to 'Christmas, coke, argentina, santa claus, what is that blue thing' - edited by bareboards2

I did the tags. And what IS that blue thing??????

>> ^bareboards2:

I did the tags. And what IS that blue thing??????


It's a resident of my nightmares. Seriously, this whole thing is terrifying.

Nightmare Fuel>> ^bareboards2:

I did the tags. And what IS that blue thing??????


Nightmare Fuel?

I like the part with the glory hole. Everybody, look!

That's some pretty fucked up brainwashing consumeristic video

i think this is pure evil. downvote

>> ^lavoll:

i think this is pure evil. downvote


Wow seriously?

How is this evil? Because it's a corporation and they are using it to market their products? Since when are showing people a good time, on their dime, such a travesty of moral justice?

I'll never understand this new wave of "everything corporations try to do even if people have fun with it is evil" no matter which way you explain it to me. If that's what you believe fine but please don't down vote my video because of it.

>> ^Darkhand:

>> ^lavoll:
i think this is pure evil. downvote

Wow seriously?
How is this evil? Because it's a corporation and they are using it to market their products?
I'll never understand this new wave of "everything corporations try to do even if people have fun with it is evil". If that's what you believe fine but please don't down vote my video because of it.


yes

The blue thing is some sort of construction worker dinosaur. You just can't see its head in most of the shots. First decent shot of it is at 1:07

wow. i saw this video and i jokingly thought to myself "now let's see how many comments it takes for someone to say something mean spirited for no reason."

6. on this video of a corporation doing something cheerful and nice (and cheap!), it took videosift 6 comments before someone thought that this injustice could not go on without their input.

i really wonder what happened to the videosift i used to know.

Well, Coca Cola does murder union organizers in South America. If this video was for Charles Manson Cola, would it be wrong to call it evil? I wasn't going to comment or vote until I saw Dignant's douchey comment.

Downvote (sorry darkhand)

http://killercoke.org/

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Well, Coca Cola does murder union organizers in South America. If this video was for Charles Manson Cola, would it be wrong to call it evil? I wasn't going to comment or vote until I saw Dignant's douchey comment.
Downvote (sorry darkhand)
http://killercoke.org/


Do you have anything other than third hand knowledge of such occurrences ? I was going to downvote that ludicrous comment, but I thought I would wait.

Check the link in my comment.

For those who don't get the ire many of us have towards advertising and branding, I'd recommend Naomi Klein's book No Logo.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Well, Coca Cola does murder union organizers in South America. If this video was for Charles Manson Cola, would it be wrong to call it evil? I wasn't going to comment or vote until I saw Dignant's douchey comment.
Downvote (sorry darkhand)
http://killercoke.org/


*sigh*

So then seriously why have the commercial channel? Or the Viral Channel?

If all we are going to do is punish finds of videos that actually just make some people smile but offend others then we should not even support this stuff.

Honestly it's frustrating to me because the video just made me happy, without analyzing all the undertones. So now we're just censoring other peoples fun based on neo-political ideals?

It's not Video-Sift at that point it's Video-Censor.
It's *Quality Control, not *Content Control.

This site is being so politicized lately it's making me really have a disdain for it.

Invocations (quality) cannot be called by Darkhand because Darkhand is not privileged - sorry.

The commentary and downvotes are well within the spirit of the channel. The description reads....

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"Commercial Sift
by looris

Commercials, advertisements, and everything about someone trying to gain money, to sell crap, to get discounts, to promote things, and so on.

http://mlx.videosift.com/
Style courtesy of mlx, who has done a great job and won a prize for that, because commercials are never without a price

http://maxbarry.com/jennifergovernment/
Logo is from Jennifer Government by Max Barry, which is a GREAT modern-cyberpunk book about corporations which all of you should really buy. Really, do yourself this favour."

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I don't get the picture that looris had free ad time for ruthless corporations in mind when he made this channel. If Coca Cola wants comment free advertising on this site, let them pay for it.

Just because you don't see the politics, doesn't mean they aren't there. Outside of all of Coke's unethical business practices and labor abuse, The Coca-Cola Company, itself, spends a lot of money on politics, supporting candidates and political front groups: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coca-Cola_Company

Beyond this, I think advertising diabetes inducing products to kids, and co-opting the iconography of a beloved cultural holiday is gross. Santa Clause doesn't drink Coke, he drinks hot cocoa and apple cider.

Anyway, I know you probably don't care about any of this and just wanted to enjoy a cute commercial. I get that and I'm sorry I've antagonized you. I've paid a visit to your pq, so net gain for you.