This is the worst piece of viral marketing I’ve ever seen. A colleague sent this around work and not many could finish watching it. (The YouTube version is cut down from the full length movie which can be found here: www.whoppervirgins.com)
It is so wrong on so many levels. It illustrates all that is bad about America – spreading obesity, spreading mass culture (bad mass culture) – it’s facile, patronising, and obscene.
The effort and cost that Burger King went to to corrupt these innocent “Whopper Virgins” gross, especially in a world of financial turmoil.
And these advertising wankers think that they are doing god’s work. How can they even take themselves seriously, or even accept money for doing this.
Please, please – boycott Burger King. Write to Burger King and tell them that this is unacceptable. Their address is:
Burger King NZ Ltd
6 Antares Place
Mairangi Bay
AUCKLAND, New ZealandEmail: [email protected]
There’s a funny blog on freedomhaters.org on the Whopper Virgins commercial.
It ties it into Noam Chomsky and how the indigenous people on the commercials will most likely be forced to move to big cities when the fast food chains move in, and have to work for Burger King for a tenth of what American’s make.
Check it out here:
http://freedomhaters.org/content/what-would-noam-chomsky-say-about-burger-kings-whopper-virgin-ad-campaign